Wedding of River Song spoilers, so be aware. Sorry I only got one chapter out last week. I've been watching Fringe on Netflix and I think I'm starting to get addicted to it. Thank you for all of your positive feedback!

Rose has been looking.

Looking everywhere for the Doctor.

Her only orders from Bad Wolf were to leave the Doctor and lead River to Demons Run. But she completed that mission. She didn't know what to do after that.

So Rose decided to find The Doctor again. She doesn't know where he is, but she has a whole universe to guess. Since she still had a working Vortex Manipulator is was easy to get from place to place faster, but it wasn't always accurate.

But she tried everywhere. When she heard the word Doctor, mentioned with a planet and a time, she was there within a minute.

She tried Autopia, Olympus, Frontios, Sarath, and so many more planets.

Rose thought about looking for his mind; which is very difficult in the whole universe. She thought it was too risky since he could be anywhere in time and space; and there are eleven Doctors running around the universe at the same time.

Rose couldn't think of anything else to do, so she tried it.

Her mind ran into the wrong Doctor once or twice, but when she felt the familiar warmth, of which she bonded with, she heard one word: 'Dalek'.

There was only one crashed Dalek ship at the time, so Rose took her chance with that one.

Since her chance of seeing the right Doctor was increased, she decided to look her best, so she changed into her favorite gold dress.

It flowed past her ankles and it waved in the wind; if there was wind. She also put her cape on, she picked it up along the way of her travels. It was a deep red, and she often thought that she must look like Red Riding Hood. (*hint hint*)

Rose boarded the Dalek ship to find it in ruins, there were exploded Daleks everywhere. Cables where ripped out of the walls, and sparking. The lights on the sides of the hallways flickered.

Glass was shattered.

Metal was torn.

And there were Dalek eye-stalks littered on the floor.

Then she heard a Dalek in the far off distance. "Emergency! Emergency! Weapons system disabled!"

Then she caught the sound of a sonic screwdriver. "Emergency! Data core has been breached!" Rose followed her ears.

"Hush now, I need some information from your data core." Rose walked down a hallway to find the Doctor hunched over a fallen Dalek. The head was off and he was taking it apart. "Everything the Daleks know about the silence."

"Silence will fall when the question is asked." Rose spoke from behind him. He turned around, and slowly walked towards her, then stopped with wide eyes. "The oldest question in the universe. Hidden in plain sight."

"Rose?"

"Hello." Rose lowered her hood, and was nervous, she didn't know how he felt about her leaving. And his expression was blank, and she didn't even feel any emotions coming from his mind. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Rose's voice cracked.

The Doctor took another step forward and engulfed her in a hug. Rose then felt a huge wavy of relief wash over her.

"I'm truly sorry." Rose said through a shaky breath. "I am going to explain everything."

The Doctor leaned back. "I don't care where you were. All that I care about is that your safe."

Rose's head dropped. "I don't deserve you."

"Hey." The Doctor brought her chin up with a finger. "You deserve so much more than I can ever give you. You have torn apart worlds to find me over and over again. And I'm sure you would do it many more times, if you had to."

Rose looked into his eyes. They were soft, and thankful. "I love you."

"I love you too." The Doctor leaned down and met his lips to hers.

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~The Docks of Caliso B~

The Doctor walked up to the window with Rose by his side. "Gideon Vandaleur. Get him. Now." He said to the red man.

The Doctor was wearing his stetson and Rose was in her cape with the hood up.

"Who says he's here?" The man replied. And that was when the Doctor set a Daleks eye-stalk on the counter in front of them.

Wordlessly the man walked away. They got a table and waited for him. There was some kind of liquor on the table with a glass and then the Doctor pulled out 'Knitting For Girls' and stared to read.

"I don't know why you read that." Rose told him.

"It's very interesting to me. And some of the patterns in here are very extraordinary." The Doctor replied without looking up from his page. "Like you can make a pillow case that looks like a cat." The Doctor showed her.

"Maybe you should knit one for me." Rose looked at the table. "What's this?"

The Doctor looked down at the table also. "That's Hypervodka."

"Hypervodka? As in, the stuff Jack told us about, when he had four and woke up with his executioners?"

"Yes, it's very... potent."

"It can't be that bad." Rose looked at the bottle.

"Try it, then." The Doctor dared.

Rose's competitive side kicked in and she poured herself a shot. She shot a sly glace at the Doctor before tilting the glass back.

Rose's expression went from smug to disgusted. She started struggling to keep the harsh liquid down.

"Told you." Rose was still coughing into her arm when she smacked his arm.

Then a man came along and sat across from them.

"Father Gideon Vandaleur." The man lowered his hood. Rose noticed that he wore an eye patch.

"Former envoy of the Silence. My condolences." The Doctor added with a whisper.

"Your what?" He replied, confused.

"Gideon Vandaleur has been dead for six months." Rose told him and then leaned in. "As in not alive."

The Doctor whipped out his sonic and pointed it at the man. A small person appeared in the eye. "Can I speak to the captain please?" The small man nodded and ran off.

"Hello again. The Teselecta, time traveling, shape changing robot, powered by miniaturized people."

"You just like to say that, don't you?" Rose asked.

"Never get bored of that." He said to Rose, then the Doctor spoke to the robot. "Long time since Berlin."

