The next day John and Clara met Donna inside the BBC, before heading up to meet with the executives. Once they got to the floor, they were ushered into a boardroom, where thankfully they didn't have to wait long. David, Michael, two other men, and one woman entered and took a seat opposite the trio.

"John," David began. "I'm really sorry that we are seeing each other under these circumstances and I want to start by thanking you and Donna for coming in today." He then looked at Clara. "And you must be John's girlfriend."

"This is Clara, and she's my fiancé." John corrected him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that you had gotten engage. Congratulations." He added. "But I'm afraid that she can't be here for this discussion."

"She's not going anywhere." John said firmly. "River's behaviour affects her just as much as it does me, so she stays."

"John, I'm sorry, but..."

"No but's David. If she goes, I go. Now can we please get on with this." John said matter-of-factly.

David had never seen John be so forceful in all the years he had been working with him. He decided it was probably best not to argue with him and dropped the matter.

"Fine. Let's get on with the issue at hand. River is claiming that she has done nothing wrong other than attempt to speak to John on a few occasions."

"That may have been true in the beginning." John said. "But her behaviour has escalated."

John went on to explain the situations while everyone in the room listened. When he finished the executives took a moment to consult with the woman who was clearly one of the lawyers for the BBC.

"We are truly sorry for this John and we are going to take all of this into consideration. We are meeting with River and her agent this afternoon, but as of right now it's mostly your word against hers and she claims she hasn't done the things you are accusing her of." David answered.

"You have got to be joking!" Clara said as she raised her voice. John grabbed her arm to try and calm her down, but it did nothing. "I walked in on her kissing him!"

"Yes, we understand that Ms. Oswald, but as you are romantically involved with John that doesn't make you a credible witness."

"But what about the party photo, that was leaked." Donna added. "I told you who the young man was that took it."

"Yes and you can't back that up with tangible evidence." David replied. "Look we understand how difficult this is but we need to make sure ALL of our best interests are taken care of."

"Well pardon me, if I feel like mine aren't being taken care of at all!" John said angrily.

Suddenly a commotion was heard in the hallway and everyone turned to see Missy push her way into the boardroom.

"I'm sorry sir." A young man said. "I tried to stop her from coming in, but she insisted that she needed to speak to all of you."

"Missy, none of this concerns you." David said sternly.

"Like hell it doesn't. I love this job and this show and I will not let River Song destroy it." Missy said as she threw a USB stick on the table towards Michael.

"What is this?" Michael asked as he picked it up.

"All the information that you need to know that David here has been sleeping with River's agent, which is how she slithered her way into the show. River knows this and threatened to tell David's wife if she didn't get what she wanted." Missy said as she took a seat next to Clara.

"Hello dear." She said as she smiled at Clara. "So lovely to finally meet you."

Clara just stared at her, completely confused as to what was happening. When did her life become this? She was just a school teacher from Blackpool, not someone who attended highly dramatic meetings at the BBC. She turned and looked at John, who looked just as shocked as her.

"This is ridiculous." David said. "I don't know what proof you seem to think you have Missy, but none of it is true."

"Pictures don't lie, nor does a taped confession from the young man that River was flirting with to get information on John." Missy added.

"What!?" John said in complete awe of the entire situation.

"Alright, enough!" David yelled, trying to take control of the situation. "Michael give me that USB and let me take a look."

"I don't think so David." Michael said as he looked towards the other executives in the room. "I think that David should be excused from this meeting as he is now being implicated in all of this mess as well."

"I think you're right." One of the executives agreed. "I'm sorry, but we should review all of this. Give us some time to do that and we will call Donna once we are ready to continue this meeting, most likely tomorrow afternoon."

The executives, Michael and the lawyer got up and walked out of the room, leaving David behind who was clearly very enraged.

"I don't know what you think you're playing at Missy, but it isn't going to work." He said angrily.

"I'm not playing at anything David, but I think you'll find that what they are about to look at is very incriminating, so I suggest you get your things in order because I think your days at the BBC are numbered."

He stormed out of the room, now leaving the four sitting at the table. Three of them incredibly confused as to what just happened.

"Missy, I don't know what to say." John said.

"Well you could start by saying thank you." She smiled at him.

"Thanks." He said. "But how did you get all this information?"

"I hired a PI to follow her." She answered, as if it was no big deal.

"To help me?" John questioned, finding this whole thing very odd.

"No to help me, at first. I was concerned that they were trying to replace me with her and I wanted her gone. I decided to hire a private investigator, because I thought it was odd that she would be asked to join the show given your history. Turned out I was right. I had no idea that he would uncover all the dirt he did." She answered. "Honestly John, what did you ever see in that woman."

"I'm really beginning to wonder the same thing." He answered. "But why did you do this?"

"After I met my new man, Mark, I began to realize that I had been coming on too strong with you, which really got us off on the wrong foot. I genuinely really like you John and think that you are such a nice person who deserves the best. Also, I've never liked River, so to see her so miserable would bring me nothing but joy."

