Since this is a very special day(her b-day) for the author she has decided to upload the next chapter earlier than she had previously wanted to.
Now to the stuff you're actually interested in hearing.
The River you all saw on the previous chapter is from After the Library.
Here be a flashback of how River Song came back into the world of the breathing living.
Darkness.
Darkness enwrapped her in its soft satin like robes as she fell through nothingness for an eternity, never to stop not even to freeze completely.
Coldness.
No warmness was allowed in the nothingness, if nothingness would have a color it would be the color of ice in the coldest hour of the night.
Frozen.
The finger tips and toes felt as frozen icicles yet were not frozen, for there is no ice in the nothingness.
Numbness.
No hands nor feet were felt, as if they had fallen asleep, yet they were not asleep, for there is no blessing of sleep in the nothingness.
No limp in her body could be felt, from great to small.
For there is nothing to feel in the nothingness.
Only Memories remain in the hour of darkness.
Memories of days past.
Memories of beautiful places.
Memories of tears shed.
Memories of people beloved.
Memories of the Doctor.
If warmness could be felt, only those memories could make it possible to feel warm once again.
Her memories took her to her favorite moments with him.
His smile everytime he saw her in one of their adventures, those rare moments when he knew who she was, and every kiss he had given her.
His last kiss at Trenzalore.
That so very young face of his at the Library, begging her not to connect those cables, pleading her to let him do it instead.
Their meeting at the Singing Towers of Darrilluim, the tears that ran down his cheeks as he gave her his sonic screwdriver.
Her memories went on and on for forever, both good and bad and never stopped.
She remembered the Angels at the Byzantium and at Manhattan.
She remembered her wedding on top of the American Pyramid.
She remembered riding with the Doctor to the Stonehenge.
She remembered the second Big Bang.
A slight warm breeze came by and disappeared as soon as it had come by.
It had jerked her out of her memories.
'What was that?'
It happened again, but with more intensity this time.
'What is happening?'
It happen with more intensity again coming with a twinkle of light this time.
'How is this possible?!'
It happened again, again and again.
She tried to move and found that she could feel her limbs.
They were starting to feel warm and could move slightly, but not enough.
Her hands and feet barely could be felt and wouldn't move at all.
She was falling, she tried to grasp on anything but couldn't lift her arms.
She kept falling, clouds of light surrounded her, their light so bright that it blinded her.
She gasped and air filled her lungs.
Her eyelids fluttered open and true light blinded her eyes.
She tried to move and again was unable to lift her arms.
"Don't try to sit yet", said a voice.
"Wh-", she tried, but her throat was so dry that she couldn't finish her word.
"Here", said the voice and she felt a straw at her mouth.
The water was cool and refreshing, the best she had ever had.
After finishing her water she tried again, "Where am I", she said, now being able to use her voice. She lifted her head and looked around, now also being able to open her eyes without being blinded by the bright white color of the room. She first noted all the cables that she was connected to and heard the machinery being busy behind her bed. Next she quickly looked at the room which was a bright white with two doors and had a white armchair and a white bed table. The bed the she was lying on was white as well and behind it were all the machinery that she was connected to.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you the exact location of this basement", said the man that had spoken earlier, he had on a white coat and a label that read "Dr. Riley".
"Then could you tell me how I got here and what am I doing here Dr. Riley?"
"That is a long story for another moment", smiled Dr. Riley, "and now if you could please sleep Miss Song, later you will have all your questions answered", he said as he placed a mask on her mouth and nose.
River was about to protest but already felt her eyes close, she let her head fall on the soft pillow and knew no more.
When she woke up she found herself disconnected from all the cables that she had been attached to earlier and a glass of water on her bed stand. She sat up and moved her legs to the side of the bed finding some white soft slippers for her feet. She quickly slipped them on and stood up, testing her legs, stumbling a bit before she regained her balance.
'What has happened?', was the question that kept repeating itself in her head. She should be dead, but yet she was here and she was obviously alive.
Her memories of the Library were more alive than ever as well.
She shuddered as she remembered her last expedition.
She walked around in the room with hopes of distracting her mind from her memories. She opened the side door in the room which turned out to be the bathroom. She walked over to the bathroom mirror and looked into it.
She looked exactly how she had always looked, no difference.
She sighed, she had been sure that she hadn't changed her face like when she had regenerated now she was sure. It would have been impossible at any rate, but as things were looking impossible had been done away with for a time already.
"How is this possible?", she said quietly to what she thought was herself.
"I would be more than happy to explain that to you Miss Song", said an elderly man that stood in her room, looking at her.
