Chapter 13

"Stop it." The Doctor warned as Emma picked at her bandages, fraying the edges, "You are going to ruin the wrap."

"Hush. Before I punch you so hard, both of your hearts stop." Emma warned smoothing down her bandage along her pants. She wore a pair of black plaid skinny jeans with a black shirt and blue flats. The Doctor wore a black suit with small grey stripes and a blue tie.

"You use sarcasm so much. I fear sometimes you are not joking." The Doctor leaned against the railing of the TARDIS console with his hands in his pockets. While Emma sat on the floor next to him with her legs outstretched and crossed, like her arms.

"I'm not." Emma leaned her head back to look at the Doctor.

"You're not what?" He looked down at Emma.

"Using sarcasm. By the way," Emma stood up, "I will punch you if you baby me, again."

"Baby you?" The Doctor said outraged incredulously, "I don't baby you."

"You're safer by me Emma." Emma mocked the Doctor's voice, stepping in front of him.

"Well it's true." The Doctor defended standing up straight in front of Emma.

"You're my abductor." Emma smiled wickedly at him, "I should do everything in my power to escape you."

"Why don't you?" His voice dropped from its playful tone.

"I read books on Aliens and far away planets. They always fascinated me." Emma looked into the Doctor's eyes, "But seeing these things in real life there are no words for it."

"Yeah?" The Doctor smiled broadly.

"Yeah." Emma giggled.

"Are you two flirtin' again?" Donna walked in wearing a blue sun dress that faded into white with a matching blue sun hat.

"What are you wearing?" The Doctor looked at Donna questioningly.

"I expect beaches and sun, Doctor. Nothing more, nothing less." Donna walked up to the console, "Are we there yet?" Donna prompted making the Doctor walk away from Emma and look at the TARDIS monitor.

"Just have to land." The Doctor pulled a bunch of levers and buttons to land the TARDIS. Emma braced herself against the console so she wouldn't fall again.

The TARDIS came to a jerking stop and the Doctor looked around the TARDIS, "Where is my coat?"

"What coat are you talking about?" Donna asked looking around with him.

"My hero coat." The Doctor walked over to the railing and leaned over it to look for his missing coat.

"The one you gave me?" Emma smiled as she leaned over next to the Doctor.

"Oh." The Doctor realized what he had said, "Still at the asylum?"

"Yep." Emma giggled.

"Donna, you go enjoy the sun while Emma and I go get some things." The Doctor ushered Donna out the Door, "We'll be right back."

"Don't be too long." Donna warned walking out of the TARDIS. The Doctor closed the door behind Donna and turned to Emma.

"Brace yourself again, Emma." The Doctor ran up to the controls.

After a few minutes the TARDIS landed in upper Alaska, next to the Asylum that Emma grew up in. The snow blanketed the ground and icicles hung from the windowsills. The moonlight shown through the tall trees surrounding the Asylum.

"After you, Madam Petrova." The Doctor ushered Emma out the door of the TARDIS.

"Won't they be looking for me? I did disappear for a long time." Emma shivered in the cold.

"As far as they know you've only been gone for a few hours." The Doctor smiled at Emma's amazement.

"Sometimes I think you do things just to impress me." Emma laughed.

"Maybe I do." The Doctor ushered Emma up to the building.

They walked up the sidewalk path to the door the Doctor walking closely behind Emma like a watchful hawk. Emma bounded up the steps and tried to open the door to no avail.

The Doctor reached over Emma's shoulder with the sonic and opened the door.

"You are a miracle." Emma said seriously to the Doctor making him blush bright red.

They walked into the unlit Asylum, listening to the deafening silence. Emma felt a chill go up her spine at the sight of the darkness surrounding her. The Doctor put his hand on Emma's forearm to reassure her.

"Come on." The Doctor led her up the stairs carefully through the darkness, making their way to Emma's room.

They came to a dark hallway with only the slightest light shining from under the doors of patient's rooms. The Doctor came to a stop in front of Emma, he felt uneasy about going any further. Emma on the other hand felt completely overcome with fear. She had the sinking feeling someone was standing behind her, hunting her through the hallway.

"Doctor." Emma's voice sounded meek and childish, "Don't stop."

Without turning around the Doctor rushed to the end of the hall pulling Emma harshly behind her. They made their way to Emma's room and almost threw themselves in speedily clicking on the light switch.

Emma leaned against a wall, shaking with fear. The Doctor put his hands on her shoulders and leaned down to her height.

"Emma, what happened?" He looked into her eyes.

"I don't know." Emma felt tears welling up in her eyes.

"You are alright." The Doctor pulled Emma into his arms and held her for a few seconds, "Let's just get what you want and leave." The Doctor stood up trying to shake the uneasy feeling he had.

"Oh god." Emma closed her eyes, "We have to go back out there." she braced herself against the wall with her arms.

"We'll be fine." The Doctor told her in an unconvincing way. Emma turned around and scanned the room. The hero coat hung on the back of a chair that sat in the corner of the room. She grabbed it and threw it to the Doctor. Emma walked over to her bed and got down on one knee. She felt the bottom of the bed and pulled out a worn book with a symbol of an angel on the front.

"Ready?" Emma hugged the book in her arms.

"On three we run." The Doctor put his hand on the knob and prepared himself.