"Hey, who turned out the lights?" Dave moved closer to the Time Lords in corridor made out of book cases. The Doctor tightened his grip on the Stone as he stepped closer again. "Hey, who turned out the lights?"

River pointed the squareness gun at a wall creating a hole. "This way, quickly." She shouted. "Move!" They sprinted through running through the corridors. "Hey, who turned out the lights?" They heard Dave following behind them.

The group continued to run before stopping at another dead end, River used the squareness gun again and ran through into the light of a large area with a glass dome above with the moon in view letting in the light. "OK, we've got a clear spot. In, in, in!" River ordered. "Right in the centre. In the middle of the light, quickly. Don't let your shadows cross. Doctor, Stone."

"We're doing it!" He called over his shoulder scanning the shadows with his sonic while the Stone rested her head gently against the floor trying to listen.

"There's no lights here." River looked around the room them looked upwards at the glass dome. "Sunset's coming. We can't stay long. Have you found a live one?" She asked the pair.

"Maybe." He glanced at the Stone who shook her head at him her ear pressed against the floor. "It's getting harder to tell. What's wrong with you?" He frowned gently hitting his sonic.

"We're going to need a chicken leg." River looked at Mister Lux, other Dave and Anita. "Who's got a chicken leg?" The other Dave then handed her one. "Thanks, Dave." She nodded at him. River then threw the meat into the shadows, as it entered the meat disappeared completely leaving the bone to hit against the floor.

"Okay. Okay, we've got a hot one." She tried to calm herself down. "Watch your feet."

"They won't attack until there's enough of them." The Doctor explained.

"But now they have our scent." The Stone ran a hand through her hair. "They're coming."

"Oh, yeah, who are they?" Mister Lux looked at River after glancing at the TimeLords who continued with working faintly hearing the conversation going on behind them. "You haven't even told us. You just expect us to trust them?"

"He's the Doctor. She's the Stone."

"And who is the Doctor and the Stone?" Mister Lux looked at her angrily clearly annoyed that there were people in the library on 'his' expedition. Two people that he had no clue who they were or how they got here.

"The only story you'll ever tell, if you survive them."

"You say they're your friends, but they don't even know who you are," Anita said trying to wrap her head around the situation.

"Listen, all you need to know is this: I'd trust that man and woman to the end of the universe. And actually, we've been."

"They don't act like they trust you." She protested.

"Yeah, there's a tiny problem." River looked at her. They haven't met me yet."

The Doctor and the Stone frowned at their sonics the Stone sighed placing hers in her pocket them moving to the floor again trying to listen as River walked over to them. "What's wrong with it?"

"There's a signal coming from somewhere, interfering with it." The Doctor hit his screwdriver again trying to get it to work.

"Then use the red settings."

The two TimeLords looked up at her frowning. "t doesn't have a red setting."

"Well, use the dampers."

"It doesn't have dampers."

"It will do one day." She grinned at them.

The Doctor frowned taking her screwdriver and holding it as the Stone moved over staring at the device in his hands.

"So, sometime in the future, we just make you a sonic screwdriver." The Doctor frowned stating the face more than asking a question.

"Yeah."

"Why would we do that?" She asked as the Doctor stared at the screwdriver.

"I didn't pluck it from your cold dead hands, if that's what you're worried about." She joked making the Doctor stare at her standing slightly in front of the Time Lady. 

"And we know that because...?"

"Listen to me. You've both lost your friend." River looked between them. "You're angry. I understand. But you need to be less emotional, Doctor, Stone, right now."

"Less emotional?" He scoffed. "I'm not emotional."

"What's wrong with being emotional?" The Stone crossed her arms. "I can assure you that we're nowhere near emotional."

"There are six people in this room still alive." She snapped looking between them. "Focus on that. Dear God, you two are hard work young."

"Young?" They almost laughed looking at her as the Doctor started to speak. "Who are you?"

"Oh, for heaven's sake!" Mister Lux shouted glaring at the Doctor and River. "Look at the two of you." He looked at the Stone and River. "We're all going to die right here, and you're just squabbling like sisters!" He hissed making the Doctor stare at the woman.

"Doctor... Stone..." River looked between them her face falling. "One day I'm going to be someone that you both trust completely," She swallowed. "But I can't wait for you to find that out. So I'm going to prove it to you." She took a deep breath her eyes shifting between them. "And I'm sorry. I'm really very sorry." She moved over to the Stone pulling her away from the Doctor who stared in confusion as River lent in and whispered into her ear. The Stones mouth dropped. Hearing that one word in her ear, the word no one, not even the Doctor knew.

