Chapter TWENTY ONE
And after that Bombshell! Another chapter! With potentially more bombshellyness! You know you love it!
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I stood there, motionless, as I thought through his words. I felt numb. My lips unable to form words coherently, my limbs unable to move away from the dangers before me and my hearts struggling for every beat as the realisation, fear and dread washed over me at the truth. This couldn't have happened at a worse time. Somewhere in the very back of my mind, the small percentage that wasn't being taken up with my new discovery, I noticed the Doctor wrap an arm round my waist protectively. I looked at this creature, so hell bent on causing me pain, and in the space of a day it has gained two new ways to make that pain reality. My family. It is better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all, the poets name escapes me, but either way I disagree, simply because I have loved and lost and I can't imagine a worst pain.
"You vile, creature! You make the Daleks look like saints!" The Doctor yelled at it, obviously more furious than anything else.
"We always intended to" it said back, looking me straight in the eye.
I looked straight back at it, begging with my eyes to listen to any moral bone in its body to let me be. I blinked, and in that fraction of a second I had my eyes closed I heard the noise, the dreaded noise of a gun being fired... It made my blood run cold. It was only a few seconds after the sound that I felt the pain and only a millisecond later I heard the Doctors yells.
"KIM!" he shouted, as the bullet hit and I was actually relived. Whether this thing had a moral bone or it's just a lousy shot, the bullet went wide, instead of hitting me in the chest, it had to settle for slowly and painfully, tearing and ripping its way through the flesh of my arm as it rotates. My knees gave out and I fell to the floor, but, as always the Doctor was there to catch me.
"Kim! Are you okay?" the Doctor asked me as he set my torso on the floor, keeping my head on his lap.
"Yeah, I'm fine I mean, I just found out I'm pregnant and then I got shot, could be worse!" I said, laughing slightly, well laughed as best as I could considering the pain from my arm causing me to grit my teeth a hell of a lot.
"Rory get over here!" the Doctor shouted, as I pressed on the wound, which did little to stop the red liquid coming through my fingers. Damn blood.
Rory ran over closely followed by Amy and Jack, seeming to have completely forgotten the creature with the gun, who is pointing it at them, that or there just so worried about me they don't particularly care who gets shot... I feel loved. That emotion gets fizzled out and a truckload of pain takes its place.
"I hate you!" I shouted in the general direction of the creature as Rory applied pressure to the wound on my arm.
"As we do you" it shot back, before motioning to our 'bodyguards' too take us back to the pit they decided to drop us in.
All the way I was held by the Doctor. His constant presence kept me going, though the pain was excruciating. I know it had to be done, but it didn't help that Rory was pressing down on the wound, but I was very thankful there was a nurse nearby. As we reached the door they, quite literally, pushed us in before sliding the many locks shut behind us. I sat there and tried not to faint as they worked around me, I was feeling quite lightheaded. This was either because I had just found out I was pregnant, while I'm being held against my will in a building full of rotting creatures who want me dead, or simply the fact I have lost quite a bit of blood. I think it's a bit of both.
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We sat in silence since they bought us back here, wherever here was, Rory silently bandaging my arm with the torn piece of jacks coat, the Doctor sitting watching me like if he breathed I would break and Amy and Jack looking like they just think it isn't there place to talk. Then there was me, sitting here looking at nothing in particular, ignoring the pain from my arm or the noises round the cell. I came to when I noticed that Rory had finished bandaging my arm, he'd done a good job for what he had and I was grateful he was here... No Matter how much I wished they had all run.
"This couldn't have happened at a worse time." I said, breaking the silence just as I couldn't bear it anymore. "I just can't seem to be around anyone without putting them in danger."
"Kim, don't say that, it's not your fault." Amy said, as she rubbed my back from behind me.
"But it is!" I argued as the Doctor sat in front of me. "If I hadn't done that to them, they wouldn't want to hurt me and you would've all been safe!"
"Kim!" the Doctor said, grabbing either side of my face and lifting my gaze up, in line with his. "We don't know why you had to do that, but you probably had a good reason!"
"But good reason or not, if I had never done this I would've never met you, you all would've been safe!" I argued.
"I wouldn't change anything for the world!" he said back "All those years travelling the stars as the last of my kind, and then I met you and I'm not alone anymore! But you're wishing we never had met?"
"Doctor! Meeting you was, I can't even put it in to words, and I have thousands of languages to choose from! But I just cannot bear the thought of seeing you hurt." As I said this, I placed my hand over his, which was resting on my cheek.
"We'll get out of here, I promise you that! All of us will get out." He said, gently moving our hands from my face but keeping them entwined.
"Sorry to interrupt this beautiful moment," Jack said, from behind us, stopping as we swivelled to face him. "But I just cannot believe he got you pregnant... Doctor, you dog!"
And we laughed, for the first time in ages all of us laughed. Good old Jack, he can always make us laugh when everyone's down. I was happy and sad all at the same time and extremes of both, I mean, I'm pregnant, I get to have another child, be a mum again but I couldn't stop the sadness that followed the happiness every time because there's always the chance that I won't live long enough to hold the baby in my arms... And that kills me.
"Alright, alright!" The Doctor said, dragging me out of my thoughts. "I get that it's quite entertaining for you all but may I suggest we get some sleep, it'll no doubt be another interesting day tomorrow."
Everyone seemed to like that plan, and I had to admit I was knackered. I yawned and lay down on the cold floor; I must've been tired because I even found this comfy. I held my hand beneath my head to stop my head hitting the floor as I shivered, comfy or not it was bloody cold! I heard fabric on fabric as I felt a soft material over my shoulders. I looked up to see the Doctor, now jacketless, lying down beside me, before lightly placing an arm over my waist. I leaned back against his chest and let his hearts gentle rhythms soothe me to sleep, the problems can wait till morning.
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