Authors Notes: Sorry this ones a bit late since my computer died on me and stuff. Should be sending in new chapters are regular times now.
My Love
Chapter 36
How could she love this.
The fire crackled as Eve sat in front of it. Her knees drawn up to her chest. Her father slept near her almost so near to touch. Her mother disappeared into the woods hours ago. Who knows what she's up to. Eve heard her mother was very resourceful so she didn't really plan on worrying about her much.
She lay down on her back and looked up at the sky. The next thing she knew the stars had disappeared and gaven way to cloudy morning skies. She turned over, she was able to see her father off in the distance. His jacket wasn't on. She looked down noticing his jacket on her. It must have been cold out. At least they still had their heaving winter coats they had 'borrowed' she was now sure the people who had owned them were either evacuated or dead. No point in giving them back now.
She sat up and poked the fire trying to wake it up a bit.
"If you wanna stoke a fire...best do it with a fire stone. Its easier." Eve jumped hearing the gruff voice and a fire stone being dropped onto the wood. "Might wanna make yourself some breakfast before we leave. We leaving in an hour."
"I'm not as good as my sister at cooking but I'll try." Eve said and stuck sausages onto a few sticks and began to cook as best she could. She had lost all their cooking wares in the fire.
"Who taught you to cook like that?" River came out of the woods. No word as to where she had gone.
"My sister did."
"Sister...how many of them are their?"
"Spoilers." Was all Eve could say. If her mother was being this mean to her she didn't want her mother anywhere near the others. "Look...I know being a mother could be a very big shock to you, but be that as it may...here I am and its not to hard to wonder if you yourself have more. Specially after being married. You just need to ride it out. I'm sure you'll leave me alone when this is all over." Eve said as she bit into the sausage. Looking back on her relationship with her mother, they didn't have much of a friendship anyways. She would leave her alone with a nanny on several occasions and come home every so often with stories to throw at her and then disappear again. No birthday parties, no Christmases, not even a single Easter with her. She honestly didn't really know about Easter till she had a basket full of candy outside her door in the morning in April.
"Now whats that supposed to mean?" River asked sighing. Now that she also thought of it she wasn't sure if her mother even went to visit the other kids either. Maybe her mother just didn't want kids. "Doctor!" River rolled her eyes and walked off. When the Doctor walked up to Eve was when she suddenly realized that she had started crying. It wasn't a sob, it was more or less a whispering cry. She didn't know.
"Did she say something?"
"No...its not that...she just...she just never tried." Eve wanted to explain, but River was to close. She didn't want to say something and it be a major spoiler for them both. "It doesn't matter anyways." Eve stood up and walked over to the creek to splash water on her face.
The Doctor watched as Eve sat on the ground and just threw stones into the water. She wasn't liking this time with her mother at all. It was actually the first time he seen Eve and River together. Even in the beginning when River showed up Eve didn't seem to excited to see her. Perhaps they had some sort of history that he didn't know of. She just seemed to seperate herself from River as if she didn't exist.
The Doctor jumped out of his thoughts when he heard Eve scream. He noticed what she did. All the dead bodies from the ship wreck were floating downstream. Even body parts that had came off during the explosion. Whoever was starting this war...was morbid and sinister. The Doctor looked at River who had walked over to the stream and said something to Eve. She looked down before standing up and walking over to him.
"She said they're moving everyone away from this spot. We should get our things together and meet up at the front." The Doctor watched his daughter walk over to the small bag she kept and threw on her jacket. They looked a bit worse for wear but at least she was okay. He sighed.
"Worst birthday ever." He whispered before picking up his own jacket and followed her.