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Donna, Jack, Kairi and I walked to the doorway.
"Are you all ready?" I asked smiling before pulling open the door. Outside it was windy and there was nothing in sight besides trees
"Doctor this is not Ewana." Kairi said looking at me with worry in her eyes.
"I've realized that." Donna stepped out of the TARDIS and into the woods surrounding us.
"Where are we?" She asked
"We are on Vycoraxia in the year 5 billion." I answer stepping out beside her.
"Doctor it is not safe here." Kairi said walking out next to me Jack following her.
"When is it ever safe with him?" Jack said half teasingly but also a bit serious.
"Good point." Donna said.
"No it really isn't safe. Doctor we need to leave." Kairi pleaded with her eyes.
"I know it's not safe but we have to find out why the TARDIS brought us here." I said not looking at her.
"Doctor they could get killed." She said and yanked on my arm pulling me around forcing me to face her.
"I have to see what's wrong." I say trying not to make eye contact.
"Fine. Donna I want you and Jack to stay in the TARDIS. It's not safe here. Jack stay in the TARDIS. Do not leave it for anything. Keep Donna with you." Kairi says giving them a stern look.
"You two could get hurt too you know." Donna said to her
"Don't worry about us love. Just stay here. We'll be back." She responded kissing her cheek and hugging her.
"Be careful." Jack said to us.
"When is he ever careful?" Kairi joked elbowing me.
"Hey I try." I defend myself
Kairi hugged Jack too and told him if anything bad happened to Donna she'd kill him. Little does she know, he can never die.
"Ready?" I ask as she closes the TARDIS door.
"Yeah. Let's just hurry and find this thing." She says looking around.
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I look at our surroundings trying to scan for any signs of trouble. I see nothing.
"How are we supposed to find these things?" I ask the Doctor.
"Well I don't think they'll be here. Normally the Vycorax scare off other life forms. I'm thinking they might be a bit closer to the center of the forest since the Vycorax don't go there often." He answered also assessing the area.
"We have to look out for the Vycorax. You know my rules." I say looking at him. By the way his gaze drops I know he remembers.
"Doctor I know you don't like it but if it's threatening us I'm going to take action." I say throwing my hair into a pony tail
"I know. It's how you were made, but we give them a chance first. Come on." He said walking forward. I follow close behind him looking about as we go along. I hear a snap. My gaze quickly settles on a pair of bright blue eyes and a large green lion like creature.
"Doctor, we have trouble." I whisper to the man whose back is pressed to mine.
"I know." He whispered back and I glance around him to see another Vycorax glaring at the Doctor.
"What are you doing in our forest?" We hear the creatures ask.
"We've gotten a distress sign coming from here." The Doctor says
"We have no one." The creatures hiss in response. I hear a scream.
"Doctor." My eyes grow wide. And we run in the direction as fast as we can. The Vycorax are close and gaining quickly, but we reach the point where the scream had come from and there stood a woman with a man who looked a bit like Jack and that ginger appeared to be Donna. Surrounding them were three large Vycorax.
"Stop." I say to the animal like creatures. They all turn to me and seem to laugh. As they begin to walk towards me. I change my stance.
"Doctor go. Take Donna and Jack. Find the others. Don't stop running. I'll catch up just go." I say looking up at him from my crouched position.
"I can't leave you." He says
"I'm making you, now go." The creatures were getting closer all 5 of them Donna seemed shocked and Jack stood waiting to take orders. I shoved the Doctor to the side and ran forward grabbing the first Vycorax by its huge mane. The others circled around trying to get at me. From the corner of my eye I see the Doctor with one last glance at me run with Jack and Donna. I wiggle out from underneath the creature and close my eyes letting out a low growl my body shifted and my senses rose. I could feel everything and I knew it was time to fight.
\(~0~)/
I didn't want to leave her but I had to get Jack and Donna somewhere safe not to mention find who sent the TARDIS a distress signal. As we reached the center of the forest where there was a huge river filled with shiny silver rocks. Sitting next to it with a huge gaping claw mark down his face was a man in a bloody white shirt and black dress pants. He looked human. That's impossible. I approached him and he gazed up at me with silver and gold eyes. He wasn't human.
"Hello, I am the Doctor. These two morons are Jack and Donna. Who might you be?" I said ignoring Jack and Donna's mumbled annoyed words.
"My name is Enrique, I come from Walrem. I'm obviously not supposed to be here." He said wincing I could tell that his injuries were bothering him.
"How'd you get here?" I asked him
"I'm not sure I was in my car going home when I ended up in the forest. I was attacked by whatever those things are and now here I am." I took out my Sonic Screwdriver and ran it over him.
"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with you. I don't understand why you'd just disappear and land here." I say standing I take his hand and help him up.
