Chapter 1
The Christmas Invasion

Part 1

I groaned in displeasure as I fell onto the ground of the Tardis, due to the impact, as it crashed onto where we hoped was Earth. I felt a sudden feel of dizziness flood over me and felt like I was going to be sick. This was the fastest the ship had every gone and I hope we won't ever need to go that fast once again. I reached my hand up to the control panels and I felt a surge go through my head from the pain that I had earlier. It seemed that it has manage to get worse and I felt the hands of Rose helping me up.

"You okay?" Rose questioned worried as she tried to keep her balance as well. I shook my head slightly.

"No, but I will be fine." I breathed to her leaning on the Tardis before I saw the Doctor's figure running over to the door, not realising that Rose and I were having difficulty standing. I realised he was about to run outside and I felt fear for his safety due to his crazy state. "Doctor!" I yelled out and began to hurried over to the doors he left through. As I reached it the Doctor began to start talking.

"Here we are, then! London! Earth! The Solar System! We did it!" He told us we were he and I looked out to find both Mickey and Jackie standing, causing the Doctor to be surprised. "Jackie! Mickey!" He exclaimed before stumbling backwards a bit, but keeping his eyes on them. "Blimey! No, no, no, no, hold on. Wait there, I've got something to say. There was something I had to tell you. Something important, what was it? No, hold on, hold on..." He placed his hands on Jackie's and Mickey's shoulder.

"Doctor." I called out once again, worried about his health.

"Hold on, shush, shush, shush, shush... OH!" He told me before Mickey and Jackie jumped alarmed by how loud he said 'oh'. "I know!" He looked over at each of them one by one beaming, but at the same time panting, which caused me to get out of the Tardis. "Merry Christmas!" He greeted before he began to collapse and I quickly jolted over to try and catch, but didn't reach in time. I quickly knelt down, placing my hand on his cheek to examine him as I Rose appeared at the Tardis doors asking confused.

"What happened? Is he all right?" I brushed a bit of the Doctors hair as I heard her, scared at what had happened to him.

"I don't know, he just keeled over! But who is he? Where's the Doctor?" Mickey responded to Rose surprised.

"He's The Doctor." I looked up at him and they looked at me. I frowned before turning my head back to face the Doctor. "The Doctor is right here."

"What d'you mean, "he's the Doctor"? Doctor who?" Jackie asked me not understanding.

"The Doctor." I repeated emphasizing it, so she got it. I hissed a bit as my head thumped as well, but I tried to ignore it the best I could, I shouldn't worry about myself at the moment, I wasn't the one who just fainted. "Mickey, help me, he's sick." I requested his help feeling sadness come over me as I was the reason he was like this at the moment and wanted him to get out of the streets and the cold winters air.

Mickey nodded agreeing to help me and began to bend down, to help me sit him up, so I can place my arms under his armpits. I huffed he was heavier then I actually expected. Mickey then move to his legs, while Rose also decided to help as well, once she locked the door to the Tardis.

"Jackie... Lead the way." I ordered, so that she could open the doors for us to get through. …... I sat on the edge of the bed as I watched the Doctor, who was now in stripy pyjamas and tucked comfortable in Jackie's bed. Leave it to Jackie to have male pyjamas lying around. I soon heard the door bell rang and Rose who was leaning on the door said she'll get it and moved to go and open it as her mother entered the room.

"Here we go." Jackie moved to the bed sitting beside me handing me a stethoscope.

"How do you have this?" I gave her a weird look.

"Well, Tina the Cleaner's got this lodger, medical student. And she was fast asleep, so I just took it." She responded and I couldn't help but laugh a bit.

"You always know the right people don't you Jackie." I shook my head smiling. "Thanks." I thanked her as I began to place the stethoscope into my ears.

"Yeah I guess I do, though, I still saw we should take him to the hospital." Jackie said to me and I quickly looked up to her from the Stethoscope about to respond until a male voice spoke up.

