Title: right turn wrong
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: The Doctor/River Song
Rating: M
Spoilers: 06.01 "The Impossible Astronaut", 06.13 "The Wedding of River Song"
Summary: Good men (gods) have such few limitations (rules).
River was the first person he thought of visiting after he left Colchester.
Abject and miserable, he needed to see the one to blame.
(He forgot Amy clinging to his shoulders, Rory's too-solemn eyes before he ducked inside the house. They were, after all, simply the latest in the string of strangers that shared his madness.)
And perhaps that was why the TARDIS chose to remind him of his own choice.
Because twenty-five year-old Melody Pond (River Song), sweat-drenched brows knitted in pain as she huddled in the corner of her cot, was not the woman he wanted to see.
(But he needed to. This was the girl he "forgave," the girl he condemned so that he may have his peace. He was nine-hundred-and-ten, ancient and experienced and so very young.)
Sometimes, in the haze of dreams, she wondered what really happened at Lake Silencio.
Because she shot the Doctor and he died (golden energy fading as his body collapsed, strings cut).
Because she shot the sand and reality died (the heat of his mouth on hers as time moved again).
Because she shot a Doctor-suit and he disappeared (he winked, running away).
(By morning, she will have forgotten everything.)