April Showers Prompt 12: Barge of the Dead (Doctor Who)
Title: Barge of the Dead
Author: lunar47
Prompt: April Showers Prompt 12: Alien
Fandom: Doctor Who
Character(s)/Pairing(s): River Song, The Doctor
Genre: Angst
Rating & Warnings: PG takes place during episode 6x01 The Impossible Astronaut
Word Count: 181
Summary: River Song reflects on her life with the Doctor
She didn’t think it would end like this as she stands on the shore and watches the boat go up in flames. She knows it can’t end like this. Her mind tries to work out all the time travel details. Is this truly the last time she’ll see him? No, she doesn’t think so. She has memories of their future together (her past, his future). He has (had) memories of their future together (her future, his past).
Logic and reason tell her one thing but her heart tells her another. The love of her life is out there burning and there isn’t anything she can do. He crashed into her life at such a young and impressionable age. River knew she was never going to be the same. Since then they’ve been dancing through time and space, meeting briefly for some grand adventure before parting ways. But always with the expectation of more to come.
Maybe there will be more adventures to come but it only heightens the realization that she’s counting down to the last time they will ever meet.
Author: lunar47
Prompt: April Showers Prompt 12: Alien
Fandom: Doctor Who
Character(s)/Pairing(s): River Song, The Doctor
Genre: Angst
Rating & Warnings: PG takes place during episode 6x01 The Impossible Astronaut
Word Count: 181
Summary: River Song reflects on her life with the Doctor
She didn’t think it would end like this as she stands on the shore and watches the boat go up in flames. She knows it can’t end like this. Her mind tries to work out all the time travel details. Is this truly the last time she’ll see him? No, she doesn’t think so. She has memories of their future together (her past, his future). He has (had) memories of their future together (her future, his past).
Logic and reason tell her one thing but her heart tells her another. The love of her life is out there burning and there isn’t anything she can do. He crashed into her life at such a young and impressionable age. River knew she was never going to be the same. Since then they’ve been dancing through time and space, meeting briefly for some grand adventure before parting ways. But always with the expectation of more to come.
Maybe there will be more adventures to come but it only heightens the realization that she’s counting down to the last time they will ever meet.