dear buddha please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket

[ivy_chan]

I'm seeing butterflies flit past my window through the closed blinds. It's an interesting sight. Meanwhile, this meme has been floating about for a while. Commented on iki_teru and am now contractually obligated to continue it!

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing.*

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time is on my side, yes it is

[ivy_chan]

Sometimes she meets the Doctor when she's sixteen and barefoot in a garden in a place that may or may not exist. Sometimes she is twenty-four, barely into the academy and juggling majors like hot plates. Sometimes she is five, and there at the right place when the TARDIS hits like a falling star. Sometimes he has someone with him. Mostly he doesn't. The memories collide in her mind like race cars in high-speed collisions.

River Song belongs to the sphere of time travelers now, and she has gone past so many loops that she can remember her own time line being changed. She thinks of a mobius strip, sometimes, and how simple it is compared to what has actually happened. But there are some constants, because she is there, in the desert planet, when the Doctor's final incarnation comes to her. Her skin is browned from the sun, her feet are bare in the dust. She is thirty-three, perhaps. She sometimes neglects to keep time.

"I should have known it would be you," he says, giving her a smile that cuts deep into the lines of his face, wry and painful and affectionate.

"Same to you," she lilts. Laughing. Another moment in her life.