#s04e08 silence in the library

[z3phyr23]

NuWho season 4 really hits you with the 1-2 punch of Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead and then Midnight directly after those. Like what the fuck?!?!

[soulless-angel25]

Doctor Who Femslash February, Day 1 Prompt- Alternate Universe @doctorwho-femslashfeb

In another universe River Song and Rose Tyler met in the Library, and in every other universe it doesn't end well.

....

"We got breathers! Helmets off," the words were distinctly feminine and familiar in a way that Rose couldn't place. That happened sometimes, her future bleeding into her present. It'd been happening since after... after he regenerated.

It had taken her months of pleading, begging to get him to tell her what happened at Satellite Five. That she had absorbed the Time Vortex and become a Goddess but that there wasn't any need to worry, really, he'd taken it all out of her.

(If he did then why was she getting whispers of the future? Why could she see timelines swirling around in a golden mess everywhere she looked? Why was her future bleeding into her present if he took it all? Why could she hear the TARDIS clearly, understanding her better then the Doctor could?)

She had smiled, and thanked him for telling her. Didn't dare to let any of the thoughts in her head slip out into the world. Maybe she should've, maybe he would still be here if she had. Even just a simple sentence...

Shaking her head she focused back in on what was happening in front of her, the other people who had arrived had taken their helmets off. The one in front of her, the one who'd spoken first sent sparks down her spine a name whispered in her mind, River.

"Who are you?" Rose let the words slip past her lips easily, "You shouldn't be here, you need to leave." she let rage seep into her voice, faux anger at these people being here. (It was easy, to let anger slip into her voice. She just had to be careful so it wouldn't consume her)

And then things were happening and she couldn't quite recall all the details, she could remember River looking at her with devastation in her eyes- River whispering her true name in her ears. "Rose". not Bad Wolf not The Valiant Child, but Rose.

The rest passed in a blur, people died (Miss Evangelista, Proper Dave, Other Dave, Anita). Then she was in the control area with River and River looked at her with an apologetic smile, making her promise not to change a moment of her past and Rose's future. But she knew herself, and so as she left and heard the sounds of a TARDIS materializing she didn't turn around to acknowledge it.

She was certain her future self had it all figured out.

...

...

...

FIVE CENTURIES LATER

Bad Wolf walked around the TARDIS console, flipping switches, pulling levers, pushing buttons. Her eyes flickered over to what she had prepared and silently hoped that this would work as she flipped the last switch.

...

She stepped back eyes searching and hoping that this would work, and as River opened her eyes Bad Wolf cried joyfully. It had worked... her gamble had paid off.

Pulling her wife into her arms she tilted her head back and pulled her down for a kiss. She could feel River smile against her lips and she hummed in contentment.

The TARDIS doors opened behind them and they tumbled in, happy to be reunited.

[claraoswalds]

DOCTOR WHO, S04E08 Silence in the Library

[spacewives-in-spacetime]

blood of bronze, tears of gold

blood of bronze, tears of gold (1675 words) by Hell_in_High_Heels Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Doctor/River Song, Eleventh Doctor/River Song, Tenth Doctor/River Song, Twelfth Doctor/River Song, Thirteenth Doctor/River Song Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), River Song, (mentioned), Thirteenth Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who) Additional Tags: Episode Fix-It: s04e08 Silence in the Library, could be, Hurt, Maybe - Freeform, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, maybe… Summary: The Doctor drowned themself in a pool of ideas, each one surrounding the magnificent River Song. The beautiful woman who waltzed into her life and destroyed their very way of thinking.

he Doctor drowned themself in a pool of ideas, each one surrounding the magnificent River Song. The beautiful woman who waltzed into her life and destroyed their very way of thinking. The wonderful person who knocked him out cold, chaining him to a pipe to sacrifice herself. The amazing wife who protected them to her last breath. That very same person was stripped away from him, against their pleads and begs. Darillium was still fresh in her mind, with it all the last memories of his - now dead - wife. She sat on her bed, taking notice how cold and lonely she felt when her wife wasn’t beside her, telling him snarky remarks and witty comments. She smiled at the now faded memories of their laughter. The Time Lord had no choice but to let a tear roll down her face. It was awful really, how they treated River in her final moments, and the Doctor acknowledged the fact. Though there was no forgiveness, even from herself, the Doctor tried to compensate for it. 