River then stepped away from the stunned Time Lady standing in front of them. "Are we good?" She softly asked looking at the Stone who blinked a couple of times as the Doctor frowned not understanding what had shocked her so much. "Stone... Are we good?"

The Time Lady swallowed hard blinking for a moment before slowly nodding staring at her. "Yeah, we're good."

"Good." She then nodded taking her screwdriver back and left leaving them standing there.

The Doctor glanced over at the Stone staring at her as she stared into space. "Stone...?" He moved over slightly whispering just loud enough for hher to hear over River mumbling to the others in the room. "Are you okay...?" Slowly she nodded not looking at him before her eyes moved over landing on hiss. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"Yes." She breathed looking paler than normal. "But not right now..." she slowly shook her head before bringing out her sonic. "Know what's interesting about my sonic and his screwdriver?" She nodded over at the Doctor who smiled a little then started to pace around his cheery self-coming back seeing her looking slightly better as he held his screwdriver up to the group as he circled them glancing at the Stone for a moment seeing that she looked more like herself and less... shocked.

"Very hard to interfere with." He then said. "Practically nothing's strong enough. Well, some hairdryers," He shrugged glancing at the Stone who looked back at him sheepishly shrugging, "but we're working on that." The Doctor then winked at her. "So there is a very strong signal coming from somewhere, and it wasn't there before. So what's new? What's changed?" He asked the group who stood there not knowing the Stone opened her mouth as he pointed at her. "I know you know." He grinned. "Let them think." He spun back around to the others. "Come on! What's new?" He raised a brow. "What's different?"

"I don't know." other Dave shrugged. "Nothing." He looked over at the Stone who slowly shook her head. "It's getting dark?"

"It's sonic." The Time Lords both said. "It works in the dark." The Doctor looked over at the Stone who practically was begging him with her eyes to answer. 

"Okay fine." He chuckled. "Stone give us your lovely explanation."

"Thank you, sweetheart." She grinned before glancing at the group then pointing at the glass dome. "Look up." She said a moment before everyone looked upwards. "Moonrise. Please, Mister Lux do tell me about the moon, because that right there is something the Doctor and I don't know." She said moving over and standing beside the Doctor. "What's there?"

"It's not real." He explained the Time Lords brows both raised. "It was built as part of the Library. It's just a Doctor Moon."

"What's a Doctor Moon?" The Doctor asked frowning a little.

"A virus checker. It supports and maintains the main computer at the core of the planet."

The Doctor held up his sonic towards the moon listening closely to it. "Well, still active. It's signalling. Look." He held out his sonic slightly.

"So it is sweetheart which means that someone somewhere in this library is alive and communicating with the moon."

"Or, possibly alive and drying their hair." He grinned at her.

"That was one time!" She protested. "How was I supposed to know you were trying to fix the console while I was trying to dry my hair?" She protested.

"You didn't listen, for once." He grinned at her kissing her cheek. "But back to the topic at hand." he looked at the group again listening to his sonic. "No, the signal is definitely coming from the moon. I'm blocking it, but it's trying to break through." The Doctor and the Stone were too busy with the sonic to notice what just appeared in front of them.

"Doctor! Stone!" River shouted. The two of them shot their heads up and shouted seeing an image of Donna staring at them looking quite shocked. 

"Donna!" They shouted just as the image disappeared. 

"That was her." River looked between them. "That was your friend! Can you get her back?" She asked. "What was that?"

"Hold on, hold on, hold on." The Doctor muttered. "I'm trying to find the wavelength. Argh, I'm being blocked." The Stone gently took the sonic from him and tried herself then groaned when nothing worked.

"Professor?" Anita shakily muttered.

"Just a moment."

"It's important." She swallowed thickly. "I have two shadows." The group snapped their heads in her direction stepping back slightly.

"Okay." River nodded trying to stay calm while glancing down looking at the two shadows. "Helmets on, everyone. Anita, I'll get yours."

"It didn't do Proper Dave any good." Tears slowly escaped her eyes while her voice cracked.

"Just keep it together, okay?" River gently asked.

"Keeping it together. She laughed a little. "I'm only crying. I'm about to die. It's not an overreaction." River then placed the helmet over her head then stepped back.

