The Doctor goes into a hospital room where River is lying there, sleeping. He then goes and sits on a chair next to her, "Wake up soon please. I did everything you asked. I never touched you. Well I did but I just carried you here. I just want to get you better so we can work through this and be mad at me if you want but other than that. I have done everything you ask and I will do everything you ask me but you have to wake up." He says then sulks in his seat and just watches her.
After about ten minutes, River without opening her eyes took a deep breaths after every word, "Doctor, don't leave me. Please. I am sorry." The Doctor then sits up and says, "I will never leave you. I promise and you don't have to apologize for anything. Now I am going to go get the Doctor but I will be right back."
"No, don't get someone else to do it. Please don't leave me." River says, still out of breath.
"I can't there is no one else here. Well there is but they are in the waiting room". The Doctor tells her then gives her his sonic screwdriver then adds, "Here take this. Now you know I am coming back. I would be anyway but here, just so you know for sure that I am not leaving your side."
Then River asks, "What if he comes back?"
"Okay I will stay. I will just check if there is anyone outside the door to go get your doctor." The Doctor tells her.
"You are my Doctor, sweetie" River says. He then smiles and goes to check if there is anyone standing outside. There is a nurse standing outside. The Doctor says to the nurse, "Hey, River Song has just woke up. Well her eyes are not open and she sounds really out of breath but she is talking would you be able to get her doctor please?"
"Eh yes straight away Doctor. We will see to her as soon as possible." the nurse tells him.
"Thank you" The Doctor tells her then goes back in the room.
Rory, Amy, and Anthony are sitting in the waiting room, half asleep. When they hear the nurse saying to a doctor, "River Song is awake. She is speaking to the Doctor but she not opening her eyes and has to take a breath every time she says a word. He wants you to go check. Make sure she is alright and I would do it. But you have her records and I don't have the questions that we need to ask her or him." then Rory goes over to them and says "Hey, I sorry but what do you mean River Song is awake? Can you tell us what is wrong with her?"
"Eh sorry we can't. Only herself and the Doctor can tell you. She has the Doctor as her emergency contact and he is everything else as well. Anything to do with River goes straight to him in her files. No one else in mentioned so if you would like to know any information on River then I am afraid you will have to ask him. But he is not telling anyone untill he gets the okay from River so you should know within the next day or two." the doctor tells him then walks away.
Rory sits back down, "Well?" Amy asks.
"They can't tell us anything. Only the Doctor or River can tell us and The Doctor won't tell us until River says he can. And they say that it could be at least another two days until then. We just have to wait. We could go home but they can't even tell us where she is to get the vortex manipulator. So we are stuck here. Cause like you said: the Doctor won't leave her side." Rory tells her.
"We have already been here... what a week? And we don't know anything?!" Amy says.
"Yeah, it sucks but there is nothing anyone can do." Rory says.
The Doctor is sitting next to River holding her had. "Doctor, come lay down next to me, please." River asks, still out of breath.
"Um yeah, of course." The Doctor says then takes off his jacket and lays next to her on the bed and puts his arm around her. And hugs her and kisses her head. "Tell me a story, Doctor. Something about me that I would never know unless you told me." River asks.
The Doctor sighs and says "Okay well I will start from when we went to 1969 because that's when I knew I loved you. I knew I liked you before, then a lot but I kept thinking to myself: Nah I would never fall in love with this girl. Yeah she is nice and everything. But I did not think I would be able to love you then I did. Don't get me wrong, I love you now and I always will. From then on I swore I would never let anything bad happen to you again. That I would always keep you safe, do everything you asked, make sure sure you had everything you needed. So when we went to 1969 I will tell you everything from the start. So yeah, 1969 when we went. It was not until we got in the TARDIS, just after you slapped me and I searched what you wanted. And you begged for me to go, you never knew why yourself and I thought why? And then you thank Amy and I just thought you were mad but then I realized you were mad but so am I. So it could work then when you looked at me when we where at the window I realized I was in love with you something about the way you looked at me. Not even that, there was just something and I thought 'I am going to marry her' I knew this. But that was when I could see it, I thought: Yeah it will happen. then we where saving Amy from the silence and you where shooting all the silence I was not using the sonic to help I was using the sonic cause you looked sexy and I wanted to watch you but you told me to go in the TARDIS. So I did."
