Chapter 11. Nightmares Come To Life

The Doctor and I started going down a mine shaft. He really wanted to see what was down there, but I didn't want him to go down there at all. I wouldn't mind going down there by myself, I just don't want him to see my fears. Especially the ones I have now. We were going down to the deepest level of the mine, because apparently that would be where all the secrets were hidden.

"Doctor, whatever you see down there we don't speak about, okay? No questions asked, no comments added. Okay?"

He looked at me warily before nodding his head ever so slightly. The mine shift bumped a few times before we heard a little bang. I looked at the Doctor with a worried expression as he opened the door. Thankfully, none of my fears were shown yet, but that would soon be over.

Because I heard screaming coming from down the cave.

The scream was on replay.

The scream was mine.

The Doctor ran after the scream, searching for one of my fears, but I already knew what we both would see.

The Doctor killing me.

As the Doctor neared the site, I saw him stop and look back at me. I looked into his eyes and saw so much hurt and pain, so much more than before. I saw a tear escape his eye and asked a question that broke both his hearts.

"Leyna, why would you even imagine this? Do you look at me and see murderer? Who gave you this fear?"

I looked behind him and saw him pointing a gun at me, and I saw myself fall to my death. There was a puddle of blood. But I stayed strong. I wasn't going to cry in front of the Doctor. I looked at the limo body on the floor behind the Doctor, and I knew that I couldn't tell him the truth. I couldn't tell him about River and what she told me. I would have to lie to him.

"The fear isn't you killing me, the fear is me losing you."

"But--" he started

"No questions asked, no comments added." I recited from before. He looked at me for a second before nodding and going deeper into the mine.

We saw monsters from when I was little, the Master, my family dying, and just the Doctor. Just standing there.

"Don't worry, I'm not afraid of you. I'm afraid of your actions. You save the world, but at what cost?"

Then it was a dead end. I didn't have a lot of fears, but the fears I did have were a lot.

We started on our journey back to the shaft when I heard the gunshot. Seeing the Doctor killing me was really scary, and I knew that it would be in my near future.

We went in the shaft and waited in silence as the elevator was going up. When we got to the top, we just went back on the black brick path and to the TARDIS. But before I was allowed to go into the TARDIS, the Doctor had a question to ask me.

"If you're afraid of losing me, wouldn't it have shown me dying, not me killing you?"

"Yeah, but you wouldn't die. You would just regenerate. This makes more sense."

"How do you know about regenerations?"

"My mom told me everything. She told me too much."

I opened the door to the TARDIS, avoiding any further questions. When we got in the TARDIS, I just went straight to my room to read River's journal. It wouldn't be long before she came and searched for it, so I didn't have a lot of time. Thats what I'm always running out of, time. Either running out of it or running from it. And I guess that's what River had thought, too, because there was a few sentences in her journal about it.

Since I'm now travelling with the Doctor, you may think that I would have all the time in the world. But I don't. You may think that since I'm travelling with the Doctor, running out of time and running from time would be two different things, but now they're the same. Same definition, same meaning. Now that I travel with him, time will never be the same.

A knock came from my door, interrupting my reading and my thoughts. It was the Doctor knocking, and he would be very upset that I was reading Rivers journal. I quickly hid the book under my pillow, and took out the book Melody Malone from my bag. I told him to come in, and he came in wearing his pyjamas and holding two cups of hot chocolate.

"Is it really that late?"

"Yeah, and it's been a long day."

I took a mug from his hand and he looked down at my book.

"Must be a good book. Every time you're reading its always the same book. Maybe I should read it sometime."

"Okay, just don't read past chapter 5."

He looked at me jokingly, "Why not?"

I looked at him the same way he looked at me, "Spoilers."

He giggled before sipping a bit of hot chocolate. He then lay down beside me and listened to me read the book. When I started yawning, the Doctor took our mugs from the table, said goodnight, and left.

I lay there for a few minutes thinking about the adventures that the Doctor and I have had before drifting off to sleep, dreaming about upcoming adventures.

Doctor's POV

I left the room with both the mugs in my hands, and put them in the sink of the TARDIS kitchen.. I shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't let myself fall in love with her. But it was too late.

Now, there is no getting up.

Now, I was in love with Leyna.

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