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You spend the next few hours between asleep in pain, and awake in even more pain.

When you finally wake up for good you have no sense of time, and struggle to open your eyes at all.

Your arm feels like it's on fire and you spend a long time with your face screwed up in agony trying not to sob audibly.

Feeling weak is an understatement, if you felt like eating you wouldn't have had the strength to chew, and Missy and Jenny have to take turns carrying you to the bathroom to use it and throw up respectively.

You reach such a feeling of cold you need either Time Lady with you at all times.

"Doctor this is ridiculous, we're just waiting for her to get worse!" Bursts Missy several hours later.

"What do you want me to do?" Sighs The Doctor, tiredly re-wrapping your swollen and bleeding arm.

You whimper quietly and Jenny squeezes your other hand.

"I think you know" she says and The Doctor pauses.

"If we go we are risking her life even more." She replies carefully.

"And if we stay we're watching her get worse! And then what?" Chimes in Jenny and you wince at the harsh tones.

"I think we should do it" says Yaz quietly. You didn't know she was even there. Missy shifts triumphantly, and you know the blonde won't deny Yaz.

"Fine, wrap her up and bring her to the console room." Says The Doctor, turning on her heel to leave.

You feel warm hands pull you from Missy and you gasp.

"No... not going... risk them" you mumble desperately and Jenny sighs.

"I'm sorry (Y/n) but we have too, I promise we'll all be safe" she soothes as she leans you against Missy and wraps extra blankets around you on top of your joggers and hoodie.

Still you shiver, until Missy lifts you into her strong arms and carries you like a baby out the door. The Tardis warms its interior but still your teeth chatter, and you know your lips are blue when Jenny runs a gentle finger across them and they tingle at the warmth.

Your eyes are nearly shut but you make an effort to look them both in the eye before they close of their own accord.

You feel the ship take off, Missy holding you steadily as The Doctor types in the coordinates. You land with a thump and you open your eyes slightly as you are carried out the door behind The Doctor and Yaz, followed by Jenny. You whimper in fear and Missy squeezes you gently.

"I did actually say come alone" says an annoyed female voice and you try to locate it. It sounds vaguely familiar.

"Well you didn't leave us much choice when you nearly killed her" says The Doctor impatiently.

"It doesn't matter, leave the girl and go" she says carelessly and you follow the source of the voice.

It's a beautiful statuesque woman with long bracken hair and Doe eyes. She is pale as the moon with perfect skin, hair down to her waist, and a stunning figure. She has bare feet and is dressed simply in a white gown which complements her fair skin perfectly.

"Vampire" you mutter and Missy looks down at you in surprise.

"Do you know her?" She asks quietly but The Doctor answers.

"We've met" she says shortly. No doubt she was also remembering the horrible time this woman had almost drained your blood at a mansion many years ago. You had been saved by a friendly alien who had warned she might return.

"Leave the girl and go" she repeats with slightly more venom in her voice.

"What have you done to her?" Demands The Doctor and the woman smiles serenely.

"Such wonderful blood, I couldn't lose it that easily. I left a little time bomb in her bloodstream. If too much time passes and I haven't tasted her, she will be brought right back." She answers.

"You've poisoned her" says Jenny in a voice of shaking disgust. "Well we're not handing her over, you'll have to go through us first." She threatens. The woman only laughs.

"That's the best part, you don't have a choice." She grins and you shiver. "I have the only antidote in my venom. It's a fair exchange. You allow me her blood, and I give her the antidote." She finishes confidently with a light laugh.

Everyone freezes. The Doctor turns and looks at the woman.

"We allow you some of her blood. Some, and you give her the antidote?" She confirms cautiously and the woman nods serenely.

"Doctor you can't really be considering this!" Hisses Missy and The Doctor looks down at you sadly.

"Look at her Missy. I don't know what will happen if she doesn't get the antidote, but I really don't want to find out." She whispers, and Missy grips you tighter.

"No! I- We promised her! I won't let you! FUCK YOU!" She screams making you whimper more. She stops and looks down at you with tears brimming.

"Missy" says Jenny and you feel her turn slightly. "I love her as much as you do, but this really is the only way." Says Jenny carefully.

"No you don't." Replies Missy. "There's no way you can match how I feel" she whispers, then kisses you lightly on the forehead.

"You'll take only enough to sustain yourself?" She demands with a breaking voice at the vampire who nods and grins wickedly.

Missy sighs and walks forwards a pace, then another. She kneels and lays you gently on the floor where you try to regrip her.

"Be strong my love" she whispers, and you have to let go as she steps back. You turn your head to see all four women looking at you some distance away, with mixed expressions of grief, anger and sadness.

"Missy?" You mumble, confused as to why she was leaving you. She simply shakes her head.

"Jenny?" You whisper next who looks tortured but still doesn't come.

"Doctor... please" you say looking her in the eye as best you can.

"I'm sorry (Y/n)" she whispers as Yaz squeezes her hand.

You begin to sob, alone and afraid, not understanding why they were leaving you.

"Please my love, you're breaking my hearts" Missy whispers.

You close your eyes until your attention is seized by hard needles behind jammed hungrily into your neck, making you shriek in surprise, and struggle fruitlessly against the vampire's strength.

You gasp desperately as you lose blood and feel your expression go foggy, eyes drooping sleepily, feeling pain building in your veins as you open your mouth to call for help that you now know won't come.