*warning: detail of past abuse.
I agreed and he showed me to a spare room. It was still late so I needed to get back to bed. He got me one of the shirts left over from his last regeneration to wear as a nightshirt and told me that after I rested we would go shopping as I didn't have
anything of my own. He then went back to finishing whatever he had been doing when I showed up and then get to his own bed.
Early that morning he woke up to the sounds of my screams. Not the best way to wake up, house guest screaming, but it couldn't be helped like I said I have bad nightmares this dream would not be an exception. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes thinking
'I better find out what got her screaming like there a Dalek on the tardis whatever it is more than likely part of the trouble she been having.' He goes into my room seeing me thrashing dangerously and random objects around me shaking with paranormal
energy. He swore angry at whoever or whatever caused me to be in so much pain I was having a sleep terror. Then quickly took a deep breath calming himself, anger was not going to help the situation and I might have woke up and thought it was directed
at me and he didn't want that. He sat down next to me and gently rocked me to try to get me to wake up. This just causes me to scream harder not waking up and I said "no Chris please, not again." Doctor had to quickly stop himself from getting even
angrier at this unknown Chris. If He wasn't trained at controlling his own emotions during situations by years of fighting
He probably would have lost it. Staying calm he uses his connection with me to mentally calm me down putting himself in my dream throwing dream Chris off of me and taking my hand in the dream guiding me out of the dream version of the house I used to
live in with Chris. Having left the house I woke up.
I took a deep shaky breath trying to calm my breathing. He says "that's it relax its ok now I got you." He holds me for a while longer before offering to make me some tea. My throat was sore from screaming and I knew tea would make it feel better so I
said "yes thank you." He got some tea and came back seconds later explaining "tardis makes any food and drink you want by herself. She knew I was thinking about getting you some and made it just in case, even before I mentioned it. You want anything
she will fix for you."
We sat drinking the tea for a moment then he said "now this is probably hard so if you don't want to talk about it it's ok. Or with your permission i could read your memories and know what happened. But I want you to trust me and it would help your treatment
a lot if you let me know what happened that made you so sick. That kind of paranormal energy only happens in psychic earthlings because of trauma and well with the sleep terrors I know for sure somethings hurt you bad"
I said "it's ok..I'm used to talking about it had a therapist back home. It helps to talk to about it and the abused women's groups are really great to taught me the difference between a good man and a ass they did. Course it would be nice if someone
would teach women that before they have a problem maybe then they could have a better chance at not getting abused in the first place, he made me do things bad things and things I didn't want to do and if I didn't then he would attack me...he started
out so nice for the first year course I know now there was a lot of small signs that he was just being nice to get me In a position where he could get me to do anything for him. About a year after we started dating he started to hit me and force me
to do intense sexual activities I didn't like and he would make me do such bad things, even some criminal things...he would say if I really loved him that I would do what I was told and that he would leave me if I didn't and said no one would ever
love me but him and If he left I would be alone. And I was so scared to be alone...one day he came home he was really mad, he had a terrible day and when he had a bad day he made me have a bad day to, only that day it was a lot worse, he came home
and he strangled me that was the first time I had a seizure..the seizure unnerved him so bad that he threw me on our bed and left me there and left the house but it saved my life so I guess at least that one wasn't all bad. But I have been away from
him for a while now and I still have them and recently I have been passing out and having bad heart rate to...Medicine helps the emotional stuff a little to but with the paranormal stuff and sleep terrors nothing the doctors can really do for that."
Doctor replied "well unfortunately there is some things your planets still hasn't really got a grasp on yet, the paranormal being one of them, but that's ok I'm here for you now. I will help you with that, stay with you, and protect you, and you can talk
to me about anything I won't blame you or judge you or anything and I won't leave you, we all do things we regret especially when there are extenuating circumstances or other people influencing our decisions he was a very bad man by the sounds of
it and you only did what you had to in order to survive. There isn't anyone in the universe throughout all of time that hasn't done something they regret. You just got to try to do the best you can, be the best you can be, and try to do as much good
and create as little damage as you can. I have done lots of things I regret to and I'm a time lord I have lived for 900 years and I'm still making mistakes so you shouldn't expect yourself to be perfect when your only, I'm guessing, in your late 20s..seems
like we all got a story to tell maybe I will tell you some of mine one day but for now we got to get you feeling better and as for medicine I got a friend her names Martha she's a medical doctor, write down the names of the pills and your dosage and
I will get her to give you some."
*please note touching someone or trying to wake someone up who is having a sleep terror is dangerous and most medical practitioners will strongly suggest not doing that. Doctor is a lot stronger then her though and is a time lord so anything she would
accidentally do wouldn't hurt him very much but please don't try this at home.