"That wouldn't be wise, I mean he's an alien and things could go terribly wrong." I turned to see James looking into the door way wearing his winter coat, and he gave me a wave. "I came as fast as I could." He told me.

"Just like you said you would." I gave him a hug before sitting on the bed again, moving my hand down the Stethoscope to the end before agreeing with James. "James is right they could dissect him." I brought up.

"Yeah one bottle of his blood could change the future of the human race." Rose commented, which Jackie was about to respond.

"I know what your thinking Jackie and no." I interrupted before she could, and clenched my fist around the medical equipment as another thump of pain went through my head. I shook my head one more time before leaning down to place the item on the left side of his chest first, hearing a steady heartbeat, which caused me to let out a breath I was holding and then went to his other heart.

I felt relived to hear the exact same reaction from the other heart and it took so pressure off of me, but it didn't change how I was feeling. I was worried about him, he said the regeneration went wrong because of the vortex. It went wrong because he took the time vortex from me, this should have been me. I was the reason he was in this state and it pained me, this wasn't what was meant to happen and yet it did. I felt myself begin to shake due to the pain I felt in my hearts and head, and I quickly let go of the stethoscope taking it out of my ears agitated.

"Re are you okay?" Rose asked me concerned before adding. "Is he okay?" and I nodded.

"Yeah." I lied about myself not wanting to show how I felt inside especially in front of everyone. "Yeah." I repeated. "And Both of his hearts are working at the moment" I told her.

"What d'you mean 'both'?" Jackie questioned confused.

"The Doctor has to hearts." I brought up, but I didn't look up at anyone and only stared at the Doctor. I placed my hands on my lap trying to stop them from shaking before feeling another jolt in my head and I cursed, suddenly moving one of my hands up to my head.

"Re!?" I felt James quickly knelt down beside me as soon as I cursed, placing a hand on my shoulder.

"I'm fine it's just a headache." I moaned, it felt even more painful then the previous ones I had. "A painful one at that." I sighed.

"A headache? Wait! The Doctor mentioned that whats happening to him is to do with the time vortex it went through you too." Rose announced in concern for me and I quickly put my head up shaking my head.

"It's nothing to do with the time vortex." I quickly told her. "I had this before we opened the heart of the Tardis... just not as bad as it is now." I explained.

"Jackie, where are the painkillers." James turned to Jackie once I finished.

"Kitchen draw on the left." Jackie responded, but looked confused and James nodded.

"I will go get you some." James told me and I nodded at him as he stood up and left the room and Rose spoke again.

"When did you have it before?" Rose inquired.

"After I opened my pocket watch." I replied moving my hand away from my head, looking at Jackie. "Jackie you okay?" I asked.

"Two hearts?" She questioned before shaking her head. "Don't be stupid." She scoffed going back to what we were talking about before, not believing us.

"He has!" Rose claimed, taking the Stethoscope from the bed and rolling it up.

"Anything else he's got two of?" She implied to something else and Rose just told him to leave him alone before walking out of the room and Jackie following as James came back with a glass of water and painkillers.

"Thanks." I thanked him taking them from me before he took Jackie's place.

"So exactly how bad is it?" James inquired.

"Oh...Uh...About a 5...6...7... To be honest it alters." I replied taking the pills hoping it will take away at least a bit of the pain that added onto everything else.

"So you think is has anything to do with turning into a Timelord? Timelord... was it?" He brought up and I nodded.

"Timelord yeah that's right." I confirmed before placing the glass on the floor. "And maybe, to be honest I don't know, most likely as I only felt it afterwards. The Doctor told me it was dangerous, no one had ever done it before, could be a side effect. All I no is that it is annoying and painful." I sighed.

"Then I guess you should take it easy, until the painkiller sink in, and it won't help if you begin to panic about what is happening to the Doctor." He stated, somehow knowing what I was feeling on the inside. "He is sleeping at the moment and both of his hearts are beating, everything alright." and I frowned.

