Hello Sweetie

Chapter 3

River's POV

I wake up to the Doctor rubbing circles on my hand. His eyes are closed. I don't want to get out of bed, so I "snuggle", as the Doctor calls it, closer to him until my chin is resting on his chest. His arms wrap around me, and I feel completely safe. I rub my fingers in his hair a little while. It's so soft. "Mmmhh River..." he mumbles. "Good morning, sweetie." I then see his eyes shoot open.

"River, maybe we should put clothes on." "Why? I don't feel like getting up. This is a very comfortable position." "Well, we can snuggle again. With clothes."

I glance up at him. He's blushing madly. "You are still embarrasssd?" I ask. He nods sheepishly. "Fine, fine." I stand up and pull on some clothes. "Ok, now you." He stands up with the blanket. I roll my eyes and turn my back. "Ok, River. I'm fine." he has on pants, and is putting on his bow tie.

"So, where to today?" " I was thinking Ferogansalue. Beautiful planet. Ok with you?" I nod, and follow him to the control room. He begins to push buttons, and I follow him around, changing several things behind him. He whirls around and gives me a look. "Are you changing what I'm doing?" he asks. "Just admiring how clever you are." He pulls a lever, and we are off yet again.

After a moment, he frowns. "You have been fiddling! It didn't make that sound! I like that sound. That sound is cool." "What? Me? No!" I say slyly. He comes over to me. "Oh, I hate you." he says. "No, you don't." I reply, and give him a light kiss to the lips.

He turns, and opens the TARDIS doors. I see a a large white building setting on a lake. "What's this?" I say, turning to him. " A place to relax. This place hasn't had any major crimes in the last few million years. Safe as you can get."

"Hmm. Ok." He grabs my hand and pulls me towards the bridge like a little kid. We walk to the door. He presses a silver button that's on the side, and then we wait.

I hear metal clamping towards the door before it swings in.

Then, much to my surprise, a cyber man appears. "You will be deleted. No one is allow-" The robot is cut off by me blowing his head off with my blaster.

"You know River, I'm normally against violence, but there is definitely something attractive about it when you blow off a cyber man's head." The Doctor says.

"I'll always do it for you, sweetie." "Oh really?" I nod. "Most definitely." He gets closer. "Pond, I'm glad I told you my name." I smile at that. I lean in so that I can feel his breath on my lips. "So am I." and with that, I almost brush his lips, but then move to his cheek instead.

He frowns at me teasing him. "Come on, Doctor. We need to see where that cyber man came from." "I thought we came here for our honeymoon." "We did." I then deliver him a real kiss.

"Oh, fine. But only 5 minutes. If we don't find anything in 5 minutes, we go back." I grin. "Whatever you say, sweetie."

Doctor's POV

I follow her into the first room. The only thing in there is a spa desk, which looks exactly as it did the last time I came. She has a communicator out, and is scanning for life forms. "Anything?" "There are over 200 life forms in this building!" she says excitedly. "And how many are cyber men?" "All of them." she looks up at me.

"So Doctor, have a clever plan yet?" She asks me after a few minutes of sitting there. "No. I could use some inspiration..." I look up at her. "How about I deliver it after we get rid of all the cyber men?"

I nod. "Ok, have a clever plan now. I need you to scan for the place's computer database and hack in on the way back to the TARDIS. I need to grab a few blaster gun things for you to use, and then we can come back, get rid of them, and get the place to ourselves! how's that?" "Very clever, Doctor. Let's go."

She tells me she's hacked in before we even make it to the TARDIS. "In that case, you get the shooty thingies and I'll work on getting this to work."