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Author's Note: Edited chapter!
Third person POV…
"Move!" Rose cried out to Cassandra. She got a whimper out of her as she as Rose said.
"Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles."
Finally, the three got to the top of the ladder and found out that the lift doors were sealed shut.
"Now what do we do?" Cassandra/the Doctor groaned.
"Use the sonic screwdriver," Rose told her quickly.
Cassandra took it out of his pockets between his thumb and forefinger with his nose wrinkled. "You mean this thing?"
"Yeah that thing!" Sophie nodded her head.
"Well I don't know how – that Doctor's hidden away all his thoughts."
'I hate to do this but I've got no choice.' Sophie thought to herself with a sigh. She shook her head internally and opened her mouth to say something.
Rose cut in before she could do just that. "Cassandra, go into me – then the Doctor can open it."
"But Rose…" Sophie started to protest but her friend cut in again.
"Do it!"
"Hold on tight." With that, Cassandra hopped out of the Doctor's body and went into Rose's. "Oh…" She glanced down at herself in disgust. "Oh chavtastic again but it's even worse in Rose's body."
"I think I'll take that as a compliment," Sophie said sarcastically. She wasn't normally sarcastic, but this moment called for it.
"Open it!" Cassandra shouted up at the Doctor, ignoring Sophie.
The Doctor figured out quickly that it Cassandra was in Rose's body this time. "Not 'til you get out of her," he said, pointing the sonic at her.
"We need the Doctor!"
"I order you to leave her!" he shouted at Cassandra angrily.
She rolled Rose's eyes before she did what he asked. Now, she was back in the Doctor.
"No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout." Cassandra scowled.
'Geez this body switching is exhausting to watch.' "Just get out of him, Cassandra! Did you have to go into a body?" Sophie asked, annoyed.
"Yes! I'm not going to float in the air!" she exclaimed in the Doctor's voice, disgusted at the thought. "And besides! I can't go into you or your little friend, he simply refuses to let me go into either of you – he's so rude about it."
"We don't care! Just do something else then!" Rose cried out, getting frustrated.
Cassandra glanced down and saw an infected woman, making her way up the ladder as well as other infected people. She knew what to do then and there but she knew that she so was going to regret this. Cassandra voiced that out loud in a disgusted, reluctant voice.
"Oh, I am so gonna regret this." She concentrated and managed to jump from the Doctor's body and into the infected woman. "Oh sweet lord," she muttered as she looked at herself. "I look disgusting!" She glared up at Rose, Sophie, and the Doctor for making her have to do this.
The Doctor opened the lift doors and held out a hand to help Sophie up, smiling at her. "Nice to have you back."
Sophie beamed with a slight blush, remembering the kiss. "Same here," she mumbled, glancing up at him sweetly. She grabbed the Doctor's hand but before he could pull her up, there was Cassandra's voice.
"Oh no you don't…"
And Sophie, once again, was possessed by Cassandra and the Doctor quickly tugged her up so that she tumbled forward and onto the floor. She curled up against the wall, legs pressed against her chest, staring into space. Rose quickly got the rest of the way up. The Doctor helped her up as well before he sealed the doors and turned to Cassandra, who was still quietly sitting there. He didn't take notice to her being quiet, but Rose did. Though she didn't like Cassandra, she wondered what was wrong with her.
"That was your last warning, Cassandra!" The Doctor started to yell.
"Doctor?" Rose said quietly, nodding towards her.
The Doctor finally saw that Cassandra was staring off into space like she wasn't even there with them.
"Inside her head," she finally spoke up quietly. "They're so alone…they keep reaching out, just to hold us…all their lives and they've never been touched."
The Doctor stared at her for a couple minutes before holding out a hand towards her. Cassandra looked at his hand then at him, her blue eyes peering into his brown ones for at least a couple minutes before she finally took his hand. The Doctor pulled her to her feet and she brushed herself off, straightening her shirt.
Just as the diseased people started banging on the lift doors, they quickly walked off, going through doors which lead them back into Ward 26. Out of nowhere it seemed like, Frau Clovis charged towards them as she held up the chair she had, moving it at them menacingly, roaring like a wild animal.
"We're safe! We're safe!" The Doctor held his hands up and showed her that they were clean. "We're safe. We're clean! We're clean! Look, look—"
"Show me your skin," Frau Clovis demanded, not putting down the chair.