She quickly spun around facing him, "And who might you be?", she asked in her usual voice masking her surprise.
"My name is Albert Brown", said the elderly man with a smile, "and I think I have a few answers to give to you."
"Indeed", she said walking closer.
"Let me start at the beginning Miss Song", he began taking seat on the white arm chair that was in the room, "a few months ago I read your thesis Miss Song", River raised her eyebrow at that, "the subject of the Doctor fascinated me."
"I would believe so", she answered.
'Of course this would have to do with the Doctor', she thought.
He smiled again at her, "I have to say that I was quite disappointed when I heard that you had died on your last expedition, I had greatly wished to speak with you. But as you can see I am a very persistent person, once I have my mind on something I don't stop until I have reached my goal.
It took a lot of my influences to be able to get your consciousness from the Library's database", he continued and River stiffened as she heard him mention the Library, "after that it was quite easy. Easy, compared with what my men had to go through at the Library to get to that database. One would have thought that all those stories of the Vashta Nerada were just that, stories. My men had hard times to only go through a few meters in that place and many were lost", he stared into the nothingness for a second and then came back suddenly.
"For bringing you back into the breathing living I employed my best scientist, who I believe you have already met."
"Oh yes I have", she answered, this man was taking his time to explain himself and she was getting impatient.
"My scientist then employed of the best specialists, after long studies and finally getting your consciousness from my remaining men. It was a long and complicated process, which I am not going to try to explain to you, but at the end the goal was reached", he smirked at River, "they fabricated you a new body much like that of a flesh but this one is permanent and will be exactly like your previous one, two hearts and everything."
River smiled at him, this man had gone far only to give her a body, but he still hadn't said what it was all for.
'Not for anything good', she thought.
"Not that I am ungrateful for all this, but what is all this for, why do you need me", she said, "what do you want from me?"
"Strait to the point, I like that", said Albert as he stood up.
"When I read your thesis of the Doctor I began to search for any kind of history related to him and found none, which lead me to contact certain people, but never mind that, I see you are growing impatient so I will leave out the details of my expedition, "he smiled, "these people gave me information, very important information about something called the "Final Sanction", it was a genius plan designed by the Time Lords", he glanced at River, "maybe you have heard of it?"
"Yes, I have", answered River masking her voice, by how things were looking now this wasn't going to end pleasantly.
"It was genius", he repeated dreamily, "and it needed to be done", he gazed dreamily into air and turned suddenly to River, "but the only person that could open the Time Lock was killed by you, Miss Song", he smirked madly, "and I couldn't be more thankful to you for punishing that horrible criminal."
River tried to smile at him, it was best that this madman believed that she was on his side.
"Since he is dead we have decided to kidnap a Doctor from before your meeting at Lake Silencio, so that we can make him open the Time Lock", at seeing River's incredulous face he quickly said, "oh no, don't mistaken me, I don't think it is going to be easy, it's going to take the very best, that's why you are here."
'Finally this madman says why he went through all the trouble to revive me and its only because of this', thought River, frankly she wasn't sure how she could mask her laugh at this man's madness, first he thought that he could kidnap the Doctor and secondly he actually thought that he could make the Doctor open the Time Lock, and thirdly he went to impossible extremes to bring her back just to be his henchwoman.
"You went through all this just so that I could kidnap the Doctor for you?", she asked trying to mask her laugh as best as she could.
"That and", he moved closer, "I like to be close to people who have the same principles as I have", he raised his eyebrows.
'Oh, OH', she realized were this was going.
River played along with him, "of course", she purred at him.
He smiled at her madly, "let us celebrate our new alliance, shall we?", he said and clicked his fingers.
At his orders there came in a worker with a bottle wine and two glasses.
Albert took one of the glasses and handed it to River and poured wine into the glass he was holding and into hers and gave beck the bottle to his worker who then proceeded to walk away and shut the door behind him.
Albert raised his glass at River with a smirk, "let us toast to our wonderful partnership Miss Song".
River smiled, "indeed", she said as she toasted.
He looked at his watch and said, "I am afraid I have to leave you now, I hope that Dr. Riley discharge you on time for our great plan", and walked away with glass of wine still in hand, he stopped at the door and looked back at her, "I hope we meet soon again", he winked at her at which she forced a smile.
River sighed a sigh of relief when he finally went away.
'That man is completely mad', she thought as she shook her head, 'he thinks he is going to be able to kidnap the Doctor', she chuckled and then laughed out freely at the madman's incredulity.
