The Doctor had attacked Root from behind and grabbed his gun and threatened him with it.
"Why did you shoot her?" The Doctor shouted, taking his anger out on the now unarmed, orange beast.
"I knew it would affect Sarah Jane and her son."
"And blowing up Australia wouldn't?"
"That would affect the Australian's." Amy muttered, she was knelt on the floor with Luke and Rory.
"That was just an added bonus. Don't think your going to get me to apologise Doctor, I regret nothing I've done." Root teased.
"Yes, but I'm holding you at gunpoint!"
"Like you'd actually pull the trigger." Root scoffed.
"I would! I have!"
"You couldn't kill another being,"
"I could, I have, and I would."
"Well, the sooner you doing pull that trigger I'd like to get my revenge on Sarah Jane," Root moved towards the scared lady behind the Doctor.
He pulled the trigger.
The orange beast screamed in his final seconds of life.
"I tried, Mother, Father, I tried," He whispered, before the life left him and his green blood dripped onto the floor.
The Doctor seemed careless and went over to Bella.
"Rory," He started. Rory shook his head discreetly. Sarah Jane encouraged Luke to move away from Bella as the Doctor took over.
"Bella, you can pull through this you just need to be strong." The Doctor tried to encourage her.
"Doctor, we both know what's going to happen," She whispered, very weak.
"Nothing is set in stone."
"I was referring more to logic."
"Bella, you can do this, I know you can do it, for the ones you love, for the ones who love you,"
"And for the ones who hated me when I last spoke to him? I mean them."
"I'm sorry I got angry. I thought you were keeping a secret bigger than the one you were. Bella, you may have figured this out already, but you have some sort of super-human ability." She laughed a little.
"No, I thought more alien than super human."
The Doctor put his arms behind Bella's shoulders and under her knee's carrying her to the Tardis.
"You're going to live Bella."
"And we all know that isn't true. I saw it, Doctor, I die today."
"Yeah, well, how are we going to explain that to Mike?"
"Tell him I walked in front of a double Decker bus. It's believable, something I would do, and kills me quickly. Actually, that's a point, why aren't I dead yet?"
"Because you're strong, you may not admit it but you know you're fighting it, for Luke, for Mike, for the rest of your family, your new foster parents?"
"Amy told you?"
"No, Rory. Why wouldn't you want me to know?"
"I don't know."
"Just rest, you'll be ok." Bella found herself in the medical room on the Tardis again.
"It's going to get a little bumpy." The Doctor left the room and Luke came in.
In the control room the 4 adults were in an awkward silence as the Doctor set the ship to self destruct at midnight the next night, so they would definitely be gone by the time it exploded.
"Doctor, is she going to be ok?" Sarah Jane asked.
"If we get her to hospital fast enough she should be."
"Hospital? Again?" Amy asked, appalled that a girl of 15 had been in hospital so much in the past 2 months.
"What do we say when we get there?" Amy asked down heartedly.
"Rory, you go on ahead, go into work. Amy, you take her in later, saying you found her on the roadside, she must have been hit by a car or something on Bannerman road."
"We can do better than that, I can line up the car so it looks like I accidentally hit her." Sarah Jane pointed out.
"Sarah Jane, you could get arrested for that."
"I and Bella can say it was totally accidental, and she saved my life today, this is nothing compared to what I should owe her."
The Doctor pulled a final lever and the Tardis shook and some quiet exclaims of pain could be heard from Bella in the next room.
When they landed they were on Bannerman Road, Sarah Jane headed straight out to line up the car. The Doctor went to go get Bella. Only Amy and Rory were left.
Rory noticed how sad Amy looked.
"Amy are you ok?" He asked.
"Yeah. I'm just worried. Bella might actually die this time." Amy answered. The Doctor came back through with her in his arms.
"She's unconscious?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, she feinted while the Tardis was taking off. It was quite sudden considering someone had just shot her."
She looked really pale and Amy knew she'd lost way too much blood.
She knew it was unlikely she'd survive.
Luke followed the Doctor out the Tardis and watched him place her sprawled on the floor.
"How do we explain that 1) the blood is drying and 2) the scratch is only on her stomach?" Luke asked.
"She has 'got hit by a car', the Doctor's will not be asking questions." The Doctor made quotation marks in the air. He took a quick glance at his watch and realised how late it was, it was almost 9 'o' clock at night!
Bella was grounded again.
Typical.
Sarah Jane climbed in the car and reversed marginally, so she could pretend she'd driven into Bella. Rory, Luke and the Doctor stayed in the Tardis. Amy pretended she was walking outside in the night. The Doctor noticed she had started waddling a little with her pregnancy, and laughed a little to himself.
Sarah Jane left the engine on so it sounded like she was still driving, and even through the little she'd reversed, she managed to make a squeaky stop and climb out quickly and both she and Amy ran to Bella, who was totally oblivious to what was going on around her.
Then she woke up.
"Are you ok?" Sarah Jane asked quickly. Bella understood what was going on, tried to sit up more and whacked her head on the bonnet of the car and passed out again.
"Can I have an ambulance on Bannerman Road, please?" Amy said into her phone.
Two chapters in one night! Wow, I'm impressed I can write that much.
I know this is chapter 21, only the 5th chapter of the 2nd episode, and there were 16 in the first, but there is more to come, remember where the gang haven't been in the past couple of chapters...
Thanks to Sci-fi geek1133, for her quick review to every chapter! And our awesome conversations!
Thanks for reading :)
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