Jace:

"Aichoo!" OK, that was the 5th sneeze in 2 minutes, what was going on?

I followed the sound to the console room, finding the Doctor trying to do something on the console, but he kept having to turn away to sneeze or cough. His eyes were puffy and red rimmed, his nose making him look like Rudolph, and overall, he just screamed sick. "Jace, morning. How'd you sleep?"

"I slept alright, yeah" I tried to say, but I got interrupted by a long stream of sneezes from him. "I'm good, but you're sick, Doctor."

He shook his head, still moving around the console, though his movements were sloppy and miscalculated. "I don't get sick, my Jacey, I'm alien, remember? Besides, the only place we've been recently is Earth, and I really don't catch anything from Earth." The boat had set sail on that one, he definitely had a cold, his voice was all thick and sounded like he had cotton wool in there.

"Where's that temperature thingie..." I muttered, digging through a tool box that had everything in there from diabetes needles, to sewing needles, to some paintbrushes. I took out the thermometer and walked over to him, when he wasn't looking sticking it in his ear. "OK... What? That can't be right, it says you're normal temperature, a little high but its warm in here. 37.8."

But apparently this wasn't good. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me, that high?" And then he went on to explain to me how his people, Time Lords, or the soldiers were just Gallifreyans technically, had a much lower body temperature because of the dual hearts they had, as well as their respiratory bypass system, that means they can survive long period of time without breathing.

So when his normally 15 degree blood temperature was really well over doubled, that wasn't a good thing. "You know what this means, right?" I asked him, flinching at the dark green pattern that came around me as he blew his nose, the noise alone offensive, but the pattern hurting my eyes. "You need to go to bed, with no access to the console room or anything, and then you're just going to sleep."

"Jace, I can handle having a cold or flu or whatever this is, OK? Anyway, I'm not letting you just wander the TARDIS on your own, you'll get lost."

Oh, thanks for that, not like I could follow all of the pipes in the walls to the console room and back. "I'll be fine, I've got Rose. She knows her way around here, so you, are going to bed, Doctor Jace's orders." I smiled, making him put the sonic down and then pulling him towards the inner TARDIS, where Rose was now coming from. "He's sick, help me get him to bed."

"I am not sick, Jace!" He tried, but broke off, coughing like mad and then sneezing in quick succession. 8 times. OK, maybe I am a little, but it's just a cold."

"That is more than a cold, Doctor" Rose told him, getting his other arm and then helping me drag him to the first bedroom we could, mostly because we didn't know which room was his in the TARDIS, and forced him to take the leather jacket off and get into the bed. "This is flu, Shareen had it the same a few years back, ended in her loosing 4 stone because she couldn't keep anything down."

He just grunted, pulling the cushions over his head. We turned off the lights for him, and then left the room, giggling as he quickly started snoring like a pig. "So, what are we going to do, Jacey Jay? Not like we can fly the TARDIS or anything."

I giggled, and grabbed her hand, running back to the console room and then flipped a switch, looking at the rest of it, looking for the colours that each switch had, something that I seen all the time. All the time, I could see why the Doctor went for each switch, because on some psychic level he could see what I could, only with the TARDIS.

Following where she told me to go, a small blipping sound was then coming from the little red dot. "I have no clue what the TARDIS just told me to do, but that sound is very irritating. How do we make it stop?"

Rose moved the monitor around and saw swirly things. "it's... A distress signal. Follow the rest of things and we'll be taken to the source. Either that or it's the doorbell for pizza." Oh, that was similar. But I did as she said, following what the TARDIS told me, and we ended up landing somewhere, the blip getting louder and more urgent, little red bubbles flying with each sound. "OK, and now what do we do? We can't really go out there without the Doctor, Jace."

"Where's your adventurer spirit, Rose?" I smiled, grabbing my cardigan, the Doctor's sonic, and going over to the door. "I'm a teenager, I'm supposed to rebel, anyway. Not like he's my dad, anyway."

I knew he was trying hard to be, I was just struggling to come to the realisation that one day he wouldn't either turn on me or just be gone. Because I'd already lost enough in my life, I couldn't lose another dad or sister, and slowly, very slowly, that was what Rose and the Doctor were becoming to me.

"Jace, you know that he wants to be a dad to you, right?" Rose asked softly, taking my hand as I paused by the door. "He feels so protective over you, when he thought he lost you to the Reapers a few days ago he was so scared, and I have never seen him like that."

Nodding, I turned the latch. "I know. I could see it on his face when I came back. Come on, the sonic is connecting to the source, I can see the link, its all blue and red swirls. It's very pretty actually, a little like fire."

She left it, but I could see that Rose wanted to talk more about it. It took a while of walking through what seemed to be a type of forest, with dark purple trees that had amber leaves that let moonlight go right through them, making the light silver grass look like it was on fire at times. it felt like Rose was finally able to see the colours in my head, unless I was seeing the fact that everything on this planet was linked. All the living creatures had a thin red cord between them, like a string telephone, and I could just hear the whispers of the trees and the plants. This was amazing.

"Some planet, there's no one here." Rose muttered, as we found a clearing. "It must be an old signal and someone else found the person."

We went to head back, but I caught a glimpse of something dark blue and red in the trees behind us, making me turn back. "Hello? Is there someone here?"

"Jace, there's no one." But I didn't believe that. There was a trail of the rest of the signal down the path at the other end and I started off at a sprint behind it, hoping to find whoever it was who sent out the distress signal.

I kept running, Rose trying to keep up, but I knew she was unlikely to, considering that I'd been running for years now. But as I went to jump a fallen tree, something slammed into me, knocking me to the ground and we rolled down the side of a small bank.

