The Secrets of Sarah Smith

Virus

a short chapter for now next few are probably going to be short kinda stuck with writting this bit even tho i know exactly what i want to do with it

The Virus

Minutes later The Doctor, his companions and Torchwood were stood on the roof of an apartment building. The TARDIS tucked safely away in the corner. Right in the middle of the almost empty roof top laid a body. At first glance the body looked human but the skin was slightly orange and his hair was made from grass.

The group crowded around the body in a circle. Mickey took out a gadget that looked like a bulky mobile phone and scanned the body.

"Deff what caused the rift spike. rift energy is all over him" Mickey confirmed.

The Doctor knew one quick scan of his sonic and he'd know everything they needed to know about the body but he wanted to watch Torchwood in action.

Martha bent down to examine the body.
moving bits of clothing to check his neck wrists and stomach. Lifting his eye lids, Checking inside of his mouth and touching behind his head.

"Well he's dead. Why I'm not sure. There's Pink dots on the whites of his eyes. His tounge black and he has a black rash but I've never seen this species so that could be normal" Martha explained with a frustrated sigh.

"Wait did you say black rash?" asked The Doctor

"Yea see" Martha lifted the mans top to reveal a black pinprick rash all over his stomach.

"Sarah get back now and cover your mouth" The Doctor shouted in alarm pulling the lapel of his jacket over his mouth.

"Why? What's going on?" Sarah asked both scared and confused but doing as she was told.

"If we are lucky, Nothing"

"And if we're not?" Sarah's eyes were wide

"Your looking at it" The Doctor nodded towards the body on the ground before pulling out his sonic screwdriver and scaning the body. "As I thought Veritisorlyam disease. Only effects dual hearted species so the rest of you are OK"

"And what's that when its at home?" Clara asked

"I'm sorry Sarah I really am but its air born and fatal" The Doctor apologised with sorrow in his voice. He'd only just found his daughter and now he was going to loose her because of a stupid virus.

"How long?" Sarah asked calmly

"3 maybe 4 days" The Doctor shrugged

"Best get started then" Clara announced with a single clap of her hands

"On What?"

"Well every virus must have a cure, lets find it" Clara challenged

"Do you not think people have been trying for years too find one? Its not possible" said The Doctor

"Ah but those people didn't have what we have" Clara sounded excited

"What?" The Doctor asked

"You" Clara stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

The Doctor grinned "Clara Oswald I really need to start paying you"

"Nah that takes the fun out of it" laughed Clara

"You lot get the body to the med bay. We've work to do" The Doctor instructed smiling.

an hour or so later the Doctor Martha and Sarah were all in the Torchwood med bay which had been turned into a mini lab with all sorts of science equipment some not even from this time or planet. The Doctor was sat hunched over a microscope staring at some blood samples that Martha had taken from the body, he was muttering to himself and scribbling down notes in Gallifreyan as he tried to understand the virus. Martha was completing the postmortem on the body and Sarah was researching the virus and thanks to the TARDIS enhancing it she was able to look at websites from other planets and times.

Sarah discovered she was very good at hacking computers now and easily hacked into alot of top secret systems including U.N.I.T. which not surprisingly was child's play to hack but nothing she found anywhere helped them to find a cure, she had started to think that maybe the Doctor was right and there was no way to cure them. Their was two strains of the virus one that disabled regeneration and one that didn't but it also wasn't destroyed during the regeneration process, she didn't know which was worse.

After researching for another half an hour or so Sarah had started to feel unwell, she felt dizzy and a little sick deciding that maybe a glass of water and a break away from the screen might help, she got up to go find the kitchen.

"I'm just going to get a glass of water anyone else want anything?" Sarah asked receiving a grunt from the Doctor she took to be a no and a "No Thank you" from Martha.

Sarah had almost made it to the door of the med bay when she collapsed. Hitting her head of the metal bench beside her and knocking a vial of orange slimey stuff onto the floor.

"Sarah. Sarah can you hear me?" Martha shouted crouching down by Sarah's side.

Sarah's vision became blurry and unfocused and Martha's voice sounded muffled like she was under water. She managed to give a small groan before being engulfed in the darkness.