Running through the corridors of the TARDIS Sky felt as scared to death. She was out of breath, running through an endless corridor, running from something big and monstrous. If she had to stop now it would surely get her. "Doctor?" She called out; knowing he was the only person the thought could save her. "Doctor...!" She called out in fright, "Help me!"
The voice she heard was not of The Doctor's but was a deep threatening voice coming from behind her "I'll get you Distawrwydd Lladd..."
She ran faster breathing deeply and calling out for The Doctor with belated breaths. "Please... Save me! Someone!" Running and running and running. Shouting out The Doctor's name needed to know that whatever was following her hadn't got him too. After running what seemed like an age she heard a voice calling out her name, it was a woman's voice. "Sky! Sky! Where are you!" It sounded like... "I'm here! Help me!"
"Sky you can stop now!" The voice commanded.
"Stop?"
"Running!"
Sky turned a corner and bumped into something. The something exclaimed and turned around. "River?" Sky asked.
"Sky! I was looking for you!" Sky felt herself pulled towards River.
"Something's coming... We have to go!"
"Nothings coming..." Her voice change to the deep voice that she heard earlier and her eyes tinted a deep shade of red, "... I'm already here!"
Sky awoke with a scream and sat bolt uprights suddenly, as though the top half of her body had been forced forward, propelled by a huge spring. The Doctor was standing at the foot of her bed, leaning against it. Looking at her wide with frightened eyes. His face was as pale as a ghost and his lip a pale blue. Sky breathed heavily, her eyes fixed upon The Doctors terrified expression, "What happened?" He asked tentatively, his voice broken and shaky.
"I don't know," She replied, curling up into a ball and hugging her knees, "One moment I was dreaming about home and then..." She trailed up and looked back up at The Doctor realising what had made him so frightened "River..." She said simply.
"Yeah..." The Doctor said with a deep frightened voice, "you were running away from something then you bumped into her and she was the thing that you were running from... Right?" The Doctor analysed.
Sky frowned with a face of disbelief and horror, "H-How much did I say out loud?"
"I just heard you scream," Was all The Doctor could say.
"I'm... Confused. It was just a dream right?"
The Doctor looked at her "Sky... We had the same dream..."
"What?" Sky almost shouted, "But how, that's not possible?"
"It is, I had that dream at exactly the same time as you... I fell asleep standing up and we dreamt the same dream. You screamed and I came running... You know the rest." He walked around the side of the bed and sat down next to her sighing as Sky asked "What do you think it means?"
"Anything and nothing..."
"What?"
"We could have just had some kind of psychic episode brought on by the TARDIS scans and readings I've been doing, and your exposure to the vortex could cause the frontal lobe of your brain to expose your fears, but you're not scared of River... Are you?"
Sky thought about her answer then said "I wasn't before I dreamt that... The thought of not being able to find you scared me..." She paused awkwardly, looking up at The Doctors now pink face before continuing, "Maybe that was why we both had it... To scare us...both."
"Or warn us..."
They sat there in a stunned silence, both searching their heads for a similarity that they both had. Sky knew of one that could have easily explained the illusions. But she desperately didn't want to be right. "Doctor..." He nodded as a reply, "What about the eye patches...?" The Doctor pressed his to his eye and asked "What would they do?"
"I don't know... Prolonged exposure to..." She thought of the first and most scientific word that came into her head "... Radiation?"
"Erm..." The Doctor tried to suppress a laugh, but when he looked into Sky's serious looking eyes he couldn't help but laugh. After a few moments Sky did too and then added "What? I couldn't think of anything else to say!" They both giggled loudly for a long time. After a while The Doctor tapped her knee and said "Right then, up, dressed and join me in the console room!" He got up and Sky jumped out of bed.
"Erm Doctor..."
"Yeah?" He said turning to face her.
"How?"
He frowned, "How what?"
She tutted and said "How will I find you?"
"Oh!" He laughed, "Keep the green light on your right at all times, and I'll set the TARDIS to guide you to the console room. Trust me! And if you get lost, shout me! I'll here you!" With that he disappeared. Walking along the corridor he was thinking about the events of the morning. If it was both he and Sky who had the same dream at the same time, that would mean there is some truth within it. The thing that scared him the most about that was not that River was dangerous, he already knew that, but when he was shouting for help, the person he was shouting for, the person he was sure he wanted to protect and be protected by, was Sky.