She remembered when she first met River. She practically dropped from the sky, knowing every little detail about him. It was difficult, falling in love with a practical stranger, who really wasn’t one at all. Falling in love with someone from the distant future that you wished would come closer. He tried not to though, more for his sake than anything. If he knew this absolute goddess of a woman would be ripped from him, from his past no less, he didn’t think he could survive it. It pained him enough to watch her burn, knowing her love for him - something he would once return -, and not being able to do anything about it. Knowing full well that she would be his wife one day, someone he trusted enough to tell him his very own name, and would be utterly useless in helping her. If she truly was who she said he was, he didn’t think he could live past a loss like that, even if it was inevitable. 

So, he did what he always did. He ran. He ran away from his problems like a child, understanding that he couldn’t get too close to her, he just couldn’t. A loss like that would absolutely demolish him. And it did. It swallowed him up ‘till there was nothing left. It destroyed their soul, letting nothing remain in its wake. But if only he could prevent that. He tried hard, keeping his distance as much as he could. But he couldn’t do much but let her take him along. As much as he didn’t want to feel the heartbreak like the stupid, selfish man he was, he just couldn’t stay away from her. He was so, so selfish, letting his own joy get in the way of both of their wellbeing. The Doctor loved every moment with River, savouring it until there was nothing. The twenty=four years wasn’t enough. No amount of time would ever be enough with her.

It was even more selfish to continue to ruin her life. She could have been so much more, but all her potential - as well as her regenerations - were wasted on them. They were the cause of the Silence and all of River’s trauma. All the pain that she tried to keep hidden, all the nightmares that would strike her at the dead of night, were all because of the Doctor. It was an awful weight to bring down on her, and yet she chose him. After all the pain and suffering, River chose him. She could have let them die, but she chose a different path than being the murderer and psychopath she thought she was. Not much of the same could be said for the Doctor. Her wife was a strong, powerful woman. She didn’t let her emotions keep her cooped up against her bedpost, drowning in the sorrows that came with thinking of her spouse. The Doctor on the other hand had a much more difficult time doing anything other than exactly that. She also kept the blue journal that described all their time together clutched against their chest as they slept, within the hours that nightmares of her own kept her awake.

The Doctor rose from the bed, walking over to the closet. It was filled with mainly her clothes. A tiny smile graced their face as the Doctor thought of all the times they spent adventuring together, gathering clothes from different time periods. Obviously the TARDIS had more than enough, but the Doctor certainly did not go more than a week before buying a new article of clothing, something River greatly appreciated. They spent years walking in and out of there, sometimes they’d just drop their clothes straight onto the floor. That seemed to happen a lot since they were often being hurried. The Doctor slowly took a few steps before instantly being hit with a wave of perfume -cherry vanilla as it would happen-, taking her time breathing in River’s lovely scent. There was a hint of something different, something uniquely her in a way the Doctor never understood until now. It was time, the living blood work of River Song. With her blood of bronze and hair of gold, she showed up and destroyed the Doctor’s life in the most fashionable way possible: by making them fall in love with her.

Of course, that wasn’t that hard of a task. The Doctor, as much as they tried, was more than happy to live happily with their soon-to-be wife. Honestly, he loved being around her more than her around him .She filled him with the most wonderful thoughts and feelings, making them feel all sorts of… bubbly. It was a privilege just being within the same room with her, much less being her spouse. It amused them that she could slip away from him so easily. As the sands of time within an hourglass were wearing thin, so was their time together. The Doctor had been trying to stop his own heart from falling head over heels in love with the madwoman, but he managed to fail spectacularly. If anything, it made him want to love her more. They loved her more than anything, more than they ever thought they could love. And yet, as cruel fate would have it, in his efforts to stop himself from loving, she didn’t know she was loved. She didn’t realise how utterly heartbroken and useless she would make them when she left him that night on Darillium. 

