The Secrets of Sarah Smith

Pain

Pain
The Doctor, Jack, Martha, Sarah and Clara were all in the TARDIS medical bay. The Doctor and Sarah laying on separate hospital beds, The Doctor was asleep after a pretty bad seizure but Sarah was awake and terrified. Even the TARDIS seemed to be radiating worry for her thief and daughter, making everyone else even more on edge than before. No one was sure this was going to work but they couldn't think of any other option.

"Ok Sarah I'm going to thump you on your back to start your heart and then Martha is going to inject you both with the virus" Jack stated pointlessly Sarah knew the plan, it was her plan after all.

"And then you all have to get out of here just in case it mutates and you get infected, Make sure the entire hub is decontaminated and the body is destroyed" Sarah reminded them.

"Gwen and Mickey are all ready on it" Martha answered with a reassuring smile.

"How will we know it's worked?" Clara asked in a small voice her eyes not once leaving the Doctors face as she stoked his sweat covered head and held his hand.

"If it's worked we'll come out, If not I've given the TARDIS instructions to into lockdown" Sarah answered matter of factly trying to keep the fear out of her voice.

"How long will it take?" Clara asked her voice wobbling slightly

"3 day's, give or take" Sarah shrugged

"Ready?" Jack asked Sarah with a nod

"Ready" Sarah answered rolling onto her front so Jack could restart her heart.

Just like the plan Jack thumped Sarah's back so hard she cried out a bit but it worked she felt her heart jump to life and felt so much better for a second before the virus hit again and she was sick into the well placed bin beside her bed. She hadn't felt the needle pierce her skin until the cold liquid of the virus entered her blood stream. Sarah watched weakly as Martha injected the Doctor and Clara kissed his forehead lovingly before they all ran from the room as Sarah fell into her first of many seizure's over the next few days.

Over the next few days The Doctor and Sarah got more and more ill, seizures where almost constant as was the vomiting, the black rash covered every inch of their bodies to the point it looked as if their skin was black instead of white. Their insides felt like they had been set on fire and with each weak beat of their hearts the fire got more intense, they weren't even gifted with unconsciousness to escape the pain even in their sleep they felt the burning which gave them realistic dreams about being trapped in a burning TARDIS with no escape until they were burnt alive.

The TARDIS tried to help by telepathically reaching out to them and sending feelings of calm peacefulness and safety but they were to far gone in to the process. Their screams of agonising pain echo's around the halls of the empty TARDIS. After a few days the TARDIS stopped trying and instead started to grief for the loss of her thief and daughter.

Clara had sat in a uncomfortable chair outside the TARDIS in one of the vaults at Torchwood for 2 days now, she hadn't left the room once for anything and barely spoke to anyone when they came to check on her, food they brought her was left on the table at the far side of the room untouched, all she could do was sip water every so often, she barely even slept just in case they came out of the TARDIS and she missed it.

2 days turned to 4 which turned to 6. Everyone else said she should give up, obviously they hadn't made it, it hadn't worked but she refused to give up on her Doctor, she couldn't he was her impossible man. So she sat and waited

On the 8th day she about to admit defeat, Maybe they hadn't made it. The TARDIS had stopped projecting thoughts to her after the 3rd day so maybe they had died then and she had just been kidding herself sitting here.

"Clara please , come eat something get some rest, do anything other than just sitting here" Jack begged as he came into the room.

Clara looked at him blinking slowly as if trying to figure out what he just said before sighing. "Yea maybe your right" She whispered her voice sounding raw due to lack of use.

She stood up and took Jack's outstretched hand for support as she walked out of the room, turning her back and closing the door leaving the TARDIS alone in the room. Tears falling from her eyes for her two best friends.

a/n theres only 1 more chapter left of this fic now. Let me know what you think :-) xxx