A/N: new chappie! enjoy!

Chapter 36: Wedding

"You have to put it on, Sir," Rory told the Doctor as he led him, Amy and Olivia down a set of stairs in one of the pyramids of Cairo, what they called Area 52.

"An eye patch?" the Doctor frowned, holding the thing in his hand as Olivia examined her own. "What for?"

"It's not an eye patch," Amy said again as they reached the bottom of the stairs, surrounded by soldiers as they entered a darkened hall.

"It's an eye drive, Sir," Rory explained. "It communicates directly with the memory centers of the brain. Acts as external storage."

"Only thing that works on them," Amy explained, making Olivia frown at her as they entered another room and when she turned she screamed at the sight of one of the Silence in a glass tank in the wall. The Doctor grabbed her by the shoulders to pull her back against him as Amy continued, "Because no living mind can remember these things."

"The Silence," Olivia whispered as she wrapped her arms around one of the Doctor's, both keeping their eyes on them.

"We've captured over one hundred of them now," Rory reported. "All held in this pyramid."

"Yeah," the Doctor murmured, walking down the hall with Olivia on his arm. "I've encountered them before. Always wondered what they look like."

"Well, put your eye drive on and you'll retain the information," Amy explained. "But only for as long as you're wearing it."

"Their human servants wear these," Olivia recalled.

"They'd have to," Amy nodded.

"This way," Rory entreated, gesturing deeper down the hall and Olivia and the Doctor put on their eye drives to continue down the hall.

"This is kind of weird," Olivia confessed, glancing from one Silence to another. "I keep expecting to forget…if that makes sense."

"Course it does," the Doctor chirped, glancing between them as well but thinking something else that Rory voiced.

"They seem to be noticing you," he said.

"Yeah," the Doctor replied. "They would."

"So why aren't the human race killing the Silence on sight anymore?" Amy wondered, remembering their first encounter with them.

"That was a whole other reality," the Doctor replied.

"Why are they in tanks?" Olivia asked.

"They can draw electricity from anything," Rory explained. "It's how they attack. The fluid insulates them. And I really don't like the way they're looking at you."

"Me neither," the Doctor murmured, meeting Rory's gaze before he turned to Amy.

"Ma'am, I'm sure it's nothing, but I should really check this out," Rory explained to Amy. "They haven't been this active in a while. He turned to the men behind them. "You two, upstairs. Check all the tank seals. Then the floors above. Get everyone checking. You go ahead, ma'am."

"Thank you, Captain Williams," Amy nodded. "Doctor, Olivia, this way."

The Doctor took Olivia's hand as Amy led them through the pyramid, and he mentioned, "Captain Williams. Nice fellow. What's his first name?"

"Captain," she replied, without missing a beat. "Just through here."

"Just give us a moment," the Doctor requested. "Just need to…check something. Liv, stay with Amy."

He turned to head back toward Rory and Olivia frowned at the sudden pain in her head, wincing visibly.

"You ok?" Amy wondered.

"Yeah, just a headache," Olivia murmured, but she knew this one was different. It was as soon as she'd put on the eye drive…almost like a warning.

"Come on, Doctor," Amy called, drawing Olivia's attention to him as he returned. "Time for you to meet some old friends."

"Attention all personnel," Rory's voice came from the PA system as they made their way to a huge, main room. "Attention all personnel. Please check all assigned containment units."

"Oh, I'd know that hair anywhere," Olivia smirked as the three made their way through the bustling people in lab coats among machinery.

"Hi, honey, I'm home," the Doctor smiled as they stopped, and River turned around from having her back faced to him, an eye drive over her eye.

"And what sort of time do you call this?" she retorted before stepping toward the side to reveal Madame Kovarian strapped to a chair.

"The death of time," she replied. "The end of time. The end of us all. Why couldn't you just die?"

"Did me best, dear," the Doctor replied. "I showed up. You just can't get the psychopaths these days. Love what you've done with the pyramids. How did you swing all this?"

