so once again there's been a long gap between updates and I am sorry guys,

I've just been really busy

but as I said before, I am commited to finishing this fic! :)

Note: I took a different aproach here compared to my other River/11 fics and decided to explore the possibilty of the two of them not seeing their marriageas legitimate.

anyways, ENJOY!


Chapter eight

The problem as they soon found out, was that the space in the boot of 'Bette's' car was filled with different television sets of varying colours, sizes and picture qualities, all showing the same scene at different camera angles. Each TV showed three of their group and the cyber man, grouped around the Volkswagen. The fourth person was missing.

"River" The Doctor asked slowly, turning to face her, "where exactly did you buy that suit?"

River shrugged, glancing down at her skin-tight attire, "Well I-I...I don't remember" she trailed off muttering to herself, "Why don't I remember?"

"You don't remember because whoever wants me dead doesn't want you to." The doctor put in sympathetically before going on in his usual rambling tone," This suit is not just a suit, it's a series of cameras, all hidden" he walked towards her, reaching up to lightly flick one of the ears of the furry cat headband she wore, "see, right there, it just looks like part of the pattern, cleverly disguised. "He pointed out the small round dot on the ears for the benefit of Temperance and Booth.

"So, all this time I've been a walking camera?" River asked anxiously.

The Doctor didn't answer, turning away from her. Booth however replied soothingly, "you couldn't have known River"

"Yeah? But you should have!" The Doctor muttered suddenly in an angry tone, striding back to the boot of the car.

"Doctor!" Temperance cried in alarm, walking over to the Timelord, "In my professional opinion she couldn't have possibly known that..." she began to say only to have the Doctor shout loudly over the top of her,

"She put everyone's lives in danger Temperance, everyone's...even yours" he added quietly.

Brennan's eyes flashed as she replied furiously, "well that's what you're doing as well isn't it? I've seen how you act Doctor, you deliberately take risks," and with that she stormed off towards Booth and River.

"Thank you" River replied softly, so out of character that it made Booth stare in alarm.

"Don't thank me" Brennan replied, genuinely confused, "All I did was state the facts based on logic, based on your lack of memory I can conclude that you were most probably given some sort of drug to induce amnesia. "

"Or it's the Silence" River concluded, nodding,

"It can't be!" The Doctor replied coldly, sauntering back to join the group.

"Ok, I'm not following, is this squint-speak for something?" Booth muttered, looking to Brennan for help.

She shook her head, "no it seems as if they're talking about a species of alien"

"The Silence is not a species" River interrupted quickly, "It is a religious order or movement," she was about to go on, only to be interrupted by Booth who groaned loudly,

"We're being chased by religious aliens?"

"But you are religious" Temperance cut in, evidently not seeing the issue,

"Yeah but religious aliens?

"Enough with the religious Aliens!" The Doctor cried, throwing his arms up.

"Let me explain" and explain he did, at a million miles an hour to the point where River had to interject halfway through and explain in ways that they (particularly Booth) could understand.

They followed the events she explained pretty well, never asking questions until the end,

"But he" Booth paused, gesturing to the Doctor while still holding the cyber man's hand behind it's back, "said that he didn't know if you two were married."

"Well, technically we aren't, I mean, it was in an aborted timeline." River explained quickly.

Brennan nodded, understanding, Booth however was completely lost, "ok, I'm going to just ignore this time-space travel thing you guys do and get back to my job" he paused before adding under breath, "which happens to be arresting a robot who thinks that she's human"

"But-I-am-human-dear" The cyber man replied, making The Doctor roll his eyes.

Booth pointed at him warningly, "Don't even start!" He said before addressing the cyber man again, "ok Bette, explain to me what all these TV screen's are doing in the back of your little Volkswagen, innocent nanna like you? Spying on 3 doctors and a federal agent?"

Bette was silent for a while minute before she replied reluctantly, "This-car-isn't-mine-it's-Mike's"

"Who's Mike?" The Doctor asked,

"I'll ask the questions here dead boy!" Booth retorted before turning and asking the cyber man, "Who's Mike?"While the Doctor protested and appealed to an amused looking River and indifferent Brennan. "I just asked that!"

"Mike-is-my-husband-detective" The Cyber man replied in it's robotic voice.

"Husband?" River and the Doctor cried as one.

"What's wrong with that?" Booth asked casually, glancing up at both of them "You saying Bette here doesn't get lonely?"

"Booth" The Doctor began slowly, "Bette is a robot, a robot that shouldn't have any sense of emotion."

"So it should be impossible for Bette to develop a relationship of any sort?" Brennan asked and River nodded.

"Bette shouldn't even have a name!"

"Ok, this is all a little too much for me!" Booth cried with a frustrated sigh, "Can someone just explain what the hell is going on here?"

"I'm working on it Seeley" The Doctor cried, leaping into action.

"But first things first we have to get these cameras off River, Bette and Mike can't be the only people watching us and I'd rather not have any witnesses to what we're going to next"

"Which is?" Brennan asked,

The Doctor rubbed his hands together, a grin on his face as he looked up, "We're going to kidnap a Cyber man, this Cyber man to be precise. "


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