Acerca de
Winter Dream
Yaz opened her eyes and to her surprise the Doctor was lying next to her sound asleep. Her hand over Yaz rolled on her side, face in pillow and her hair all over the place. She looked so human. Yaz has never seen Doctor sleep and she found it fascinating. Not only did she never see her sleep, but she never imagined her looking so comical sleeping either. She didn't really know what she imagined but definitely not this. All she was expecting now was for Doctor to start snoring and she would just crack down laughing hysterically.
She dared not to move because she enjoyed the site and she also loved to feel her arm over her back. But she felt like her bladder will explode if doesn't get up soon. So, she moved really slowly, trying desperately not to wake her up. She was also painfully aware that for some really idiotic reason bathrooms in Tardis rooms had no doors and regardless of what happened last night she really didn't feel comfortable Doctor seeing her pee. It felt rather stupid because her face was right there between her legs few hours ago, but it all still seemed unreal to Yaz and it was a real struggle.
She managed to do everything, and the Doctor seemed still out of it. She even managed to take a fast shower and brushed her teeth without waking her up. She quickly got back to bed...sneaking up behind her and putting her arm around the Doctor's waist.
Doctor slowly turned around and opened her eyes, a smile stretched across her face.
"Morning beautiful"
"Morning...did you have a nice sleep?"
"Best ever...but I really need to pee...sorry" Doctor shoot out of bed, walked in a bathroom, and waived her hand on the left side of the entrance, doors appeared out of nowhere closing shut leaving Yaz feeling really confused and stupid
Doctor came out smiling stretching her arms and rubbing her still sleepy face like a child
"Bathroom has a door?"
Doctor looks confused "Of course it has a door Yaz. What? Oh...shoot I didn't tell you, did I?"
"Nooooo...like all this time I'm thinking is this normal on Gallifrey you people not having doors on toilets"
"Of course, we have doors Yaz" she laughed so hard she could barely ketch a breath "I'm so sorry...oh well now you know"
"Oh well...thanks" she rolls her eyes "So do you want some breakfast?"
"Really?" Doctor looks at her cheeky
"What? I thought you are hungry" Yaz looks at her confused
"And I thought you wanted a cuddle?"
Doctor pretends she's hurt but she's just enjoying this game way too much. She knows Yaz is getting totally lost
"Do you? ...Want a cuddle" she looks at her like a puppy with those big eyes that give Doctor a head wonk
Doctor comes close to the edge of the bed where Yaz is sitting confused, and she crouches down to her eye line. She reaches out for both of her hands intertwining their fingers together in the air
"Yes, I do want a cuddle" she kisses the tip of her nose
"And you do too" she gives her a small kiss on her lips
"And you want me to kiss you more" she kisses her again
"But you don't want to say it...so I will kiss you anyway because you give me head wonks all the time and I just can't help myself"
Yaz giggles like a kid enjoying every moment of the Doctor being so attentive towards her. She wrapped her arms around her neck enjoying in every kiss
Doctor kisses her again and again small kisses, short ones making Yaz giggle more showing her little dimples on her cute cheeks that made Doctor go mad, and she starts kissing her harder more and more passionate going down her neck and finally, not letting her hands go, tips her on the bed. She sits on her, holding her hands above her head pressing them into the mattress running her tongue down her neck going down her body so slowly it's making Yaz's head spin again.
She lets go of her hands just to move them over her soft breast and her warm stomach slumping herself down to the floor again pulling Yaz by her legs to the very edge of the bed. She wrapped her legs over her shoulders grabbing them with both hands, kissing the inside of her thighs and making a home for herself there again.
Yaz's brain just couldn’t cope anymore. She's biting her lips hard and reaching for Doctors hands holding herself for her wrists making noises she never thought she could. She's totally relaxed now...like coming to a familiar place back to her universe, totally surrendering herself to it.
Doctor is pulling her closer and taking her harder. Yaz holding on to her hands makes her want her even more. She's trying to hold back at least a bit, feeling that if lets herself go she will tear this woman apart and place her inside of her hearts. She could feel Yaz cramping and shaking, flying away with the stars. She slowly lets her go kissing the inside of her legs and running tips of her fingers on her hips making Yaz shake to her every touch. Doctor got up and pulled her onto the bed. She lays next to her stroking her cheek and gently kisses her swollen lips
"I...love you...I really, really love you" Yaz whispers completely exhausted and floppy struggling to keep awake her eyes slightly open and smiling just a little
She rolls herself to place her head on Doctor's chest her eyes struggling to keep awake
Doctor puts her arms around her and kisses her head
" Sleep...it's ok we have time"
She woke up but the Doctor wasn't next to her this time. She rolled herself around and pressed her face into the pillow that still smelled of Doctor. She released Doctors fingers left bruises on her legs. She didn't mind...not at all. This passionate side of the Doctor is throwing her out completely, a side she has never seen...she liked it...she liked it a lot. She stayed like that for a while daydreaming before getting up and getting herself ready.
She walked in the control room to find Doctor surrounded with a bunch of cables all around the Tardis floor almost slipping on some liquid that was on a floor leaking from one of them.
"Hey...OMG what is that??" she is jumping over the cables trying to get to the Doctor
Doctor turns around "Hey beautiful. Be careful don't fall...sorry...just repairing the rainforest floor" she takes her gloves off and comes up to Yaz leaning over to kiss her, keeping her arms up in the air "Don't touch just kiss...I'll make you dirty"
Yaz leans over all the cables trying not to slip, pressing her lips for a short kiss. The whole thing still felt so weird. It was only yesterday when she was so afraid to even touch her. She really liked this new normal, but she still felt like walking on eggshells not knowing how to act.
"Don't you look nice today" Doctor noticed looking at her smiling
"Thank you...Well you're still looking sexy all covered in ...well whatever that is"
Doctor laughs "Blimey Yaz nobody called me sexy in at least a thousand years...but thanks. Let me finish this and get myself sorted...big plans for today. Need to get out before the snow starts...oh and I might say by my calculations that might be in just a few days’ time so we need to get Tardis ready.
"Deal" Yaz turns to walk away but runs back jumping across the cables again grabbing Doctors head with both hands and kissing her again. This time for a longer minute just enjoying it the fact that she can
"You're gonna give me a head wonk again...stop that...go and have breakfast there's no restaurants here I don't want you being hungry...oh and don't eat that jelly from the fridge Yaz" she looked at Yaz leaving the room thinking to herself how happy she is to have her
They walked out of Tardis into a thick forest full of trees so tall like Yaz had never seen before. The air smelled fresh and crisp like it sometimes does early in a morning after rain
"Be careful Yaz...hold on to me...the ground is slippery"
She is holding her hand tight and as they walk through, she grabs her by the waist to get her over the steep rocks making sure she doesn't hurt herself.
After a long walk they come up to the edge of the forest where the ground is opening into the canyon thousands of meters deep revealing a beautiful valley. Steep cliffs with waterfalls on the left side crushing down thousands of meters into a river below.
The sight was magnificent and it left them both speechless.
"OMG what a sight!!!" Yaz turns to Doctor completely blown away
"Stunning, isn't it?"
"Have you ever been here before?"
"It has been a long time ago, but I always wanted to come again. I'll take you to the other side tomorrow...wait until you see the floating stones of Abenis it will really blow your mind"
"Hey, let's just sit here for a while. Just want to enjoy in a view"
"Sure, why not"
They both sit on the ground close to the edge. Yaz kept picking up stones and throwing them across the edge.
"What's it like...to live so long?"
"Oh, I don't know Yaz, complicated I suppose"
Yaz chuckled "Complicated? That's a weird way of describing it"
"Well for me it is...I always get into trouble...always have"
"That's because you just can't help yourself"
"What does that mean?"
"You just see trouble and you're there...you're like a shit magnet"
"Yaz!!!! What in a name...what did you just call me?"
Yaz busts out laughing "A shit magnet"
"Well thanks for that" Doctor throws a bunch of leaves on her laughing "You love every minute of it...admit it"
"I do actually"
"Hey, look at that Yaz" Doctor points in direction of the canyon
"Nooo waaay...is that???" Yaz jumps to her feet exited looking into the distance
"Yes, it is Yaz" Doctor makes smug face
"It's a dragon!!!...like a real live dragon!!!" she looks at Doctor excited like a little child
"I was hoping we will see one. They are very shy you don't get to see one often"
"OMG this is amazing!!!"
Doctor gets up from the ground shaking all the leaves of herself "Come on Yaz...time to go...it will get dark soon"
"Dark? How can it get dark? It's only the afternoon?"
"Days are shorter this time of the year and it will get dark in an hour. Don't want us being stuck in these woods at night believe me. I did it once and I'm never doing it again"
She reaches out for her hand pulling her along. By the time they reached halfway it already got so dark Yaz had trouble walking through without constantly tripping along the way. She kept holding on to the Doctor's hands desperately trying not to fall.
They finally reached Tardis after almost an hour of walking.
"It's so nice to be back home" Yaz sighs walking in "I'm exhausted" she took her boots of straight at the door and dragged herself to sit on the steps
"I'm so sorry Yaz, It's easier for me because I see better in the dark. Sorry honey"
"Honey? Did you just call me honey?"
"What's wrong with calling you honey? "
"Oh, absolutely nothing. I love it...just not used to it. Please don't stop"
"Stop? ...I'm just getting started so get used to it"
"Come on lazy...You need to eat. You didn't eat the whole day" Doctor pulls her up and turns around heading towards the kitchen.
"Noo...I'm too tired...can't you just carry me?" she hangs herself around Doctors neck hanging on her back letting her drag her all the way. This silly little gesture makes the Doctor giggle.
"Thanks for making that. I didn't realize just how hungry I was. I feel much better now"
Yaz kept rubbing her eyes, she felt like her head would drop on a table how much she was struggling to keep awake "I didn't know you could cook?"
"You don't know many things about me Yaz...I've spent quite some time hanging around Gordon"
"Not Gordon Ramsey? " Yaz's eyes suddenly open wide
"Yes him...great chap. We had great times together"
"Is there anyone you don't know?"
Yaz gets up and walks around the table to the Doctor. She puts her arms around her shoulders and kisses her cheek. She rests her head on her shoulder for a moment
Doctor pulls her arm and sits her on her lap wrapping her arms around her
"Yaz"
"Yes Doctor" Yaz yawns struggling to keep her eyes open leaning her head on Doctors shoulder
"I love you"
“Mmmm….” She moans onto her neck drowsy “I love you too Bighead…I will never get used to hearing you say that” she snuggles herself more "Take me to bed"
"You need to get up first sleepyhead" Doctor smiles
They got up from the table and the Doctor scoped her up into her arms. Yaz just cuddled up to her like some cute little animal falling asleep on her shoulder.
The Doctor kicked the door of her bedroom open and laid Yaz on a bed, stripped her of her clothes and pulled a duvet over her. She turned around to walk out
"Stay with me please" Yaz grabbed her hand as she was about to leave. Doctor just couldn't say no to her even if it meant looking at the ceiling the whole night. So she laid behind her and stayed like that until Yaz completely fell asleep before she sneaked out of the bedroom.
Few hours later the Doctor was in a library leaning over the massive wooden table studying some old book when she could hear footsteps approaching down the hallway. Yaz walked in wrapped up in a white sheet dragging it behind her.
"Hey, you...why are you not sleeping?"
"I did and now I'm awake again. Was that your room? It's beautiful"
"Hey, let me show you something...come here. Look this is where I'm taking you tomorrow"
She showed her a massive book she was studying and beautiful illustrations of floating stones she talked about earlier that day.
"That's absolutely beautiful. Thank you for taking me to all these places"
"Oh, I just wish we had more time" she gets all hyper again bouncing around "I really need to show you the pink caves of Bonar...oh you will love them...they glow at night and did I tell you about the time I went fishing and I ended up in the Mur people kingdom...I haven't seen them in while they call me all the time...I really should go and visit soon…There’s so much I want to show you…Oh oh!! ...I almost forgot and we have to…and I mean have to go to the yellow canyon of Dazeri…"
Yaz was gazing at her, listening to her rambling on as usual and she looked so beautiful and so sweet pacing next her and making all of her cute hand gestures and all her ten faces all at once, that Yaz knew every single one of them.
And suddenly Yaz had a desire to just pin her to the wall and kiss her like crazy. She grabbed her head and cut her off with a kiss letting the sheet fall to the floor. She desired her so much she craved for kisses and her touches. She couldn’t get enough of her. She waited for so long dared not to even hope. And now all she wanted was to make love to her all the time, to kiss her end to feel her cold hands all over all the time…to be a part of that universe.
It didn’t take long for Doctor to switch from rambling to kissing her like there’s no tomorrow. It was like invisible switch in her brain and Yaz is getting to know that switch very well. She could feel Doctors hands running up and down her spine and all over her back, hips, and waist. The Doctor grabbed her, lifting her in the air and popped her on top of the table. Yaz wrapped her legs around her, kissing her passionately and biting her lips, running her fingers at the back of her neck and down her shoulders grabbing hold of Doctors braces and sliding them down. Yaz pulled both of Doctor’s shirts off in one sweep and pressed herself against her kissing her neck and her shoulders. For the first time ever, she was able to feel her skin on her own and it felt so amazing it gave her tingles all over. She tasted like sweets, her skin soft and gentile.
Doctor was pushing her more to the table. She ran her tongue all the way from her neck over her breast kissing them softly and continued down to her silky stomach sliding her fingers down her beautiful soft legs grabbing them passionately. She felt intoxicated, her hearts beating like drums, Yaz made her feel like nothing else in the universe. She was her home, her anchor, her absolute everything. She wanted to remember every moment, every second, every kiss knowing that one day only memories of her will be left in her mind.
Yaz laid on the table and pushed all the books and trinkets on the floor, she closed her eyes and played with Doctors hair feeling her soft skin whilst she was kissing and caressing every inch of her. She drifted away into her abyss arching her back when Doctors cold fingers went inside her. She could feel herself going, her body giving in to her universe again. It felt like Doctor was taking her forever, slowly and ever so gently going deeper inside her and then harder and more passionately pulling her across the table closer to herself selfishly claiming her for herself. And Yaz loved every second of it. She loved that she wanted her so badly, this was all she ever wanted. It was more than she ever hoped to have.
"Don't stop...please don't ever stop" Yaz begged her through the haze of passion
She reached out for Doctor's hand intertwining her fingers, squeezing it harder and harder until she flew away feeling Doctors soft lips on her stomach and tingles of her hair on her skin. Doctor laid her head there for a while feeling her shaking underneath her breathing fast then slowing down. Yaz opened her eyes...stroking Doctors hair.
She pulled herself up and pulled her in for a kiss lightly biting her lips and moving Doctors hair from her face
"God, I love you so much...so, so much" she says softly
"I adore you beautiful...more than anything in the universe" Doctor whispers between the kisses stroking her flushed cheek
Yaz was tired, utterly exhausted but this time she made up her mind. She moved herself closer to the edge of the table again and kept kissing the Doctor on and on. She reached down to the edge of her trousers, unbuttoning them slowly whilst never stopping to kiss her, almost distracting her from what she was doing. But Doctor grabbed her hand
"Yaz!!" she pulls her away looking at her eyes
"I want you" Yaz says quietly looking deep into her green eyes
Doctor shakes her head with a firm voice "Yaz no!"
"But I want you...and it's not fair!!" Yaz's chin starts to wobble
Doctor grabs her head with both hands
"I know you do...and I want it too, but this isn't a competition darling"
"But I ...why won't you let me? Please!!...I don't understand!!!!" tears start rolling down her cheeks
Doctor kisses her swollen lips through all her tears
"Yaz slow down!!!...You need to slow down please...trust me please. You trust me?"
She nodded her head still crying
"We're not going anywhere...we're stuck here for three months give yourself time"
"But why?"
"Because Yaz I want it to mean something" her voice gets firmer because she just wants this to sink in
"I want it to be not because you feel like you have to, but because you feel like you want to"
She cuts her short when Yaz wanted to speak again
"Shhh listen...And I knooow there's a part of you that wants to. I know...But there's also still a very big part that feels like you just have to...and you don't have to...not now...not today" she kisses her again shortly and continues to talk to her gently
"I just absolutely love every part of this... what we have now. Just the way it is now Yaz. Just let it flow...let it be...and we'll get there I promise...because I want to...with both of my hearts I really do...And when we do, my beautiful Yaz...it will be so much more than you could imagine if you just let it flow. Just trust me"
Yaz was shaking and choking in her tears overwhelmed with emotions, stroking the back of Doctors neck gently
"I just thought" she literally loses her breath trying to speak through the tears "you'd stop...you'd think I don't want you, or love you, or desire you...because I do!!!!...I really do and you're so, so beautiful..."
Doctor cuts her off with a long kiss and Yaz just melted into her wrapping her legs around her and arms around her neck for the longest moment.
They laid on the sofa. Yaz pressed her head on Doctor's hearts, enjoying every moment of falling asleep in her arms listening to their rhythm, feeling her fingers going through her hair and every so often Doctor would kiss the top of her head and squeeze her harder. Yaz reached for the Doctor's hand and held her index finger almost as a comfort making sure she didn't escape. This little gesture made the Doctor absolutely melt inside. She laid there for a long time rocking the most precious thing in the universe in her arms. She was drifting slowly, falling asleep herself. Tardis dimmed all the lights around them and played some soft music for them both.
Doctor was up early bouncing around all over the place as usual. The control room looked like a tornado went through it. Cables were all over the floor and Doctor was all covered with dirt. Yaz walked in still trying to wake up but she was right awake as soon as she saw the state of Tardis
"Blimey...What in a name...are you dismantling Tardis or what?" she stood there with mouth open looking around all the mess
"Oh, good you're up...I need your help" Doctor jumped over the cables and plugged a cable to one of the supporting pillars "Come here Yaz...can you hold this?"
"Sure" she grabbed the cable
"What are you doing?"
"I need to prepare her for winter...it would be really embarrassing iff froze to death...so I'm making sure we have extra heating...oh and some other bits...because at some point the show will be so high that...oh well we won't be able to out at all...Exciting, isn't it?"
"Yeees!" Yaz smiles happier than ever "When will it start snowing Doctor?"
"By my calculations and percentage of damp and estimated temperature drop I would say tomorrow...so we need to be fast Yaz" she's jumping around connecting other cables and flipping switches "Right Yaz...keep that cable sturdy...here we go!!!" she pulls the switch down
Suddenly the sparks start flying around the console and Tardis makes a loud sound. Temperature started climbing so fast Yaz though she will pass out
"Doctooor? Is it meant to be this hot...good grief I will pass out"
Doctor stands in the middle of the room, sparks still flying and the heat from the ventilation is blowing so hard her coat is flying in the air. She's making ten different faces running around the console
"No ...no ...Are you trying to cook us alive?" She jumps over the cables and opens Tardis door to get some air inside then goes back to the console and switches everything off
Few hours have passed and Yaz is underneath the console completely wet and boiling hot. Doctor's hair is glued to her face, and she only has a short sleeve t-shirt on. They are both huffing and puffing. The temperature inside Tardis has claimed up to impossible levels.
