"One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye Susan. Goodbye my dear."
The First Doctor – "The Dalek invasion of Earth"
"Hang on Doctor!" Sarah said, going to the TARDIS with the semiconscious Time Lord leaning on her shoulder.
He was heavy for her, but she had to get to the ship as soon as possible. He was pale, wounded in his right side, losing a lot of blood and about to faint or something worse. Those were the occupational hazards.
"You're bleeding out, you need blood, Doctor. We must go to Gallifrey, your people can help you," said Sarah, terribly worried. The Time Lord was leaving a significant trail of blood, but thankfully they had reached the blue box.
Sarah took him to the console, where the Doctor, after pressing weakly the controls that would lead them to their next destination, fell to the ground without the girl could avoid it. She took a handkerchief from her pocket and tried to stop the bleeding with it.
"Doctor! Doctor, don't sleep. Let's go to Gallifrey," the young journalist patted her companion's cheek so that he didn't lose consciousness. It was dangerous, because he could not reawaken.
"Gallifrey is not place for us ... Susan ... we go to Earth ..." said the Doctor, his voice weak, tired, his blue eyes staring into nowhere.
"I'm Sarah." The girl was scared.
"Arkytior ... Arkytior ..." He was saying something that Sarah did not understand, so she assumed he was speaking in his native language.
"Don't sleep, stay with me, please."
"Arkytior ..."
He was no longer with her. His dying body was there but his mind had travelled to a place where Sarah's voice could not reach him.
Still far away in time and space, a young girl with short black hair accidentally dropped a glass.
"Susan, what happens?"
"David, call Dr. Richardson, quick!" said the girl.
"Are you sick?"
"He is coming! And he needs my help!"
David Campbell didn't know exactly what his wife was saying, but he was quickly to call their trustworthy doctor.
The Doctor had lost consciousness completely. Sarah was trying to stop the flow of blood that was escaping from the wound, keeping calm everything she could. She was so absorbed in her task that she didn't realize that the TARDIS had landed until she heard that someone was banging on the door insistently. The journalist got up and opened the door with bloodstained hands; there was no time to clean them. A black haired girl came in hasty and, without saying a word, she knelt beside the Doctor.
"Grandfather!" she said in a worried voice.
After a few seconds trying to assimilate the scene, Sarah thought she understood who that mysterious girl was.
"Arkytior?"