River laughs, like you do when you are tired.
"What is it?" The Doctor ask Rivers is still struggling to talk but tells him, "You thought I was sexy. I though that was just the TARDIS."
Then the Doctor says, "No way. You are way sexier. Any man would be lucky to have you but they can't cause you are mine. Even if they love you more than me, which is impossible. I still won't let them have you." River just smiles and the Doctor kisses her head again and she says to him, "I love you"
"I love you too." The Doctor tells her then a doctor comes in and says, "Hello I am Dr Martin. How are you, River?" River takes a deep breath and says, "I am fine."
"Okay good can you open your eyes for me?" Dr Martin asks her then River opens her eyes a little bit then Dr Martin tells them. "Okay we are going to need to River to come with me. You as well, Doctor. Being a time lord concealing won't work for River cause you could wait thousands of year be in hospital twice in between. So we need to ask you some questions now and keep you in till we know you can help yourself. And tell the Doctor how he can help as well. Can we do that?"
The Doctor looks at River and says, "Its up to you."
"Yeah. Okay I will go but can you finish your story first?" River says.
"I will come back in an hour to get you and you are just tired that's why you will be finding it hard to speak. You have been asleep for a week so your body will take a while to work properly again." Dr Martin says before leaving the room.
Then the Doctor says, "Right... where was I? Yes. You were being all sexy and then we kissed for the first time. Well the first time since I loved you that's why I said we had not done that before. I know you said my first are your lasts. But anyway then that night, our first night in the..." He then got interrupted by Amy, Rory and Anthony walking in.
"So what's wrong with her?" Amy ask.
"And asking her yourself was out of the question. Don't act like she is not here, just like you were about you there." The Doctor says.
"Okay River. What's wrong with you?" Rory says.
"I took an overdose and the time lord half of me kept me alive. I have been asleep for a week and now I am going to find out whether or not I am healthy enough for The Doctor to look after me. I can't you keep up." River tells them her voice getting better so she can say things proper.
"Look at that. Your not out of breath. That's good. Do you feel any better?" The Doctor asks.
"Yeah a bit." River tells him.
"Glad to hear it." The Doctor says.
"So that's it? We already knew." Anthony says.
"Yeah I did tell you before. You know everything I know and you still asked me questions. So I just gave up. I never told you anything that was not true. I never lied to you." The Doctor says.
"Can we go home now?" Rory asks.
"Nope we are staying here till River can go home." Amy tells him.
"Doctor, get back to your story." River says.
"You do realize where I was at." The Doctor says.
"Yes I do sweetie but I think my parents can take it. It's not my fault you get all embarrassed when you talk about it." River tells him.
"What bit of this story were you at?" Amy asks.
"He was telling me about things I would not know if he never told me everything. He telling me all his favorite bits about us and he was getting to the sex life." River tells them .
"Okay just cause you got your voice back. Does not mean you have to use it." The Doctor says.
"Oh but it does." River says.
"Okay. Come on then. We may as well all leave then." Anthony says.
"No. Only River can stay. You are all staying here. I will tell her later." The Doctor says.
"Wait till I have to have strength before they let me go." River asks.
"A certain amount probably. Like enough so you can walk to the TARDIS and eat and drink that's all you will need. I wonder how long it has been?" The Doctor answers.
"We have been here a week." Rory tells the Doctor.
Then the Doctor says "I meant since Dr. Martin was here."
"He has been about ten minutes, Doctor." River tells him.
"Aw okay. Still have fifty then." The Doctor says.
"Go on Doctor. Just tell us. You told me most things anyway. Then you found out it was my daughter and you stopped talking about it." Amy says.
Then the Doctor gives in and says, "Fine okay now I have to explain, River. That night we were not in the TARDIS alone."
"Have we ever been?" River asks him and then he tells her, "Eh no. But you knew that because that's the only time we have been in the TARDIS alone. Well that's what you thought anyway but we have been because I have took you places and stuff. In which it has been just us."
