The Doctor and River said goodbye too Offern, making sure that she was perfectly fine with staying where she was. Sky walked right past her but as she did, she heard her whisper, "You are going to be fine."
Sky nodded at her without meeting her eyes and left the room after The Doctor and River.
"Bye Offern..." The Doctor said as he soniced shut the door.
Turning to see if River and Sky were okay, he came face to face with three burley men and a terrified looking Sky.
River was standing to his left, facing the men, he couldn't see her face but knew she was already calculating the risk of the situation, "Hello." The Doctor began, "I'm The Doctor, this is my friend Sky and this is River my erm..."
River tilted her head so that she could see his face, "My wife..." There was an awkward moment in which Sky sniggered slightly.
"River...? As in River Song?"
River nodded curtly.
"The River Song?" The front man said, he was big and muscular. All the men were wearing black suits with white t-shirts and black ties.
"Yes." River said sternly, "River Song."
"And your Sky?" The man asked.
"Y-Yeah?" Sky said rather timidly, it seemed she had lost all faith in herself.
"Wow. I thought you were just... Stories."
"We are stories, well myths... More like legends really.." The Doctor frowned.
The men ignored him, obviously perplexed, "Well the captain talks about you all the time..." These men wer deffinately hired for their muscles and not their brains...
"Well maybe we should meet them then." River said, not even intending it to be polite.
"I think you should. Follow me..." said the middle man, he seemed to be slightly more intelegent than the other two.
They all followed the giant men. The Doctor followed them closely, with River not far behind. Sky brought up the rear, walking only not to get lost and with her head down. Nobody had made eye-contact with her since she had told them all the truth. Well some of the truth anyway. Maybe they will find out sooner than they actually should then it would be easier for Sky to be accepted by them. Given that at some point The Doctor would want her to leave, she needed to make the most of what she had now, rather than what she was missing out on. Her mind drifted to Charley and again that feeling in her stomach returned. Her mind wandered to what Charely might be doing now, she wandered if she was okay, she wandered if the silence had left her alone. She's all alone on an alien ship with nothing and no-one too tell her everythin is going to be okay. Sky wasn't most worried about this, in fact she was almost confident that Charley could cope on her own. She was more worried that she had promised Charley that she would find her and take her home, but she couldn't just leave her behind could she? And could she cope with loosing The Doctor so soon and waiting for him to come back and save her? Without seeing him until that day on the hill and the loss they are all going too feel.
Sky was distracted when the group stopped moving. River had stopped in the middle if the hall and was holding her stomach under both arms.
"River?" The Doctor placed a hand on her back, "Are you okay?" His eyes were wide and he was pale.
Sky moved from the back of the group and pushed The Doctor out of the way. She bent down to River's level and whispered, "River, what's wrong?"
Rivers eyes were closed shut and her brow seemed to tighten as she let out a long laboured sigh.
River reached out a hand a placed it upon Sky's shoulder, pushing her self up with its aid. Snapping open her eyes and looking at Sky and stood up, "Nothing, i'm fine. Prison food. I'm fine..."
The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out some white chocolate, "Eat this, it'll help."
River slowly unwrapped it and bit the corner, "Thank you."
The Doctor smiled, and they continued walking.
They had reached a door now. The two men who hadn't spoke stood either side of the door as the other man key-ed in the number for the door too open. Sky took note that the number was 1996. They might need to know that later. The man lead them into the room, as the other two stayed outside. The Doctor and River scanned the room with their eyes for dangers. Sky lifted her gaze from the floor to take in the veiw.
The room was typical of a spaceship, not dissimmilar to the one Sky thought The Doctor would have travelled in. With huge silver walls and a shiny silver floor, which mirrored everyones reflection. There were several consoles, with screens and many buttons. The Doctors head calculated that these consoles would be used for navigation and the controlling of the inner conditions of the ship, simmilar to the TARDIS controls, but not as complicated or advanced, depending on who you are. The far wass was covered in pipes, some of which were smoking. There were flashing lights everywhere, red, orange and some green. The Doctor nor River knew what these lights meant, but no-one seemed to be panicing, so all must have been well. The man walked across the silber floor, his shoes squeeking a little as he walked.
"What are we doing here then?" The Doctor asked, "Where's is he then? The 'captain'?"
The man turned on his heels to face The Doctor, "Who said it was a he?" As he spoke a young looking woman walked through the doors to the right of the room and said, "Croeso."
River and The Doctor stared at the woman with a frown upon their faces, Sky on the other hand spoke back, stepping out from the group and closer to the now approaching foreign woman, "Croeso."
