"Rayne!" "oh come on... BREATH!"
Dark.
darkness, darkness and pain.
Somewhere through the dark and the pain, in a far far away part of her mind Rayne was Very faintly aware of someone -someone she should know but couldn't gather her wits enough to- was calling her name, giving her instructions.
There was a sharp pain in her chest and slowly the dark faded into clarity again, she made her way back to consciousness, then suddenly feeling a ruff force against her back, her eyes flew open and she coughed up mud, spattering it against a mud streaked glass floor.

The doctor held Rayne in a sitting position his arm across her torso and pat her back, while she coughed up what was hopefully the last of the mud from her lungs, mud now covering the both if them, but that didn't matter, he was too relieved that she was breathing.
"a-al- Urdlen!" Rayne managed to rasp out in a slight panic, holding herself upright with her hand clamped around his shoulder for support, "did it work? Are they here?" she asked, the doctor helped her get slowly to her feet.
"well yes, if by 'it' you mean changing the settings on you're vortex manipulator so that it would teleport all life forms over 150cm high within the mud then yes, but they're gone now, I used it to send them back to their own planet, here sit down"
"oh," she said, not sitting down but standing there awkwardly looking down at all the mud, "I'm sorry about that, I meant to sort it out myself, but..." she gave him an awkward sort of half smile.
"that's alright, I'm here to help, although! it was quite a surprise I'd just closed the doors and termed around after seeing you out the door when you popped in with a bunch of angry hungry monsters"
He took her shoulders and directed her towards the hallway, "why don't you go get cleaned up, and then I'll do quick scan to make sure you're all right-"
" I'm fine" she told him not fully convincing either of them.
He hadn't been able to see her deep wounds from the Urdlen' claws under all the mud, and she had already forgotten about them.

Rayne headed towards her bedroom, deep in the TARDIS, the door to her room was a large, light blue wood the paint was worn showing a nice aged white wood under here and there. She pushed it open and slipped through her room to the large bathroom there. The bathroom was different to how she remembered, last time she visited the tub was a large spar tub with burning candles in the wall behind, this time it was a Square set tub with one of those removable hand held shower heads it was made of a white ceramic, the rest of the room however remained the same, there where no windows but rather the occasional green plant,everything else was an antique white, the floor a white marble, along the opposite wall to the bathtub was a long white wood dresser styled bench and basin, the final peace was a square backless and flat seat, on which sat a small pile of rolled up puffy towels and a bathroom robe.
Rayne walked over to the cabinets and pulled out her favourite scented body wash, shampoos and a flannel, she put them on the baths ledge and began the tough job of removing her mud stuck clothing.

The doctor himself was already cleaned up, idly tinkering with some wires above his little swing under the console when he heard a familiar voice call his name. He startled, then ran up the stairs to meet the voices owner.
"ah, there you are, I got a message from you..."
"me, no, I haven't sent you a message" the doctor said, fiddling with his cuff,
"not yet, but you will" she said.
The doctor panicked slightly, "yes, well, um, well, where are we then?" he mumbled walking around her awkwardly to set his goggles on the console.
River smiled, "I just left you and Rayne, you where supposed to take her back to uni after our encounter with the Sticoraz"
" I did, but she came back later in her own time line." he defended stubbornly.
"yes I can tell" river ran the toe of her boot through the mud on the floor. "oh that, yes. You're daughter!" he began, then disappeared into the hall and returned with a mop, "almost got herself killed using that stupid vortex manipulator you gave her" he ran the mop through the mud cleaning it up before throwing it down the hall way, river, naturally, was only half listening.
" it's gone now." he said satisfactorily dusting his hands off. "sent it with the Urdlen"
" we'll that's a bit unfortunate sweety but I do believe that those genes came from you." river teased pulling on the collar of his jacket, "where is she anyway?"
"Rayne? Oh she's getting cleaned up, although, she has been gone a while you might like to go check on her, do whatever it is you mother-daughter types do."
"mhmm" river raised her eyebrows "and I'm sure you want me to bring her I so you can do a med scan?"
"just to make sure she's okay."

Rayne had managed to get all the mud except what was stuck in her hair, that was a difficult and delicate process, sitting in the tub full of her favourite scents and bubbled over the way she likes it, she was just about to give in and just scrub it all up ruffly the way you see people do to really dirty pooches, when river waked in "Rayne?"
Rayne Jumped, spilling water over the edges, "gosh, you almost gave me a heart attack!"
River smiled and pulled the seat over to the side of the tub, "what are you doing here? I can take a bath by myself you know."
River though, just laughed and took raynes ringlets gently. Sometimes it seemed like the two had this unspoken connection that normal, humans, wished they where capable of. It took river very little time to get the last of the mud out of raynes hair, she wrapped a towel around it for her and passed her the bath robe, "you're father wants to do a scan to make surer you're oka-" river started but Rayne cut her off impatiently and climbed out of the tub to stand in front of river, "I'm perfectly fine!"
River in response raised her eyebrows and looked down Slightly, "sweetie, you're bleeding, rather badly." she said, Rayne followed rivers eyes and looked down at her legs, where the puffy white material of the bath robe she wore stopped was a puddle of raynes blood, building steadily from a stream on her leg, that's when she remembered the Urdlen's claw slicing through her calf. "oh." for a minute river thought that Rayne would feint, but then she seemed to shake it off, she sat down next to river and propped her leg up on the edge of the tub, took a towel and wrapped it around the wound, then got back up and trotted into her room to find something to wear, river gave a small gasp as Rayne walked through the door and she caught a glimpse of raynes wound bleeding in thick dark lines through the white towel.

Five minutes later the two blondes walked into the TARDIS console room, the Doctor's eyes widened when he saw Rayne, she had on a dark blue long shirt and black cotton and leather spliced pants, up the sides of which where zips, running from raynes feet to her knee, the left one was unzipped and pulled back from the red stained towel that sat around her calf, she plonked herself into a seat and for the briefest second there was a slight glow about her, the doctor didn't realise it yet but, the slight glow was raynes veins briefly flashing Gold as she suppressed her regeneration. Before the doctor had the chance to say anything Rayne piped up "might need some stitches here Paps."

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(A/N: sorry it took so long, this also wasn't how I'd intended this chapter to go either but to be honest I needed to start a new story, so I'll start work on a new one, you guys let me know if you have any ideas, scenes, info whatever that you want in it or just in general! cheers)