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"Amy..." River began, for the first time genuine fear showed in her eyes, "What are you doing?"
Amy could hear River's voice shaking, she could feel her racing heart beat vibrating down the gun and through her hand, but nothing would distract Amy, "What I have to."
River tried desperately to make eye contact with her mother, but that was the problem, Amy wasn't her mum, not yet, and she never again would be. That was the second reality hit; she didn't know this Amy and she was right, time could be rewritten. So for the first time in her life, River wondered whether this day could be her last. "Amy please, I don't understand."
Slowly, Amy stood up, the gun remaining on its target, "I'm sorry River, but I have to get my baby back."
"This won't help..."
Amy quickly shook her head, "It will, it will, I can change all of this" her voice began to break as the emotion forced its way back in.
"How?" River asked softly, holding onto the lapse in determination.
Amy blinked hard, shaking the sorrow from her mind until she was able to lift her head with renewed strength, "My past, the doctor's past, it's all your future, right?"
River nodded slowly and somewhat reluctantly, she had a sinking feeling that she was in some way signing her own death warrant.
Amy nodded, feeling oddly relieved, "Melody is gone because we travelled with the Doctor, if we had just lived normal lives and never met him; she would be at home with me and Rory right now." A few tears released themselves, though Amy's resolve didn't waver this time.
The fear, a fear like she had never felt before, was rising up in River. She had seen Amy's protective side before and knew from experience that she would do anything for her daughter; the trouble was, in Amy's eyes, River wasn't her daughter in this case. "Removing me from your past won't change that" as Amy opened her mouth, River quickly continued, determined to take any opportunity presented to her, "You said I'd saved you, that I'd always show up when there was danger?" Amy's expression changed ever so slightly, she was definitely listening, if nothing else, "Imagine that I never had. Would you still have been saved? What if Melody never existed at all?"
Shaking her head, Amy responded, "No, you don't understand. At mine and Rory's wedding, the Doctor was gone until I remembered, until I brought him back. Me and Rory were happy and married and we'd never met the Doctor because he had never existed, he was just my imaginary friend. But it was you, you came and you left the diary and I saw you and that's when it all changed, that's when I remembered and the Doctor came back. What if you were never there?" Amy's rant had got faster as it went on, determined to make logic out of her desperate madness.
River was finally speechless, unable to believe the words she had heard. Finally she attempted a response, "You want to erase the Doctor completely?"she asked quietly, a look of betrayal and disbelief in her eyes.
"I want Melody back." Amy replied firmly.
"But the Doctor, Amy your Doctor, your raggedy Doctor? Do you really hate him that much?"
"I love her more than anything, I would chose her over him every time" Amy spoke fiercely but with underlying pain, before her attention once again became focused, "I don't want to do this, " she implored River to understand, "I am sorry River, I don't hate you, but I love Melody more. If there was another way..." she practiced her grip on the gun.
"Amy, please, please don't do this..." Time was running out, River knew that, she couldn't talk Amy round, why wouldn't she listen, why did she have to be faced with a stranger, why couldn't this be her Amy? This could be her last chance. Final chance. So River focused on the only part of the debate which she knew this Amy had in common, "Think of all the good the Doctor has done. The whole world, the universe could suffer so much without him..."
"I DON'T CARE!" Amy screamed. And she meant it. All that mattered was her little girl and she would literally rip reality apart if that is what it would take. An unknown protective anger permitted Amy to thrust the gun hard into River's chest, her finger finding the trigger...
Silence had fallen, River could hear nothing, feel nothing...except...except the harsh barrel of the gun and...tears.
Ok, so I know there are flaws in Amy's logic, but I don't think she's exactly thinking clearly at the moment. Atleast you know why she thinks killing River is going to be helpful :P
