PART 1: BEDTIME STORIES
I hurt him. I destroyed him. I always hurt everyone I love. Her thoughts fill my mind. Who is she thinking about? Why can I not wake up?
I feel someone breathing on me lightly. Lips touch my cheek. “I’m so sorry, Kyle. Come back, please come back. I can’t lose anyone else. I’ve already lost so many people. Please. No more, no more. Come back.”
It’s her. The girl. Sarah. Why can I not wake up?
I hear shuffling and I assume she’s moved away. I hear sniffles and I know she’s crying. Why is she crying? Is it over me? Did I do this to her? She said she’d lost me. She can’t lose me. I’m just asleep. Or in a coma. Either way, I’m not going anywhere. Wake up body! Wake up!
I then hear screaming, it’s a bit muffled but I can still make it out. “You stupid, fucking idiot! Switch us back or I’ll kill you!” It’s…the Doctor? Since when does he swear or threaten to murder people?
“If you kill me, how will you ever get back to your normal body?” Oliver replies, I can almost see him dramatically rolling his eyes.
“Please Oliver, be reasonable.” Niall’s voice comes next. Why is he so calm? What’s this about switching back into normal bodies? Oh God…
Oliver must have put a spell on them. I mentally slap my forehead and then mentally slap Oliver for being so senseless. The only way for them to switch back is through death. It glitches brain functions and as the opposite person dies, their actual brain causes a temporary paralysis so they can switch back unharmed. Humans really are quite extraordinary creatures. Being one myself, I would know.
I hear banging. “Niall stop! If you kill Oliver, we’re both in trouble. We have to work together to fix this. We have to trust him. Think of Sarah. Do it for her. Please Niall.” The Doctor in Niall’s body says.
Everything gets silent. I still can’t open my eyes. Why?
“I don’t care about her right now. She broke me until I had nothing left to offer. It was toxic but I was so blinded by my love for her that I didn’t care. I love her but I can’t be with someone who doesn’t and cannot love me. This is your fault, Doctor. We were happy without you around. Why do you have to ruin everything?” Niall declares in the Doctor bodies.
“No that’s unfair to say! I tried to stay away, to protect her. I knew if she got hurt I’d suffer throughout time and space because of it. You can’t blame fate for binding us back together. Besides, she and I know she loves you but you’re too blind to see it. You keep believing I’ m stealing her for you and that she only loves me. Well she doesn’t, Niall. Get that through your head. It would’ve saved us a ton of trouble if you’d stop being so jealous over absolutely nothing.”
Why am I only allowed to observe things? Why was I born like this? I should be comforting Sarah or helping the Doctor and Niall but I can’t. I’m utterly helpless right now.
I try and force my body to move. I concentrate really hard. So hard my brain begins to throb. Come on brain, cooperate! Just this once. Please. Give me this. Give me one last miracle. Let me do what I was born to do. Let me heal the broken who cannot heal themselves.
My eyes spring open.
I sit up robotically, without effort. I stand, my knees bent in a low crouch as I slowly straighten them into a stance. My back is perfectly straight. Why does nothing ache?
I hear her thoughts again: Oh please one more miracle. Make them stop fighting over me. Maybe then Kyle will come back. I did everything I could to save him, please…don’t do this to me. Don’t let me lose any more people.
Should I speak now? Why has the TARDIS suddenly become silent?
I carefully make my way around Sarah and face her. Her face is buried in her hands. Part of me breaks inside. Everyone causes her so much grief and heartache and no one has even been there to pick the shatter pieces up. I’m going to. I’m not going to let her down. I was born to save others and I’m going to.
I move her hands away from her face as slowly as I can and stare down into her eyes. They’re bloodshot. How could anyone ever do this to a girl like her?
“Kyle…” She whispers.
I wipe her tears away with my big hands and halfheartedly smile at her. “Yeah, it’s me.”
“Oh Kyle.” She throws her arms around my waist and clings to me as though we haven’t seen each other in years. It warms my heart to know someone cares about me for once. I hate to be hugged. I hate any type of physical contact. With Sarah, it’s heartwarming actually. “I thought you were gone for good. Don’t ever die again.” She cries into my overcoat.
I rub her back. “I will never go away. Even if something happens to me, I won’t leave. I won’t be like the other people in your life. I promise to stay right here.”
She holds me tighter. I realize just how much shorter than me she is. She barely even comes up to my chin. We’re a head apart in height. It makes me want to protect her even more. She’s so small. She needs someone right now. A friend.
“I heard the boys fighting in there.” I say.
She nods against my chest. “They’re acting really weird. They’re talking differently. It’s like they switched bodies or something.”
I almost laugh, but stop myself. “They did. They traded bodies.”
She pulls away and stares at me with confusion in her red, tear-filled eyes. “What? What do you mean?”
“Exactly what I said. They literally swapped bodies. Niall is in the Doctor’s body and the Doctor is in Niall’s body. Oliver did it. He made it happen because he’s a wizard.
Sarah still looks lost but she looks more flabbergasted than anything. “I have to go in there then.” She says as she walks to the TARDIS. As she goes to open the door, I grab her arm.
“Are you really sure that’s a good idea? What if something happened to them? It might not be safe to go in there.”
The hesitation on her face is evident. “Will you go in there with me? Just in case?” She says in a low voice. She glances up at me and I can tell she’s anxious.
As awkward as it is, I lightly cup her chin and stare into her brown eyes. “I’ll be right with you every step of the way, Sarah. Every step.”
For the first time, I see her smile. It’s genuine, too. I smile back down at her. She’s so precious but doesn’t even know it. All because a few stupid people told her wrong things and she believed they were true. The words seeped through the cracks after a while and chipped away pieces that only belonged to her. I’m going to rid her of those things that got inside. I’ll help repair what she lost. Even if it causes a war.
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A/N: Can you guys believe that there is officially going to be a book 2??!?! I'm so excited to continue the book everyone has come to love so much! I have one more chapter after this to show you, but I want everyone to know up front that I may not update much anymore, because I have soccer and school and just don't have as much time as I did writing book 1. I will try as hard as I can to update once a week. There's a new addition to this book, from now on, instead of posting the Regen. Trailer, I will post you guys links of songs I feel fit each chapter. I will with the first book too, so if you want, feel free to check that when I get done sometime in a few days. :)
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PertualanganWelcome to the sequel of my beloved Doctor Who book Regeneration! This is going to be a great sequel to my first ever completed book. I hope y'all enjoy book 2 as much as you did book 1 :) Get ready, and Fallonsimo dear Regenerators!
