The Secrets of Sarah Smith

Cure

Cure

The Doctor ran towards Sarah and scooped her up in a hug, making Sarah shout out in surprise.

"Thought you weren't a hugging person?" Sarah laughed once he had put her down.

"Only for you and Clara" The Doctor answered with a smile "Don't scare me like that again" He scolded putting his hand to her cheek.

"Doctor you said your self this isn't going to get rid of the virus just keep it at bay for a while, she wont survive for too long with only one heart" Martha reminded him coming back into the room.

"Well then we best get working" The Doctor snapped slipping back into his darker grumpier persona.

The worked tirelessly for the next few hours bouncing ideas around and examining different blood samples. The Doctor had started to get sick, he had vomited a few times and was feeling warm and shaky but he was being stubborn and refusing to take a break. Martha was examining the body from the roof top again. Sarah was stood at the blackboard trying to make sense of the Gallifeyan writing on it, The TARDIS was helping her to understand it but it was still hard to make sense of mainly cause the Doctors handwriting was so messy. The Doctor was switching between looking at the virus sample he had created and vomiting in the bucket beside him when Clara came into the room.

"Oh my stars! Doctor are you OK?" She asked concerned running over to him and rubbing his back.

"Of course I'm not OK Clara I'm dying" He grumbled

"Here Dad catch" Sarah shouted throwing a bottle of water at him that he caught and took a large mouthful off

"Dad?" Clara asked shocked looking up at Sarah
"Well he is isn't he?" Sarah shrugged returning her attention to the blackboard

After that the Doctor quickly got worse and had to be taken into the other room with the bed. His skin was covered in the same rash as the body, his temperature was high and he had started having fits. The Doctor was out of action now it was down to the companions to save him. Clara was left taking care of the Doctor while Sarah and Martha got back to work.

"Ah this is hopeless!" Sarah screamed frustrated "If Timelord's couldn't find a cure how the heck are we meant too! with Dad we stood a chance but not now"

"If we don't the Doctor is going to die and who knows what would happen to the rest of the universe if the Doctors not around to protect it" Martha reminded Sarah.

"His writing hasn't helped at all its just some nonsense about a fairytale from Gallifrey about how there was 2 warriors and a peasant who wanted a piece of land, they decided to battle to see who would win it, the two warriors were equal in strength speed everything and the peasant was weak and frail from not having had any food or water for weeks, they all battled together. The two warriors were too busy trying to prove they were better than the other that the completely forgot the peasant was there and just attacked each other, they were so equally matched that they battled long and hard before eventually they ended up killing each other, leaving the peasant stood in the shadows completely unharmed and the new owner of the land" Sarah rambled rubbing her forehead trying to think of how to help.

"Interesting story" Came Jack's voice from the door way that leads to the rest of the hub.

"Not helpful though" Sarah sighed

"This might help. I brought Pizza" Jack smiled revealing two large Pizza boxes from behind his back

"Ah Jack I could kiss you I'm starving" Martha joked taking one of the boxes of him and opening it

"Don't let mickey hear you saying that, he'll get jealous" Jack flirted wriggling his eyebrows "You can kiss me all you want" Jack said suggestively to Sarah handing her a slice of pizza.

"You're lucky my dad didn't hear that" Sarah blushed taking a bite of the pizza, chicken tikka with red onion her favourite.

"Hey! Oswin Pizza" Jack shouted into Clara who appeared in the room a few seconds later

"For the last time Jack it's Clara that technically wasn't me" Clara snapped annoyed but took the slice Jack held out for her.

"Was still a great night though" Jack laughed and Clara blushed madly.

Although it technically wasn't her it bothered Clara that Jack had seen her naked and kept mentioning it even after she had explained the whole echo thing. The sat and chatted and ate their pizza for the next half an hour or so Clara leaving every so often to check on the Doctor. Jack kept flirting and making innuendos at Sarah who flirted back abit but spent most of it blushing, she'd never had anyone flirt with her before.

"Any closer to a cure?" Jack asked once they'd finished all the pizza

"Nope the doctor's notes are apparently no use either" Martha answered indicating to the blackboard.

Suddenly Sarah stood up and rushed over to the blackboard, there was a word she hadn't noticed before in the corner cure?

"That's it! how did I not notice it before! I'm such an idiot!" Sarah exclaimed hitting herself on the forehead

"What's it? what didn't you notice?" Clara asked confused and slightly taken back by how much Sarah reminded her of the bow tie Doctor when she done that.

"The fairy tale! two warriors equally matched end up distorting each other. If we inject the other strain into him the two strains of the same virus should end up destroying each other" Sarah explained excitedly

'Should?" Jack asked

"Yea that or kill us quicker" Sarah shrugged

"Us?' it was Martha's turn to asked

"You're right I can't survive with one heart for long now I'm already starting to feel weak, So you're going to have to restart my heart then inject me with it, Dad made some of the virus earlier to study so we can use that"

a/n I know my science is so completely wrong here but its fiction so hopefully I can get away with it and sorry its such an awful chapter having serious writters block with this part. anyway let meknow what you think please xxx