"Hang on." The Doctor flashed his sonic over the visor which then turned pitch black.

"Oh God," River gasped, "they've got inside."

"No, no, no." The Doctor reassured them. "I just tinted her visor. Maybe they'll think they're already in there, leave her alone."

"Do you think they can be fooled like that?"

"Maybe." The Stone spoke up. "We really don't know." She looked at them sadly. "It's a swarm."

"It's not like we chat." The Doctor said earning a hit on the back of his head from the Stone who also sent him a scolding look. "Doctor please have some respect that woman has flesh eating Vashta Narada going after her and all you can do is joke."

"Sorry." He muttered to her. "And this is exactly why I need you around." He sheepishly look at her as she shook her head at him then swallowed trying not to draw attention onto what she just noticed. "Doctor, not to worry you or anthing but proper Dave is back." Quickly glancing in the direction he took her hand tightly as other Dave started to talk.

"Can you still see in there?"

"Just about," Anita replied.

"Just, just, just stay back." The Doctor warned. "Professor, a quick word, please."

"What?" She frowned.

"Down here." He said the Time Lords and River crouched down.

"What is it?"

"Look, you said there are six people still alive in this room." He whispered.

"Yeah, so?"

"Why are there seven?" The Stone questioned as River spun around as the Doctor and Stone looked over their shoulder a moment before skeleton Dave spoke. "Hey, who turned out the lights?"

"Run!" The Time Lords shouted sprinting off through an open door with the others shortly behind them.

"Hey, who turned out the lights?" They heard echoing through the silence with only the pounding of feet to counter it. They ran through more corridors of books and open glass domes areas before reaching a corridor full of stacks of books. The TimeLords both stopped and the Doctor then looked back.

"Professor, go ahead. Find a safe spot."

"It's a carnivorous swarm in a suit." She countered. "You can't reason with it!"

"No, but we can try." The Stone looked at her.

"Five minutes!" The Doctor said taking the Time Ladys hand.

"Other Dave, stay with them!" River shouted. "Pull him out when he's too stupid to listen to her, same goes with the Stone." She said looking at them both as they blinked. "Two minutes, Doctor, Stone!" She said running off with Mister Lux and Anita behind her.

"That does seem very us..." the Stone telepathically muttered to him.

The Doctor went to reply however, his thoughts were distracted as the doors in front of them burst open with zombie Dave stepping through. "Hey, who turned out the lights?"

"You hear that?" The Doctor said looking at the skeleton in the space suit. "Those words? That is the very last thought of the man who wore that suit before you climbed inside and stripped his flesh."

"That's a man's soul trapped inside a neural relay, going round and round forever." The Stone added.

"Now, if you don't have the decency to let him go, how about this?" The Doctor looked right at it. "Use him. Talk to us."

"It's easy, come on." She encouraged. "Neural relay. Just point and think. Use him, talk to us."

"Hey, who turned out the lights?"

"The Vashta Nerada live on all the worlds in this system, but you hunt in forests." The Doctor stepped forward making sure the Stone stayed slightly behind him. "What are you doing in a library?"

"We should go. Doctor, Stone!" Other Dave shouted from behind him.

"In a minute." The Doctor waved his free hand at the man. "You came to the library to hunt. Why?" He asked. "Just tell me why?"

"We did not." The Vashta Nerada took over changing Daves voice speaking through him to the Time Lords.

"Oh, hello." They both said paying attention and raising a brow.

"We did not."

"Take it easy, you'll get the hang of it." The Doctor promised

"Did not what?" The Stone questioned.

"We did not come here."

"Well, of course, you did." The Doctor shook his head. "Of course you came here."

"We come from here."

"From here?" They both asked frowning at it.

"We hatched here."

"But you hatch from trees. From spores in trees."

"These are our forests." The Vashta Narada said the TimeLords not understanding the meaning behind it's words.

"You're nowhere near a forest." The Doctor said. "Look around you."

"These are our forests."

"You're not in a forest, you're in a library." He shook his head as the Stone suddenly understood muttering under her breath just loud enough to barely hear her. "Doctor..."

"There are no trees in a..." The Doctor blinked understanding what she was going to say. "The library..."

"We should go. Doctor, Stone!" Other Dave said again.

"Books." The Doctor breathed. "You came in the books. Microspores in a million, million books."

"We should go. Doctor, Stone!"

