A/N: Hey guys, so this was requested to be made into a series so I have made a collection of 10 one shots all about a lonely heart. This will be Doctor and River orientated however, there will be other pairings too, but this was made for a friend whose OTP is River and the Doctor hence why it's them it's oriented around. Anyways enjoy my lovely followers J

This is the second chapter and is based on Jenny and Vastra.

Hurt. Pain. That is what she felt. It hadn't always been like this. There wasn't all these negative emotions building up inside her. There had once been a time of trust. Of love. Now there's loneliness, the type where no one really understands because no one has ever been in a situation anything like this one. It had started as small feelings and thoughts but had begun to grow into something larger. She was beginning to feel used and unwanted. Sure she was told that she was loved, wanted. That she was pretty. Yet anyone can say those three words you are pretty. It doesn't take much. So maybe that's what she was, an object of beauty used to be shown off. To be displayed to everyone around, kept locked up and made unavailable. She wondered if she had always felt this way and had just brushed it all off due to what she was felt towards them.

Conflict struck through her as she tried to grasp the emotions and turmoil that had begun. She was at war with herself and had no idea how to control the raging storm of feelings that clouded her mind. A person shouldn't be made to feel this way, so neglected and unwanted. The cold air nipped at her face as she took in a deep breath of the cold winter air. Around her children played in the snow and people hurried about, eager to get out of the cold and snow fall. Inside the shop she was stood outside familiar voices discussed business. A single tear falls down her cheek and she carefully wipes it away.

"Why is your face leaking lad?" Strax asks looking at her in his own way of confusion. Before he can make another remark she decided to interrupt.

"It's just the cold Strax, it is a very cold day," Jenny replies.

"I see," and with that the conversation is extinguished and Jenny is left alone to her thoughts again. Pulling her coat tighter around her she shivered, but not from the cold, from the thoughts that were consuming her and eating her from the inside. She hated feeling this way, being made to feel this way. Yet was Vastra really to blame for any of this? That was a question Jenny didn't know the answer to. It was draining her energy all these thoughts, these emotions. She was tired and was lately becoming clumsy. Any household chores she worked at would be ruined and messed up due to something she hadn't paid attention to. Just last week she had broken plates by not paying attention to where she was going.

Then a few days ago she had knocked over several vases through the course of the day, which in turn one of them led to Strax slipping and breaking the new plates that had just arrived. She would make excuses but was unsure as to how much longer she could keep up these excuses. She was becoming an empty void, a person with no real emotions but a cold emptiness. The emotions she did feel were dark, the ones that people don't need to be constantly haunted with. They tie you down and drown you in waves.

As Vastra made her way out the shop she turned to Jenny and Strax.

"Now that's sorted out we can go home, come along," she says and Jenny follows. Every step hurts and feels numb. Her head is light headed as she tries to keep her thoughts calm and collected, her face as is to be expected. That was all she is, a shell of the expectations of society.

"Jenny are you alright?" Vastra asks once they reach home.

"Yes ma'am perfectly fine," Jenny replies not meeting her eyes. Looking into her eyes will probably result in a breakdown, something she could not let happen.

"You seem very quiet and distant," Vastra pauses as if mulling something over before saying "meet me in my study in an hour," with that she walks off leaving Jenny no time to answer.

An hour later Jenny bites her lip as she walks to the study. A plan in her mind set and determined, she knows this is the only way, she must end her suffering and if this is her only option she will go with it. Knocking on the door she enters when she hears the voice beckoning to her.

"You called for me ma'am," Jenny says keeping her voice calm and even.

"Yes, is something wrong my love," Vastra asks. A knife twisting in her heart.

"Actually ma'am there is something I wish to discuss. I wish to hand in my resignation." Upon hearing this Vastra looks up shock and alarm on her face.

"Jenny," Vastra begins.

"No ma'am," Jenny says interrupting her "I cannot go on being treated like an object anymore," a single tear falls down her face "You may not see it or understand how I feel, but when we got married we promised to care for each other but were drifting apart and I cannot continue this way any longer. "

A finger on her lips astonishes her as she looks at Vastra in the eyes for the first time in a while. So much emotion was present that Jenny began to feel her eyes water and her vision blurred, the emotions had been so pure, so strong that Jenny could only feel loved.

"You are my wife, no matter what anyone says. If you feel so insignificant just talk to me about it, do not hide this Jenny. You're not an object to me," With that Jenny nods, it wasn't perfect not yet, there were still a lot of kinks to be straightened and work to be done. But this was the start of getting on track to fixing their relationship and for her lonely heart to no longer be feeling so alone.

A/N: Okay so that was chapter 2 of the Lonely Heart, I shall not reveal who is up next as I am uncertain which order to present the one shots in but I hope you have enjoyed and will continue to read. x