Title: Only in Body
Era
: Eleventh Doctor
Characters/Pairings
: Eleven x River
Genres
: General
Rating
: K+
Warnings/Spoilers
: spoilers for The Wedding of River Song
Timeline
: post-The Wedding of River Song (River's perspective)
A/N
: I'm getting around to filling out the request. Feedback is always appreciated.
Word Count
: 251
Disclaimer
: I don't own Doctor Who.


She is picked up a week after Lake Silencio; they find her smiling, much to their horror. The authorities have caught up to the woman who killed the Doctor, and she doesn't even fight as they haul her off.

River Song is sentenced to an astronomically long prison term, to be served in the Storm Cage. The judge looks upon the murderer's levity with revulsion. "One can only hope that reflection in your cell will impress upon you the enormity of what you've done."

To this, River only laughs. "Trust me, my Lady; I already know."

Storm Cage is bleak and grim, the weather intemperate and the guards utterly terrified of River Song. They are caging the perfect psychopath, and within six months she has the run of the place, to the point that the guards can barely keep from shaking in her presence. Still, River can't leave.

She doesn't care.

If her sentence last a hundred thousand years, if she never sees the light of day again, she will go out with a smile and a laugh. River's imprisonment is only in body; in her mind, she will always be free, and she stays awake every night, waiting for the telltale sound of a TARDIS with its parking brake left on. In River's mind, she will always be free.

And she will die with a smile on her face, because she has a secret that they don't know, that she will take to the grave.

She didn't kill the Doctor.