It was a crushing defeat when River left. Like a slap to the face, leaving him brokenhearted with nothing to do. It felt like a deafening blow, as if he was correct in wanting to save himself from it. But no, he wasn’t going to be the selfish old man he knew he was. He was going to push through, saving their tears for midnight, where they could cry in peace. She left him wishing for something to pull him from his thoughts. It was all too much. But then, after much time, he met Bill. It wasn’t enough to make him forget about her - nothing would -. He couldn’t push his pain away, and he certainly wasn’t going to put it on someone else. But the absolute suffering he went through, spending every waking moment wishing she was near him. Spending every morning, expecting to wake up to her golden curls in his face, or her warmth enveloping him as he wrapped his arms around her. But he could barely sleep now, and when he did, the sheer pain of not being able to feel her, nor see her would crush him. He would spend every spare moment thinking about ways to save her, knowing full well that 1. It was damn near impossible, trying to free her. And 2. If he was going to fail, the pain of knowing they were so close, yet so far, would shred his hopes, and burn the traces.  It never worked, as their thoughts would always stray to how beautiful the green of her eyes were - like emeralds- , or how every cork of curls bestowed upon her head acted as a crown. She was a queen, both literally and figuratively. The kingdoms she ruled over prospered, every single one. But from a more figurative standpoint, she was the most perfect and elegant person you would every meet. She shined grace and mischief, polluting the dear Doctor’s mind. It was very enticing to themself drown in the bliss that is River Song. Allowing themself to dive into the love and burning embers that grows within her soul. River would rule their very being, plundering any other thought from inhabiting their indentured mind. Because River Song was an enigma, hard to wrap their head around. She lived in the Doctor’s thoughts. But that wasn’t enough. The Doctor wanted to see her, breath in her scent, live alongside her for the rest of their lives. If the Doctor truly was immortal, that probably wouldn’t happen. River Song would find some other way to leave her life, slowly but surely. There was no way River and the Doctor could stay together forever though.  But remember when I said it was damn near impossible, trying to save her? Take notice to the near part. Possibility wasn’t going to stop her from trying to free her wife from the imprisonment she put her through. But that’s what they do, isn’t it? Push people away until it’s too late. If only they didn’t make River leave on Trenzalore. Maybe then things could be different. They could still have adventures long after she passed, even in his timeline. Maybe if she lived with him even as a ghost… The Doctor would love her all the same, after all. So if only the Doctor didn’t push everyone away, If only the Doctor could learn to just love, and let themself be able to love. It wouldn’t take much, and River Song was most definitely worth it.

[eggo-witch]

Miss Evangelista, poor girl, she was so good

- Doctor Who s04e08-09 "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"

[tardistism]

NUWHO MASTERLIST

A guide to the Tenth Doctor. (3/3)

KEY

🌼 - tv show 🌷 - comics 🪻 - books 🌹 - audios

Series 4

🌼 S04E01 - Partners in Crime 🌼 S04E02 - The Fires of Pompeii 🪻 Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii 🌼 S04E03 - Planet of the Ood 🪻 Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood 🪻 Ghosts of India 🪻 The Doctor Trap 🪻 Shining Darkness 🌼 S04E04 - The Sontaran Strategem (1) 🌼 S04E05 - The Poison Sky (2) 🌼 S04E06 - The Doctor's Daughter 🌹 The Tenth Doctor's Chronicles: Wild Pastures 🌼 S04E07 - The Unicorn and the Wasp 🌼 S04E08 - Silence in the Library (1) 🌼 S04E09 - Forest of the Dead (2) 🪻 In the Blood 🌹 The Tenth Doctor Adventures Vol. 1 & Vol. 3 🌹 Donna Noble: Kidnapped! 🌼 S04E10 - Midnight 🌼 S04E11 - Turn Left 🌼 S04E12 - The Stolen Earth (1) 🌼 S04E13 - The Journey's End (2) 🪻 Beautiful Chaos 🌼 S04E14 - The Next Doctor 🪻 The Eyeless 🪻Judgement of the Judoon 🪻 The Slitheen Excursion 🪻 Prisoner of the Daleks 🪻 The Taking of Chelsea 426 🪻 Autonomy 🪻 The Krillitane Storm 🌼 S04E15 - The Planet of the Dead 🌹 The Tenth Doctor's Chronicles: Last Chance 🌷 Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Year One (2016) 🌷 Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Year Two (2017) 🌼 S04E16 - The Waters of Mars 🌼 S04E17 - The End of Time (1) 🌼 S04E18 - The End of Time (2)

⬅ Part 2 | Go Home 🏠︎

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Falling Through The Cracks

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by Oreal770

During a routine trip, Rose, her metacrisis husband and their teenage daughter end up falling through a Universal crack, pulled through by the original TARDIS.

