Disclaimer: Serena belongs to me the rest of the characters belong to the BBC.
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'telepathic thought'
"Speaking Gallifreyian"
Coming around I feel the coldness of a metal floor against my skin and afterwards raised myself upright onto my feet. Holding my hand out to Theta I help him stand up as the four us now all standing.
"Where are we?" Amy asked whilst looking about
"We haven't moved," Theta voiced shaking his head, "We're in exactly the same place as before."
We all looked through the windows before us seeing the deck of the very pirate ship we had been on, but Avery thought otherwise, "We're on a ghost ship."
"No. It's real," my Doctor assured him, "Space ship trapped in a temporal rift."
"How can two ships be in the same place?" Amy wondered aloud.
"Not the same," I started explaining, "Imagine there's two parallel worlds. They're tightly stacked together, but neither of them are the same."
"Like two planes, two worlds, two cars parked in the same space," my Bonded continued on from what I've said, "There are lots of different universes nested inside each other. Now and again they collide, and you can step from one to the other."
"Okay," Amy nodded, "I think I understand."
"Good, because it's not like that at all," Theta patted her lightly on the back, "But if that helps."
"Thanks," Amy returned sarcastically as I see her glaring at him.
"All the reflections have suddenly become gateways," my Doctor explained, picking up a scrap bit of metal off the floor and chucking it out the window. It lands on the deck of the pirate ship, "Ever look in a mirror and think you're seeing a whole other world? Well, this time it's not an illusion."
Looking around more when I then heard an beeping echo throughout the ship, "It's the signal," I realised.
"Yes," Theta nodded.
"The distress call?" Amy clarified.
"Uh huh," he nodded in reply.
"There was a second ship here all the time!"
"And the Siren is onboard," Theta finally said.
I opened a door nearby, revealing a alien skeleton in a spacesuit as it fell to the floor making me jump in fright, "Dead," I pronounced quietly looking it over.
My Bonded had discovered another door that leads to the bridge and jerked back, as we all see more dead crew inside, "How about that?"
"You were right," Amy voiced in fear, "There was something staring at us the whole time. How long has this ship been marooned here?
"Long enough for the Captain to have run out of grog," I heard Avery remark.
"I don't understand. If this is the Captain, then what's the Siren?" Amy asked.
"Same as us," my Doctor shrugged, "A stowaway."
"She killed it?"
"Human bacteria," I hazard a guess.
"What?" Amy gives me an odd look.
"They're aliens, so humans are alien to them. A virus from Earth. Airborne, travelling through the portal. That's what killed all of them," I explained to Amy.
Theta nodded in agreement, putting his hand on the back of the chair, and his face changed to one of pure mortification, "Urgh!" he gasped with a cringe, "Look!"
My nose wrinkled instantly, stepping away, "Err!"
"What is it?" Amy asked worriedly unsure what to make of it.
"Sneeze!" Theta wrinkled his nose, "Alien bogies," he looked for somewhere to wipe it ofv and it ended up on Amy's coat. Who in turn took it off straight away, chucking it on the floor.
Another door catches my eye and I pressed the panel to open it my mouth hanging open at the scene before me, "Um, guys?" I called for the others attention, eyes still wide, "You're going to want to see this."
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The room we entered, was vast with beds floating midair, each holding some of Avery's crew who are attached to tubes, "McGrath!" Avery gasped with joy looking to a crew member, "He's one of my men."
"He's still breathing," Amy noticed looking at the man.
"My entire crew is here," Avery realised, as I saw him looking around him before noticing his son, "Toby!" he gasped, running to him.
"Rory!" I spotted Amy running the opposite direction to her husband.
"The TARDIS!" Theta grinned in excitement, seeing the police box nearby and hugged it.
"I swear you love her more than me sometimes," I commented with a shake of my head arms folded across my chest.
"I love you more Serena the old girl understands that," he returned planting a loving kiss on my cheek.
"We have to get them out of here," Avery said, as he tried unhooking Toby. Being ever so kind, I went to help, before stopping him as something came to me, "Wait a sec," I placed a hand over Toby's forehead feeling no heat there, "His fever's gone."
"He looks so well," Amy looked the boy over.
"She's keeping him alive," my Doctor guessed , "His brain is still active, but all its cellular activity is suspended. It's not a curse, it's a tissue sample."
"Why get samples of people you are about to kill?" I asked pointedly.
"Help me get him up," I come over to Amy to assist with Rory. He started waking up, and his machinery started going off. The faint singing of the Siren started.
"She's coming," Theta warned.