The Doctor looked at her with a confused expression on his face, he whispered to River, because Sky was so far "Why isn't the TARDIS translating this?"
River shrugged and whispered back, "I don't know, and i'm not risking a scan... What with Mr Muscle over there..." The Doctor scowled, jealously.
Sky then said, "Beth yw eich enw? Pam nad ydym yn siarad Saesneg?"
"Would you please tell me what is going on?" The Doctor asked loudly.
Sky turned to him and said, "Hang on... I'm trying to figure it out myself..."
The woman spoke again as Sky turned back too her, "Fy mod yn siarad yn unig i chi, am y tro. Ac mae fy enw i yw Angel. Rwyf yma i roi neges"
Sky turned to traslate to The Doctor when Angel said, "Dim! Nid oes angen i wybod beth i ddim yn dweud ... Dim ond yn gwrando."
Sky turned to face here again, hearing and audable sigh from The Doctor.
The Captain continued, "Rydych yn gwybod pwy ydw. Dydw i ddim yn gwybod eich bod llawer eto, ond ..." Sky then realised why the woman looked to familiar and she said aloud, "Offern?" The Doctor and River jumped at the echo that encased the room.
"What?" River asked, "Offern is that you? You can't speak Welsh...! Otherwise... Your name..."
"How would you know that? And who's Offern? My name's Angel! Why would you call anyone that?" Angel Asked loudly.
River said to The Doctor and Sky, "She couldn't translate her own name..."
"Maybe she just forgot with age... The people in here wouldn't have spoken Welsh to her..." The Doctor jested.
"That's possible..." Sky said.
"Hello! Aren't you going to answer me?" Angel shouted.
Sky turned to her and began speaking Welsh again, almost as defence, like she was offending Angel by speaking English with her, "Mae'n ddrwg gennym. Ni allwn ddweud. Fi jyst rememebered rhywbeth roedd angen i mi dyna i gyd ..."
A Eich lier drwg iawn eich bod yn gwybod ..."
Sky laughed and replied, "Rwy'n gwybod"
River then said, angered, "I cannot understand anything you're saying!"
Sky appologised to her also, "Sorry, I guess it's easier for me... I'll translate. However much I can..." She turned to Angel,
"Faint y byddaf yn uchel i ddweud?"
Angel shrugged, "Wrth i faint a fynnoch ..."
Sky translated, "So basically, she has something too tell me, and she has to say it in Welsh so that I can decide what you're aloud too... know." Towards the end of the sentence, Sky realised how ridiculous that sounded.
River started to argue, "What! No-one has the right to do...-"
The Doctor interjected, "That's fine." He gave River a look with she knew meant he had formulated a plan, and she stopped talking. He didn't have a plan at all, but he trusted Sky enough to know that if there was something The Doctor needed to know, she would tell him.
Aware now that something was going on, Sky winked knowingly at The Doctor, who didn't wink back because Angel would have seen, but smiled.
"Felly. Beth ydych chi am yn rhy ddweud wrthyf?" Sky asked Angel.
Angel began, "Afon ..."
Sky prompted, "Ewch ar ..."
"Afon yn feichiog, Y Doctor yw'r tad, nawr yw'r amser y dylech fod wedi osgoi." Angel looked deep into Sky's now wide eyes.
The Doctor and River frowned even more, causing both their faces to wrinkle, and their eyes to squint slightly.
"What?" The Doctor asked. Sky turned on the spot as The Doctor asked again, "What did she say Sky?"
"Sky?" River asked.
Sky's mouth hung open slightly as she tried to formulate the words into English and in order in her head. "River... Is their something you need too tell us?"
"That's what she said...?" River asked.
"No. But Do you?"
"I- Just tell us what she- No I don't!" River said angrily looking between all three of them, but pausing longer to stare at Angel.
"Mae hi'n gwybod, mae'n rhaid iddi wybod yn awr." Angel said directing it at Sky.
"River, please don't lie. Will you..." Sky then remembered something that had helped her earlier. She walked over to River and held out her hands. River took them reluctantly. Sky lead her to The Doctor, who looked even more confused than River did, and placed her hands in his and said, "Pretend we aren't here. No me. No Angel. Just you and The Doctor."
The Doctor caught on somewhat to what was happening, "Trust me. You'll be fine once you tell me."
River's mouth opened and closed like a fish gasping for air. She looked into The Doctor's eyes as hers filled with tears and made her veiw fuzzy.
The Doctor whispered so that only she could hear, "Tell me, River. My River. What is it?" He let go of one of her hands and stroked her warm cheek with the back of his finger.
