A/N: Thank you guys once again for the amazing response, all the favorites, followers and reviews. It really means so much to me to know that people are reading and enjoying this story. In this chapter we finally get to some River/Brian talk (a.k.a. the main plot). Enjoy

Disclaimer: Doctor Who and its characters do not belong to me. They belong to the BBC and those who were hired by them to work on the show which I am not one of.

BUZZ… BUZZ… BUZZ... BUZZ…

Amy rolled over to hit the alarm. It can't be time already. Is something burning? When she rolled back around, she found that Rory wasn't there. He must have gotten up earlier.

I wonder if he got any sleep. I wonder if I got any sleep.

Reluctantly, she got out of bed and got ready for the day. When she was ready, she headed down stairs. On her way down, she heard something she was not expecting to find this early in the morning, laughter. This was not just quiet laughing but whole hearted laughter.

Amy followed the laughter down the hall until it led her straight into the kitchen. What she saw, warmed her heart. Rory and River were cooking together. And then, she saw the mess.

Rory followed her eyes, "Uh… I can explain. You see, I wanted to make a nice breakfast for us all and then River came in and asked if she could help. I guess I figured that she might have learned some cooking skills in the last few decades but…"

"Just have it all… decent by the time Brian gets here, Okay?"

"Yes Ma'am" Rory replied with a nod and a smile.

Amy decided she would make sure the rest of the house was picked up from last night. On her way back to the kitchen, she saw something moving in front of the house. She quickly moved to the window to get a better look. As she peeked out, she could just make out a short man with light hair pacing.

She opened the door and asked, "Brian, how long have you been out here?"

"I'm not sure to be honest. I needed a bit of fresh air early this morning and ended up here."

"You can come in now if you want. Rory and River should be just cleaning up from making breakfast. Why don't you come and join us?"

Brian took her offer and followed her into the house. He was not met with the pleasant smell that normally accompanied his son's cooking. The smell that greeted him was a mixture of burnt toast and coffee.

"Rory, Brian's here" Amy called down the hall.

As they turned into the kitchen, they were greeted by a sight much better than the smell from the door. Four plates were set around the table, each with an egg in a basket on it. Coffee was sitting in a pot next to four mugs.

"Good morning Brian. I'm just finishing the washing. Why don't you take a seat? I'll be with you in a mo."

Brian sat down, facing the rest of the kitchen. Rory came in and sat across from his dad. "Morning dad. How'd you sleep?"

"Not well I'm afraid. I had a lot on my mind. Which reminds me, I wanted to apologies for my out-burst last night. I don't know what came over me. And I'm very sorry River that you had to see that. I guess I was just tiered from my long week."

"Does that mean we can forget about what happened last night" Rory asked, hopefully.

"I certainly cannot. If nothing else, I would at least like to know more about how you know River and, well, who she is."

"As a matter of fact, Brian, I was planning on telling you my story over breakfast. That is, if you wouldn't mind" said River, sitting down at the table.

Once everyone was seated with the coffee poured, she started her story.

"I was born in the 52nd century on an asteroid called Demon's Run. It was a military base and my mother was their prisoner. She had been kidnaped in order to get to me. You see, I'm not only human. Both my parents were human but my mother was exposed to the time vortex while pregnant with me. This gave me an extra strand of DNA, specifically Time Lord DNA. The people that kidnaped my mother believed that, due to my advanced DNA, they could make me into a weapon, a weapon to kill the Doctor.

"My mother was saved but I was taken. From this point I was taken to America where I was raised to be a weapon. At age 5 I escaped them and lived on the streets. I went looking for my parents but didn't know where to start, so I went to New York.

"As you can imagine, a little girl cannot live on her own in a place like New York City for very long. I was dying." River saw Amy stiffen at this and so quickly continued. "But one thing I remembered from my training was something special I could do. I had a way of cheating death. It was a part of my enhanced DNA. My body completely changes; it rewrites itself in a way. And that is just what I did.

"I guess the energy that came from that change allowed my kidnapers, the Silence, to find me. They sent me on a mission. I was supposed to befriend one of the Doctor's companions as a child so I could get close enough to kill him later on. So, they sent me to Leadworth, 1995."

River paused for a moment to see if Brian was still following. "But that would be Amy and Rory then?"

"Exactly" River agreed. "My job was to befriend young Amy and Rory. And so, I did. I used my birth name, Melody, but had to think up a last name. The name I picked was Zucker. Mels Zucker"

"But… you're… I mean, you're Mels? Little black girl Mels? Amy and Rory's best friend, that Mels?"

"One and the same" answered River with a small smile and a nod.

The pieces were coming together in Brian's head. Amy had called River Mels because she was, is, Mels. The familiarity between Amy, Rory and River that he had seen last night was because they were old friends, very old friends. They had known each other for nearly 20 years. But how had she gone from Mels, his Mels, to this woman, River Song?

"So, that means that you did the changy thing again then. And what happened with your training kill the Doctor?"

"Yes, I did change again. I'm getting to that, all of that."

Before she continued, Rory offered everyone more coffee while Amy took the plates to the sink to be washed later. Brian, on the other hand, was simply trying to wrap his mind around what he had just been told. It might have made since, but that did not make it easy to understand.

A/N: Yeah! Brian knows that River is Mels! Just so you know, I had a lot of fun writing River's story from her perspective. Also, there is still more plot to unfold. I am very open to constructive criticism by the way. I'm still learning how to write things like this.