The Wedding of River Song- Pt. 2

Senate Room

"Well? What happened?" Churchill asked.

"Nothing." Susan answered.

"Nothing?"

"Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or, if you'd prefer, everything happened at once, and it won't ever stop. Time is dying. It's going to be five oh two in the afternoon for all eternity. A needle stuck on a record." The Doctor said.

"A record? Good Lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?" Churchill asked.

Susan snorted. "Said Winston Churchill."

"Gunsmoke. That's gunsmoke. Oh, I appear to have fired this."

The Doctor has a spear and Susan has a sword. "We seem to be defending ourselves." Susan said.

"I don't understand."

"The creatures that lead the Silence. Remarkable beings. They're memory-proof."

"But what does that mean?" Churchill demanded.

"You can't remember them. The moment you look away, you forget they were ever there." Susan said. Four tally marks are on The Doctor's arm and three on Susan's.

"Don't panic. In small numbers, they're not too difficult." But his other arm is covered in marks. They are hanging from the ceiling in a big cluster. A grenade rolls in. The Doctor knocks Churchill down. Boom, and soldiers enter.

"Go! Go! Go! Keep the Silence in sight at all times, keep your eye drives active." A Soldier yells.

"Who the devil are you? Identify yourselves."

Amy Pond walks forward in a Madam Kovarian style black outfit. "Pond. Amelia Pond."

"No! She's on our side. It's okay." The Doctor said. Then he realizes Amy is wearing an eyepatch. "No. No, Amy. Amy, why are you wearing that?"

Amy shoots The Doctor, then Susan.

First Person POV, Susan

I groaned and woke up on a couch. I could tell that we were moving. I then heard a train whistle. "The Government has again apologised for extensive radio interference caused by solar flare and sunspot activity." A Newsman said over a radio.

"Amy?" The Doctor asked as I sat up, rubbing my head.

"Those stun guns aren't fun. I'm sorry. I wanted to avoid a long conversation. You two need to get up, though. We'll be in Cairo shortly." Amy said.

"Amy Pond. Amelia Pond from Leadworth, please, listen to me. I know it seems impossible, but you know me. In another version of reality you and I were best friends. We, we travelled together. We had adventures. Amelia Pond, you grew up with a time rift in the wall of your bedroom. You can see what others can't. You can remember things that never happened. And if you try, if you really, really try, you'll be able to-" He is gesturing with a model Tardis. "Oh."

And on the far wall are her sketches - Dalek, Silurian, vampire, pirate, Weeping Angel. "Oh."

"You two look rubbish." Amy stated.

"You look wonderful." The Doctor said to Amy.

"So do you. But don't worry, we'll soon fix that." She holds up a tweed jacket in one hand an a black dress in another.

"Oh, Geronimo."

A little later I had showered, cut my hair and gotten new glasses. I was wearing the black dress Amy gave me with black flats. I had my hair in a ponytale. I looked at myself in the mirror and saw that Amy had closed the bathroom door behind her and scanned the room with what looked like to be a portable scanner, then she put some sort of lock on the door nob.

"Okay, we can talk now. There shouldn't be any Silence overhearing us." Amy said.

"What do you want to- OW!" I cried out in pain as Amy struck my arm with a needle looking devise and injected something in me. I glared at her. "What was that for?!" Amy started to walk back to the door.

"Safety precautions." Amy said dryly, then she turned. "Travel sickness. A train traveling this fast can get a little dizzy sometimes. I gave The Doctor one earlier." She turned back around and walked out of the room, leaving the door open as I stared after her, wondering if she was telling the truth.

Amy's Train Office

"How do I look?" The Doctor asked.

"Cool." Amy said.

"Really?"

Amy snorted. "No."

"Cool office though. Why do you have an office?! Are you a special agent boss lady? What's that mean? Not sure about the eye patch, though."

"It's not an eye patch. Time's gone wrong. Some of us noticed. There's a whole team of us working on it, you'll see." Amy said.

"And you've got an office on a train. That is so cool. Can I have an office? Never had an office before. Or a train. Or a train slash office."

"God, I've missed you!" Amy said, hugging The Doctor.