The Doctor showed her all the skin that was showing and Rose and Cassandra – after Rose nudged her in the side, earning a glare from her – did the same thing.
"Look! Clean, look – if we'd been touched, we'd be dead," he told her.
Frau Clovis accepted this with a nod and she sat the chair back down.
"So, how's it going up here? What's the status?" The Doctor asked, taking a step towards her.
"There's nothing, but silence in the other wards," Frau Clovis replied quietly. "I think we're the only ones left. And I've been trying to override the quarantine." She started to fiddle with a device that the Doctor just noticed she was holding. "If I can trip a signal over to New, New York, they can send a private executive squad."
"You can't do that. If they force entry, they'd break quarantine."
Frau Clovis glared up at the Doctor. "I am not dying in here!" she said angrily.
"We can't let a single particle of disease get out – there are ten million people in that City, they'd all be at risk!" The Doctor exclaimed, with his own glare. He jabbed at finger at the device. "Now, turn that off!"
"Not if it gets me out."
Rose was in disbelief as those words came out of Frau Clovis's mouth and she glared at the older woman. Before she could snap at her, the Doctor spoke up.
"All right, fine, so I have to stop you lot as well," he said seriously and she stayed quiet. "Suits me. Rose. Sophie. Novice Hame. Everyone!" Once he got everyone, who was still in the room's attention, he continued as he walked past the Duke. "Excuse me, your grace. Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!"
Seeing how serious he was, everyone quickly gathered every single solution that was in the room as the Doctor tied a rope around his body. Working together, Cassandra and Rose grabbed the solutions from everyone, hooking them onto the Doctor so that they hung on him.
"How's that? Will that do?" he asked once they were finished with him.
Cassandra and Rose flashed him confused looks, but Cassandra was the one who voiced her confusion out loud.
"I don't know! Will it do for what?"
The Doctor didn't answer as he went over to the lift with Cassandra and Rose following behind him quickly. Once there, he used the sonic to open the lift doors.
"The lifts aren't working, Doctor," Rose reminded him, still not knowing what he was planning like she usually did.
Going closer to the lift, he peered down at the shaft. "Not moving. Different thing." He moved back as far as he could and he got ready to make a running jump. "Here we go!" He stuck the sonic screw driver between his teeth and ran.
"But you're not going to…" Before Rose and Cassandra had time to finish, the Doctor jumped into the middle of the shaft.
"Doctor!" Rose gasped horrified, thinking he was going to fall. But she breathed out a sigh of relief when he grabbed onto the rope and clung to it.
Cassandra still couldn't believe what happened. "What do you think you're doing?!" she exclaimed.
"I'm going down!" he called back in an obvious tone as he used the sonic to fix the wench and Cassandra looked away, exasperated. He looked at his blonde friend. "Rose, you stay up there! Don't move an inch!" Then he glanced over at Cassandra. "Come on!"
Rose instantly protested, "Why can't I come?!"
Cassandra quickly interjected before the Doctor could reply to Rose. "Not in a million years."
"I need another pair of hands, what do you think?" She stayed quiet and the Doctor pressed on, "If you're so desperate to stay alive…how about you live a little, Cassandra?"
It was then that more zombies emerged from the quarantine.
"Seal the doors!" Frau Clovis exclaimed to everyone and before Rose could protest, she grabbed her arm and tugged her along.
After the doors closed and Cassandra found herself trapped, she had no choice but to jump. She hesitated slightly before she ran and jumped onto the Doctor's back, clinging to him, letting out a regretful moan as she did so.
"You're completely mad." Cassandra then smiled, getting why this Sophie liked the Doctor so much and she told him that, "I can see why she likes you. At least she's better than Rose. A lot better actually."
The Doctor would have snapped at her for that comment, but there was just no time. "Going down!" he exclaimed.
With one pull, they whizzed down the shaft, screaming at the top of their lungs. In a matter of seconds, they got to the bottom and straightened themselves out.
"Well, that's one way to lose weight," Cassandra commented to herself as she fixed her shirt. "Not that I need to, of course."
"Now listen – when I say so; take a hold of that lever."
Cassandra immediately protested, "There's still a quarantine down there, we can't—"
"Hold down that lever!" The anger and seriousness in his voice made her back down. Then he grinned manically. "I'm cooking myself up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself." He ripped the tops of the packets containing the solution with his teeth as he took them off of him and poured them into the clear container where the disinfectant was supposed to go. After they were all in, he continued speaking as he went over to the trap door that was there, "Now that lever's going to resist. But keep it in position." He opened the trap door. "Hold onto it with everything you've got."