I dragged Amy with me to hide behind a few of the bunks, my Bonded and Avery are crouching behind some monitors. The Siren drifted in, singing as she approached Rory. While she sang, Rory went back to being settled and calm, breathing easier again.
"Anaesthetic," I heard Theta whisper in realisation.
"What?" Avery returned in confusion.
"The music," Theta tried explaining, "The song. So she anaesthetises people and puts their body in stasis."
Avery having now understood nodded his head, but soon growled protectively as we saw the Siren approaching Toby. Suddenly he stepped out, pistol aimed at her.
"Avery, no!" Theta shouted.
But he shoots at her and she hissed, turning red and coming towards him...
It was only now that my pain medication was starting to wear off I suddenly coughed, stumbling slightly, rubbing my head. The Siren firmly now having it's sight set on me.
"Fire. That's new. What does fire do?" I asked despite my throbbing head, "Burn? Yes. Destroy? What else? Sterilise! I coughed. I've brought germs in," Pulling out a tissue I cough on it and tossed it to the ground. The Siren instantly disintegrated before our eyes.
Amy has gone over to help free Rory but Theta called for her, "Amy, stop!" noticing and understanding what I've just done despite how ill I feel, "Don't interfere, don't touch him! Anaesthetic, tissue sample, screen, sterile working conditions...ignore all my previous theories!"
"Yeah? Well, we stopped paying attention a while back," I heard Amy grumbling in return, still trying to get Rory unhooked.
"She's not a killer at all, she's a doctor!" I told her making her understand and in that instance she stopped fiddling with the life support, as the Siren changed back to green.
"This is an automated sick bay," my Doctor explained. "It's teleporting everyone on board. The crew are dead, and so the sick bay has had nothing to do. It's been looking after humanity whilst it's been idle. Look at her. A virtual doctor able to sterilise a whole room.
"Able to burn your face off?" Amy snorted.
"She's just an interface," he went on, "seeped through the join between the planes, broadcast in our world. Protean circuitry means she can change her form, and become a human doctor for humans."
"Oh, she's good," I remarked, looking at the Siren.
"She won't let us take them," Avery pointed in reminder.
"She's keeping them alive, but she doesn't know how to heal them," I took a guess.
"I'm his wife, for God's sake!" Amy voiced, shaking her head furiously, "Why can't I touch him?"
"Amy, show her your ring," I suggested to her, "She may be virtual but she's intelligent. You can't do anything without her consent."
"Come on, sophisticated girl like you," Theta mumbled as Amy placed her besides Rory's with their wedding rings next to each other, "That must be somewhere in your core program."
I could see the Siren considering this and she looked to Amy, "Look, he's very ill, okay?" Amy pleaded to her, "I just want to look after him. Why won't you let me near my husband?"
Seeing the Siren think this over for a few seconds, now held out her hand, a circle of golden light appeared around it. "Consent form," my Bonded deducted, "Sign it. Put your hand in the light. Rory's sick. You have to take full responsibility."
In doing so Amy immediately put her hand in light and the Siren vanished, Amy switched the life support off, Rory immediately started choking and gurgling, water gushing about. "He can't breathe!" I shouted in panic, "Turn it back on!"
Amy immediately turned it back on, "What do we do?" she asked us, her eyes wide. "I can't just leave him here."
"He'll die if you take him out," Avery countered to her.
"Rory?" I asked stepping next to him feeling that slight sisterly bond we used to share when I was human leaning down and touching his face, "Come on Rory the Roman, wake up."
He started to come around, looking up at us, "Where am I?"
My Doctor began to tell him, "You're in a hospital. If you leave, you might die."
I glared at him, "You put that nicely Doctor."
"But if you don't, you'll have to stay forever," Amy spoke sadly, I could tell she didn't like the idea of this.
"You're saying that if I don't get up now," Rory began to say.
"You can never leave," Amy tried to make him understand the consequences of what he's got himself into.
"The Siren will keep you safe," Theta added assuringly.
"And if I come with you?" Rory asked of us.
"Drowning, on the point of death," I state seriously, trying to keep a straight face and my pain from distracting me.
"I'm a nurse," he reminded everyone.
"What?" Amy tried to take him seriously.
"I can teach you how to save me."
"Whoa. Hold on," Amy put up her hands.
"I was drowning. You just have to resuscitate me," he looked at us all.
"Just?" Amy just only blinked back.
"You've seen them do it loads of times in films. CPR. The kiss of life."
"Rory, this isn't a film! Okay?" Amy only groaned at him in disbelief, "What if I do it wrong?"