"But it might not last that way and he could get worse I cannot help it, honestly I wish I could but..." I felt like tears welling up my eyes. "I'm the reason he is like this. He took the vortex out of me, he consumed it to save me, it was meant to be me." I felt the tears slowly fall down my face and I felt the pain in my hearts, which I was still getting use to as I felt things twice as bad now and I didn't like it. "I was meant to save him! But instead I caused him to regenerate into the man lying unconscious in this bed! It all went wrong! And it should be me in his place instead!" I raised my voice pissed off with myself and distressed.

"Hey! Hey!" James quickly knelt down on the floor grabbing on to me so that I could look into my eyes as tears kept falling and I felt like I was going to revert back into the shell I have done privous times before. "Stop! No!" He told be me to stop. "Re. This is not your fault." He insisted but I shook my head.

"But..." I began and he interrupted me.

"This is not you fault." He pushed sternly. "Look at me." He ordered and I looked up with him with sad eyes. "This is not your fault." He whispered. "Okay." He paused for a second before continuing. "I may not know the Doctor as well as you or Rose do and have only seen him once, but I know that he had chosen to do this, he chose to give his life to save you Re, just like you were going to do, tell me if it happened to you would you say that it was his fault that you changed. No you wouldn't because you chose to so so and that's what he did he chose to take it from you." He brushed a piece of my hair out of the the way. "And look he's not dead. I may not understand this whole regeneration thing you mentioned but his 'hearts?' are beating and he is still breathing. There is nothing we can do at the moment but wait, I know, but he's breathing and I am sure he wouldn't be if you didn't do what you did. You did save him Re, from they way you sounded he was in a much more worse position then this am I right?" He waited for a response and I looked down.

"He was outnumber by Daleks... I stopped them... He wouldn't of been able to regenerate in time..." I whispered sadly.

"Exactly, now breath, calm yourself, and rest or you won't be able to help him." He stated and I realised he was right. I was still sad and upset and it still hurt, but I couldn't let it stop me from helping making sure he will get better. I nodded at him, wiping my eyes and he nodded. "I'm here for you okay, so is everybody else. Come on lets go to the living room. I believe they will be talking about the Guinevere one on the news some time soon."

"Guinevere one?" I asked confused as to what it was. "Its a space probe, Harriet Jones and the government have set up and we going to be getting photos from it sometime today." He explained getting up and giving me a hand to take which I did.

"Really? Harriet Jones?" I questioned.

"Yeah like you said back in Cardiff, she's our prime minister now and a bloody good one at that, might a say, there calling it..."

"Britain's Golden age" I interrupted him saying what he was going to say and he let out laugh and I smiled a bit.

"Yeah." He smiled back and then signalled for the door to let me out first. I nodded at him and walked into the room, where Rose and Jackie were in watching the telly.

"I completely disagree if you don't mind." I heard from the TV seeing Harriet Jones talk and Rose laugh and my smile widened seeing her on the screen proud of her. "The Guinevere One Space Probe represents this country's limitless ambition. British workmanship sailing up there among the stars."

"You were right." I leaned to James as he guessed exactly what was right on the telly.

"Wasn't difficult." He replied before taking his coat off that he was still wearing at this time and my attention went back to the screen.

"This is the spirit of Christmas, birth and rejoicing, and the dawn of a new age, and that is what we're achieving fifteen million miles away. Our very own miracle." As the man spoke the tv showed a computerised image of probe zooming from earth as a newsreader began to speak. "The unmanned probe Guinevere One is about to make its final descent. Photographs of the Martian Landscape should be received by midnight tonight."

"Midnight tonight, so Christmas day, you got that one wrong it's tomorrow." I grinned at James.

"Well we can't all be right." He fake sighed as he sat down in and so did I and watched the tv for a bit, letting the painkillers sink in more and to get my mind off of what was happening for a bit, or at least try to.