River slowly moved her and The Doctor's other hand to her stomach, so that he was touching it lightly with his palm. His eye's widened as River whispered, "I'm pregnant..."
River was still crying silently as The Doctor said, "Pregnant?"
River nodded.
"Pregnant...?"
She nodded again, slowly.
The Doctor moved his hands away and looked at everyone in the room. River frowned at him, "Aren't you happy?"
The Doctor looked at Sky, his eyes a deep black with fear and confusion. Sky, knowing exactly what he was thinking, nodded and smiled.
The Doctor's eyes then met River's again. He wasn't sure what to do, part of him felt amazing, and the other half felt like it was dying inside. He knew that this was what he wasnted, nothing more than to be with River and give her everything he had, but there was one thing he had always ran from, responsability. Thinking about what he should say next The Doctor glanced at Sky who smiled reasuringly, she too had eyes filled with tears.
He looked right back at River and said, smiling, "I'm going to be a Dad..."
River laughed and said, "Yes you are!"
The Doctor reached out to hug River, pulling her close to him as both of them cried tears of joy. Human tears of happiness.
Sky, then heard Angel whisper at her side, "Dyw hi ddim yn bod Distawrwydd syml, chi'n gwybod bod. Charley angen eich cymorth, bydd yn fyw i addo y. Gall hi hefyd yn siarad Cymraeg, dyna pam na allai fod yma."
"Charley siarad Cymraeg?" She whispered back.
Angel nodded.
The Doctor had stopped hugging River now and was holding her around the waist, "Did she just mention Charley?"
Sky nodded slowly, still looking at Angel
"Gallwch ddod o hyd iddi yn ôl ar y lle rydych yn cludo. Diogel."
"Charley is... Back where we transported, safe."
The Doctor looked at Angel and said, "If you can speak English why don't you?"
Angel then said, "Oherwydd bod gormod o bobl eisoes yn gwybod gormod." With that she left the room, taking the security gaurd wih his, meaning they were alone in a locked room.
"What did she say, Sky?" River asked, whipeing her face and still smiling.
"She said 'Because too many people already know too much..."
All three people in the room knew they were talking about River.
River asked, "Was that deffinately Offern?"
"Yes." Said Sky, "I've met the young version of her before... In stormcage..."
The Doctor could see that River was trying to figure something out, something he already knew... She looked wide eyed at Sky then said, "Does that mean you've met..." She subconsiously moved her free hand towards her stomach.
Sky looked from her hand to her face and smiled, "Yeah.. I've met them... They grow up to be..." Sky paused to try and find the right words, "Amazing."
River smiled at Sky for a second and the her face dropped in realisation and she asked, "How long have you known? About... me?"
Sky blinked and thought, "It's hard to explain... I knew you would be at some point... But I didn't know... when..."
The Doctor pulled River closer too him, sencing what the next question would be.
River then spoke, "Is th- Do they-" She took a deep breath and asked, "What do I do?"
Sky knew exactly what River meant, "I can't be the one who tells you becuase, I know the consequences of what you decide. I can't change history. But whatever you decide to do has to be for you, not for anyone else." There was a pause before Sky felt she needed too say more, "River. It might not seem this way now, but you see that man there?" Sky nodded towards The Doctor.
"Yeah?" River looked to the side wthout moving her head.
Sky continued, "He will be an amazing parent. You both will."
River looked up at The Doctor and he returned her gaze, they both smiled.
"We should get Charley..." The Doctor said letting go of River and turning for the door. He tried too sonic the pannelling to make the door open. "It's deadlocked!" The Doctor tried the screwdriver on a higher frequency which made it whir louder. Sky and River clamped their hands over their ears and River shouted, "Sweetie! Do you mind?"
He flicked it off and said, "Sorry..."
Sky removed her hands from her ears, walked over too the pannel and punched in the numbers 1996 at which point the doors slid open.
The Doctor gazed at her open mouthed, "How?"
"I watched the security gaurd do it..."
River smiled, "Nice!" Then she remembered that her brain could remember things like that easily and was no longer as impressed.
"Thanks!" Giggled Sky, gesturing to The Doctor and River to leave.
The Doctor headed out first.
When River started to follow Sky stood in front of the door. River frowned so Sky explained herself, "Outside here earlier, you... Keeled over. Are you okay?"
River nodded passively, "Oh that was nothing! I just had cramp thats all!"
"You said that earlier too..."
River bit her lip nervously.
"I'm not going to keep asking you because I'm not going to be that person, but if you need my help..."
River nodded, "Thank you..."
Sky moved out of her way and aloud her to pass.
There was no way River was telling the truth, and Sky knew why but had to pretend not too. She never imagined it would be this hard.