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He Who Sins
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Always
Rose lay on the floor; she had curled herself into a ball whilst the pain tore through her. She knew that labour began with a series of small sharp pains – this wasn't labour, this was one long pain that wouldn't stop and just intensified. Rose let the tears stream down her cheeks as she rocked herself back and forth preying for the pain to stop, preying for her children to be alright; preying for the Doctor.
Jackie looked at the Doctor in confusion as he paced the kitchen, his glasses were pushed up the bridge of his nose and his hair stood manically from where his hands we running through it.
'The Azariah' the Doctor told her
'What?' Jackie replied
'The Azariah – a religious tribe. Rose was looking at their books in the library and she swore she could feel someone watching her' the Doctor winced as he remembered another time he'd ignored her, dismissed her thoughts and feelings.
'Why do they want her?' Jackie asked
'I don't know' the Doctor admitted 'But I do know this is the kind of thing they'd do'
'Where are they?' Jackie asked with a twinge of hope in her voice. The Doctor turned to her and lent forward on the table meeting her eyes, he shook his head
'I don't know. I thought they'd all been extinct for quite a number of years' he confessed, when he saw Jackie's eyes fill again with unshed tears he walked around to her and placed a hand on her arm 'But it doesn't mean we can't find her – we know where to start looking'. Jackie nodded at him and followed him towards the control panel
'I'm going to get her back' he vowed as he began to frantically hit buttons, Jackie nodded
'I know you will'.
Rose had closed her eyes; somehow the darkness she found behind her eyelids was more comforting than the darkness that stung at her from the room. The pain hadn't lessoned – it only grew, Rose took deep breaths as she tried to breath through the pain, slowly she opened her mouth and remembered the Doctor and what he would do. She placed her palms on her bare stomach and soothing stroked her bump, she opened her mouth and in a shaky voice she began to sing
'Come stop your crying It will be all right, Just take my hand, hold it tight' she slowly began to sing as she remembered the Doctor doing so.
'I will protect you from all around you, I will be here don't you cry' she whispered as tears began to roll down her cheeks, she sat up and dragged herself so she was now leaning against a wall.
'For one so small, you seem so strong, my arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm. This bond between us can't be broken, I will be here don't you cry' she continued between sobs as her voice was wrecked with pain and fear. She slowly felt the pain in her stomach lesson as she began to rock back and forth
'Cos you'll be in my heart, yes, you'll be in my heart, from this day on, now and forever more' she promised as her voice became barely a whisper.
'You'll be in my heart, No matter what they say, you'll be in my heart, always. Always' Rose let her head drop to her knees as the pain became a dull ache, she slowly fell asleep to the sound of the Doctor singing in her head. She held her hand out to him – a hand he could never reach, and she quietly begged him
'Just take my hand, hold me tight, it will be alright cos you will protect me from all around me' she whimpered as she let her eyelids fall heavy. She felt her stomach growl for food as she rolled onto her side and let vomit slowly pool around her,
'You'll be in my heart, always' she whispered as she fell into the safest place she knew – dream world.
Jackie held onto the railing of the control panel as the Tardis shot through time and space – they were on a mission… a deadly one.
The Doctor stalked back into the Tardis, Jackie looked up at him only to be met by him shaking his head – another place where they weren't. Jackie wouldn't let herself give up hope as the Doctor slowly began to run out of places to look, yet he wouldn't admit defeat and they journeyed on to another time, another era, another life.
Whilst the Doctor searched the planets they landed on, Jackie read through the books on the Azariah – the more she read the more petrified she became.
Rose's eye lids flickered open for a moment, she looked around her into the darkness and whimpered as she felt her stomach heave, she turned to the corner and vomited heavily for a few minutes. She dropped back to the floor and closed her eyes with her hand pressed over her stomach as the pain slowly rode through her – she didn't see the speckles of blood that marked her vomit.
Jackie looked up from her book, around her empty mugs of tea stood, she glanced up
'Doctor!' she called out. He ran to her side, his eyes were marked by tiredness with deep blue bags that hung below them – she'd been gone for nearly three weeks, and each day she was gone he was dying a little more inside.
'Yeah?' he asked. Jackie looked up at him worriedly as she ran her fingers along the faded yellow paper of the stolen books
'The day will come when the sacrifice is made. On that day Devadeva will come to us, only then can the fate be sealed' she read slowly. The Doctor flexed his hands
'How long do we have?' he asked. Jackie looked up at him worriedly
'A couple weeks'. The Doctor nodded before running to the control panel and began hitting buttons – he knew where to look.