Two more chapters to go after this one, then I can get on to the follow on. Anyway please read and enjoy. :D :P
The room they had now entered was dark."Don't suppose you've got a light in your pocket have you?" Sherlock asked. He had doubted she would until she pulled out a long ultraviolet torch.
"Sapphire, did you steal my portable sunlight/ultraviolet torch?" asked the Doctor. She saw Sherlock snigger.
"I may have and if I did, and I'm not telling you that whether I have, you know I would return it." She told him.
"So you do have it" the Doctor stated. Sapphire sighed.
"Yes, ok I have it. Anyway I thought that it got blown up when Guido blew up his house to kill the 'Vampires in Venice'." There was a long pause before the Doctor finally answered. "
I bought another one" he said simply.
"Did you buy it though or did you steal it?" she asked. There was another pause.
"Ok so I stole it, but you never know when I may need it again." He mentioned. She laughed and shook her head, while shining the torch around the room. Sapphire and the Doctor carried on their conversation telepathically.
"I thought your mum told you to never steal, but you stole a TARDIS and ran away." She quoted, remembering what the human version of the TARDIS said, or is yet to say, in the episode the 'Doctor's Wife'. "
I borrowed it" he told her plainly. "
Yeah and never returned it. I took the blame you know. They found me and I got punished until I couldn't take it anymore, so… I fought back." There was a short pause before she carried on. "In the end I was battered and bruised until the only other punishment they could give me, was to join their army. I couldn't take it, they were turning me into a weapon and so I ran away. I was told that I was making a big mistake, but I didn't care, anywhere was better than there. When I returned, you had married my sister Clarissa."
He felt Sapphire's emotions run wild inside his mind. "I was forced to. I didn't know that you suffered, because of me. Oh Tara, I've always loved you, from the moment I first laid eyes on you at the Academy. The moment I saw you, I realised that you were mu bonded and that you are the only one that I could ever love. You know, it was Clarissa that talked me into to coming around that night. But then, well things just kind of…um…" Sapphire could tell that he was getting all embarrassed. "Escalated." She finished for him, zoning out of their conversation and back to the warehouse situation.
They had been walking around for at least an hour by now and not much was happening. Sapphire was massaging her aching head. She could feel that something was wrong and some of the time it caused her to get headaches. This was no normal headache though, because she hear pain, pain that was descised as a sort of song. She felt a stray tear fall down her cheek and went to wipe it away, but not before Sherlock saw. "
Are you ok?" he asked, using his thumb to wipe away the tear. Sapphire turned off the earpiece for a while.
"Its fine, I'm alright. Really I'm…" she was cut off as Sherlock's lips crashed onto hers, silencing her. He finally pulled away after a few minutes. "…fine" she finished before going to turn on the earpiece but it had gone. Sherlock had placed it in his own ear. "I hate being right." She thought, brushing her fingers over her trembling lips.
A large growl echoed through the whole of the warehouse. "What the hell was that?" asked Jack.
"Please tell me that was someone's stomach." Said John, shaking. Sapphire, going with her natural instinct began walking in the direction the growl had come from, leaving Sherlock to follow or be left in darkness.
"Sapphire, please tell me that you are not heading towards where the growl came from." She heard the Doctor say.
"Doctor, I believe she is" answered Sherlock, seeing as he was the one wearing the earpiece now.
"Stupidly dangerous" he muttered. She smiled just managing to catch what he said, as Sherlock ran up to her. The sound of pain thundered in Sapphires head more and more, as they neared where the creature supposedly was. "I can hear it too." The Doctor whispered, "Although not as strongly as you can. It sounds like a…" he began but Sapphire cut him off, seeing the large, blue, dragon-like creature, chained up.
"Slivura" she breathed, feeling sorry for the poor creature, even though it had thrown her into the wall. "Oh I'm so sorry."
Sherlock looked at Sapphire's saddened face. "What is it?" he asked. She turned to him, tears in her eyes.
"He's a Slivura, one of only twenty that are left in the universe. He shouldn't be here." She mentioned, moving closer to the creature. Holding a hand out, the dragon creature nuzzled her. "It's ok; I'll get you out of here." She whispered.