"Oh, look at that." He said. "The forests of the Vashta Nerada, pulped and printed and bound. A million, million books, hatching shadows."

"Doctor... It's Dave, there's only one way out." She glanced over her own shoulder as he spun around taking her with him as Dave repeated himself again. 

"We should go. Doctor, Stone!"

"Oh, Dave!" He looked saddened. "Oh Dave, I'm so sorry."

"We really are." The Time Lady added as the skeleton moved slightly now visible through the visor.

"Hey, who turned out the lights?"

"We should go. Doctor, Stone!"

"Thing about me, I'm stupid." He grinned bringing out the sonic. "I talk too much. Always babbling on. This gob doesn't stop for anything."

"You know neither does mine at times." The Stone grinned as the two skeletons in the spacesuits stepped closer to them. "I blame him." She nodded at the Doctor. "But do you know the only reason we're still alive?" She asked.

"Because I'm clever?" The Doctor grinned at her. "Not as clever as you though. Oh, wait for once it isn't that." He pointed his sonic downwards. "Always stay near the door." He opened the trapdoor before putting his sonic screwdriver between his teeth the two of them then grabbed onto the support structure inching their way along.

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"You know, it's funny, I keep wishing the Doctor and the Stone were here." River soniced the floor, staring at her own screwdriver speaking softly.

"The Doctor and the Stone are here, aren't they?" Anita asked not understanding. "They're are coming back, right?"

River stood up looking at Anita, or what would be her if she could see her face as she looked at her looking heartbroken. "You know when you see a photograph of someone you know, but it's from years before you knew them. and it's like they're not quite finished. They're not done yet." She said. "Well, yes, the Doctor and the Stone are here." She tried to explain. "They came when I called, just like they always do but not my Stone and her Doctor." She started to softly smile in thought. "Now my Stone and her husband. I've seen whole armies turn and run away. And they'll just swagger off back to the TARDIS and he would open the doors with a snap of his fingers with her right beside him grinning. Rivers smile started to grow heartbroken. "The Doctor and the Stone in the TARDIS. Next stop, everywhere."

"Spoilers." Both the Time Lords said sounding a little cold. River, Mister Lux and Anita looked up to see the Doctor with his hands resting against the stairs, the Stone leaning against him with her arms crossed against her chest, the two of them, walked down the stairs the Doctor jumping over a small bookcase then turning around and picking the Time Lady up as she rolled her eyes at him. "Nobody can open a TARDIS by snapping their fingers." He said walking over to River the Stone right beside him. "It doesn't work like that."

"It does for the Doctor." River said as they walked passed her.

They stopped in their tracks and turned around glancing at the woman in front of them for a moment. "I am the Doctor."

"Yeah." She nodded. "Someday." The two of them gave a face of annoyance before turning around and heading over to Anita.

"How are you doing?" The Stone asked looking at where the woman's face would be sad.

"Where's Other Dave?" River asked glancing around.

"Not coming." He coldly replied. "Sorry."

"Well, if they've taken him, why haven't they gotten me yet?" Anita questioned.

"I don't know." The Doctor replied. "Maybe tinting your visor's making a difference." He said the two of them glancing down seeing her two shadows.

"It's making a difference all right." She chuckled lightly. "No one's ever going to see my face again."

"Can I get you anything?" He asked.

"An old age would be nice." She said. "Anything you can do?"

"We're all over that." The Stone laughed lightly the Doctor smiling a little at her joke.

"Stone," Anita said stopping the pair as they turned around. "When we first met you, you didn't trust Professor Song. And then she whispered a word in of your ear, and you did." The Stone glanced down while the Doctor carefully watched the Time Lady "My life so far. I could do with a word like that. What did she say?" She swallowed hard continuing to look down as Anita laughed a little. "Give a dead girl a break. Your secrets are safe with me."

"Safe." The both muttered looking at each other their eyes meeting widening slightly as Anita said in confusion. "What?"

"Safe." The Doctor repeated. "You don't say saved. Nobody says saved. You say safe."

"The data fragment!" The Stone spun around now facing Mister Lux. "What did it say?"

"Four thousand and twenty-two people saved. No survivors."

"Doctor? Stone?" River questioned in confusion.

"Nobody says saved. Nutters say saved."

"You are a nutter." The Stone grinned at him.

"You're worse than me." He grinned back at her. "But you say safe." He turned back to the others continuing on with his explanation. "You see, it didn't mean safe."

