The War Planet

Rory

We'd sat motionless for at least half an hour, tears streaming down ouur faces. We couldn't bring ourselves to speak or even mve. Even when we heard the TARDIS engines coming from the garden we couldn't bring ourselves to do anything. I wasn't looking forward to telling them what had happened to their daughter. It wasn't until we saw River walk in, carrying a young sleeping child that was unmistakably Kira did we find our voices. 

"How-" Amy starts to ask. "Is she here? Well, it's a very long story. One that the Doctor can explain to you while I put Kira to bed," River said. Amy shot up from her place beside me and stalked up to the Doctor, slapping him through the face. I myself cringed at tge kiij she was giving him. She held his gaze for a few moments, then threw her arms around River and Kira, holding them in a death grip for several minutes. River signaled me to come get her off them. I managed to get her to let them move, but she still kept a tight grip on River's arm, her eyes never leaving the child's sleeping form. She walked them through the house, leaving me alone with the Doctor.

"You have a lot of explaining to do," I remark, struggling to stay calm. "I know. Promise that you won't hit me until I finish explaing, though," he says, somewhat fearfully. I bite back a smirk. "I promise," I say. We sit down on the couch and slowly he explains to me everything that happened. When he finished, I felt like attacking him and beating some sense into his thick head. With great difficulty, I restrained myself. When we finished, I only had one question, whereas Amy had five hundred. Sometime during the middle of the Doctor's tale she and River came back into the living room. I assume that River told her the rest of the story. "Will they come for her again?" I ask. I couldn't help myself. 

"Probably. That's why it's not safe here for any of us anymore," the Doctor responds. I take a deep breath to keep myself calm. "So, what, are we just going to run?" I ask, swallowing my desire to stay and rip whoever came for her apart. "That's the only thing we can do at this point. I know it's not a very good plan, but it's the only plan we've got," River says, forcing herself to stay calm. "When do we leave?" I ask, my tone business-like. "As soon as Kira wakes up and we explain everything to her," the Doctor responds. 

It was then that I noticed the thin black tally marks on my arms, and the steak knife I gripped in my hand. "River, get Kira and get back to the TARDIS," the Doctor instructed. He'd noticed too. My eyes rose up and I saw a Silence standing in front of him, which I promptly forgot. The Doctor's eyes never left, though. River ran back into the living room. "Her bed is empty," she says, her voice full of panic. She turns to the Silence, a gun appearing in her hand out of nowhere. "What did you do to her?" she yells. 

"Don't you remember, Doctor?" a small voice asks from behind one of the Silence. "I came downstairs five minutes ago." Kira was lifted into the arms of one of the Silence and I shivered at the thought of them touching her. Then, they whisked her out of the house. I gripped the steak knife tighter, keeping my eyes on them. "Don't you touch them," my wife growled from behind me. I must have pushed her there. "You will all forget what has transpired within the last four weeks. You will never venture to the planet Xenon 7. You will go about your lives as you normally would," one of the Silence hisses, making my back crawl.

And with those words, they were gone. Leaving npthing but a silver locket in the Doctor's pocket.