Before is after After far more often than After is after After or is before Before. Concurrent existance is rare. Rarer still that they line up in memories of experiences.

For aeons, mankind assumed that we are composed of our memories, that those memories define our relationships as much as they define how we react.

River Song knew differently, but wasn't of a mind to change the mind of a species on the verge of speciating. Her job, her duty-task was to spread knowledge about ancient and bygoned peoples and ruins - this was personal, just between him and her. To do so (to blab the news out and about) wouldn't save anyone or doom anyone. Might unneccessarily complicate her love life, though. She remembered going some places with him, He remembered going some of those with her and some of other places with her; and for either to not be there was a headache at best.

So she went where she went, spoilers willing, and met him where she met him, spoilers proven.

A variable star, a pair of them more properly, brightening and dimming just peachy fine on their own, but blazing in those moments together.


Requests: Lucy Saxon/Colonel Ross Brimmicombe-Wood, Ace McShane/Private Ross Jenkins, Harriet Jones/Sergeant John Benton, Ben Jackson/Anji Kapoor