Author's Note: It's finally here! Chapter 4 of Trying to Forget. Like said before the updates won't come fast. And I explained that I am trying to update at least one story every week.
And I have been failing that too, otherwise, this chapter would've been here a tad earlier. But stuff has been going on in my life, is still going on in my life. And I just didn't feel like writing or doing anything producing at all. I still don't really feel like doing this stuff again, but I currently feel better than I did a couple of weeks ago and most likely I won't go back to feeling that way again soon. But currently, I feel like I can only drag myself to write some stuff but not do anything with the videos I edit as well.
And when I finally managed to drag myself over to my keyboard and writing program I struck a writer's block.
Geesh thanks...
I'm having trouble with getting the story towards the next adventure, which will be an original story, I hope to get there within the nex chapters, but I'm not good at these kinds of things, something I'm pretty sure I proofed in my other series by now.
But I managed to get this chapter done, there's not much plot but I'm just trying to make a bridge towards the good stuff, well at least what I consider the good stuff.
This is terrible, I'm sorry, just please bear with me and hopefully it gets better, sometime...
Disclaimer: Once up on a time I owned Doctor Who, then I woke up.
4. I'm Waking Up
During her conversation with Sarah Jane and Luke, Marta was called by the hospital board, telling her that she didn't have to return to work for an indefinite time, this meant that she could spend her time on getting the Doctor better. After a few hours of chatting with Sarah Jane and after confirming that The Doctor was stable by now, it turned out that he didn't need a second blood sack, after all. After a bit, Martha decided to leave, she had a birthday party to attend to. She promised Sarah Jane to come back the next day and got her number in case something kept her from coming over.
As expected the party went to hell because of course her dad had taken Annalise with him and from the moment those two had walked in, the party was doomed.
And as expected, it wasn't much later when her mum and Annalise burst out of the bar, her dad wasn't too far behind and then Tish and Leo also left. Martha sighed and left for her own house, nothing she could do to make it better now she figured she could better go back to Sarah Jane's as early as possible the next morning.
The next morning Martha went back towards Sarah Jane and found just like Sarah Jane had that The Doctor seemed a lot better but wasn't conscious yet, although they suspected that he could wake any moment.
This meant that Martha couldn't do a lot for him, so she ended up chatting with Sarah Jane, who told her that she used to travel with The Doctor years ago and told Martha about some of the amazing things she has seen. Martha also learned the story about Luke's creation, she felt sorry for the boy, obviously not having it easy on getting used to life.
In the middle of one of the stories from Sarah Jane Luke and a dark haired girl game in.
"Hey, Sarah Jane." She greeted and then saw Martha. "Hello."
"Right, Maria, I would like you to meet Martha, Martha this is Maria." Sarah Jane introduced them.
"Hello, nice to meet you." They shook hands and Maria sat down next to Sarah Jane.
"Luke told me what happened on school. How's The Doctor now?"
"He's better than yesterday, might wake up soon." Sarah Jane answered.
"That's good. I just don't get why he did that. Why didn't he tell us?"
Sarah Jane sighed.
"As you know, I have disallowed him to go sort out the aliens with us, so when he discovered something on his own..." She let Maria figure it out by herself.
"He wouldn't go to us as we wouldn't let him help out anyway!" Maria then fell quietly. "So this is our fault as well?"
Sarah Jane opened her mouth to answer but Martha fell in.
"Of course not, the reason Sarah Jane had to not let him help was good, but I think he started to feel restless and decided that he felt good enough to do it on his own."
Sarah Jane nodded along.
"I think that's a pretty accurate description of what happened." She added.
"Okay, I suppose that makes sense." Maria said nodding to herself.
Then they got interrupted by a beep, startling all of them.
Martha looked at the beeper the TARDIS had given her and instantly realised what the beep meant.
"The Doctor!" She exclaimed, her eyes wide and locked eyes with Sarah Jane who instantly started to get up and headed towards the attic. Martha, Luke and Maria followed her quickly.
Sarah Jane fished the key out of her pocket and opened the door of the police box that Martha still didn't completely understand. They quickly headed towards the infirmary where The Doctor was. When they were there they didn't quite see why the TARDIS had called them, but soon he started to move and they realised that he was waking up.