"I'm sorry for hurting you earlier; I thought you were coming to hurt me." It hummed in a sing-song voice.
"Don't worry, no damage done. Now hold on, I'm going to get you out." Sapphire rummaged through her pockets to see if there was anything to cut though the chains with. After finding nothing she thought to herself for a moment. "I'm going to have to do this the hard way. I haven't done this in a while." She handed Sherlock the torch and asked him to keep a look out, before walking over to the chains. Sapphire pointed a finger at one of the chains clasped around the Slivura's leg. A bright green laser shout out of her finger and began cutting through the chain.
"You are not of this world" the creature spoke. She smiled. "No, I'm not."
"Then who are you?" he asked. "I'm a female time lord. The last of my kind. Just the Doctor and I have survived out of a whole species." The chain she had been cutting though clattered to the floor, glowing a slight orange colour where it had been cut. "I know how you feel" she continued as she began to cut through another of the chains. There was a terrible screeching noise and suddenly the torch went out.
"Sapphire!" Sherlock shouted from somewhere far way. Sapphire stood still, frozen in place as she felt something cold, grab her around the neck. The light came back on and only then did she realise that it was the weeping angel who had its arm around her neck.
"Sherlock" Sapphire croaked, feeling her oxygen supply being cut off as she was strangled.
"Oh my god, Sapphire," he breathed.
"What? What is it?" Sherlock tell me!" Screamed the Doctor through the earpiece.
"I have approximately 5 minutes before I get starved of oxygen" Sapphire whimpered, a tear falling down her cheek. Sherlock nodded.
"Doctor, Sapphires been grabbed by a weeping angel. Its arm is around her neck and she can't breathe. I don't know what to do other than not blink." He mentioned.
"I'm on my way" shouted the Doctor."
Me too" answered Jack. All Sherlock and Sapphire could do was wait.
Approximately four minutes later, the Doctor, John, Jack and Evanna ran into the room. "Oh my god" gasped Evanna, seeing Sapphire looking very weak.
The Doctor was at Sapphires side in an instant, her eyes dropping and her head heavy. He whipped out his sonic screwdriver and scanned her. "Her hearts are failing" he mentioned.
Evanna frowned with confusion. "Hearts?" the Doctor nodded.
"She has two hearts. Haven't got time to explain so Jack will have to answer you." He placed a hand on either side of Sapphires face. "Let her go, you're killing her." He screamed at the weeping angel, but it didn't move. Her head lolled forward as she lost consciousness.
"You have made a big mistake in capturing her because you are about to get a massive kick up the backside. Not from me but from her." He mentioned seeing Sapphire gain consciousness. Her eyes flickered to the top of the stone arm which was holding her in place.
"Sorry. Angel. Nothing. Personal." She muttered. The stone began to crack before the arm fell off and smashed to the floor. Sapphire fell but the Doctor grabbed her before she could hit the ground. She was unconscious again.
The weeping Angel advanced towards them, the only other arm outstretched. "Doctor. Look out!" warned Jack but he didn't need to worry. A bolt of blue electricity crackled through the air, striking the angel and disintegrating it. Sherlock turned to see a silent walking away, having saved Sapphires life, again.
The Slivura bent its head down to Sapphire and hummed. It was a tune that the Doctor and her knew so well, back on Gallifrey, their song of love and life. She stirred in his arms before waking up to see him and the Slivura looking down at her.
"I never thought I would be glad to see you." She mentioned before the Doctor planted a kiss on her lips.
"Ok then, it's about time we got you home Jack, and we can take the Slivura back on the way." Stated the Doctor, standing up and pulling Sapphire up with him.
Jack frowned; he didn't want to leave just yet. The Doctor walked towards the TARDIS, which stood behind the creature where he had parked it earlier, dragging Sapphire with him.
"Where are you going? You can't just disappear inside a blue, wooden box." Argued John, following Sherlock, Evanna and Jack as they headed towards the box.
"Wait!" they shouted as they ran into the TARDIS.
Hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, if your lucky I may just get the rest of the story typed up and posted today. please review and Geronimo to all :D
