"You will come with us." They told her in eerie symmetry.
Clara took a step foreword. Oh how she hoped they were bringing her to the Doctor, no wait she wanted the opposite of that right now. She wanted the Doctor to come to her with his raggedy old TARDIS and whisk her off on another adventure because so far this one hadn't been very impressive. "You will come with us."
The buzz off electrocution started up and Clara gulped.
"I'll go willingly." She said tilting her head and giving them an unnerved smile. They both turned in identical formation and she followed in the hopes she would see her Doctor soon.
She was lead through a series of door all identical, safety precautions she guessed but for what she dared to think.
Finally they came to a halt in front of an ordinary looking jail cell door, silver with a little peep door and a heavy padlock. She raised an eyebrow. One of the guards slipped a key in the lock and it swung open. Then the two guards stepped back to reveal a dark room with only a single light above a silver hospital bed. Clara froze wary of what awaited her.
The two guards metal sticks buzzed with electricity again and Clara tilted her head in thought.
"Well it's either these or the hospital bed." She muttered under her breath. After a moment she stepped through the door and it slammed shut with a heavy bang behind her. Her breathing hitched as she realized she was locked in and she turned around running up to the door. "Open up!" She yelled and pounded the door as panic washed over her, she had always been a bit afraid of dark places. "Let me out, let me at least talk to the Doctor!" She tried desperately.
"Oh sweetheart I'm sorry but we can't allow you to do that, well not yet at least." A soft older woman's voice swan through the air with sarcastic concern. Clara's hand stopped on the cold metal and she turned around slowly looking into the dark and the one single light. Her eyes went wide as she spotted who she was sure the voice came from.
The woman wore a malicious smile which was plastered on a deeply scared face, in plain she looked hideous. The scars looked like lightning bolts running up and down her face and with the way her skin was facing the light it looked like she made no effort to hide it.
"We've got a little business to attend to. We need something and unfortunately you're the collateral." The woman shrugged walking around the bed. Clara saw she was dressed in a black quit jacket and skirt and as the light flashed across the other side of her face she could have sworn she saw an eye patch. "The Doctors friends are always the collateral."
"Who are you?" Clara blurted out.
"A friend of the Doctors, well I say a friend-"
"You don't look like you're friends with the Doctor." Clara accused, no she definitely wasn't friends with him.
"He warmed up to me, I'm sure you will too." The woman smiled and strutted up to her in tall black heels. "Oh dear you look pail." She frowned ghosting a skeletal finger over Clara's cheek, Clara swallowed but stood her ground. "Why don't you lie down." Clara shook her head, she knew nothing good would come of that. "Lie down." She said more harshly.
"No." Clara said her voice shaking slightly, the woman sighed frustrated and snapped her fingers.
Two arms wrapped around Clara's and she looked from side to side. What she had expected to be the guards were things that made her skin crawl. They were tall and wore suits and she would have screamed but- she forgot what she was going to scream about.
"What, what is, I-"
"It's alright dear it's normal. If you hadn't forgotten I'd be worried." The woman smiled evily as Clara was forcefully laid on the bed.
"Oi stop it! Stop!" She yelled at the creatures who she then immediately forgot. Thick straps were wrapped around her.
"Relax the pain won't start for a while." The woman cooed.
"What do you mean the pain won't start for a while?" Clara was full out panicking now. Her arm was grabbed roughly and strapped securely down and a IV needle was held above her skin. The woman nodded and a sharp pain blossomed in Clara's arm. She bit her lip as the small pain ran up to her shoulder.
"That's just the beginning dear." The woman chuckled. Clara closed her eyes waiting for whatever happened next...