"Jack come here and help him. As soon as Kairi gets back we need to return to the TARDIS." I hand Enrique over to Jack.
"Hello my name is Jack Harkness." He flashes Enrique a smile
"No. Don't do that." I say giving him a stern look.
"You two are in serious trouble after we get Enrique back." I scold Donna and Jack. I hear rustling in the bushes by the entrance and Kairi steps through them.
She has a long gash across her stomach and three long scratches down her leg. Her clothes are tattered and what had started a light pink sweater and white jeans is now barely a crop top and shorts. I'm guessing she ripped them to look that way though because the tears are too neat. Her face looks un-touched along with her arms and chest.
"Are you alright?" I ask because her cuts are bleeding rather badly. Even Time Lords can lose too much blood.
"I'm fine is he okay?" She asks nodding her head to Enrique.
"Yeah we need to get him back to the TARDIS." I answer her.
"We're safe to go back. Come on." She walks back through the brush and we follow.
\(~0~)/
I lead the group back to the TARDIS. My stomach and leg feel like they are on fire. I'm so out of practice I shouldn't have a scratch on me. If only I would have turned in time to catch that Vycorax's paw. Leaves brushed my stomach and I winced.
"You don't sound alright." The Doctor said close to my ear. I flinched
"You startled me." I should have heard him approach me.
"I'm sorry but you are not ok your cuts are really bad." He says looking at me as if he's upset I lied to him.
"I'm not important right now. That man is." I say referring to the guy with Jack.
"His name is Enrique, but you are important. Very important." We all walk up to the TARDIS and we go inside. Jack and the Doctor take Enrique to the med bay. I stay with Donna.
"Shouldn't you go to the med bay too?" Donna asked me looking at my wounds.
"I can wait until Enrique is ok." I answer her
"At least let me wash them for you." She takes my hand and pulls me into her room taking me to her bathroom.
The TARDIS has put a cot in the bathroom so I have somewhere to lie while Donna cleans my cuts. I stroke the wall in appreciation. Thank you. I tell her. She hums in response.
"Lie down." Donna orders
"Someone sounds a bit bossy." I say teasing her.
"Sorry." She lets out a small giggle. I lie on the cot and wait for her.
"I'm not very happy with you." I say looking over at her.
"I know I'm sorry" she says dipping a rag into warm water.
"Why didn't you listen to the Doctor and I?" I ask as she walks over to me pressing the rag onto my stomach.
"Jack wanted to help and I didn't want to be left behind." She answers beginning to rub the rag softly over my skin surrounding the giant gash.
"You should always listen to the Doctor and I. We are trying to keep you safe. Jack is an idiot." I say rolling my eyes
"Jack isn't that bad you know. This may sting a bit" She says before pouring peroxide over my cut. My muscles tighten and I bite my tongue trying not to curse.
"Donna you do realize the Doctor can use his Sonic Screwdriver to totally fix these cuts." I say through clenched teeth
"Oops, I'm sorry. I wasn't really thinking about that." She said blushing and biting her lip. She is just too adorable.
"It's fine just don't put that on my scratches." I say moving my body to give her access to my thigh where the scratches are. She dabs the rag in the water again before running it across my inner thigh. It hurt but at the same time felt nice. I bit my lip.
"The Doctor is mad at you and Jack as well." I say trying to keep my tone steady.
"I'd figured as much." She ran the rag across my last cut
"There you go all cleaned up." She puts the rag on the counter and dumps the bowl of water.
"Thank you." I say
"I'm gonna go change and wait for the Doctor." I exit the bathroom and walk to my room. I take a pair of pajama shorts and a tank top. I Walk to the bathroom and examine my wounds. They are pretty deep. I run my hand across my stomach before removing what tiny part of my shirt I have left. Sliding the new one on I decide to just keep it directly under my chest and to not let it touch my stomach. I carefully remove my shorts that used to be my favorite jeans and slide on my sleeping shorts. They covered half of the top scratch and the cloth rubbing against it hurt a little. I washed my hands before picking up a rag beginning to wash my face. When I'd finished cleaning off little splats of dried blood here and there I let out my hair which luckily didn't have anything in it. I brushed it out and left my bedroom walking to the med bay to check on Enrique.
"Hey guys how's everything going?" I ask walking into the room. The Doctor looked up and winced seeing the wounds once again.
"Enrique is back to full health unlike you." He said looking a bit upset.
"We need to get you taken care of." He looks at me sternly.
"No we take Enrique home first." I say looking directly in his eyes.
"Fine. But you are staying here with Jack and Donna while I examine his car." He says
"That's ok with me." I walk over to Jack and take his hand.
"Come with me to get some tea."