Sarah Jane quickly went to sit next to him and took his hand, she wanted to make sure he saw a familiar face as first when he woke up in case he would panic or something.
The first thing The Doctor was aware of when he woke up was the pounding in his head, actually, his whole body hurt, he let out a groan, then he realised that someone was holding his hand. He carefully opened his eyes and looked at the person holding his hand, to see it was Sarah Jane.
"Hey." She said noticing he had opened his eyes.
"Hi." He answered his voice was a bit croaky.
"How are you feeling?"She asked him
"Terrible." He admitted and then he realised there were more people in the room. Luke and Maria were there, something that didn't really surprise him, but Martha Jones, the medical student that had helped him in the hospital earlier, was there too.
"What happened?" He asked groggily.
"Well, apparently you lost a bit too much blood to that plasmavore, mister." Martha reminded him of the events of the previous day.
"Ahhh... Right..." He said rather awkwardly. "Oops?"
She just shook his head at him but didn't quite manage to hide the smile that was forming.
Sarah Jane, on the other hand, did not look pleased with him at all and he suspected that he would hear all about it in a couple of minutes.
Make that seconds. He corrected in his head as Sarah Jane opened her mouth.
"What were you thinking?! Going there without saying anything! Not picking up that phone I gave you! We were so worried!" Even though she had started off angry, she sounded mostly hurt at the end of that sentence and it really made him feel guilty about what he had done.
He looked slightly at Luke and Maria, he realised that he had worried them as well, probably even scared them as apparently he had been pretty sick after getting a fair part of his blood sucked out of him, he didn't remember much after the plasmavore had knocked him out. Besides this unbearable sadness, a sadness he still felt a bit now.
He turned back towards Sarah Jane and then looked down as a scolded child, which he sort of was.
"I'm sorry I just..." As he paused to figure out his excuse, Sarah Jane's watch beeped alarmingly, startling all of them.
She quickly had a look at this, then turned to look pointedly at The Doctor.
"We'll finish this later." Then she got up. "Luke, Maria. We've got work to do."
She then turned to Martha as Luke and Maria already left the room.
"We've got to take care of something, can you keep an eye on him?" She asked.
Martha nodded.
"Yeah, I'd like to get a proper check-up on his health anyway."
The Doctor cringed at that, he didn't like the sound of that, but he had a feeling he would have to comply or he would feel the wrath of either Martha or Sarah Jane and he had the feeling that neither would be good for him.
Sarah Jane nodded at Martha.
"That sounds like a plan. We'll be back in about an hour, maybe more, depends on what's going on." She said as she turned away.
"Do you have any idea what's going on?" The Doctor spoke up, causing Sarah Jane to turn back towards him.
"I have an idea, but I'm not telling you it now, maybe later after it's solved. You need rest, Doctor." She told him firmly.
He nodded slightly but looked disappointed.
Then Sarah Jane turned back around again and this time left the room, leaving Martha and The Doctor alone.
Martha turned to him.
"How about we get started?"
The Doctor let out a sigh.
"Do we have to?"
"You've been out for more than 12 hours and we've had to give you a blood transfusion. Yeah, I think we should."
The Time Lord frowned.
"I've had a blood transfusion?"
"Yeah." Martha nodded. "Your blood pressure was low and even though I don't know much about your biology I figured you needed a transfusion." She crossed her arm in a challenge for him to say that she shouldn't have.
But he just nodded his agreement.
"I suppose that decision makes sense, I probably actually needed it. On the subject of blood pressure, we're quite similar."
"Okay, while I'm happy to help you, why can't you just go to a doctor of your own species, or at least someone specified?"
His face fell at that and he looked down.
"Because they don't exist anymore." He whispered, barely audible, this told her a bit more than when she had asked Sarah Jane, but not everything.
"Not anymore? How come?" She decided to ask.
He looked slightly up towards her and she saw that tears were forming in his eyes.
"Could we not do this now?" He requested, a bit harder this time but still barely louder than a whisper.
"Yeah okay, let's figure out how healthy you are. Now!" She said as she picked up the first instrument. "Let's begin." proceeded to scan him and question him about his biology.