…..

"And I was scared, I was terrified. The Vortex was killing me, burning my brain severely and I didn't know what to do." I spoke to James telling him about what had happened at bad wolf, as Rose and Mickey went to get presents as I watched the Doctor with James. I was sitting on the bed watching the Doctor rest as James leaned on the wall, listening quietly as I continued. "I knew it was going to happen even before I chose to open up the Tardis and yet I was there afraid of what was happening." I paused for a second remembering it, though I couldn't really remember anything from the time vortex I remembered what it had caused. "The Doctor then pulled me closer to him. I knew what he was planning." I laughed sadly. "And yet I couldn't stop him. I was defenceless, I couldn't move. I was frozen in place, but I wasn't just frozen because of the time vortex and the fear of dying." I felt the tears coming but I tried to hold them back the best I could. "Oh no. But also because he needed to kiss me to take it away from me, It was the only way to consume it from me, and though I didn't want him to, not wanting him to be the one to die and become the state he is in now, I wanted him to kiss me. I was tired of keeping it in and I felt like if it didn't happen then it would never happen, especially when we were both the way we were. I didn't want him to take it from me but I couldn't stop it!" I felt a tear slide down my face and I breathed calming myself down a bit. "I let him...and the next thing I knew I was in the Tardis resting on Rose's lap before the Doctor I have grown to love began saying his final words to us. I shouted at him. It was meant to be me I said, I caused him to die." I looked down to the ground. "I then tried to tell him how I felt about him, but I couldn't say it. I couldn't! And I wanted to tell him, that version of him the one that began this all! And I couldn't! I tried but all I could say was that I like him, and I don't know if he got what I was trying to say as he changed right then!" I tightened my fists.

Though I wouldn't necessarily say it was love that I felt towards the Doctor, how would I know it has never happened to me before, but I knew it was more then a simple like it was somewhere in between and it was difficult for me to say where.

"Is it that bad that he's changed." James finally spoke up curious and I turned my head slightly to look at the sleeping Doctor before shaking my head.

"I don't know." I whispered back honestly. "But the Doctor lying in the bed isn't the Doctor that took me away from this planet and made me see and feel things I never thought would happen. When Timelords regenerate though they keep some parts of the previous generations, like there memories and things like that, but their personality changes everything gets altered and sometimes they can be completely different people then there previous regeneration. I have yet to know what this Doctor is like, but the funny things is that I know I will still love him, how could I not? He's the Doctor and will always be the Doctor, but it does hurt and it hurts really bad that the previous Doctor has gone. I miss him so much James... so much, but it doesn't mean that I will not like him like I liked the previous one it's just that he wasn't the one that began this all." I explained to him before scanning over the Doctor taking in closer what he looked like now.

I couldn't help but smile a little at how much more handsome he was now, though the ninth had his own charm I would say that his new version would beat him in a looks contest. I would actually say that I saw him to be far more attractive then Jack, but then again I felt like Jack was more of an unattainable type of handsome, while the Doctor looked more like an everyday type of handsome. I felt myself brush back a bit of the Doctors hair away from his face and felt a warm feeling inside me as I remembered the way it felt when he held my hand back in the Tardis, it felt like the old Doctors, well in a more sensual way then physical, but the felt the pain in my heart once again. I truly hope that the Doctor would be alright and that this Doctor isn't so distance from what the previous Doctor was, but even then I believe I would still stand by him. I sighed before standing up.

"I should probably go and sleep for a bit." I yawned feeling tiredness throughout my body, seeing as I haven't properly slept since I got to bad wolf in the first place, sure I fell unconscious but that wasn't any proper sleep especially with the pain in my head. I still felt it in the back of my head and every once and a while a jolt of pain went through it, but it settled down a bit, but I knew if I didn't get any sleep it would get worse again and I wouldn't be able to do anything to help him in a state of pain. "Please wake me up if something happens to him."I asked James looking at him with tired eyes.