"Hallucinogenic lipstick," River replied, casually. "Works wonders on President Kennedy and Cleopatra was a real pushover."

"I always thought so," the Doctor smirked.

"She mentioned you," River nodded.

"What did she say?"

"'Put down that gun.'"

"Did you?"

"Eventually."

"Oh, they're flirting," Madame Kovarian groaned. "Do I have to watch this?"

"Basic mistake, wasn't it, Madame?" Olivia smirked, stepping toward the woman in the chair, glaring at her and wanting to strangle her for everything she'd done. "Take a child, raise her to be the perfect psychopath, but then you introduce her to him."

"Who else was I going to fall in love with?" River sighed as Olivia turned back to them, slowly stepping behind River.

"It's not funny, River," the Doctor replied. "Reality is fatally compromised. Tell me you understand that."

"Dinner?"

"I don't have the time, nobody has the time, because as long as I'm alive, time is dying, because of you…River."

"Because I refused to kill the man I love."

"Oh, you love my do you?" he smirked, stepping closer to her and Olivia moved to keep River in place. "Oh, that's sweet of you."

"Get them!" Amy ordered, making two men come up behind the Doctor and grab him as another man grabbed Olivia to move her out from behind River.

"Isn't that sweet? Come here, you," the Doctor said, struggling against the men holding him as the man holding Olivia pulled her next to him.

"I'm not a fool, sweetie," River smirked. "I know what happens when we touch."

"Fireworks?" Olivia retorted.

The comment distracted the men long enough to let the Doctor reach out and grab River's arm.

"Get off me!" River ordered, trying to pull away. "Get him off me!"

"Doctor, no!" Amy shouted, running toward him to help the men separate the two as Olivia held River closer to the Doctor. "Let go! Please! You've got to let go!"

"Time's moving!" one of the scientists announced.

"Olivia, get off me!" River snapped, struggling against them both.

"I'm sorry, River," the Doctor struggled. "It's the only way."

River finally pulled away from the Doctor and turned to Olivia to shove her toward him, moving a safe distance away as she ordered, "Cuff them."

"Oh," the Doctor sighed as his hands were cuffed behind his back, and Olivia's were cuffed as well. "Why do you always have handcuffs?"

"River, this is the only way. You're opposite poles of the disruption. If the two of you touch you short out the differential. Time will begin again."

"And I'll be by a lakeside, killing him," River recalled.

"And I'll be by that same lakeside watching him die," Olivia reminded her. "Don't you think I'm hurting, too?"

"Time won't fall apart," the Doctor explained. "The clocks will tick. Reality will continue. There isn't another way."

"I didn't say there was, sweetie," River admitted. "There are so many theories about you and I, you know?"

"Idle gossip," he retorted.

"Archeology," she corrected as she stepped toward him.

"Same thing!"

"Am I the woman who marries you or the woman who murders you?"

"Ohh, I don't wanna marry you," he whispered.

"I don't wanna murder you," she argued.

"Well, this is no fun at all."

"It isn't, is it?"

Olivia frowned when she felt drops hitting her head, then looked up to see water dripping from the ceiling.

"Doctor, what is that?" she asked, drawing everyone's attention to the ceiling.

"The pyramid above us," the Doctor began, everyone still staring up. "How many Silence have you got trapped inside it?"

"None," Madame Kovarian answered, causing everyone to look to her. "They're not trapped. They never have been. They've been waiting. For this, Doctor. For you."

The door to the room burst open and Rory ran inside, announcing, "They're out! All of them!"

Rory ran down the stairs and Olivia frowned as her headache got worse, leaning on the Doctor's shoulder and making him look down at her in wonder.

"No one gets in here!" Rory reported, turning to defend the room. "Ma'am, the men out there should be able to lock us down. We have them outnumbered."

"And you're wearing eye drives based on mine, I think," Madame Kovarian recalled, then smirked, "Whoops."

