The days were incredibly long and dull when she had to live through them properly, which was why River tended to sleep through them, waiting for the nights her daughter and her husband would come and pick her up. Or even for the times when she would go out on her own. It was always better seeing the universe with Danni by her side, but it didn't mean she had to wait for her to turn up to go out on her own.
The problem was, though, that she didn't always need to sleep. So a lot of the time, much like today, she spent her time lounging about reading what books she was allowed to borrow from the prison library, intent on furthering her education the only way she could.
She didn't expect the sound of the TARDIS engine. She had been so sure that she wouldn't be seeing them that she was not ready for the couple to appear. She quickly scrambled around, tidying her cell and herself up but frowned as no one appeared. She sighed, dropping her jacket back onto her bed. They were probably stood at the console, kissing like they'd not seen each other in a hundred years. Quite frankly their inability to keep their hands off each other got in the way of her quality time with her only daughter. The Doctor was always very reluctant to let her go, especially the one with the eyebrows, although when that particular one decided to let her go he rarely stayed. She'd only met him a couple of times, but he was probably her favourite for the sole reason that she didn't have to put up with him for long. Not that she particularly liked her Danni-Girl's husband much at all.
She was going to have to just tell them to hurry up. Whichever him it was, she knew he'd have the monitor on to make sure he'd landed in the right place, so if she headed to the bars they should have been able to see her. But before she could move the sound of the engines echoed through the large space once again. She frowned - that wasn't right. Even Hawkeyes walked her to the cell before leaving them for some 'bonding' time. She walked to the bars, looking through and seeing Danni walking towards her. She had a brief flashback to when the Doctor had dropped her off when she had only just found out their unique relationship and she hoped that she wasn't here to shout at her again.
"Danni?" She called over, opening the door to her cell. The guards would always attempt to lock it, but no one could keep River Song anywhere she didn't want to be. Most of the time she stayed still because she'd made a promise to serve her time and protect Danni and her husband, but if she wanted leave at any time she would.
Danni looked up at River, expecting some sort of rush of anger at the woman. She'd not really thought about her since she'd last seen her, and her opinion hadn't changed as far as she was aware. However she was hit with pure relief at the sight of the archaeologist as she felt herself start to crumble under the crushing weight of her anguish.
"River?" She croaked out and River was jogging to her, pulling her in for a hug as she started sobbing.
"Oh, sweetie, what happened?" She asked her daughter, rubbing her back and Danni adored the feeling of being hugged by someone who cared. The fact that it was a woman she had hated only a few hours ago had her sobbing even harder, clinging to River like she was afraid she was going to let her go.
"What's he done now?" River asked, because she was only ever this upset when it had something to do with the Doctor.
"He's forgotten me." Danni whimpered.
~0~0~0~
Clara could tell he was curious about the blonde woman that was taking the whole TARDIS experience extremely well, like she wasn't new to the whole 'bigger on the inside' aspect of the time travelling box. Because she wasn't. Because she was his wife and the only thing more infuriating to Clara than the fact that he still didn't remember her was the fact that Danni wasn't trying to fix it. In fact she seemed almost averse to talking to him at all.
The moment he had led Danni onto the TARDIS it had been painfully obvious he still hadn't remembered her, something that Clara had been set on trying to rectify almost immediately. She'd been ready to storm over, to reel off all the information she could think off, stuff he would have to listen to but Danni had grabbed her, begging her to not say a word. She wanted Clara to leave it alone for the exact same reason she had wanted Clara to when he was still possessed by the Cyberplanner. She didn't want him to hear all that proof, told how they were married and how much he'd loved her and still not remember at the end of it. She didn't want to have to beg for him to remember her and for him to turn her away.
Clara could understand that, the woman looked absolutely exhausted emotionally from the day, so she'd held her tongue. But she could see the way the Doctor kept glancing at Danni when he thought no one was looking, completely intrigued by her just like he was when Clara had first met the pair. Even though he thought that she was the 'guest', the 'new' person on board the TARDIS he was still insisting on taking herself and the children back first as if he was trying to stretch out their time together. Clara had let him drop the children off, with the promise that they would not tell their father about their time on an alien planet, but had made it quite clear she wasn't leaving Danni alone. It had probably confused him, but she didn't care. She'd resolved to not confront him in front of her friend, but the moment they'd dropped her off with her mother - a decision she still had no idea of the origins of - she was going to let him have it with both barrels until he decided to remember her.