When we eventually stopped, I sat up quickly, getting ready to run if it was someone trying to hurt me, but paused when I saw a blue boy around my age getting to his feet at the same time. He was blue, like, TARDIS blue, and had blood red hair combed back off his face. He had no clothes on, but he had scales that covered his form, and there was nothing, uh, intimate on show. And his eyes were pure molten gold.

"My apologies, Miss, but you mustn't leave the tree lines." He told me, with a polite English accent, more English than me even. "There are creatures beyond it who believe that we are filth. That they deserve to start war on anything different."

I stood up straight, seeing that this was the guy with the blue and red light coming from him, and saw that it was a small little wrist watch thing. "Thank you. Our ship registered a distress signal, and we came to find the source. I'm fairly certain that it's your little watch."

"Y, you can see the colours? You have the sight?" What was he talking about, the sight?

"I have a condition called Synaesthesia. It causes my brain to get my senses confused and that means I see sounds, taste sights and sounds, and I can see electrical and psychic connections. Like the one from this sonic device and your watch thing."

His face frowned a little. "Synaesthesia. I have not heard of it, but from my planet, being able to see sounds and the rest of what you said was a rarity and was considered a great honour. My name is Phoenix, and I am the last of my kind. I sent out a distress signal to the Time Lords, and at last they have found me."

Time Lords? Oh, shit. "I, I'm not a Time Lord, Phoenix. My name is Jace, and I'm human, but my uh, my guardian is a Time Lord."

"Guardian? You have no parents of your own?"

I shook my head. "No, I lost my family in a car accident when I was younger. The Doctor took me in a few months ago, and he's like a second dad at times."

"I'm sorry. losing your family is not a nice experience. I know this myself." He looked pained for a moment, and my heart went out to him. He lost his entire race, just as the Doctor did, and I just lost a few of them. He lost a great deal more than I did. But then he heard something I couldn't see and pulled me down again. "Shh, there is someone coming."

Looking up the hill, I saw that it was only Rose, calling out for me, and went to get her attention before Phoenix put his hand over my mouth. Two small forms reached over the log and pulled her over as she screamed and tried to fight. "Rose!" I squealed, trying to get free of Phoenix's grip, but he was strong, holding me to his muscular chest.

"Your friend will not be harmed, not unless we attempt a bad rescue, Jace. We must find your guardian, this Doctor. He can help us, Time Lords are masters of science and Time." He whispered in my ear as Rose's screams faded out of earshot, but I could still see the jagged yellow lines of her fear. "Where is he?"

Fumbling in my pocket, I pulled out Rose's phone, because she lent it to me after me getting separated from them a few weeks back. I quickly dialed the Doctor, who took a moment to answer, and sounded like he'd just been sick. "Jace, I'm sick, but I don't think I'm contagious. You don't have to call me to get my attention."

"Please, please don't get mad yet, but I flew the TARDIS to follow a distress signal." Pause to listen to him take three deep breaths and grunt to tell me to continue. "And I found the source, but Rose got taken by something, and I don't know what to do, please, please, tell me how to get her back."

I was close to tears now, and Phoenix hugged me and his hot skin felt nice against mine. "Oh, Jacey... Right, the person you found, what have they said so far because-" pause to cough, "that could be important."

Sniffing a little, I pulled back and put the phone on speaker. "Doctor, this is Phoenix, and he said his distress signal was keyed specifically for a Time Lord to find."

"Hello, Mr Doctor. I am sorry if Jace did something she was not supposed to in coming to my aid. I have spent many months here alone, and I am grateful for her." OK, this was so weird now. "The planet I am stranded on is called Itras. It is in the-"

"Pettingard system, I know, Phoenix. If the year is the one I think it is, it means that there are Sontarans there, and that is not a good thing. If they have Rose, they'll either hold her-" Insert sneeze here. "as a prisoner of war, or dissect her to-" Insert second sneeze. "Find out the species weaknesses."

That did not sound good. "So what do we do, there has to be something. We need to get Rose back."

"Jacey, calm down, love. I know, OK? Give me a m, m, min... aichoo! Minute. I'll be right there to help you." There was a pause and more coughing, before I spoke.

"No, you're too sick to leave the TARDIS. You stay there and we'll come to you." I told him, wiping my eyes and grabbing Phoenix's hand. "Just wait for us in the console room, OK?"

"Jace, my Jacey you be careful. With the ability to see sounds, the Sontarans would be unstoppable. They wouldn't need sonar or anything." The Doctor told me, and I took a deep breath.

Of course. There were some geneticists who believed that Synaesthesia was an evolution and one day all humans would have it. The entire world could see how I saw. I wondered if that would make it any less special, seeing nature's connections.

"I will make sure she is safe, Mr Doctor. I promise." Phoenix told him, but I trailed off, looking up the hill and seeing more of the Sontarans or whatever they were looking around.

I took his arm and started off at sprint so that we weren't caught, the Doctor still on loud speaker as we ran. "Jace? Jaclyn, where are you?! Jaclyn what the hell is going on?!"

"We're trying to get away from them. okay? Happy with that?" I panted, skidding as more were coming towards us. "Shit. Doctor, we're trapped."

"WHAT?! Jace, Jaclyn you get the hell out of there, now! Back to the TARDIS."

It was too late. The others had seen us and now we're closing in. "Doctor I'm sorry. Thank you for giving me the best here months of my life. See you in hell."

I hung up just as they surrounded us. "Hold still. You will be taken for glory of Sontar. Resistance is futile."