24) And Who Might You Be?

A/N- This chapter is rated a solid PG-13/ T.  It deals with the appearance of one Captain Jack Harkness in the lives of the Ponds.  It’s a tie in for previous and potential future chapters, but not altogether necessary if the rating makes you nervous.
If you do read it, please let me know what you think.  This is my first serious attempt at the Captain.  Thank you!

They were in a tavern on the third crater of Zulon, waiting for their husbands at the end of their girls’ day.  River was trying to get her mother to ignore her injured ankle, which she had twisted running from a rabid creature known as an abaoun.  Eventually, River had convinced the creature that a pond full of fish would be a better place to scout for a meal.  Suddenly, a man approached them, tall, brunette, and with the distinct swagger of someone used to getting his way.  River was married to a man with such a swagger.
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2. The Doctor Dances

A/N: I decided if I was going to properly going to continue this, I would have to give a name to another character, and since certain things are rather vague in the series, I’m going to say this is slightly AU, or at least acknowledge that I took several liberties with situations.       

Angst. Definitely.

He allowed himself three days, every century.  Just three days to remember them, just so they would never be lost to the universe.  Once every 100 years, he would take out that music box from oh- so long ago, ask the TARDIS for those semi- solid holograms, and would lose himself to dancing.

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