"Ok Doctor I managed to screw it back on" Yaz gets up wiping her face with her hand and lifting t-shirt of her body to get some air in
"Well done, Yaz...I managed to reconnect everything so let's hope this works...ready?"
"As ready as I can be...here goes nothing" Yaz grabbed the cable and shoved it in a pillar
Doctor flipped the switch and pulled one lever down. Nice cool air started blowing on their faces.
Yaz sighed with a smile on her face "Oh god that feels nice"
"Alright...we got it Yaz!!!" Doctor runs across the room jumping over stuff still tweaking things and making sure things are ok "Hungry? I'm hungry...I really fancy a fried egg sandwich?"
Yaz blows into her face "Yap...that sounds great I'm starving. What about all this lot? We just leaving it like that?"
Doctor flies over grabbing her hand and pulling her away "Yap...it needs to settle...and you and I are having a snack in a meantime...Go on" she pulls her along towards the kitchen
Yaz is filling the dishes into the cleaner and Doctor comes behind her sliding her hands around her waist resting her face on her shoulder
"You did great today...I'm really proud of you" she kisses her shoulder and turns her around still holding her around her waist "How about we clean up that mess and we go out to see those flying stones I've been promising you?"
"I'd like that very much" Yaz drops her head on Doctor's shoulder holding on to her braces "I like this...I like you being like this" she kisses her neck and takes a deep breath
"What's wrong Yaz?"
"Please don't ever change...I love this new you. I loved previous you as well...I fell for that you...like really fell for that you...But this you is just...it's just so different its just so much more...soo much more than I could ever hoped for"
"It's different because I'm letting you see me ...it's what you always wanted...For me to let you in... So that's what I'm doing, I'm letting you in Yaz. This part of me will always be yours from now on, and that will never change"
Yaz lift up her head and looked into her eyes "Really?"
"Yes, Yaz really...this is me .... this is me letting you in"
Yaz tucks her hair behind her ears not taking her eyes of her for a single second "I love you so much" she whispered
"I love you too" Doctor gives he a short kiss "Loads" she gives her another kiss "And loads" and another kiss until Yaz starts giggling again
"Now let's get that mess sorted and let's get ready and go out...I'm not risking again night falling like yesterday"
"Deal"
Yaz smiles and starts walking out of the kitchen when Doctor smacks her bottom with a kitchen towel
"Get a shift on!!!"
"Oi!!...Alright, alright your lordship" she giggles
This time they managed to come back before dark, but Yaz feels she's been running a marathon after a whole day. Tardis feels nice again. Not the inferno from few hours ago
"So... did you have a nice time? ...Impressive isn't it?"
Doctor hopes Yaz had a great time, she's really doing her best to dazzle her with everything
"I absolutely loved it. And I know you explained to me about the lack of gravity, but it still blows my mind how they float like that. I am proper impressed"
"Good that was the intention .... I’m really putting effort here you know" she makes one of smug faces again
Yaz walkers over to her and gives her a small kiss on a cheek "I know you are...and this girl is proper impressed"
"You better be...Oh, I have some work to do on Tardis so, go get yourself sorted and we'll do something fun"
"Alright love"
"Did you just call me love?" Doctor smirked
"Yap" Yaz giggles
"I like that"
"I'm off...have fun ...oh you want something from the kitchen?"
"No, I'm fine...And remember don't eat that jelly"
Yaz still didn't understand the jelly problem. She just decided not to eat any jelly ever again around Doctor
As Yaz was going out of the console room the bright ball of light enters the Tardis
"Doctoooor!!!" Yaz screams
The Kerblam man appeared in front of her and Yaz froze when his robotics eyes stared right at her
"Aaa...finally!!" Doctor jumps exited
"Doctor what is he doing here?"
"Don't worry Yaz. I ordered something" Doctor walks up and takes the box smiling and Kerblam man disappeared
"What did you order?" Yaz asked with true discomfort on her face
"Oh, you know...just some stuff I need for repairs"
"Those things still give me the creeps. I wish you wouldn't do that"
"Sorry Yaz"
"Alright I'm off now. Just please get rid of that bubble wrap"
Doctor sat on the stairs when Yaz left the room. She drifted away into her thoughts.
After all that has happened for past years these three days was the first time, she actually felt really truly happy. It was the first time when for three straight days she hasn't felt anguish about the future and the past. Her mind was always racing so much that it became normal, she forgot what it was like when it didn't. But when she's next to Yaz her mind goes still. She thought about what she said to Yaz, about letting her in... Was this truly her? It is...but it was her that she'd forgotten herself a long time ago. It felt comforting to have it back. To know she still had it. The stillness, the passion and love.
Yaz walked back from the kitchen
"Doctor what's wrong??? What happened?" Yaz asked anxiously
"Hey...Nothing...all fine. Just thinking that's all?" She snapped out of it pulling smile on her face
"You would tell me? Right?
"Yes, I would definitely tell you. Sit next to me"
Yaz sits on a steep in front of her and leans comfortably on her chest enjoying her ice-cream
"You want some?"
"Nah thanks"
"So, it will snow tomorrow then?"
"Oh yes by the end of the day definitely"
"Doctor leans over to hug her and suddenly her face goes white.
"Oh nooo...that's bad" she grabs Yaz's ice cream out of her hands
"Heey!!! All you need to do is ask!!!"
"That's really bad Yaz" Doctor is making faces and she gets up like the house is on fire
"How much of this did you eat?"
"What? Why?" Yaz's face goes into complete panic
"Oh, this is not good...not at all...no, no" Doctor whips out her sonic and manically approaches Yaz and without any warning starts opening her eye
"What are you doing???" Yaz is smacking her with her hands trying to move away but Doctor is persistent, and she flashes a sonic into her eyes "Doctor!!! Stop...what is going on"
"I told you not to eat the jelly"
"Yes, but that's ice-cream "
"I know it's ice-cream" Doctor waives her hands frustrated
"Well then?"
"I meant ice-cream!!"
"You whaaaaat?" Yaz panics and gets up "But you said jelly!!!! "
"I know I did... I meant ice-cream .... this is really bad!!"
"Stop saying that...Why is it bad?"
Doctor runs to the console and scoops up a spoon of it for analysis
"Doctor!!!" Yaz gets into her face leaning on a console "WHY IS IT BAAAAD?!!!!"
"Oh well because in about less then half hour you will start tripping"
"Whaaat? Is this like a drug?"
"Nooo course it's not drug...well it has hallucinating properties yes, but..."
"Like drugs!!! Like happy cookies!!! You just roofed me!!!"
"I told you not to eat it!!!!"
"You told me NOT TO EAT JELLY!" Yaz takes a packet from the console shaking it in her hand going epic on a Doctor "Does this look like a jelly to you????"
Suddenly she felt really dizzy and her legs were going
"Doctor???"
She starts sliding down the console and Doctor catches her a second before she slumps to the floor
"Aaaalright...I got you!!"
"Doctor, I don't feel well"
"I know you don't...well obviously it works faster on humans"
"Doctor, why is Tardis pink?"
"Ok...I think you need a shower" Doctor scoops her up and carries her towards her room. She kicked the door with her foot and slumped her on a bed.
"I love you" Yaz mumbled giggling playing with Doctors hair whilst she's getting her clothes off
"I love you too...God you're really out of it. Yaz how much of that did you eat?"
Doctor is pulling her trousers off and she’s unbuttoning her shirt
"Wooow...hey...I'm not that kind of girl Doctor...naughty Doctor!"
"Blimey Yaz...This is going to be a long night"
Yaz is crawling all over her trying to strip her off making it really difficult for the Doctor to undress her fighting with her hands, but she managed somehow after the third attempt.
She finally gets her in a shower and sits her in a bath, but Yaz is continuing to trip out.
"Doctor there's a Cyberman behind you"
"No, Yaz there isn't"
"There is...I can see him" she points a finger with a wobbly hand
"No... there’s definitely no Cyberman in Tardis" Doctor is really controlling her herself from bursting out laughing
"Doctor?"
"Yes Yaz"
"Did I tell you how hot you are? When you're wearing those...you know...those...big glasses"
Doctor couldn't hold it of anymore, she starts laughing
"No Yaz you haven't told me...but you're definitely telling me now"
"You're really. really...and I mean reeeeally hot stuff" she starts running her fingers down Doctors arm
Doctor covers her face with a hand and burst out laughing like never in her life
"Oh dear...thanks...well I suppose it's nice to hear...not that anyone ever called me that"
"Doctor, I feel really sleepy"
"Ok...I think we're done"
Doctor gets her up and drags her to bed thankful that it only lasted for a short time. She tucked her in a duvet and laid behind her wrapping her arm around her.
"I love you sexy" Yaz mumbled her last words before falling asleep
Doctor still couldn't stop laughing
Doctor was outside of Tardis gathering some soil and plant samples for her little projects. She was crawling on the ground like a kid getting herself inside off all the bushes. She's had a massive magnifying glass attached to her head and the whole bag filled with tiny little bottles and all kinds of other little trinkets
"Aaaa...aren't you a nice little guy" she spoke to a little lizard on a branch, but he got scared and hissed at her "Alright no need to get upset...Not chatty I get it. Well go on then"
"Doctor!!!"
She could hear Yaz calling her from a distance, so she picked up her bag and rushed back.
"Hey Yaz...I'm here" she waives to her from the pathway walking towards her "Sorry I just thought I go get my samples before the snow"
Yaz started giggling the moment she saw the Doctor with her little bag and magnifying glass making one of her eyes look really big and funny. She looked like one of those silly scientists from cartoons.
"Whaaat? Why are you laughing?" she asks confused approaching Yaz
Yaz giggled "What is that thing you're wearing? " she lifted the magnifying glass up whilst Doctor still looked at her confused not understanding what's so funny
"You're so silly sometimes you know" she kisses her softly "my silly Bighead, what would I do without you?"
"You would be stuck in boring Sheffield sorting out parking disputes" she makes a smug face
"Ouch, that hurt" she holds her hand and starts walking
"Just saying Yaz" Doctor sees no problem bragging about her massive importance in Yaz's life
Yaz kisses her on cheek "I suppose you're right" she laughs
"So, how are you feeling today?" she smirks remembering last night’s circus
"Woke up with a headache but Tardis gave me a tablet so now I'm fine. I don't remember anything"
"Oh well maybe it's for the better "
"What? Why?" she looks at her confused
"Just saying. I'm glad you're feeling better. I'm hungry...you hungry?"
"I'm starving! Hey, I had an idea. How about we take all the food, and we go for a picnic? You said it will snow by the end of today, so I thought we use the time we have"
"Aaaaa...love the idea Yaz...Yes, let's do that...love picnics. We haven't done that in a while"
They're in the Tardis kitchen and Yaz is packing up the freezer bag going through the list
"So, sandwiches check, juice check, pickled onions check, custard cream cookies check, mosquito spray check..."
"Don't forget some ice-cream Yaz" Doctor added giggling
"Very funny" Yaz makes a face "Did I forget something?"
"Water...oh and towels.... get some towels...we might go for a swim"
"Swim...oh well I need to take my biking then"
"Why? Seen you naked" Doctor makes a cheeky face "besides we're all alone here Yaz"
"Ooh la la Doctor...skinny dipping...does that mean I'll see you naked as well?" Yaz smirked
"Might...just might Yaz" Doctor walks out of the kitchen winking
"Don't forget Tardis key like last time!!!" Yaz yells from the kitchen
Yaz is waiting for the Doctor by the door
"Doctor...come on!" she yells inpatient
"Coming... Coming!!!" She runs through the control room and quickly grabs something from the console stuffing it into her pocket
"Thanks for that" she turns to Tardis smiling
She runs to Yaz grabbing her hand pulling her along through the door
They walked for at least an hour through already familiar paths and then taking a different route down the hill.
"Where are you taking me?" Yaz smiles exited
"It's a surprise Yaz" doctor got down the pile of steep rocks "Be careful Yaz" she grabs for her waist "I got you" she lowers her down safely and reaches for her hand again
Few hundred meters down the path they stopped at a viewpoint. Yaz then released where the Doctor is taking her. The beautiful waterfalls she took her to see the first day looked absolutely amazing from the viewpoint.
"This is where we're going?" she looked at Doctor with eyes filled with so much love it made Doctors hearts skip the beat
"Yap...let's go...not long to go Yaz" she reaches for her hand and continues down the path.
They reached the valley relatively fast and found a perfect spot between the rocks. Close enough to enjoy the waterfall but far enough to avoid the strong current in the river. They laid all their stuff on the ground and Yaz went up to the water.
"It's beautiful...it is so beautiful" she couldn't stop admiring nature
"So... swimming?" Yaz giggles unbuttoning her trousers and kicking her boots of her feet
"You go first I'll join you" Doctor sat on the rocks smiling
"Oh, come ooon you promised...besides...I'm getting naked!" Yaz was giggling and seductively unbuttoning her shirt flinging it at the Doctor who just shook her head smiling in complete disbelief of her flirty behavior
She stripped down and walked into the water slowly. It was surprisingly cold, and it gave her shivers at first
"OMG...that's really cold!!!" she's walked in slowly and just plonked herself in
"Come ooon...Doctor!!"
She stood at the shore looking at Yaz smiling
"Alright, alright I'm coming...Where's the fire?" she gets her coat off and her boots
"Look see...I'm not going to look"
Yaz covers her eyes and turns her back, but in a few seconds, she becomes cheeky and turns around for just for a moment peeking through her fingers. Doctor looked beautiful, her gentle tiny body glistening in the sun left Yaz breathless. Suddenly she seemed so frail to Yaz. A tiny beautiful dainty woman that looked nothing like the Time Lord that sounded so intimidating. But Yaz turned her back again.
In a moment she could feel Doctor's arms around her. She finally turned around just to meet her beautiful green eyes. They looked even more green at this moment, reflecting the color of the water like crystals. Yaz put her arms around her neck and pulled herself closer. Her heart was beating so fast as she felt their naked bodies touching for the first time and Doctors hands running down her back gently. She suddenly wrapped her legs around her and kissed her passionately, squeezing herself against her and stroking the back of neck. They kissed long and gently, stopping for a few seconds at the time and giggling gazing at each other.
Doctor's hands were running down her body giving her a head rush.
Yaz wanted her so badly, her fear slowly disappearing with every touch. Doctor was for so long something forbidden that she dared not hope to have for herself. But now like this, wrapped up around her kissing her soft lips and having her hands holding her tight, she finally started to grasp that she is truly hers, she finally understood Doctors words spoken to her that day in a library.
Doctor started to get her head wonk again. Yaz's warm body pressed against hers like that is completely throwing her out. And before she does something really stupid, she grabbed her thither around the waist and dipped them both under water.
They slowly started swimming back, but Yaz stopped and stayed in the water.
"You go...won't look promise" she says lovingly
"Don't be silly" Doctor grabs her hand under the water and pulls her in. They stood up in shallow water up to their waist. Doctor stroked her wet hair moving it from her face.
"Did I tell you how much I love you?"
"No" she pouts her lips
"Oh no, don't do that...Why do you do this to me? Why are you so cute? "
Yaz giggles and puts her arms around her neck
"You are really beautiful"
Doctor makes dismissive scrunched up face
"No... you really are Bighead...You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen" Yaz gazed at her again with that same look as if she was her whole universe
Doctor didn't say anything. She didn't really know how to react to that, but it made her hearts skip the beat. She wasn't even sure anyone had ever said something so beautiful to her. So, she just pulled her in for a kiss.
As soon as they got out of the water the Doctor quickly took a big towel wrapping them both in it...
"I'm so cold now" Yaz was shivering and squeezing herself in Doctors arms under the towel. Doctor didn't feel cold, but then again, she very rarely did. She just used parts of the towel to quickly dry out Yaz's hair as much as she could.
"Yaz honey...let's get you dressed. I'm not cold but I'm scared you will get ill. You're shaking...Maybe swimming wasn't such a good idea after all" she had a worried look on her face. Yaz was really shivering a lot and her lips went blue and they were 2 hours away from Tardis
Doctor got into her bouncy self again quickly getting herself dressed and then putting clothes on Yaz as if she was a child. Yaz started to laugh because she almost got her shirt inside out in a frazzle
"Listen...I will get the fire going. I want your hair to dry out before we leave...and we need to leave before dark...because...you know...there's stuff here that...oh well...never mind than. Let’s just get going"
"I'll go with you...you can't do this alone... come on" Yaz complains feeling useless
"Oh, noooo you are not!!!...It's even colder in a forest you stay here in a sun"
"Alright Doctor" she was really struggling to keep herself warm by this point.
They both quickly got dressed and Doctor zoomed to the edge of the forest bringing wood for the fire.
"Doctor OMG you will ruin your coat"
Yaz made a comment seeing the Doctor carrying all the wood inside her coat.
"Nah... it’s just wood Yaz...who cares about the coat. Tardis can provide me with another one anyway" she drops it all on a ground
She quickly made fire and they sat next to each other. Doctor wrapped Yaz in a picnic blanket to keep her warm. Yaz leaned her head on her shoulder happier than ever. Her hair was slowly drying out and she started to feel warm again.
"Are you peckish?" Doctor scrunched her face "I'd do anything for a sandwich now!"
By this point all the walking, swimming and wood gathering got her really hungry
"Oh definitely" Yaz jumps to get food from the freezer bag and sat back next to the Doctor
"Tell me stories again. You know, all your stories about where you've travelled" she put her head on her shoulder again completely enjoying in a moment
"Really? I didn't think you liked it, I thought you got bored?"
"Nooo...what ever gave you that idea?"
"Because you always fall asleep"
"I fell asleep because I love it so much it makes me daydream. You know... like when you're a kid and someone tells you fairytale before bed"
"Aaa like my granny used to tell me about Solitract"
Yaz makes face but goes with it "Mmmmmm...Yap...like that"
"Oh, I get it...ok"
They stayed like that for another hour. Doctor tells her about her travels until Yaz again drifts off and falls asleep on her shoulder. Now she was warm and fed, she suddenly felt tired and Doctors stories came as a lullaby.
"Yaz! Wake up, Yaz" Doctor whispers and Yaz opened her eyes
"Sorry to wake you up, but we have move on before dark. We have a long way back"
"Mmmm...alright" she rubs her sleepy eyes
Walking back seemed longer than walking to the waterfall but they finally reached Tardis after almost two hours. Yaz was dragging her feet by this point.
