Sum: The TARDIS find a way to get her 'daughter' out of the Library and back to the 13th incarnation of her thief.

"I get your excited about something love." The Doctor grunted redoubling her hold on the TARDIS's console when the ship made yet another hard jolt to the side and more sparks flew from the center panel "But could you at least tell me where we're headed?" she wondered aloud but like the five times she'd tried to ask before her time ship remained…tight boxed on the subject.

She's just dropped her new friends back on Earth, so they could have another break from all the running of traveling with her when like the last time she'd been randomly pulled into the vortex by her old girl in the blink of an eye that she didn't have time to properly prepare. "Okay okay sorry for trying to mess with your surprise love." She grunted at the seemingly angry beeping hum the time ship gave her in answer as the Doctor succeeded in pulling herself into the jump seat and fumbled with the seatbelt just in time to save herself from being thrown upside down as her time ship spiraled around as if in a nose dive yet despite the apparent speed they were falling the landing was smoother than she was used to as the ship righted herself before she hit the ground.

"Hello, Doctor." A young girl smiled walking up the ramp as if suddenly walking into a bigger on the inside police box was something she did every day while the Doctor untangles herself from the jump seat. "You've regenerated." She noted her hands sliding into the pockets of her jeans as she paused taking in the woman in front of her. "I like it." The young girl praised in a tone that didn't match the age of her body as her eyes scanned up and down the puzzled older woman's body then casting her eyes around to take in the new look of the TARDIS. "Gold looks nice on you as well." she says turning around to see the full view of the new desktop.

The blonde blinked searching her hazy memories until she found the name for the young girl currently taking the cookies the console had rolled out to her.

"CAL." The name is more than a whisper on the Doctor's lips at the recollection. "And yes, I have twice since we met last."

CAL smiled wider at her as she finished off her little snack then turned toward the console once again "She doesn't know?" the child asked earning a chirped denying beep in answer "Perfect." CAL praised happily clapping her hands once before her face smoothed into an unreadable mask the closer she got to the golden crystal of the center controls. "You're early than intended of course but it's alright seeing as now we have more time for this." She said businesslike as she sat down under the main panel resting her hand against it until the old girl opened up to her much as it had for Rose all those years ago.

The Doctor yelped in panic remembering all too well the last time one of her companions looked into the time vortex, but CAL shook her head her smile never wavering as she glanced over in the time woman's direction as the first whips of the time vortex wound around her outstretched hand. "It's not like that Doctor we're just hammering out the last few details to make sure the transfer takes and is a smooth and permanent one."

"Transfer what transfer?" the Doctor asked her panic growing with every new string of sandy golden light that spilled from the heart of her time ship to coil wrath like around the young girl's arm.

All of this for once went completely over the time woman's frazzled head but seeing as the door to her time ship was still open the Doctor thought she could at least go out to get help should something terrible happen seeing as CAL was most definitely looking thinner than the Doctor remembered her however painful those memories were for her giving the blonde time woman more to worry over as the lights stay down. Those thoughts were stalled by someone that wasn't her snapping her fingers bringing the door slamming shut in an instant followed by the maddening click of the lock.

Her question was left unanswered besides a tisked "Patience Doctor." From CAL as if she could physically feel how unsettled the time woman was as with her eyes closed and the lights dimmed around them as if the TARDIS too had closed her eyes. The discoloration now clearly visible with CAL distracted enough to let the glamor fade showing just how far the thin spider's web spread out down the side of the young girl's throat under the neck of her shirt when her hair brushed back over her shoulder as she settled into her task.

The Doctor spent the next ten minutes pacing the walkways once she realized it was pointless to try and intervein or to even ask about whatever the two were doing until she was positive she was going to regenerate just from anxiety when the lights came up as if the TARDIS was opening her eyes and a half second later CAL did the same blinking a little against the low lights if the glowing console.

