Eleven and River led Ten and Rose through the TARDIS to the lounge. They were holding hands not exchanging a word between them. They were both silently terrified of Rose and Tens reaction of who Madame Kovarian was. The lounge had a large sofa with lots of pillows and they all sat down. "Well then?" Rose asked "Madame Kovarian is the woman who kidnapped me and raised me to be the woman who killed the Doctor." River started. Tens and Roses jaws dropped simultaneously.

"My birth name was Melody Pond. When I was a baby, a woman called Madame Kovarian kidnapped me. She was working for a religious order called the Silence. They believed the Doctor needed to die before a question could be asked, I'll try to leave out as many spoilers as I can." River continued. Rose was curled up on the sofa sitting on her hands until she had heard the whole story, Ten was staring at River intently. River herself was curled up next to Eleven as she explained why she was so scared. "I grew up being told every bad story about you. I was tortured every day as they hammered me into the perfect psychopath, but when I was seven I escaped. I lived on the streets, but I was cold and alone and I died. Well for want of a better word I regenerated. I found my way to Leadworth and became the best friend of my parents, Amy and Rory, until I found the Doctor."

"I carried out my training and killed you. A few seconds before you died you gave me a message for a woman called River Song. Just three words. Then you died. I asked Amy and Rory who River Song was and they showed me. It was me. I found out that not only did the Doctor love someone, he loved the woman who was trained to kill him. So I saved him. I gave him all my remaining regenerations to save his life and in return he gave me a diary to keep track of all our days together. I went to the the Luna University in 5123 and became an archeologist."

"The day I became a doctor myself, they came again. Madame Kovarian, the Silence and a NASA spacesuit. They drugged me, put me in the suit and placed me under Lake Silencio in Utah awaiting the Doctor. His death was fixed point but I couldn't bring myself to do it, I overcame the spacesuits power and drained my weapons system. I changed a fixed point just to save you. Time began disintegrating, and we were plunged into an aborted timeline. You married me on top of a pyramid and told me a secret. We kissed and time began again. I was by a lakeside killing you. But you always have a plan. You recruited the Tesselecta to look like you and you sat inside while I shot a robot version of you. You carried on traveling the universe with everyone thinking you were dead, with only me knowing your secret. But to keep up the charade I had to go to prison for your murder. I'm currently serving twelve thousand consecutive life sentences for your murder. But I'm very good at escaping so I don't mind."

Ten and Rose were in stunned silence. This woman had gone through so much pain and still sat here smiling as she told the tragic story. The first thought Rose had was if they got married in a timeline that didn't exist anymore were they properly married here? "If you got married there, are you actually married in this universe?" She decided to ask. "We had another ceremony in this universe so we are officially married." Eleven replied. "Sweetie, I'm tired. I'm going to go get some sleep ok." River felt her eyes closing "Ok honey." Eleven smiled reassuringly. He kissed her curls and River got up and walked to their bedroom.

Eleven watched her walk away, he was so proud of her to be able to talk about the bad times in her life. "Are you crazy?" Rose spluttered "What do you mean?" Eleven was shocked "That woman was trained to kill you, what if she try's again?" "I love her, and I know she won't. Not willingly." He was shocked that Rose was so against his relationship with River. He expected her to be a bit shocked but not this bad. "And I forgave her. You are one of my best friends Rose but if you can't forgive River for what she did, I don't know if we can have any kind of relationship. I will back my wife over what you think any day. So, will you forgive her, for me?" "Ok, but if she hurts you I will kill her." "Deal" Eleven conceded, even though Rose would have no chance against River Song.
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Eleven was on his own in the console room. He had left Rose and Ten in the lounge to check on his wife. He had found her fast asleep in their bed and didn't want to disturb her so he had wandered off into the TARDIS and found himself in the console room. He was sitting in a seat and wondering what River would do if she saw Madame Kovarian again. He was fairly sure Kovarian wouldn't survive.

River woke up breathing heavily with sweat running down her face. Just a nightmare she reassured herself, she really shouldn't have slept but she really couldn't keep her eyes open. She sat in bed until her breathing had normalised and then swung her legs over the side to get changed. She eventually decided on a tight fitting black dress that didn't quite reach her knees, and six inch knee high black boots that she knew made her Doctor go weak at the knees. She topped off her look with bright red lipstick, non hallucinogenic and non poisonous (she checked), and made off in search of the others.

The first place she went to was the console room, that's where her husband would normally be if he was alone. Sure enough he was sitting there, alone deep in thought. "You ok?" She asked "Yeah fine. Rose is mad at me." He huffed "Why?" River was baffled, she didn't think the amazing Rose Tyler could be mad at her precious Doctor. "She thinks I'm crazy for marrying you because of what you did." He said "You mean killing you?" She said "Yeah, but I don't care about what you did" the Doctor stood up and walked over to her. He wrapped his arms around her comfortingly "I love you and I know you would never hurt me.""I love you too and I will never ever hurt you again. I promise."

They stood there for a few minutes relaxed in each other's embrace. These were the moments the Doctor missed when River was not there, the moments where they could just hold each other and let the universe pass them by. "Do you think Madame Kovarian will come back?" River tensed at the thought "I don't know. I'm not even going to try and guess what's going through the Masters mind, but if she does, I promise she will not take you again." He looked deep into Rivers eyes "I really do love you you know." She smiled "I know. I love you too" He knew those words didn't describe how he felt for River but they were the only ones he had.

Suddenly soft piano music started playing from the TARDIS. "I think that means the TARDIS loves us too." River laughed. "I think it does." The Doctor held his hand out to River "Mrs Song may I have this dance?" He asked her. "Of course sweetie." River beamed and took his hand. He twirled her round and they danced close together around the console. River was surprised at how well the Doctor could dance "Where did you learn to dance?" She asked "Spoilers." He replied. Before River could say another word he dipped her and leant down to kiss her. When they pulled apart he pulled her up, spun her round and the music got quicker. They carried on dancing but bouncier this time and they got lost in the happiness they both felt.

What they didn't know however was that the Master had manipulated the TARDIS to make Rose see everything. She had left the lounge to find something to do and found herself at one of the entrances to the console room, she had seen the Doctor and River talking and decided not to interrupt but to watch. She wanted to know what the Doctor saw in River to make him see past the bad things she had done and love her regardless. She jumped when the music started in the TARDIS and watched as River and the Doctor danced and kissed and looked at each other with adoring eyes. She remembered the day she and the Doctor danced around that console, the day they met Captain Jack Harkness and everybody lived. She felt tears prick her eyes and she walked off to fall apart in the solitude of her bedroom.