Finally! The third chapter of Bullet Wound! I hope you all enjoy… :)
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They stepped out onto a sandy beach, surrounded one side by high rocks and on the other side the coal grey sea. River looked around; she could feel something wrong about this place but she couldn't quite work out what it was.
"Parallel world," the Doctor stated. River wasn't sure if he'd been reading her thoughts or not.
"There's a sign over here." River clambered over a few rocks to get to a piece of faded wood that was lying in the sand. "It says... Darlig Ulv Stranden,"
The Doctor stared at River, his face a mask of shock and a little bit of pain. "Bad Wolf Bay."
"Yes, that's what it says. What's the matter, sweetie? What does Bad Wolf Bay mean? What is it?" River waved her hand in front of the Doctor's frozen face, trying to get his attention.
"Bad Wolf Bay? Nothing, nothing. Now, let's get exploring! We've got 24 hours until the TARDIS is ready again, so we'll have until… Exactly 10 tomorrow morning." The Doctor brushed over the topic of Bad Wolf Bay, but River could tell he was hiding something. And this Doctor didn't trust her enough to tell her.
River couldn't shake off the feeling that something had happened in Bad Wolf Bay. She shuddered and looked around her. "Well, first of all, let's get off this godforsaken beach!" River thought that the Doctor would cheer up when he was further away from Bad Wolf Bay, and she was right. As soon as they had started walking up one of the narrow paths that led away from it, he became more and more his usual self.
"And did you know that the actual medicine wasn't invented until two hundred years later? Fancy that, them calling it that all the time, when actually it wasn't even true!" the Doctor rambled on about something.
"I can see the town, look, sweetie!" River pointed towards the end of the path, where you could see little houses rising up out of the cliffs.
"Ooh!" the Doctor rubbed his hands together excitedly. "I can see a little shop!" He ran towards it, pulling River along.
When she got closer, she could see what had excited him so much. A little tourist shop was huddled in next to a supermarket and a bakery. There were stands outside filled with postcards, but that wasn't what the Doctor was heading for. Next to the postcards were small black hats with multi-coloured bobbles on them.
"No and absolutely no." River tried pulling him away.
"Aww River, please! Just a little one, I promise. Please?" the Doctor looked at her hopefully, and picked one up. "Look, they're adorable!"
"No." River pulled him again, but he wouldn't budge, looking up at her with hurt eyes. River sighed and took out her gun, pointing it at the hats. Meanwhile, the shop-owner had come out and was looking at River in horror, exactly like the Doctor.
"You wouldn't…" the Doctor stepped in front of the hats to try and shield them with his body.
"Oh, I would, sweetie," River turned off the safety catch on her alpha blaster. It clicked loudly.
"River, please-" suddenly the Doctor broke off, staring across the street in shock. River followed his gaze, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. A blonde girl was struggling with shopping as she crossed the road, and an old woman was hobbling along with her stick, and a small barking dog.
"Doctor! What's the matter? You have to tell me. You can't keep secrets all the time, you know." River protested. The Doctor ignored her and slunk over to the other side of the road.
"Doctor!" River almost shouted and followed him. He was hiding behind the corner of the wall, staring at the blonde girl. "We've not come here so you can make eyes at every pretty girl you see!"
The Doctor didn't respond. He walked over to the girl and River swore she could see tears in his eyes.
"Do you want some help with your shopping?" he asked the blonde girl.
She looked at him slightly suspiciously, and then nodded. "I live right over there," she pointed at one of the coloured houses.
The Doctor easily took all her shopping bags in one hand and carried them across the street. When River noticed the way he looked at the blonde girl while her head was turned, she realised who it was. Rose. The Doctor never wanted to talk about her, but River recognised her from the framed picture in his room. She accepted that the Doctor was 900 years old and knew a lot of people, but she knew that Rose was different. He still loved Rose. This version of the Doctor probably still loved Rose more than her – he didn't know her well yet. River's hearts broke in two but from the outside she looked the same. No tears. River Song had been trained not to cry.
Making sure she looked just like normal, River hurried to where the Doctor and Rose were standing, ignoring her splintering heart.
"Hello, I'm River, River Song," she said, holding out her hand to the blonde girl who had taken the doctor's heart with her when she got trapped in the parallel world.
Soz about the cliffhanger! There could be a catfight coming up…. :P
Please review to help me decide if it should end up as a doctor/rose or doctor/river fanfic…
Please? :)