AN: Thanks for the reviews I got for the last chapter. And as alway thank you to my beta reader Persiflage.

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Chapter 7

He kissed her tenderly. For Martha, time seemed to stand still. It didn't matter anymore that they were held captive by some armed aliens who had threatened to kill them if they didn't help them to take over a spacestation in the 47th century. All she could think of now were his lips on hers and the way he tasted as her tongue explored his mouth.

He slowly broke the kiss a few minutes later. Her eyes remained closed for a few moments longer before she opened them to look into his warm brown eyes. She was still completely stunned by what had just happened. She opened her mouth but before she could say anything she was interrupted by the Ladurian they had spoken to earlier approaching them.

"Have you decided if you are going to help us?" he asked with mock politeness.

"Well, it's not really a good deal for us, isn't it?" the Doctor asked in the way he always talked to enemies in risky situations: like he wasn't taking them seriously. "I mean you expect us to betray our friends and you can't even guarantee us that you won't kill us as soon as you don't need us anymore."

The Ladurian just smiled at him and pointed his gun at Martha's head before asking: "Is that your final answer?"

The Doctor looked nervously at the gun. "All right," he said. "I'll help you. Just leave her alone!"

The Ladurian put his gun down. "Stand up!" he ordered.

Martha had some difficulty getting to her feed with her hands still tied behind her back. As soon as they were both standing the Ladurian led them out of the room. The two guards who had watched them while they had been waiting in the room followed them.

"I hope you are not really planning to help them," Martha whispered.

"Of course not," the Doctor whispered back. "I'm just trying to buy us some time."

"Be quiet!" one of the guards bawled at them.

They followed the leader of the Ladurians silently as he led them through the corridors towards the place where the way to the control room was sealed off. On their way they passed more Ladurians and Martha realised how many of them were actually on the spacestation.

They walked for a few minutes till the Ladurian leader stopped and raised his hand to signal that they and their guards to wait. Only seconds later Martha heard what had caught his attention: the sound of shouting and gunfire. The Ladurian looked at the two guards. "You're coming with me!" he said to one of them. "And you will wait here and keep an eye on the prisoners," he ordered the other one. Then he ran towards the source of the noise. One of the guards followed him.

"Only one left," the Doctor murmured.

"What is that noise?" Martha whispered.

"I think our new friends might have decided to help us."

The Ladurian who had been ordered to stay with them was getting nervous. He took some steps away from them toward the source of the noise as if he hoped he could see what was going on.

"When I say run, run," the Doctor whispered. Martha nodded in return.

But the Ladurian stayed too close to them to risk an escape.

After a while the noise died down. The Ladurian who had stayed with them was getting more and more nervous with every second. He kept starring at the end of the corridor where his two friends had disappeared around the corner. And then they could hear footsteps.

"Stay close to the wall," the Doctor whispered.

And then everything happened very fast. Martha could hear the shot and the Ladurian next to them dropped to the floor. When she turned her head to see who had shot him, Vanessa was already running towards them.

"Are you all right," Vanessa asked as she untied the Doctors hands. One of the crewmen who had followed her walked towards Martha and untied her hands.

"We're fine," the Doctor answered.

"Is Mike alright?" Martha asked.

"Yeah, he got away and told us what had happened to you," Vanessa told her. "We need to get out of here before more Ladurians show up. I've already lost two members of my team."

They followed Vanessa and her team as they ran down the corridor and around the corner. They were already very close to the place where a way into the sealed-off area had been opened.

As they reached it they found three of Vanessa's men on the floor. They had been shot by Ladurian weapons.

Vanessa immediately gave the order to search the station and to seal off the section they had just left again.

...

"Now we are in trouble," she said as she, the Doctor and Martha walked back to the control room where Mike and Captain Bennett were waiting. "I've absolutely no idea how I should explain to the captain that at least one Ladurian is now walking around on his spacestation and we have no idea where. Anyway, what happened before we got you out?"

The Doctor told her what had happened after they were captured. Martha was silent while he talked to Vanessa. Now that the immediate danger was over something else that had happened while they were captured came back to her mind. She wondered why the Doctor had kissed her. She wasn't sure if it even meant something to him. He had never given her any reason to believe that he was interested in her in that way. But she couldn't think of any other explanation. Maybe he had just kissed her because they were in a dangerous situation with no way out. But they were in situations like that all the time and he had never kissed her before, apart from that genetic transfer. She decided to ask him what that kiss really meant after this was over. For now she had to concentrate on the problem with the Ladurians. Her feelings would have to wait.

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