Sometimes the pain of losing the woman he loved before he loved her caught up with him, most frequently when they were lying in bed, breathing raggedly and very pleased with each other. He would play with her hair and she would trace his ribs with her fingertips, a sensation that would make him feel funny. She was so warm, so real, that it naturally called to mind their first-for-him meeting, when he had had the sticky-uppy hair and the nose that rivalled Rory's in its beakiness. Her wild halo of hair had been pulled up and confined in a tight ponytail that laid over her head in a peculiar way. Even in the suit, he had thought she was strikingly and strongly gorgeous (things he tried to avoid thinking before he met her). Defiant and full of fire. She had been unfairly snuffed out.

Thinking those thoughts pricked hot tears in his eyes. He stroked her honey-blonde curls with a shaking hand, whispering in Gallifreyan how much she meant to him and everything he loved about her. His lips moved fast, faster than he could normally manage, and she barely kept up with his words. Her human DNA obstructed her instant understanding of Gallifreyan sometimes, an issue she called 'Time Lord dyslexia." But this was voicing raw emotions, things that he kept locked away in a dark corner of his mind, so even if she hadn't been able to decipher the exact words, the tone spoke volumes. She responded the only way she knew to be effective: drew herself up over the top of him and kissed him languidly, as if they had all the time in the world. Cold fingers clutched at her shoulders, pulling her in closer and verifying that she was real at the same time.

"River," he breathed when they finally broke apart, "I don't want you to. Please don't go."

Confusion swept over her. "Sweetie, I'll never go anywhere. I'll stay with you until the end of reality. After all, where would a man be without a Song playing in his head?"

OOOHH double entendre because River can mess with the Doctor's mind sometimes, aren't I clever hahaha. ._.'

And I've always seriously wondered WHY 11 makes fun of Rory's nose so much because look at David Tennant's nose. He's got more nose than Alan Rickman does. Which gives him no right to make fun of poor Rory! Poor poor Rory...