He'd been incredibly chatty with Danni, telling her that he was deeply sorry about her husband, and asking what were her plans now. Danni hadn't know, but then again who would when their life was turned upside down?
Clara had, reluctantly, stepped in when it became increasingly obvious that his questioning was just upsetting her further. She'd given Danni a hug and promise that they would see her soon before gently leading the woman to the door. Then the Doctor flew them away without a second thought and Clara's anger bubbled to the surface.
"So, where to next, Clara?" He asked, flicking switches like he didn't have a care in the world, "Have I ever taken you for tea with the Red Queen?" He turned to face her, a large grin on his face like he'd had the best idea, "There's a planet that, by complete chance, has evolved to be exactly like Wonderland from the very popular children's book. The Red Queen is a delight."
Clara couldn't believe what he was suggesting. She'd seen the pictures of him and his wife on Wonderland, Danni had been so happy to tell her all about the trip and it was like he'd completely forgotten he'd gone, "I can't believe you forgot her!" She practically screeched at him.
"Forgotten who?" He asked with a cheeky grin, thinking his joke was so funny.
"Danni!" She retorted, "Your wife! The woman you've just dropped off with a woman she can't stand because, for some reason, you let a Cyberman take away your memories of her!"
"What are you talking about?" He asked, obviously not believing her for a second, "I've never met her before and I'm certainly not married to her."
~0~0~0~
River hated seeing her Danni so upset, especially because of that stupid Time Lord, who continually seemed to hurt her without even try. However, she had nothing against Danni coming to her when she was this upset, letting her mother look after her like she should. So as they sat on her prison cot, Danni snuggled up into her side as she calmed down from her crying, River really didn't want this moment to end. She slowly ran her hand through her hair, thinking about all the times she'd missed out doing so when Danni had been growing up. When she'd fallen over and grazed her knees, when a boy she liked was mean to her. All those times she could have been a normal mother and hadn't been able to, when some other woman had held her daughter in her place, made her feel better and loved. She never regretted the reasoning behind giving Danni over all those years ago, but she knew she would never do it again.
"So, the Cyberplanner wiped all memory of you?" She asked and Danni nodded, "What happened when you told him who you were?"
"I didn't." Danni admitted, "I couldn't. I didn't want to have to see him still not know who I am."
Normally River would have told her that she was being a wuss, that he was never going to remember her unless she confronted him and that when he remembered the wondrous woman he'd forgotten Danni was to give him hell for it. In fact, she would in a while, but River had never thought that the Doctor was good enough for her, and why pass up a chance to try and spend some time with her without him interrupting them?
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it then, is there?" River replied, trying to sound like she was disappointed for her, "So why don't we go take your mind off him? There's a whole universe out there that doesn't revolve around him, and when he decides to remember you he can come pick you up."
"Oh, I don't know..." Danni started with a small shake of her head, "I just want to stay here, really." Well, actually, she wanted to stay here, curl up into a ball and sob her hearts out, but that was pretty much implied in her request so she didn't feel the need to declare it.
"And let you wallow in your self-pity?" River scoffed, standing up and picking up her jacket once again, "Yeah, I'm sure that's going to make everything better." Danni narrowed her eyes at her, getting slightly angry.
"And what do you suggest?" She snapped, "Gallivanting around, seeing the universe? If you're trying to take my mind off the Doctor, then maybe don't act like him!"
"Firstly, I do not gallivant anywhere." River calmly corrected, knowing she was only lashing out because she was hurting. She reached under her bed, grabbing a little box with a heavy perception filter so no one could see it unless they knew it was there. From inside of it she took out her vortex manipulator, strapping it onto her left arm to match the burn on Danni's, "And secondly, we are definitely not going to look for trouble. I don't need to show off to you, after all." She looked up from the straps, shooting Danni a smirk the blonde just couldn't resist replying to, "I already have you. No, I'm thinking something much more high class. Ever been in Vanguard?" Danni shook her head, that look of interest on her face appearing at the thought of going somewhere new and exciting. River's smirk grew- she knew Danni wouldn't be able to resist.
"Can't say I have." Danni replied, "What's it like?"
"I know the president's son." River commented casually, "Well, he wishes he knew me. I'm sure we can gate-crash a cocktail party or two. There's a small war in the 32nd century, let's see if we can stop it." She held her right arm out, waiting for Danni to take it.
She stood up, frowning slightly in disapproval, "You shouldn't change history like that." She scolded.