"What do you mean?" the Doctor demanded, then looked to Olivia as she groaned, but one of the other women started screaming as her eye drive began crackling with electricity. "Help her! River, get that thing off Liv's face!"

Amy went for the woman that collapsed to the floor and River quickly pulled the eye drive from Olivia's eye before it started electrocuting her.

"She's dead," Amy announced of the woman she'd been trying to help.

"River, get these cuffs off me," Olivia ordered, her headache subsiding, and now she knew why. Her former psychic abilities had been trying to warn her about it.

River unlocked the cuffs around Olivia's wrists just as the Doctor shouted in pain when his eye drive activated.

"Eye drives off, now!" the Doctor shouted in pain as Olivia ran toward him and peeled the thing off of his face. "Remove them!"

"The Silence would never allow an advantage without taking one themselves," Madame Kovarian smirked as Amy shouted in pain when her eye drive was activated and River hurried to help her get it off. "The effects will vary from person to person. Either death or debilitating agony. Though they will take you all, one by one."

"Somebody shut her up," Olivia snarled as she helped River pull off her eye drive. Suddenly, Madame Kovarian's eye drive made a few sizzling noises as the electricity ran through it and she looked confused.

"What are you doing?" she asked as the commotion continued from outside the room. "No, it's me. Don't be stupid. You need me. Stop it! Stop that!"

"We can stop this right now," the Doctor told River. "You and I. Amy, tell her."

"We've been working on something," Amy told him. "Just let us show you."

"No point," he told her. "There's nothing you can do. My time is up."

"We're doing this for you!" Amy snapped.

"Then people are dying for me. I won't thank you for that, Amelia Pond."

"Just let us show you," River pleaded.

"Theta, you can't fight them both," Olivia warned and he shook his head before nodding in defeat.

"Captain Williams, how long do we have?" Amy asked Rory.

"A couple of minutes," he reported as the Silence tried to get through the barricaded door.

"That's enough," River nodded to Amy before looking to the Doctor. "We're going to the receptor room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope you're ready for a climb."

The Doctor and Olivia followed River up a huge flight of stairs, and River had been right, it was a climb, because when they reached the top Olivia was panting for breath.

"Jeez, I didn't realize I was so out of shape," she panted.

"What's this?" the Doctor wondered of the contraption at the center of the room at the top of the pyramid.

"Between the running and everything else you think I'd be up those stairs like nothing," Olivia continued, still panting and leaning over off to the side.

"Oh, it's a timey-wimey distress beacon," the Doctor realized. "Who built this?"

"I'm a child of the TARDIS," River reminded him. "I understand the physics."

"But that's all you've got, is a distress beacon!" the Doctor snapped.

"I've been sending out a message. A distress call. Outside the bubble of our time, the universe it still turning and I've sent a message everywhere. To the future and the past, the beginning and the end of everything. 'The Doctor is dying. Please, please, help.'"

"River! River this is ridiculous! That would mean nothing to anyone. It's insane. Worse! It's stupid! You embarrass me."

"We barricaded the door," Amy called as she and Rory caught up with them. "We've got a few minutes. Just tell him."

"That he's being an ass? I think he knows," Olivia snapped, marching around the Doctor to make sure he'd heard her and stepping next to River. "What is it, River?"

"Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares," she began, glancing between them. "They're wrong. There aren't any. It's not the sun, Doctor. It's you. The sky's full of a million, million voices saying, 'Yes, of course, we'll help.' You've touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when your time came you'd really have to do more then just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn't agree."

"River," he ground out. "No one can help me. A fixed point has been altered. Time is disintegrating."

"I can't let you die—"

"But I have to die."

"Shut up!" River snapped, near tears. "I can't let you die without knowing you are loved by so many and so much, and by no one more than me."

Olivia bowed out then, heading around River to stand next to Amy and Rory, the other people being ignored.

"River, you and I, we know what this means," the Doctor urged. "You know we are ground zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die."

