Woah, I am really late today on the update! Sorry about that! I have a bad case of Senioritis making me wake up for school at the very last second possible LOL. Anyways, thank you Luxturna for editing, and I don't own DW or its' characters! Enjoy!

Chapter 24:

A small present wrapped in TARDIS blue wrapping paper materialized onto the TARDIS console. The Doctor picked it up and flipped it over, and found a small note attached to it labeled "Doctor" in River's signature handwriting.

Please give this present to me for my 7th birthday. Wait until you go to celebrate it with Amy and Rory. Do not give it to me on the day of my birthday party with my friends.

Love,

River

P.S. Don't try to sonic the gift to find out what it is. Spoilers. XOXO

The Doctor frowned and wanted to know what the present contained, but decided to leave it alone, after all, River probably put something on it to reflect sonic technology.

The Doctor landed the TARDIS on June 3, 2018. The day before Melody turned 7. Coincidentally, the day of Melody's first birthday slumber party.

Amy and Rory thanked him profusely for coming. Now they had three adults to help look after the six little girls. Even though it was Amy's idea that Melody threw a slumber party, never realized how hard it would be to plan the actual party or to look after all the little girls.

Melody, at first, had no idea what a slumber party was and didn't even think she wanted one, but once her mum explained it to her she thought it sounded like a lot of fun. She of course invited Gracie, Katelyn, and Jessica, but she also decided to invite her new friends, Emily, and Brianna.

The girls all came over at 6 and ate pizza for dinner. Then they ate the chocolate cake decorated like Scooby Doo, and opened Melody's presents. She was so happy with all her new toys and the girls immediately went upstairs to play with them.

While they were playing the adults got the sleeping bags set up, set up some games and popped some popcorn, then Amy went up and told the girls to get their jamies on.

When the girls got downstairs they immediately started playing Just Dance on the Wii. Around 9 o'clock, the girls had settled down, so Rory put the movie "Frozen" on and turned down the lights. It didn't take long before all the girls were asleep and Amy, Rory, and the Doctor gave each other quiet high-five's for surviving the craziest part of the party.

Amy, Rory, and the Doctor decided to go to bed before they had to wake up and make breakfast for the girls.

Although since the Doctor didn't need as much sleep as everyone else, he was up by 6 making breakfast. He made eggs, bacon, and all sorts of pancakes including: strawberry, blueberry, and chocolate chip.

He banged and clattered around while cooking and effectively woke Melody up by 6:30. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and walked over to see if she could help him.

"Happy Birthday, Melody!" The Doctor exclaimed.

"Shh! My friends are sleeping!" Melody half-whispered.

"Right, sorry!" The Doctor said quieter. "Would you like to help set the table?"

Melody nodded and then gave him a quick hug and then went to put the plates, forks, napkins, and cups on the table.

It didn't take long before the other girls woke up and were laughing and giggling at the Doctor's silly antics as he served them all breakfast. The noise was enough to wake up Amy and Rory who just rubbed their eyes tiredly at being woken up at 7:30.

The girls got dressed and packed up after breakfast and then they played until noon when their parents came and picked them up.

Melody helped her parents and the Doctor clean up before going to play with her new toys. Amy and the Doctor then cooked Melody's birthday late lunch/ early dinner. of fish fingers and custard while Rory brought down Melody's presents and set the table.

"Melody! Time for dinner!" Rory called. Frowning when he didn't hear her footsteps come running, he walked into the living room and was surprised to see her asleep on the floor with "The Little Mermaid" playing on the telly. "Amy, Doctor, come 'ere."

"What is-" Amy started to say as she spotted her daughter asleep on the floor. "Poor thing must be tired from playing with her friends all day and night." Amy smiled.

"Or maybe because I accidentally woke her up at 6:30 this morning…" The Doctor replied.

"6:30! No wonder she's tired!" Rory exclaimed.

"We should wake her up so that the food doesn't go cold. Besides if we don't wake her up, she'll be up all night!" Amy grinned as she bent down and gently shook Melody awake.

Melody woke up and followed her parents to the kitchen table. When they finished eating, Melody opened her presents one by one. She was thrilled. She had gotten pretty much everything she wanted. She thanked her parents and the Doctor for her gifts.

"Oh! Wait there's one more! River stopped by and told me to give you this." He pulled the TARDIS blue present out of his coat pocket.

Melody opened it up and gave the Doctor a funny look when she saw what it was. She picked it up. "Is this a real gun?" Melody asked, not realizing she had it pointed at the Doctor.

The Doctor jumped up and flew to her side along with Amy and Rory.

"Melody, please put that down." Amy scolded. Why on Earth would River give herself a gun? Amy thought. Amy looked in the bottom of the box and found a short note basically saying that this was River's first gun and she wanted to keep it that way.

"Melody, let me hold on to the gun, and I'll teach you how to shoot, okay, love?" Rory told her as he held open his hand.

Melody nodded and passed it to her dad who kept it locked away in a small safe he had in the garage.

A week later, Rory took Mels to a shooting range and let her shoot a few rounds under careful supervision of him, Amy, and the Doctor.

She had pretty good aim for a seven year old. They guessed that was why River was always so good with guns; she always had the best training.