"Okay. Hugging and missing now. Where's the Roman?"

"You mean Rory."

"Mmm."

"My husband Rory, yeah?" She gets a drawing from her desk. "That's him, isn't it? I've no idea. I can't find him, but I love him very much, don't I?"

"Apparently."

"I have to keep doing this, writing and drawing things. It's just it's so hard to keep remembering."

"Well, it's not your fault. Time's gone wrong. Do you remember why?" I asked.

"The lakeside."

I nodded. "Lake Silencio, Utah. we died." I stated without emotion.

"But then you didn't. See, I remember it twice, different ways." Amy said.

"Two different versions of the same event, both happening in the same moment. Time split wide open. Now look at it. All of history happening at once." The Doctor said.

"But does it matter? I mean, can't we just stay like this?" Amy asked.

"Time isn't just frozen, it's disintegrating. It will spread and spread and all of reality will simply fall apart." A soldier enters. It is Rory.

"Ma'am? We're about to arrive. Eye drives need to be activated as soon as we disembark." Rory said.

"Good point. Thank you, Captain Williams." Amy said, nodding her head.

"Hello." The Doctor said, overly smiling.

"Hello, sir. Pleased to meet you." Rory said, a bit confused to why The Doctor would be smiling at him.

"Captain Williams, best of the best. Couldn't live without him." Amy said.

The Doctor compares him to his sketch, and laughs. Rory leaves. "No."

"What is wrong?" Amy asked.

The Doctor goes over and grabbed both of Amy's arms. "Amy, you'll find your Rory." He kisses her head. "You always do. But you have to really look."

"I am looking."

"Oh, my Amelia Pond. You don't always look hard enough." The Doctor said, letting go of Amy.

"Why are you older? If time isn't really passing, then how can you two be ageing?" Amy asked. I looked into a mirror and noticed faint lines around my smile and cheek outlines.

"Time is still passing for us. Every explosion has an epicentre. We're it. We're what's wrong."

"What's wrong with the both of you?" Amy asked.

"We're still alive." I looked out the window to see the train crosses a viaduct into a pyramid with a Stars and Stripes on the side and the title, Area 52.

Storage Area

The Doctor and I were walking down a hallway. "You have to put it on, sir, ma'am." Rory said.

The Doctor took the eyepatch and held it, examining it. "An eye patch. What for?"

"It's not an eye patch." Amy said.

"It's an eye drive, sir. It communicates directly with the memory centres of the brain. Acts as external storage." I put the eyepiece on but my brain screamed 'don't'. I didn't remember why I shouldn't put it on.

"Only thing that works on them. Because no living mind can remember these things."

"The Silence." The Silence are held in individual tanks filled with liquid.

"We've captured over a hundred of them now, all held in this pyramid." Rory said.

"Yeah. I've encountered them before. Always wondered what they looked like." The Doctor mused I was staring at the tanks of oddly shaped human-like creatures.

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

"The Silence have human servants. They all wear these." The Doctor said.

"They'd have to." Amy said.

"This way." Rory said. The Doctor puts the eye drive on. "They seem to be noticing you two."

"Yeah, they would." I remarked softly.

"So why aren't the human race killing the Silence on sight any more?" Amy asked.

"That was another reality. What are the tanks for?"

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

"Me neither." The Doctor said.

"Ma'am, I'm sure it's nothing, but I should really check this out. They haven't been this active in a while. You two, upstairs. Check all the tank seals. Then the floors above. Get everyone checking." Rory said to a soldier.

"Sir." The Soldier says and goes off to do what Rory said for him to do.

"You go ahead, Ma'am." Rory said.

"Thank you, Captain Williams. Doctor, Susan, this way." Amy said.

"Captain Williams, nice guy. What's his first name?" I asked Amy.

"Captain. Just through here."

"Just give us a moment. Just need to check something, Ma'am." The Doctor said. The Doctor and I go back to Rory. Amy speaks into a hidden microphone on her lapel.

"The loyal soldier, waiting to be noticed. Always the pattern. Why is that?" The Doctor asked.

"Sorry, sir?" Rory asked, puzzled.

