I love Janto: thanks. She knows what's best even if the Doctor doesn't always realize it. That's okay, it hasn't been up for very long and I didn't see your comment until I was about to add another chapter.
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I wasn't planning on putting River here in the beginning. It just happened.
"River?" What was she doing in prison? And why had the TARDIS brought him to her of all people?
"Well are you going to stand there gaping or invite me in?"
"Look I don't have time for this. I'm doing something really important and we'll have to catch up some other time."
He turned around was about to close the door when River said "Doctor." Something about her tone made him stop and turn to look at her. He wondered how far away the Library was for her.
"I know the TARDIS doesn't always take you where you want to go," River said. Well, that was an understatement. In this case it had taken him when he absolutely had not wanted to go anywhere. "But she takes you where you need to go," River continued before he could make some snide remark. "I don't believe that she would have brought you to me if she didn't know you needed me. I could help Doctor."
"What do you about gallifreyan technology?" the Doctor asked.
"You'd be surprised," River said smugly. She pushed past him and into the TARDIS. River looked around the TARDIS. Whatever the Doctor was working on, was lying near the console.
"You keep redecoracting," she said. She walked around the TARDIS will a familiarity that he didn't expect.
"You've been here before then," the Doctor said. "Tell me River can I trust you?"
"I think you already know the answer to that," she said. "Come on, you don't have all the time in the universe now do you? Tell me what are you working on?"
The Doctor gave in and explained everything to her, welll everything he had time to explain anyway. His friend Donna had absorbed a Time Lord mind and it was burning though her head so he decided that the best way to save her was to turn her into a time lord. Or Time Lady if you prefer. So the Doctor and River worked together on reprogramming the watch. It wasn't easy but they soon got their result, at least they hoped they had.
They went to Donna who the Doctor had kept in the medical bay of the TARDIS. She looked peaceful, they could almost forget that she was in danger of dying if she wasn't hooked up to life support and if they weren't holding the device which may save her life.
Delicately the Doctor opened up the watch in Donna's face. He watched the swirls of gold come into her mouth. She glowed brightly and for a moment the Doctor wondered if she was going to regenerate before she opened her eyes and looked up at them.
"Doctor? Professor Song?" Donna asked.
"How do you feel?" the Doctor asked.
"I have a hell of a headache space man," she replied.
"You're body is still adjusting," River said as she checked Donna's vitals. "But it looks like you'll pull though."
"No offense meant but why are you here?" Donna demanded. Meeting in the wrong order and this being a younger version of River or whatever Donna could understand but still what was she doing here?
"I needed help," the Doctor answered. "And I got it. You wouldn't be alive right now if it wasn't for Professor Song."
"Well you did some of the work," River countered.
"Let's get you home," the Doctor told Donna. "Unless you want to do a bit more traveling first. We could go to the Planet of the Hats." River gave an exasperated groan at that suggestion. Donna wondered if the Doctor had ever taken River there or was going to take River there maybe.
"We'll have to go there some other time," Donna said. "After everything I'd like to go home again." A Time Lady. She suddenly wondered if she had thought this though. How would she handle living that long or regenerating? It was still better than going back to what she used to be. It had to be.
"Maybe I can help pilot the TARDIS now," Donna said. "Make sure we get to the right place this time."
"I can teach you," River said.
"I can pilot my own TARDIS!" the Doctor exclaimed but they didn't seem to be listening as River continued with "You should know that he always leaves the brakes on."
Does the TARDIS have a medical bay? I don't know but its said to have a lot of rooms and if the TARDIS can create rooms there could have been one at some point.
