Ryan shifted uncomfortably on the cold metal chair he had been given. He and the rest of Team Tardis had been promised access to the teleport to get them back to the junk planet and the Tardis, but government bureaucracy seemed to be a constant throughout the universe. A hospital administrator had promised that the line would be no more than 3 rotations of the local moon, which the doctor had translated to mean no more than eight hours. Unfortunately, that conversation had only taken place three hours ago, according to Graham's watch, whose owner was currently snoring against the wall of the small waiting room. Ryan, on the other hand, couldn't get the image of Avocado being lifted out a… stomach sac… out of his mind. He was glad he had never watched Call the Midwife with his grandmother and Graham. Why couldn't he have helped the Doctor trap the Pting, like Yaz had excitedly told him after the excitement was over?
"Speaking of Yaz", Ryan thought, slightly worried, "she and the doctor went to look for snacks and blankets a while ago. Did they get lost on the way back?" Ryan stiffly stood up from the rigid chair and poked his head out in the hallway, careful to open the door slowly as not to wake Graham. The rest of Team Tardis was nowhere to be seen. He turned left into a sloping hallway lit by some kind of floating blue lights and called out: "Yaz? Doctor? You there?"
Ryan heard nothing but the faint echo of his voice and decided to venture down the corridor. He passed harried-looking workers speed-walking past and tried to resist the urge to stare at the blue man with two heads. He had just decided to give up and go back to the uncomfortable chair when he spotted two familiar figures through a transparent door to the doctor was sitting down, stretching her long legs across the landing. Yaz had her head in the doctor's lap, hair fanning across blue pants, while the doctor had wrapped her arms around Yaz in an unmistakable embrace. They were both fast asleep. Ryan tiptoed out of the staircase and eased the door shut with a smile on his face. It would be best to leave them peacefully.