I'm so sorry for being so cruel, I hope this chapter makes up for it! I had writers block so it's not as good as I would have liked but it's lead up to the point I wanted to be back and now I have plenty of ideas to work with :)
Disclaimer: Nothing you recognise is mine.
SUFFERING IN SILENCE
***previously***
"No!" River exclaimed "NO! This can't be happening!"
"Don't worry River. We'll stop this! I won't let what happened to Amy Happen to you."
"You better not be thinking about sacrificing your self Doctor"
"Silence will fall when the question is asked"
"every child needs their Daddy! I can't speak baby!"
"Most parents can't"
"Doctor, I know what you're thinking, and I won't let you. We can stop this. Nobody has to die."
"Pease, Doctor! There's always a better way!"
"You're right, you're right."
"Oh thank god!" River sighed in relief, glad that the Doctor wasn't about to go to his death.
"How did they get into the TARDIS in the first place?"
"I think… I think it's me."
"River it's not you, how could it be?"
"Well because they made me who I am didn't they. The last time I saw them they told me they never really left."
"Don't blame your self, River, they made melody pond. You, River, are who you want to be and who you would have become without their influence."
"Who, a psychopath who fell in love with a madman in a blue box?"
"How could it be any other way?"
"I don't know sweetie" she replied then leaned in and kissed him
"Right then, if I'm not going to die, how else do we stop the silence?" The Doctor started to pace around the TARDIS muttering things under his breath. After a while River asked
"Figure anything out yet sweetie?"
"You ask that like it's obvious."
"Well it is isn't it?"
"No."
"Oh sweetie, that old brain of yours. There are just too many thoughts in there for you to really figure anything out any more" she teased him "good thing you've got me to do the thinking"
"River I know full well what you're thinking but that wouldn't be right"
"Doctor, please, think of our child"
River saying that sparked a memory from a past life, generations back:
***flashback***
"Doctor! Doctor Help!" his wife called
"I can't, I'm doing everything I can, and it's not working"
"Doctor you know what could be done!"
"But, it's wrong, I-"
"Doctor, please think of our child"
Then flashes of green light and the distant call of a dalek screaming 'exterminate' came and everyone he loved in the universe lied lifeless on the ground. The rest of that whole generation just passed in a blur.
***end of flashback***
Tears brimmed to his eyes; he could have saved his family from Galefrey but he couldn't- no he wouldn't- kill all the daleks to save his race. He still hadn't killed them all to this day.
"You know what? You're right, that's the best way we can do this"
"Are you alright Doctor?" River asked, noticing his tears
"I'm fine, just, you know"
River grabbed him by the shoulders and looked him in the eye and told him "Don't worry. We'll get through this. You know what we have to do, they're all on the TARDIS, look at your arm." They both looked at their arms; they were almost black with the amount of tally marks on them.
"If we can send out a sonic wave of the right frequency, amplifying it through the main controls of the TARDIS and there we have our self-"
"- A silence free TARDIS" the Doctor finished "River you're a genius!" he exclaimed hugging her
"You would have thought of that sooner or later, sweetie"
"Yeah, you're probably right"
The doctor ran over to the control board and after agreeing with River on the frequency, amplified it through the whole TARDIS and waited, covering their ears. After about a minute the silence's power started to weaken and they could remember them even when they couldn't see them but this in some ways made it worse and they weren't dieing.
"It's not working!" River cried, the Doctor put the sonic screwdriver back into his pocket and started pacing again
"The silence isn't a species but a religious order. We can remember when we've seen them now so what if we found a Minotaur, so it can take away their faith and kill them."
"Oh Doctor that is evil"
"I can't have these things keep getting in the way when everything seems to be going okay!"
"I understand, Doctor, I'm not against the plan." Even whilst saying this River was flitting round the TARDIS control board, setting it to find a Minotaur. The TARDIS engine started and when it was still once again they looked at the scanner to see a traditional earth hotel, just like the last time.
"This is just like last time I encountered a Minotaur." The Doctor said
"Maybe it's the same place."
"Maybe, now come on and help me get all the silence out of the TARDIS!"
"Pass me your sonic screwdriver"
The Doctor passed her his screwdriver and after finding a frequency she thought would work played it through the main controls. It did the trick, it repelled all the silence, making them all leave and go into the Minotaur's trap.
"River, you are a genius"
"I must get it from the TARDIS"
"Yes or Amy… You definitely don't get it from Rory."
"Oi" she replied, hitting his arm "Don't insult my father that way!"
"Bu-"
"Even if it is true."
"Whatever you say dear."
After the trouble with the silence the Doctor and River spent the next few months travelling without any dangers, just visiting different constellations and just floating through space in the TARDIS talking about whatever came to mind: the Doctors past companions, what Galefrey was like then one day when river was around 5 months pregnant, the Doctor had just finished a ordnance scan on her to reveal that the baby was a boy.
"So, do you have any names in mind sweetie?" River asked, stroking her bloated stomach
"Hmmm…"
"How about Rory?"
"After your dad? I like it"
"Rory it is then."
The Doctor and River agreed that it would be best as to not travel much any more and just stayed in the TARDIS, discussing weather they would go to earth to raise Rory and then what time period they would go to, or if they would raise him in the TARDIS whilst travelling. They agreed that whilst Rory was still young, travelling through space and time, encountering danger after danger, would not be in the slightest a good way to bring up a child. They both felt that it would be hard to stay in one place for a prolonged amount of time but knew it would be best to go to earth and attempt to bring Rory up as a normal human child (sort of)
Thankyou to fluffyhales for the review, I'm sorry for being evil, really, I didn't think I had it in me but this is supposed to be a happy fanfiction so don't get too worried :) stay tuned for the next chapter and please read and review. I'd love to hear some suggestions from you as to what should happen next. If you want me to incorporate you into the story put your name in a review and I'll see if I can include you :)