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Police
"But you said we were a team."
Lady Christina looked up at the Doctor incredulously. Hadn't he mentioned time and again during this little adventure just what a great pair they were?
"I've had people travel with me, and I've lost them. Never again."
His eyes were hard, so different from when they were talking to aliens, and saving the others, the suns sweltering above them. The little joy she had seen there had all of a sudden disappeared. Was it ever there to begin with?
She winced at his words, not used to being turned down. Especially by a man. But well, he wasn't just a man, was he?
Unaware of the hands on her, the man shouting in her face, some glory, some goal accomplished, Lady Christina kept her eyes on the Doctor as they led her away.
He looked indifferent.
She hadn't known him for longer than a few hours, but it stung to see him look at her that way.
The Doctor had said that he had lost people, but that look, it told her that he had lost someone who stood out among the rest. Whoever he lost, it was someone important…someone special. Someone worth more than the stars, running and adventures. She didn't know how she knew, but that's how the look felt.
She succumbed to the men and their shoves, her wrists grasped tightly behind her back. Then, suddenly, as she was about to climb in the backseat of the awaiting police car, she felt the cuffs loosen around her wrists. Lady Christina looked back toward the Doctor, knowing that somehow he was responsible. He gave her a slight smile, a mischievous boyhood smirk. She smiled back slightly and thought that, whoever it was that he'd lost, she hoped he would find her once more.
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