"It meant, it literally meant, saved!" They both shouted laughing. The Doctor ran over to one of the terminals the Stone following. The Doctor started to sonic at the machine as the Stone typed until they managed to get in.

"See, there it is, right there." The Doctor pointed at the screen. "A hundred years ago, massive power surge. All the teleports going at once. Soon as the Vashta Nerada hit their hatching cycle, they attack. Someone hits the alarm. The computer tries to teleport everyone out."

"It tried to teleport four thousand twenty-two people?" River looked at them slightly shocked.

"And it succeeded." The Stone said. "It pulled them all out, but then what happened?" Nowhere to send them. Nowhere safe in the whole library."

"Vashta Nerada growing in every shadow." The Doctor cut in. "Four thousand and twenty-two people all beamed up and nowhere to go. They're stuck in the system, waiting to be sent, like emails. So what's a computer to do? What does a computer always do?"

"It saved them." The Doctor took a pen and pushed a couple of books aside on a large table then drew a circle. "The library. A whole world of books, and right at the core, the biggest hard drive in history." He drew a smaller circle inside the large one and shaded it in. "The index to everything ever written, backup copies of every single book. The computer saved four thousand and twenty-two people the only way a computer can."

"It saved them to the hard drive." The Stone added.

Suddenly an alarm started to blare out. The TimeLords looked at each other then darted over to the terminal again as red lights started to flash. "What is it?" Mister Lix asked. "What's wrong?"

"Autodestruct enabled in twenty minutes." The computer said.

"That can't be good." The Stone muttered.

"What's maximum erasure?" River asked reading the screen.

"In twenty minutes, this planet's going to crack like an egg."

"No." Mister Lix shook his head. "No, it's all right. The Doctor Moon will stop it. It's programmed to protect Cal."

They waited a moment before the screen turned black.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" The Doctor and the Stone shouted hitting the terminal.

"All library systems are permanently offline. Sorry for any inconvenience. Shortly..."

"We need to stop this." Mister Lux said. "We've got to save Cal."

"What is it?" They both looked at him. "What is Cal?"

"We need to get to the main computer." He said. "I'll show you."

"It's at the core of the planet." The Doctor shook his head

"Well, then. Let's go." River pointed her screwdriver at the library logo in the middle of the floor which then opened showing a beam.

"Gravity platform."

"That's brilliant!" The Stone laughed.

"I bet we like you." The Doctor grinned.

"Not so sure you do but your wife certainly does!" She joked they then all stepped on the floor and headed down.

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"Autodestruct in fifteen minutes." The TimeLords ran up seeing a large red globe with energy swirling around it above. "The data core. Over four thousand living minds trapped inside it."

"Yeah, well, they won't be living much longer." River snapped. "We're running out of time."

The pair then found an access terminal and started to type away the Stone on one side and the Doctor on the other the two of them working together muttering what they were doing.

"Help me." The Stone looked up hearing the voice of what sounded like a young child. "Please, help me."

"What's that?" Anita asked.

"Was that a child?" River asked.

"The computer's in sleep mode." The Doctor gritted his teeth. "We can't wake it up. We're trying." They continuously hit the keyboard however nothing on the screen changed.

"Doctor, Stone, these readings." River muttered.

"We know." He cut in.

"You'd think it was dreaming."

"It is dreaming..." Lux said looking over at them sadly. "Of a normal life, and a lovely Dad, and of every book ever written."

"Computers don't dream," Anita spoke up.

"Help me. Please help me."

Lux slowly walked over to a small area and opened a glass door and rested his hand on a breaker. "No, but little girls do." He pulled it down, the group then ran in. Slowly the head of a Node turned to face them. "Please help me. Please help me." The young girl asked.

"Oh, my God." River breathed.

"It's the little girl." Anita gasped. "The girl we saw in the computer."

"She's not in the computer." Mister Lux said slowly walking over to the girl. "In a way, she is the computer. The main command node." He said. "This is Cal."

"Cal is a child?" The TimeLords looked at him. "A child hooked up to a mainframe?"

"Why didn't you tell us this?!" The Doctor snapped. "We needed to know this!"

"Because she's family!" He shouted before calming himself down. "Cal. Charlotte Abigail Lux. My grandfather's youngest daughter." He went on to explain. "She was dying, so he built her a library and put her living mind inside, with a moon to watch over her, and all of human history to pass the time. Any era to live in, any book to read. She loved books more than anything, and he gave her them all. He asked only that she be left in peace." He gently brushed the back of his hand against her cheek. "A secret, not a freak show."