"Sure thing, you rest now." He gave me a small smile and I nodded walking past him into my room in Jackie's house.

It felt somewhat nostalgic as I entered my old room, but also foreign as well. Everything that I left here was still in the places where they belonged, frozen in time since I was last here. It brought back memories but at the same time it didn't feel like this room was mine any more, it felt like it belonged to someone else. Someone else that wasn't me, but it was mine and these objects where mine but to me this all felt like it had the atmosphere of sadness in the room. All the years I was here I was trying to get by, I always felt trapped and I always felt sadness, sure I had Rose, Jack, Mickey but I felt that was all that I had and I was grateful of them, sure I was but at the same time it didn't change the fact I felt sadness everyday, I always held it in, but it was there until I saw the world at what it was like now. She was gone when I was travelling that version of me. I felt happen truly happy, but I am back now and I had fear in my heart that I might be trapped here once again. If he didn't get better that was, or if he decided he didn't want to take us along any more I would be back here. I would revert back to my old self again I could feel it, maybe even worse then before I mean I would of lost one of the people I cared the most about as well if that were to happen and I didn't want it to. I felt tears fall down my eyes once again as I pulled out the pocket watch along with my phone. I stared at my pocket watch with sad eyes. I didn't know what to do and it was frustrating to me, that I couldn't think of anything. I quickly placed them on my bed side table and fell on to my bed curling up to try and comfort myself. I was scared and I felt useless.

"So many! Where did you get all of these books?" I scanned over the many books that spread many selves of a large room.

"Oh you know, through travelling, They come all over all over time, space and planets though my collection is nothing near The Library."

"The Library you mean the library that's the size of a planet and that has practically every book in the universe in it." I glanced over to the young looking male I was talking to.

It was only use in his Library I had came across, as I left the house. The young man I was talking to was the owner of this place and I knew he was much more older then he looked.

"I wish I could go see it, it sounds like such an amazing place to go, though..." I moved my head down to the ground a picture of skeleton like creatures flashed in my head before shaking it away.

"Have you not travelled there yet?" He questioned me curiously.

"I have never left Gallifrey." I revealed.

"You haven't?" He asked and I shook my head.

"No. My father didn't want me to. I can't blame him though I am the only person he has left and he would be lonely if I am gone, plus I get to see the world through books instead." I explained.

"But reading them never relates to how it actually feels being there seeing it happen with you own eyes instead of reading it." He awed with a light in his eyes. I could tell this man I love to travel. "It's amazing seeing it first hand, it such an amazing adventure."

"And I believe you when you say those words, but if I'm honest I don't need to get into a Tardis to experience it for myself, although I would love to hear your stories, Mister Libarian." I turned to him I had book and pen in my hand, looking up at him.

"And I would enjoy telling them to you Miss...er?" He stopped when he realised he didn't know my name.

"Cassandra... Well thats what my father began to call me anyways and it had stuck since." I told him.

"Cassandra." He repeated. "A lovely name, but don't you have a title?" He inquired and I shrugged slightly.

"Well in some ways Cassandra is my title." I revealed with a small smile.

"I see, but you only mentioned your father, what do others call you? Do they call you the same name?"

"Others? No. I don't have anyone else" I brought up looking a way a bit before turning my head back.

"I'm sorry to hear that." He apologised and I shook my head.

"It's alright, what about you?"

"Nope it's just me, in the company of adventures and books." He admitted to my question.

"Well maybe that will change." I hinted and he smiled.

"Yeah maybe..."

I woke up to the sound of my phone blaring beside of my and the pain in my forehead resurfacing and I jolted up in bad, unsure about what was going on and where I was for a moment before I could down realising I was still in my room back at Jackie's. I quickly dove to my phone suddenly.

"Hello?" I answered with alarm in my voice, but also a bit light headed.