"What about you?" Cassandra asked and winced at the concern in her voice. She scowled internally at Sophie who had put the concern there.
The Doctor noticed the concern and somehow knew it came from Sophie. He smiled to himself before moving on and answering Cassandra's question as if he hadn't noticed.
"I've got an appointment. The Doctor is in." With one final grin, he dropped down into the lift and he opened the door with the sonic. The doors opened, revealing all the infected people on the other side of the door. When they noticed him, they started to go towards him.
"I'm in here, come on!" The Doctor exclaimed, gesturing for them to come.
"Don't tell them!" He heard Cassandra call down to him and he called back to her,
"Pull that lever!" The Doctor called back to her. Seeing that the infected people were still staggering towards the lift, he pressed on. "Come and get me, come on! I'm in here, come in!"
The speaker sounded suddenly, "Commence stage one – disinfectant."
"Hurry up, come on!" The Doctor beckoned them towards him and the solution showered onto the lift, soaking him from head to toe. "Come on, come on."
Finally, they stumbled into the shower and got soaked with the medicine. The Doctor laughed enthusiastically.
"All they want to do is pass it on. Pass it on!" He jumped up and down happily.
Cassandra, who was peering down at everything looked at him, confused as she wondered what he was so happy about. "Pass on what?" He was still jumping up and down and she grew annoyed that he wasn't answering. "Pass on what?!"
Again, he didn't answer her. "Pass it on!"
The infected people started to touch each other to pass on their good health and the boils began to disappear. Seeing this, the Doctor grinned manically.
"Can I come down now?" Cassandra asked annoyed.
"Yes!"
She jumped down onto the lift and the Doctor caught her around to waist to help her. After he sat her down on her feet, she looked at him.
"What did they pass on? Did you kill them? All of them?"
"No. That's your way of doing things." The Doctor walked into the now healthy people's midst.
Rose, who had ran to where they were at, stood next to Cassandra. The Doctor grinned happily at what he had done.
"I'm the Doctor and I cured them."
Rose couldn't help but smile to herself as she looked at the people who were looking around, slightly child-like. Out of nowhere, a woman came to the Doctor and hugged him around the waist.
"That's right!" The Doctor said gently as he hugged her back. "Hey, hey! There we go sweetheart. Ay? Look at him…" He ushered her off to go sit with someone and he grinned again as he saw everyone was hugging each other. "Go on, that's it! That's it!" He turned to Cassandra. "It's a new sub-species, Cassandra!" He took a man by the shoulders as he continued to grin. "A brand new form of human life! New humans! Look at them, look." Going around, he bent down to look at them with a huge smile on his face. "Grown by cats…kept in the dark, fed by tubes…but completely, completely alive!" He pointed to Cassandra. "You can't deny them, because you helped create them."
Cassandra rolled her eyes as Rose snickered.
"The human race just keeps on going. Keeps on changing. Life will out!" The Doctor laughed out loud. "Ha!"
-0-
The hospital was swarming with police officers when the Doctor, Rose, and Cassandra came back into Ward 26. The loudspeaker went off as they started to walk through the Ward.
"All staff will present themselves to the officers for immediate arrest. I repeat – immediate arrest. All new life forms will be catalogued and taken into care."
The Doctor, Rose and Cassandra stopped at the sight of Novice Hame being led away by police and she caught the Doctor's eye. But he didn't smile at her.
The PA continued, "All visitors to the hospital will be required to make a statement to the NNYPD."
The Doctor suddenly remembered something. "The Face of Boe!"
He dashed off and Rose followed him, managing to catch up to him quickly. Cassandra rolled her eyes at them but she followed too, knowing she had no choice. Making it to where the Face of Boe was, the Doctor approached him with Cassandra and Rose beside him.
"You were supposed to be dying," he said, smiling at the Face of Boe.
The Face of Boe spoke through telepathy. "There are better things to do today. Dying can wait."
"Oh, I hate telepathy." Cassandra made a face. "Just what I need, a head full of big face."
Rose nudged Cassandra hard in the side. "Shh!" she shushed.
Cassandra scowled at her, crossing her arms over her chest but doing as she said even though she hated to.
"I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor," The Face of Boe continued on. "But you have taught me to look at it anew."