"I'll suffer if I have to kill you," River replied, crying.

"More than every living thing in the universe?!"

River looked hurt that he would even ask that before she whispered, "Yes."

The Doctor's mouth twitched in frustration before he ground out, "River. River. You know, why do you have to be this? Melody Pond, your daughter—I hope you're both proud!"

He turned away from them all as Olivia watched them intently.

"I'm not sure I completely understand," Rory confessed.

"Um, we got married and had a kid and that's her," Amy summarized.

Rory nodded as they all watched the Doctor intently, waiting for him to speak.

"Amy, uncuff me, now," he ordered and she did what she was told before stepping away as he exhaled a breath, then spun around. "Ok, I need a strip of cloth about a foot long. Anything will do. Never mind." He pulled off his bowtie as Amy, Rory and Olivia all frowned in wonder while he ordered, "River, take one end of this, wrap it around your hand and hold it out to me."

"What am I doing?" she wondered.

"As you're told," he replied, doing the same thing with the other end of the bowtie. Now, we're in the middle of a combat zone, so we'll have to do the quick version. Captain Williams, say 'I consent and gladly give.'"

"To what?" Rory asked.

"Just say it, Rory," Olivia breathed, making him look to her but she kept her gaze on the Doctor and River.

"I…consent and gladly give," Rory said, looking to the couple ahead of them again as the Doctor looked to Amy.

"Need you to say it, too," he told her. "Mother of the bride."

"I consent and gladly give," Amy replied, hurriedly as Olivia felt her heart clench so tightly she couldn't breathe, and she wondered if this was how River felt when she watched the Doctor marry her.

"Olivia, you need to stand next to River," he called, jolting her from her pained musings and without argument she did as she was told. "Alright, you two, I'm about to whisper something to you and you have to remember it very, very carefully and tell no one what I said."

Both girls leaned forward slightly to hear him whisper, "Look into my eye."

They both looked up into his eyes and what they both saw made them smile in awe and relief.

"I just told you my name," he said, glancing at Amy and Rory. "Now, there you go, River Song, Melody Pond…Olivia Felton. You're the women who married me. And wife—Uh…that one – River—"

"Yeah, I'll just go over here," Olivia reported, heading back toward Amy and Rory.

"Anyway, wife, I have a request," the Doctor resumed. "The world is dying and it's my fault and I can't bear it another day. Please. Help me. There isn't another way."

"Then you may kiss the bride," River shuddered, stepping closer to him.

"I'll make it a good one."

"You better."

Bannerman Road, Ealing, England...

Olivia sat at a desk in Sarah Jane's attic, fixing her watch that had been broken when she was running from…something. Olivia hadn't really been listening when Sarah Jane was telling her the story because her mind had been elsewhere. Since the Doctor had left her with Aaron before taking off for Utah, her mind had always been elsewhere, except when they were on an adventure, which had only happened a few times since she'd arrived. This life here wasn't nearly as action-packed as it had been with the Doctor or Torchwood.

She smiled as she lifted the watch and was about to strap it on to test it when Sarah Jane stepped through the door.

"Ah! There you are," Sarah Jane smiled as she approached her. "I was wondering where you'd gotten off to. Aaron's back from work. I told him you were here."

"Oh, good," Olivia smiled back, handing the watch to her. "All done. I was just about to test it."

"Oh, lovely, dear, thank you!" Sarah Jane beamed as she took the watch to strap it on. "Rani and Clyde are downstairs with Luke. They're all waiting for one of your stories."

"Oh," Olivia muttered, standing from the chair to pace, slowly as she hugged herself. "I don't think I can today."

Sarah Jane turned to Olivia with a frown as the younger woman stepped toward the brick wall where she knew Mr. Smith, the Zygon computer, was hiding. Olivia dropped her arms to twirl her wedding band around her finger in thought.

"Something you want to talk about?" Sarah Jane wondered, stepping toward her, but stopping a foot away from Olivia, who gave a small chuckle.

