Travel (Doctor Who)

Chapter 23

Mia didn't talk to anyone after that. And I didn't expect her to. Whatever had happened to her must have been horrible, since for the next hour, her eyes were completely wide. I felt even worse, and not just because she thought I had done it. So while The Doctor was hustling through things, I decided to sit down next to Mia.

Practically the whole time was silent. All she did was beam into the TARDIS floor, her eyes watery. Finally, I took a deep breath, and spit out what I had been waiting to say.

"What happened?"

I didn't say it in a way that was as if I expected her to answer. Mia doesn't cry. Anymore, that is. So just as I thought, the room stayed silent.

Until she finally speaks.

"I saw her. I was looking it the mirror, washing my face, when she was in the corner. Just, looking at me. With her head tilted, like I was an unidentifiable thing. Then she sighed, and- and behind her, was one of those heart rate things. It was beeping fine, until- un- until-"

She didn't finish. And she didn't have to. I knew exactly what happened. I was in the room.

"I hate this stuff."

Mia smirks, playing with her hair. "You hate everything."

Audrey gasps, as if she was too overwhelmed to even take the insult Mia had given her.

"Excuse you, but I don't hate everything. I like... Um.... You guys?"

That got me doubling over in laughter. "Oh my GOD Audrey, you're killing me!" She smiles, and bats her eyelashes. Gosh, twelve year olds are too dramatic. But Audrey was good at it. She wanted to be an actress, and she was already on the path. Audrey had such a spunky attitude, and made anyone laugh. Anyone. That clings onto the fact the she knows everyone. She knew my social studies teacher. The new one. And her and Autumn were tight to the hip. Both of the spunky chicks put together? Priceless. So next to Mia, Autumn visited every day she could.

"Oh honey. I try my best."

At that moment, I remember what I had brought with me.

"Guess what?" I tell her, and she looks slowly at her IV line, and back at me.

"You put poison in here? Mia, I told you I was feeling weak today."

I roll my eyes. "I don't think even poison could kill you. You're indestructible." No lie. Retracing my thought, I continue. "Anyways, as I was gonna say, I. Got. You..." I tell her, and slowly pull out a box."the ONE DIRECTION COLLECTION!"

Audrey was obsessed with One Direction. I didn't hate them, but she was in a complete awe. I saw her heart rate go up, but nothing out of the normal. Actually, I kinda expected it to go higher.

"OhmyGodEvaIloveyousomuchahhh!" She sputters out, and I smile. As I take out the hat and place it on her shaved blonde hair, she does an unsettling cough. I'm not even talking about your normal cancerous kid cough. The cough scared me. Mia has a concerned look plastered onto her face as well.

"I need to hit the beach." She says, breaking the small silence. I saw she was talking about her pale skin, and I shrug, disturbed. I started to feel a nurse was needed in here.

Mia puts her hand on Audrey's forehead, as I notice something odd.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

It was beeping normally. But I had only saw it pump up a few seconds ago. She should still sorta have it up, right?

"Ugh, this beeping is killing me. Someone just turn it off."

I could tell Audrey was trying to break the silence, but I couldn't shake the odd things out of my head. It was, like a warning.

"Mia? Can I- talk to you?" I say, and she nods, as we walk into the small bathroom.

"Something's wrong with Audrey. I'm gonna get a nurse." She instantly says, and I nod.

But before I say anything, we hear a loud, heart melting sound.

Beep.

It went on and on. It didn't stop. Mia's eyes widen and she screams, running to the bed, where Audrey lay there, her eyes open. Next to her, a screen with a straight line. Mia went nuts. I did too. She started shouting in the halls, while i gave her CPR. I was terrified. Put I kept pushing, breathing, etc., until Mia and the nurse came in, both of them wide eyed. I could tell the nurse had loved Audrey, who hadn't. The nurse starts to check her pulse, and my eyes start to water. After 30 minutes of everyone trying to wake her back up, we finally realized the truth. Well, most of us. Mia denied in, while I curled up in the corner of the room, terrified. Mia's face was completely blotchy, red spots everywhere from her crying.

No one could get Mia about of the room. She would kick and scream at anyone that got near her. And no, she didn't to her parents. But not because of what you're thinking. Because they were to shocked, in denial. Mia told me a month or two later, when she was sort of recovered, that when they finally dragged her home, Garfield was whining. He isolated himself inside Audrey's room, howling. Strange for a cat, yeah. But Mia tells me he somehow knew what had happened.

"I'm tired of The Nightmares." I say, snapping out of my flashback sorta daze. I realized my eyes were watery, and quickly wipe then before anyone noticed, not like it would matter.

"I HAVE A SOLUTION!" I hear, and turn to look at The Doctor's accomplished, cheerful face. Wrong time, wrong place.

And just then, does he stick out his weird, long machine thingy.

Typical.