Sara Kingdom

At first he had not liked Sara at all.

Of course, at that time she was hell bent on killing him and Steven, even going so far as to kill her own brother who she had thought a traitor.

Once they had made it back into the TARDIS after their rather unorthodox trip around the galaxy, it soon became clear that she was one of the most loyal beings one could ever know.

Once she had the proof that the man she was following blindly was the traitor, not them or her brother, she had made her stand and decided to help them. The problem with getting to the right planet and at the right time was the biggest hurdle in front of them after that. He had finally gotten a working dimensional unit from the TARDIS of the Meddling Monk. Too bad it wasn't exactly compatible with his older model TARDIS.

Hard as nails and owning a fighting spirit like no other woman he had yet to meet, she had taken life travelling through time and space rather well. She was completely capable of taking care of herself without assistance of any man, or any other person at all for that matter. Something, while he was getting slowly used to in a woman of a lesser species, was a bit unheard of for him in human beings.

Yet again, most of the women he had travelled with had been rather strong and capable. He was beginning to think all his study of the human species had been wrong.

It was such a shame that Sara's time was rather cut short in such a horrid and tragic way.

For all her bravery and fighting skills, no human can beat what kills them barring accidents, murder and disease.

Time.

The Daleks had made a weapon to speed time up and it had been set off, and they had lagged behind. Steven had made it safely back to the TARDIS, and he himself could live for quite a while yet looking just like he did, since his species tended to live a lot longer than humans.

Still, it had drained years of life from him as well, and it was a miracle in itself that he had made it.

Poor Sara hadn't.

She had aged and died and decomposed to nothing by the time the bomb's effects had died away.

She had fought for as long as she could, until death had taken her. Every last ounce of breath put into either finding the bomb, or getting to the TARDIS.

Such a tragic end for a woman like Sara. Someone who had so much life in her.

The only consolation he had for both himself and Steven was that she died fighting for what she believed to be right, and for people who she was unfailingly loyal to until the end. In that way at least, it was a fitting way for her to have died.

Well, life for him was still ongoing, and he'd do all he could to make sure no other person travelling with him would die in such a senseless way again.

He would protect every single one of them until he breathed his last.