Nara:
I hated him. I hated him. Oh, how I hated him. He ruined our lives! Everything I fought to preserve was over. I had no idea what was going to happen next.
As I puffed with rage in the waiting area in the Judoon prison, two of the brutes appeared. The Judoon shoved out a woman. Her hair was cut close to the scalp, and she fell to her knees. This was the Doctor.
I knelt beside her.
"Doctor," I said. "I'm Nara. I'm going to take you home with me."
She didn't move.
"I can't leave," she said. "I'm not allowed. I've been a bad person. I belong in prison."
Two Judoon appeared.
"Sho Do Ko!" they shouted menacingly.
I grabbed her arm.
"Come on, Doctor."
She acted as if I had set her on fire. The Doctor got up and scurried away from me.
My rage dissipated. This was a woman who had been through Hell. She needed to be released. Maybe Dal's strategy was better than whatever Anna Lee was working on.
"Doctor," I said in a gentler tone. "This way."
Keeping an arm's length from me, she followed. We walked in silence to where Dal had parked the vehicle. At first the Doctor, wouldn't get in.
"It's okay," I said. "Come."
She slowly got in. I drove the vehicle out of the car park and headed for the main passage. The Doctor who looked terrified, even as I drove at slow speeds. Whenever I glanced at her, I saw she was shaking and constantly moving her head in different directions.
At first the Doctor wouldn't get out when I we arrived.
"Doctor, come," I said.
She then darted out as if I had ordered her.
I held the door open, for her. The Doctor stepped in, and looked around.
"You have a lovely home," she said blankly and then added: "That's the right thing to say, right?"
"Thank you," I said. "Would like some tea?"
The Doctor was looking at photos.
"You have children," she said.
"Yes," I said. "They're sleeping at friend's houses."
She looked me in the eye for the first time.
"I'm sorry."
"None of this is your fault," I said. "Dal, my Doctor, did kill a man. But it was in self-defense, and he'll prove it in court."
"You have a family, you don't deserve this," she said rapidly and turned away. "I should be the one in prison."
"Do you travel with anyone?" I asked.
"They think I'm dead."
"Not Jack Harkness," I said.
Her head bolted up.
"Jack?" she said.
"He found us, Anna Lee and I somehow. He figured out we were connected to the Doctor, my Doctor."
"Artron energy tracer," she muttered to herself. "Do you know where he went?"
"To find a way to break you out, I'm guessing," I said.
"I don't understand," the Doctor said.
"I may have lied about how we were connected to you to conceal my husband. But he knows or thinks right now, you're in Judoon prison."
The Doctor rubbed her head.
"This whole thing is giving me a headache," she moaned.
"It gets so confusing at times," I said. "Can I offer you something to drink? Tea? Ale?"
"You don't have to be nice to me," she said. "You just lost your husband. The father of your children. You're probably furious with me."
"I was," I said. "But I see in front of me a shattered woman. You didn't deserve to be locked up like that. Dal, my Doctor will figure things out."
The Doctor yawned.
"I'll set up the day bed for you," I said.
She took off her coat and sat on the floor by the fireplace.
"I'm okay, here," she said and curled up. "You probably have important phone calls to make. Don't worry about me."
"Doctor," I said.
"Nara, you've been too kind already. Do what you need to do. I'll be right here."
In a matter of minutes, she was fast asleep under her coat. She looked miserable. There were deep lines of pain etched into her face. I had to pull away or I wouldn't be able to stop looking at the remains of the Doctor.
I climbed the stairs and went into my bedroom to call Anna Lee.
"This better be important," she said. "I'm in a very dangerous situation."
"Dal is in prison," I said. "He figured it out from Judoon records. He flipped the arch and voluntarily went in. The blond female Doctor is sleeping by my fireplace."
"Holy Hell, Nara," Anna Lee said.
"What do we do now?" I asked.
"I'm in a databank to find out who ordered the Doctor on to the Doctor's case."
I heard another voice.
"Nara, I'm putting you on speaker phone, our favorite pain in the arse is back."
"You know what they say about great minds," Jack Harkness said.
"The Judoon Delta databank is massive," Anna Lee said. "Jack, help me and I'll tell you whole truth about everything."
"How I do know you will this time?" Jack asked.
"Because the stakes have been raised. Nara, I'll call you when I have something a few hours."
"Okay," I said and hung up.
I went downstairs to check on the Doctor. She was shaking and whimpering. Dashing back upstairs, I pulled out some spare bed linens and went back down. I gently wrapped her in the blankets. The Doctor continued to whimper. It was clear she was having nightmares. My maternal instincts were kicking in as I watched her. I had to do something.
Pulling out a teakettle, I made some of special Lankian brew tea. It had a calming effect on my kids. I sat beside her with a cup and watched as her nose sniffed the air. Her whimpering slowly faded. The breath I had been holding without realizing it, I finally let out.
Grabbing more blankets, and my phone, I went to bed on the couch. I watched the Doctor sleep. Part of her was my husband. For all my rage at the start of the night, I felt for this woman who was a version of the person I loved.