"About time Re!" I heard Rose yell on the other side.

"I'm sorry?" I was confused.

"It's fine! Where in danger! Almost home! Open the door!" She yelled urgently at me and I quickly jumped out of the bed I was in and hurried to the door.

"What's going on!" I yelled back walking passed both Jackie and James who jumped slightly at how I just came out of my room shouting on the phone running to the door, but I ignored them. I quickly stepped out of the apartment to see a taxi suddenly stop and Rose and Mickey running out of the car.

"Santa attacked us!" She shouted at me through the phone as I watched her coming up the stares.

"What?!" I was so confused at what was happen, before I hissed at the jolt that ran through my head as Rose and Mickey reached me and pushed me through the door, hanging up her phone.

"Get off the phone!" Rose ordered her mum running into the leaving room dragging me along Mickey following.

"It's only Bev! She says hello." Jackie told her daughter as Rose let go of me and grabbed the phone of her.

"Bev? Yeah- look, it'll have to wait." She breathed before hanging up the phone and turned to us. "It's not safe, we've gotta get out - where can we go?" Rose got straight to the point, while I held on to the door frame trying to correlate what was going on.

"My mate Stan, he'll put us up." Mickey suggested.

"That's only two streets away." Rose stated before turning to Jackie. "What about Mo? Where's she living now?"

"I dunno! Peak District!" Jackie answered her.

"Oh, we'll go to Cousin Mo's then." Rose breathed. "No, it if where not safe, lets not get any one else involved, we'll head back to mine." James returned not sure what was going on but could tell it was urgent.

"It's Christmas Eve! We're not going anywhere! What're you babbling about?" Jackie refused to leave.

"If it is dangerous the best place to go is the Tardis." I pointed out, when I could, but unsure still of what was happening. "It has a defence mechanism." Rose turned to me.

"Do you know how to set it up?" Rose questioned and I shrugged.

"No, but its better to take the Doctor to the Tardis which is more stronger then a house and it is the closest to us!" I brought up but then noticed the tree was different then the one Jackie had when I went to sleep. Rose noticed my distraction and turned around as well to see a green tree instead of a white one.

"Mum... Where'd you get that tree?" Jackie turns to look at it what Rose pointed at.

"That's a new tree. Where'd you get it?" Re wondered.

"Well, I thought it was Rose!" Jackie told me and I began to get a bad feeling about this slowly taking a step back.

"How can it be me?" Rose asked her alarmed.

"Well, you went shopping, there was a ring at the door, and there it was!" She explained to us.

"No, that wasn't me." Rose admitted.

"Then who was it...?" Jackie wondered out loud and Rose began to push her mother behind her as the tree began to light up.

"Oh, you've gotta be kidding me." I huffed not in a good mood that this was happen, some thing to wake up to. We watched as the tree suddenly begin to spin around slowly before Jingle bells started to play. Each second that passed it went faster causing Jackie to scream as the coffee table was shredded into firewood by the tree.

"Go, go, go! Get out!" James shouted to us, while Mickey picked up a chair holding it in defence against the tree as Rose and I sprinted into the Doctor's room, while Jackie ran to the door. "We've got to save the Doctor!" I exclaimed running to the other side of the bed, throwing the covers off of the Doctor.

"What're you doing?!" Jackie ran back to us screaming scared. "We can't leave him here!" I yelled moving the sheets as Jackie began to shout the males to get over here.

"Mickey! James! Get out of there!" Jackie yelled before she turned around to me and Rose who was helping me with the covers. "Just leave him!"

"Get in here!" Mickey ordered pushing Jackie into the room with everyone, finally deciding to come and James slammed the door shut behind him. "The wardrobe!" He yelled and they all began to push the wardrobe in front of the door.

