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The TARDIS was crashing.
Katniss screamed, and closed her eyes, yet the bright fires exploding around her shone red through her eye lids. Destruction rampaged her ears in cacophonous crashes, and the Doctor was laughing like a madman. She felt the healing cut on her leg slowly tearing wider, as it wasn't fully healed, as she was thrown back and forth along the rail. She cried out and clung for dear life, steam and smoke invading her lungs, her mind spinning in dizzying circles.
"Come on, baby! Hold on! Come on!" The Doctor roared over the din. Katniss felt like smacking him and hollering that talking to the machine would not make it work correctly. They hurtled closer and closer to the arena, and Katniss could feel the TARDIS desperately rebelling. Katniss struggled to breath, and heard faintly,
"That force field can't stop us! Come ooooooon!" The Doctor shouted and pressed a small red button. They were in free fall.
Fire. The world went white for a moment, and time ceased. The sound was too loud to hear. Black ebbed on the edges of the white and Katniss was falling.
She felt as though she were fighting through a fog of butter, lost and agonizingly slow. She could hear a dull buzz in one ear, and nothing from the other. She touched it tenderly and stared at it in vague surprise when she found it covered in blood. She knew then she would never hear from that ear again, unless she had Capitol medicine, which of course she wouldn't, being from District 12. But wait, she wasn't in District 12, was she. She was in the Hunger Games.
But no, that wasn't right either. She was with the Doctor. They had just crashed the TARDIS. Which meant not only that the machine was probably broken, but she was in the games again. She needed to find Peeta, and Rue. They had saved her.
She stumbled forward and called out hoarsely,
"Doctor? We need to go! Doctor!" She reached out her raw fingers into the grey nothing. She squeaked when she hit something hard and collapsed onto it. Her hip hit something and a peculiar whir sounded. She realized it was the control panel. She held it, her nail scratching the metal, and inched slowly around, keeping her balance on the metal grate she noticed was very uneven. Her toe hit something soft.
"Doctor, is that you?" She whispered. She kicked the soft thing again and smiled when it mumbled something incoherent. She knelt and felt around for his body, grabbing his arm and shaking it. "Wake up! Now!" The Doctor opened his eyes, barely visible in the haze she realized was steam that simply would not evaporate. She laughed; it sounded foreign to her ears. The TARDIS was angry, so she was going to take away their ability to see. Well, Katniss thought, that's one way to do it.
Katniss froze when she heard a scream. It was piercing and blood curdling, making Katniss want to run. What if it was Rue? At the sound, the Doctor sat bolt upright and grabbed Katniss protectively. She gave him a puzzled look at this strange fatherly action, but he would not meet her gaze. He said darkly,
"I suppose it will be a few centuries before she forgives me, huh. My poor thing," he stroked the metal beneath him, and cringed when the canon boomed.