Chapter 3

Roria sat alone not believing what she was hearing from the man she was told loved her and wanted nothing more than to be a family again. She felt betrayed, hurt, angry, and so many other emotions she couldn't explain. Roria looked up to see Amy walking over to her and sat right next to her.

"Sooo...you're our granddaughter." Amy said unsure if this was a touchy or dangerous subject to be on.

Roria looked over at Amy and seemed to somewhat lighten up at the acceptance of one long lost family member. "You're...You're Amy? My Gran? That's brilliant, I see where I get my long red hair from." She smiled slightly.

"You look so much like your mum and yet so much like your granddad." Amy smiled and then caught Roria's eyes. The eyes told a long story, as her fathers did every time Amy caught The Doctor's eyes. She saw the same loneliness, sadness but also she found something that The Doctor just recently put there, unwantedness.

"I would love to get to know you Roria Pond." Amy smiled and playfully nudged her.

"We're here." The Doctor said opening the TARDIS door motioning for Roria to come with him.

"I'm afraid you never will." Roria sighed getting up and going towards her so called father.

Amy suddenly got a burst of anger and realization and stood up pointing her finger at The Doctor. "Now wait just a minute! She is our grandchild, don't me and Rory get a say in this?! She isn't just yours." She shouted at The Doctor giving Roria hopefulness of staying but The Doctor only seemed to get angry.

"You are treading a thin line that if crossed can cause a paradox and I won't have it." He said trying to get Roria to hurry along.

"That's a load Doctor, look at how it happened with River, that didn't cause a paradox. Rory tell him it's not just his choice to send her away!" Amy yelled her face a fiery red.

"A-Amy is-is right Doctor! She is our granddaughter and we have a right as her grandparents to a say in whether she stays or goes." Rory said standing his ground.

River smiled a triumphant smirk when her parents took her side. "Well Doctor is seems-"

"ENOUGH!" The Doctor yelled and made everyone jump. "She is MY daughter and she will do as I say! I know what is best and I know more about time and space AND paradoxes than any of you. Now I am taking my daughter home and that is final." He fumed and turned towards Roria. "March outside NOW."

Roria fought back her anger and turned to walk outside and back to her great granddads house. When Roria stepped outside she was greeted with a house half demolished and half smoking. She stood in the now ashey lawn until the thought of her granddad being trapped inside hit her mind like a ton of bricks and she ran inside the home.

The Doctor stepped out to the horrid site then saw his daughter running to the house. "Roria...Roria WAIT!" He followed her inside the home.

River looked out at the home then at The Doctor who just disappeared inside the crippling home. "I hope you realize your mistake Doctor." She said quietly then returned inside the TARDIS to keep her parents occupied.

When Roria got inside the house she called for her granddad and ran around frantically looking for him until she tripped over something and fell. When she looked down to see what she had tripped over, her eyes widened and she screamed. Brian laid on the floor motionless covered with dust and debris. Roria drug him out from under fallen beams and tried to shake him awake.

"Gramps?! Gramps?! Wake up! GRAMPS!" Tears fell from Rorias eyes as she attempted to wake him.

The Doctor found his daughter due to her cries and screams and stood motionless for a second as he took in the sight before him. His daughter was in tears trying to wake one of the only two people that raised her. His hearts broke for his child, to see her in so much pain killed him. 'I hope you know how much heartbreak you are about to cause.' Rivers voice echoed in his head and he realized now what she meant.

"Dad?! DAD?! You're a Doctor do something! Help him!" Roria yelled causing The Doctor to snap out of his thoughts.

"Roria...I am not...let me see what I can do." The Doctor knelt down next to Brian and took out his sonic to scan him. When he read the readings his heart sank but fear crossed his face also. "Roria...he is dead and has been for over an hour, I am sorry but we have to go."

Roria cried hard, harder than she ever had in her life. To hear the only parent that was constant in her life was dead hurt deeper than her father not wanting her around. "We-we can't...just leave-leave him here. We have to...bury him or some-something." She said between sobs.

The Doctor stood up and pulled Roria up with him. "I know and I am so sorry Roria but we have to go NOW. You are in danger, I will explain everything once we are safe inside the TARDIS please Roria." The Doctor pleaded with her.

"I can't leave him...WE can't leave him. He doesn't deserve this!" Roria cried as her father tried to pull her along.

The Doctor sighed as he knew safety for Roria was a first so he aimed his sonic at the sparking stove. "Roria...forgive me but this is for the best..." He made the stove blow up in a small explosion, enough to catch the exposed wood beams on fire and re-ignite the smoldering beams causing the house to quickly go up in smoke.

Roria screamed and cried as The Doctor pulled her out of the house and back to the TARDIS. The Doctor had to use all his strength to keep Roria from running back inside the burning home. "Roria...RORIA! Listen to me! You cannot tell Rory or Amy that your granddad died! This is way before their knowledge. Their timeline doesn't surpass 2013 at the moment. You HAVE to keep it together!" The Doctor tried to reason with his heart broken daughter.

Roria looked over at him, every emotion shown in her eyes and every question running in her head. "My granddad just died...HE IS DEAD AND YOU WANT ME TO ACT AS IF EVERYTHING IS OKAY?!" She yelled pulling away from him.

"Roria...please, just listen we have to go now. I am not telling you to act like everything is fine but...Listen just get in the TARDIS, we will talk, I will explain." The Doctor was pleading hard but Roria wasn't listening.

"You're a monster..." Roria turned and ran from The Doctor. She was scared, confused but overall broken. Her granddad was murdered, and all she could process in her grief was that her father didn't seem affected by any of it...that he didn't care.

The Doctor stood shocked and hurt at what his daughter called him. He was called many things and 'monster' was used more often than not but from his own child, it hurt him more. Once he got over his initial shock he flung the TARDIS door open and called to everyone inside. After a long explanation and leaving out Brian Williams as the one who was murdered Amy and Rory took off down one street and River and The Doctor took the other.

River and The Doctor ran until their legs couldn't take the strain. They walked in silence for a long time until River spoke. "You can't run away from children." She said flatly. "They will always seek their parents out, and you Doctor can have the best effect or the worse."

The Doctor stayed silent for a bit longer, his hearts ached and his mind yelled at him for his poor choices and lack of fatherly emotions. "I swear I will make it up to her when when we find her." He finally spoke after sometime.

River sighed as she looked down an alleyway for any sign of Roria. "I hope you remember today for the future." She said with an all knowing look as she walked past The Doctor. "Look, in the muddy grass, her foot prints." River pointed a few feet away.

The Doctor analized the tracks with his sonic as his eyes widened. "We need to find her quick, we aren't the only ones on her trail now." He stood up and ran in the direction the sonic lead him.

River kept pace with The Doctor as they followed the sonics directions. "Who is looking for her Doctor?! Tell me wh-" A scream, sounding too much like Rorias erupted close by and both River and The Doctor quickened their speed. They bumped into Amy and Rory who also heard the screams and all headed in the same direction.

The Doctor lead the way with his sonic and came to a park with two Daleks surrounding Roria. "RORIA!" The Doctor yelled as he ran towards his daughter.

Roria looked up to see both her parents and grandparents coming towards her, tears stained her cheeks as she trembled from fear. "Dad...Mum..." She whispered.