Doctor Who ~ Thasmin oneshots

A world without you

The doctor's POV~

I should've known not to bring the fam with me. I knew they wouldn't have liked it, me telling them to stay put as I went and fought for my life, but at least we wouldn't have been in this predicament. We were all running, screaming and grunting as we ran zig zags to avoid being shot. Lasers and bullets hit the ground just centimetres away from our feet, splashing us with the red dust from the baren ground. This was a mess.

"Keep going fam! Back to the Tardis!" I yelled, trying to hang behind everyone so no one was abducted without me noticing. I could hear Graham struggling for breath as he tried to keep his pace, and Ryan shouting breathlessly for everyone to keep going. Yaz was just ahead of me, constantly looking over her shoulder to check I was still there. She looked tired, but I guess her police training had her fit for this. As a huddle of rocks emerged into view, I spotted the Tardis appearing behind it. I smiled wide through heavy pants as relief washed over me, we were going to make it.

That's when a sharp pain ran through my ankle, an almost burning sensation that made my whole body freeze up. I screamed out in pain, falling to the floor to get the weight off my foot. It was agony, unlike anything I'd felt before. I clenched my eyes shut and wrapped my hands around the wound, feeling the hot rush of blood through my fingers. I'd only gone and been shot. I could hear everyone shouting my name, but I hoped they kept on running and left me here. I needed them to be safe.

I felt a hand on my body. I yanked myself away from it at first, assuming it was the aliens trying to take me, but I soon realised the softness of the touch trying to sooth me. I forced my eyes open and my worst fear was confirmed- Yaz was here with me. She hadn't kept running. "Yaz run!" I coughed, not wanting to cry at a moment like this but needing Yaz to see I was serious. "They'll get you!" I shouted, but yet Yaz continued to take her scarf from around her neck and wrap it tightly around my bleeding leg.

"I'm not going anywhere without you!" She yelled, taking my face firmly in her hands and looking at me sternly. It was useless arguing, so I allowed her to help to me my feet- or foot I guess- and take my weight as we headed for the Tardis. We were still being fired at left, right and centre, and we were moving too slow. I wanted Yaz to keep going without me, she could've made it back by now by herself. But I knew Yazmin Khan was too strong minded for that.

Ryan and Graham faded into view, waving their hands desperately from the Tardis, screeching for us to hurry up. I could hear Yaz's laboured breaths as she tried to move me faster, and I was the definition of dead weight by now. We were so close, before I felt Yaz yanked from beside me. I fell to the floor again, groaning as my ankle smacked against the hard floor and sent my vision spiralling. I pulled myself over and forced myself to get up, jerking my head all over to see where Yaz had gone. My breath caught in my throat as I spotted her not far from me, held by her neck by the 8ft alien's hand. I could hear her chokes as she flailed her legs in attempt to get free.

Then it dropped her and walked away, satisfied with itself. The world seemed to stop around me as I looked at Yaz's unmoving figure on the ground. Everything went silent. The colours drained from my surroundings. The world died and left me to look at my friends form. Before I knew it I was running, running to Yaz. I could feel the pain in my injured leg, but everything was so numb I could bare it. I could hear my heartbeats in my ears, I could feel my mouth moving but nothing coming out. I could feel my feet hitting the floor, my footsteps had never sounded louder. I was screaming but I couldn't hear it.

I got to Yaz and fell to my knees, grabbing her limp figure and shaking it gently. I pulled her up so her head was on my knees, using one hand to bat her face and the other to run through her hair. I could feel the tears streaming down my face but my body wouldn't let me sob. I hovered my head over her mouth. No breath. She wasn't breathing. I panicked more, if it was even possible, and connected my lips with hers, breathing into her mouth and watching her chest rise and fall robotically. I ignored the softness of her lips as I did so. It wouldn't matter if she didn't make it. I'd never have the chance.

I sat up, out of breath myself. I felt faint and weak. I held Yaz close to me and cried, the only thing I had the strength to do. I'd lost Yaz. My anchor. My rock. My world. And she'd never even know. All because I wasn't fast enough.

In my fit of tears I felt a hot breath on my neck, followed by a cough and a wheeze. I sat up and hitched at the sight of Yaz stirring in my embrace, breathing. She was alive. As her dull eyes met mine, colour seemed to flood the world. My hearing returned to normal, my breathing calmed, I could see straight again. I no longer felt numb. Yaz was okay. A wide smile filled my face as I let myself sob historically into Yaz, falling into her as she hugged me back tightly. I could hear her crying too, and I knew we had to get back to the Tardis quickly before the aliens got back.

Graham and Ryan's worried shouts grew closer and closer as they ran towards us. "Girls! Oh thank god you're both okay!" Graham lent down to our level and wrapped his arms around us, relief filling his tone as he did. Ryan sank down and sat against us, tired and just as relieved. "Don't ever do that again, either of you." He panted, grinning at me and Yaz.

We got back to the Tardis as quickly as we could, incase the aliens came back to finish the job. As soon as the doors closed behind us, the atmosphere was returned to peaceful. The fam was all okay. Yaz was sat on the console table, holding an icepack to her bruised throat and pushing Graham away as he tried to fuss over her. I limped towards her, having not let anyone tend to my wound until Yaz was fully taken care of. She met my eyes and lit up, opening her arms and letting me fall into them.

"I thought I'd lost you." I said, on the brink of tears but forcing it down. Yaz brushed her hand through my hair. "I thought I'd lost me." She giggled a bit, but my gut was pulsing with guilt. She couldn't have been hurt if I wasn't shot, she would've got back to the Tardis if I wasn't such an idiot. I almost lost my Yaz because I was selfish. "I almost had to live in a world without you." I couldn't help the tear that left my eye, but Yaz wiped it away quickly and she directed my head up to look at her. "I'm not going anywhere, ever. I won't ever leave you, doctor, don't you forget that." She lent into me and kissed my lips, a sensation I never wanted to end.

As we pulled back and pressed our foreheads together, I finally felt at peace. Yaz was still here, I was still here. "Good, because a world without Yazmin Khan is no world at all." I kissed her cheek softly and sat up, lopsided because of my leg. Yaz glanced down at my blood drenched makeshift bandage and gasped, grabbing my elbows. "Doctor, your leg!" She hopped off the table and put her arm under my arms, taking my weight. "Let's get that cleaned up, hm?" I sniggered, leaning my head on her shoulder.

"What would I do without you?"