"Okay. It's fine. We can talk about it later. Continue with the story" River tells him so he does, "Okay well. Yeah the night I came in. You got the TARDIS inside your cell and thought let's not go anywhere. I had a table set out in the control room and forced Amy and Rory to sit in their room when they had just got up because I did not want River to know they were there. Then I went and picked you up. I put the TARDIS on invisible just encase It was on silent it was a good thing I did because there were guards outside her cell. So I watched out the window, what was going on. River like any other prisoner was allowed visitors. And it was visiting day which spoiled everything. But I decided I would wait on her because I did not want to go away. And come back to see if she got any visitors. So what I did was, I sat in the TARDIS waiting for her and someone did come to see her. It was some guy, I never got his name. But they were talking. I did not mind but then he started to kiss her and I check what time it was. but then I realized that's more for me than her so I waited till the end and then I went out and I pinned him up against a wall."
"Aw yeah I remember that. Yeah then the guards came and had to pull you off him because you where going to kill him. But you never got mad at me." River says then The Doctor tells them, "Yeah because I could have done something that had not came yet. I did not get mad at you cause it was the start of my timeline still then you came in the TARDIS. Everyone knows what happened."
Then Anthony says, "I don't."
"He had sex with her. And by the way Doctor you must be really good." Amy says.
"How come?" The Doctor asks.
"Well lets just say River is, eh.. loud." Rory says.
"I thought no one was there." River says. "Yeah but you have always been like that." Rory says.
"Okay well I will continue." The Doctor says then sits up a bit and adds "Then that morning I started to panic because I made Amy and Rory stay in their room listening to us, not just the sex part but everything else. So I dropped you off before they got up. They did not realize. I never told you they were there. Then we went on this pirate ship and the guy in charge gave up his wife and his son for the gold and that really pissed me off because I thought if I had that I would never let it go. Then what happened? Yes. Demons Run. You told me who you were. And I got all embarrassed and found it funny that they where your parents. Then I had to find you for them but I never looked that much cause I thought it might change you. So I tried to look for a you that would not have much effect on who you are now. Then we found you and you tried to kill me and I thought mixed signals. Much like last night we were having sex in your cell, then you try and kill me. But it's cool cause then you save me and use up all your regenartions. Then I decide I am going to ask you to marry me, so that night I go and get a ring while Amy and Rory are asleep. I still have it in my coat now just encase because after that we did get married. Only my wedding could save the universe is what I thought."
"I thought it was the only way you would survive." River tells him.
"Yeah I know but you were wrong... I think...you... no everything else" The Doctor says.
"I knew all of that as well." River says.
"Yeah I now I tell you everything but I thought Manhattan would not be the best story to tell considering..." The Doctor tell River .
"Good point. My mum would kill you if she found out about what happened after that." Rivers says.
"What happened?" Amy asks.
Then Dr. Martin comes in, "Ah all the family is here. Good. But I just need the two of you. Come on. River, have you got the strength to walk?" he asks.
"Eh, I don't know. I can try." River tells him then The Doctor gets up and puts his jacket back on and takes a little box out his pocket. And takes the ring out of the box before going back to River and holds his hand out.
She tries to get up but she finds it difficult.
"You know what? I will just do this. You can walk back if you want" The Doctor says then picks her up.
"Okay that's new. We could have just gotten her a wheelchair" Dr. Martin says.
The Doctor then puts the ring on River's wedding finger, "Yeah I know. I was just going to put her in the wheelchair outside." The Doctor says then the three of them go outside the room and the Doctor puts River in a wheelchair.
River is sitting in a room with Dr. Martin sitting at his desk. "Okay River. Is it okay if I ask you a few questions?" he asks River then she tells him, "Only if the Doctor is here. He needs to know all of this just as much as you and me."
"Okay. He is outside. I will go get him for you." Dr. Martin say then gets up from his desk and puts his head out the door and says, "Doctor. River wants you here."
Then the Doctor comes in and sits next to River. "You okay?" The Doctor asks.
"Yeah, I am fine. I just thought that you will be wondering the same things as him. And I want you to hear it from me and hear it first." River tells him.
"Okay. Well first thing is, can you remember what happened before you tried to kill yourself? How you felt, what you where thinking, what drove you to think: 'I can't go on anymore'?" Dr Martin asks.
"I felt alone. Like I had no one and I also felt useless because before I tried to kill myself. I was getting abused by this man who tried to rape me. I felt like I could not do anything, eh I never used to tell anyone, anything. I told him but I never told him that much I still had secrets from him. Things I though I could not tell him. I know I can now but he will find this out later and I think I felt so alone and so hopeless. I thought I would never be able to do anything again. I thought I might as well just end it. I am glad, I never did..." River says then looks at her hand, smiles and the adds, "Doctor, when did you do that?"
