There had been a flash of pain on her face, when Rose asked what if he didn't recognize her. She set down her tea at that, and didn't answer until the other girl had gotten up again.
"We never meet in the right order, I've always known that the day will come when I will look into that man's eyes, and he will look into mine, and he will see a stranger. But the only thing that will change is how much I can tell him."
She leaned back pushing away the pain. Because that day had come already. But in the end... in the end he wanted to save her. Not just the way he wanted to save everyone. That look in his eyes, while he tried so desperately to reach her, to reach his sonic, to buy just a little more of the one commodity that they both knew could never be infinite. Time.
She was a confusion then, a puzzle, someone he wanted to save and couldn't, someone he wanted to figure out and couldn't. That was the first moment he had looked at her, with that face, as though she were worth saving. And that, she realized in those final seconds, was the foundation of his feelings for her. That moment. Because she had always been the mystery, the puzzle.
"He asked me once, or will ask me, time lines depending, if he could trust me." She smiled a bit, soothing herself with the pleasant memory. She got up to help Rose with the tea. Jackie might have solved everything with tea, but Amy was more of a red wine sort. Still, River could drink tea.
Oh wow
"We never meet in the right order, I've always known that the day will come when I will look into that man's eyes, and he will look into mine, and he will see a stranger. But the only thing that will change is how much I can tell him."
She leaned back pushing away the pain. Because that day had come already. But in the end... in the end he wanted to save her. Not just the way he wanted to save everyone. That look in his eyes, while he tried so desperately to reach her, to reach his sonic, to buy just a little more of the one commodity that they both knew could never be infinite. Time.
She was a confusion then, a puzzle, someone he wanted to save and couldn't, someone he wanted to figure out and couldn't. That was the first moment he had looked at her, with that face, as though she were worth saving. And that, she realized in those final seconds, was the foundation of his feelings for her. That moment. Because she had always been the mystery, the puzzle.
"He asked me once, or will ask me, time lines depending, if he could trust me." She smiled a bit, soothing herself with the pleasant memory. She got up to help Rose with the tea. Jackie might have solved everything with tea, but Amy was more of a red wine sort. Still, River could drink tea.