Chapter 5

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"We're here." The Doctor said. "I'm scared..." I muttered. "I know." He said as he embraced me for a hug. "Come along." He said as he walked to the doors of the TARDIS. I followed him and we both stepped out. We were greeted by this Healer, I thought we would've had to have looked for them but here they were, waiting for us. "Hello there, I'm The Doctor." He said greeting the creature. "I've got a different face from last time, you know what it's like, regeneration and all, but it's still me and this is my friend Jessie, the one I need you to look at. Jess, this is The Healer." I smile and the creature looked at me then signalled for us to follow it.

As we walked through the town I couldn't help but notice how beautiful the place was. It was a booming, almost steampunk looking city. All the inhabitants were cloaked creatures with glowing eyes. At first I found them creepy but they were all so friendly to each other and seemed harmless. The Doctor had mentioned they became a peaceful race once the war had ended.

We eventually reached our destination, it looked like a psychic's tent but bigger. The Doctor pulled back the curtain and waited for me to enter after The Healer, The Doctor entered after us and closed the curtain behind him. There was a table in the centre of the room with wooden chairs around it, we all sat down and I noticed that not a word had been spoken since our introduction.

I started to feel very afraid once the pain started again, it was different this time though, almost like it was more spread out over my stomach, it was normal for me to feel this pain but The Healer looked at me and turned its head to the side, almost like it knew what I was feeling. "What's wrong?" I ask them. "You have evil inside you." They said in a deep, rough voice while looking at my stomach. "It doesn't like that you're here." They explained. The pain grew but I could handle it, I was used to this after all. "Pass me your hands and look into my eyes." The Healer demanded. I placed my hands in theirs and looked into their eyes, trying to ignore the pain. The Healers bright eyes widened as it looked into mine. "Oh no, oh no no no." The Healer grew very afraid. "What is it? What's wrong?" I asked, The Healer released my hands and stood up. "There is nothing I can do to rid you of it." It said in a very afraid manner. The Doctor stood up and grabbed The Healer by their shoulders, "what did you see?" He asks. "I saw the face of evil, it's inside of her and it's growing very strong, it has not been awake long, possibly a few years but it's angery, very angry and it has been feeding on her weaknesses." The Healer explained. "But what is it? What can I do?" The Doctor questioned. "Nothing, until it takes physical form you can't do anything, but, once it takes physical form it may be too late to do anything, it will destroy everything." The Healer responded. I was still in my seat, shaking in fear at what I'd just heard. Am I going to die? Is this thing going to take over me? What if it hurts The Doctor? What if it tries to destroy everything it knows I love?

OW! The pain was growing rapidly as all these thoughts were going through my head. "Doctor..." I wince. He didn't hear me, he was too busy questioning The Healer. This must be something horrific if even The Healer was afraid. The Doctor told me about them, he told me about how they used to be a General in a war. Whatever is inside of me must be worse than war and death itself if it makes The Healer afraid. "D-doctor..." I cry out again, falling to the floor and wincing in agony at the stabbing pain inside of my gut. "Jessie..." The Doctor turned to me, "no no no no!" He panicked as he fell down to the floor to help lift me back up. "This darkness inside of you, if you aren't thinking negative thoughts it has no power!" He said trying to get through to me. I was crying in pain at this point. "Doctor, it hurts so much." I cried into him. "I know, I know it does, but remember, it has no power over you right now, all it can do is hurt you, that's all it can do!" He was explaining trying to reassert my focus on to him and not on pain. "I'm not going to let this take you, I've lost enough people, I'm not losing you too." He said to me in a softer voice with tears starting to form.

"I have something." The Healer intervened. The Doctor looked up to him. "It won't kill it but it will seal it away and make the pain more bearable." They explained. "Come, lie her on the table." He said signalling towards the table we were previously sitting at. The Doctor was still holding me in his arms, he helped me up and towards the table. I was panting heavily, the pain was at its worst. "What're you going do to me?" I ask. "I'm going to fuse this power into your skin, it will hold the darkness in place for a while, you'll have more time to search for someone who can help you get rid of it." The Healer was rummaging through some cabinets and drawers in search for what he needed. The Doctor lay me down on the table and The Healer lifted up my shirt to reveal my stomach. "Hold still, I'm sorry but this is going to hurt." They warned before puffs of what looked like black flames appeared on each of its 5 human like fingers and pressing them against my stomach. As soon as his fingers touched my skin I involuntarily screeched in a deep demonic tone, it clearly hurt the thing, his fingers were burning something into my skin and whatever was inside of me didn't like it one bit. I saw it, I saw what it was inside of me, like the image of this thing was printed directly inside of my mind and the pain, oh god the pain, it was unbearable, This thing, it was going to kill me.

It was all over in mere moments but it felt like an eternity, I was drifting in and out of consciousness. I could hear a voice, a male voice, was it The Doctor? Where am I? What am I doing here? What was that pain? I asked myself so many questions until I faded back into consciousness and back into reality. I'm still on the table in this tent with The Doctor and The Healer but somethings different, somethings missing, what is it? I try to sit up "woah woah careful!" The Doctor said in a concerned voice. Of course, it was the pain, how could I forget about that pain, that agony. "You blacked out for a moment, we thought we'd lost you." The Healer said placing it's hand on my shoulder. "Does it hurt?" The Doctor asked. No, it didn't hurt, why didn't it hurt? "No, no it doesn't." I said, holding my head. "Let me see." The Healer said while leaning me back a bit and lifting my shirt up again. A seal was on my stomach, like a tattoo of a spiral, except it had smoke coming of the 5 black dots around the outside of the spiral. "It was a success!" The Healer exclaimed with joy. I looked over to The Doctor to see him sigh with relief and feel him kiss the side of my head. "Are you feeling okay Jess?" He asked in a soft voice looking into my eyes. "Yeah I'm- I'm fine." I reply, smiling at him. I think I was going to be okay, The Healer stopped it, for now anyway.

After a brief moment of examining the seal while The Doctor and Healer spoke to each other, I climbed off the table and went to wash my face. I remember, I remember what I saw, I remember seeing that...thing. Should I tell them? "Come along then!" The Doctor smiled, "we're all done here." We thanked The Healer for his work and exchanged goodbyes. I hugged them and The Doctor shook its hand before we exited the tent and walked slowly back to the TARDIS, "what now then?" I ask. "Dunno.. I guess we carry on." The Doctor replies. We arrived back to the TARDIS and go inside. I see The Doctor pull out his Psychic Paper (basically it shows whatever the user wants people to see) and glance at it curiously, "oh look at that, we're going to New York! Brilliant, I love New York" He exclaimed happily. "Why?" I ask, "because someone has requested out help." He turns some switches and pulls some knobs on the console before pulling the switch down and BOOM, we're off again!

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