The Doctor kneeled before him as Rose came up to stand beside him. "There are legends you know, saying you're millions of years old."
The Face of Boe laughed slightly. "There are? That would be impossible," he told the Doctor.
"Wouldn't it just?" The Doctor regarded the Face of Boa seriously. "I got the impression…there was something you want to tell me…"
"A great secret."
"So the legend says."
There was a slight pause before the Face of Boe said, "It can wait."
"Oh, does it have to?" The Doctor asked, a little … okay a lot put out.
"Yes." As the Doctor pouted, the Face of Boa glanced at Rose and he smiled slightly. "Hello, Rose Tyler."
Rose smiled back at him. "Hello." His eyes grew serious and her smile fell, wondering why he was looking at her like that. She didn't have to wonder for too long.
"Don't let jealousy get the best of you, Rose," he told her but the Doctor clearly didn't hear him because he talked to her separately in her mind. Before she had time to respond, he looked back at the Doctor and spoke, but this time all three of them could hear him. "We shall meet again, Doctor, for the last and final time…and the truth shall be revealed. Until that day…" He teleported himself away and the Doctor continued to look at the spot where he once was.
"That is enigmatic," he said impressed as Rose stayed quiet, her brain processing what the Face of Boe told her. Don't let jealousy get the best of you… What did that mean? "That – that is – that is textbook enigmatic." He nodded to himself before he stood and turned to face Cassandra, who was busily looking at Sophie's painted nails, completely disinterested in what was going on around her. "And now for you."
Cassandra looked up at him immediately at those words. "But … everything's happy. Everything's fine…can't you just leave me." She gave him those sad eyes, pleading with him.
But he couldn't just leave her, even if he wanted to do so. This body was Sophie's, not Cassandra's.
"You've lived long enough," The Doctor finally told her. "Leave that body and end it Cassandra."
Tears sprang to her eyes. She didn't want to die! She told him this, starting to cry. "But I don't want to die!"
"No one does."
"Help me!" Cassandra's hand was over her mouth to cover her cries. Rose watched on, actually feeling sorry for her.
"I can't."
Out of nowhere, Chip appeared surprising Rose and the Doctor since they thought he had died while Cassandra gasp.
"Mistress!" he cried happily.
"Ah! You're alive!"
"I kept myself safe," Chip said, nodding his head enthusiastically. "For you Mistress."
Cassandra stared at him, her mind in overdrive. "A body…and not just that, a volunteer…"
"Don't you dare," The Doctor warned, knowing what she was thinking. "He's got a life of his own."
"But I worship the Mistress!" he exclaimed earnestly, earning a wink from his mistress. He stared at her adoringly. "I welcome her."
The Doctor started to protest, "You can't, Cassandra, you—"
But she ignored him and leapt into Chip's body.
Sophie's POV…
As soon as I felt that I had control over my body again, I fell forward with a gasp. From the corner of my eye, I saw the Doctor lunge to catch me.
"Oh!" he said loudly as he caught me and I unconsciously let my body mold against him. "You alright?"
"Y-yes I'm fine," I managed to say and he let go of my waist. I tried to move but I felt dizzy and because of this, I lost my balance, falling forward again. Just like last time, the Doctor caught me around the waist, holding onto me.
"Whoa! Okay?"
I nodded quickly and took a deep breath to collect myself. I looked up, finding myself gazing into the Doctor's brown eyes that looked so beautiful up close. I hid a blush as I remembered the kiss that we shared when Cassandra was in my body. I could still feel the ghost of his lips on mine and the pressure I felt when he kissed me back. Before I could stop myself, I smiled at him goofily.
"Hello!" I said brightly.
The Doctor smiled back at me, using the bright smile that always seemed to bright up a room. "Hello." His bright smile turned into a fond one. "Welcome back."
I gazed back at him, both of us smiling. Once again, it felt like we were the only two in the room, making us miss the glare Rose had been giving us. The sound of Cassandra's voice broke the moment and we stepped back from each other quickly.
"Oh sweet Lord, I'm a walking doddle," she said examining her arms.
"You can't stay in there," The Doctor told her seriously as he looked over at her, not before giving me one last glance. Her, well Chip's, face screwed up at that comment but he ignored it. "I'm sorry Cassandra, but that's not fair. I can take you to the City. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you've done."
"Well, that would be rather dramatic, possibly my finest hour. And certainly my finest hat."
