The Doctor and Star piloted the TARDIS to Stormcage. It was Rivers first night there. The least they could do was go and she how she was settling in. River waltzed in to see a metallic-golden, low cut dress hanging up.
"The dress is a little daring…" she eyed it.
"Yup, so I went for this instead." The Doctor gestured to his white tux.
"And I put this on." Star added, as she came around the console wearing a short dress with black detailing around her bust, with a small black lace detailing just below before flowing out into a purple puffy skirt ending just after her knees paired with glittery green flats.
"Nice," River smiled as Star hugged her, "Are we going out?"
"Your parents are asleep." The Doctor said, "How's Stormcage?"
"I'm on the first night of 12,000 consecutive life sentences, kind of early to say." She smirked at him, "Where are we going?"
"Family outing!" Star cheered.
"Calderon Beta. Boring planet of the chip shops, but…there is a 400 foot tree growing out of a cliff top on the north side of a mountain in the middle of the sea. And, if you take the lift to the top and look up at exactly 12 minutes past midnight on the 21st of September 2360, you can see more stars in one sky than at any other moment in the history of the Universe. It's like daylight, only magic. You could read a book by it!"
"Is it ok if I don't?" River countered.
"We've got 10 minutes, get dressed."
"Thank god that wasn't the perfect sentence." River grimaced.
"Did you bring the diary?" Star asked her.
She held it up to them, "It's a diary?"
"It is now," the Doctor nodded, "Because River from now on, there are rules…"
"Oh you've gone all strict." That was so him, trying to be strict and being a proper older brother.
"River, to you, Star and I, it's all in the wrong order, we never meet in sequence. "
"And," Star added, "There will be I time when I'm blonde but you can't show that you know I've regenerated."
"You put everything in the diary so we know where we are."
"Put what in the diary?" River shook her head, "Sweeties I'm in the highest security prison in all of the known universe."
"If River Song was my aunt, she could walk in and out of that prison like the walls aren't even there." Star grinned.
"I am your aunt."
"There we are then. Wardrobes first right, second left, just past the helter-skelter, go find a better dress."
River ran off.
There was the sound of gunfire from outside and the Doctor ran to the door when another River fell in. "River!" he gasped.
"I knew you'd come back here you nostalgic idiot." She panted, "Hold me!" she fainted and the Doctor quickly caught her as Star ran over.
"River! River! River! River!" he gently lowered her on the ground, "River? Are you ok?" he checked her pulse as Star tried to stifle her giggled, "Talk to me…ok, um…uh…breath, breathe, come on. Gotta keep breathing…"
"Daddy." Star giggled, "She's holding her breath."
Rivers eyes snapped open, "Spoilt sport," she huffed.
"Get up!" the Doctor headed to the console as Star helped her up, "What are you doing here? Who's shooting at you?"
"Oh just a few Sontarans. Chased me halfway across the galaxy."
"Why were they chasing you?" Star asked.
"I asked them if they were on a hen night." she shrugged.
"And were they?"
"Never got an answer they chased me after that."
"River you can't do things like that!" the Doctor chastised, pointing a finger at her.
River rolled her eyes, "Or what?" she countered, "You've already had me banged up in jail for 5 years, what else are you gonna do? Tell my mum and dad?"
"Now…" the Doctor began but River cut him off.
"Have you brought someone else here?" she demanded, spotting the dress, "Does anyone agree to wear that dress? Where is she?"
"River think it through…"
She stormed off, "This happened the last time we were here. You brought someone else!"
"No we didn't!"
"Yes you did! I heard you talking to her!"
"It's the same night!" the Doctor told her as Star shouted, "We were talking to each other!"
The first River re-entered, "Were you talking to someone?"
"Just Star." the Doctor waved her off and she left again.
"Were you talking to someone?!" the second River demanded.
"Just to each other," Star assured her.
Another River entered the TARDIS, this one wearing the metallic dress, "You just can't keep away can you…" she spotted the dress hanging up, "Doctor? Star? Why have you brought another one of these? Who else is here?"
Star opened her mouth to answer but the Doctor put a hand over it.
"River could you just check the light on top?" the Doctor asked instead of answering her question, "I think the bulb needs changing."
"The bulb?" she raised her eyebrows but left.
"Arg!" the Doctor grimaced as he moved his hand away from Star mouth to see she had licked it, he wiped it on his tux.
"Who are you talking to?!" the second River entered, hands on her hips.
"You." Star blinked, "We've only been talking to you."
"Back to Stormcage Dr. Song." The Doctor soniced her Vortex Manipulator.
"Oh…at least give me a lift." She moaned, "You know what this thing does to my hair!"
"It's always like that." Star remarked as River disappeared.
The third River entered, "The light's fine, I don't know what you're talking about…"
A second Doctor ran in, "No River! Wrong TARDIS, Star parked around back…" he spotted the younger them, "younger versions."
"Two of you!" River gaped, "The mind races, does it not?"
"Come on, we'll be late." The older Doctor told her.
"They're taking me to the Singing Towers of Darillium!" River smiled, walking off, "They've been promising for ages!" she left.
"The first time we met her at the Library, when she…"
"Died, yes." The other Doctor nodded.
"She said the last time she saw us was at Darillium…is that now?"
"…spoilers. Good luck tonight."
"You too."
"Yeah." The second Doctor sighed and he left.
"Oh!" the first River entered just seeing the older him leave, "There's two of you! The mind races!"
"Well, come on you, let's go and see the stars!" the Doctor grinned.
"But I haven't changed!"
"And you never will River, never ever."
"What was the other you doing here?"
"Spoilers." Star said.
"I like that word." River smirked.
"I thought you might."
"Oh, Doctor, Star, you and your secrets, you'll be the death of me."
Star walked over to the other side of the console as the Doctor looked at her, solemn. Star had never been so thankful that she wouldn't be there in the library to see her die.
