Chapter Eighteen: The Unexpected Visit (Doctor`s Point of View)

The interruption was from a grey bodied earth pony with curly red hair and a red question mark for a cutie mark.

Ditzy leaned back away from me. "Doctor, why did she call you Sweetie?" She asked, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Oh, who is this?"

(Now Listen to "Leave Out All the Rest: Linkin Park")

River Song...

"Oh, um..."

"Doctor, who is this...?" Ditzy asked.

"Oh, hello, dear, I`m River Song, and I`m the Doctor`s long-lost wife!" She laughed.

"Doctor, she`s lying, she has to be!" Ditzy`s eyes became larger and I looked between the two mares.

"Sweetie, what is she talking about?" River came closer and was now right next to Ditzy. "Can we go to the moon now? My TARDIS broke down!"

Her eyes still looking through mine, Ditzy allowed a few tears to fall. "I knew it... you were hiding something!" She looked pained, and it seemed a headache had begun to grow inside of her head. She held one hoof to where her temple would be in her human form.

"Oh, did I miss something?" River asked. She looked genuinely surprised.

"How dare you?!"Ditzy asked, stomping her hoof.

"Ditzy, I-"

"Don`t bother!" She sobbed, running off. "It`s too late! Anything I have ever felt for you is GONE! You`re just a big mean stallion with a blue box who pretends to be hero! But you`re no hero, and you don`t deserve what you have or what you can do!" She slammed the door shut so hard the TARDIS vibrated.

"Who was that?" River asked.

"I..." I couldn`t speak.

Her words stung like she had slapped me three million times. "Anything I have ever felt for you is GONE!"

I walked right past River and unlocked my bedroom door, relocking it once I was inside so she couldn`t come in.

The gift I wanted to make for Ditzy still was lying on my bed, wrapped up in a blanket so she couldn`t see it. I took off the blanket and shut my eyes, holding it in my hooves.

Dinky gasped. "Mommy, look!" She screeched.

"What is the big id—huh?!" Ditzy said as she walked in from the kitchen. "How did you, what the, why...?"

"Screwdriver, if you must know."

"I have a screwdriver too, and it doesn`t do that!"

"This one is sonic. It`s a sonic screwdriver, Ditzy."

"I... What else can it do?"

"Anything you could imagine!" I smiled enthusiastically.

I had made Ditzy her own sonic screwdriver because she would always wonder how they worked. When I thought of the idea it seemed genius, but now it felt lifeless in my grasp.

"Anything I have ever felt for you is GONE!"

I collapsed against my bed, my head hitting my pillow, allowing myself to cry.

I`ve messed up. I`ve messed up. It`s my fault. It`s all my fault.

"Anything I have ever felt for you is GONE!"

"You`re just a big mean stallion with a blue box who pretends to be a hero!

"You`re no hero, and you don`t deserve what you have or what you can do!"

"It`s GONE!"

Author`s Note:

I. Hate. Myself. For. Adding. This. Into. The. Story.

But I guess it had to be done. Literally my stomach is in knots rereading this. Sorry :/

- GothicPegasister