The Doctor, Rose, and I shared looks. Rose and I had amused looks on our faces while the Doctor had an exasperated one.
"But I'm afraid we don't have time," Cassandra continued.
"What do you mean?" I asked confused.
"Poor little Chip is only a half-life," she started to reply, turning to me. "And he's been through so much. His heart is racing so." Her or his eyes widened. "He's failing." She glanced at us, each one of us. "I don't think he's going to last…" Before she could finish, Chip's feet gave out and we quickly grabbed onto him to support his body.
"You all right?" The Doctor questioned.
I looked on worriedly as I touched Chip's shoulder, wondering if he was okay as well.
"I'm fine." He paused and we continued to stare at him in concern with my hand still on his shoulder. "I'm dying," he finally said. I could tell in his eyes that he had accepted this as a fact. "But that's fine."
"I can take you into the city," The Doctor offered calmly.
"No, you won't," Cassandra said, looking him straight in the eye. "Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me anymore. You're right, Doctor. It's time to die." She swallowed. "And that's good."
I felt bad for him. "I'm so sorry," I whispered as Rose looked on, a sad look on her face.
Using his other hand, Cassandra patted my hand and I placed my other hand on his for a couple minutes before pulling my hand back.
"Come on," the Doctor said as he helped Cassandra up, Rose and I following him. "There's one last thing I can do…"
-0-
"Does the TARDIS have a bathroom in here?" I asked Rose as I followed her to her bedroom that she told me the TARDIS had given her. After we dealt with Chip and returned to the TARDIS, the Doctor had told Rose to take me down there, so I could pick my own room. I really needed a shower so that's why I was asking if there was a bathroom.
"Yeah, there is. It should be in your bedroom once you pick it. At least that's how it was when I first picked my room."
I nodded as we continued to walk down the long hallway. Finally, after a few minutes, we stood in front of a white door that had a rose in the middle of it so I knew this was Rose's room. It was rather obvious.
"Well, this is my room," Rose said, saying what I already knew.
"Where's mine at?" I questioned.
She just pointed behind me and I looked at her confused. "Turn around," she said, rolling her eyes amused.
Still confused, I turned around and was surprised to find that there was door right there, which had my name on it.
"Whoa," I breathed out amazed.
Rose chuckled. "I know, it's really amazing, isn't it?"
I just nodded, still staring at the door in amazement. "Yeah…"
"Well, I'll see you in the morning, Soph." Rose went to her bedroom door.
"Yeah, okay," I said distractingly, still staring at the door. I heard my friend chuckle then seconds later, I heard a door shut.
Shaking my head out of my amazement, I opened the door of the room and walked inside. The first thought in my mind was…
This is so me.
And it really was. The room was rather large but it wasn't surprising considering everything in here probably looked large on the inside just like the TARDIS was. I had a book shelf that was leaning against the wall near my bed for easy access. That was the first thing I took a look at. All of the books of my favorite books were there and I was itching to read one of them but I held back, wanting to look around at the room more. There was going to be a lot of time to read those books if I was going to be here for a while.
After looking around the room for a couple more minutes, I looked for a bathroom in the room but it wasn't there.
I frowned. Where was it? I decided to go ask Rose but when I opened my door, the corridor was gone. Instead, I found myself looking into a bathroom compete with a shower, a toilet, and a sink that had drawers for towels, I guessed.
The TARDIS must have done this, I realized stunned. Was she reading my thoughts or something? That had to be it. There was no other explanation. Shrugging, I stepped into the bathroom and closed the door to my bedroom. First, I turned on the shower before stripping out of the clothes I was wearing. I sighed in contentment when I stepped in the shower and the water cascaded down my naked back. I leaned my head back to get my hair wet. Not wanting to stay in here for too long, I cleaned my hair and scrubbed my body, finishing in a couple minutes. I stepped out of the shower, dripping wet, getting it all over the bathroom floor.
"Sorry," I muttered to the TARDIS as I patted the bathroom wall. I heard a buzzing sound in my head and it sounded like an 'it's alright.' But that I had to be my imagination but I somehow knew it wasn't.
Going through the drawers underneath the sink, I pulled out a towel and wrapped it around myself before pulling out another towel to wrap up my hair. Once I got that done, I realized that I forgot to bring my clothes with me to change into. I had also realized that besides the clothes I brought when I thought I was staying with Rose for a week that I didn't have any other clothes, causing me to wonder if there was some kind of wardrobe room somewhere in the TARDIS that might have some more clothes for me.
