Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.

AU → Doctor Who as a historical drama

I was born in battle, on an asteroid called Demon’s Run. I was the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams. They named me Melody Pond. I was kidnapped, taken by Kovarian, a servant of the Silence to an orphanage on Earth. I was raised with only one purpose: to kill the Doctor. I escaped the spacesuit and lived on the streets homeless, alone, and dying, until I regenerated. And became the best friend of young Amy and Rory. Growing up with my parents, waiting for the arrival of the Doctor. And then I regenerated into a new form. I was the woman who would become River Song. Although, I didn’t know that at the time. (I was trained and conditioned for one purpose. I was born to kill the Doctor.) And I did so with a kiss. A kiss poisoned by the Judas tree. But I was shown who River Song would be. And I saw just how much I would love him. And so I gave all my remaining lives to restore his. Because I knew the Doctor was worth it. And in return, he left me the most wonderful gift. I knew that someday I would find the Doctor. But the spacesuit was waiting for me. But I just couldn’t bring myself to kill him. And so, all of time collapsed. And only the Doctor could save the universe. Rule one: the Doctor lies. He escaped his own death. A secret I knew I had to keep. Even though it meant imprisonment. But I’ve always been good at escaping. From this point on, I realize I knew more than him. From that moment on, we were living our lives in the wrong order, the Doctor and me. And in all our future meetings, I would know him more but he would know me less. Until one day, the Doctor would invite me to watch me kill him. Once again I found myself at Lake Silencio, falling back on my own timeline. This time, a witness to the Doctor’s shooting, knowing everything but unable to tell those who cared the most that the Doctor would survive. Back to the orphanage where I grew up only this time as witness to my own escape. Did I mention I was kickass with a gun? No one kidnaps me and gets away with it. And then came his first kiss, and my last. But I always knew the Doctor would be there for me, so long as I left a message. He would always be there to catch me. Even at the crash of the Byzantium, he came. My love couldn’t resist it. Bringing with him an Amy who did not know me. I’d finally let her know the wonderful secret, that the best man I’d ever known was alive. However delighted they were, I knew a far worst day was waiting for me. My last encounter with the Doctor. I always knew one day my love wouldn’t know me. Now I looked into his eyes and saw that day has come. The Doctor was willing to sacrifice himself to save the library, but I had to take his place. But that man, that impossible man never gives up. The Doctor saved me, preserving me in a computer, and all my glorious memories of the Doctor live on. Because just sometimes, everybody lives.

The sky is full of a million, million voices saying “Yes, of course. We’ll help.”

Silence will fall when the question is asked. The times I’ve heard those words, I never realized it was my silence, my death.

Tick tock goes the clock and all the years they fly
Tick tock and all too soon your love will surely die

I suppose in the end, they break my heart.