Final chapter! Thank you for reading this story everyone, thank you to all the reviewers and story alerters, and just everyone who has anything to do with it. I hope you like it, and please tell me what you think when you've finished.
She practically fell out of the TARDIS laughing, holding on to his hand. "A dragon? You have got to give me a break."
"I can't believe you left out the dragon! No, wait, I can't believe that you left out the fact that we were almost eaten by it."
"Because I don't want to embarrass you! I can't believe you thought that pretending you were a dentist sent by the emperor it was guarding would work! I don't care if you speak dragon, what you said to it was, 'I am a man who wants to take your teeth from you.'"
"Like you had a better plan!" He shot back, but grumbled, "I didn't mean for it to translate that directly."
She reached her arms around his neck and kissed him slowly, "Thank you sweetie."
"Don't worry about it." He kissed her back, "But I've got to go now."
River finally looked around, "Where are we?" She demanded, "What are you talking about?"
He took a step backwards into the TARDIS, "I promised someone that you'd be here for them in about a minute. Alone."
"So that's why you were looking at your psychic paper! Who is it?" She poked him, and then pulled him forward again.
"Spoilers." He grinned, "If I promise you that it'll be okay now, what will you say?"
"That that's something grown-ups tell children when they lie to them."
"Always your mother's daughter." He smiled, then kissed her one more time, "Good bye River." He placed his hand softly on her cheek to stare into her eyes.0
"I hate you." She whispered.
"No, you don't." He replied, taking a step back and quickly closing, then locking the TARDIS door.
She stepped away from the TARDIS as it disappeared, her heart breaking slowly, falling into millions of little pieces.
Again.
After a minute, she sat down on the blue grass—literally blue grass. It was a bit lighter than the sky, but somehow brighter as well. It was also the exact color of the TARDIS; she wondered if he knew that. She broke one leaf and held it in her palm, and silently watched as a breeze lifted it away from her skin and the blade of grass drifted away from her, and back into the field, lost and unidentifiable once again.
She sat there a while longer, lost and confused as to why he would just leave her here alone, sure he had a reason but unsure of what it was.
And then she heard the TARDIS again, landing a few feet away from her. She sat and watched until the door slowly opened and the Doctor—not her Doctor, not the one who had just left, but the one she had left days ago—poked his head out.
"Honey, I'm home."
"And what sort of time do you call this?" She replied cautiously, "Sweetie. When are you?"
"I just left your parents. That was awful of you, by the way. She gave me peppermint tea, River. Peppermint. Just to get me to settle down."
"Poor you."
"And when that didn't work, they brought out the TARDIS's copy of the Oxford English Dictionary. But I just couldn't sleep I heard the TARDIS landing and I knew it meant something. I mean, something beyond you running away."
"I wasn't running away."
"Right. You were just calmly racing away from all of your problems to go see me." He was standing over her now, the polite distance he had kept earlier gone.
"Shut up. How did you get here?"
"I remembered. Once your parents finally left me alone, I just kept hearing the TARDIS landing in my head. And everything came back."
"Everything?"
"Well, you could test me on it."
She laughed, "Sweetie, there isn't enough time in the world to test to see if you remember everything."
"Maybe not the world. But the universe, River Song, has all the time we'll ever need."
She grinned, and then paused, curiosity getting the best of her. "Sweetie, what happened to you? Why did you regenerate?"
He looked at her confused. "You were there. I had thought—Ah. I see. Spoilers, River Song."
"You die, and decide to tell me spoilers?"
"I told you spoilers about when you would die."
"I hate you."
"No, River Song, you don't." He reached a hand out to her, and helped her up. "And even if you did, I don't think I would care."
"What are you going on about?"
"River Song, I love you no matter. Last body, this body. Each body." Even the endearing awkwardness of before was gone, she decided, as he slowly lifted her up.
Perhaps she could get used to him, she thought, until he accidently pulled too much and sent her flying up into him. They both fell back onto the grass.
"Oh you." She laughed, "Come here."
He winked and pulled her close, "Right here."
"Always?"
"Forever."
"I'll hold you to that."
"I expect you to." He laughed as she dodged his kiss, "But, River, we've got one more promise to keep."
Amy stood in front of them, her arms crossed, "Where have you two been?"
"Well, I got attacked by a dragon and then abandoned on a strange planet with no transportation."
"You were not abandoned." The Doctor hissed.
"You abandoned her?" Amy asked, eyes wide and mouth open. "A dragon?"
"I did not—River, you're not helping!"
She laughed, and kissed him on his cheek. "Sweetie, do I ever?"
"Shut up."
"Make me."
"No flirting!" Rory ordered, "You two are going to stay right here for tonight."
"River can have her room back," The Doctor offered, "I'll go stay in the TARDIS."
"I said no leaving."
"I'm not going to go anywhere without River tonight, dad."
"Don't call me dad." He muttered. "But fine. I best not hear that TARDIS leaving tonight though, or next time I'll stay in it."
"Okay daddy." River kissed him on the cheek. "I'll go to my room, okay? See you later. Night mum." She gave Amy a hug and sauntered up the stairs.
"I'm guessing I can't do the same thing." He said, "So I'll just say good night and go wait until morning in the TARDIS."
"No fast forwarding." Rory warned.
"I said I wasn't going to leave here without her, didn't I?" He replied evenly. "Good night, Amy and Rory. Sleep well."
Amy laughed and hugged him, "It's good to have you back."
"Good to be back." He replied into her hair. "Good night Rory."
"Good night, Doctor."
He heard the TARDIS door open a few minutes after midnight, "Good morning, River," He grinned, "How did you get out?"
"They didn't leave a guard dog outside my window this time." She winked as she closed the TARDIS door.
"That's a three story drop, River."
"Only if you don't knot the sheets together, sweetie." She smiled as she sashayed over to him. "Get enough sleep this past week?"
"More than I get in a century. I should be good for at least a few more decades."
They heard the screen door of the home outside slam against the side of the house.
River raced to the door, "See you at 7:00AM!" She called to her mother's laughter and her father's disapproval.
"Right then, River Song, what do you want to do?"
She grinned and replied, "Everything."
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