A/N: Thanks for reading! Love this story, hope you do too! Thanks also to Citizenofwhoville123 for spiking my imagination for this chapter!

Chapter 5: River runs through it

"No!" The Doctor cried. "No, no, NO!"

The Doctor started freaking out, he was hitting and kicking anything on the TARDIS control panel and, somehow, got the possession of a mallet and started hitting things with that. Then he started slowing and finally sat down besides Amy and Rory, a defeated look spread across his face.

"Cheer up," Amy said. "It's not the end of the world." She nudged him slightly.

"Doctor, wait." Rory said. "What if we just defeat the spirit here? We know what it's going to do, so we can probably stop it…"

"No, that won't work." The Doctor interrupted. "It would rip a hole in time; we would be stuck in a never ending paradox. All of the things we witnessed in Cee's time would've never happened."

They sighed. It was going to be a long way to home.

Cee frowned. Still nothing was happening. No groupings, no Doctor, no life. Well, mostly. She still had the twins and her Grammy, nut they hardly counted since they'd known her since she was born.

"Why is my life so boring?" She asked herself with frustration. She knew her life wasn't really boring, with the Doctor and all that, but her life is getting pretty dull considering she'd been in her room for four days strait. Just then she heard a strange popping noise from outside.

She looked outside her window, but there was no one there. She thought about it for a second then decided she must've imagined it. Until the doorbell rang.

She heard her mother answer the door. "Hello?" She realized it must not be a person her mother had met before.

"Hello, you must be Mrs. Vinson." A cheery voice replied. A woman's cheery voice.

"Amy?" Cee wondered out loud, but no. This new person's voice was distinctly English, not Scottish.

"Cee, honey," Her mother said, walking into her room. "Visitor for you."

The woman who followed her in was no one Cee had ever seen before. She had light skin and gray eyes, and wild blond hair that frizzed out in every direction. Her eyes were kind and understanding but her attitude said different. Before the woman even spoke a word Cee knew the woman in front of her was a mystery to all around her.

"River Song." The woman said with enthusiasm. "And you must be the famous Cecilia Vinson."

Cee grimaced. Mostly because of the name but a little bit of the fact this woman knew exactly who she was. This River was quite a bit different then the towns-people, that she knew. Which of course meant she had other reasons of being here. Reasons that would, most likely, affect her greatly.

Her mother left the room and River sat down on her bed. "Ahh, I thought she'd never leave." River grinned slyly. Then she patted the space next to her, meaning for Cee to go sit down next to her. Cee went to sit by the woman and looked at her for a moment.

River interrupted her thoughts by saying "I came from the Doctor." Cee looked at her, somewhat shocked. "This may be a little hard to swallow but, it was his future self, and he told me to go back here and get him in 2168 and you need to go with me." She sounded very solemn and important so Cee decided to believe her.

"I just have one question." She said. "Why didn't he just come tell me himself?"

River paused. "There are specific things in time that have to happen; you know how I said the future Doctor told me to get you? Well he knows that I'm supposed to get him because it's already happened to the future him so otherwise it would…" She trailed off.

Cee guessed there was a really confused look on her face because the next thing that River said was "You're not getting any of this, are you?" Cee shook her head. "I thought not." The woman replied.

She looked at the clock on Cee's bedside table. She gasped. "We have to go quickly. The Doctor and Amy and Rory all stuck and if we don't get there soon bad things will happen, Cee, so please, I need you to come with me, you don't have to be my best friend I just need you to trust me. Okay?" Cee nodded. "Thank you." River sounded exasperated. "Shall we go then?"

So with that they were off, to save Amy and Rory, to save the Doctor, and, possibly, the world.

The Doctor was sitting on a ledge of a suspiciously waterless fountain when there was a pop in front of them.

"Oh my God, River!" Amy stood up with a start.

The Doctor looked up from his sulking. "River?" He said, confused. But, then again, he usually was when she showed up.

"Hello sweetie." River said slyly.

"River, thank God you're here, how did you know to come here anyway? Anyway, the TARDIS has broken down and I need you to take us somewhere important." The Doctor was talking a million times a minute. "Maybe you can calm her down enough so she can work and if all else, we will have to use your vortex manipulator. I know you don't like me using it but an entire society's lives may be at stake so…"

"I know." River interrupted calmly.

"What do you mean you know? How did you even get how to come here?" He asked rather loudly.

"Spoilers." River said simply.

The Doctor looked defeated yet incredibly humiliated. Cee couldn't help but giggle. The Doctor looked at her strangely as if just realizing she was there, which he actually was, and smiled.

"Cee!" He exclaimed. "We were just on the way to save… you…" He stopped. "We won't have to save you now, will we?" He said sounding almost disappointed.

"No, but the spirit is still somewhere in the town. We aren't even sure whose body it's using." Cee replied half-heartedly.

"Okay!" He said, actually rather excited now. "So, River. If we could just use your…" He was pointing to her vortex manipulator.

"Anything for you, love." She said half-sarcastically, half-completely serious.

So they all grabbed onto each other and held on for dear life. Cee closed her eyes and prayed silently that she wouldn't somehow get separated from any of them. A nanosecond later she opened her eyes and she was there, in her town, her home. She turned to the Doctor just to make sure he wasn't abandoning her again but from what happened last time the Doctor had absolutely no intentions of doing that.

Cee smiled and waited for the others to regain themselves properly. Cee could never be delusional here. This was her home, her life. This was and always would've been the place she grew up and lived for the rest of her life. But that was before. Now everything had changed. Cee had no idea what she was going to do now, but she knew it was going to start by saving the lives of the people around her, the people she'd grown up with. She was going to save every man, woman, and child she had ever known. And she was going to do it, she knew that much. Or she would die trying.