"So you weren't protecting a patent, you were protecting her." They looked up at him.

"This is only half a life, of course. But it's forever."

"And then the shadows came." The Doctor muttered.

"The shadows." The girl breathed sounding terrified. "I have to... "I have to save... "Have to save."

"And she saved them." The Stone looked at the girl sadly. "She saved everyone in the library. Folded them into her dreams and kept them safe."

"Then why didn't she tell us?" Anita questioned.

"Because she's forgotten." The Doctor said over his shoulder. "She's got over four thousand living minds chatting away inside her head. It must be like being, well, us." He glanced at the Stone who nodded stepping slightly closer to him.

"So what do we do?" River asked them.

"Autodestruct in ten minutes."

"Easy!" The Doctor started to run around. "We beam all the people out of the data core. The computer will reset and stop the countdown. Difficult." He muttered. "Charlotte doesn't have enough memory space left to make the transfer." He then looked up. "Easy! I'll hook myself up to the computer. She can borrow my memory space."

"Difficult. It'll kill you stone dead."

"Yeah, it's easy to criticise." He shrugged.

"It'll burn out both your hearts and don't think you'll regenerate." She snapped.

"I'll try my hardest not to die." He said tapping onto the terminal. "Honestly, it's my main thing."

"Doctor!"

"I'm right, this works." He said. "Shut up. Now listen. You and Luxy boy, back up to the main library. Prime any data cells you can find for maximum download, and before you say anything else, Professor, can I just mention in passing as you're here, shut up!" He turned to her.

"Stone?" River turned to the blonde standing there not saying a word. "Aren't you going to stop him!?"

"Well, it could work." She said. "I mean if the both of us do this..." She trailed off running a hand through her hair in thought.

"No, no, no." The Doctor walked over to her placing his hands firmly on her shoulders. "There is no way I am letting you do this."

"Doctor you can't stop me." She looked up at him right into his eyes. "I'm not letting you do this on your own, you would die just like River said, no regeneration. At least together we have a chance."

"But theres the chance that you could die, we both could." He rested a hand gently next to her cheek.

"With you I'm willing to take that chance." She whispered resting a hand upon his own cheek slowly shaking her head. "Dying beside you, that's not so bad."

"Oh, I hate the both of you sometimes!" River shouted at them.

"We know!" They shouted back.

"Mister Lux, with me. Anita, if they died, I'll kill them!" She shouted running out Mister Lux following behind her.

"What about the Vashta Nerada?"

"These are their forests." He stopped what he was doing and turned to her glancing down slightly seeing only one shadow. The Stone followed his gaze looking as well. "We're going to seal Charlotte inside her little world, take everybody else away."

"The shadows can swarm to their hearts' content." The Stone added.

"So you think they're just going to let us go?"

"Best offer they're going to get." The Doctor started to work again.

"You're going to make 'em an offer?"

"They'd better take it," he hissed, "because right now, I'm finding it very hard to make any kind of offer at all and the Stone hasn't even spoken yet." He glanced at the Time Lady looking just as angry as he was. "You know what? We really liked Anita." He looked over at the spacesuit that held the woman that was scared, now taken over by the Vashta Narada.

"She was brave, even when she was crying." The Stone added. "And she never gave in."

"And you ate her." He hissed flashing his sonic at the visor which showed the skeleton now. "But we're going to let that pass, just as long as you let them pass."

"How long have you known?" It asked.

"We counted the shadows. You only have one now. She's nearly gone. Be kind."

"These are our forests." It said. "We are not kind."

"We giving you back your forests, but you are giving us them." The Doctor said.

"You are letting them go."

"These are our forests." It snapped. "They are our meat." The Shadow stretched out it's arm towards the Stone the Doctor stepped forward now standing slightly in front of her as she stepped back a little.

"Don't play games with me." He snapped. "You just killed someone we liked. That is not a safe place to stand." He growled. "I'm the Doctor, she's the Stone and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look us up!" He shouted. The skeleton stared at them for a moment pausing before the shadow stepped back.

"You have one day." It said before the suit fell to the floor. The Doctor and Stone turned back around messing with the controls.

"Oh, Anita." They heard River behind them.

The Doctor glanced over his shoulder. "I'm sorry. She's been dead a while now. I told you to go!" He then shouted.