When they walked in Yaz hanged herself over the railing completely exhausted
"Can we just have a lazy evening? Pleaseee. I'm so tired"
"Sure...whatever you want to do"
Doctor was still bouncing around as if it was early morning
"Where do you get your energy from?"
She looked at the Doctor in complete disbelief. She's at the console sorting out her plant and soil samples she gathered, not showing any signs of being tired at all
"Why don't you take a nap Yaz. I'll wake you up when I'm done.... oh yes...and take this" she zooms to her in a second passing her a massive tablet the size of plum
Yaz looked at it weirdly rolling it in her hand "What's that?"
"Oh, just something so you don't get fever...eat it"
"Alright I'm off" she walks over to the Doctor and slumps herself on her back holding her around her waist "Wake me when you're done?"
"Will do" she turns her head for a short kiss and gets back to her samples
Yaz walked up the stairs and stopped on a top making a cheeky face "You look nice naked"
Doctor lifts her head up pointing a finger at her "Oi...stop that...bed now!!!!"
"Just saying!" Yaz giggled walking away
Doctor looks down, shaking her head and smiling "I've created a monster...Hey don't you start as well!!!" she turns to Tardis "Yes...Yes, I know you like her...I like her too"
Tardis hums..."Alright yes, I get it!!...It just wasn't the time, give me a break!"
Doctor walked in her room quietly. Yaz was still sleeping snuggled in a duvet.
"Yaz...wake up Yaz" she gently strokes her cheek
Yaz opened her eyes, and she had the cutest sleepy face. She stretched a big smile immediately as soon as she saw the Doctor by her side
"Hey...how long did I sleep?"
"Few hours...didn't wanna wake you up. I had loads to do anyway I thought you needed rest. Hey get up, need to show you something" she reached for her hand dragging her out of bed. Yaz got out of bed but just slumped herself in Doctors arms laying her head on her shoulder
"I need to wake up"
"But it's exiting...promise...come on" she moved her away and held her hand sweeping her away out of the room through the control room and opened the Tardis door
"Look snow Yaz!!!" she smiled showing her the outside
"Waaaaaaw...when did that happen?"
There was almost two feet of snow already on the ground and it was glistening in the moonlight covering all the thick trees and the forest floor. Air was so crisp and fresh it woke up Yaz in a second. She stood there on the steps of the Tardis door mesmerized. It felt like Christmas
Doctor was already outside with her arms open smiling.
"Look Yaz isn't it beautiful? …And you can do this" she tilted her head and opened he mouth catching snowflakes like a kid
Yaz laughed so hard looking at the Doctor acting like a ten year old. How can she go from this to the passionate sexy woman to the intimidating Time Lord...she thought to herself? She adored all those layers to her character so much.
"You're such a kid" Yaz slinged her boots over pajama bottoms and walked out.
They were both catching snowflakes like two kids. And started throwing snowballs at each other. Yaz opened her arms out smiling
"Hey, look at this..." she threw herself in a snow making snow angel "look angel"
"Oh, I love that!!!'' She did the same thing and threw herself next to Yaz. They were giggling like kids.
Yaz was lying in the snow, and she turned to the Doctor smiling to meet her gazing back at her. She rolled herself on top of her and sat on her grabbing her hands and pinning them in a snow above her head. "Don't blink" she said gazing at her and leaned over to kiss her passionately.
They walked inside both covered in snow. Shaking it off each other's clothing and hair.
Doctor pulls her by sliding her hand around her waist. She picked some snow off her hair and stroked her cheek.
"Thank you" she says quietly
"For what?" Yaz says confused
"For forgiving me...for all the times that I've broken your heart. I'm so sorry I did that. And thank you for putting up with me. I know I'm not the easiest person to deal with
Yaz just stood there in her arms looking deep into her eyes soaking every word coming out of mouth
"That wasn't the best of me at that time. I was scared and confused, and I was pushing you away when I released, I'm falling for you, and you were so much into me at that time it scared me so much. I wanted you to stop loving me because if you stopped loving me then I wouldn't have to break your heart like I did that day on a beach. It was the hardest and the most idiotic thing I've ever done. And I'm so sorry"
Doctor had one of those ten faces. But the gentlest of all of them. Yaz knew all of them and this one was the warmest and the most loving out of all of them. It was the one that melted Yaz's heart away.
"Thank you for saying this" she was breathing hard gazin at her
She felt like the huge burden of the past had been lifted off her shoulders. The burden of always wondering why the Doctor was acting the way she did at that time finally found a resolution in her heart. She wasn't even aware how much she desperately needed to hear her saying it.
All she wanted at this point was for her to take her again into her arms. She was getting closer and closer to her lips and lightly brushing her lips on hers closing her eyes
"Take me to bed" she whispered, and Doctor closed the gap kissing her till her head was spinning again.
In a morning Doctor burst into the room like Tardis was on fire
"Yaz!!!... Yaz get up Yaz!!!"
"Ha...What's going on?" Yaz woke up in complete panic "Whaaat?"
"Hey, no need to yell...I just had an idea"
"OMG I'm gonna kill you I swear" Yaz flopped back on a bed
"Well, what did you think it was?" she looks at her confused
"Oh well I don't know...Cyberman...Dalek...Master...take a pick"
"Nooo silly ...get up I had a great idea"
Yaz is lying on a bed still trying to calm down "Whaaat?" She rolled her eyes
"Let's have Christmas"
Yaz propped herself on her arms ""WHAAT??"
"CHRISTMAS!!!"...Doctor smiles and continues to bounce around the room making all those hands gestures
"I thought it's snowing so hey, why not have Christmas and we can have turkey and cakes and presents...We can have presents Yaz!!"
"But it's August!!"
"Soo?" Doctor makes face "what does August mean to us...we're time travelers Yaz we can have Christmas whenever we want"
"Alright...well I suppose you're right...we could do" she slowly got out of bed
Doctor came up to her grabbed her shoulders and she's shaking her like a plum tree "And Christmas tree Yaz...we can have a Christmas tree...and lights and we can make cakes"
"Yap...yap we can" Yaz was still trying to wake up
"So I thought we could have everyone over for a Christmas dinner the whole fam"
"Whaaa???? And how are you gonna do that? We're stuck in the snow...remember?"
"You know I always have my tricks Yaz..."
"Mmm....suppose so" she's way too tired to ask details so she just decided to take her word for it.
"Well go on...get yourself sorted...lots to do"
"How are we gonna get presents? We can't go anywhere?"
"We can order from Kerblam" she smiles
"I was afraid you'd say that" Yaz rolled her eyes
"Alright, suppose I get dressed then" ...."Doctor?"
"Yees"
"Where do we get the Christmas tree from?"
"Might just have one somewhere...need to look"
"Ok"
Doctor is crawling on all fours inside of the massive cupboard and throwing all the Christmas decorations out...
"No... no... no...” She’s throwing stuff out the cupboard on floor “that’s not it either...shoot where is it?"
Yaz is standing next to her just observing the mountain of Christmas decorations around
"How much stuff do you have??"
Doctor peaks from the cupboard "Loads Yaz...I am old you know"
"I do know that...but don't you like...throw stuff away?"
"Nooo..Tardis is big enough Yaz...not like I need to think about space do I?"
She goes back in a cupboard sticking her bum up in the air "Aaaaaa....got it" she pulls out a box filled with Christmas lights
Few hours later and thousands of decorations later there is a massive Christmas tree in a control room and meters and meters of lights all around. Doctor is on a roof of Tardis connecting the outdoor lights and Yaz placed a Christmas wreath with a beautiful red bow on a Tardis door. She looks up and meets Doctors eyes and for a short moment they just smile to each other lovingly enjoying every moment of this normality that they have not knowing when it will end.
Doctor stands up on top of the Tardis and she's got cables in her hands ready to put them together
"Ready Yaz!"
"No no wait...not yet wait!!" she runs a bit further from the Tardis to get the better view
"Alright...do it!!!" she yells, and Doctor connects the cables to reveal a pure magic
Tardis lights up like the most beautifully decorated forest cabin in a world covered with hundreds of tiny stars.
"Waaaaaaaaaaw....omg" Yaz covers her mouth with her hand speechless at how beautiful it looked.
Doctor jumped off the roof and walked over to her. She put her arm around Yaz's shoulder smiling, satisfied with her work
"It's our home Yaz" Doctor said smiling looking at the lights
This sentence went through Yaz's heart like the most beautiful melody she ever heard in her life.... It’s our home...their home...here's and Doctors...and it looked like a home. Like one of those tiny, cute houses surrounded with snow, decorated for Christmas where you can smell freshly baked cakes and cinnamon coming through the window. It was their HOME
Yaz wipes a tear from her cheeks and Doctor noticed it with a corner of her eye. She turned around and cupped her face with her hands
"Yaz"
"Mmmm...?"Yaz mumbled slushy
"Would you fix yourself for me? For whatever time we have in this world?"
Yaz choked for a second trying not to faint
"You whaaaaat?" she said the most stupid thing ever shocked to the bone
"Please" Doctor looked deep into her eyes letting her face go and reaching for her hands
"Yeeees!!!...Yes...and bloody Yes!!!"
She couldn't smile more or cry more or do anything anymore she just thought she will wake up in Sheffield to the sound of her alarm clock and this will all end up being a dream
Doctor reached into her pocket and placed something in her hand. Yaz looked down and choked again. It was a Tardis key.
"Are you for real?"
"Yes...I think so...last time I checked"
Doctor stroked her face looking at her gently. She had that special face, the softest one she only had for Yaz. She pulled her in for a kiss
That night Yaz couldn't sleep from excitement. She was lying in bed and looking at the key. Doctor gave her a chain so she can have it around her neck all the time. Her own key, key to Doctor's hearts...The most precious thing that Doctor could have ever given her...the most precious thing Tardis could have given her. She kept waiting to wake up from this impossible dream. She was certain she would because this couldn't be a reality. No way...
Doctor walks in a room, takes her coat off and sits on a bed taking her boots off.
"I was thinking...you know your room?"
"Yes...what about it?" she laid on her back still twirling the key in her hands
"You sleep here now all the time"
"Mmmm?"
"Well, you don't need it do you? Fancy just moving in?"
"Stop...just stop" Yaz jumped and sat in a bed
"What...What did I say?" Doctor turns confused
"I can't, I just can't do this anymore...First you like, you know...decide to be with me. Then you're dazzling me for days taking me to all those beautiful places having the best time of my life being super nice and romantic. Then you ask me to fix myself to you and you give me the Tardis key. And now this!!!!...Are you dying???? What is going on?? " Yaz's stress levels have just hit the roof
"Whaaaaaat??" Doctor bursts out laughing and Yaz pushes her with her hand
"Stop laughing!!!...It's not funny!!...Is there like a disaster coming that you're not telling me about??...Why all this?"
Doctor is still laughing covering her face with her hand...she's really trying not to but she can't stop.
Yaz pushes her again harder "Stop laughing!!"
Doctor grabs her hand and tips her on a bed laying on top of her and pinning her down hard to the mattress
"Noo...I'm not dying...not just yet. Yes, some disaster is probably on the way because it always is. As for all the other stuff...Get used to it because you're mine now...forever"
Yaz goes quiet, her breathing slowing down
"I want you" Yaz says stroking the back of her neck and playing with her hair looking deep into her eyes
"I know you do" Doctor smiles cheeky
Yaz takes her face into her hands "Nooo...I want you tonight. Please"
Doctor gazed at her for a while in silence, feeling her breathing underneath her, not saying anything. She released her grip and ran her thumb over Yaz's lips looking at her closing those deep brown eyes and started kissing her passionately.
Yaz flipped her over and started kissing her lips and her face going down to her neck while sliding braces off her shoulders. She lifted her shirts up, first just slightly, kissing her stomach and running her hands down her waist, until she took them off completely. She was letting her fingers and her lips explore every inch, every curve of her beautiful tiny body.
Doctor’s fingers were playing with her hair, and she would curve herself towards her to every touch. Her eyes were closed and lips slightly open. She was unusually still moving herself slowly following Yaz's lips on her body and gently guiding her hands every so often. Yaz slowly unbuttoned her trousers and kissing every part of her sweet soft skin that she would reveal she undressed her completely.
There was unusual calmness in the room. None of that wild passionate energy she got so used to. This was different and so much more than she imagined. She laid next to her looking down on Doctor's face whilst running her hand all over her, exploring every inch of her with her fingertips, studding her reactions to every touch. The way she lifted herself off the bed and curved her back, the way she bit her lips and made slight changes in her face. Yaz gave herself time...knowing full well that the Doctor is giving her time as well.
Doctor slightly opened her eyes gazing at Yaz. She was stroking her face, moving her hair away and smiling ever so gently looking like she's in some sort of a daze. She pulled her in and brushed her lips on hers, licking them and kissing them gently. She arched her back and moaned quietly grabbing the back of Yaz's neck when she felt her finally inside her.
She started kissing her harder and more passionately than ever gently tugging her hair. Yaz was taking her slowly and gently, Doctor moving herself with her rhythm lifting her hips off the mattress.
She was wrapping herself around her and moving herself closer biting on her lips and tracing her hand up and down Yaz's spine tucking her face into Yaz's neck moaning into her skin.
She was in a daze, up with the stars. Her mind was so still as if Yaz had stopped the time itself for her. Her every touch unlocked parts of her that were locked away deep down in her soul. She has never felt so safe and never in her long life felt so loved and so much desired. She was her universe, her safe place under the stars.
Yaz felt her trembling, she brushed her slightly opened lips on to Yaz's and released a loudest moan breathing deeply in her face grabbing Yaz's hand not letting her pull it back "No..stay" she said quietly and flew away Yaz feeling her cramping around her. It was the most amazing feeling Yaz had ever had.
A light orange glowing haze started hugging her body that scared Yaz at first, but her face was so calm she still held on to Yaz wrapped around her, locked herself in and not letting her go. Her cold skin suddenly felt warm, almost hot to touch and this energy tingled Yaz's skin. She opened her eyes just a bit and smiled. She was still breathing hard. Her cheeks blushed inches away from Yaz's.
"Hey beautiful. I love you" she said quietly and kissed her gently
They stayed like that for a long time cuddling and running hands down each other under the covers, kissing passionately.
Time has stopped for them both on this planet far amongst the stars. Buried in ice and snow they both wished they could stay there forever in each other's arms.
Morning came and Yaz woke up feeling Doctor squeezed on her back and her arm holding her around her waist. She slowly turned around to meet her eyes
"Morning beautiful" Doctor smiles and gives her a short kiss moving hair from her face
"Morning love" Yaz laid on her pillow gazing at her sleepy face thinking how absolutely beautiful she is
"I really love when you say that...LOVE...never been called that before" she pulls her in and slumps her leg over her "It was a beautiful night" she kisses the top of her nose, and they gently cuddle under the covers
"It doesn't seem real" Yaz smiles showing her dimples on her cheeks
"Oh, it was real...you better start believing it" she stretches a big smile
Yaz tips her on her back and reaches for her hands holding them above her head wrapping her legs around her. "I don't know...not sure yet...need to check" she starts kissing her neck "Mmm…yap that's real"
Doctor is getting into it again way too fast "Yaz...don't do that" she giggles
"I'm not doing anything...just checking if you're real" she continues kissing her neck and Doctors switch is starting to flip she's tilting her head and closing her eyes
"Yaz...stop that.... we need to get up" she can barely get her words out by this point
Yaz slowly continues from her neck down her body ignoring her completely, and goes down the covers...she flipped the switch and Doctors gone
Few hours later they finally managed to get out of bed. It was the longest Doctor ever spent in bed sleeping or awake. They are in a library studying cook books both really adamant to make cakes themselves.
"I don't think we can make that Doctor...I think we're giving ourselves way too much importance. I mean look at that...really?"
Yaz is showing the photos of really beautifully decorated cookies "Honestly I think we should stick to custard cream they seem easier"
"Nah we can do that. Oh, and I need to order all the presents. We only have one more day before everyone comes over"
"Yah...but what do you want? I don't even know what to get you...I mean apart from the creepy Kerblam not like I have a huge choice do I?"
Doctor leans over the desk and kisses her shortly "I already have everything I need beautiful"
"Oh yah...and what's that?"
"Well got your cookie honey...best present ever this year" she makes a smug face walking over to the bookshelf
"Whaaaat? Did you just call it a cookie?" Yaz can't believe this is even coming out of her mouth
Suddenly the whole Tardis started shaking and all the books were falling on a floor
Yaz held herself for the table and Doctor barely kept her balance. They gave each other one look, and both ran towards the control room. Doctor was running like crazy but Tardis was still shaking almost throwing her on a ground. She ran like a wind into the control room flipping manically all the switches and getting the readings. Yaz runes behind her
"What was thaaat?" Yaz yells
Doctor is running around the console like crazy "Oh noo...shoot Yaz...that's bad...well it could be worse but it's bad"
"What? "
Doctor runs to the door and opens them up and a pile of snow just falls into the hallway
"Where's the exit??" Yaz looks at the wall of snow at the door
"No exit Yaz...we've been hit by an avalanche"
"Whaaaat?"
"Yap...well on a happier note...there's a cliff not far away, at least we didn't end up rolling down…now that would be embarrassing"
Doctor takes her sonic out and scans the entrance "It's not that deep...we can dig ourselves out...I think most of it missed us to be honest"
"Alright well let's get shovels then"
Doctor scrunches her face looking at her in a cramp
"What? We do have shovels. Right?"
"Oh yah we do...It's just that..."
"What?"
"Well, they are outside..."she is still cramping her face
"Outside meaning buried under meters of snow!!???.... Because hey why not...this is us...why make it easy"
"Aaaa I have an idea Yaz...who needs shovels" she starts hopping around and pulling some cables form the Tardis "What we could do is just suck it all up and Tardis can just store the water...I'll just pump it out later"
"Alright If you think it could work?
Doctor makes a smug face "Of course it will work Yaz...who do you think I am? An amateur!"
She shoves the hose it in wall of snow "Alright Yaz when I tell you just pull that lever on left down. Ready?... Goo!"
Yaz pulls the lever and the hose starts sucking the snow. It's painfully slow and making huge noise but it does seem to be working. In about two hours they managed to clear out most of the snow.
Doctor is going around Tardis with a sonic and Yaz is clearing out the snow from all the Christmas lights with a broom.
"Looks like we were lucky Yaz. This seems sturdy and nothing can fall on us anymore. I checked the readings from the mountain, and I don't think we will have any more for now. But I will have to keep an eye on it as more snow falls"
"I'm just glad it didn't ruin all our plans"
"Nah... nothing can ruin that...well few things can but I'm sure it's gonna be fine. Besides we haven't even been here for a week we've got plenty of time for something to go wrong"
"Suppose you'd be right about that...surprised it already didn't"
"Hey, I'm really trying here. This was the most peaceful few days we've ever had" she says offensively
"I know you are...just saying...this is us" she turns around walks back into the Tardis
"DOOOOOTOR!" Yaz is screaming out of Tardis
"Now what?" Doctor says walking in and stops at the door horrified "Whaaaat in a name..." her face dropped
"Did you not say you will pump all the water out?" Yaz turns to her confused
Doctor runs inside looking totally shocked. The whole Tardis has turned into a massive swimming pool of water from all the melted snow.
