Just a Minor Rewrite
Written by Sylva Dax
I couldn't help myself. Back in May of 2012, I just had to try my hand at writing a fanfiction story based on the British science fiction TV series Doctor Who, featuring the Eleventh Doctor (played by Matt Smith) and River Song (played by Alex Kingston). In my story, the time-traveling Eleventh Doctor desperately tries to rescue Professor River Song who tragically sacrificed herself when he first met her as the Tenth Doctor in the episode Forest of the Dead. Scene from episode Forest of the Dead is in italics. Story previously published in Fanfiction.net and An Archive of Our Own.
Watch the Doctor Who episodes that inspired this story: Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead, and A Good Man Goes to War.
Disclaimer: I own nothing within the Doctor Who universe outside of my little What If below. The BBC holds that privilege.
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Chapter 1 - Prologue
A primal scream tore from her lips as every cell of her body was set ablaze. She was falling and there would be no TARDIS swimming pool to break her fall this time. The black abyss swallowed her whole.
Was it all a lie? She'd risked an entire universe to defy a destiny that demanded she kill the man she loved. Yet, he'd professed his love and devotion to her knowing full well that one day soon she'd make this fateful trip to the Library.
A primal scream tore from her lips as every cell of her body was set ablaze. She was falling and there would be no TARDIS swimming pool to break her fall this time. The black abyss swallowed her whole.
Was it all a lie? She'd risked an entire universe to defy a destiny that demanded she kill the man she loved. Yet, he'd professed his love and devotion to her knowing full well that one day soon she'd make this fateful trip to the Library.
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Chapter 2
He'd barely made it inside before she felt him slide down her doors into a crumpled heap on the floor. For countless hours he remained where he'd collapsed, sobbing his hearts out. She longed to wrap her arms around him and hold him close as he cried, but there was only so much she could do.
He'd barely made it inside before she felt him slide down her doors into a crumpled heap on the floor. For countless hours he remained where he'd collapsed, sobbing his hearts out. She longed to wrap her arms around him and hold him close as he cried, but there was only so much she could do.
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Chapter 3
She'd barely wrapped her arms around his neck when the tug of war between CAL and the TARDIS began in earnest as each fought to rescue their charges.
"Hold on, River," he encouraged her, the strain already evident in his voice. "We're almost out. Ow, that hurt!" he exclaimed in surprise, his body spasming. "Ow!"
She'd barely wrapped her arms around his neck when the tug of war between CAL and the TARDIS began in earnest as each fought to rescue their charges.
"Hold on, River," he encouraged her, the strain already evident in his voice. "We're almost out. Ow, that hurt!" he exclaimed in surprise, his body spasming. "Ow!"
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Sylva Dax
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