With all the trust he had in her it would probably just take a few days for her to design a plan of escape and then she could tip the Doctor about this madman's plans so they could stop him before he actually did something bad.
Time went by slowly in this space station, there wasn't much going on at this place, she spent most of her time the first few days with Dr. Riley who wanted to make sure everything was right with her new body. After he was pleased by the outcome of all the studies he had made she was finally freed from him and started to observe everything and everyone.
The only transport that came by the station was the delivery ship that delivered provisions every two days. River proceeded to befriend the staff that was responsible for the provisions and soon had memorized all the exits that the station had. By the third delivery after starting her watch River had perfect plan of slipping silently into the ship without anybody noticing. The plan was aided greatly by the fact that everybody trusted River blindly; Mr. Brown had told everybody that she was completely trustable.
Albert had never shown up again after their first talk when she had woken up, she only heard now and then from some of the workers that he was too busy to come by, but always asked for her wellbeing.
River couldn't care less about what he said, but she kept playing along feigning to be on his side all the time.
Three hours after leaving the space station in the delivery ship it stopped at a planet for his next delivery, River took the opportunity and got out of the ship and mingled herself with the crowd in the streets. She walked in a quick pace to the nearest express transport terminal and brought a ticket for another planet, paying with a few credits that she had pick-pocketed on her way to the terminal.
When she arrived at her destination she exhaled a breath that she had been keeping in.
'Now I'm free', she thought there was no way Albert Brown was going to find her on this planet and even if he did, she was going to make sure that she disappeared soon.
She walked easily in the backstreets of the city and went to a known bar that she had gone to many times in the past.
"But if it isn't River Song!", greeted the bartender happily.
"Hi Bob", she greeted back, "same as always for me", she added before he could ask.
Bob made a sign that no problem.
River sat at her usual place at ease and started to plan her next move when Bob came with her drink.
"Nice to see you again River", he said happy and placed the drink on her table, "oh, before I forget, you have a call River."
"A call?", she repeated, "nobody knows I'm here."
"It is like one of those calls you always get", he said as he went to tend his other clients.
"Thank you Bob", River dismissed him and got up quickly and picked up the phone near the counter.
"Doctor?", she said hopefully, but was answered by a sound of a bell.
The cloister bell of the TARDIS.
It sounded and sounded, again and again.
"Who is it?", asked Bob as he walked by River and saw her face, "you look like you've seen a ghost", he said concerned.
"Something very bad has happened", said River seriously as she hang up slowly the phone.
"Can I do something to help?", asked Bob concerned.
"I lost all my equipment some time ago, I need you to get me everything again", she said and Bob nodded and made it for the phone but River stopped him, "don't forget the Vortex Manipulator", she said her voice dead serious.
"River!", exclaimed Amy happily.
"What is happening here?", commanded Kate coming into the entrance hall.
"That is the woman that killed the Doctor!", yelled Martha as Sarah Jane came to stand beside her and confirmed, "yes, it is her".
"My, my, informed are we?", she said in that so very River-like way.
"Give me one good reason not to shoot you where are standing", snarled Jack.
"What do you think of think of this one Captain?", she said and as quick as he could wink she had her gun out and pointing it at Martha.
Martha stiffened and stayed put.
"Don't move Martha", said Jack gritting through his teeth, still pointing his gun at River.
"Do you want to find out who can shoot fastest Captain?", she purred at him.
"Stop this", yelled Amy and placed herself between River and Jack, "River please calm down."
"Move away Amy!", yelled Jack, "don't speak with the murderer!"
"I don't know what she might have told you, but you heard Martha, she murdered the Doctor", said Mickey heatedly as he also pointed his gun at River.
"She's not a murderer!", yelled Amy.
"Of course she is!", yelled Jack, "we saw her photo on that spaceship!"
"No she isn't", said Rory, also defending River.
Jack was about to counter Rory when Amy yelled, "The Doctor isn't dead!", making him and everyone else stare at her, "I was about to tell it to Martha", she said looking at her with regret in her eyes, "I promise, I was going to tell you all".
"What?!", yelled Mickey as the others stood dumbfounded.
"He faked his death to shake off an organization that have been following him for a very long time", explained Rory.
"H-he faked his death?", stuttered Jack.
"Yes", said River and lowered her gun which made Martha relax, "could you now stop pointing your gun at me?"
"How do we know she is not lying", accused Mickey.
"The Doctor himself presented Amy and Rory to me", said Kate, "I believe in them."
"He's alive?", asked Jack disbelievingly.