"No... no... no… no... Why are you not pumping the water out?" she runs through the water to the console yelling at Tardis "Why are being so difficult with me lately?"
"Why do you yell at her it's not her fault?"
"Oi...don't you take her side!" she looks at Yaz pissed off "Now flip those switches in front of you Yaz"
"Just saying...you forgot to turn the suction pump on, didn’t you?"
"No, I didn't!"
"Oh yes you did .... You just don't want to admit it" she's flipping the switches and smiling cheeky
"Are we having a discussion Yaz?" Doctor looks at her totally not amused she's being pulled up for a mistake
"Just saying"
Doctor ignored her and continued resolving the issue. She runs across the room and takes a hose outside. But when she came back, she's vividly upset ignoring Yaz and not saying anything.
"Right...it's going out now. It's fine. Should be clear in an hour"
Yaz walked up to her, Doctor won't look at her she's staring at the console pretending she's busy
"Hey, Are you sulking at me?" Yaz touched her shoulder but Doctor moves away
"No... just have stuff to do that's all"
"I'm sorry...I was just messing around you know. I didn't think you'd get so upset"
"I'm really trying Yaz" she snapped back at her "Ever since we've come here all I've been doing is trying for us to have a great time"
"I know you have!!"
"Things go wrong I can't help it...Yes, I forgot to switch on the pump...Happy?"
She's being really offensive and she looks back down at the console "I thought you'd be happy" she added quietly
Yaz released she hurt her feelings. She thought they were having a harmless banter. She never expected her to get so upset about it. She was really doing her best Doctorie way to dazzle her off her feet for the past few days. Yaz suddenly felt really bad about teasing her. So, she came up to her slowly and put arms around her waist burying her head into her coat.
"I'm so sorry Bighead. I didn't mean to upset you. I really didn't...I am happy...I'm happier than I've ever been in my life… I love you" she kisses her back breathing deeply into her coat hugging her tight.
Doctor takes a deep breath and puts her arms around hers "I love you too" she says quietly and finally turns around
"I'm sorry for yelling...didn't mean to. I don't want us to argue you know. And I did forget...I just felt stupid that's all. I don't know what's out there Yaz...when we come off this planet. I don't know how long we have. I just want to do everything now, so we have no regrets"
Yaz choked on those words, but she swallowed her tears. She held her braces and laid her head on her hearts "Let's just live in a moment. This one we do have. I don't want to think how long we have. I just want us to be happy whilst we have it. And being with you is all that I need to be happy. You don't even need to try to dazzle me...just being you, dazzles me enough"
Doctor closed her eyes for a moment and put her arms around her squeezing her tight. "I was thinking...maybe we should let Tardis make those cakes...I think we are giving ourselves too much of importance"
Yaz giggles quietly into her chest and looks up in her eyes "Alright Bighead. But before that can you dazzle me with something"
"Of course...anything you want" she makes
"Take me to bed"
Doctor makes a smug face and licks her lips "Might do...just might do Yaz"
Doctor is running around the kitchen like crazy smoke is coming out of the oven in the kitchen. She opened the oven, and a pile of hot steam and smoke came out. She's waving kitchen cloth making faces flapping around.
"Aaaaarrrhhh how difficult can it be???? For god’s sake I get rid of Cybermen, and Daleks and I can't make a simple cake!!" she takes a tray of completely scorched cookies out of oven and drops them on a kitchen top
"OMG...What aaaareee you doooing!!!"
Yaz entered a kitchen that looks like a bomb exploded inside it. Flour is all over the counter and floor, eggshells everywhere. Cookies look like charcoal and smoke alarms are on. The doctor's hair was covered in flour, and she looked overall stress
"This is a disaster...I'm sure this is wrong she throws a cookbook on a counter
Yaz laughed so hard, but she found it very sweet. She didn't want to upset her feelings again, so she just played along with it.
"I'm suuure it is...not every recipe is good you know"
She walked around the counter and clutched her braces, pulling her for a kiss and just snuck in putting her head on her hearts. "But it's the effort that counts. I love you"
The Doctor ran her fingers through her hair still a little upset with herself, but she calmed down. "That's it we are definitely leaving this one for Tardis" she says, sighing deeply
Yaz looks on smiling "Hey, should we go order presents? We can't go wrong with that."
"I guess not... but as it stands, I'm just waiting for the Tardis to burn down" The Doctor says disappointed
"Hey, cheer up... This is us... there's always something going wrong. There's something else bothering you, I can tell.
"No... there isn’t ..."
"All right, if you say so... but my instinct never deceives me."
"Oh really? So, what’s your instincts telling you about what I think now, smarty pants?" she makes a smug face
"Mmmm...how absolutely sexy I am and how you just want to shag me on this kitchen top" she laughs
"Yaz!!!!! Potty mouth...Blimey what have I created... since when you speak like that?"
Yaz giggles "Alright...make love to me on this kitchen top" she's flapping her eyelashes and giggling "Better, your lordship?"
Doctor shakes her head in disbelief "Who are you, and what have you done to my Yaz?"
"Keeping her hostage and you need to find her" she starts peaking inside of her shirt "She's somewhere in here"
The Doctor grabs her and lifts her up to the kitchen counter and starts kissing her neck, descending to the edges of the shirt running her hands over her breast. She unbuttoned the first button.
"Nah... cold" she pushes her head lower
Doctor unbuttons her second button "Warm" Yaz comments pushing her lower
Doctor lifted her head up and looked into her eyes. She ran her thumb over her lips slowly and Yaz closes her eyes
"You talk too much" the Doctor silenced her with a kiss...
Yaz walked into the control room where Doctor was hunched over the console as usual fiddling with something
"What are you doing?"
"Trying to sort something out for Graham...look at this and tell me what you make of it" she points at the screen
Yaz came closer and read the screen "That's not normal"
"And why is it not normal Yaz?"
"Because"...she moves to the other screen and looks at the readings Tardis gave "There's a massive whole on a North side of the mountain that wasn't there before"
"I impressed Yaz... that's exactly what it is...and look at that there" she points at the other side of the console
Yaz walks around and looking down to the console "Are those....no it can't be...those are not animals"
"No, they are not Yaz"
"We are not alone!!! Are we?" she says surprised "But I thought you said we are?"
"Well...we were supposed to be. And that wasn’t there before…not until that avalanche, so I don't know what's going on"
"I said something was bothering you"
"Well, you obviously know me too well Yaz" she smiles still fiddling with the little gadget
"What are we going to do about it"
"For now, nothing...Not sure I want to...And I can't believe I'm even saying that...but I don't want this holiday to turn into another mission. So, for now...Nothing"
"Really?? Who are you and what did you do with my Doctor?"
She stopped what she was doing and looks up "Still me Yaz....last time I checked...I'm just so tired from everything... Running around all the time and always having some problem to solve. Division, Master, Flux, Daleks, Angeles, Cyberman...Did I miss anyone?" she's waving her hands and just flops them down with a big sigh "I need this...we need this...I can't take it anymore...I feel drained Yaz"
"OMG love it's fine" she walks over to her and puts her arms around her shoulders stroking the back of her neck "It's fine...you really have burned out, haven’t you?" she says gently
"I have Yaz...I never thought I would ever say this...I don't think I ever said that...not that I remember... Mind you as it is it turns out I don't remember much either, Do I?" she says it feeling absolutely miserable and desperate
"Hey, hey...it's ok" she kisses her shortly "it's ok love" Doctor slumps her head on her shoulder and takes a deep breath
She strokes the back of her neck gently "Hey...let's wrap up the presents, ok? That’s fun...And everyone is coming tomorrow as well. We have something to be happy about. And we have each other…Right? And we are totally not going anywhere for months"
"Mmmmm...” she muttered into her shoulder and then lifted her head up “I'd like that...but this thing I'm working on is really and I mean really important Yaz I have to finish it. Would you be upset..."
"Noo...not at all...In fact I’ll bring everything here and you work on whatever it is that youre working on, and we can hang around. What is that anyway?"
"Surprise Yaz...big, big surprise...you'll see" her face shined again
"Alright love" Yaz kissed her shortly and stroked her cheek
"What would I do without you?" Doctor says looking at her deeply
"You'd be flying around in your blue box, alone and miserable resolving every known problem in the universe without ever getting gratitude for it" she smiles
"Ouch Yaz!!! Blimey...touché" she twists her face
"Just saying, just saying" Yaz turns around flapping her eyelashes and giggling
"Yaz"
"Yes babe"
"I adore you....and I really mean it...I absolutely adore you"
"Same here" she puts her hand on her hart "This beats only for you"
She came into their room and sat on the bed. Never did she ever think in a million years the Doctor can actually get burnt out. Never did she ever think she would literally stop and freeze herself, literally freeze herself in ice and snow...as if she couldn't make herself do it, so she let the universe do it for her. Yaz felt so much pain in herself that she was suffocating her.... because the pain of the Doctor was now more hers than ever. Her beautiful universe was in pain and pieces, and behind all that dazzling, and passion and romance were a tortured tiny, beautiful woman who just wanted a small piece of happiness for herself in the 3,000 long years of her life to finally take it for herself.
She got off the bed and stormed into the kitchen and she was zooming around Tardis backwards and forwards for almost an hour. Finally, she got back to their bedroom to put on the nicest thing she could find in her wardrobe...a small beautiful black dress her mom gave her for last birthday. The little, tiny crystals on the dress made it shine like a million stars. She put her hair in a beautiful bun and for the first time in years she actually put on makeup. The only thing even the Tardis didn't have were matching shoes, so just put on cute little black trainers on.
As she was approaching the control room she looked up and whispered
"Please give me this"
Tardis listened and dimmed the lights. And Yaz looked at her confused little wife looking around the console and arguing with Tardis. It made her giggle. She came down the stairs smiling, and their eyes found each other across the room
Doctor choked for a second. She didn't even recognize her for a spit second and needed her brains to reboot.
"Wooow..." she literally took a step back amazed, and then her face twisted "Did I forget something? ... Oh, please tell me it's not your birthday or something because you know I don't follow those things and I'm so bad at it...Is it? … Something"
Yaz didn't say anything...she just walked up to her and reached for her hands "No my beautiful Bighead...you didn't forget anything"
"Then why are you all...you know...dressed up...I mean you're...waaaw...gorgeous...Is that even you?"
"I thought you've been dazzling me for days now. And I just thought tonight I dazzled you for a change. So wanna go on a date?"
The Doctor tilts her head to the side by pulling one of those soft faces again, looking at Yaz as if she were going to cry. It's a face only Yaz could ever see, one that shows her most vulnerable side. Yaz doesn't wait for an answer, she takes her hand and takes her to the library. There, she set up a small table just for the two of them with candles and dim lights and soft music in the background.
"You did this for me?" she smiled completely blown away and then turned around in her usual quirky fashion "I've never been invited to a date...I always did dates" she tilted her head a bit thinking "But then I was a man most times...does that count...suppose not"
Yaz just smiled enjoying she managed to confuse her so much "No love, that doesn't count...you're a woman now"
Doctor wants to automatically pull the chair for Yaz but she stops her "A, a ... nooo...this is me taking you for a date"
Doctor is getting utterly lost in this role reversal, but she decides to go with it and sits on a chair totally confused
"Relax...just enjoy in me dazzling you with this beautiful piece of improvisation"
The Doctor can't help but laugh at this. She shakes her head and raises her eyebrow completely blown away. It's a side of Yaz she's never seen before, and she finds it cute and adorable and so playful that it's addictive.
"Raspberry juice madam...it's our finest" she's holding a glass jug in her hand
Doctor is giggling her head off, trying to keep it serious but she feels like she will explode inside...and she barely managed to utter the answer out
"Yes please"
Yaz is continuing the show and putting the plates with food in front of the Doctor, and she opens a small tray with custard cream cookies.
"Custard cream for dessert..."
She then bends down to give her a small kiss on her absolutely speechless soft lips
"...for the best wife in the universe" she whispers
"Did you just call me a wife?"
"Mmm"
"I like that..."
She finally sat down... The Doctor couldn’t stop laughing. They spent two hours just chatting and laughing. Yaz told her about all the funny things that happened when they were separated.
"And Ryan just told them the whole plan..." Yaz laughed
"And I left dipstick on top of the Eiffel Tower...you should have seen his face"
"Oh, oh and Graham was arguing with your recording on a plane...He was so pissed off with you"
"I knew it!!!...he never wanted to admit it"
"And you were so mmmm in that tux I was really trying to hide it"
"Hide it? I got worried for a moment you're into that plonker...and I thought alright then...well...it is what it is..."
"Oh god nah" she makes a cringe face "I was trying to destruct myself"
They both suddenly went quiet. Doctor reached for her hand across the table and she's stroking it with her thumb
"Thank you for this"
She gets up still holding her hand and walks around the table
"Dance?"
"Any time" Yaz smiled and got up
The Tardis played soft music to them. Yaz placed her hand on the back of the Doctor's neck and felt her arm slide around her waist. She slowly rocked her around the room, never stopped gazing into her eyes.
The Doctor let go of her hand and moved it around her waist, pulling her closer. She leaned over and began to gently brush her lips on hers. Yaz wanted to kiss her so badly, but she backed off a little without allowing her, just holding her lips there barely touching.
Yaz was stroking the back of her neck and feeling her hands tracing up and down her spine ever so gently barely touching her. She was still moving her with the music but slower and slower. Keeping her soft lips so close but not closing the gap between them Yaz's heart began to beat faster as the Doctor's hands traced down her back. She tried to kiss her again, but the Doctor backed away again, smiling and nodding. One more step and her back hit the table behind her. The Doctor finally pressed her lips against hers, passionately kissed her and pressed her against the table pulling her hips towards.
Yaz let go of her and grabbed the table behind her with both hands trying to stop herself from falling. She could feel the pressure in her head as heat hit her cheeks. She wanted to take her coat down so badly, but every time she tried Doctor stopped her pinning her hands to the table kissing her like she would tear her apart. She spun her around and pressed herself on her back kissing her neck and shoulders, tracing her hands down her breast and stomach and pulling her against herself harder.
She lifted up her dress and slipped her hand between her thighs and up her stomach, the heat rushed through Yaz's cheeks, and she let out a loud moan. She thought she was going to fall to the floor, her legs gave way, but the doctor was holding her thigh.
"Please..." she whispered, barely managing to speak completely overwhelmed with passion
Doctor lifted her dress higher and finally went where Yaz so desperately wanted her to go. She was slumped in her arms leaning on her and tracing her fingers down Doctor's hand wedged between her thighs feeling her soft lips kissing her neck and her breath on her skin. She was moaning quietly in her arms.
"CONTACT" The Doctor whispered very quietly in her ear and closed her eyes. The Doctor's skin began to glow beautiful magical haze of orange light that wrapped itself around Yaz and completely hugged her body, tingling her skin until it passed through her almost reaching the depths of her very soul, they became one at this moment, one being, part of each other's universe. Emotions got the better of Yaz and a single tear ran down her cheek wiliest Doctor reached towards her lips.
Her legs started shaking so hard she couldn't stand up anymore. She was gone...Doctor spinned her around and she just slumped hopelessly in her arms resting her head on her shoulder leaning on a desk behind her completely exhausted. She didn't even release when Doctor scooped her up until they were back in their room and she felt Doctor skin on her own pressed on her back, her arm around her holding her tight. She was drunk from all the passion and love she must have just fallen asleep in her daze. She turned around and started kissing her half asleep desperate to return the favor, but Doctor just laughed at her pathetic attempt
"I don't think it's gonna happen Yaz"
She kissed the tip of her nose and just pulled her in closer under the covers "just sleep"
She fell asleep curled up in her arms listening to her hearts beating and smelling the sweetness of her skin.
"Doctoooor!" Yaz yelled from the kitchen like Tardis was on fire
Doctor ran like a wind an in second she was in the kitchen
"Take it, please...now, now I'll drop it OMG!!!!" she was holding a tray with a massive turkey passing it on to her barely managing to hold it
Doctor took the tray with such ease as if it contained only three potatoes on it and she placed it on a kitchen counter
"How do you do that?" Yas was trying to catch her breath
"Do what Yaz?"
"It's so heavy"
"I'm stronger than you Yaz" she laughs "How do you think I can carry you?" she sits on a counter next to her
"Never thought that one through to be honest" she was making final preparations for her turkey roast chopping some carrots "Are you excited about today?"
"I'm proper existed Yaz...We had Christmas before but never like this"
"I know… We never did, did we? My family doesn't celebrate Christmas. It's a first proper one for me as well"
"Fist proper one for me Yaz…with all my fam" she takes a pause "And my wife" she smiled looking at what her reaction will be
Yaz stopped chopping carrots for a second and wiped a tear before it dropped in the food and continued chopping. Doctor smiled and got off the counter. She stood behind her and slid her hands around her waist placing her head on her shoulder
"You alright?"
"Oh yeah...just onions" she shakes her head
"Funny looking onions...never seen those before" she smiles and reaches for her hand making her drop the knife and turns her around to meet her eyes
"Best wife I could ever hope fore" she strokes her cheek and Yaz closed her eyes leaning her head on her palm
Doctor leaned over and kissed her gently … “I adore you beautiful” she says stroking her lips with her thumb
"I need to put this turkey in... if you continue like this, we will have a lot of explaining to do" Yaz giggled holding on to her braces
"Need help? ... I can help"
"Yes...get it in the oven for me" she laughs
Food was in the oven and a delightful smell was spreading all around the Tardis. Yaz was running around frazzled, putting cookies on trays. Tardis made beautiful Tardis shaped Christmas cookies and loads of custard cream ones including gingerbread men in the shape of every fam member. Yaz wrapped them up to give away with presents.
In the meantime, the Doctor laid all the presents under the tree. And she played Christmas songs all over Tardis.
They were both running around and bumping into each other rushing to get everything done in time. Several hours into it finally everything was set to go.
The Table looked absolutely beautiful, a deep red silk tablecloth was reaching almost to the floor, Doctor brought out stunning set off plates she hadn't used since the time of Queen Victoria and candle holders she got as a gift from Louis XIV. As a final touch Yaz lit up all the candles. They both stood in the middle of the room smiling and admiring how well they managed to do it. Tardis looked like a Christmas fairytale inside and out. She held the Doctor's hand, and her eyes were glistening from joy and happiness. Could life be any better at this moment, she thought to herself.
"Right" Doctor jumped existed "time get ourselves ready as well...look at the state of us"
They looked at each other all frazzled and their hair messy, Yaz had food stains all over her shirt, and they burst out laughing.