I smirked. "Your boss, you should just ask her out. She likes you. She said so."

"Really, Ma'am. What did she say?" Rory asked.

"Oh, she just sort of generally indicated." The Doctor said. I rolled my eyes.

"What exactly what did she say?" Rory asked.

"She said that you were a Mister Hottie-ness, and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones." The Doctor said.

Rory looked at The Doctor with amusement. "You really haven't done this before, have you?"

"No, I haven't." The Doctor said.

"I don't know him." I said, pointing at The Doctor. "But, I can assure you, Miss. Pond really does find you attractive." I don't know if I helped anything by the look on Rory's face.

The Doctor mock pouted at me and said, "Oi!"

"See you in a moment, sir." Rory said.

"Yes. Yes."

"Come on, Doctor, Susan. Time for you to meet some old friends." Amy called us and we walked away from Rory.

"Attention all personnel. Attention all personnel. Please check all assigned containment units." Rory said over the loudspeaker as we entered the main control room.

A lady in a white coat is watching a screen. "You were right. Just his presence in the building caused the loop to extend by nearly four chronons." The clock now reads 05:02:57, 58, 59.

"Hi, honey. I'm home." The Doctor said.

River turns around and so does the man next to her. It's Jack. "And what sort of time do you call this?"

"Susan!" Jack says, relief flooding his eyes.

"The death of time. The end of time. The end of us all. Oh, why couldn't you just die, Doctor? And you, Susan. Why the hell couldn't you die?" Kovarian asked. She is tied to a chair.

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

"Hallucinogenic lipstick. Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover." River said.

"I always thought so."

"She mentioned you."

"What did she say?" Doctor asked.

"Put down that gun down." River said, smirking.

"Did you?"

"Eventually." River said, smirking.

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

"It was such a basic mistake, wasn't it, Madame Kovarian. Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor. Who else was I going to fall in love with?" River asked.

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

"Dinner?"

"I don't have the time. Nobody has the time, because as long I'm alive, time is dying. Because of you, River and you Jack."

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

"And because I refused to kill my wife." Jack said.

"Oh, you love me, do you? Oh, that's sweet of you. Isn't that sweet. Come here, you." The Doctor said running to River as I ran to Jack.

"Get them!" Amy cries.

Soldiers grab me and The Doctor, pushing us back from River and Jack.

"I'm not a fool, sweetie. I know what happens if we touch." River said. The Doctor grabs River's arm and I grabbed Jack's. "Get off me. Get him off me! Doctor, no. Let go! Please Doctor, let go!"

"Get off me Susan! Please!" Jack cried.

"It's moving. Time's moving!" A women cried.

05:03 and counting.

"Get him off me! Doctor!"

"Get her off me, Susan please!" Jack yelled, trying desperately to shake me off of him.

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

"I'm sorry, Jack." I got out before we flashed back to the lakeside, then the soldiers pulled me off of Jack and we were back inside the pyramid.

"Cuff them." River commanded.

"Oh, why do you always have handcuffs? It's the only way. We're the opposite poles of the disruption. If we touch, we short out the differential. Time can begin again." The Doctor said as I my hands were brought behind my back and cuffed together.

"And I'll be by a lakeside killing you." Jack said.

"And time won't fall apart. The clocks will tick. Reality will continue. There isn't another way." I said.

"I didn't say there was." Jack said.

"There are so many theories about you and I, you know." River.

"Idle gossip." The Doctor dismissed.

"Archaeology." River said.

"Same thing." The Doctor said.

"Am I the woman who marries you, or the woman who murders you?" River asked.

"I don't want to marry you." The Doctor said.

"I don't want to murder you." River said.

Amy feels a drop on her head.

"I agree with River. I'm not murdering my wife." Jack said, crossing his arms.

"This is no fun at all." The Doctor said.

"It isn't, is it?" River asked as she noticed Amy feeling her head.

"Doctor, what's that?" Amy asked, pointing to the ceiling.

"The pyramid above us. How many Silence do you have trapped inside it?" I asked.

Kovarian smirked. "None. They're not trapped. They never have been. They've been waiting for this, Doctor. For you, Susan."

