Chapter 10 the loss of an angel

"We must hurry" Rose shouted up to John,

"We need help". As John pelted back down the stairs he grabbed the backpack off of Rose and took it back up. Almost immediately Sarah – Jane was on the phone, her voice very persistent with who she was speaking with.

"Who's there mum" a young boy's voice came down the stairs, his head peaking over the banister with earphones dangling from his neck. As she came off the phone she looked upstairs towards her young teenage son.

"Oh Luke this is Rose Tyler, an old friend of mine and I'm guessing you already know who's upstairs but that's the other doctor, do you remember?" said Sarah.

"Yes but I thought they were trapped in a parallel world?" asked Luke.

"We were but we escaped" interrupted Rose. Luke's face was now clear as he understood. John appeared at the top of the stairs in a different suit and came down.

"She's in a lot of pain, I don't know how long she's going to last for" said John.

As soon as John finished speaking there was a loud knock at the door.

"I called a few old friends when I saw you both so I thought I'd get you some help" Sarah smiled as she pushed open the door. Without a word of hello two people piled in. Then they turned to face them. There stood a men dressed in a world war army jacket, Jack and another familiar face with her hair pulled tightly back to reveal her pretty dark face, Martha Jones. The stillness was broken by Rose throwing herself at both of the strangers, an arm over each. They returned the hug and then shared with John. The mini party was cut short by screaming from the top of the stairs. The bodies in Sarah's entire house tried to climb the stairs at once to tend to the girl in aid up stairs. John was the first to brake the traffic as Romana's screams touched him most of all. The second to brake free was Martha and as a qualified doctor her patients mattered the most too her. As the two pairs of eyes entered the room they saw a horror no one else could bear to stand. Romana was now fully moving and not without pain. Her eyes filled with the fire that the rest of her body was burning.

The painful but successful process had begun. But never before had it pained her like this. Was all this pain worth just getting another body and living? Martha and John watched in horror as Romana tossed and turned all over the bed, taking the sheets with her. The veins on her hands glowed gold as the pain increased. They were joined by Rose at the door. Her expression dropped as she saw Romana scramble in pain. John slowly pulled the door forward but Martha joined her at her side to examine her patient. When the screaming seized Martha came out of the bedroom, head facing the floor.

"She didn't make it" she said under her breath and travelled down stairs to reveal the news to everyone else.

John entered the room silently in respect for her. He placed himself steadily on the bed to peer at the lifeless body. As he touched her hand her skin felt cool under his. He stared at her ghostly face where her long brown curly hair was spread out across the silky pillows and her face was that of an angel.

"All we wanted was your protection, not your death" John sighed. Without him noticing a cloud of gold had shrouded Romana fully so no part of her body was visible. As he looked to his side he was in shock as the cloud startled him and Romana had totally disappeared. The only way it could be described it was as if heaven had come to collect her soul. As the shock circled his body the enticing feeling decapitated his muscles making it hard to stand. Back down stairs everyone's head hung in shame as Martha's news had hit them hard. Sarah held a tissue to her eyes and held her son tightly in the other arm. Martha had taken it worst of all; she wasn't trained for this kind of horror.

"What was the cause of death?" Rose sighed.

"There were a lot of broken bones and I couldn't find anything else wrong" Martha snivelled. Just then the room was silenced by a banging up stairs.

John had toppled over in shock hitting his head on a chest of draws. The cloud that had surrounded Romana had thickened making even her silhouette more opaque. Without any reason the cloud vanished along with Romana. John stood up ignoring the direct pain from his head and jolted down the stairs. Everyone was shocked by his appearance. He was too out of breath to even speak. After a while the words

"Rouen, missing, vanished" were huffed out of his mouth but the others didn't seem to understand.

"What do you mean vanished?" Sarah panicked, her eyes locked on his. Once he had his breath fully back he explained, everyone seemed most enticed about the cloud shrouding her.

"What do you think it was" asked Rose out of the rest. Jack scratched his head and flipped his hair back down neatly in the process.

"I don't think Rouen is who she said she is!" John blurted.

"Personally I don't think she's dead".

"But Martha said..." Rose couldn't finish her speech for John gave her his stern look which meant he was always right.

"Well what are we going to do about her disappearance?" Sarah panted. Luke sighed at his mother's act of panic, as she held him closer to her and her tissue was hauled closer to her nose. Martha sat in silence as the rest of them battled it out over how they should handle the situation; she still wasn't over her shock of losing a patient. She was trying to calculate in her head every significant detail of her examination of Romana. She was trying it take into account everything from a broken bone to every little cut on her body. Suddenly she remembered something that didn't seem right but just assumed that that was one of the things wrong with her as she was screaming in pain. Just the picture in her mind was enough to make her quiver. When she had gone to check her pulse something had seemed odd. But the picture of those burning brown eyes screaming in pain couldn't leave the back of her mind. As she battered her eye lid a tear formed and ran down her cheek, but she refused her eyes request to let more fall. Everyone else still talked fiercely, John being the leader of the group. His leadership ways he inherited from his creator, his clone, after all that's what human biological meter crisis were for. Everyone calls him John so he doesn't get confused with the other real doctor.