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Who: River Song and you!
What: An open log for the whole month of October! Before the Halloween plot, during and after!
Where: River is a wanderer, so if you want to find her somewhere, find her there! (During the Halloween event she's going to be in Attleton cause that's where she lives and works.
Warning: Flirting. All the flirting, emotional stuff because of her fear. Some actual River Song anger, potentially.

Before the Halloween event, but after the whole business with Ten's mind wipe.

River is agitated, and she hates being agitated. Being agitated for River is bad, because if she can't keep in control of her emotions then she can't do what she needs to do, especially now. All of this talk of spoilers and lessons has made her feel as if she was pulled taut over the fabric of the past, and now she keeps coming back to thinking about what was said about her. Honestly, it's quite hard to get under River's skin; it's had almost two hundred years of toughening after all. Almost two hundred years of near-heartbreak and keeping secrets from the people that she's loved the most and she wouldn't change it for anything. If you can't change something, then what needs to happen is that you're the one that needs to adapt. A part of River wants to tell Rose that, but right now she's still too furious to mention it.

It's because she's so furious that River walks the long way home, slipping out of her office so that she didn't run into her husband within the building. She's worried about him, all of him, honestly, because given how Rose responded, she expects that the youngest version of the Doctor is going to be back to doing something stupid within the week. It's not something that she looks forward to.

Eventually, however, River needs to return home, and she's somewhat calmer when she comes in through the backdoor rather than the front, and she sets her satchel down on the counter before she goes looking through the cupboards for the brandy that she's kept there. Sometimes it's just a brandy sort of day.

During the Halloween event.

River has always known what her worst fear was. At least what it's been since she's been River. When she was Mels, her worst fear was that Amy and Rory would stop caring about her. The concern was the reason that she'd gotten into an ever-widening circle of getting into trouble. They couldn't stop caring about her if she needed them, right? That was the idea anyway, so that she would at least get to have some time with her parents that the Silence and Madame Kovarian couldn't touch. But once River had awoken in the hospital bed with her parents around her, that had stopped being a fear. No matter what else when she met them, she always had that to chase the fears away.

But since that day, there's been another fear. It was a worse fear, and she hated that she had it but it was constantly there in the back of her mind. It was something that only became worse and worse the more times that she and the Doctor had met all out of order. Oh, she'd met him several times when he couldn't have any idea who she was in the past, but she knew at a point that he wouldn't know her, and that it would kill her. It was a fear that she'd shared with her father, even though he'd not known that at the time. But now here she could be honest and open about such things, though she was hoping that she never could be.

When River stepped out into the street the morning of the fourteenth, what she didn't expect was to see her Doctor (yes, they were all her Doctor, but the Doctor with the bowtie was the one who'd she'd been with the most, and the one with whom she'd been through the most because she'd not had that night on Darillium yet) standing in front of the house with his hands in his pockets wearing a Fez. Well. What was that? Silently she let out a sigh, but she didn't actually shoot it off, instead she just came up to him and offered a quick. "Lovely hat, sweetie. When the man looked at her, there wasn't a flicker of recognition in his face or in his eyes and River was ever so good at reading his eyes. The smile he gave her was the one that he gave to anyone, and not just her, and she let out a soft whoosh of breath as she stared at him, and just breathed his name: "Doctor?"

"Yes, hello. I'm the Doctor. Who might you be?" For a moment River just went entirely cold, and she stared at him when he asked: "alright there?"

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She laid down with her daughter and sighed a bit. "When have you ever been bored?" she accused, trying for humour. She shook her head a bit, careful not to jostle River. "I was thinking of maybe bringing up the wii, for a bit," she offered. "I know two of your husbands that both spend a lot of time in this house playing Mario Kart. Also..."

She sat up carefully, and pulled the sunglasses she was wearing off the top of her head. "THought I might loan these to you as well."

"I expect that if I suddenly started playing Mario Kart, Dad would be up here in an instant to remind me that it's not a very good idea because I'm too competitive and stitches and..." River let the sentence wane before she waved her hands to go along with it because well, her father was probably right about this and the last thing she wanted to do was get lecture about getting shot. It wasn't as if River was out to get shot, it was just sort of a thing that happened.

More than a few times, but this one was special.

River pointed to the glasses. "Now those I'll take. I should get my husband to making me one, if he's not going to give me a sonic."

"They're as sonic as the screwdriver and a whole lot cooler," she said handing them over with a wink. "I'll want them back when you're healed. As for Mario Kart, I can get you other games, if you want. Just name it."

