Chapter Three... Enjoy!
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"Take a child, raise her into a perfect phycopath, introduce her to the Doctor; who else was I going to fall in love with?"
It wasn't long before it happened... River didn't think it was, but he was so charming, so perfect, so... So Doctor-like. River sat on the edge of the thin bars of the Eifle tower. So far no one had noticed... Pretty good, if she did say so herself. Most of the time, when people finally did notice her, it turned out to be a "false claim". This was her third favourite place on Earth to visit, she went here often just to think... Her second favourite was Egypt. Her absolute favourite was any place the Doctor was; it wasn't always on Earth, though, so sometimes that left Egypt as her favourite. She leaned on the building, breathing it the not yet polluted France air; the Eifle Tower had just been built, afterall. She liked to see things when they were their newest, she found... She saw a blue police telephone box whir into existance many stories beneath her. She smiled and pressed the button on her "watch", and within a moment she was beside the Doctor on the ground.
"You know that's my thinking time," she teased. She didn't mean it, of course; she'd take any second with the Doctor she could get. He smiled.
"I do?" River smiled a sad smile; she wasn't yet used to the "moving in opposite timestreams" yet... Still, it was too late.
"Yes, the planet of Borgen...?" He shook his head slightly.
"Sorry." She smiled.
"Well, have uh..." She phrased it cautiously. "Have we done Berlin?" He nodded solemnly.
"Yes, of course... Why?" She inhaled a deep, shaky breath.
"Look, I'm sorry, but before this goes any farther-"
"-What do you mean?" he asked. Her cheeks burned.
"I... Look, in Berlin, when you said... What you said, did you mean it?" The Doctor smiled coyly.
"You mean that 'the Doctor lies?'" Her cheeks flushed red.
"No-"
"You mean that we always use the most time when we don't have any?" She crossed her arms across her chest stubbornly, but she couldn't help but smile a little bit as his coy expression. "Fine," he relented, "you mean what I whispered?" She nodded, her eyes frantic.
"Yes, I need to know if what you said was true before I get anymore into this-"
"Anymore?" River bit her lip and smiled, trying to mask her embarassment.
"Yes... Was it?" The Doctor smiled.
"Yes, I do love you."
"Do I?" The Doctor shrugged.
"You tell me."
"Do I in the future, I mean?" The Doctor held her gaze firmly for a few moments before speaking seriously.
"I believe so." Relief flooded over her.
"Good, so I'm not loosing my mind."
"Oh, no, of course not. Your mind has always been lost."
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