When they accidentally crash Eleven and River's date, Rose realizes the hopes she had for the Doctor have not come true: reeling from the loss of Amy and Rory and with River's impending death breaking his hearts, the Doctor is more alone and in pain than ever. Rose has had enough. She enlists her husband and some old friends to help her find a way to save River from the Library. She will give this man the same happiness he's given her, if it takes her a lifetime.

Of course, the Doctor might not agree. But sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Words: 2379, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: River Song, Metacrisis Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Eleventh Doctor, Wilfred Mott, Mickey Smith (Doctor Who), Martha Jones

Relationships: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Eleventh Doctor/River Song, Martha Jones/Mickey Smith

Additional Tags: River Song is Saved, Episode Fix-It: s04e08 Silence in the Library

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The Mystery is revealed

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by JenniferNikolaenvaRomanova

Set just after the events of Forest of the Dead, the Doctor and Donna come to London to find that the rumours of Jennifer Song and her supposed survival of the events of the episode The Husbands of River Song. There they meet Jane a young woman suffering with amnesia and no clear idea of who she is. The Doctor and Donna decide to help her find out the truth but as they start to help Jane with finding out who she is, it soon becomes clear that the real Jennifer Nikolaevna Song has been with them the whole time...

Words: 522, Chapters: 2/16, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/M

Characters: Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Donna Noble, Richard Lazarus, Jane/Jennifer Nikolaevna Song, Rose Tyler, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, The Master (Dhawan), Jenny (Doctor Who: The Doctor's Daughter), Twelfth Doctor, Data Ghost River Song, Queen Rivina

Relationships: Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble

Additional Tags: Post-Episode AU: s04e08-09 Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Gallifrey, London, post trauma, Amnesia, Long Lost/Secret Relatives, Attempted Seduction, Post-Episode: 2015 Xmas The Husbands of River Song

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[thebadtimewolf]

doctor who tag dump.

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ashes in my wake

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by Del (goddessdel)

He'll burn worlds for her, if she asks.

Words: 5060, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of fire and ash

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Twelfth Doctor, River Song

Relationships: The Doctor/River Song, Twelfth Doctor/River Song, Eleventh Doctor/River Song

Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s04e08-09 Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Post-Season/Series 08 Finale, Dark, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Madness, Library Fix-It, Yes you read that right, I'm Sorry, Dark Doctor (Doctor Who), Dark River Song, The TARDIS - Freeform

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[riversmithmelody]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/River Song, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, The Doctor & Donna Noble, Twelfth Doctor & Bill Potts Characters: Twelfth Doctor, River Song, Bill Potts, Donna Noble, Susan Foreman Additional Tags: Episode Fix-It: s04e08 Silence in the Library, Episode Fix-It: s04e13 Journey's End, Donna safed herself and then River, Happy Ending, Family Fluff, Everyone Is Alive Summary:

He hissed at his ship and Bill jumped. She shot him a look. One of many that she had been sending him since he got the letter. A TARDIS blue envelope with a pretty little four written on it in River’s handwriting. The letter inside was bright thick paper that contained nothing, but a set of coordinates and the word Spoilers on it.

Once upon a time he said: Just this once everybody lives. And he was right. He only had the power to do it once. That doesn't mean others don't have the same power!

***

Because WHY DON’T WE HAVE MORE DONNA SAFES HERSELF FICS?

Expert beneath the cut

Spoilers

The Doctor hates this word. He really did. The first time he had heard it was from the heartbroken face of a woman he never even had seen before. The next time she had sacrificed herself to save him. And then the word had suddenly been everywhere. It had been like Bad Wolf just before he had lost Donna.

The fucking word was everywhere. Just like her.

River Song with a flirty little smile on her lips and a gun in her hand, well usually. There was the sonic trowel and damn it he still hated that thing. The TARDIS hummed around him, clearly mocking him and reminding him of the fact that said troll was hidden away in the top drawer of his desk.

He hissed at his ship and Bill jumped. She shot him a look. One of many that she had been sending him since he got the letter.

A TARDIS blue envelope with a pretty little four written on it in River’s handwriting. The letter inside was bright thick paper that contained nothing, but a set of coordinates and the word Spoilers on it.