River just laughs, and she shakes her head. "I cannot believe you're advocating me playing video games versus me doing my homework. I think I may have fallen into a parallel universe when I was shot or something like that." Moving one hand over to her mother's forehead, she touched it gently. "You sure you're the one who's not sick?"

"Just and tired," she said weakly. "Am I ever going to find out how you got shot?" she asked trying for casual, and failing.

River took a deep breath, and she moved closer to her mother for a moment with a sigh. "Someone's from the Doctor's future. I don't even actually know who they are but she appears to be a woman who's taken a page out of Mary Poppins. She was trying to hurt me, first with words and then with future knowledge and then when that didn't work, she shot me. She's either a terrible shot or she didn't intend to kill me, but after she did it, she disappeared."

"In this town? When everything was going south, fast?"

"Yes. I'm assuming it's something to do with our fears, because as soon as the Doctor started worrying about me...." As well as possibly eating her, but River wasn't going to say that. "She disappeared like a puff of smoke. So, if he was frightened of her hurting people it would make sense." River shifted a bit, and just closed her eyes and resisted the urge to scratch at her stitches. Well, mostly anyway, there was still a not-so-subtle movement from side to side as she tried to itch them using her pillow. Which of course turned out rubbish.

"But it makes sense with what I saw before, and with you seeing Madame Kovarian."

"But from what the Doctor" and Rose "said... they couldn't actually hurt us other than getting us to hurt ourselves....." Ooooooh she was going to kill that man for convincing her to leave town, to leave her family there to find their way to her. She should have stayed here. Should have stayed with them....

"I think that he believed that right up until that woman shot me. Though honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if one of his fears was that the people he loved got hurt, because that's so him even when we can take care of ourselves." River just shrugged a bit with a wince.

"But I'm glad he was trying to keep you safe."

"I just wish he had been better at keeping you safe instead. Even if you don't usually need it."

"He was doing his best, mum. The woman who shot me, the Doctor cared about her and he was calling her his friend and he was trying to get her to stop. Unfortunately, my guess is he was frightened that she would hurt someone and here we are."

A beat.

"I say next year during Halloween we all stay indoors, yeah?"

"Better yet, we all throw a literally underground bash. Safe, sound, lots of rock and stone... but... no Pandorica."

"A proper rave bash it is. Loud enough to wake the dead." A beat. "But not the actual dead, of course. Remember that one I snuck us into back then?" When she was Mels and wild obviously.

"Underground, and you want to wake the dead?" she groaned. "You know that's going to happen now...."

Yes she remembered that dance, but.... just.....

River just chuckled for a moment, and she shook her head. "Well, at least zombies would be easier to deal with than this. A quick headshot and boom. No need to worry about pasts or the like."

"...... Hold on." She went into the other room and dug around, then found the CD. She grabbed it and put it into the boombox. the song startedand she gave her daughter a "really?" look.

(extra pain points for the song mentioning the New York Cemetery. And warning very minor borderline language)

For a moment, River just burst out laughing, and she shook her head. (Yes, she was intentionally ignoring the bit about the New York cemetery because things were good here and she didn't want to think about that grave outside the city with her parents name on it.

"I'm pretty sure if we can survive cybermen and daleks, zombies will be easy peasy."

She laughed a bit. "Dunno. People like Rose might be safe, but the Doctor's admittedly got a brain on him, not one he uses much... but still." She grinned. "And yours would just be too tempting to pass up."

"We'll chuck her out and use her as bait. If nothing else the dramatics involved there would prove to be a suitable distraction." There, look River had found a use for Rose that didn't involve strangling her and putting her in the back garden. Aren't you proud, Amy?

Always. But not for that. She would have helped turn the soil at this point.

"Except you know he'd never let us do that to anyone, then we'd have to save him. again."

That just makes River sigh, a rather long, rather drawn out sound, and she closes her eyes for a moment. "She's not worth needing to deal with a possibly zombie Doctor. God, can you imagine how insufferable he'd be then?"

"Well, at least his fashion sense couldn't get worse by being dead...." She said. "Though snogging him might be less fun for you," she added with a teasing hint of a grin. "Alright, no zombie Doctor."

"I'm not that fond of biting," River teased, and she shrugged. "And I do think my face is rather perfect as well. No zombie Doctor. Or Zombie Rose. She'd probably end up being worse anyway."

"Hard to imagine she could be," a hint of a smile, trying not to feel the pain. Then she thought of Idris and her comment about biting and kissing and the smile was less forced. "Of course your face is perfect. Almost as perfect as mine. Just a bit too much of your father's nose," she teased.

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Guess who lost her paid. Sorry for the mismatched icons

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Yes, I'm old. Shut up.

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