Title: all the right ways
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: The Doctor/River Song
Rating: K
Spoilers: 04.08 "Silence in the Library", 06.01 "The Impossible Astronaut", 06.13 "The Wedding of River Song"
Summary: Love was not a competition (unless you're winning).
The key to having the edge on a time-traveler was to always be one step ahead.
And if River happened to have for her use a small blue book that detailed those adventures—well, archaeology taught her to use any tools at her disposal.
(Being older and having a vortex manipulator had its advantages too.)
He had everything arranged, everything.
A lovely wicker basket he picked up on Shan Shen, one of the bottles of wine Napoleon chucked at him (when the Frenchman found him posing au naturel for Joséphine), and a picnic spread from a rustic Italian café—he was prepared to take River on their Asgard date.
Only to find her missing from her cell, a set of coordinates and a date in a careless scrawl on the wall. Cheeky.
She was reclined in the tall yellow-green grass (so similar and different from the red fields on Gallifrey—oh, he wished he could show her), a sly smile and looking entirely too smug.
"Hello sweetie." As if to add to the insult, she had also arranged—and was that custard?
"You have custard." Nine-hundred-and-thirty-nine and completely outsmarted; oh, Koschei was definitely laughing somewhere. He grinned. "I concede defeat."