"Walk with me please?" the girl asked holding out her hand toward the Doctor quietly asking for her to help her up. "All that exposure to the rawness of time you're lucky all you are is tired in your condition." The time woman scolded letting CAL wrap her arm around her middle as the Tardis opened the doors for them. "Thanks love." The Doctor says but with only a hint of the normal warmth in her voice when she talked to her old girl.

"Even the most high-tech computers become out of date enough to become susceptible to a virus Doctor." The girl pointed out in a voice just above a whisper as they passed out the doors to the time ship. "And it has been more than a few thousand years since you last visited." She added her words like red-hot knives to the time woman's hearts made even more painful in the stinging bite of the snow falling around them compared to the warmth inside the TARDIS.

CAL gave a half shrug seeming to snuggle more against the time woman's side redoubling her slackened hold around her waist while beside her the Doctor marveled at the seemingly impossible scene around her. It was equal parts wondrous and terrifying all at once. "You don't need o worry Doctor they haven't bothered us for a good long while now." CAL murmurs and despite being indoors her breath still came out as cold vapors when she noticed the tense way the Doctor eyed every shadow, they passed on the way down the hallway lined with ice and bookshelves.

"If you're looking for it it's not here." CAL says when they reached the steps that led down to the basement. The same steps that all those years ago the Doctor with Donna by his side left that battered blue book resting on the railing. "I know it's in the Black Archive." The Doctor answers bitterly but CAL only smiles shaking her head. "Of course, it is." The girl chuckled as the pair reached the top step

Unconsciously the time woman rests her hand against the breast pocket of her long coat knowing full well the book in question was safely tucked inside it safe from any prying eyes except the Doctor's not that she's looked inside the yellowed pages much in this incarnation just yet and when she had in her years on Darillium it had been at River's insistence just to settle an argument or five.

The walk along the halls was quiet after that The Doctor letting CAL guide her along.

The door they finally stopped at was cracked open letting the blonde time woman hear her before she saw her. Oh, how she'd missed that laughter. "No joke I honestly thought it was a gun, but it was a banana." Her wife was chuckling when the door was nudged open wider letting the pair into the classroom.

"CAL darling never thought you would miss out on hearing my talk on Hitler …" River started to say by way of a greeting when her eyes glancing up long enough to see who was coming toward her desk tapping the papers she was looking over into a neat pile then her eyes lifted again in a surprised gasp as her gaze met the Doctor's for the first time "You."

"You." The Doctor echoed unable to think of anything else to say while her wife sauntered up the pathway between the desks toward them. To say she wasn't ready for the action was the understatement of the teraannum but on the other hand feeling the warm sting of River's hand slapping across her check brought a wide beaming smile to the time woman's lips.

"Hello to you too Sweetie." The Doctor says her smile never fading at the angry look in her wife's eyes while River pulled her in by the lapels of her coat pressing their lips together in a greedy kiss.

"Humm Decisions…decision…" River tisks leaning back without letting go of the Doctor's coat both of them forgetting about CAL who was now sitting at River's desk humming under her breath to herself. "I don't know if I'd rather slap you again or push against a wall and have my way with you till we are both breathless or simply drag you back to the house to lay you down on a bed, kiss, touch, feel every inch of your new body till you beg me not to stop?" River mused at the Doctor's raised eyebrow in silent question.

The Doctor had the decency to blush under her wife's eyes while mumbling a soft "It's not exactly new." Letting out a small smile at River's 'Hush sweetie.' As she turned to the younger girl lounging at her desk with a book in her hands.

"You saved me now it's my turn." Was all CAL said before River could decide how to ask when the realization of just why her husband now wife was solidly standing in front of her. The Doctor winced at the pain flashing in her psychopath's eyes followed quickly by tears. "Now this is going to be quiet the bang, so I'd get back to the TARDIS as soon as possible." The little girl says as casually as a comment on the weather stepping away just to be pulled back again this time by the Doctor.

"See you around CAL." River says her voice wavering the longer the fingers of her free hand brush in CAL's hair as the Doctor's arms slide around her middle grounding her.

"Spoilers…..Mom." CAL grinned as she reluctantly untangled herself from the double warmth of the hug to gently push both toward the door.