13 Novella 3

Choice

You shriek as you feel the blood leaving your body but still notice something else, a sensation like cold liquid being poured into your very veins.

Your blood is being replaced with another substance- which you guess is the antidote. You try to roll away but strong hands push on your throat and you cough as your air is cut off too.

You gasp and choke, begging someone, anyone to help. You think you can hear sobbing somewhere not far off, but your attention is diverted to trying to get air into your demanding lungs.

Eventually you become so weak you can no longer struggle, trying to ignore the piercing pain in your neck and pressure on your chest.

"That's enough!" Someone shouts but the vampire is hooked on your blood. You know she isn't letting go.

You suddenly feel the pressure lift as her body weight is removed, and she is quite literally thrown across the floor.

"Did it work? Is she ok?" Demands a desperate Jenny, and you feel hands scrabble at your chest and neck.

"I think so, take her inside, where's Missy? MISSY NO!" The Doctor shouts, and you hear a loud gunshot ring through the room. There is a thump as though someone kicked another, then some snarling from Missy as The Doctor drags her away.

Jenny's warm arms appear underneath you and you are lifted up to her chest where she looks at you anxiously then sets off at a jog back to The Tardis.

"Take her straight into the medbay!" Gasps The Doctor, and you sense the rapid movement of her struggling with a raging Missy.

"Stop it! Let's go!" Shouts the blonde and you hear the doors slam behind you.

"She could've killed her!" Screams Missy as the ship takes off. Jenny carries you down the corridors to the medbay where she lowers you onto a bed. She pulls away and takes your hand, sitting on a nearby chair. 

"You're ok now, you're going to be ok" she whispers hurriedly, and you feel she may be saying it just as much for her own benefit as yours. You don't like to admit it, but right now, with her rage echoing off the Tardis walls, you are quite afraid of Missy.

The Doctor returns shortly and you feel her poke and prod, sticking needles in your arms and patching up your neck. You are finding it difficult to breath, and she places a plastic mask over your face which helps quite a bit.

Relaxing, you close your eyes and doze lightly, every inch of your body feeling like it has been recently hit by a car.

The sound of footsteps makes you open your eyes slightly, the mask blocking your vision annoyingly.

"Is she ok?" Says Missy, and you can't help but flinch at her touch.

"What's wrong with her?" Asks Missy, gaging your reaction.

"I think you scared her" replies Jenny curtly and Missy scowls.

"I saved her, I killed the vampire bitch" says Missy coldly.

"Yeah which helped a lot, killing someone in front of a girl with trauma. Probably your best idea yet." Spits Jenny sarcastically.

"I did it for her. And I didn't see you trying to fight her off!"

"That's not fair, we both did as The Doctor said!" Replies Jenny in a raised voice.

"And you didn't even argue! You left her lying there without a second thought!" Shouts Missy back.

"She has been traumatised, and you decided to beat the shit out of someone right in front of her!" Exclaims Jenny.

"While you took the opportunity to run off and take her alone! You're just scared because you're insecure she won't choose you!"

"Don't you fucking dare, you know we decided to let her choose- and like she would pick you anyway! The Doctor told me what you've done! She told me not to tell (Y/n); to let her figure you out on her own and I agreed, but maybe she should know just how dangerous you are!"

"I'm dangerous? You broke the laws of time to bring her back- you can't be trusted!"

"Clearly that shows just how much I love her!" Bellows Jenny, finally losing her temper completely.

"Yet you weren't the one she chose! I was there the day you broke her heart, and she came to me instead. You lost your chance!"

"FUCK YOU!" Screams Jenny, on her feet and red in the face.

"You failed to keep her safe, you failed to protect her from everything that tried to kill her, including herself! She deserves better! Than either of us!" Shouts Missy back and they both go quiet.

"She deserves better..." repeats Jenny, then turns on her heel as The Doctor runs in.

"What the hell is all that noise?! (Y/n) needs peace and quiet- go!" She tells Missy and with a scowl she exits.

You groan and shake your head as The Doctor pulls
your mask off.

"Steady now, how do you feel?" She asks softly and you begin to sob.

"Hey hey I know that was scary, but you're safe now." She says, squeezing your hand then letting go.

"They were fighting" you sob incoherently and The Doctor looks at you sympathetically.

"They hate each other, and it's all my fault." You whisper and she tenses.

"They don't hate each other, and they certainly don't blame you. They both care about you a lot, and are just finding it... difficult." She explains.

"What's difficult?" You ask.

"Well they're waiting for you to choose." She says slowly and you lie back, thinking.

"Choose?" You repeat and she raises her eyebrows.

"You seriously haven't noticed?" She says, smiling and trying to lighten her tone. "The way their first thoughts are always of you? Constantly jealous when the other is near? The way they act when you're in any kind of danger? (Y/n) do I have to spell it out for you?" She jokes gently and you look at her in confusion.

"But I don't want to choose" you say. "Oh god I'm hurting them both by not choosing, Doctor what do I do?"

"I think, you're going to have to decide." She says carefully and you look up at her.

"I can't" you say, a tear rolling down your cheek. "I really can't. I don't want to lose either of them!" You say in distress.

She looks down at you in pity.

"Then you're going to have to tell them that, at least." She says and you look away, knowing and hating that she was right.