Five years later....
Sarah runs up to the Doctor with open arms. "Daddy! You're back!"
The Doctor smiles and picks Sarah up. "Of course I am!"
"I drew you a picture today and I learned how to count to ten!" She counts in Gallifreyan.
He smiles and kisses her forehead. "Well aren't you getting clever."
She starts saying her ABC's in Gallifreyan.
The Doctor smiles. "That's my girl!"
She giggles. "I want down now daddy."
He smiles and sets the child down. "Ok. Where's mommy?"
"In the living room, she said she felt sick and needed to lie down."
"Hm..." He frowns and nods. He walks to the living room. "Sam?"
She smiles at him weakly, "Hey honey."
He smiles and then frowns. "What's wrong?"
"I don't feel well, I have a horrible headache, I'm tired, and my depression has been coming back."
"Was it because I left?" He sits down and takes her hands. He eyes her.
"You were gone for 6 months dear, my chest hurts..." She looks up at him.
He looks at her. "Did you go to the hospital?"
"No, but I stitched up a cut I caused on my wrist."
"Sam, you're going to the hospital."
"But it's just a chest cold..."
"Like right now. Come on, get up."
She sits up slowly, clutching her chest. Her sleeve falls, revealing multiple deep cuts on her arm. She quickly fixes her sleeve.
But it was too late. He had seen them. "Samantha?"
She nervously answers him, "Y-yes?"
"Your arm. What did you do to it?"
"I-I cut myself..."
"How many times? Why would you do this?" His eyes tear up.
"16, I-I..."She looks away.
"You knew I would be back."
"You wouldn't understand."
"Tell me Samantha."
She sighs. "I keep thinking that something's going to break us apart, that one day you won't come back."
"Sam...Nothing can break us apart. I love you and I'll always come back. But the universe needs it's Doctor."
"Maybe I'm the problem, Maybe I need to leave, Maybe I was meant to be alone."
"Sam. You are not a problem. Please don't leave."
She clutches her chest and lays back down.
He picks her up. "Sarah?" He calls.
"Yes daddy?" She answers.
"Can you open the door for me? I'm going to take mummy to see a doctor."
She nods and opens the door.
The Doctor takes both Sam and Sarah to the hospital.
******
Samantha lays down in a hospital bed, her hearts monitor beeping slowly, but steadily.