I thought that if I left the bathroom, I would be back in my room when I decided to ask the Doctor about it but it turned out I had been wrong. When I opened the door, I found myself looking into a large kitchen. There sitting at the table was the Doctor and he was eating a banana. I froze in my spot as my hand tightened around my towel to keep it up. Before I had time to get out of here before the Doctor noticed that I was there, the Doctor looked at me from the corner of his eye, but I didn't think he noticed my state of dress.
"Hey, Soph…" He finally looked at me fully and his eyes widened at the sight of me as I flushed a bright red. "Ohh…"
"Uh, hi," I managed to say, still blushing madly.
He stared at me, confused. "If I'm allowed to ask, where are your clothes?"
"Uh…well…I … uh…" I sputtered. God, I sounded like such an idiot! "I, well, I took a shower, and uh, I forgot to bring clothes in there with me, and uh, when I went to go back to my room, I, uh, opened the door, and here I was." I finished off lamely.
"Yes, well, the TARDIS does that sometimes," The Doctor said thoughtfully.
I blinked at him confused, wondering why he didn't seem at all bothered by the fact I was standing here, in the middle of his kitchen, wearing only a towel. Or was he only pretending to be that way? To make things less awkward. Well that wasn't working at all. After the kiss that we shared when Cassandra was in my body, I felt completely out of sorts. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the kiss. I did, a little too much to be honest. I would be lying if I said I didn't. it didn't matter anyway. Nothing would come out of it. But the Doctor did kiss back, even if it had been just for a moment. He still did.
I shook my head internally. So what if he kissed me back…it didn't mean anything at all. It was just in the moment…that's all. Seeing the Doctor still staring at me, I spoke up.
"Uh, okay, well, I'm just gonna go," I said slowly.
"Alright, goodnight Sophie." He turned away from me, returning to his banana.
I stared at him for a couple minutes before turning around to leave, missing the fact that the Doctor stared after me. When I left, I was back in my room and I leaned against the door, looking up at the ceiling for a moment before I decided to go to bed. It was then that I noticed I had a pair of pajamas and there was a bra and a pair of panties on the bed. Not only that, there was also a closet that wasn't there before and I didn't have to look inside to know that there were clothes inside. I was in disbelief. The TARDIS made me go to the kitchen on purpose.
I grumbled to myself as I heard the humming sound in my head yet again but this time, it sounded like laughing.
"You're so not funny," I said scowling. The laughter continued in my head and I scowled some more.
Now ignoring the laughter, I quickly got dressed and climbed into the bed, resting my head on the pillow as I threw my blankets over my body. I closed my eyes and the last thing I heard before falling asleep was faint laughter in my head.
Third person POV...
Banana gone now, the Doctor was still in the kitchen, thinking about what just happened only mere minutes ago. Blimey, that was awkward.
He tried to make it seem like he wasn't at all bothered by the fact that there was a very attractive young woman, standing in front of him in only a towel. It seemed to work by the way Sophie blinked at him with a confused look on her face.
To be honest, the Doctor was rather embarrassed by what happened. Not only that, for some reason, his hearts fluttered when he finally noticed Sophie standing there in only a towel.
Thinking about Sophie now, the Doctor still felt like he knew her from somewhere, but he didn't know where. There was something that felt familiar about her but that was impossible, he had just met her. However, the feeling of knowing her didn't go away.
Shaking his head, the Doctor got out of his seat and went to leave the kitchen. Going through the same door that Sophie went in, he didn't find himself in his room but in Sophie's. Knowing this was the TARDIS's doing, he sighed.
"What are you trying to do, Old Girl?" he asked.
But he didn't get a reply. So he asked again, but this time in his mind. Again, no reply. If she wasn't going to reply, she probably wasn't ever going to, stubborn as she was.
The Doctor shook his head as he glanced at Sophie, who was mumbling in her sleep. He smiled to himself at the sound of it and if he had been listening closely, he would have noticed that she was mumbling his name. Looking at Sophie one last time, he went out the door and thankfully, he didn't find himself back in Sophie's room.
With that, he went to bed and went to sleep, thinking about Sophie.
…
The TARDIS smirked to herself. Well, that went according to plan!
TBC...
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Tooth and Claw, Part 1...