"As much as always", confirmed Amy, "River is innocent."
"Why didn't you say it earlier?", asked Sarah Jane to Amy looking a little more than happy.
"You broke into our house pointing guns at us", said Rory trying to defend Amy.
"And still are pointing one at River", added Amy looking at Jack who lowered his gun cautiously.
"Don't worry dear, I don't bite", winked River at him.
"Believe me, it's not the biting that I'm worried about", flirted Jack back.
"Stop it", warned Martha, "not now please", she pleaded, still a bit shaken after all that had happened.
"So you helped him fake his death and got charged legally by murder?", asked Martha not fully trusting River.
"You could say so, yes", said River.
"How do you know the Doctor?", asked Jack.
"Spoilers", she purred at him.
"What does that mean?", asked Mickey confused.
"It means it's no use to ask", explained Rory.
He looked skeptically at her as well as most of the people in the room.
"So, what are you doing here River?" asked Amy, trying to break down the tension currently in the room.
River's face fell immediately, "The Doctor is in grave danger".
"What happened?", asked Amy concerned.
"And how do you know about it?", asked Jack, not trusting her.
River looked into Jack's eyes, "I received a call", she began, "when I picked it up I heard the TARDIS' cloister bells."
"So from being dead he went to being in grave danger?", asked Jack not trusting River.
"And why would the TARDIS call you?", asked Mickey.
"You don't have to believe me Captain", said River, "I could go away now and search for the Doctor alone."
"You are not going alone", stated Amy flatly.
"She's right", said Rory and went to stand at her side.
"We are having a national crises", started Kate, "if finding the Doctor will helps then by all means I will give you all the help we can give", she finished in her commanding voice.
"We request to go with them", said Martha and turned to look at Mickey who reluctantly nodded.
"I will also come", said Sarah Jane and turned to look at Jack.
Jack sighed heavily, "she could be lying you know, but I'll come."
River smiled, "we will need a car, I need to find out to where did the Doctor go last."
"How are you going to find that out?", asked Jack knowing more than well how difficult it can be to track the Doctor.
"We are going to give Clara a visit."
"Who's Clara?", asked Rory.
"The Doctor's new companion", said River, "whose driving the car?"
"He has a new companion?", said Amy forlorn.
"If he has a new companion why didn't the TARDIS call her?", asked Mickey.
One of the workers came by with the car keys, Jack took one pair and tossed the other pair to Mickey.
"I will drive one of the cars, Mickey Mouse can drive the other one", said Jack.
Mickey gave Jack a short glare and followed after him outside to the cars.
River followed after him hastily, obviously being impatient to find the Doctor as soon as possible.
Rory gently grabbed Amy's hand and led her to the first car.
Amy, Rory, and River went in the first car with Jack as driver taking instructions from River to go to Clara's house. In the second car went Martha, Sarah Jane and Mickey as the driver, following Jack in the first car.
When they arrived at Clara's house River was the first to get out of the car and went directly for the door.
"Do you think she will be at her house?", asked Mickey to Martha as they got out of the car.
"I also doubt it", she said, "when you travel with the Doctor you are rarely at home."
"I wonder how long did he stay without a companion", said Amy, still forlorn as she walked slowly to the door.
"You know the Doctor doesn't like to be alone Amy", Rory tried to help, "you can't blame him for getting a new companion."
They all stopped to stand behind River as she rung the bell.
"Are you sure she will be at home?", asked Jack also doubting that Clara might be home.
They heard the door click open and River gave a quick glance at Jack as she heard the door open.
Clara opened the door and saw River standing there, her eyes went wide open and she sucked a breath and screamed and slammed the door shut.
"Yes, that was expected", said River with a sigh as the others just stood watching.
"What was that about?", asked Amy slightly irked.
"Long story", she sighed.
She rung the bell again and after a moment of waiting Clara opened the door and this time had a bat in her hand.
"Hi Clara", said River with a smile.
"A ghost", gasped Clara, "you're a ghost, it's impossible that you're here, I saw you go at Tranzalore, you can't be here, it's impossible", she rambled nervously.
"Clara we need to-"
"I didn't even receive an envelope this time, how is this possible, how-", she continued to ramble.
"CLARA", River said out loudly making her stop.
"I need to know about the Doctor."
Clara just stood there without answering.
Martha came forward and asked calmly, "do you know where is the Doctor, Clara?"
Clara still looked very nervous, "he didn't come by this Wednesday, he has never done that before."
"I thought so", said River, "do you know where he went?"