"Come on Doctor." I urgently called out his name. "Wake up, Please wake up." I looked over to Rose. I didn't know what to do and I could tell so did Rose. We needed the Doctor. "Rose! Jacket!" I ordered and she threw it to me and I began to rummage through it for the screwdriver as the wardrobe started to shake signalling the tree was on the other side.

"What are we going to do?" Rose yelled as the Christmas tree crushes through the wardrobe causing everyone to back up, while I knelt down closer to the Doctor, placing the screwdriver in his hand.

"I'm gonna get killed by a Christmas tree!" Jackie cried in despair as she leaned against the wall closing her eyes.

Desperately I leaned towards the Doctors head wishing that he would wake up to save us.

"Help us Doctor, help me." I whispered praying, I didn't know what to do and we needed him.

Suddenly the Doctor jolts up very quickly causing me to fall backwards, and pointed his screwdriver at the tree causing it to explode and I let out a breath I was holding. I wanted to smile that he was awake, but I was to concerned at what was happening at this time I didn't.

"Remote control. But who's controlling it?" The Doctor questioned getting out of the bed leaving the room.

I quickly sprung up and hurried to follow him outside of the apartment. We stood out on the balcony as the Doctor secured the dressing gown he was wearing and we noticed three Santa's outside staring at us. "That's them. What are they?" Mickey announced before Rose hushed him. We looked towards the Doctor. He had on a straight face and he raised his screwdriver towards them threateningly, which cause them to back away closer to each other before the teleported away.

"They've just gone! What kind of rubbish were they? I mean, no offence, but they're not much cop if a sonic screwdriver's gonna scare them off." Mickey commented.

"Pilot Fish." The Doctor stated. "Excuse me?" I asked him confused.

"They were just Pilot Fish." He responded before he began to cough throwing himself backwards against the wall in pain. I jolted over to him grabbing his arm so he would fall over.

"Doctor!" I called his name worryingly, not like seeing him in pain.

"You woke me up too soon." He panted breathing heavily. "I'm still regenerating. I'm bursting with energy."

"I'm sorry." I apologised to him, but he shook his head before more of the vortex escaped his mouth.

"You see? The Pilot Fish could smell it. A million miles away. So they eliminate the defence - that's you lot - and they carry me off. They could run their batteries on me for a couple of year—" He lurched forwards groaning and Jackie caught him. "My head!" The Doctor complained. "I'm having a neuron implosion. I need-" Jackie kneeled in front of him before guessing frantically.

"What do you need?"

"I need-"

"Say it, tell me, tell me-" Jackie kept interrupting him before he could answer. "Painkillers?"

"Do you need aspirin?"

"Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh, I dunno- Pepto-Bismol?"

"Liquid paraffin. Vitamin C? Vitamin D? Vitamin E?"

"Is it food? Something simple? Uh- a bowl of soup? A nice bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Soup and a little ham sandwich?"

"I need you to shut up." The Doctor made out before Jackie could continue.

"Oh, he hasn't changed that much, has he?" Jackie groaned as the Doctor lurched forwards again, leaning on the opposite wall as Jackie made oo's of sympathy.

"We haven't got much time. If there's Pilot Fish, then—" The Doctor panting as I reached to hold his arm again, before he takes an apple out of his dressing gown. "Why's there an apple in my dressing gown?"

"Oh, that's Howard's, sorry." Jackie apologised.

"He keeps apples in his dressing gown?" He questioned confused.

"He gets hungry." Jackie pointed out.

"What, he gets hungry in his sleep?" He looked down to the apple.

"Sometimes." Jackie responded.

"Do you think it's really the best time to be talking about apples." I interrupted before the Doctor suddenly shouts out in pain and sinks to the floor.

"Brain- collapsing-" He moaned, before he went to grab my upper arm tightly, noticing he was having difficulty speaking. "P- the Pilot Fish. The Pilot Fish mean... that something- something—" He took a deep breath. "Something's coming." He told me before collapsing onto my lap and I was alarmed by what he said.