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River couldn't sleep, her mind was spinning with a million thoughts. Currently she was pacing up and down in the main TARDIS library. She loved libraries, she found that the books held within them helped her to escape from reality. It had often worked when she had been a child, trying to forget about Kovarion and the awful things that she would have to go through in the following morning. In books you could be anyone, you could travel to anywhere and still be sitting in the comfort of your own home or TARDIS in this case. However this time it didn't work, there was no escape, and she still wasn't even remotely tired. Though she had every right to be distracted, after all the situation that she was in wasn't about to go away any time soon, this was an adventure that she couldn't just run away from.

She stopped pacing and let her eyes wonder to her slim waist and flat belly, things that she wouldn't have for much longer if she was correct about a certain impossible thought that just wouldn't leave her alone. She hoped that The Doctor had taken her advice and hadn't followed her, but she doubted he would considering he was just an overgrown, disobedient child. She shook her set of curls, her ringlets of golden hair spilling out over her shoulders. She smoothed a hand over her stomach and closed her eyes. Biting her lip, a bad habit that would often occur when she was either upset or nervous about something. Ok, so perhaps she was wrong. Perhaps she was fussing over absolutely nothing. She had to be sure though. For one she didn't want to get his hopes up, she knew that he had had family before back on Gallifrey and building up false hope would only end in his upset. For another she wasn't sure if he even wanted to start a family with her, or if he even wanted children at all for that matter. Life with The Doctor was dangerous especially when children were involved, look what happened to her. She knew that he still felt guilty for that despite it not really being his fault at all, and she also knew being the melodramatic man that he was if she was right about being pregnant with his child that he would completely overreact . Perhaps he would be angry with her for not being careful enough, then again it does take two she thought, smiling weakly to herself. Perhaps he would be embarrassed of her, who wouldn't be? Whilst he would be gallivanting around the universe, saving almighty civilisations, discovering new stars and exploring the wonders of the universe, she would be waddling behind him, unable to keep up with his fast paced lifestyle.

She exhaled, frustrated with herself. Okay she had to bring it down to three simple facts that had been bothering her for a while.1. She was late for her time of the month at least by three weeks. 2. She, River Song, the woman who had been born to be a weapon actually felt vulnerable. It was an unexplainable vulnerability that she herself didn't even quite understand herself yet, a vulnerability that had almost gotten her killed because her hand had been trembling too much to make a straight shot at the Sontaron that had been chasing her and her husband earlier today. 3. She had put on weight. Yes barely an inch and completely unnoticeable to the eyes of others, and most importantly the eyes of her husband. However an inch was an inch and her current body had remained the same shape weight, and size ever since she had regenerated, remaining slight and perfect … that was until now.

She still couldn't be sure however, River hated the feeling of uncertainty looming over her like a dark storm cloud. Her period could be late because of all the stress she had been under she thought logically to herself. She had been under a lot of stress lately, what with the universe throwing trouble at herself and The Doctor left, right and centre. Her and The Doctor had had hardly any time to their selves at all since they had gotten married. Infact they had had so little time alone on the TARDIS that she was surprised that she was in the situation that she was in at all. She knew one thing for sure though and that was that she desperately needed to find out and soon. She knew that there was only one option to reveal the truth to herself and she's not sure she really liked it. The TARDIS held many things within it's walls but she highly doubted that a pregnancy test was one of them. Besides, how was she meant to sneak one past The Doctor? He would be bound to know something's up, he already seemed highly suspicious of her. She really wished she had another woman to talk to, someone who had been through this before, someone that would support her no matter what the out come was of the test. A face swam into her mind, a kind smiling face with ginger hair masking a pale, freckle painted face … Of course her mother. Her mother though a ganger for most of the time had indeed experienced pregnancy for herself and although it would be slightly awkward, her mother was the only hope she had left to shed a little bit of light to her situation.

" River!" Her hearts froze within her ribcage. Just as she thought, he just couldn't help disobeying her orders. She hardly had time to blink before a blurred whirl of Tweed and wild hair flew through the library door. His face was stark white with worry, his pools of green holding nothing but concern and adoration for her. " Ah wife, I've been searching everywhere for you and it seems I've finally found you." He said in a childish tone of voice. She rolled her eyes and sighed in exasperation. She dreaded the thought of if she was pregnant because then she'd have another child to look after. She groaned inwardly, if they had a child they would be double the trouble, especially if their child had her wild streak as well as The Doctors childishness. She noticed that The Doctors eyes were fixed on something, it took her awhile to figure out that what he was looking at was infact her hand, her hand that was still hovering above her stomach. " River are you quite all right?" He raised his eyebrows, creating an almost comical expression.

She quickly pulled back her hand as though she had burnt it. " Yes I'm fine sweetie." She now took this as her chance to find an excuse to visit her parents. " Actually, I'm really rather missing mom and dad. I was wondering if we could perhaps pop into Leadworth and visit them."

The Doctors face dropped into a sort of understanding, his lips forming a small 'oh' shape. She held her breath as she waited for his reply, had he really figured her out already? He walked forwards and wrapped his strong, muscular arms around her. " River is this what all the fuss has been about?" He asked her, brushing her unruly hair away from her eyes.

River breathed a silent sigh of relief, he was still completely oblivious" Yes." She lied even though a big part of her wanted to tell him so badly about what was going on. She however found herself for once strangely appreciative of her husbands naivety.

" Oh River, Why didn't you just say that you were missing your parents? Hmmm?" He rocked her back and forth, a warm smile aimed directly at her splayed upon his features.

" I guess I was just a little embarrassed. I mean I'm a grown woman and I'm missing my mom and dad." She replied coolly, the lie flowing from her lips with ease.

The Doctor shook his head. " Even grown women are allowed to miss their parents River." He lightly pressed a kiss to her nose, causing the guilt of the lie she had just told to surge within her. This man loved her dearly with both his hearts, he deserved to know what she was going through. No, she told herself. Not until I'm completely sure can I tell him about this. The Doctor grinned. " Right, off to visit the ponds." He yelled at the top of his lungs in a sing song voice.

As she watched her beloved husband run out the library towards the console room she found herself biting back tears. This was certainly going to be one adventure that she wouldn't be forgetting any time soon.


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