"Lux can manage without me, but you two can't." She said before punching the Doctor knocking him out.

"Now River." The Stone held up her hands. "Don't."

"I'm sorry." She muttered before punching her the same way she did with the Doctor knocking the two of them out.

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Groaning and going to touch her head the Stone shot up feeling her wrist trapped until she realised what was going. A moment later the Doctor then groaned and shot up as well his eyes darting around until they landed on the blonde beside him before he let out a sigh of relief then shot his head on the direction of his arm seeing his wrist cuffed to a metal pole, just like the Stone was.

"Autodestruct in two minutes."

"Oh, no, no, no, no." The Doctor went to reach for River who was sitting in a chair with a couple of wires around her. "Come on, what are you doing?" He asked. "That's my job."

"Oh, and the Stone and I are not allowed to have a career, I suppose?" She asked.

"Why are we handcuffed?" The Stone frowned.

"Why do you even have handcuffs?" The Doctor cut her off frowning himself.

"Spoilers." She smirked at them both.

"This is not a time to joke!" The Stone snapped shouting at the woman plead in her eyes. "Stop this please." She begged.

"This is going to kill you!" He shouted. "We'd have a chance, you don't have any."

"You wouldn't have a chance, and neither do I." She said. "I'm timing it for the end of the countdown. There'll be a blip in the command flow." She brought out two thick wires. "That way it should improve our chances of a clean download."

"River, please." The Doctor begged. "No."

"Funny thing is, this means you've always known how I was going to die." She looked between them. The Time Lords looked distressed and hurt. "All the time we've been together, you both knew I was coming here. The last time I saw the both of you, the two of you that are real," she shook her head, "the future you, I mean, you both turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit." She nodded at the Doctor. "And you wore a beautiful dress with your hair dyed." She smiled at the Stone who stared at her the two Time Lords holding tears in their glassy eyes both holding on to each other with their free hands. "You both took me to Darillium to see the Singing Towers. What a night that was. The Towers sang, and you cried." She looked at the Stone.

"Autodestuct in one minute."

"Neither of you wouldn't tell me why, but I suppose you knew it was time. My time. Time to come to the library. You even made me a screwdriver. That should have been a clue." The Doctor and the Stone attempted to reach for their sonics which were laying on top of Rivers book with her own sonic beside them.

"There's nothing you can do." She shook her head at them her face showing sadness that both Time Lords shared in their eyes.

"You can let me do this." The Doctor gritted his teeth before the Stone shot him a look. "Let us do this." He corrected himself.

"If you two die here, it'll mean I've never met you both." She looked at then sadly.

"Time can be rewritten." Both of them protested against her.

"Not those times." She shook her head. "Not one line. Don't you dare. It's okay. It's okay." She told them as well as herself. "It's not over for you two. You'll see me again. You've got all of that to come. The two of you and me, time and space. You watch us run."

"River..." The Stone thickly said through her tears. "You, you know my name." She shook her head slowly. "You knew my true name." The Doctor snapped his head to the Stone looking shocked

"Autodestruct in ten."

"You whispered my name in my ear." She looked at the woman shaking slightly, no one knew that not even him, of course at a unifying ceremony the couple share their true names to each other but there was one other way she could know that word.

"Nine, eight, seven."

"There's only one other reason she would ever tell anyone her name." The Doctor said half in thought. "There's only one time she could."

"Hush, now." She whispered to them.

"Four, three..."

"Spoilers."

"Two, one..." River then joined the two power cables together. There was a bright blinding light. They both raised their arms trying to shield themselves from the light before the Stone hid her face in the Doctors chest heartbroken by what she had witnessed before she moved her head the two of them staring horrified at the chair River Song sat in, she saved them, the library, all those people and they would never know that she gave her life for them.

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The Doctor and the Stone stood quietly in the corner leaning on each other as they watch Donna slowly walk back alone towards them. "Any luck?"
The Doctor asked her softly before the red head slowly shook her head.

"There wasn't even anyone called Lee in the library that day. I suppose he could have had a different name out here, but, let's be honest, he wasn't real, was he?"

"Maybe not." The Doctor sighed.

"I made up the perfect man. Gorgeous, adores me, and hardly able to speak a word. What's that say about me?"

"Everything."

"Doctor." The Stone shook her head at him a smile creeping onto her lips at how unaware of what he just said was as Donna started to glare at the Time Lord.