"Oh, god yes definitely...and look I'm covered in food" she's showing her stained shirt laughing
"Come with me!!" Doctor grabs her hand and pulls her away practically running through the hallway to their room
"What are you doing?" Yas was giggling trying to run as fast
"All in a right time Yaz...all in a right time" she practically pushed her in a room, grabbed her shoulders placing her in the middle of the room "Stay here...close your eyes!" she covered her face with her hand and turned around "And nooo peaks!!!"
"Oi, I don't cheat!!" she complained
"Oh, you so do Yasmin Khan...You think I didn't see what you did that day on a beach" she laughs
"You whaaat?" she opens her eyes in shock releasing Doctor knew all this time she was looking at her
"Oi...said no peaking!!" she points her finger and starts crawling on floor reaching something from under the bed
"Put your arms out"
Yaz reached with hands, and she placed beautifully wrapped box in her hands
"Can I look now...Can I?" Yaz was jumping on a spot exited
"Yes, you can look now" Doctor was grinning exited
Yaz looked at the box for a while allowing her emotions to settle before she opens it
"Well go on...open it!" Doctor waived her hands in anticipation
Yaz placed the box on a bed and opened it. She gasped.
"Are you kidding me?" she sighed
"No, Yaz I would never" Doctor gave her standard confused answer
She pulled out a stunning vintage red vine-colored cocktail dress covered in sequence that reached just to her knees and had delicate shoulder straps with an opening that reached all the way to the waistline. Yaz was speechless standing and looking at the dress laid out on the bed.
"Sooo...do you like it?" Doctor was getting impatient
Yaz turned around and threw herself at her, squeezing her tightly
"It is amazing...it is absolutely freaking amazing...thank you, thank you, thank you"
Doctor smiled satisfied it made her so happy. She pulled her away from herself “Oh, Wait...there's more...I almost forgot!!" she turned around and walked over to the little round table in corner of the room and reached for something out of the drawer
"Give me your hand…go on…Oh you’re gonna love this!!" she smiled
Yaz reached out, laughing, and Doctor placed a beautiful hair pin matching the dress in the palm of her hand.
"I'm...I don't even know what to say to this?" Yaz's eyes filled with tears "You really are beautiful. And you really know how to charm a girl”
Doctor pulled a smug face "Of Course I do...You think I'm an amateur?"
Yaz walked up to her and tucked her hair behind her ear laughing "No, you're definitely not an amateur in any shape or form my beautiful Bighead" she came closer ready to kiss her, but Doctor reached with hand behind her head and just pulled her in for a long passionate kiss
Doctor got ready faster, and she was knocking on a bathroom door "Yaz they will be here soon you know. Hurry...what is taking so long?”
"Alright, Alright...coming" When she opened the door, they were both left speechless looking at each other
The doctor looked absolutely dashing in a black suit, shirt, and waistcoat the same color as Yaz's dress and matching bow tie. Yaz's head spun just looking at her. And Yaz looked like she stepped out of the movie. One of those Hollywood classics. The stunning dress hugged her beautiful curves, which cascaded down her hips. And her pretty hair was falling over one shoulder. She lifted her hair on other side and secured it with a pin the Doctor gave her. She looked like a dream. A dream the Doctor didn’t want to wake up from.
"Waaaw...ok...we look really good" Doctor didn't show any false modesty "Shall we" she offered her arm and Yaz linked up
They were both in a control room and the Doctor was fiddling with something bending over the console whilst they were waiting. Yaz sneaked out to the Christmas tree in a library and placed a small little present under the tree. It had a tag on it with two little blue hearts.
Flash of light shined the control room and there they were in a second all of them standing in the middle of the Tardis....Jack, Graham, Ryan, Dan and Di. Doctor jumped from the floor seeing them and ran around the console throwing herself at each and every one of them. She couldn't hide how overwhelmed she was to see them all again.
"Di, I'm so glad you managed to come. Welcome to the Tardis" Doctor says smiling
"Thank you for having me here"
Yaz was going around hugging everyone smiling. She walked over to Dan who hugged her tight lifting her off the ground "Sheffield!!...Look at you...Didn't recognize you for a minute there. Don't you look nice"
"Thanks Scout"
"Doc... Tardis looks...waaaw this is amazing" Graham hugs her "How you two being doing?"
"Really well Graham...really well. You?"
"Not bad...not bad at all. Me and Ryan had some nice times together. Haven't we Ryan?"
"Best grandad. Waaaw Doctor....this is a proper awesome man...Christmas in August...Haven't had that before"
Doctor walked over to Jack and hugged him "Thanks for bringing everyone over. Knew I could always count on you Jack"
"Anything for you Doctor...you know that. I really missed you"
"Right...meal everyone" Doctor points towards the library where they set the big table and she reaches for Yaz's hand.
Her gesture caught Dan's eye straight away and his eyes met Yaz's for a split second. She just smiled at him confirming what he already suspected.
"Oh, and we got all the rooms ready for everyone. I hope you've planned to stay at least over the weekend" Doctor smiled over the shoulder walking towards the library
When she opened the door, everyone was left speechless. Amongst all the beautiful bookshelves of the library stood a massive dinner table and behind it at the very end of the room the most beautiful Christmas tree. Even more stunning than the one in a control room. All the presents were laid around it and a fireplace on the other side of the room looked beautiful.
"Wooow this is a proper awesome Doctor" Ryan couldn't hide his excitement. He hugged Graham across the shoulder "Wish nan was here to see this"
"Oh, she'd love it Ryan...she really would"
Several hours into the night everyone was sitting around the fireplace chatting and laughing. Doctors and Yaz's eyes kept finding each other across the room all the time. Smiling at each other gently.
"Right, everyone...presents!!!" Doctor jumped excitedly and ran to the Christmas tree on the other side of the room handling boxes to Yaz who was passing them on to each person. A small box was left under the tree and Yaz smiled when Doctor picked it up confused
"That one's yours" Yaz says smiling standing in front of her gazing at her eyes
"Well go on, open it!"
Doctor opened a box and her face dropped to the floor. She took a broken little watch out of the box and gazed at Yaz with tears in her eyes
"Yaz I can't...noo!!" she passed it back to her, but Yaz grabbed her hand and closed her palm
"Nooo!! Take it...it's our moment frozen in time" she stroked her cheek and looked deeply into her beautiful green eyes nodding her head slightly, encouraging her to take it "Pleaseee my beautiful Bighead. Besides it will stay with you for centuries after I'm gone"
She finished her off with this sentence. Tears rolled down Doctors cheeks, she wrapped her fingers around Yaz's face and pulled her into a passionate kiss.
Everyone was busy opening their presents, nobody noticed what was going on at the other end. Nobody except Dan whose eyes caught them kissing passionately across the room. He smiled and looked away.
They pulled away for a bit smiling "We're being rude" Doctor says
"Do you think they saw us?"
"And what iff they did Yasmin Khan?"
Her unexpected answer shocked Yaz for a second but she just smiled. Doctor reached for her hand
"Come on, let's go!" she pulled her across the room holding her hand
"Hey Doc, where have you two been? You didn't open your presents"
"Aaaaa Graham, I have a special present for you. Come here" Doctor smiles taking something out of her pocket
"For me Doc?"
"Yap Graham for you"
She handed him a small thing no bigger than a grain of rice and placed it in his palm. Graham looked surprised and confused
"What's that Doc?"
That Graham is Time Lord technology...I could explain in detail, but It would take a long time and you probably wouldn't understand half of it..."
"Thanks Doc" she says sarcastically
"In short...it blocks cancer cells in your body. So, with your permission...If I put this at the back of your neck...well...You can't ever have cancer again"
"Shut the front door Doctor...nooo waaaay!!!!!" Ryan almost yelled exited
"Oh, yes Ryan...Start believing" she smiled at him
"What...? Excuse me Doc but did you just say that this little thing will prevent me from having cancer?"
"Yap!" Doctor nodded her head smiling "Told you I just needed time and I will figure out what to say" She didn't even finish the sentence Graham literally grabbed her and hugged her with tears in his eyes
"Finally got my fam... not about to lose you, am I?"
"No Doc, never" Graham wipes his face overwhelmed completely
The rest of the evening was filled with laughter, chatting, and playing silly little games. The Doctor and Yaz looked at each other so much that mostly everyone understood what was going on, or at least speculated about it.
It was late, everyone retreated to their rooms and the two of them stayed in the library lying on the sofa in front of the fireplace. Yaz settled comfortably leaning against Doctors chest playing with her fingers
"I love your hands"
"I can see that" she laughs..."you haven't let them go for an hour" Doctor was teasing her
"They're beautiful"
Doctor laughed "You're cute you know that?... Too cute" she kissed her head
"Did you have a nice time?"
"The best Yaz. Nice to see everyone isn't it?"
"That was beautiful what you did for Graham you know"
"Remember when we were on Tsuranga. I glanced at the monitor. He would get it...eventually...just couldn't let that happen"
"This why I love you so much...You're amazing person"
"Nah ...could be better" Doctor scrunches her face
"Hey, stop that...you really are. Let's go to bed"
"Why? Don't you like it here...? It’s nice...and romantic" she runs tips of her fingers between her breast down to her stomach
Yaz closed her eyes "Door?" she asked already in daze from her touch
"Locked"
"Mmmm..."....
Yaz was in the kitchen preparing herself breakfast. She was still sleepy, and her hair was draping down her shoulders over the dressing gown. She sat at the bar making herself eat with eyes half shut desperately trying to wake up.
Doctor walked in already dressed. She's been awake for hours already.
"Morning" she reaches over and gives a small kiss on a cheek
"Morning. I woke up and you weren't there. Did you even sleep?"
"Yah...about and hour"
"If I only had your energy" she moans half asleep
"If you did we'd never leave the bedroom"
Ryan was about to enter the kitchen when the Doctor made her comment that almost made him choke. He stood at the door and carefully stepped back, absolutely petrified that they would hear him. He was about to leave but Doctors voice froze him in one place
"It's fine Ryan, you can come in"
"Morning" Yaz smiled eating her cereal
"Ah..yah..Morning" he hit the bar trying to get to the fridge
"How did you sleep?" Doctor asks
"Not bad...strange to be back in my room again" he says with his head in a fridge
"You can always come back, you know?" Doctor says smiling
"Something it does cross my mind. So, I heard you're stuck here?"
"Yap...Tardis being stubborn on a Doctor. I feel sure she'll be in a better mood by spring" Yaz looks at Doctor across the kitchen
"Oh, I'm sure she'll be fine. Talking about that...I have to finish some stuff before everyone gets up. You to have a nice time"
"Alright...see ya" Yaz smiles and Doctor kisses the top of her head on a way out leaving Ryan speechless with a bagel stuck in his mouth.
But as soon as Doctor left the kitchen, he was all over Yaz
"So Yaz...do tell...you and the Doctor?" he giggled and nudged her shoulder "Blimey when did that happen?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" she smiles
"Oh, come on Yaz!!...I'm your best mate"
Yaz shakes her head and continues to eat
"Seriously Yaz...I'm happy for you"
"Morning...Happy about what?" Graham walks in
"Hey Graham...oh nothing...just chatting" Yaz replied smiling
"Doctor and her are a thing" Ryan giggles
"Ryan!!! Shut it!!" she throws cereal on him across the table
"Really...you and Doc?" Graham smiled "that's nice...I've seen the way you look at her with those big brown eyes Yaz"
"OMG now everyone's gonna know!!" she slumps her head on a table
"What's wrong with that? So they should Yaz...so they should"
"You're a great girl Yaz and Doctor is an absolute ace so chill out and enjoy" Ryan says nudging her "So what are we doing today?"
"Don't know...Doctor has some plan...We are going out so get dressed warm"
Doctor took them all to see the frozen waterfalls and they took a long walk through the forest on the way back. Slowly walking back, the Doctor was chatting to Graham when Yaz started yelling for her.
"Doctor! Yaz shouted, calling her frantically "Dooooctor!!!! yells louder to get her attention
"Yes Yaz?" she finally replies
"Where is the Tardis?" she's pointing to an empty spot where the Tardis used to stand
"Whaaa...?" Doctor runs to the place pacing around in circles franticly “Is this a joke, or what? You have got to be kidding me? Seriously? Where is my ship?"
"Are you two sure it was here?" Graham makes a comment confused
"Yes...it totally was...look" Yaz points to the lack of snow on the ground
"What is going on?" Jack is looking around together with everyone else confused "Well they didn't drag it...looks like it literally disappeared" he looks towards the Doctor who is still franticly scanning the area
"Knew it...I knew I should have looked into it!!...I knew it" she's freaking out scanning around with her sonic
"Look into what Doc?" Graham asked
"Doctor look, footsteps in the snow!" Di and Dan are pointing to series of small footsteps all over the place where Tardis used to stand
Yaz approaches her and says quietly "It's to do with what we saw isn't it?"
"I'm afraid so Yaz" she reads the sonic "Kalvians...those little.... Aaaaaarhh!!!" she yells frustrated and angry
"Who are Kalvians?" Ryan askes
Jack replies focusing on Doctor visibly worried "Space scavengers...they find stuff all over the galaxy and pull it apart. Selling parts...it's what they do. But what are they doing here? This isn't their territory?"
Doctor doesn’t reply, she just turns around and starts walking towards the forest angry
"Where's she going?" Graham asks confused
"Dunno” Yaz replays “but lets go”
Yaz follows her "Doctor wait...!!" and finally catches up with her “Are you alright?"
"No, I'm not alright.... I’m not alright at all Yaz....Those little...You know what, every time...like every freaking tiiiime!!!!"
She’s having a complete meltdown yelling and waving her hands. She's walking so fast everyone is having trouble keeping up
"What is it with me Yaz? I told you...didn't I tell you? You were right...I'm shit magnet...that's what I am....All I wanted was a holiday...You and me...one romantic freaking holiday!!!" she's shouting so loud she can be heard miles down the forest
"Is that what this is? I thought Tardis was broken?" Ryan comments
"Shut up Ryan!!!" Doctor yells at him
"Sorry she's been having a rough time lately " Yaz turns to Ryan apologetically
"No kidding " Jack comments
"Where are we going?" Dan asks
"To get my Tardis from those little...Aaaaarrrrhh!!!!! I could just strangle them now! I won't...But I really could"
"Doctor!!" Jack yells but she's ignoring him
"Docotooor!" he yells louder
She stops and turns around "Whaaaat?"
He points to the vortex manipulator "Why are we waking?"
She takes a deep breath and slumps her shoulders "Iiiii don't knoooow Jack" she says utterly miserable
"Just tell me where we need to go" Jack says smiling
"North side of the mountain Jack" Yaz replies instead, wanting to give Doctor a break "When the avalanche hit, we detected anomalies there and life forms. So obviously this is where they are"
"How did they transport Tardis?" Dan asks
"Teleports, they have teleports. They can transport practically anything, but only small distances" Jack explains
"Doctor, are we doing this" Jack turns to the her
"Yes...Sorry for yelling" she finally calms down
"That's fine Doctor. I'd be right pissed off as well if I was you" Dan says gently
"Thanks Dan. Alright fam... let’s get the Tardis" she finally smiles
They got to the mountain and there was a massive ship marooned in the snow and entrance to the cave next to it.
Doctor scans the ship with a sonic "Nobody is here, they must have left. All the life support systems are down. They must be in the caves"
They walk inside and there's a little tiny man no taller than 4 feet standing next to the Tardis trying to figure out how to get inside.
"Oi...that's my ship" Doctor addresses him angry
"Who are you? Stand back!!" the little man points a weapon at them all
"The owner of this blue box you took. And who are you? And why did you take my ship?"
"Your ship? Nah... Not anymore"
"Oi!!!...How ruuude!!...Can you believe how rude that was?" she looks at Dan who just shook his head in confusion
"You can't just take it" she addresses the man upset
"We take what we want...if abandoned it's ours" he put his weapon away and starts walking around the Tardis
"Hey, It was not abandoned...I'm the owner. So can I please have it back now?"
"You can't be, I found it...it was abandoned"
"It wasn't abandoned we went for a walk" she replies agitated
"That's impossible, you're lying...nobody lives here...it was abandoned" he replies and ignores her still trying to figure out a way to get into the Tardis
"Did you just...Did he just call me a liar?" she turns to everyone
"I think he just did" Jack smiles finding this quite amusing
"This planet is uninhabited...you are lying it's not yours I found it and now it’s mine live me alone!!"
"I knoooow it is uninhabited" she's now getting extremely frustrated waving her hands around...
"We're here on vacation and we went for a walk" she stops and twists her face "Why...why am I justifying myself?" she walks over to him and goes closer to his face "Look mate...this is my ship and I'm taking it back" she points her finger at him
"Exactly...you abandoned it!!!" the little man acts smug thinking he's got the upper hand
"It wasn't abandoned!!!!...God how many times will I say that?" She turns towards everyone again “ Am I not making myself clear here or what? Besides...what are you even doing here? You're miles away from home?"
"We crashed, engine failure. But this ship will do" he walks around her and goes to the other side of Tardis
She persistently follows him around "It's not yooooour ship!!!!. Wait, did you say crushed? Oooh, so you caused the avalanche!!! I thought that was weird"
"Move away!" he pushed to the side and approached the Tardis. He kept trying to get in but couldn't open the door and Tardis started humming "How do you open this thing?" he's hysterically pulling the door
Doctor makes a smug face "You really think I will tell you that?"
"Oh look that looks nice...I think I will just take it" he ripped the Tardis plate of the door and Doctor almost jumped out of her skin screaming
"Aaaaaaaa.....!!!" she grabs her head in despair "Whyyyyy would you do thaaaaat?"
"Oh god he's dead" Graham whispers to Ryan
"Hey mate...stop that...what's your problem?" Dan approaches him
"And did you say we...Who else is here?" Doctor pulls him by the sleeve
"Doctor, remember I saw several readings that day" Yaz says across the room
"So you did Yaz...so you did...So who else is here?"
A woman's voice screaming through the cave broke the conversation
"Tangy noo!!" the man gets immediately distracted
"Hey...who is that?" Doctor grabs his sleeve, but he ripped it out her hand "Let go of me...you don't understand!!! "
"Well make me understand!!!" she yells
"Stay away from me!!!"
The man suddenly looked extremely stressed and he ran down the cave. The screaming continued from the distance eerily echoing through the cave
"OMG what's going on?" Di gets anxious and holds Dan for his arm
"Don't know?" Yaz looks at her worried
"Come on let's go" Doctor turns to everyone
They ran down the cave and entered a much bigger cavern. Suddenly four extremely frightened children came out in front of the Doctor and her face dropped.