"What's the fun in having time travel if you can't do anything with it?" River countered and Danni rolled her eyes, taking her arm, "But first a quick stop to 21st century Spain. There's a little shop in Madrid I know will have a dress that, on you, will knock anyone to their knees."
~0~0~0~
The Doctor looked Clara over, suddenly becoming incredibly concerned for his companion and friend. He'd been incredibly busy being possessed by a Cyberplanner and trying to save everyone, he'd never even thought to check that Clara hadn't been harmed. And once they'd left, he'd needed to get Danni back to someone she knew. Which was River, apparently, and he still couldn't think of a reason why. River did have a life outside of the times he went to visit her, of course, but she'd never mentioned anyone called Danni before, had she? He'd remember her as well if he'd met her, he was sure of it. She'd protected Angie so fiercely, even though if Porridge hadn't have intervened then she probably would have-
He'd done it again, got caught up in the blonde instead of paying attention to Clara, who was staring at him like he'd personally offended her by not remembering Danni. Her hands had moved to her hips in her 'I'm about to tell you off and this is the only warning you're getting' look, he needed to defuse it before she started shouting. She could be quite scary when cross. If he could get to the
"Did you touch any Cybermen while I was playing chess?" He asked, pulling out his screwdriver, "Any mites, anything that might have had a chance to implant false memories into your head?"
She batted the screwdriver away from her face, "Nothing is wrong with me!" She protested, "How do you just forget a wife?"
"Maybe she just wasn't that great?" He offered before he thought about it and Clara stepped forward, looking ready to slap him. He held his hands up to protect himself, "Okay, okay I'm sure she was a fantastic wife."
"Yes, she is!" Clara retorted, coming to a stop and thankfully not hitting him, "You're always telling me that. You tell everyone that. You introduce her as 'your wife Danni-Girl'!"
He slowly lowered his hands, a frown appearing on his face, "Danni-Girl?" He repeated, "Why would I call her that? Did I forget she was a girl or something?" Clara shrugged.
"I don't know!" She exclaimed, "Is that what you're focusing on? Not the fact that you have forgotten your wife, but that you don't understand your nickname for her?!"
"Clara," He started as gently as he could, "I don't have a wife."
"Are you telling me that the entire time you had a Cyberman swimming about in that big old brain of yours," the Doctor grinned smugly at her description and her anger seemed the flare at his reaction, "there's just not a chance that it wiped her away?" The Doctor paused, feeling that wall he'd put up that he couldn't remember putting there. He wasn't sure what was behind there, but he figured it wasn't something a serious as a wife. After all, even he wouldn't have done to the poor woman, would he? Forced her to live through her own husband forgetting her, because she was devastated he wasn't alive anymore.
"I don't think my husband exists anymore."
It had been a strange thing to say, hadn't it? Not that he'd died, or been converted into a Cyberman, but that he just didn't exist anymore. At the time he'd just taken it as that the man hadn't existed because becoming a Cyberman meant losing everything that made up your personality. Maybe she hadn't meant that, though. Maybe she'd realised that he'd forgotten her.
He shook his head, clearing those thoughts away, "No, that's not possible." He protested, both at Clara and at himself. After all to marry someone beyond the way he'd married River, he would have had to tell them everything, all that he'd done. No one would marry him if they knew that, "You can't just wipe someone out of someone's memory! She'd-She'd have left a," he started waving his hands about, much like he did when he was trying to argue against something he was starting to believe, "a Danni-shaped hole in my memories! I would have noticed instantly!"
"Well obviously not!" Clara retorted, "Otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation." Again, he attention was brought to that wall he'd put up. A complete mental block, even from himself. If he'd done it, maybe he wouldn't have noticed if she'd been removed. But why would he just cut off a whole wife? This wasn't some dead language, or that time he'd watched that terrible Tom Cruise movie- what was that movie called again?
No! He couldn't risk tearing that wall down in front of Clara, after all not knowing what was behind it meant he had no idea how he would react when the memories came flooding back into his head, but it had to be something to do with the Time Lords. What other information would he want to keep from the Cyberplanner?
"Just let me check." He requested firmly, screwdriver at the ready, "If something is wrong, we can fix it."
Clara shook her head, one step away from stomping her foot in her frustration. Why wouldn't he just believe her, then maybe he could find that 'Danni-shaped hole' in his memories and they could pick up the woman who was currently spending time with a woman Clara knew from experience she couldn't stand.
