River had just hung up after speaking to the metacrisis Doctor and was wondering how she would go about this. She had agreed to what he'd asked, but wasn't sure whether or not this was something she was supposed to share with her Doctor or not. She'd heard about the animosity that her Doctor apparently carried for the one named Jack Harkness. She'd asked the other Doctor whether or not she should ask her doctor for help, but as it usually was with the doctor, she hadn't really gotten a straight answer from him.

"Doctor, do you really want me to do this? Or would it be better if I'd brought my Doctor around and we talked to him about it?"

"Hm… well we had originally thought that we would be asking one of my future regenerations to do this so that was the original plan. We'd never really considered that it could be someone else, though of course there would probably be a companion with him at the time. I'd just never considered that the companion could be you. Jack would probably appreciate it if we sent a woman like you his way though."

Rose who had been silent the entire time the Doctor was explaining the plan to River then said, "I'm not too sure about that. Honestly if it was between the Doctor and someone else… I'm pretty sure he would want the Doctor. No offence to you River, but it's just that I would be the same way; wouldn't want anyone but my Doctor. Though that's probably not our main concern here, I was worried about something when we'd made this call. The fact of the matter is, when we'd left, the Doctor still… uhm… didn't really enjoy being near Jack. Something about him being wrong or whatever. I was planning on telling him to suck it up and help up anyways… but now that we have you… I'm not sure who would be the best to do it. It's not going to be news that he wants to hear."

"Well it's up to you River. Whoever you think can effectively send the message should be the person who goes. Really if we could we would go ourselves, but you know the whole stuck in another dimension thing can be really quite annoying at times. As long as the message is sent and he listens to it then you can send whoever you like."

River had decided that she would just talk to her Doctor about it. She still didn't quite understand why the TARDIS had decided that she should be the one to answer the call, but she figured the TARDIS has just been in another one of her moods.

It was at that moment that the Doctor came back into the control room looking rather pleased with himself holding up a screwdriver in his hand.

"Would you look at that River. I really did have a screwdriver!"

"Wonderful sweetie, now there's something I need to tell-"

Before River was able to speak the TARDIS shook violently throwing both the Doctor and River to the ground.

"See! I told you she hasn't been right these past few days. It's those wooden screws; they're probably interfering with her whole system. Now I just need to get them out – wait no, we've landed? Where are we?"

The moment the Doctor reached for the monitors to check out where they were, the monitor moved of its own accord and instead flew rather violently into his head knocking him out. The Doctor fell to the floor landing quite inelegantly in a heap on the grating.

"Now was that really necessary?" River asked while looking up at the TARDIS.

The TARDIS didn't respond but instead swung open the doors and threw sparks all around the console in an attempt to get River to leave.

"Alright, alright. I'll leave, just let me check that the Doctor will be okay."

After determining that the Doctor was simply knocked out and that there wouldn't be any lasting damage to the Time Lord, River went out to inspect her surroundings. She soon realized that she was in some sort of jail; unlike Stormcage in that it was very clearly designed for short term stay and specifically for alien life. She did as the other doctor told her and set her vortex manipulator to track well… itself. According to the metacrisis her vortex manipulator had actually used to belong to Captain Jack Harkness.

She appeared on a floor very similar to the one that she had been in before, but she could tell that it was likely that she was a few levels up from her previous location as the air was fresher here, still subterranean, but less filtered than it had been in her previous location. It took her only a few seconds to take in her surroundings until she noticed a man also in the room, he was tall and broad shouldered with a stocky build and a classically handsome face.

"Hello sweetie," River said with her trademark smirk, "they told me that I would know when I found you, but they didn't tell me you would be quite so handsome. Not my usual type – I'm more partial to the lithe intellectual type, but you are not bad at all." River said as she walked toward the man. That is, until the man moved and quickly had a hold on her neck and pressed her up against the wall.

"Oh and feisty, I think we'll get along great."

"Who the hell are you? How did you get into the Hub?"

River very easily maneuvered herself out of the man's grasp and quickly switched positions so that she now had the man pinned against the wall. She leaned her whole body into him and then whispered lightly into his ear, "I'm here on the request of some mutual friends. Though I wouldn't really consider them my friends and I get the feeling that you want something more from them – you know what? Let's just call them friends for simplicity's sake."

Jack struggled against River's hold, but he couldn't escape. Though no one really paid attention to the Doctor when he was boasting, he wasn't wrong about the superior Time Lord biology, and though River was only part Time Lady, she still reaped many of the benefits. It seemed that Jack realized that he wasn't going to escape through brute force and instead moved his hands so that they were resting on River's hips and gave her a charming smile.

"Now I'm not opposed to beautiful women throwing themselves at me. We could actually continue this if it turns out that you're claims are true, but the thing is, though I have lived a very long life, the list of people I can call friends isn't all that long. Especially in this Universe, most of the people I trust are actually in the room above us. So give me a name or else I'll have to do something that isn't very nice."

"I quite like to playing rough." River said as she tightened her grip on Jack and pushed him harder into the wall. She then bit him lightly on the ear and whispered huskily. "Too bad I'm a happily married woman and my husband doesn't like the share."

"Would you like to maybe enlighten me in regards to who this mysterious husband is? Or who our mutual friends are, even better yet just tell me who you are."

"Oh yes introductions. Nice to meet you Captain, I'm Professor River Song, wife of the Doctor."

She felt Jack freeze under her grip and got the feeling that the time for games was over.

"But… you can't be. He wouldn't, not with anyone. Not unless it was-"

"Yes, I'm well aware of who you're thinking about, I'm here right now because of her actually. The Bad Wolf sends her regards. And to answer the obvious question in your eyes, yes I am actually married to the Doctor our first wedding was in a parallel universe but so far we've had about 13 different weddings so thank you for your input but yes, he would."

Jack didn't understand who was going on, but he knew that it couldn't be good.

"Well, if you are who you say you are, then where's the Doctor? And what do you mean the Bad Wolf sends her regards?"

"He's currently… indisposed. The TARDIS felt like this would be a conversation best left for just the two of us. And before you ask, this conversation pertains to your second question. Oddly enough, I contacted by her and given a task, one that I'm completing quite simply because I don't want my husband getting involved."

"You're lying. The Doctor told me that she was gone and she can't- "

"Oh yes, that's all still true, but I sweetie, am from the future. Well technically you are too, but you know how the timelines are when we're talking about the Doctor. So I'll just get to the point, in my time Rose has had her happy ending, she's completely fine and her life is good. From what I was told this is all I can tell you at this point of your timeline, but that's not the message. This is: Don't."

"Don't?"

"Yes don't. Whatever it is that you were planning to do before I came in here. Whatever it is you were planning to say. Don't do it. You can't. Not now. It's not time yet. If you don't listen to me then you'll be messing with more than just your own timeline."

"And I should just believe you? Some woman who just breaks in and claims to know the only people who I would give my life for? How am I supposed to know you're telling the truth? That you even know the Doctor?"

River made her move to answer when she heard someone sputtering behind her. She turned around to see the Doctor behind her with his mouth hanging open.

"WHAT? River you- and Jack and… WHAT? How do you even… what? This… how?"

River leaned into Jack and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Well there's my proof that I know the Doctor. Everything else, you'll just have to put your faith in me. The alternative would be bad. Not unraveling timelines bad… but still as the Doctor would say, very not good. I'll be seeing you captain."

She then walked back to the Doctor grabbed him by the bowtie and gave him a searing kiss as she set her vortex manipulator to take them back to the TARDIS.