A heavily pregnant woman was lying on the floor of the cavern on makeshift beds made out of everything they could find. She's screaming in pain and a man is stroking her hair worried out his mind
"OMG!!!!Doctor???" Yaz grabs her for her sleeve
"Doctor???? Are you a doctor?" a man turns to her hopeful "Can you help her? Please!!" he begs with desperation in his eyes
"Yes...yes, I can..." she runs to the woman and slumps to the floor next to her "How long has she been like this?"
"It started this morning" man replied scared out of his mind
"Right" Doctor turns to the woman "Can you tell me exactly where you feel pain?"
The woman shows the sides of her stomach. Her hair was all wet from the sweat and her face looked tortured from the pain.
Doctor turns to the man concerned "Listen ...I can help her, but we need to get her to my ship"
"Do what you need to do...please just help her. I'm sorry about your ship I was desperate to get off the planet...I'm so sorry " the man pleads
"Don't worry about that now..." she turns to the fam "We need to get to the Tardis fast...this baby needs to come out"
"I'll carry her" Jack approaches
"Guys help him out...Yaz, Di get the kids let's go people"
They get into the Tardis and Doctor drags the mattress to the middle of the room..."put her there"
"So sorry it's not something more comfortable but I have everything here...it's just closer for me" she says gently to the woman who screams in pain again
"Yaz!!! I need hot water, towels, scissors, sheet, pillow, and that green stuff from the fridge"
"Sure Doctor" she nodded her head and started running towards the kitchen
"Hey we'll help!!" Dan yells and looks at Ryan and Graham
Di turns to kids who are standing completely petrified in the middle of the room. She crouches down to their level and speaks softly
"Hey, your mum is in good hands, don't worry. This lady is a Doctor and she's very smart. How about we go and get some sweets in the meantime, and you can see your mum later?" she reaches with her hand and a child takes it. She walks out of the room with them
Doctor ran to the console and grabbed the shot including a few of the other gadgets and then rushed back to the woman who was by this point in agony from pain.
"This will be quite uncomfortable, but it will ease your pain" She gives her a shot in her neck.
Yaz and others returned back with all the stuff she requested.
"Right, thanks guys. Now please, lady needs some privacy. Yaz, stay with me!" Doctor says whilst placing a pillow under a woman's head trying to make her as comfortable as she possibly could
"Yap..yap sure Doc" they all turn around and leave
"Doctor?? Is she going to be fine?" Yaz looks at her worried
"Sure Yaz...don't worry...we came just in time"
An hour later Doctor and Yaz came to the library smiling.
"Hey fam!! We have a baby on board...and she is adorable!" Doctor says smiling
Everyone says in relief.
She comes up to the children who were sitting next to Di. "Your mum is safe now and you have a little sister. You can go and see her now" she smiles softly looking at Di
"Thanks Doctor, I'll take them" Di says smiling
Doctor slumped herself on a sofa exhausted and Yaz sat next to her. "You did really well, Yaz. I'm proud of you" she smiles
"How did you know what to do?" Yaz asked still a bit shocked from everything
"I delivered few babies in my life Yaz...But she was lucky...few more hours and....well...But it all went well" she smiles
"He stole Tardis to save his family. That's really sad. Doctor, what are we going to do? Can we help?" Yaz askes her almost pleading with her to find a way
"Can their ship be repaired? " Graham asks
"Yah, Doctor can't we just repair it?" Ryan added
"That's exactly what we're going to do. But not today. Today we all need to rest. Yaz can you get them settled and I'll just go and have a look at their ship with Jack so we can plan for tomorrow"
"Sure" Yaz gets up
"Don't wait up Yaz I'll be working till late today"
"Why am I not surprised?" she passed by her, but Doctor grabbed her hand pulling her back
"Won't be long, promise" she says softly
"Alright...you promised" she smiles pointing a finger at her
"Go and rest everyone. Jack ready?" Doctor jumped of the sofa ready to go
"I am when you are"
Yaz did wait till late but in the end she fell asleep. Doctor stumbling around the room woke her up.
"Hey...I knew you won't keep your promise" she complained still half asleep
"I'm sorry, I'm horrible...I know...nightmare first class" she giggles crawling into bed
Yaz turned on her back and opened her arms "Cuddle?"
Doctor laid on top of her and Yaz automatically put her legs around her squeezing the life out her
"No need to lock me in... not going anywhere now?" she laughs and kisses her shortly
"I never know...just in case you get some ideas" she moves her hair from her face and cups it with her hands "Love ya...missed ya" she giggles showing her cute dimples
"I missed you too...aaaah what a day...But good news is...we will repair the ship. Not much wrong really but they didn't have the right parts"
"Nah... I bet it's really complicated, and I just have a smart wife" she continues to giggle playing with a hair at the back of her neck
"Well...you do have a smart wife" Doctor pulls her smug look
"I know... and sexy and beautiful...I have a whole package going on here"
"Mmm" she makes a sour face "not sure about that part...but I'll take smart"
Yaz starts tracing her fingers down her spine all the way to her waist and kissing her gently "I disagree...strongly..." she said between kisses and rolls her on her back sitting on her.
She closes her eyes and tilts her head back as Doctors hands are running down her breast and her stomach. She reaches out for them intertwining their fingers together and slumps herself down tracing kisses down Doctors neck holding her pinned to the mattress.
Doctor goes into her usual daze, closing her eyes like in a dream. Yaz loved how calm she would become, how settled and soft. She slowly let her hands go and lowered herself down her beautiful body kissing every inch of her, sliding her fingers down the curves of hips, and kissing them softly. She would kiss her slowly, always taking her time, sometimes still not believing she is truly hers for taking.
Doctor reached with her hand for the back of her neck pulling her in for a kiss. She kept kissing her hard and passionate.
Yaz kept tracing her hand between her thighs slowly and gently just slightly with tips of her fingers going up to her soft stomach and then back down again enjoining how she curved herself each time following her hand.
Doctor tucked her head on her neck trying desperately to smother her moans into her skin, she pulled back, her cheeks were flushed and her eyes half open, she ran her thumb over Yaze's lips breathing deeply.
"Stop this...I can't" she barely managed to speak
Yaz smiled and slumped herself down
wedging herself between her thighs pulling her closer.
Doctor moaned into the pillow and wrapped herself around her feeling her tongue running the inside of her thighs
She reached for Yaz's hand intertwining their fingers together and let herself fly off. Yaz laid her head on her stomach, feeling her trembling and breathing heavily. She kept stroking her legs, closing her eyes, and enjoying the tingles her wife's glowing haze always gave her.
Doctor opened up her eyes still in daze and started stroking Yaz's hair.
"Hey beautiful...Come here...kiss me" she said with tiered voice smiling at her
Doctor kissed so gently as if she's made out of glass. She laid in her arms and Doctor gently traced her fingers down her back. She was sleepy and her eyes just half opened.
"I really love you...I love you more than anything in this universe...Do you know that...? Because if you, don't you should"
Yaz starts crying...her tears start rolling like big crystals falling down her cheeks to Doctor chest.
"Yaz...!! Yaz what's wrong? Are you crying?" Doctor woke up in a second
"Mmmm" Yaz murmured into her chest
Doctor put her finger under her chin lifting her head up "Hey...look at me..." Yaz met her gaze with eyes filled with tears
Doctor stood up, sitting herself in a bed "Yaz what's wrong?"
Yaz was sitting on a bed head down staring at the sheets, her tears falling down on a bed. Her soul was tearing apart inside. She felt like life was being pushed out of her.
"Yaz please speak to me...look at me" she cups her face and brings her gaze to meet her eyes "What's wrong...did something happen? Did I say something...Do something?"
"I don't want to lose you!!!" Yaz barely managed to utter the words and broke down sobbing..."I can't...I will not live without you"
Doctor closed her eyes and pulled her in, squeezing her tight in her arms. "You won't...hey, hey...sssshhh...calm down beautiful...you won't lose me"
"I will...i know I will...this is why you brought us here...isn't it?" her tears kept rolling down like heavy rain
Hey hey...come here..." she pulled her in practically lifting her of the bed letting her wrap herself around her like a wounded little animal, squeezing her with her legs crying into her chest
Doctor pulls her away and cups her face "I will turn the universe upside down before leaving you...Do you understand that...I will freeze us here for another 100 years if I have to Yaz...do you understand that? ...Do you?"
Yaz is gasping for air...her whole body is shaking
Will figure it out ok...please stop crying...I promise" she pulls her in squeezing her tight running fingers through her hair and down her back letting her cry it out wrapped up around her like a part of her.
Yaz finally started calming down in her arms.
"Yaz darling.... I’ll regenerate if you don't stop squeezing me so much"
Yaz laughed quietly, still not letting her go.
"I love you" Doctor says quietly, almost whispering "You need to sleep darling it's late and you need to let go now… I’m coking...come on" she pushes her to lie down snuggling herself behind her under the covers.
Yaz calms down, utterly exhausted feeling Doctor's hand cuddling her stomach gently under the covers. It's something she always did to make her sleep. Yaz snuggles herself in even more "Please don't leave tonight"
"No chance...not happening...just sleep now. I adore you" she kisses her shoulder and pulled her in as close as she possibly could
Yaz fell asleep in her arms and to her surprise when she woke up in the morning Doctor's hand was still around her resting on her tummy. She slowly turned around and met her sleepy eyes
"Morning love" she smiles
Doctor smiles back at her still sleepy "Hey beautiful. Feeling better?" she pulls her in under the covers so close tips of their noses are touching
"Mmmm" Yaz smiles "I am like this when you cuddle me"
"You're giving me those head wonks when you smile like that"
"Like what?" she giggles
"Like this cute" she kisses her shortly "And we need to get up now before my head wonk gets bigger"
"But I want you to kiss me" Yaz giggles
"Oh, please don't do that"
"All over" she giggles more and kisses her
"Stop it...Yaaaz"
She kisses her again and giggles.
Doctor looks at seriously and reaches with her hand under the covers
"Where do you want me to kiss you?" she asks, making a smug face brushing her lips on hers "is it there?" she whispers
Yaz closed her eyes and moaned. Her face blushed in a second
"Mmmm" she murmured incoherent
"I don't understand Yaz? …You need to be clearer...Is it here?"
Doctor smirked and continued what she's doing under the covers. Yaz wanted to say something, but she couldn't get her words out anymore
"What was that Yaz??" she smiles but Yaz is gone "Yah...I think I got the right spot" she presses her lips on hers
"Doctor...where do I put these?" Di yells holding two engine parts in her hand
Doctor emerges from the ship peeking her head out of the door. "Oh, those are broken Di, just leave them out there...I'll store them on Tardis...I might repair them at some point"
"Alright...Have you seen Dan anywhere?"
"No... ask Yaz...them two are always glued together"
"Thanks..."
“Sheffield, you look happy”
“I am happy” Yaz smiles
“See, told you…Didn’t I tell you? “he gloats
“You have, it just seemed so unreal then… It still is”
“How long has it been Yaz?”
“Only few days…It still feels like a dream I keep waiting for my alarm to go off in Sheffield” she frowns in disbelieve
“Not this time Yaz”
“And you and Di? I’m so happy for you”
“Hey look” he takes a small box out of his pocket and opens it up smiling
“Noooo waaay…OMG that’s beautiful”
“Dan!!” Di calls from a far
“I`ll leave you two alone, I need to look something up”
"Jack...can you hold this for a second please" Doctor points at the two wires sticking out of the console of the ship she just pulled out
"Yeah sure" Jack grabs hold of the wires
"Just hold them like that...I need to check this thing" she pulls out more wires out and fiddles with them for few seconds "Alright that will do...let's see now" she connects them together
"Aaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!" Jack gets snapped with power
"Ups!! Sorry" she runs over "Well that don't seem to work"
"No kidding" he let's go off the wires rubbing his hand in pain "So... you know what I will ask?"
"No not really Jack...my powers are limited in that area"
"I didn't mean...never mind" he rolls his eyes and smiles "You and Yaz? Love honeymooning? What's going on? "
"Nothing...nothing is going on Jack...what would be going on" she pushes him aside passing by and keeps fiddling with the ships wiring
"Oh, come on...don't do that"
"Do what? What are you going on about?"
"Stop playing stupid...How long have you been together?"
"Not long... Why do you need to know everything all the time...More so...why do I keep telling you everything all the time?" she looks up confused
"Oh, I don't know...I'm your best friend" he smiles cheeky, ripping some plate off the wall and looking inside the whole of the ship "So what's wrong with Tardis?"
"Oh, I don't know...you know something is always wrong with Tardis Jack" she twists her face
"Liar!!!" he starts laughing
"Oi!! ...Did you just call me a liar Jack?" she jumps looking at him
He stands up and looks back at her pointing a finger at her smiling "You are lying through your teeth...There's nothing wrong with Tardis...She may buy it, but I know you"
"Hey...don't you dare saying anything to her" she goes into his face
"Oh, don't worry...my lips are sealed " he throws imaginary keys behind him laughing "What are you playing at? Go on tell me...I know there's a plan...there's a method in your madness always"
"I'm waiting for spring that's all"
"Doctor! ...Stop that...what's the plaaaan?"
"Oh, alright then..." she shrugs her shoulders. "I heard a story about this place when I was younger...a long time ago...There is a place on this planet on the other side. A cave with a lake inside......"
"Doctor!!!!!" Yaz calls from the outside
"I'll tell you later Jack..." she runs out
"Yes Yaz?"
"Can you please come to the Tardis for a second"
"Sure" she jumps down to the snow and grabs Yaz's hand "What's wrong?"
"I picked up some really strange readings from Tardis...I'm worried I just want you to look at them"
"Strange? .... How strange from 1-10?"
"Oh like 9 strange"
"Alright...well, we better hurry up then" she picks up the pace
Doctor comes to the console and looks around all the screens "Oh that's bad...that's really baaad Yaz"
"What is that anomaly there?" she points to the reading
"Oh, Yaz we need to get that ship up and running...this is bad"
"I hate when you do that….. WHAT'S BAAAD?"
"We will have another avalanche"
"Whaaat?"
"Oh yes and by Tardis calculations in less than 48h. We need to get out of here...all of us Yaz"
"How?? You haven't even repaired their ship...Tardis is not working...did I miss something?"
"Well, we need to improvise Yaz...I think we could possibly get ship repaired in 12 hours, if we really push it I think we can...In fact I'm sure of it...at least 70%...well 50% no doubt"
"Mmmm....yap that's really reassuring"
Few hours into the day the Doctor was still struggling with the ship, but she was getting there.
"Dan get those wires inside and Graham I think we can close that now"
"Alright Doc" he closes the little opening in a floor of the ship
"Doctor"
"Yes Yaz"
"How do I do this?" she's pointing at the dashboard
"Oh, sorry yes...just turn that thing left and you will be able to close it"
"Done!" Yaz closes it and turns around but the whole room turns around her and she stumbles
"Yaz!! You alright? " Dan jumps to hold her
"Yeah...I don't know what that was"
Doctor runs up to her "What's wrong?"
"She almost fell down" Dan looks at Doctor worrying
Doctor takes her sonic and shines into her eyes and measures her pulse "What happened Yaz?"
"I don’t know just room turned around...I felt so dizzy...and I just..." she slips off her feet unconscious Doctor and Dan catching her a minute before was about to fall on a floor
"Yaz!!!...Yaz look at me" a voice came from the distance, and she opened her eyes lying on a floor of the ship seeing Doctors panicked face above her
"What happened?" she asks with a weak voice
"I don't know Yaz, you just collapsed on the floor. This can't be happening...Come on...let's get you to the Tardis. I need to run some test to see what's going on"
"No..no...you go on repairing this ship I'll be fine. I think I just need to eat something"
"Yaz no..not happening...come on"
"Doctor please we need to get out of here I'll be fine...please finish the ship please
"Don't worry I'll get her to the Tardis you finish this, ok?" Dan looks at the Doctor nodding his head "Don't worry...she'll be fine"
"You alright Yaz" Graham puts his hand on her shoulder concerned
"I'm fine, I'm fine stop fussing over me" she looks at the Doctor straight to her eyes "Really...I'm fine"
"I'll be there in one hour " Doctor replies looking back at her worried
She goes with Dan leaving the Doctor completely panicking. She just wanted to finish the job and get going. Suddenly the ground started shaking and everyone held up to whatever they could grab on to.
"It started...the ground is unstable...we need to be faster!!" she looks at everyone worried
"Come on let's get this baby in the air" Jack continues welding
"Doc I'm done here"
"Good job Graham...well I think we're pretty much done
Few minutes into it she's running around doing last minute checks before she fired up the engines
"Right let's see how we did...ready fam?"
"Ready Doc"
"Yap" Ryan replied "Ready"
She presses the massive around button on a console and ship fired up like a smooth engine
"Wooooohooo!!!!!!" she jumped of the floor
"Alright!!!!! We got it!!!" Ryan yells
"Well let's get the little family on board and let's all get out of here "
As soon as she said those words the ground shook again "Aaaaa...yah...let's do that now...like fast!!"
They get the family on board
"Thank you so so much...and I'm so sorry about taking your ship"
"Nah... all forgotten...travel safe...oh and get in touch sometimes. I might need some parts myself sometime" she smiles
"Will do Doctor" a little man smiles and closes the door of the ship
Everyone pulled back towards the cave when the engine started, and they took off safely
"Well that was a good job fam... I missed this" Doctor turns smiling tears everyone
But the ground started shaking so much it almost threw everyone on a floor
"We need to go now...to the Tardis everyone" she starts running
She ran inside and started flipping the switches running around the console.
"I thought you said she's not working?" Ryan asks confused
"Oh, well some parts" she winks at him and pulls the lever a second before the avalanche started
They landed on the other side of the planet. She runs to open the door and steps out into the frozen forest like something out of a fairytale.
"Now isn't this beautiful? ...Look!!!"
She runs back inside and Yaz is waiting for her confused, but Doctor reaches for her hand "You alright? How do you feel?"
"I’m Better...Tardis?" she points her finger towards the console confused but Doctor just pulled her out by the hand
"Come on have a look...you'll love it" she smiles stepping outside
"I swear I'll kill you myself one day" Yaz smiled and shook her head, but she went with her
Doctor stood behind her and wrapped her hands around her and placed her head on her shoulder "Isn't it beautiful?"
"It is...it's amazing...love you liar" she whispers and laughs
Doctor squeezed her thither and kissed her cheek
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Everyone gathered for their last evening sitting around the fireplace.
