MPOV
I storm across the city back to my apartment with tears streaming down my cheeks. How are he? How dare he assume my past is perfect? Because it's bloody not. I go into a run, dodging the people wandering towards me. Cautiously I look behind me to see if he's following me, but he isn't. Suddenly, someone crashes into my front, making me clatter to the ground. I look up to see a woman opposite me, hair wild and frizzy. A crazed, but scared look is swirled into her huge brown eyes and she is wearing a white top with a hospital logo on the chest pocket. A hand gun is strapped to her thigh underneath a black jersey miniskirt. Her blonde hair is blowing everywhere and her magenta lipstick is smudged across her cheek.

"River?" I ask, slightly confused and only going by the description Theta had given me.

"Yes..." she replies with a breathy lilt.

"As in Doctor Theta's ex-wife?"

"Wait, I haven't met you, so you can't be Clara. Are you new?"

"Yeah, I'm Marsaili. And I think we just broke up".

"Up to his old tricks is he sweetie? Knew I shouldn't have let him off his leash".

"The idiot..."

"He said something, didn't he? God he can so obnoxious sometimes, I know, I know sweetie. But spoilers, it gets better. You just need to get past that... stage".

"He put his foot where he shouldn't have put it. I lost something so dear to me and everytime I look at myself, it just reminds me of what I could have had".

"Everyone's lost something Marsali. Everyone".

"Then what did you lose?"

"The man I loved. Theta was different back then and it's my fault that he's this way now. He trusted me with something he didn't understand very well at all and I threw it back in his face. I'll never forgive myself for it. Wasn't completely my fault, but that's no excuse. He doesn't know how to love, well properly".

"He's just an idiot".

"Yes, maybe, but he's a man".

"I lost my baby. My boyfriend and I were on the plane and it went down. Don't know how, don't know where, but all I know is that I woke up in a helicopter being airlifted to a European hospital. Big shard of metal in my abdomen. Tons of surgery, but I lived. Well, I thought I had. John, my boyfriend, passed away and I lost my baby too. I just... I..." Tears roll down my face and River sits me down on a nearby step.

"You need to go to him Marsaili. Really. I know you don't want to, but you need to".

"Why should I?"

"Because... Do you love him?"

"Yes, yes I do. Very much. But I just wish he didn't put his foot in it".

"Like I said, he's a man. You want to stay here, moping on the pavement next to a questionable hog roast stand, you're good, but you go to him and he will love you with all his heart".

"Fine, I will, but if this goes wrong, I'm blaming you River Song, I'm blaming you".

"My conscience has more than a break-up on it, trust me sweetie".

"I would shake your hand River, but I'm afraid you may shoot it off with the MK-4653 strapped to your leg".

"Spoilers sweetie. Though here", she says as she passes the gun into my hands. "I don't want it anymore"

"Is this even legal?"

"It is if you keep it hidden sweetie. Think of it as a challenge. And shoot that God damn Doctor if he gets on your nerves".

"I'll take that advice River".

"Please call me Melody. River's more of a business name".

"Then call me Missy", I reply, shaking her trembling hand.