Wanderer of Time: Silence Begins (doctor who)

Chapter 2: Rebirth

When Wanda felt herself arrive to another location, she could barely keep herself aware. She felt herself slipping. Her mind no longer wished to function. Her one remaining heart skipped a beat every few seconds. It was slowing down to the point hardly any blood flowed through her veins. Her lungs refused to work, not allowing her to suck in even the tiniest of breathes. All she could do was lie where she had been transported to and wait to die.

She heard someone screaming. She thought she recognized the voice, but her mind would not place the voice with a memory. It hardly even wanted to process that she had in fact heard a voice. Nor that she felt someone grabbing onto her hand. When they first held on, however, she felt her mind starting to pick back up and her heart beating faster. It slipped away briefly when the hand let go, but once it held on again she felt it pick right back up.

She felt a strange sort of energy flow through her. As though it were energizing her body. It felt warm and cool, tensing and easing, stressing and calming. A very odd sensation. It built up more and more within her. Her mind picked up more to where she could actually start to think again and process what was happening to her. Her heart beat strongly and the second one picked back up again. Then, the process reached its peak and flowed quickly through her in a burst of energy. Every cell within her body raced. Every muscle shifted and shaped. Every organ molded and twisted. Every bone creaked as they changed.

Then, abruptly, it stopped, leaving her feeling healed and whole. Her mind functioned properly (mostly, still somewhat muddled) and her hearts beat on normally. What she did feel, however, was as though her entire body had become a giant bruise and sunburned all over. It made her feel very much worn. She hardly felt like opening her eyes, so she continued to lie there and process exactly what was happening around her. She still felt the hand on her own, as well as another touching her face. Voices were speaking up somewhere within the area.

"Doctor, what was that?" came a female voice. Her mind jumped into a memory, recalling the voice. It was River.

"She regenerated," came an easy reply. Once again, her mind worked on a memory. It was the Doctor. She could tell by the distance of his voice, he was closest to her.

"But . . . it was different," River stated in confusion.

"Yes, well, her process is different. It is not exactly normal as mine would be. Or any other Time Lord, for that matter," explained the Doctor.

"Why is it different, and why does she need you for it?" asked River.

"Hmm. It's difficult to explain, especially when I myself don't understand it. And that's a rare one for me, not knowing or understanding. Not that I don't mind not knowing or understanding. Makes things more interesting in my opinion. Though, sometimes it can be annoying when—."

"Doctor." Wanda could hear how River sounded annoyed when she spoke this time.

"Oh, right, sorry." The Doctor sounded embarrassed, clearing his throat. "Like I said, hard to explain. The best way to put it—."

Wanda was going to continue to listen more, but her mind suddenly started to jump around. It rapidly reminded her exactly what had been happening to her only moments before. The terraforming. The Hath and human colonies. Cobb aiming his gun. Ten. Jenny. Wanda's eyes snapped open and she gasped loudly, interrupting the Doctor. She stared around wildly, trying to blink and clear her fuzzy vision. Everything looking to be in a haze and dimmed. Her eyes darted over to see Eleven next to her. Not the same Doctor she had just been with. But it did not matter. She had to know what happened to Jenny.

"Doctor, where's Jenny?! What happened to Jenny?!" she asked in alarm. "Did she get—." She stopped quickly when she realized there was a woman speaking with her. At the same exact time as her. She glanced around, seeing only River, Amy, and Rory to be the only other ones present in the room. Where was the woman's voice coming from?