Blinking for a moment seeing the look on her face his eyes moved over at the red head who looked slightly annoyed. "Sorry, did I say everything?" He apologised. "I meant to say nothing. I was aiming for nothing. I accidentally said everything."

"Nice save there sweetheart." The blonde chuckled kissing his cheek. "Shame it wasn't quick enough. We can see right through it." She smiled.

"What about you two?" Donna looked between them as they started to stare into the distance their faces falling ever so slightly, something the red head learned to pick up on and notice, especially with the Time Lady who was usually was quite cheery. "Are you both all right?" She looked at them slightly worried after they didn't reply the first time.

The Doctor glanced at the Time Lady beside him who forced a small smile, the Doctor looked back over at the redhead. "We're always all right."

"Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?" Donna asked making them both frown.

"Why?"

"Because I'm all right, too." She sighed.

"Come on." The Doctor muttered entwining his fingers with the Time Lady before taking Donna's hand the three of them walking out.

The Doctor held Rivers diary in one hand while he held the Stones hand with the other, the two of them passing the groups of people before walking to the staircase they came to when they first arrived in the Library, Donna closely behind them. The Doctor placed the diary on the balcony rail resting his hand ontop, softly smiling the Stone placed her hand on top of his slowly drawing circles on the back of his hand with her thumb.

"Your friend, Professor Song." Donna spoke up leaning against the rail. "She knew you two in the future, but she didn't know me." Donna said. "What happens to me? Because when she heard my name, the way she looked at me..."

"Donna, this is her diary." The Doctor cut her off. "Mine and the Stones future. We could look you up." He smiled softly the Stone looking at him slightly alarmed. "What do you think?" He asked not seeing her gaze. "Shall we peek at the end?" He asked.

Donna looked over at the Time Lady seeing her face, she was always more careful than he was, it was how she was brought up by her parents, even if she disagreed and lost most of her habits thanks to the Doctor she was always more cautious with timestreams.

"Spoilers, right?" Donna looked between them.

"Right." He nodded then looked at the Stone who reached into her pocket bringing out the woman's sonic. The Doctor watched as she placed it on top of the diary.

"Come on." The Doctor took her hand. "The next chapter's this way."

"Very funny Doctor." She chuckled. They headed up the stairs, Donna following them both. The Doctor stopped in thought glancing at the Stone who stopped beside him. The two of them both turned and ran back to the diary and the sonic them the Doctor picking it up. "Why?" They both said staring at it. "Why would we give her a screwdriver?" He said.

"Why would we do that?"

"Thing is, future us had years to think about it, all those years to think of a way to save her, and all we did was give her a screwdriver." The Doctor frowned taking it from ontop of the book before the Stone then took it from his hands.

"If I am correct..." she mumbled twisting it around in her hands before stopping and popping open a small compartment with a neural relay with two green lights blinking inside.

"Oh! Oh!" The Doctor gasped looking at it as the Stone laughed holding it up. "Oh, look at that. We are very good!" He beamed at the Stone.

"What have you done?" Donna asked watching them. The Doctor took the sonic and held it up showing Donna. "Saved her." He then started running off shouting behind him as the Stone sprinted a moment after he did. "Stone!"

"I'm right behind you!" She shouted before catching up to him the two of them running side by side dodging past the people in the library. They ran down a corridor jumping over a small case the Doctor glancing at the neural relay that now had one green light. "Stay with us!" He shouted. "You can do it, stay with us! Come on, you and us, one last run!" He shouted. "Sorry, River, shortcut!" He soniced the terminal.

"Platform disabled." The Doctor then dived into the gravity well that opened the Stone behind him as the last light started to blink.

They then sprinted hand in hand running to the core the both of them plugging the screwdriver into the core allowing Rivers neural energy to be transferred, saving her. The Charlotte Node smiled at them as they looked over their shoulders, the TimeLords beamed back at her.

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The Doctor and the Stone returned to the now empty reception smiling with their hands locked together. The stopped in front of the TARDIS, the Stone sending a mischievous grin at the Doctor as he raised his arm pausing, and snapping his fingers. The doors of the TARDIS then flew open on their own. The Doctor grinned taking the Stones hand, spinning her around then stopping his arm wrapped around her the two of them grinning at each other. They then slowly walked into the TARDIS where Donna was waiting behind the console. The Doctor turned around an arm around the blondes waist before he snapped his fingers again the TARDIS doors closed.