"Doctor, what have you done to our systems?" The captain asked.

"Oh, they'll be find. If you behave. Now, this unit can disguise itself as anyone in the universe, so if you're posing as Vandaleur, you're investigating the Silence. Tell us about them."

"Tell you what?"

"One thing, just one; their weakest link."

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"The people are getting restless. They know the queen is your only legal move." Rose leaned back in her chair, and relaxed. "Except you've already moved it twelve times. Which means there are now over 4 million volts coursing through it."

The man who Rose was playing against (Gantok) looked around. The audience was shouting at him to move. "That's why they call it 'Live' Chess."

Gantok ignored her words and tried to grab his queen. They were in somewhat of an arena and Rose could tell that people were already making bets on who would win.

"Even with that special gauntlet of yours, you'll never make it to bishop four alive."

"I am a dead man, Wolf. Unless you concede the game."

"But I'm winning. I have always won. Well..." Rose trailed off into her thoughts.

"Name your price."

"Information." She leaned forward.

"I work for the Silence. They will-" Gantok motioned to his neck. "-kill me."

"They're going to kill someone who is very close to be too. And very soon. He was just going to lie down and take it. But you know what? Before my husband has to go, I would like to know why he has to die."

"Dorium Maldovar is the only one who can help you."

"Dorium is dead. The Monks beheaded him at Demons Run." Rose wasn't sure where this was going anymore.

"I know. Concede the game, Wolf, and I'll take you to him."

Rose considered this for about three seconds, but she knew there were many ways to speak to someone who you think is dead.

First off, they might not even be dead. But in this case, Rose took her chances and conceded the game.

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Rose was now standing in some kind of a cave; it was dark, dirty, and very mucky.

Then Rose's former chess player entered the cave, and he held a torch. "The Seventh Transept, where the Headless Monks keeps the leftovers. Watch your step, there are traps everywhere."

Rose looked down at his feet, then she heard a scurrying noise. "I hate snakes."

"There are no snakes in Transept."

"Oh, good." Rose said relived.

"The skulls eat them." Gantok told her.

There were hundreds of skulls lined along the walls, like a supermarket. "The Headless Monks behead you alive, remember?"

They came to an opening, with six pedestals lined along the room, they were in a circle. "What's in the boxes?" There were boxes on top of the pedestals.

"Because some people are rich and some people are left to rot. And Dorium Maldovar was always very rich."

Rose took a look at the box that was the third from the end. It had a pattern on the front and it was wooden. She slid the front of the box over to reveal Dorium's blue head. His eyes were closed until he sneezed.

Rose looked over her shoulder, "Thank you for leading me to him Gantok." She turned back to the blue head.

"My pleasure. It saves me the trouble of burying you, Wolf." Gantok turned a gun to her. Rose turned around and looked at the red gun. "Nobody beats me at chess."

"Well, then two people can beat you, because I was taught to play like that." Rose looked down at his feet. He was standing in the light. "You said there were traps?" Rose backed away.

"Yes... AH!" Gantok suddenly fell into the ground below him. Rose ran to the hole and looked into it, she reached down.

"Grab my hand!" She shouted. He was being engulfed by skulls, they were snapping their jaws and rolling towards him.

It was too late.

He was buried by the bones and his screams faded, then the skulls turned to Rose. She let out a little yip and dug in her bag for her sonic, and she quickly closed the hole and fell back on her hands.

"Hello?" Rose heard behind her. "Is someone there?" It was Dorium.

Rose stepped into his field of vision. "Oh, Wolf. Thank god it's you." He said relived. "The Monks, they turned on me."

"I can see that. You look... different." Rose tripped over her words.

"Give it to me straight, Wolf. How bad are my injuries?" He gave her a concerned look.

"Um, they're a bit... harsh." Rose wasn't sure of what she was suppose to say.

Then he burst out laughing. "Oh! You thought I didn't know! Ahh... that was good."

"This is absurd!" The supposed Caesar stopped the Doctor, right in the middle of his story, about time and what happened to it. "Other worlds, carnivorous skulls, talking heads. I don't know why I'm listening to you." He took another breath full, of smoke, from his cigar.

"Because, in another reality, you and I are friends, and you sense that. Just as you sense there is something wrong with time." The Doctor explained.

"But how do you know what happened to the Wolf, if you weren't even there?" He stood behind his chair.

"Because we have a telepathic connection, and she shared that information with me."

"She?"

"Yes." The Doctor answered simply.

"So let me get this straight. This... Wolf, is a woman, and you have a special connection with her?"

"That's correct."

"What is she like?" He pushed for more information about her.

The Doctor paused for a moment. He thought about Rose, he didn't know where she was now. All of history is happening at once, she could be anywhere. "She is like... the most forgiving, understanding, caring, lovable person I have ever met."

"Attractive, I assume." He took another puff.

"The most beautiful creature I had ever laid eyes on." The Doctor was now lost in his thoughts, about his wife.

"You mentioned another woman."

The Doctor snapped back to reality. "Yes. I am getting to her."

"What is this female like? Another attractive being?"

"Hell..." The Doctor began, and 'Caesar's eyebrows rose. "...in high heels."

"Tell me more."

And the Doctor started where he left off.