Quantum Leap/Doctor Who: The Silence of the Angel

Chapter 14 (Final Part- Complete)

"Doctor, are you awake?" Martha asked.

"Hm? Yeah, yeah I'm fine," Sam said in a low, groggy voice. His eyes felt heavy and the light was blinding. What set this off? Was it a delayed symptom? Sometimes concussion symptoms didn't appear until days or weeks later.

"Do you think you could operate the TARDIS?"

"Martha, I don't think anyone should be messing around with stardust," Sam replied in a very matter-of-fact tone. What kind of idiot was she?

"No, Doctor the TARDIS."

"Oh, right, yeah. Yeah I can do that. Totally...." Sam hoped Al would be back in time to direct him. What if he underestimated how long it would take to get there?

"I know the way, so, Haimund, get him a wheelchair and I'll get him out of here."

Minutes later, Sam was being rushed out of the hospital by Haimund as Martha blocked the doctors and nurses from chasing after them. He hailed a cab for them and rushed out of town to the area which Martha told both of them was where she first walked into Broken Hill.

"So where's the TARDIS?" Sam asked.

"I dunno. Didn't you come here with it?"

"Well, yeah...." Sam said, because the Doctor did fly it here. "But... um... memory loss. I forgot that whole day, remember?" Sam couldn't remember if the Doctor remembered it or not, but the concussion was always a good fallback plan.

"Oh yeah, yeah. 'Course I remember." Phew.

They waited for Martha to come. And they waited. And waited. When Sam heard footsteps, he whipped around expecting to see her, but it was Al.

"Al? Ah!" he reached up and pressed his hand against his head. Another headache- a migraine, really. It was getting worse every second; why did he have to look around so fast?

"Sam, why aren't you in the TARDIS? It's been like an hour!" Al was wheeling the Doctor over to them in a wheelchair, too, except unlike Sam, the Doctor got a cool pair of shades. Lucky, Sam thought as his eyes watered.

"I don't know where the TARDIS is," Sam replied.

"Well where's Martha? She knows!"

"Wow, I hadn't thought of that one, Al. Thanks."

"Ooh, touchy! You and the Doctor are acting like a couple of teenagers today!"

"Is that the telepathic thing you saw before, Doc?" Haimund asked.

"Yeah-"

"And don't call me Doc!" the real Doctor interjected. Sam couldn't read his expression with the sunglasses on, but he seemed to be just about as tired as Sam was.

"Yeah, and don't call me Doc," Sam added. The Doctor's expression still didn't change, but Sam liked to think that he was a little bit happier inside. "Um, it'll help me find the TARDIS, ok? We can wait for Martha there. I mean, she's probably really caught up in making sure we escaped okay."

"Lead the way, Doc," Al said to the Doctor. With an irritated expression, the Doctor pointed into the desert and said nothing.

"That way," Sam said to Haimund, who couldn't see what the Doctor or Al was doing.

It took a long while of moving in the same direction, but eventually Haimund said to Sam, "Are you sure we're going the right way?"

"Yeah, they're going straight ahead. No, a little to the right and keep going straight. Good."