"I wish I could," she scoffed, making Sarah Jane give a frown, so Olivia went on. "You can ask Aaron, my life with the Doctor, and Torchwood was…is full of secrets. There's so much I wanna talk about and can't, Sarah Jane. You know how frustrating and…tiring that is?"

"I do," Sarah Jane nodded, stepping closer to stand next to her and sooth a hand over her back and shoulders. "I went through the same thing. Having this wonderful, amazing life you lead and not being able to say a word to anyone about it is entirely frustrating. I know. I lived it. But you should find someone to confide in to keep that insanity at bay."

Olivia nodded, staring ahead in thought as Sarah Jane wrapped her arm fully around her shoulders to hug her, adding, "And I think Aaron is the perfect candidate for your secrets."

"Yeah," Olivia nodded, agreeing with her and now wondering if she should break her promise she'd made to the Doctor not to say a word. "Maybe."

"Hey, baby doll!"

They both looked to the door to see Aaron stepping through the door with something in his hands, grinning, "And Olivia."

"Oh, you're funny," Olivia shot back as he stepped toward the two and hugged both of them. "How was work."

"Surprising," he replied, holding what looked like a rock up for them to see.

"What's that?" Olivia frowned.

"I was gonna ask Mr. Smith," Aaron replied, looking to Sarah Jane. "Do the honors, Ms. S? K-9 tried and kinda got nowhere with it."

"Of course," she smiled, taking the rock and turning to the wall behind them. "Mr. Smith, I need you."

With great fanfare, the wall panels separated to reveal Mr. Smith hidden behind the wall.

"Good afternoon, Sarah Jane," Mr. Smith greeted.

"I need you to scan this for me, please," Sarah Jane requested, setting the rock on a tray that emerged from under the keyboard.

"Of course," Mr. Smith replied.

"Can I talk to you?" Olivia whispered to Aaron, making him frown in wonder.

"Yeah, for sure," he nodded, letting her take his arm to pull him toward a corner of the room. "What's up?"

"I just…need to talk to somebody about this."

"Ok, shoot," he entreated, folding his arms in front of him as she sighed to calm her nerves.

"You know how the Doctor said he wasn't sure when he'd be back when he dropped me off?"

"Yeah. Pissed me off. Why does he do this to you?"

"Hear me out before you bash my husband."

"Right, sorry."

"Well, the reason was…he had to go to Utah." She wanted to go on but a lump was forming in her throat as the memories of the events of the past year flooded her mind's eye.

"What was in Utah?" Aaron asked, prompting her to continue.

"Lake Silencio," she shuddered, blinking back tears. "He…was supposed to die."

"What?!"

"Aaron! Shut up!" Olivia hissed, seeing Sarah Jane jump and look to them.

"Don't tell me to shut up after you just said—!"

Olivia slapped a hand over Aaron's mouth as Sarah Jane still stared at them.

"Everything alright?" she hoped as Olivia grabbed Aaron's arm, a hand still over his mouth to lead him toward the door.

"Fine," Olivia lied. "Just need to whip this guy into shape again. We'll be back."

Aaron tried struggling against Olivia's hand but she shoved him toward and out the door, shutting it behind them as she let go of him and glared at him.

"Outside, dumbass!" she growled as he glared back at her.

"What did you do that for?" he demanded as they went down the stairs.

"Sarah Jane doesn't know, ok?! I didn't say anything!" she snapped back as they reached the bottom and moved toward the back door leading to the backyard.

"Why wouldn't you tell her?!"

"Oh, yeah, that would've been a great way to introduce myself, Aaron," she shot back as they stepped outside and she shut the door behind them. "'Hi, nice to meet you, Sarah Jane Smith. I'm a friend of Aaron's. I'm here because the Doctor's gonna die.'"

"Fine, I get it, so why are you telling me now?"

"Because he's not dead."

"Ok, wait…what?"