She cheered, an absolutely amazing idea coming to her. She bounced up and down on her spot, because it was too good and she really was that clever, "Her bedroom!" She cried, pointing at him.
"What?" He asked, bewildered but she was already walking towards the hallway.
"She let me get changed in her room once. It was covered in pictures of you two together. Even that other you, the pretty one with pinstripes!" He should have been amazed that she knew about his previous incarnation at all, but instead he pouted as he followed her.
"Why is he the pretty one?!"
~0~0~0~
River caught Danni as they reappeared in the hallway just down from her cell, the blonde stumbling as she laughed like she just couldn't stop, "Oh, oh his face!" Danni cried, "He-He really thought you were going to kiss him!" River rolled her eyes slightly, in amusement more than annoyance as she helped her daughter towards her cell. Danni wasn't drunk, but she was a little more than tipsy and seeing her so happy always made her feel just the same.
Especially when it was to counteract what that bloody Time Lord had done. She'd been helping Danielle forget about the Doctor and his cruel actions towards her since the girl had been a red head and she'd been plain old Mels. It rather fanned the ego to know she still had it in her.
"Well, I had to get the tiara off him somehow." River replied, "It was wasted on that bold, spotty head of his." She reached up, straightening it in Danni's blonde locks, "Looks much better on you."
Danni nodded, a serious look on her face, "Of course it does. I have always looked fantastic in a tiara." She looked up at the slightly taller woman who had her arm wrapped around her waist, "When I told you stories, back at Amy's house, did I tell you about the first birthday I had here? I had a tiara them as well."
"Yes, you did." River humoured, "It was fluffy and it said Birthday Girl on it." Danni nodded.
"It did." She replied as River let them into the cell, "Because I was the birthday girl. Jack tried to make me take it off, but how was anyone supposed to know?" She sat down on the bed, a soft, faraway smile appearing on her face, "He bought me a teddy that year. He always tries to do something-" She trailed off, tears appearing in her eyes, "He always tried to do something nice for me because of a promise he made hundreds of years ago. He'd never going to keep it again, is he?"
This would just not do at all. She wasn't supposed to be sad, or thinking about the Doctor, she was there to spend time with her! Even after all this time, the way he seemed to preoccupy a part of her head constantly just infuriated River. No matter how long she knew the two for, she still couldn't work out what had infatuated her daughter to such a man. She needed to get her mind off him.
"Remember that time we escaped mother dearest and ran off to Manchester for three days?" Danni snorted, remembering very little about the time except getting drunk and getting her hair bleached much like she had it now. She'd hated it back then, but now she loved it.
"Oh, she was so mad at you." Danni replied, "I heard her shouting at you from down the street."
"The whole neighbourhood heard her shouting." River commented like a teenager, "She thought I was a 'bad influence' on you." She made the quotation marks in the air, sounding as if she didn't believe it for a second, but Danni laughed.
"You are a bad influence on me, Melody Pond." She retorted, "Taking me out for dinner and dancing, getting me slightly tipsy." River just smirked proudly, pulling her up against her and placing a kiss on her hair.
"Only the best for my Danni-Girl." She declared and Danni giggled again. She was really enjoying being spoilt, it gave her something to think about apart from her husband. And River had always been so good with it, making her feel like there was no one else in her life but her Danni-Girl. She'd been there when he'd gone and married her, and it had been River who'd helped her run away from the Weeping Angels even though she'd always known she couldn't.
"What am I going to do, River?" She asked in complete seriousness, staring out across the room at the grey wall opposite.
"There's a whole universe out there without him, I'm sure we'll find something." River replied just short of a snap, "First, though," she reached up, taking the tiara away and sliding it underneath her bed, "have a nap. You look too good in that dress to not be shown off." Danni giggled, looking down at the black number River had managed to get her for free. It had a lovely, flowing skirt with a petticoat underneath and she did look fabulous in it.
And it also seemed like the nap was non-optional as River was already taking off her shoes and pushing her down onto the bed, "Alright, alright." Danni grumbled, laying her head down on the pillow, "Calm down mother."
River paused slightly, smiling at the way Danni didn't seem to even notice the slip up. So she ignored it, because this Danni did seem to be avoiding the subject altogether, but it was nice to hear it from her lips whether she meant it or not.
"You'll feel better for it." She promised, tucking her in, "Then we'll go get you some matching glass slippers to go with that tiara."
