The Doctor held River in his arms, she was still sitting on his lap, but over time she began to curl up into his arms. River continued to sob into The Doctor's shoulder. He was even crying. They both sat there for hours holding each other, thoughtless, they were just holding one another.

River's hands met his and they grasped each others hands. The Doctor had always thought that there hands fit perfectly in each others, as if they were made specifically for each others. He was still rubbing soothing patterns into her back. They continued doing this for a few more moments before The Doctor scooped up River by her legs and carried her out of the kitchen and down the hall. She didn't even look up to see where they were headed. She just continued to sob into his shoulder, but she had been crying for so long her sobs turned into loud sad whimpers.

The Doctor turned into their bedroom, he carefully sat River onto the bed and tucked her in. He slipped in beside her. She turned and sunk her head into his chest. The Doctor slipped his hand under her blouse and let his hand rest protectively over her slightly bulged naval. River sighed into his chest, she was done crying, at least for now. The Doctor took advantage of this opportunity and began to softly speak to her, "Now, there are a few things you should know. Since you are three months along you are only experiencing part of the symptoms. As your part timelord, you will probably have a timelord pregnancy." he dare not mention that it was deadly."This has been proven by how sick you have been feeling lately. Symptoms are much worse for timelords than humans. This morning sickness will last the best part of this pregnancy, you will probably have fainting spells for most of the pregnancy, so you need to stay with me at all times." he said this part as he lightly squeezed her hand telling her that he was there."And also at some point you will have severe fever and will most likely feel like death during that."he knew that when the severe fever kicked in is when most mothers were lost."This pregnancy is going to be challenging River, your a half timelord carrying a full timelord, the baby is going to strain your energy, it already is. But you can do it, I know you of all people can. You also need to gain weight the baby is going to need to need space!" with that he rubbed her stomach and a large grin grew on his face."And most importantly you need lots and lots of rest. But that's okay because we are not leaving the TARDIS." he finished.

She closed her eyes and leaned back into his chest. She sat there for an hour trying to sleep. But just before she could finally doze off to sleep she felt a wave of nausea hit her, she quickly jumped up and dashed towards the bathroom.

"River? River!" he called after her, and when she did not reply he chased after her. The Doctor knew what was wrong but he wanted to be with her at all times, just in case she needed him.

He followed right behind her with his arm on her back until she reached a bathroom. When The Doctor turned the corner he saw her hunched over the toilet vomiting. He winced at her obvious pain. He approached her and bent down. He gathered her golden locks and held them out of the way so they would not get coated in her vomit.

The Doctor peered into the toilet to see blood in the waste. Not much but there was some defiantly in it. His eyes widened. River began to sit up from her hunched position when she turned to face the toilet and she spit out blood. The Doctor stood there worried. She had exhaled blood, something is wrong.

"River?" He slowly and kindly asked, "Are you okay?"

"Yes." She weakly replied. The Doctor turned to face the sink grabbed a cup and filled it with tap water and genitally passed it to her and said, "Here drink this, it will make you feel better." She did as he said and drank it.

The Doctor helped her too her feet and took her hand. He guided River to the hallway and led her to the Med Bay.

"Doctor, what are we doing here."

"Oh nothing honey." he said with an unconvincing smile, "I just wanted to check on something." He held out his arm suggesting that River sit on the bed, she did.

"Sweetie?" she asked again. He ignored her and said aloud to the TARDIS, " General Medical Scan on Melody Pond." and then he turned around and tried to push River l into a laying position on the bed. At fist she refused but The Doctor just pushed down with more force trying to be as gentle as possible, she fell back, but willingly.

"Doctor?" she asked with a more worry in her voice then before, "What's wrong?"

He looked down at her and said, "River, you coughed up blood." his face looked like he was about to burst out in tears any second. "That worries me. The baby has already taken effect on you and it is straining your energy. This worries me." he finished with a worried look down towards her stomach.

River stared into his eyes, The Doctor reached his hands out to her and she took them. He held her hand with his soft hands until they heard a ding coming from the TARDIS meaning that the scan was complete.

The Doctor turned around to look at the monitor without letting go of River's hand. He was relived when it read,

Bronchitis (acute or chronic), the most common cause of coughing up blood. Hemoptysis due to bronchitis is rarely life-threatening.

He turned back to her and said, "It's okay, your okay. You just have a cold." He took a deep breath, they look of how relieved he was, was obvious on his face. He smiled at her, leaned in, and kissed her cheek softly. She smiled.

"Sit up, please." He added a please at the last second, River could still tell he was stressed. She sat up like he asked. The Doctor was punching in some numbers to the Medication Producer. The producer released a shot.

He turned to face River and lied, "This won't hurt one bit." River's face turned as pale as a sheet. She has always been afraid of shots ever since she was a child, he knew that so he kindly took her hand.

The Doctor placed one hand softly around her neck and whispered into her ear, "I'm sorry my love." And with that he jammed the needle into the back of her neck. River could not help but grunt out in pain. He carefully pulled the needle out of her neck with a slight but painful pinch. He grabbed a bandaid from the table next to the bed and stuck it onto the needle hole. The hole was rather large given that the needle was at least and inch wide and long. He bent down and kissed her neck where he had placed the bandaid and said, "There all better."

The Doctor turned and helped River up off the bed. He reached out for her hand and she took it. The Doctor used his other hand and wrapped it around her waist.

"Time for bed, Doctor Song." he said with a smile in her general direction.

She just turned to him and replied with, "I love you."

"And you the same." He finished.