Chapter 4

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"What. What did you just say?" Rory's voice was full of terror and anger. The Doctor ran a hand through his hair.

"Why? Why here of all places?" The Doctor asked himself, lost in thought.

"Doctor, What. Did. You. Say?" Rory asked, clear frustration in his voice.

The Doctor turned on his heel to face Rory.

"I said Today is The Day. RIVER. DIES!" The Doctor was getting angrier the more he thought about it. Rory gave him a confused expression from his sudden outburst.

The Doctor took a deep breath to calm himself and explained. "One day, a long, long time ago I got a message on my psychic paper, telling me to come here. When I did a team of archeologists found me and my companion, Donna. River was one of them" The Doctor paused, his mind wander through his memory's of this day. "I was skeptical at first, but river convinced me to trust her.. We discovered that the Library was infested with a thing called the 'Vashta Nerada'. Long story short all of Rivers team except for her and one other died and she sacrificed herself to save 4,022 people... And me..I..I Tried to stop her but... She.. She.." The Doctor winced as he remembered her final moments. His voice dropped to a sad whisper, "all I could do was save her consciousness... I uploaded her to the computer.."

Rory stood there in silence for a minute, taking in the what the Doctor just told him. He sighed in disbelief, he leaned his back against the doors of the TARDIS, still in deep thought.

The Doctor turned around and began to paced back and forth with his arms crossed, muttering to himself. He was trying to work out why they would send him here.

After a few minutes Rory spoke up again, in a calm mono tone voice, and a blank expression "we need to find them."

The Doctor looked up and nodded. "Right.. Good point. lets go.." He trailed off as he started to walk down the corridor. Rory followed close behind.

The Doctor lead them to an entrance to a room, but he didn't enter. He walked up to the door and sighed. Then he just stood there for a moment.

It was then, that it started. The countdown. The countdown to Rivers death. Rory watched as The Doctors eyes closed and he had a pained expression.

Rory could hear muffled word through the wall. A man, and a Woman. Rory immediately recognised the voice as Rivers, and tried to rush into the room.

Before he could go in The Doctor put an arm out to stop him from going any further.

5...4...3...2...1.

Then all of the sudden, there was a sort of buzzing sound and a bright light shining through the cracks in the door. People appeared all around them. Rory gave them an extremely confused look as he waited for some sort of explanation. He finally figured out that he wasn't going to get one, then he realised what had just happened.

The Doctor slowly opened his eyes and he started to walk again as if nothing had happened. His expression now one of indifference. He slowly Walks into the room. Rory followed him close behind as the door silently slid closed behind them.

Rory watched as The Doctor walked over the where a man was handcuffed to a pole. The Man looked up at The Doctor with an expression of sadness and bewilderment. The Doctor picked up something off of the floor next to the man. It was then, Rory noticed Rivers dairy, on top of it was a sonic screw driver. Rory looked up and saw her. His daughter. River.

He looked away quickly. He thought he heard a sonic screwdriver. He looked over and saw the doctor using the thing that he guessed what's the man on the floors sonic screwdriver. It was smaller than The Doctors and was blue instead of green.

The Doctor kneeled down and used the blue sonic screwdriver on the handcuffs that where trapping the man. The man watched him with a confused and sad expression on his face. He stood up slowly.

"Rory, this is... Well... This is The Doctor." The Doctor told Rory. Rory looked at him with a suspicious expression. He eyed the young doctor up and down.

"So... This is...you." Rory said that as more of a statement then a question.

The younger doctor had been examining his older self since he walked in. "So... This is what I look like next?" He asked. Still examining him.

"Oh, yeah yeah yeah, we'll have time for formal greeting later. Right now we have some very important people to save!" The older Doctor exclaimed, walking out of the room. Rory and young Doctor exchanged looks before following him to the door.

The older Doctor had only made it outside the door before stopping again. He had noticed something right outside the door. Almost unnoticeable. There was another door. It was almost unnoticeable. Almost. It blended in with the wall. And right beside it on the floor was the only thing that could make the Doctor smile in this place. On the floor right beside the almost hidden door was a TARDIS blue ribbon. The same ribbon that River had in her hair earlier.

He got out his sonic screwdriver and attempted to unlock the door. Deadlocked. 'So they're gonna play like that, huh? Well we'll see about that' The Doctor thought as he reached over and took the sonic from his younger self.

He held the new and old sonic screwdrivers side by side and pointed them at the lock. He set them both to the highest frequencies and, with a stuttering click, unlocked the door.

He smiled to himself and gave the blue screwdriver back to younger him. He heaved the door open slowly and walked in to the dark Stone room.

"Hi honey, I'm home."