"Oh, that would be nice." Danni agreed.
~0~0~0~
The Doctor could only stare at the photograph-covered wall. Almost from floor to ceiling, there was pictures with everyone from Rose to Amy with a red-headed woman he didn't recognise. However, even he couldn't deny that he knew the woman who was holding onto the arm of his previous self with the biggest grin on her face, or the ones where his current body was holding onto her like he didn't want to let her go. He had no idea who she was, but they were all mixed in with pictures of him and Danni. Some were of them kissing, some they were just holding hands. Some had Clara in, and looking rather put out if they were kissing in those pictures, and there were a lot of them.
"I don't-" He reached out, picking up one that couldn't have been screaming at him more if it'd had sound. It was him in top hat and tails - a rather good look on him and he needed to pull that outfit out again - dancing with the red head that appeared in the rest of the pictures. She was wearing a white dress, and there were people around them watching them, but neither of them seemed to care. It was a wedding day. It was their wedding day.
"Oh, that was her first body." Clara explained quickly, pointing at the red head, "Apparently she did that regeneration thing you Time Lords do before I met you. She became this Danni." She picked off a picture of the blonde Danni off the wall, "There never used to be pictures of me or this her on here, but after she showed me it she started taking them like there was no tomorrow." She handed the Doctor it, who held one in each hand.
"She can't be Time Lord." He protested weakly, but he couldn't deny the photos of him with either woman, "I'm the only one left. It's just me."
"You know that River woman you dropped her off with?" Clara asked and he nodded, "That's her mum. She never knew, she grew up thinking she was human from what she's told me. You knew, for a little while, but didn't tell her. She was not happy with you." He couldn't stop looking at the picture of himself and the red head on their wedding day. She didn't look disgusted at him, she didn't look like she hated him. She looked like she absolutely adored him. Like her whole world was brighter because of him, and he looked the same as he held her close.
"There's this mental block in my head." He told Clara slowly, "Like a wall, holding all these memories back. It's something I've put there, not the Cyberplanner."
"That'll be it!" Clara cried, "She's behind there! Can you get it down?" He nodded.
"Easily." He replied, "But why would I do that? Why would I block her away like that?"
"To protect her?" Clara suggested, "It wouldn't be the worst thing you've done thinking you were going to save her."
"What do you mean?" He asked, looking at Clara and feeling incredibly overwhelmed by everything. She was his wife, but he couldn't remember her at all. That couldn't be right, there's no way he'd just forget someone who apparently he held that closely when he danced with them.
"You kept River a secret from her for over two years because you thought she'd be hurt by the knowledge of it." Clara explained, "When we got stuck in that submarine, you were one step away from letting the Earth be destroyed by an Ice Warrior because you wanted to get back to her." He shook his head. He remembered the Ice Warrior, that's not what happened. He would never have let the Earth burn like it had been in danger of doing.
Except that niggling memory of being ready to bolt. Of finding some way, any way, of getting the TARDIS back to him before he died. It felt so unlike him, but he knew it was there.
He had to get the wall down.
He slammed against it again and again, breaking through the mental blocks to what was held beneath. If it wasn't Danni, they had a much bigger problem on hand, be he had to know.
The memories all rushed over him at once. He was hit with pure hatred at the red head who let Rose take in Bad Wolf and caused him to regenerate. He'd wanted her out of his life more than he'd wanted anything, because she just wouldn't leave him alone. He remembered the happiness at her appearing with Martha, his best friend, who'd never left his side even as everyone else did. He remembered his life lighting up with her and Donna, and the pure joy at her saying yes to his proposal and the ecstasy that came with their wedding night. The sadness that came when she had jumped away, and the disgust and loathing that came with her trading the Ponds away.
But nothing, nothing could compare with the devastation that came with the knowledge that he had killed her. That he had pushed her out of the TARDIS, her exploding into light in front of him. The way she'd been harmed by Rassilon, had died and regenerated all because of him.
The years afterward where she was scared of him, slowly letting him back into her hearts and her arms. Finally being able to hold her, love her like she deserved, only for him almost break them by keeping something so important from her. Waiting day after day for her to let him explain and for her beautiful soul to forgive him yet again. All of that love, that light, the way he'd destroyed it all by panicking and throwing up those barriers before he'd even thought it through.
"I don't think my husband exists anymore." She whispered, tears in her eyes, her whole body shaking with her pure despair at the thought.