Rory ran into the room, the doors bursting open. "They're out! All of them." And the soldiers are getting slaughtered. Rory bars the door. "No one gets in here! Ma'am, my men out there should be able to lock this down. We have them outnumbered."

"And you're wearing eye drives based on mine, I think. Oops."

"What do you mean?"

Electricity surges through Doctor Kent's eye drive. She screams. Because I was handcuffed, I couldn't get my eyepatch off.

"Help her! Help her!" The Doctor said.

Soldiers are being affected, too.

"She's dead." Amy said, checking her pulse.

The Doctor's eye drive tries to zap him. Mine was next. "Eye drives off now. Remove them." I said.

Amy takes the Doctor's eye drive off him, but then her own powers up. The Doctor got her's off and mine powers up and I cried out in pain. Amy came over to take mine off.

"The Silence would never allow an advantage without taking one themselves. The effects will vary from person to person. Either death or debilitating agony. But they will take you all, one by one." Madame Kovarian's eye drive starts to zap. "What are you doing? No, it's me. Don't be stupid. You need me. Stop it. Stop that!"

"We could stop this right now, you and I." I said.

"Get it off me! Kovarian yelled.

"Amy, tell them." River said.

"We've been working on something. Just let us show you two." Amy said.

The Doctor sighed. "There's no point. There's nothing you can do. Our time is up."

"We're doing this for you two!" Amy yelled.

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

"Neither will I." I said to her and held her gaze.

"Get it-" Kovarian said, still meaning her eyepiece.

"Just let us show you two." Jack pleaded with me.

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

"Er, a couple of minutes." Rory responded.

"That's enough. We're going to the Receptor Room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope you're ready for a climb." River said. River and The Doctor walked next to each other and Jack and I walked, next to each other, out of the control room.

The Pyramid is open to the sky, where the cap of the pyramid should be. "What's this? Oh, it's as timey-wimey distress beacon. Who built this?" The Doctor asked.

"I'm the child of the Tardis. I understand the physics." River said.

"But that's all you've got. A distress beacon." I said.

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

"River! River, this is ridiculous. That would mean nothing to anyone. It's insane. Worse, it's stupid. You embarrass me." The Doctor said, annoyed.

"We barricaded the door. We've got a few minutes. Just tell him, River Just tell her, Jack.

"Those reports of the sun spots and the solar flares. They're wrong. There aren't any. It's not the sun, it's you. The sky is 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 than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn't agree." River said.

"Jack, River, no one can help me. A fixed point has been altered. Time is disintegrating." I said.

"I can't let you die." Jack said.

"But we have to die." The Doctor said.

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

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

"I'll suffer if I have to kill you." River said.

"More than every living thing in the universe?" I asked Jack, but River answered as well.

"Yes!" Jack and River shouted.

"River, River, why do you had have to be this? Melody Pond, your daughter. I hope you're both proud." The Doctor said.

"I'm not sure I completely understand." Rory said, confused.

"We got married and had a kid and that's her."

"Okay."

"Amy, uncuff me now. Okay, I need a strip of cloth about a foot long. Anything will do. Never mind." Amy uncuffs The Doctor and me. The Doctor takes off his bow tie.

"River, take one end of this. Wrap it around your hand, and hold it out to me."

"What am I doing?" River asked.

"As you're told. 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. Please."

"I consent and gladly give." Rory says.

"Need you to say it too, mother of the bride." The Doctor said.

"I consent and gladly give." Amy said.

"Now River, I'm about to whisper something in your ear, and you have to remember it very, very carefully, and tell no one what I said." He whispers something very short. "I just told you my name. Now, there you go, River Song. Melody Pond. You're the woman who married me. And wife, I have a request. This 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 said.

The Doctor smiled sadly. "I'll make it a good one."

"You'd better." River and The Doctor kissed. While I kissed Jack. The clock starts moving forward as we go to a white-out and flashbacks of the events at the lakeside when the Doctor died and was cremated.

"And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven." The Doctor said.

The steam railways and cars on balloons vanish from London as well as the pterodactyls.

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Reviewer:

alwaystherereading: Um... I don't remember?... But cliffhangers are so fun!