"What a day...it's never boarding with you Doctor even on a holiday" Dan chuckles
"Nope...it's not, is it...well good news is there's no Daleks or Cyberman here...not that I’m sure of"
"Oh, please don't say it twice Doc... knowing you're luck they'll be here tomorrow "
Doctor was slumped on a sofa and Yaz made herself comfortable leaning on her chest holding her hand
"I wish all of you could stay longer...I really miss you all" Yaz says pouting her lips
"Me too...I really miss my fam"
"Well, I don't miss Cyberman" Ryan comments and Doctor through a pillow on him
"I give you Cyberman...you had a best time of your life travelling with me" Doctor laughs
"I must say I enjoyed the most seeing you laugh like this Doc"
"That's sweet...I wish I have a reason to laugh more often Graham"
"Alright Doc I'm off to bed. Tomorrow is our last day...Ryan you too" Graham moves him trying to give them some privacy
Everyone soon left to sleep, and they stayed alone. Yaz moved herself comfortable laying herself on Doctors chest listening to her hearts and playing with the rim of her coat
"Part of me wants them to stay and really miss them so much. And part of me wants to be alone with you again. Is that bad?" Yaz looks up at the Doctor
She hugs her thither and kisses her head "No it's not. I feel the same. I miss them so much, but I also miss having just you and me alone again...I think we need that alone so much more than we need anything else"
"It's only been 9 days since we got here. Do you actually release that? It seems so much longer"
"I know...it does" she goes quite..."Yaz"
"Mmmm?"
"I really wanted that stone..."
"What stone? What are you talking about?"
"The Keystone...that was my plan..."
Yaz looks up to her "Whaaat?"
Doctor pushes her head back down on her chest, it gave her comfort "I'm sorry"
"For what?"
"It was never meant to be like this...I had it all planned...It was right there in my reach and then it all went wrong...It's why I said those things that day. I was just" she sighs "It broke me...It was my answer to everything...it was meant to resolve everything Yaz...freeze life in time" she kisses the top of her head and runs fingers through her hair pressing her harder to her chest a tear rolls down her face
Yaz looks up to her "Hey...don't...don't do that"
"Do what? What am I doing?"
She half sits up on a sofa and tucked her hair behind her ear and then reaches out to wipe her tears gently stroking her face.
"Stop blaming yourself for something you couldn't control. Stop doing that." she strokes her cheek gently "You can't do everything...no-one can...you're just doing the best that you can, same as everyone else..."
"But I.." she wanted to say something, but Yaz cuts her off
"No... stop!!" she sits up puts her hand on her cheek "You're smart...really smart...I believe in you. I believe you will find a way. Ok? I know you..." she lays her hand on her hearts "And I know what's in here..."
"Yak. What’s in there?" Doctor slowly changes her mood
"All your love for me" Yaz smiles
Doctor runs her thumb over her soft lips and her fingers find their way to the back of her neck slowly pulling her in, until their lips slightly touched
"They beat for you" she whispers and kisses her passionately
Everyone left early in the morning and suddenly Tardis felt so empty again, almost ghostly. Doctor was slumped her usual way over the console fiddling around some wires she pulled out and Yaz was putting Christmas decorations in the boxes
"Help...Doctor help me!" She yells from the other end of the control room trying to lay down the massive Christmas tree on the floor, but the task proved a bit too much to handle for only one person.
Doctor walked over laughing and just stood there with her hands on her hips looking at Yaz covered with a Christmas tree desperately trying to hold it
"I thought you're a big girl and you are perfectly capable of handling a Christmas tree after single handedly fighting a bunch of Cyberman" Doctor quotes her words smirking and enjoying in a moment
"Oh, stop that and help me out!!!!"
"Oh, come on Yaz...no you're a big girl...what's a Christmas tree for you" she continues with a smug face
"I swear when I get out of here" she's losing a grip and the tree starts falling
"Alright...Alright...you don't have to threaten me...I'm scared already" Doctor grabs a tree with one hand putting on a floor
"I hate you!" she's shaking if pine needles of her top and pulling it out of her hair
"No you don't" she's walking towards the console smirking "You pine over me"
"Not now I don't " she says stressed still trying to get stuff out of her hair
"I can prove it to you in a second so don't start what you can't finish" she smiles and continues fiddling with wires
Yaz continues pulling boxes across the floor
"Hey, tomorrow I'm taking you somewhere really nice so make sure you dress warm it's a quite a walk from here, but it will blow your mind"
She looks up at her smiling and leaves the box on a floor walking around the console and slumping herself on her back
"Continuing to dazzle me? Don't you think you've done enough?"
"Nope...not even close...Besides what are we supposed to do inside of Tardis the whole day it gets boring"
"Oh well I don't know..." she starts running her fingers down Doctors hand
"Oh, I can do that anywhere Yaz" she replies smirking and shaking her head
"Ouch...scouse me Casanova"
"Oh, he is highly overrated Yaz" she looks up shortly making a short comment and Yaz's eyes open wide
"Whaaaat?"
"Whaa...? Nooo!!!" she scrunches her face "eeewwwwww That's not what I meant for god’s sake Yaz" Doctor jumped
"I thought I'm gonna have to bleach my brain there for a second" Yaz smiles and walks to the other side of the console
She slumps on a console making a cheeky face "Have you ever been with a man?"
Doctor ignored her completely continuing what she's doing
"I know you heard that"
"I did"
"Aaand??"
"Have you?" Doctor asks not lifting her head up
"Oh, come on, that's not fair..."
"Yeah? Why not Yaz...you're asking me? ...You went there, not I"
Yaz pauses for a second in silence, Doctor was still fiddling with wires not looking at her, she answered quietly "No...no I haven't...I only ever been with you like that"
Doctor swallowed hard and then looked up to her "Well neither have I... satisfied?
She looks back down in silence. It was a bit of awkward silence for few minutes where Yaz just glided her hand over the console not really knowing how to handle the situation she started
"Why are you embarrassed now?" Doctor asks still looking down pulling more wires out of the console
"No, I'm nooot!" she answers defensively knowing that she is
"Yes, you are.... The point that I'm making is that you're asking me question that you're not prepared to hear an answer for...what if I said yes?" she looks up at her
"What?" Yaz's eyes open wide in confusion
"See...exactly my point...No Yaz I haven't, not from those memories I do have anyway...Ruth had a husband, but I don't have those memories...But if you are gonna ask me stuff like that, think if you can handle my answer. If you want to know stuff, we can talk about everything...just not like this"
"Alright..." she looks down to the console ashamed she even went there.
Doctor dropped what she was doing and walked up to her, turning her towards herself. She slides her hands around her waist "I'm not telling you off Yaz...Look at me"
"Mmmm"
"I know what you can handle Yaz...I just don't want you being in pain that's all. So... questions?"
"Nooo...I think I'm done for today" she smiles holding on to her braces nervously pulling them
"Alright" Doctor smiles back "You wanna help me with this? I could use your help"
"Yeah" she nodded smiling and kissed her short
"So, about tomorrow" Doctor starts bouncing around "This place is known only from some stories...like legends. Nobody knows it's real...Well not that I know"
"So how do you know it's real?"
"I stumbled on it running away from a dragon...that was a weird day"
"Whaaat... why were you running away from a dragon? What did you do?"
"What did I do? Why would I do anything? ..."
Yaz lifts her eyebrow
"Alright. Well, I was going to put it back...I just wanted to measure the size of an egg for my research...They are so sensitive, honestly...I really tried to explain myself"
Yaz laughed and shook her head. She loved this weird, beautiful woman with every cell in her body.
Doctor was standing by the door ready to go. She had her usual attire on except it was her winter version with a navy jumper, winter braces and her little rainbow scarf on. She had a big backpack on her back she packed in secret.
"Doctor!!!!! Are you for real?? You're gonna freeze dressed like that in your trousers that don't reach and that coat. I don't even know what to do if you get ill. Do Time Lords get ill?"
Doctor laughs "Yaz I'm fine I assure you and no I'm not going to get ill. I never get ill and If I ever did you have Tardis...so don't worry...let's go now. Oh and by the way you look absolutely beautiful" Doctor commented on her white winter jacket with a massive fluffy hood making her look absolutely adorable.
They walked for about two hours through the frozen forest. It was magical with snow glistening in a sun that peaked through the trees. It was quiet and the only sound was their feet squishing the snow. They held hands chatting quietly along the way.
Doctor suddenly stopped showing Yaz to be quiet and pointed between the trees on a couple of animals similar to stags but much bigger and with beautiful white hair and eyes blue like the sky. They stood there for nearly 20 min looking at them between the trees until a bird flying off from the trees startled them.
"That was magnificent...I've never seen an animal looking so magical in my life" Yaz smiled
"They change the color of the fur in winter to white and their eyes go blue. Usually, they are light brown. Makes them see better in the snow so they don't get snow blindness...stunning, aren't they?"
They continued for another hour until they came to the edge of the mountain. And by the time they did it was already almost night "Aaa...I remember this...Not long to go Yaz...come on" she pulls her hand up the narrow path
They finally arrived at the opening in the mountain...a narrow entrance no more than 6ft wide "Here we are...Come on..." Doctor smiles walking in first and pulling Yaz by her hand
They walk in and Doctor takes her sonic out to light up the way through.
"Why are we here Doctor? It's a cave?"
"You'll see Yaz....patience" she smiles
Walking through the narrow tunnel they spot a light shining at the very end that could be seen through the darkness. As they approached closer to the end Doctor suddenly stopped
"Here we are.... Close your eyes" she says smiling "And nooo peaking this time...don't spoil it"
Yaz smiles "Promise no peeking" she closes her eyes and Doctor leads her into the cavern. She can feel light on her eyelids shining through as the Doctor leads her deeper into the cavern.
"Alright...you can open them now!" she says beyond exited with a huge smile across her face
When Yaz opened her eyes, her face dropped to the floor. She was completely speechless. The light was coming from the most beautiful lake inside of the cavern that she couldn't even imagine in her dreams. The turquoise water was crystal clear showing the white smooth rocks at the bottom. It was so clear it seemed like it was only one foot deep. The light from the water was reflecting on the stone ceiling making it all even more magical. Yaz couldn't figure out where the light was even coming from.
"I...I just...how is this even real??? She looks at the Doctor mesmerized. How is it shining like that?"
"Illuminance microorganisms in the water Yaz....similar but not the same as plankton on Earth...millions of years old...Oh, don't worry...totally harmless...just magical. See that small opening up in the ceiling" she points to the small hole above them "sun reaches the water during the day...and those small organisms soak it up...and then they radiate it during the night...glowing like this...Beautiful, isn't it?"
"Beautiful? ... It's breathtaking Doctor" she couldn't take a smile of her face
"So... swimming?" Doctor smiles
"Whaaat??? But it's snowing outside??"
"Go...touch the water Yaz...come on" she smirked
Yaz bends down putting fingers in the lake "OMG...it's hot"
"Yap..." Doctor takes her sonic out and scans the cavern "In fact this whole place is Yaz...it's about 82 degrees in here Yaz so I think we're safe from freezing for tonight "
"Tonight? Are we staying overnight?"
"Yap" Doctor smiles "If you want to? Wouldn't recommend going back at night Yaz"
"I'd love to but we...what did you pack?"
"Everything we need Yaz...Don't worry...So? Swimming?" she smiles
"Oh yeah...definitely!!" Yaz smiles
They got all the stuff out of the bag. Doctor thought of everything. Food, drinks, snacks, sleeping bag, towels, Yaz's pajamas, she even packed their toothbrushes and toilet paper and she sneaked in Yaz's hairbrush knowing how her hair gets tangled easily and she hates it.
"I'm totally impressed...that bag must weigh a ton...and you carried it all this way. Can you be any more beautiful than what you already are?" Yaz smiled looking up at her whilst setting up the sleeping bag on a floor
"Yah...I actually could. This isn't the best look"
"Oh, just stop that...you're stunning Doctor"
"Neah" she scrunches her face
They got all the stuff out and took their clothes off. The cavern became even more warmer throughout the evening.
"Carefully Yaz, the rocks are slippery hold my hand" she helped her getting to the water slowly
It was surprisingly deep in the middle...all the way to their chest. And as they walked in the ripples, they made in the water made it glisten even more. Yaz was playing like a kid making circles and they both giggled like kids. Doctor suddenly went quiet standing in the water looking around the cave. Yaz came up behind her and put her arms around her kissing her shoulders
"Why so quite suddenly? What's in that beautiful big head...tell me? Something made you sad"
"No Yaz... actually, made me happy...Last time I was here I was a broken man trying to get away from everything and everyone, hiding from the word"
She turns around and meets her beautiful brown eyes gazing at her with so much love she could die that second and she'd be happy. She slides her hands around her waist pulling her close
"Funny how life goes, all I wanted was to die back then and jet I couldn't. And now I'm here with you I never want to, if that means never losing you"
Yaz stroked her face gently moving hair from her cheeks. Doctor closed her eyes, melting into her couch with all her soul. She was running lazy circles down the back of Yaz's spine giving her tingles down her back. Yaz's fingers found the familiar path to the back of her neck stroking her gently, pulling her in and pressing forehead onto hers.
"You're like a dream I never want to wake up from" Yaz says quietly
"Should we stay sleeping then?" she smiles gently
"Fine with me" She reaches for her soft lips kissing her passionately both falling into that dream.
Yaz's hands were wrapping around her body gliding through the water over her breast and curves of her waist. Yaz pushed her hips slowly until the Doctor's back was on the rocks behind her.
She reached for Yaz's hand running tips of her fingers over her open palm looking deep into her eyes with so much love Yaz felt like she was falling through the sky. This simple gesture gave her tingles down her spine. How can one touch make her fly.
She interviewed their fingers and pressed Doctors hand on the rocks reaching for her beautiful neck. Doctor moans quietly playing with her beautiful hair that became so heavy from the water falling down her back and over her shoulders. She went into a daze while Yaz's soft lips ran down her collar bone and her breast and her hand was sliding down the curves of her hips.
Yaz wanted her so badly, but she also wanted it to last. She kept sliding her fingers down her chest and around her breast down the curves of her waist. She wanted this moment to last for her as long as it could. To keep her in her beautiful daze wanting so badly for her beautiful, gentile little wife to feel loved like never before. She kissed her again gently and passionately, Doctors beautiful long fingers were wrapped around her face.
Doctor found it difficult to breathe, her hearts kept skipping their beats, she could swear she heard them echoing around. She kept gasping as Yaz's hand played lazy traces down the edges of her stomach. She reached for her hand and wedged it between her thighs.
"I need you" she said between her deep breathes slightly opening her eyes "I really need you" she rubbed her leg on Yaz's hip impatiently
"Alright love" Yaz smiled sliding her other hand around her waist to proper her up against the rocks
Doctor wrapped her arms around her neck immediately. Her eyes looked different, almost filled with some despair
Yaz pressed her hard against the rocks, kissing her passionately, not letting her breath. She could feel her legs wrapping themselves around her and she leaned her back on the rocks rocking her hips in slow motions moaning quietly and frowning her face in a most adorable way. Her cheeks were flushed, and her beautiful blonde hair curled up from the steam coming out of the water.
Yaz's hand was hurting but she couldn't care less. Her beautiful tiny wife seemed so light in the water even more fragile than ever before.
She traced her beautiful long fingers across Yaz's lips gazing at her with eyes half open. Her moaning echoing across the cavern walls she muttered things in Galifrein it made Yaz smile. She had no idea what she was saying but she loved every word.
"Fly off my love" Yaz whispered, and she did
Her orange glow spread across the water in the most magnificent sight reflecting on the ceiling and cavern walls. She held onto Yaz resting her head on her shoulder breathing fast
"Stay...don't move" she barely spoke
"I'm not love" Yaz kissed her hair. She felt her trembling around her.
She finally moved her aching hand and ran her fingers down Doctors spine.
"Tell me" Doctor spoke quietly still laying her head on her shoulder
"Tell you what love?" Yaz said quietly running fingers through her wet hair
"Tell me you're mine"
Yaz smiled and reached out cupping her face "Always yours...only yours my beautiful Bighead" it almost made Yaz cry
They stayed like that for a while...kissing gently leaning on the rocks. Doctor came around slowly. She kept smiling, giving Yaz tiny, short kisses. She reached for her hands, but Yaz yelped
"What's wrong?" she asked concerned
"Oh just...you destroyed me a bit" she laughs "It's fine it will heal"
"Whaat? ...Blimey Yaz... Let me look at that...I'm so sorry" she was absolutely mortified "I don't know what came over me Yaz"
"Love came over you" she kisses her laughing "Stop fussing...I'm fine" Yaz giggled
"Noooo you're not!!...I'm so sorry. Please let me look at it"
"Was that nice?" Yaz smiled
"Of course, it was nice...but."
"Well then, stop fussing" she kissed her shortly again" I'm not made out of sugar. Except I'm cold now...can we get out of the water?"
"Yes of course" her face was still horrified but she gently reached for her other hand helping her out of the water
"I am never doing this again Yaz and please if I ever do can you please stop me..." she keeps rambling on as she's getting out of the water
Yaz rolls her eyes "Will you stop this!!" she looks up to her eyes "This is the first time you've completely let yourself go. I've never seen you like that...So yes, you are doing that again...Don't you dare!!!...Plus I'm very proud of myself as well, so don't take that away from me or I'll be seriously upset with you. Besides if you were a Tardis, you'd make sure I learned how to make you fly" she walked off with a smug look on her face
"Whaaa ...Did you just compare me to Tardis?"
Yaz smiled cheeky raising her eyebrow. She wrapped a towel around herself and stood by the water just admired how absolutely beautiful it was.
"You ok Yaz."
"Sure...just looking. It's just so beautiful. And so hidden from the world. I don't want to leave this place ever"
"Oh, you do believe me...as beautiful as it is you start getting bored with time. Besides, there's so much more out there to see. Even more beautiful than this place. It might surprise you"
"I want to see the whole universe with you" she smiles looking at the lights on the ceiling
"And I with you Yaz. But right now, I want to see you either dressed or under these covers. Your choice, just please don't stand there naked I really don't want you getting ill"
"Since when have you become like my mother?"
"And since when have you defined me Yaz? ...Come on please I'm serious. Besides I'm hungry...you hungry? I really fancy a sandwich"
"I am actually" Yaz gets changed into her pajamas and sits next to her
"Do you miss us going around?"
"Right now...No... not at all"
"I thought you'd changed your mind by now"
"No chance...I've been flying around for centuries Yaz these 12 days are nothing. It's like someone giving you 2 minutes of vacation in a year. Would you change your mind after a minute....I don't think so"
"Well, it definitely puts it in perspective when you say it that way"
"I once took 12 years of vacation. That was nice"
"I wish I could live as long as you"
Doctor gulps "Oh Yaz...don't say things like that" she kisses the side of her head
Yas made herself comfortable lying her head in the Doctor's lap.
"Were you ever in love?"
Doctor takes a pause and then sighs deeply "Yeah I was"
"What happened?"
