They managed to get Jaime back to the TARDIS before she bled out everywhere. They were a little surprised to find the Maw following dutifully behind them. It seemed like it wasn't going to leave her side. Once in the Med-bay the Doctor got the TARDIS to scan her injury and he saw that the spear just about missed her collarbone and major arteries but had ripped through muscle and nerves. The Time Lord was grim but became even grimmer when he saw that the haemorrhage continued to bleed. "Hmm!" The Doctor frowned. "What is it?" John asked, worrying. "Impalements can be very tricky, especially when it comes to nerves. We need to be careful even though she regenerate her injuries. She might have limited movement in her shoulder afterwards." "Okay," Rose said. "What do we need to do?" "The usual. An anti-haemhorragic, anaesthetic, something to keep her under and most likely a drip to replace the lost blood."
Once they all sorted out what they needed the surgery to remove the spear lasted a couple of hours with Rose playing nurse. She'd stopped being Squimish long ago and had a basic knowledge in field medicine due to her Torchwood training. When they got the spear out of her shoulder the Doctor X-rayed her again. She was very lucky the spear had only done minor damage. After a muscle regenerator was used the wound was stitched up and the blood cleaned up, the Doctor and Rose left her to recuperate. John stayed by her bedside, reading a book out loud with his glasses on.
A couple of hours after surgery Jaime began to stir from her sleep, a pained moan came from her. Her head hurt and so did her shoulder. It ached fiercely, like something or someone had shot her. She moaned and whimpered again, shifting in her bed, then cried out when she rolled onto her bad shoulder. J.D was immediately at her side, running a hand through her hair. "It's okay darling," he soothed the teenager. "But please, watch out or you're going to end up opening up the wounds." Jaime opened her tired eyes, her face pale. "Hello!" He said and smiled. Jaime looked confused. "What happened? How?" She croaked her question. "What do you remember?" He asked her. "I stopped the Maw from hurting everyone and then one of them tried to hurt him and..." Her eyes widened when she remembered the sharp pain in her shoulder and when she tried to sit up she felt the pain flash through her shoulder. "Take it easy!" John gently eased her back down after she yelled out in pain. "Do you need a top up?" She nodded her head so he gave her some strong painkillers and the pain in her shoulder died down. She sighed happily and John smiled.
"Yes, one of the dog people tried to hurt the Maw but you got in his way instead. His spear pierced you right through your shoulder and out the other side." She grimaced at this. "You had us all worried. What did you do to the Maw anyway?" "I went into his mind to find out why he was attacking people. It was the Moon that was altering his mood and the dog people had been scared of it and him. They were using the cat people as a sacrifice." John raised his brows. "Wait! There are cats there too?" But Jaime shook her head sadly. "Not anymore. They all got eaten or moved away. So I helped him by changing his mind and now he doesn't eat dogs, cats or humans." The Half-Time Lord was frowning at what she was saying. "Why do you keep calling it a 'he'?" "Because that's what he is. And he has a name too!" Now he groaned. "You didn't give it a name did you?" Jaime giggled. "No, silly. He already has one." "Oh really? What's 'he' called then?" "Falcor." John narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "I take it you've seen The Never Ending Story?" She looked at him, confused. "Yes. Lots of times. But his name really is Falcor." John just nodded his head faintly.
When Rose walked in she smiled when she saw that Jaime was awake but a little worried when her face remained pale. "How are you doing?" The blonde asked. "I'm okay, sort of. We're just talking about Falcor." Rose was confused. "Isn't that the dragon thing in The Never Ending Story?" "That's what the Maw is called." John replied and Rose laughed at this. "Tell me you didn't give it a name?" "No. He already had one apparently." John answered her. "I'm not making it up. I can show you." Jaime tried to sit up again but the quick movement made pain flash through her shoulder and she yelped again. "Careful!" Rose said, helping her lie back in the bed. "I think you've done enough with your mind today already." John told the teenager. "Let it recover. How's your head anyway?" "Hurts!" She mumbled, like everything else did. She wished she could just stay out of the Med-bay for more than three weeks.
After a couple of days of being monitored and then checking if she had full movement, which she did luckily, Jaime was finally let out of the Med-bay with a new bottle of painkillers. She went to her room, took a shower, got dressed and went to find out where the others were. They were not in the console room or the library or the kitchen or even in the media room. But she could feel that they were worried about something. Why were they worried?" She was fine now...well, sort of! "Where are they?" She asked the TARDIS. There was a thrum and she got an urge that she needed to follow and soon came to a room she'd never seen before. It was another garden, except this one looked like it came from an ancient civilisation. Just how many gardens did he have? Maybe she could do a bit more exploring. She found them having an argument about her, how she was brutally attacked in the woods by...something. She shuddered unconsciously.
"What are you all doing in here?" She asked them and they all stopped and looked at her. Well that was ominous and it felt familiar for some reason. "We were just talking about what happened on Gemini." The Doctor spoke up. Ignoring their previous talk about her she said; "If it's about the boy with the spear I didn't mean to do what I did to him, it just happened and i was hurt and..." John put his arm around her shoulders in comfort, careful not to aggravate her injury because he knew she still hurt. "That's not what we're talking about and you know it." The Doctor told her off and she looked down at the floor. "Do you remember being attacked in the woods on Gemini?" She nodded faintly. "Did you see who it was?" Again she shook her head and John could feel her shivering and sensed she was scared. "Well, did that person say anything?" Was the Doctor's next question and she appeared to be thinking until she shook her head and walked away from them. "No!" She shouted a little forcefully and stared at a group of trees realising there was something odd about the fruit growing on them. "Are these banana's purple?" She asked. "Jaime!" The Doctor called to her but she wasn't listening to them. "I didn't know you could get purple banana's." The Time Lord sighed and John shook his head.
"See. Whatever her future self did to her it was too traumatic for her to even want to remember it." Rose said. "Yes, but even so. Sometime in the near future she's going to be wandering around on her own, possibly causing trouble." John argued and looked at Jaime who had picked a couple of the purple fruit. "And I really don't want that to happen." The teen came back with two of the bananas. "Why don't they have skins like banana's?" She asked. "Because they're Bayan's from Metabelis III." The Doctor answered her. "Why are alien banana trees in a garden that looks like Machu Picchu?" Rose questioned. "It was Tegan. She found some seeds one day and decided to plant them. Turns out they're Bayan trees." "What do they taste like?"
Before either the Doctor or John could answer this there was a loud screech and they all looked up to see a giant red feathered creature heading towards them. "Falcor!" Jaime exclaimed and looked at the Doctors with a massive grin. "You kept him?" "Yeah. He followed us all the way to the TARDIS and wouldn't stop scratching at the door. It seems you've tamed him." The Doctor told her. Jaime laughed as Falcor the Red Maw landed next to them, all four feet pawing the grass, tail swishing, then he nicked a Bayan off her and screeched again. "Hey! Who's a cheeky boy!" She coo'd, stroking his feathery neck. "Yes, you are, that's who!" She gave the Maw the other Bayan and he screeched happily. Then to everyone's surprise, Falcor ducked down so that he was lying on the grass. "What are you doing?" Jaime asked him and he screeched in reply. "You want me to ride you?" He screeched again and she looked back at John and the Doctor. "Can I?" She asked them but they only looked worried. "Please!" "Oh, go on." The Doctor replied. "But don't go falling off him." She cheered happily and carefully climbed on top of Falcor, then they watched as the Red Maw took off and they could hear her whooping happily. "Reminds me of that scene from Harry Potter." J.D said. "How was she able to understand it." Rose wondered.