Hello there! Hope you are all alright! After a very busy week-end (sorry), here comes chapter 8!
Views and viewers numbers are getting very low, so I suppose I'll get back to publish a chapter a day as much as I can (and if I have some feedback and result by doing so because I won't waste hours of sleep while working early next morning to publish on time if no-one cares! ^_^)
As I said, I was very busy and I didn't looked at the names of the new follows/faves but whoever you are: thank you!
Now then, enough of small talk! I hope, as ever, that you will enjoy this chapter :)
Melody - x.
Chapter 9
"It's ok Doctor, she's going to save them, I know that."
"Melody… Crying over me… again." the Doctor said faintly. "I promised myself that nothing would hurt you again, that I'd protect you… but I've failed. Even worse, I am the cause of your grief. I'm sorry…"
"Shut up." Melody cut in. "Don't say that."
A whirring noise echoed and the TARDIS landed. River, Amy and Rory stepped out of the blue box.
The couple kneel near the Doctor as Melody stepped back, leaving them alone, still crying.
"You can't die now, I know you don't die now." said Amy.
"Oh Pond! You've got a schedule for everything." the Doctor said.
"But it doesn't make any sense..."
"Doctor, what do we do? Come on. How do we help you?" Rory pressed him.
"No sorry Rory, you can't. Nobody can. Ponds, listen to me, I need to talk to your daughter."
They stepped back, giving the place to River.
"Find her. Find River Song, and tell her something from me." the Doctor said, gesturing her to come closer. River, not knowing she was River yet, leaned in, listening to what the Doctor whispered in her ear.
"Well I'm sure she knows…" she said, looking at him. But that was it. the Doctor was dead.
Melody cried even harder and threw herself near him. She leaned in, resting her head on his chest. Everything went alright in the episode, but what if it didn't here? It broke her heart to see him dead.
River had to ask who was River Song. Why wasn't she asking already?
Suddenly her eyes opened wide, realizing. That is what she was made for. She sat up, looking at River.
"Ask them. Go on, ask them." she said.
"Who's River Song?" the curly haired woman asked to her parents.
Amy turned to face the robot:
"Are you still working? Because I'm still a relative. Access files on River Song."
"Records available."
"Show me her, show me River Song."
The Teselecta then started to change its appearance to take River's. Her eyes widened and soon were filled with tears. She turned away, looking at the Doctor lying on the floor, Melody still crying over him.
"What did he say?" Amy asked. "The Doctor gave you a message for River Song. What was it?" Then she looked down at River's hands which were glowing with regeneration energy. "What's happening? River, What are you doing?"
"Just tell me." River said, walking towards him and Melody. "The Doctor, is he worth it?"
Melody got up and smiled, wiping the tears away.
"Yes. He is worth it and so much more River. You'll see soon." Melody said, stepping away, joining Amy and Rory.
They watched River kneeling near the Doctor, putting her glowing hands on his cheeks. It instantly made him come back to life.
"River? No… What are you doing?" he said.
"Hello sweetie" she only answered before kissing him.
Golden light surrounded them as she was healing him, giving him all her remaining regenerations.
At the hospital, River was lying in a bed, unconscious. She slowly opened her eyes to find her mother.
"Hey" Amy said with a smile.
"Hey…" she answered weakly. "Where am I?"
"You're safe now. You're at the hospital." Melody answered her.
"Apparently you used all your remaining regenerations in one go." Amy spoke up. "You shouldn't have done that" she added with a small chuckle.
"Mother, I had to try. He said no-one could save him, but he must have known I could."
"Rule 1" the Doctor's voice said. They turned to him. "The Doctor lies."
River closed her eyes, getting back to sleep with a smile.
"She just needs to rest, she'll be absolutely fine." the nurse dressed in white said.
The Doctor came closer.
"No, she won't." he said, pulling out of his jacket a TARDIS blue notebook with a red ribbon. He put it on her bed table. "She will be… amazing."
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor and Melody were waiting for Amy and Rory who were saying goodbye to their daughter. He finished to type some coordinates and then looked up at Melody.
She was looking outside via the big screen in the wall. He stepped behind her and wrapped his arms around her. She blenched a little in surprise.
"I'm sorry." he said. "I'm so sorry. For a first trip, that wasn't an easy one. You saw me die… thank you for being there when the end was near." She turned around and snuggled against his chest. He smiled and kissed her head. "How long are you gonna stay with me?"
"Forever." she answered without any hesitation.
"I hope you will…" he whispered. "My Mystery-Girl, the girl who knows…"
The doors of the TARDIS opened, letting Amy and Rory enter. They saw the Doctor and Melody hugging and they raised their eyebrows with a questioning look.
"Aw, that's cute." said Amy.
He made her a face before raising a hand to Melody's head. Now she knew what happened when he was doing this. The Doctor's voice echoed in her head.
"Can I-"
"Yeah."
He stepped back, giving her a soft smile to which she answered with a happy smile. It was funny how it felt to have him inside her head. It didn't feel bad, it felt almost… comforting. Just like his hugs: they wiped away all her bad and sad thoughts. She had noticed that every time he hugged her, he asked if she was ok before letting go.
"So that's it? We leave her there?" Amy asked, talking about River.
"Sisters of the Infinite Schism, greatest hospital in the universe." The Doctor answered.
"Yeah but she's our daughter. Doctor, she's River, and she's our daughter."
"Amy, I know, but we have to let her make her own way now. We have too much foreknowledge. Dangerous thing, foreknowledge." he mumbled, looking at the screen. Melody knew it was showing the date of his death.
"What's that?" Amy asked, wanting to look at the screen too.
"Nothing!" the man in a bow tie answered, turning a knob to clear the screen. "Just some data from the Teselecta. Very boring."
He smiled like an innocent child.
"Doctor, River was brainwashed to kill you, right?" Rory spoke up.
"Well she did kill me, then she used her remaining lives to bring me back. As first dates go, I'd say that was mixed signals."
"But that stuff that they put in her head, is that gone now? The River that we know in the future, she's in prison for murder."
"Whose murder?" Amy asked, finishing the thought of her husband.
The Doctor didn't answer, just giving them that same childish smile.
"You'll see her again, she'll come looking for us, don't worry." said Melody with a wink.
"Doctor!" Amy called. "You never really explained to us about Melody."
He turned around and walked to Melody's side, putting his arm around her shoulders.
"She's from a parallel universe hidden behind a perception filter. There's no alien in her universe, well, except for me when I go there to visit and relate some of my adventures to a man. There, we only exist as a TV show. Our parallel selves are actors. So no aliens, except for me… and her."
Amy and Rory looked at her.
"You're an alien? Are you… you know, like him? Are you a Time Lord?" Amy asked.
"No she is not a Time Lord. Well not really, not properly." the Doctor answered. "She's Human. Human plus Time Lord…"
"You mean… like our daughter? Like River? Like Melody? Oh God, they have the same name!" Rory said, starting to panicking a bit. Just a bit. A big bit.
"Rory stay calm please." the Doctor said. "I know the look-a-like with Amy and the similarities with
your daughter are disturbing. But she's not your daughter. We… don't really know who she is and what her purpose is, she's a complete mystery that we'll find out together, but what we know is that she's not your daughter."
The Ponds nodded, understanding.
"You said to me that I would see my daughter today, and you were right, how comes you knew?" Amy said.
"I know things, I have foreknowledge. I don't really know what for yet… but I guess it's to help… though there are some things I absolutely can't change."
"And I trust you to make the right choices, Melody, with my life." the Doctor said warmly to her. He kissed her forehead, making her smile before heading for the console. "Right, let's go and do something fun!"
And they took off.
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