"Missy, can we take you out for lunch as way of saying thanks?" Clara asked.

Missy agreed and the four left and went to a nice restaurant, not far from the office. During lunch Missy explained everything that her PI had found and it sounded like River's days on the show were definitely numbered, but no one was ready to celebrate just yet. They finished lunch and went their separate ways, John feeling better at least about his working relationship with Missy.

"Well that was an interesting turn of events." Clara said as they entered John's house.

"It certainly was." He replied as he threw his house keys on the hall table. "I had no idea that Missy could be so kind."

"Every now and then people surprise you." Clara stated.

"That they do." He smiled at her.

"So, what do you want to do for the rest of the day?" She asked changing the subject.

"You." He answered as he winked at her.

"That sounds fun, but no. I have a better idea."

"What could possibly be better than sex?" He asked perplexed.

"Organizing to pack!" She said happily.

"I'm afraid I've been something wrong, if you think that is more fun."

"Come on." She encouraged. "You need to be out of here in 3 months, which means you are not going to have a lot of time to get ready once you get back to Cardiff."

"Aggh, you're right." He whined. "But I don't even know where to start."

"Well good job you have me to help. We'll take it one room at a time going over what can go into storage and what can go to my place."

"Fine, but this sounds so boring." He complained.

"Okay. To make it more interesting for you, when we finish doing a room, you can then do me in that room." That got his attention and he grinned at her.

"That's a brilliant idea." He said, as he grabbed her hand and started leading her upstairs. "Let's start with my bedroom."


The next day Clara went back to work, but only after John had promised to call her with the news as soon as he heard. John then once again found himself sitting in the same boardroom at the BBC with Donna, waiting for the entourage of executives and lawyers to enter. After about ten minutes, the door opened and the same people entered, minus David.

"John, let me start by apologising. As you can see David is no longer with the BBC, as of yesterday. We reviewed all the information that was given to us and there is no doubt that River manipulated her way onto the show. It's also clear that she has crossed a line with you as well and that is something we take seriously. Rest assured that effective immediately, she will no longer be a part of this cast and we are working on recasting her role, which should hopefully be filled in a couple of weeks. At which time we are going to have to reshoot all of River's parts, but for now, shooting will resume on Thursday in Cardiff."

"Thank you." John said as he gave a sigh of relief.

"We are truly sorry and we hope that you will reconsider signing your new contract."

"I appreciate this matter finally being taken care of, but it should have never happened in the first place. I would like to have a few days to think about it." John replied.

"Absolutely, we completely understand."

The meeting ended and John looked at Donna with relief. He was thankful that he didn't have to work with River any more, but he couldn't shake the feeling that this still wasn't over. River was desperate and she was the kind of woman that clearly didn't let anything stop her from getting what she wanted. However, now she was completely disgraced and the last time that happened John got dragged through the mud. He was thinking back to the confrontation they had in front of his house and remembered something that she had said about Clara.

"Donna, I gotta go." He said suddenly and got up from the table.

"What's the rush?" Donna questioned as she followed him towards the elevators.

"I'm worried that River, might try something with Clara." He said pushing the down button repeatedly, hoping that it would make it come faster.

"John you can't be serious. River's crazy, but not that crazy." Donna said.

"You didn't see her the other night. I've never seen her like that and not to mention, she truly believes that if Clara weren't in the picture this whole scheme would have worked."

The elevator arrived and both John and Donna got in, as John tried to call Clara. She didn't answer, but that wasn't unusual as she wouldn't be done teaching for another twenty minutes. He then decided to try and call Missy to see if maybe she had River's number. By the time they reached the ground floor, John had her number and started dialing it, to his surprise River answered.

"Hello." She said and John could immediately hear the sadness in her voice.

"River, it's John."

"What do you want?" She said with a sigh.

"I want to talk to you. Where are you?" He asked. Donna gave him a warning look wondering what he was doing wanting to see her.

"I'm beyond talking John. Everything has been taken from me. I've got nothing left!" River said, and John could hear the desperation in her voice.

"The things that have happened to you, you did to yourself, River. No one is to blame, but yourself."

"And I wouldn't have had to go to such drastic measures John, if your tart of a girlfriend wasn't in the picture." She replied.

"Clara had nothing to do with this." He said as they exited the building and Donna hailed a cab, giving the driver the address for Clara's school. He looked at his watch and saw that it was still another fifteen minutes before school ended and they were about thirty minutes away. The best he could do was to keep River talking. "You made the choice to blackmail and snog your way back into my life, not Clara. River, please tell me where you are so we can talk."

"It doesn't matter where I am because you're never going to make it here in time."

"In time for what?" John asked more frantic as he heard what he thought might have been a bell and voices in the background.

"You can't stop me John. Just know that everything I have done is because I love you."

The line went dead and John had never felt so completely helpless in his entire life.