"You won't," I give her the reassurance that she could reaching up and squeezing her shoulder.
"Okay," Amy paused, "What if you don't come back to life? What if-?"
"I trust you," Rory says giving her a look of trust.
"What about him? I mean, why do I have to be the one? Why do I have to save you?"
"Because I know you'll never give up."
"We have to send this ship back into space," Theta informed us all, "Imagine if the Siren got ashore. She would have to process every injured human."
"What about Toby?" Avery asked, looking down at his son.
"I'm sorry," I went to check his readings and wince, "Typhoid fever. Once he returns it's only a matter of time."
Avery stood silent for awhile, then spoke, "What if I stay with him, here. The Siren will look after him. I can't go back to England. And what home does he have now, if not with me?"
"Do you think you can sail this thing?" Theta looked around the ship before his gaze landed back on him.
Avery returned with a smirk, "Just point me to the atom accelerator."
Blinking I glanced over giving him an irritated look, "You let him touch it?" I asked rather surprised.
"I know you can do this," Rory tried assuring her again, "Of course, if you muck it up I am going to be really cross."
"And dead," I muttered to myself sadly.
"I'll see you in a minute," she told him as I looked on at him, before Theta ripped out Rory's restraints.
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Amy and I laid him upon the floor of the TARDIS as Amy took over chest compressions, as I count for her,
"Come on," Theta is pleading as Amy continued, "Come on, Rory!"
"You survived being a Roman for a thousand years you can make it through this," as I kneeled beside Rory squeezing his hand, "You're not dying, not today!"
"Please, please, please wake up," Amy begged him, "Wake up, wake up! Come on, come on!"
An idea comes to me but I'd have to risk it despite how much of a telling off from Theta later or worse, "Amy, move," I said, face palming, "I should of thought of this sooner."
"What?" Amy stared at me in confusion.
"Just move!" I ordered her, wanting to get this over with placing my hands on upon either side of Rory's face.
"Serena what are you doing?" Theta asked in protest not liking what I'm thinking about doing.
"You said we should find a way to save him right?" I asked him seriously glaring at him.
"Yes, but not like this it could kill you!" he shouted firmly.
"What, what's going on?" Amy spoke up wanting an explanation seeing as we're speaking Gallifreyian.
"Serena is seriously considering endangering her own life to save Rory!" Theta explained angrily.
"It's only a small shot of energy to bring him back besides I'm good as dead already!" I retorted, breathing heavily through my nose I turned to Amy, "It's your call Amelia."
"Do it, just do it alright," Amy gives me the go ahead.
Looking away before he could protest anymore I concentrated hard and as my hands began glowing alight with energy, I leaned forward kissing his forehead lovingly. All the energy I could muster went into him. Moving away Rory gasped for breath, lurching to side, spitting up the water from his mouth.
Later Theta had sent Avery the coordinates to sail off in the spaceship as Amy, Rory descended down the stairs, "I thought I was an excellent pirate," Amy gave a smirk.
"I thought you were an excellent nurse," Rory nodded, "And my favourite Time Lord is an excellent life saver."
"Thanks, Rory," I smile, pulling a face, "I think."
"Easy, tiger," Amy smirked, then turned to myself and Theta, "Goodnight, Doctor. Goodnight Rena."
"Goodnight, Amelia," my Doctor put on a smile.
"Goodnight, Pond," I bid leaning against the console.
Amy paused, turning back to us but only looking in Theta, "You only call me Amelia when you're worrying about me."
"He's the Doctor of course he's always worried about you," I commented, with a smile, "When doesn't he?"
But her smile faltered and so did mine, I could sense she had gone back to the moment with the astronaut, "Mutual," she returned instead covering up her far off look, turning to dash up the stairs.
In the distance I swore I could hear Amy and Rory quietly arguing about what had happened at Lake Silenco. But I turned away trying to block it out altogether along with the pain in my hearts. This only caused me a great deal of stress to my body.
As suddenly I felt hot and I couldn't breathe, "Theta," I started wheezing, trying to grip hold of the console in pain my knuckles going white.
"Rena?" he comes to my side catching me as I let out a strangled gasp and fell backwards, lowering me to the ground with him my head in his lap, "Rena!"
"Rory!" Theta shouted for help, as he cradled me rocking back and forth. The echoing of distant hurried footsteps entered the room.
"What happened?" I heard Rory demanding in panic, looking me over.
The pain got worse and my eyes screwed shut not being able to take it, "I don't know what to do for her anymore," he spoke up sadly before I blacked out completely.