"He said he needed to go check something, he said it would probably be nothing, what is happening?", she was starting to get concerned.
"He didn't say where or when he was going?", asked Martha.
"No, he never says", she answered, "what is happening?"
River closed her eyes and inhaled, 'where have you gone to Doctor?'
"You say he was going to come back Wednesday?", asked Jack.
"Yes, yes, but he never came, what's happening and who are you?, she glanced curiously at everyone.
"I'm Captain Jack Harkness", said Jack flashing a smile and shook her hand.
"Stop it", warned Martha, "I'm Martha Smith-Jones and this is my husband Mickey", she and Mickey both shook her hand.
"I'm Sarah Jane Smith", she introduced herself and shook her hand.
"I'm Amy Pond and this is Rory Williams, my husband", said Amy and they both shook her hand.
"I-", she started and at that moment the lights of her house and of the street went all out.
"Not again", she sighed.
"Are you sure he didn't mention anything helpful?", asked Martha.
"No, what is happening?", she asked, she was now completely concerned about the Doctor.
The lights came back on.
"The TARDIS called me", began River, "and all I could hear was the cloister bell sounding."
She gasped, for even if Clara hadn't travelled with the Doctor a lot yet she knew that that wasn't good.
"Sorry, but why did the TARDIS call her and not you?", asked Mickey still not trusting River.
"That doesn't surprise me, the TARDIS hates me and the Doctor seemed to get very well along with River."
"That is beside the point Clara", River stopped her before she said something else about the Doctor and her.
"What are you going to do now?", she asked, getting back to the point.
"We are going to have to call the TARDIS and hope the Vortex directs the call to the right Doctor", said River not looking very excited about the idea, "what else could we do?"
"Let me guess, we are going to use our phone again, right?", said Amy not being excited with the idea of everybody there again and this time Clara would also want to come.
"I'm also coming", said Clara and finally put down her bat.
'And there it is', she thought and rolled her eyes.
"I can't see why not", flirted Jack, "although it's not my house, but I'm sure everything will be alright", he flashed a grin at her and glanced at Rory.
"Uh, yes, yes, she can come", answered Rory a bit dazed.
"Thank you, but aren't there other ways of contacting him?", she wondered.
Martha's phone rang and she excused herself as the rest of the gang discussed plans of what they could do next.
"Yes?", she answered.
"Come back as soon as you can!", exclaimed the UNIT worker at the other side of the phone.
"Why, what happened?"
"The TARDIS, it's the TARDIS, it appeared on the backyard of the house!"
"What?!"
"Nobody has been able to open it yet and nobody has come out of it", informed the worker.
"We'll be right there!", said Martha, hanged up and rushed to the gang.
"The TARDIS has appeared in Amy and Rory's backyard!"
"What?", said River wide eyed.
"Nobody has come out and nobody has been able to get inside her either."
"Then we better rush", said Jack as he ran for the car as did everybody else, for the first time that day they didn't have a boring ride but a very livid and rushed one.
When they arrived at Amy and Rory's house they all rushed through the entrance hall, through the living room, where they luckily didn't knock over anything, and through the kitchen to the backyard and found the TARDIS standing there with Kate in front of her.
"Nobody has come out; it does seem as if it might be empty."
"Have you tried to open the door?", asked Jack.
"Everyone here has tried it and the door hasn't budged at all."
"Maybe a previous companion should try it", said Jack as he took a step forward, but was stopped by Amy.
"Can I?", she asked nervously and Jack nodded.
Amy took a nervous step forward and walked to the TARDIS' doors, she extended her hand trembling and opened the door without any problem.
She sighed a sigh of relief, 'Why am I nervous, of course she would remember me', she thoughed.
She took a step and stepped into the TARDIS, she almost gasped as she saw the new interior.
The others came walking in slowly as they stared at the new design.
"The cloister bell is still sounding", said River as she also walked in.
Amy hadn't even heard the bell sound before River had remarked it, her thoughts were lost on how much the place had changed.
"He redecorated", said Rory as he come to stand at Amy's side to a get a good view at the new interior.
"It looks like mad scientist's lab", remarked Mickey.
"Does somebody have an idea how to check where she went to last?", said Martha as she stood in front of the controls.
"I think I could try but I give you no guarantee", said Jack as stood beside Martha.
"What are we going to do once we know where she went last?", asked Clara, "nobody knows how to pilot her."
"Well we-", began Jack.
"I will pilot her", stated River causing everybody to turn and look at her.
"What?", asked Jack incredulously with a laugh.
"I can pilot her", said River.
So, what do you think?
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