So yeah he was in a bad mood. He wasn’t supposed to meet River again. He just had his last night with her. Or maybe he had been wrong. There was the possibility that this was the last recorded meeting of them. That River was still visiting. The TARDIS made a soothing sound and this time the Doctor let out a growl.

“Oh this is it!” Bill barked and turned to him. Nardole, obviously as always, just seemed confused. “Spit it out old man!” Bill commanded. “I’m done with you being all hiss and angry for no reason. So either you spit out why you’re being like this or I’m going to ask the Tardis to turn around and bring us home.”

“As if she would do that!” He grumbled and the TARDIS, the damn traitor, she gave a warning shutter. Bill grinned at him, one eyebrow lifted like she was daring him to say more.

He sighed and glared at her.

“Fine,” He grumbled and handed the letter over to Bill. Who looked at the envelope, took out the letter and read it.

“I don’t get how this is getting you all huffy?” She finally said and the Doctor groaned.

“It’s from River.” He said and Bill brightened.

“Your wife.” She said and she sounded so eager to get more, that a small smile twitched on his lips. “So I’m going to meet her?” She asked and the smile fell.

“I don’t know.” The doctor admitted and looked away. “I…She…This shouldn’t be possible.” He whispered. “We lived our last meeting. River went to the library and …” He sacked into himself and refused to look at either of his companions.

“And then there is the envelope.” He said pointing to the offensively blue piece of paper.

“What had to do with it?” Nardole piped up.

“I did that a few hundred years ago.” The Doctor grumbled. “Send out letters to my family to meet. I had it all planned out so I could free my wife from the clutch of her…” He stopped and shook his head. “Never mind the thing is. River doing this is a nod to that day and…” The doctor rubbed his neck, feeling a bit sheepish. “I’m afraid that she will shoot me again.”

Nardole snorted. “Please, I think you learned how to dodge a bullet after that time in year seven.” Bill thankfully immediately jumped onto Nardole to know what happened in year seven. The Doctor couldn’t even be mad at his friend. After all, Bill wasn’t asking about the “shooting at me again” part. The Doctor sighed and picked up the envelope Bill had put onto the console.

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[sherl-grey]

Part 4 of my September Marathon Series for the DoctorRose Fic Marathon. It’s a wild attempt at a Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead rewrite/fix-it (read: I decided to throw canon in the garbage once more, because why not?)

(Tags below the cut, since there are a bunch.)

Rating: Teen (for mild swearing)

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Pairing: Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler

Word Count: 18,040

Summary: Spoilers for Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, and a few for Turn Left. This is technically an episode rewrite, but it's canon divergent very early on.

Rose dimension hops into the Library, only to be saved into CAL’s data core without warning. Mickey and Pete panic, and there's only one person they can think to call. (Just kidding--maybe two.)

Tags: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, The Doctor (Doctor Who)/Rose Tyler, Tenth Doctor, The Doctor (Doctor Who), Rose Tyler, Donna Noble, Jack Harkness, River Song, Mickey Smith (Doctor Who), Pete Tyler (Pete's World), Lee McAvoy, Episode: s04e08-9 Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Episode Fix-It: s04e08-9 Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, episode rewrite, Canon Divergence, Like MAJOR Canon Divergence, I sort of obliterate canon, and also River's timeline, also heavily unedited and very long so good luck, DoctorRose Fic Marathon, Dimension-Hopping Rose Tyler

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Falling Through The Cracks

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by Oreal770

During a routine trip, Rose, her metacrisis husband and their teenage daughter end up falling through a Universal crack, pulled through by the original TARDIS.

When they accidentally crash Eleven and River's date, Rose realizes the hopes she had for the Doctor have not come true: reeling from the loss of Amy and Rory and with River's impending death breaking his hearts, the Doctor is more alone and in pain than ever. Rose has had enough. She enlists her husband and some old friends to help her find a way to save River from the Library. She will give this man the same happiness he's given her, if it takes her a lifetime.

Of course, the Doctor might not agree. But sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Words: 2379, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: River Song, Metacrisis Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Eleventh Doctor, Wilfred Mott, Mickey Smith (Doctor Who), Martha Jones

Relationships: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Eleventh Doctor/River Song, Martha Jones/Mickey Smith

Additional Tags: River Song is Saved, Episode Fix-It: s04e08 Silence in the Library

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