"Do what?" The Doctor asks.
"Put this ring on my finger?" River says.
"Eh, when I picked you up. Now, Doctor, continue." The Doctor says.
"Yes, I don't think there is anything wrong with you. Everything is fine and healthy. I just think the abuse got to you, of course it did but it effected the way you think. So you were not yourself but you are now. Or you will be once you get your strength back. You can stay here until then so we can make sure." Dr. Martin says.
"Is that it?" The Doctor says.
"Yeah, that's all its. Just because she shares a room with other people. We can't ask her anything there. Are you able to stand up?" Dr Martin says then River stands up. "I suppose I am" she says.
"If you need anything. Just ask. And come get me when you think you are yourself or Doctor, you come get me when she is back to being herself. You will have better judgement than anyone else here." Dr. Martin says then River and the Doctor leave the room.
Anthony and Rory are sitting in the hospital room. "Do you think mom will be back soon?" Anthony asks.
"Yeah, she should be. She only went to get Clara and she has the vortex manipulator, so she should be soon." Rory tells him.
"Who is Clara?" Anthony asks.
"I don't know but I am guessing River does because she asked for us to do this." Rory tells him.
Then the Doctor and River come back in the room and River lays in bed again.
"So what's the news?" Rory asks.
"Nothing. I need to get my strength back, then I can go." River says.
"Can we go then once Amy gets back? Or even me? I just don't want the Angels to get me. If they do then I might lose everything. I would rather sit on my own for another month than to get sent back in time again." Rory says.
"Yeah. You can. Where is Amy, anyway?" The Doctor says the Amy and Clara appear. "Hello Doctor. How have you been?" Clara says.
"Under a lot of stress. Why are you here?" The Doctor asks.
"River wanted me here. Well at least that's what Amy said." Clara tells him.
"Okay. Fair enough." The Doctor says.
"Could everyone leave please. I need to talk to the Doctor alone." River asks.
The Doctor then says to Clara, "Take those three home. Amy knows the coordinates. There is ones to bring you here in about two hours. But to you it will seem like two minutes." then gives her a piece of paper. Then they all disappear apart from the Doctor and River.
"Shut the curtain and then come lay here." River asks.
"Fine but we are in a hospital room that you share with other people. So don't try anything." The Doctor says.
"I am not making any promises." River tells him. The Doctor then closes the curtain and lays next to River. They are both on their sides, as it's the only way they can both lie down.
"So what is it?" The Doctor asks River. River then kisses the Doctor.
"Thats it? I feel that Clara is away a bit long, just for that." The Doctor tells her.
"You just put a ring on my finger, yet we are already married, why?" she asks.
"Well we are not. We are...lets just say we are. I thought you might want to do it right. The big white wedding with rings on our fingers. So that everyone knows we are taken. Everyone tries to flirt with you and maybe if we have rings, people will stop. Because you get jealous as well. Wouldn't you like people to know I am spoken fo?r" he tells her then she says, "Yeah, I would it would be nice. Then maybe if that Clara sees you up there saying: 'I do.' She will learn that its never going to happen."
"Clara does not fancy me, does she?" The Doctor says.
"Yes. You can tell by the way she looks at you. Its written all over her face and the way you look at her is the way used to look at me before you knew who I was." River says then the Doctor kisses River and says, "Yeah but I don't love her. So it will never happen anyway."
"How are you going to have a best man? You only ever travel with women." Rivers asks.
"I have Jack, Craig, and Mickey. I could probably get Ian as well. So I am fine with that, don't worry. What I worry about is, how are you going to find someone to walk you down the aisle? You don't have your mother or your father. That's what's worrying me about this." The Doctor reply's.
"We will find someone. Now. Come on. I feel fine. I look fine. I am fine. Can we go home?" River says.
"Okay, well we have to wait on Clara. But I will go tell them we are leaving." The Doctor says then he gets up and goes to open the curtain.
"No Doctor. Tell them so we can go in the TARDIS. I don't want to spend any longer in here." River says.
"Okay we will do that. Come on then." The Doctor says then waits on River before they open the curtain and leave the room. And going to the TARDIS, telling their doctor they are leaving on the way.