"I'm never going to see him again." She whimpered, "I love him so much, how am I going to survive without him? He's my everything."
He'd watched her curl up into herself, sobbing brokenly and all he'd done is flounder about until the Cyberplanner had taken over and taunted her. He'd let her down, she thought she'd lost him.
Clara watched the look of pure concentration on his face, then he swayed, falling forward towards the wall with his hand out to catch himself. He was panting and she stepped forward, suddenly very concerned, "Doctor? Are you okay?" Maybe she shouldn't have pushed it too soon, what if it had damaged him more than she'd thought?
"I-" He stuttered, seeing her step out of the TARDIS towards River's cell, knowing how much anger she held for the woman and yet it being the only place she could go, "I have to go back." He turned, running out of the bedroom, dropping the picture of their wedding day but keeping the one of him, Danni and Clara clutched in his hand.
"Doctor!" Clara shouted, chasing after him as he headed straight to the console room, "Doctor what happened?"
"I'll tell you what happened." He snapped, flipping a switch and sending them flying almost violently through the Vortex, "I was an idiot. I'm always an idiot, just because I'm old never confuse that for me being clever."
"I don't." Clara admitted freely, "Did you do it? Did you knock down that wall?" He nodded, holding onto the console as they jolted to a land.
"I should never have put it up." He rambled, rushing to the door and back to his wife. His Danni, his everything, who he'd hurt yet again, "I'm going to fix it, I am. Stay right here." Clara smirked as she watched him run out of the door, not planning at all to follow him.
She really was good, wasn't she? She definitely deserved to choose the next trip. She'd always wanted to go to Pluto, she wondered if anyone ever settled on there.
~0~0~0~
The Doctor rushed down the hallway, calling for his wife all the way. He just hoped she forgave him, because he'd understand if she didn't. He didn't understand how he'd managed to cut her off so completely from his life, that hadn't been his intention at all, he'd just wanted the Cyberplanner to stop teasing her. She'd been so scared, she'd always been terrified of the Cybermen and he'd left her to deal with that on her own.
He skidded to a stop in front of River's cell, who was reclining on her bed and reading through her journal, "Where is she?" He demanded.
"Gone." She replied shortly, turning the page as she pointedly didn't look up at him.
"Gone where?" He snapped and she didn't reply, "River, where is my wife?"
"Your wife?" She asked lightly, looking over the top of the book, "I didn't think you had a wife, that's why you left her here, wasn't it?" He growled, hitting the bars with the palms of his hands.
"Where is she?" He shouted, infuriated by the smug look on her face as she slowly closed the book, putting her bookmark in where she'd stopped reading.
"She had me drop her off at Jack's." She explained calmly, "He was going to get her a working manipulator of her own. She could be anywhere by now."
"Why would you do that?" He asked, "Are you really that bitter that she turned on you-" River interrupted him with a sharp laugh, standing up and sauntering over.
"I'm the one she came to." River pointed out, "I'm the one she cried on when she realised you'd abandoned her. I'm the one, when it came down to it, she turned to. She didn't try and get you to remember, she came to me."
"I wouldn't have ever forgotten her on purpose." He snarled through gritted teeth, "I need to find her."
"Yes, you probably do." River agreed, "You do need her and if you find her she will forgive you. But you don't deserve it and you don't deserve her." When he opened his mouth to protest, she just smirked, "And you know you don't." She continued, "What's best for Danni is for you to leave her alone. To take your blue box and fly away, because you are bad for her."
"That's not for you to decide." He told her, agreeing with every word but being entirely too selfish to follow her advice, "Where is she?"
"If you go after her, you will destroy her." River retorted, "And you'll run her straight to me again. When the clock strikes Twelve, Doctor-"
"Stop it." He commanded.
"She'll be right here with me." River continued proudly, knowing she was getting to him, "Of her own accord, and to get away from you."
"Stop it!" He shouted before turning, running back to the TARDIS, hoping it wasn't too late as he flew him and Clara away to Jack's.
Danni walked down the hallway from the guest toilets and towards River, who shot her a disarming smile, "Did I hear the TARDIS?" She asked hopefully. River shook her head, making sure she knew how very sorry she was that it hadn't been the Doctor.
"Sorry, sweetie." She apologised, holding her hand out to her daughter, "Come on, let's go back to Manchester and see if that karaoke club is still open." Danni nodded, taking her hand and let her take her away from the tatters that her life had become.