"He's not dead. He was supposed to die, but he didn't. He stowed away in the Teselecta shaped like him, and now he's off…doing whatever it is he does and I'm waiting here for him again."

"I told you not to go with him, didn't I?"

"Aaron, I don't need your lip, I need you to be my friend. Can you stow it and do that for me, for at least an hour?"

Aaron bowed his head in shame before nodding and placing his hands on her shoulders, murmuring, "Of course I can. It's just…when he does this, it ticks me off."

"I know," she nodded. "I'm worried because I haven't heard from him and I know it's only been a week or so, but still. I was angry yesterday, but now I'm worried."

"I get it," he nodded. "Have you tried calling him? Using your little telepathic bond to talk to him?"

"No, and that only works in close proximity."

"Try calling him."

"I want to, but everyone is supposed to think he's dead."

"Just text him then."

"What the hell would I say?"

"Give me your phone."

"Is this you being a friend?"

"Yes, now give me your phone."

Olivia sighed and pulled her phone from her pocket to hand it to him. Aaron typed something out on her text and hit send before handing it back to her.

"There. Done."

"What did you say?" she demanded, looking over her phone, but Aaron said nothing as she looked at her phone, finding the message he'd sent the Doctor.

Missing you.

"Sweet and simple," Aaron assured her, but frowned when a sound caught his ear and Olivia must have heard it too, because she began looking around the yard. "You hear it, too?"

"Sh!" Olivia said, sharply as the sound grew louder.

A gust of wind flew up around them before Olivia spun completely around to find a familiar sight materializing in front of her. A grin slid over her lips as the TARDIS door opened and the Doctor took only a step out to lean sideways on the frame, staring down at a phone in his hand.

"'Missing you'," he read aloud before looking to Olivia and she noted the glint in his eyes as he smiled at her, tucking the phone away again. "Missed you, too, Liv. Aaron, thanks for taking care of her."

"Don't thank me," Aaron smirked as Olivia ran toward the Doctor and threw herself into his arms, making him laugh. "Back from the dead, huh?"

"I had to tell him," Olivia quickly told him as she pulled back to look at him.

"I had a feeling you would," he murmured, pressing a kiss to her forehead. "We should go before Sarah Jane tries to keep me here."

She nodded before turning and hugging Aaron quickly, planting a kiss to his cheek.

"I'll talk to you later," she assured him, heading into the TARDIS. "Thank Sarah Jane for me. If you talk to mom before I do, tell her I'll be in touch and give Jack a kiss where the sun don't shine for me."

"Shut up!" Aaron snapped, a blush turning his face nearly as red as his hair and she laughed as the Doctor grabbed her hand and pulled her into the TARDIS, shutting the door behind her before rushing toward the console.

"Now, onward to…who knows where?!" the Doctor called, running around the console to operate it.

"Where?"

"Who knows?!"

"I know," Olivia smiled as the Doctor slid up next to her and grinned at her.

"Where?"

"Bedroom."

"Bedroom?" he drawled in interest.

"Bedroom," she nodded, taking his hand and pulling him around the console again to flip a switch then marched him up the stairs. "Autopilot on, and it's gonna stay on for a few hours."

"Hours?!" he squeaked, letting her pull him up the stairs.

"Give or take."

"Wait a minute, now! Hold on!" he demanded, making them stop at the top of the stairs and she turned to him with a frown of wonder.

Instead of answering he closed his eyes and dramatically puckered his lips, making her giggle at his face before stepping closer to him to wrap her arms around his neck, lift herself onto her tiptoes and press her lips to his. His arms slid around her waist as he deepened the kiss, her fingers threading through his hair to pull him closer. They pulled away slowly, Olivia's teeth gently sinking into his lower lip and making him sigh when she released it.

"Bigamist," she blurted.

"Oh, don't start," he groaned, making her giggle.

A/N: yeah, i couldn't resist that little jab. lol! don't worry! we're not near the end yet! a few more adventures are up before we're done with this one! reviews?