A few days went past since Madame Kovarians attack. Oddly Rose and River had become some level of friends. They regularly sat drinking tea and talked about their adventures with the Doctor. They would talk about other companions and aliens and running. They were sitting in the kitchen talking when there was an explosion and the TARDIS shook. "Sorry!" Eleven shouted through the TARDIS. "God that man. I swear if I've told him once I've told him a million times." River muttered under her breath.

Rose and River got up and walked to the console room. There they saw Ten in the jump seat and Eleven under the console. When they got there River went down the steps to ask Eleven what he had done. "What on Earth have you been doing to her now?" She huffed. "Nothing!" Eleven replied "Just maybe attaching the red thermo coupling to the blue one." His voice was so quite by the end you could barely hear what he said. River didn't have the energy to shout and start an argument with her husband. "That could blow a hole in the time rotor and shatter the universe. What in the hell did you do that for?" Her voice was strained as she was trying not to raise it. "I though it might jump start the TARDIS and make it go." Eleven whispered. "You really are an idiot sometimes sweetie. That wouldn't work in a million years and you know it." River sighed "I'm sorry. I just want this to be over before Madame Kovarian comes back and hurts you again. I don't want her near you River. Not if I can help it." Eleven admitted "Oh Doctor, you are an idiot sometimes but I love you all the more for it." She walked over, grabbed his bow tie and pulled him in for a deep kiss. When they broke apart he said "So I'm forgiven then?" "Always and completely my love." River smiled and walked back up the stairs. As she walked away she called "Oh and don't hurt the TARDIS again." Eleven smiled and carried on with his work.

What the Doctors didn't know was that River had been doing her own calculations on how to get out of here and actually found a way out. That way wasn't a good one but River knew that it was going to come to that. She was trying to put it off as long as she could but she knew it wouldn't be long before this adventure reached its inevitable conclusion.
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The four of them were sitting on the lounge floor playing monopoly in front of the fire when the entire TARDIS shook violently. "What the hell was that?!" Rose shouted "I don't know" Ten shouted back. "Is everybody alright? River are you ok?" Eleven said. He had heard Rose and Ten talking but not his wife. "Fine sweetie. You ok?" River called "Better now I know your ok." He relaxed at the sound of Rivers voice.

"Hello peasants" the familiar sound of the Masters voice boomed through the TARDIS "The time has come. A host has been found and I am manifesting myself as we speak. And there is nothing you little Time Lords can do about it." The Master laughed "You just insulted your own race." Rose pointed out "Oh but I'm not a little Time Lord I'm a very big Time Lord. The Time Lord that will rule the galaxy and bring back the others to become a god. Oh that sound nice God Master. It's got a nice ring to it don't you think?" Eleven rolled his eyes.

He then noticed River was crying. "River what's wrong?" He flustered "It's time. I can't put it off anymore." She sobbed "Put what off?" Eleven asked. "I'm sorry." River breathed shakily as she finally made eye contact "Emergency protocol 32." She shouted into thin air. Less then a second later gas filled the room and River ran out of the room and locked the door. A few minutes later she opened the door, poked her head inside and saw three unconscious bodies. Perfect, she thought my plan is working. She let the tears flow freely as she walked to the console room and started to work. It was time. Time for her to die.
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Everybody slowly came round. Eleven was the first to wake up. His vision was blurry but slowly he noticed River walking around the control room, flicking switches and pushing buttons. "What are you doing?" He practically whispered. "What I have to do." She answered simply. "I'm sorry about knocking you out, I knew you wouldn't let me do this otherwise." "Do what?" He asked, holding onto the console to help pull himself up just as Ten and Rose started to wake up.

"What's going on?" Ten asked, shaking his head as if to get rid of the dizziness. "I knocked the three of you out so I could work." River replied. She was now fiddling with wires in a metal helmet. "What are you doing?" Rose asked getting tired of the cryptic answers River was offering. "What needs to be done to save us all." River wiped at her eye to stop a tear escaping. "What does that mean?!" Rose shouted suddenly impatient.

"I'm going to transfer my conscience into the TARDIS to overcome the Masters power from the inside. It should kill him for good too, he won't have a body so he can't come back." River said absentmindedly, she didn't want to accept the situation she was in. "River are you crazy?" Eleven shouted flustered "That will kill you." "You don't think I know that!" River shouted back as she spun round to face him. "That's why I knocked you out. So you couldn't stop me." River almost whispered "Its almost ready."

"What is?" Ten was staring at her messing with the TARDIS. "A conscience transfer machine." Eleven answered for her "Why you? Why can't one of us do it?" "I've calculated that for it work the conscience has to be part of the original TARDIS conscience. So I had a choice. Her one constant best friend. You. Or her daughter. Me, and as your not an option." River couldn't hold back the tears anymore and now had them streaming down her face, Eleven walked up to her and held her in his arms. River shrugged away. "It's done." She practically spat the words.

Her heels clicked on the glass floor beneath her as she walked towards the helmet. She slipped it on and took a deep breath."River. No, please don't do this. We can find another way." Eleven begged. "That's the problem though sweetie. There isn't one." River was still trying to hold the tears back. Trying to stay strong for him. "Let me do it instead. River, please I'm begging you." He pleaded. "No way! The universe needs you. It needs my impossible husband. My Doctor"

Tears were streaming down Elevens face. He ran forward and passionately kissed River on the lips. They finally parted and Eleven rested his forehead on hers. "I love you more then anything. Remember that. No matter what happens I will always love you" It was the only thing he could say. He could keep pleading for her life but he knew it wouldn't make a difference. This was River after all. "I love you too. Always and forever" she replied looking him in the eyes.

Jealousy washed through Rose like fire. On the worse day of her life on Bad Wolf Bay she finally admitted her love for the Doctor and he never said it back. Now here he was, declaring his love for this woman and begging her not to kill herself for the sake of the universe. It made her want to scream.

River slowly backed away from her husband. This was it. The end of her life. "Well then." She took a deep breath. "I guess this is where my story ends, saving the universe with the man I love. Not too bad when you think about it. Goodbye. . . sweetie." She lifted her hand and flicked the switch on the console. Pain surged through her body as everything that she was, was taken from her. She was using all her remaining energy trying not to scream. She didn't want that to be their last memory of her. Regeneration energy started to flow out of her, it swirled and danced around the TARDIS console as the child of the TARDIS became the TARDIS herself.