"Things went wrong...in many ways...Which is why I'm not letting it happen now" she starts gently stroking Yaz's hair
"Were you Yaz, ever in love? We always talk about me...and I actually know nothing about you. I would like to" she smiles
"I was... once...and it went badly wrong as well"
"I'm so sorry...I won't ask anymore iff you don't want talk about it"
"Noo it's ok I want to tell you. I just haven't thought about it in a long time. It was someone I fell for who didn't fall for me back...I was just stupid"
"No, you were not stupid Yaz. We can't pick who we love. And sometimes those that we do...well they are not worth it" she stroked her hair gently
"You're talking about The Master?"
Doctors face cramped and her hand stood still on Yaz's head
"It's fine...I always knew it. Since that day you told us about who he was. I saw the pain in you, it felt familiar. Did you two ever...?"
"NOOOO!!!"Doctor jumped "No... it’s complicated. But no" she didn't know what else to say or add to that, so she went quite just gazing at the water
"You love him and hate him at the same time?"
She starts stroking her hair again looking to the distance of the cave "Yes...yes, I do.
So, tell me more Yaz...about yourself...I really want to know. Please"
"Not much to tell really...It was the only time, and it was a total disaster on an epic level. It was making me question myself in ways you don't want to question yourself. I wasn't in a good place when I met you. I was going there, slowly, but I still wasn't there. But when I met you, you made me believe in myself again" she reaches for her hand playing with her fingers and looking up to her "It's why I fell for you"
"You did the same for me Yaz in more ways than you know" she traces her finger from her forehead to the tip of her nose
"It's why my mum was questioning you at the time. She was worried about me. She didn't want me to get hurt again. God, she wouldn't leave me alone for months questioning me about you" Yaz laughed
Doctor laughs "Your mum saw stuff we both didn't at the time...Or we did, and we didn't dare to admit...She'd kill me now"
"Nah she wouldn't...She knows...can't hide nothing from her...She'd kill you if you hurt me" she laughs
"Well not planning to...So I should be safe then" she laughs and brushes her finger on Yaz's cheek
"I know...It would be really embarrassing if you had to regenerate because of my mum" she starts giggling like crazy
"You're seriously crazy you know that"
"You can always say to her...I'm the Doctor, sorting out you daughter every night" she's giggling like crazy
Doctor bursts out laughing "What was in that water Yaz"
"I don't know it was some crazy woman calling herself Doctor and her hands and legs were all over me I tell you it was mad" she was having laughing fit
Doctor couldn't stop laughing "Stooop I'll coke on my cookies...What have I created"
"I know...it's like magic...I'll call you Doctor magic fingers from now on"
Doctor laughed so hard she almost choked on her cookies.
"Kiss me" Yaz went quite looking up to her playing with her hand intertwining their fingers together in the air
Doctor leaned down and kissed her slowly.
"I want you" Yaz smiled
"You just had me" she laughs "besides I don't think your hand would agree" she kisses her hand smiling
"Well lie next to me then and give me a cuddle" Yaz smiles playing with her hair
"I think that could be arranged" Doctor smirks
They snuggled inside their little makeshift bed. Yaz kept pushing he bum more towards the Doctor.
"You can't get any closer Yaz even if you tired" Doctor laughs
"I can always try" she smiles
Doctor put her arm around her and squeezed her "You're adorable you know"
"I still can't get my head around you"
"What do you mean Yaz?"
"You're so different...like this. It's like every time you say things like this makes my head spin. What is it 12 days ago I was afraid to touch you? And now all this. My head is spinning"
"12 days ago, Yaz I was afraid to touch you too"
"Nooo you weren't!!!...You afraid...nah...I don't buy that" Yaz smiles
"Oh yes I was...Not the same way as you were but I still was Yaz"
"What the hell were you afraid of with me?" she laughs
"I knew if I go there...cross that line, there's no going back for either of us two. Besides, you kept giving me those head wonks all the time just looking at you. Believe me Yaz the struggle was real. The number of times I simply had to go away, remove myself from you...it wasn't easy Yaz. I really fell for you...I really wanted you"
"Really? I did? Give you head wonks then...OMG" she smiles satisfied "Do you feel it now?" she wiggles her bum and smiles cheeky
"Yaaaz...that's not fair"
"Whaaat? What's not fair? I don't understand Doctor" she wiggles again smiling
"You're a tinker you know that...I totally underestimated you"
"Oh yeah...How's that?" she keeps messing around knowing full well Doctors switch, but she cannot help herself. The fact that she even had this much power over her was way too amusing for her to ignore
Doctor started kissing her shoulder gently and Yaz turned her head to meet her lips. She kissed her passionately running her hand down her stomach and up to the curves of her hips.
"Don't...stay like this" Doctor whispered when she wanted to turn around and pressed her hand gently on her stomach "I want you like this" she kissed her passionately
She gasped as her hand quickly slipped between her thighs. She was taking her so slowly and gently Yaz felt like she was falling into the abyss. Doctor kissed her so gently and so passionately, holding her in her arms. Yaz never felt safer or more loved.
"God, I love you so much" Yaz whispered between the gentile kisses running her fingers through Doctors golden hair
Doctor smiled "Close your eyes"
She ran her fingers down her hand that was wedged between her thighs wrapping herself around it and moaning quietly.
Yaz surrendered to her completely melting in her arms letting Doctor take the lead in this dance across their universe. Her heart was pounding so fast, and heat was rising through her body. She felt like she would pop, she almost wanted her to stop to get away, but Doctor held her tight.
She mumbled something incoherent and wiggled in her arms
"Where are you going Yaz? Not going anywhere" Doctor smiled and held her tight kissing her neck
"CONTACT" she whispered in her ear, consuming the most precious thing in the universe with all the love she had inside her.
Doctor kissed her shoulder and ran lazy traces with her fingers down her soft stomach. She smiled looking at her falling asleep curled up against her desperately looking for her hand to hold on to it.
One thought went through the Doctor's mind lying next to her... There was nothing in this universe that would take Yaz away from her, and there's no price she wouldn't pay to keep her.
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A loud bang woke up Yaz. She opened her sleepy eyes, and the Doctor wasn't around. She wasn't sure how much time passed. She got dressed and quickly sorted out her hair. She was so grateful the Doctor took her hairbrush because her hair was all tangled up and sticking out messy.
"Doctor!!" she yelled across the cave but there was no answer "Doooctor!!!" she yelled louder but still nothing
She took a flashlight out of the bag and ventured down the narrow hallway leading from the cavern deeper into the cave. She was scared, her heart beating fast, but she was worried, and her fear wasn't going to stop her. Suddenly hands grabbed her from the darkness, and she screamed like Tardis was on fire.
"OMG Yaz it's just me!!!" Doctor laughed
"Stooop doing that to me!!!!!" Yaz smacked her on a shoulder and then hugged her "What are doing here? "
"Just went for a walk"
"You whaaaaa? A walk...in the dark...what the hell...why?"
"Well, I had to pee first and then I got distracted"
"You went to pee here?"
"Where am I supposed to go, Yaz …in the snow?"
Yaz shakes her head in disbelief "I give up..." she starts laughing "So was it a nice, your walk then? "
"Yeah...not bad...You rested? "
"I am... I actually lost track of time. I'm not even sure what time it is"
"Oh, it's actually quite early evening Yaz...remember it gets dark early. How's your hand?"
"Better...look...told you" she laughs
Doctor reached out and stroked her gently. "I still can't get over the fact that you've allowed me to do that...I still feel bad about it Yaz"
"Well don't...You were so beautiful...I won't ever forget that"
Doctor swings her around pinning her against herself "You're the one who's beautiful...And I can't believe you're mine...I have to pinch myself sometimes"
"You're telling me!!!...I never thought in a million years you'd even consider..."
"Why not? Why wouldn't I ever consider Yaz? …In fact, I was considering it for way too long... You’re a beautiful soul Yaz" she kisses her lips shortly "And well...you know...you're beautiful lady"
Yaz starts laughing "You can say it you know"
"Say what?"
"What you're thinking...I say it to you all the time" she giggles flapping her eyelashes playing with her hair twirling it through her fingers
Doctor reaches for her hand and starts walking through the tunnel "I'm a gentleman Yaz...I have a line"
Yaz giggles "Alright sexy hot stuff... if you say so"
Doctor rolled her eyes, shook her head, and laughed. She continued down the hallway until they came back to the cavern.
"Hay, I have an idea!" Doctor says smiling
"Do tell my gorgeous smart wife" Yaz can't stop grinning how happy she was, over the moon
"I really like when you say that...Anyway, I have a map of this place from before when I was doing some research on it. How about we go and explore. I need to take some samples of soil and rocks along the way as well. It would be fun Ha? "
"I think that's a great idea"
"I will show you how to do that...And when we come back to Tardis, I will show how all the analyses are made in case you ever have to do it yourself. It's a fascinating subject you know...We can find out exactly how old is this place, all the climate changes that happened...even natural disasters that may have happened in a past" Doctor is getting into her nerdy self excited that she has finally someone who's willing to listen
"Doctor" Yaz stopped for a moment pulling her by the hand
"Yes Yaz?" she turns around a bit worried
Yaz's expression changes to almost so emotional she's about to cry
"Yaz? Are you alright?"
"I just..."
"What?" Doctor says confused and worried
Yaz grabbed her braces and snuggled into her chest "I'm sorry... I don't know what's wrong with me...I'm just so emotional"
"Is something worrying you Yaz?" she runs fingers down her back
"No" she sighed into her chest "I just get so overwhelmed...I can't tell you how desperately I wanted this...for so long. And... it’s just...I just love you so, so much"
Doctor smiles relieved "Oh god Yaz...you scared me...I thought something was wrong for a moment. It's ok to feel that...nothing wrong with you. Just something I think we both suppressed for so long it now feels like we're gonna explode" she wrapped her fingers around her face lifting her head up "It's nice? Ha? ...Nice head wonks" she smiles gently "If it makes you feel any better It's no different for me...I haven't felt like this in a long time Yaz...I don't even think I ever have...not like this...not like with you...I love you my little head wonk" she smiles gently and Yaz reaches for a kiss
"Come on this will be fun you'll see" Doctor pulls her by the hand
"Doctor...do I put this in a cup or in that little bottle you gave me" Yaz asked holding a tiny piece of the rock and a chisel in the other hand
"Oh, that can go into the bottle, love? Come and see this...this is amazing" she switches off the flashlight she had on top her head
"OMG that glows in the dark!!!!" Yaz comes closer to the rocks "What is that?"
"Those are those same organisms from that lake Yaz. So, what does that tell you?"
"I would assume that this whole tunnel was under water at some point?"
"I'm proper impressed Yaz...I knew I had a smart wife" she smiles
"Oh, babe it's only because you're teaching me"
Doctor looks at her seriously "Don't ever say that Yaz...You are smart...Besides even I had to learn stuff...I just had a longer time to do it. It doesn't make you any less smart. And don't anyone ever tell you otherwise. You want to know a secret?"
"What?"
"I wasn't considered that smart on Gallifrey"
"Noo get out...Now you're just trying to make me feel better" Yaz smiles and nudges her
"I'm serious Yaz...I really wasn't...resourceful yes...smart and academic no... not really. In fact, I was one of the worst students on the academy" she laughs
"Your serious? .... You’re actually serious" Yaz looks at in shock
"I am..." Doctor looks at her "Don't you say this to anyone.... I’m only telling you things because you're my wife"
"I would neveeer...But you're so smart how is that even possible?" Yaz goes quiet and Doctor looks back down to the rocks ``Thank you for saying this to me...That means a lot, Bighead"
Doctor is acting as if she didn't hear that comment. But she did, she's just getting too emotional to respond so she diverted to the rocks again
"Going back to that...look" she gets up and walks around scanning with her sonic and the whole wall illuminates "Look at thaaaat Yaz!!!" she kept walking around excitedly "Uuuu wait...Now what's that...Hmmm...that's odd" she reads her sonic confused
"What is it Doctor"
"I'm getting a strange reading from this.... It shouldn't be.... hmmmm..."
"Strange in what way Doctor?"
"Not sure Yaz...I would have to put this data for Tardis to have a look at it. But it almost seems like there's I don't know like a big, massive hole behind this tunnel...And I mean massive Yaz"
"How massive are we talking about Doctor"
"Oh, I don't know Yaz the size of Scotland massive"
"Alright that's big...could it be another cave we don't know about?"
"Could be Yaz but I'm detecting something else as well. It's strange energy coming out of this almost as if it's.... alive"
"Whaaaat?"
"Yes... very strange.... Oh well never mind for now. Tell you what, we'll do some tests when we come back to Tardis, and I'll do some scans of the area.... I might be wrong...I'm really wrong but I might be" she shakes her sonic "I do hope sonic isn't playing up with me... that would really make me upset...Not to mention it would be embarrassing"
"Doctor!! Look" Yaz points to the wall of the tunnel next to her "Is my imagination running wild with me now or this looks like cave painting?"
Doctor runs over and lights up the wall with her flashlight "Yasmin Khan don't you ever say you're not smart again.... Now that's amazing...Look Yaz...those are very, very old and they faded with time but they are definitely cave art Yaz...Look, creatures similar to humans harvesting the land and loooook!!!" she glides her hand on the walls "Animals...children playing"
"Look Doctor, those are boats on the river, aren't they?" Yaz points to one of the drawings depicting a small fishing boat on a river and children playing on the shore
"What happened to this place Yaz? It had people...creatures living here...Where are they? Where are they all gone?" she looks at Yaz intrigued "What happened to this planet?"
"Do you think they all died, Doctor? Or moved away?"
"I don't know Yaz...but I want to find out"
"Really? ... I thought you didn't want to work? ...Don't get me wrong I don't mind...just what you said"
Doctor looks at her smiling "We can still have fin Yaz...If you want?"
"Yeeees of course I do" she smiles
"Well then Yaz.." Doctor starts bouncing around "Let's get all the samples and I will also need to scan this place...Arrh I should have taken a deep scanner from Tardis....Why didn't I think of that...Oh never mind.... I’ll just improvise"
Yaz stopped for a second looking at her from the side smiling. She was so happy the Doctor is coming back to her old bouncy self again .... but she still didn't want to leave this place for a long time.
They walked back towards their little lake and all the way Doctor didn't stop talking about all her theories of what might have happened to this place. They included everything from Daleks to Cyberman to climate change and natural disasters. Yaz found it fascinating how her brain was working out one million theories all at once and how every single one of those made some strange sense.
They were finally back at the lake and Doctor was sorting out her little samples carefully into the bag so they wouldn't get damaged on the way.
"Hey...I'm gonna take one last swim before bedtime. You wanna come with me?"
"Definitely...just let me sort this out first...you go"
Yaz got in the water playing with her hands and making it glow. She went to the edges and studied the white rocks thinking about all the stuff Doctor said about the layers and how they show history. Suddenly a simple rock seems to tell a story of a millennia and it was an amazing world.
She was so deep into her thoughts it startled her when the Doctor put her arms around her.
"Hey...where are you drifting?" Doctor smiles
Yaz turned around and smiled, placing her hands on the back of Doctors neck playing with her hair "Just amazing all of this...like you opened up a whole new world for me now. It's like they tell a story now...those rocks"
"They are...all of it is...all around us Yaz...every rock, every plant, every particle tells a story. I'll teach you everything"
she swings her around in a water laughing
"But not tonight...tonight I'm just going to kiss you" she gazed at her slightly smiling
"All over?" Yaz smiles showing her adorable dimples climbing Doctor like a tree and wrapping her legs around her
"All over...all night" Doctor smiles and kisses her passionately
…..
Yaz opened her eyes, and the Doctor was sleeping next to her. Rolled on her stomach and face in the makeshift pillow. Her beautiful golden hair was curly from the damp in the cave and half across her sleeping face. She looked so peaceful and so happy, so calm Yaz though. Yaz ran her hand down her back all the way to her waist and curves. Tracing her fingers down her soft skin. All she could think about is how absolutely beautiful she was and how hopelessly in love she was into her. She drifted in her mind to the time when the only thing she had was a hologram and how her heart used to skip a beat when she heard those words "I miss you". Never did she even dare to think in her mind this moment would ever be when this same woman would lie next to her like this. Never did she think she would ever know every inch of her. Never in her wildest dreams would she ever think she would be hers under the stars telling each other the sweetest things looking into each other's eyes with so much love.
"If you continue like this I will never get out of this bed or this cave" Doctor murmured into the pillow made out of rolled up blanket "I don't want to move"
"Well then don't" Yaz smiled sliding her hand down her back to her waist
"Mmmmm...that's nice" Doctor stretched a bit and moved just slightly, enough to just turn her head and look at Yaz. She smiled softly, still sleepy "You slept nice?"
"I did those few hours" she smiled cheeky
"Complaining?"
"Nope...not at all" Yaz giggles
"You better not" Doctor makes a face "We need to get up"
Yaz starts kissing her back going tracing her hand down her curves
"You're being naughty again...that's just not fair" Doctor buried her head into the blanket
Yaz giggles and continues to kiss her sliding her hand all over her
"What have I done to you...." she says with her face in the blanket "Aaaarrgghh my samples we need to get them tested Yaz..."
"We will..." she kisses her shoulder continuing to run her hand cheeky down her back and between her thighs
"I hate you...tinker" Doctor murmured....
They walked through the Tardis door and for both of them it felt like waking up from the dream. They were still here on their little honeymoon, how Yaz called it and Doctor absolutely loved it when she called it that. But the night spent in the cave was so magical like a world within their little world.
"Yaz" Doctor stopped her whiles halfway up the steps "Hurry up...meet me here I'll get everything ready"
"Sure" she turns around and runs up the stairs
Doctor reached inside her coat pocket and took something out. She looks up to the Tardis "Keep this for me will you. I will need it later. You will love it I promise" she drops it down the hle in the console.
"Right...let's see what we have shall we...Sorry for leaving you overnight...I needed this...Don't be upset" she continues to speak to Tardis "I know you like her...thank you for that"
Doctor set all the samples for analysis and started the deep scan of the area.
"Hey...How's it going?" Yaz walks in with ice-cream "I can eat this? Right?" she shows the box to the Doctor
"Yes....you can" Doctor laughed "Oh...ok well that's interesting....Come have a look Yaz. What do you see?"
"The mineral deposits are quite high and isn't this....is this like that dark layer...Right there...you told me once that this is when the ground gets scorched, I remember when you did this after Gallifrey"
"Yes!!...Gold star Yaz...So this would indicate a massive disaster of cataclysmic proportions Yaz....something that would make life on this planet impossible"
"But the cave paintings surely would have been done before? And if they have been done before then how are all those layers inside of the cave it makes no sense Doctor"
"No, it doesn't. Deposits inside of that cave are millions of years old but painting are not"
"So, who made them? And where are they?"
"Good question Yaz...I'm still waiting for that deep ground scanner...the circuit keeps messing me around" she's crawling under the console trying desperately to reach something making silly noise that made Yaz laugh
"What's funny?" Doctor comments from underneath the console with her bum sticking in the air
"You...you're cute"
"Cuuute? Blimey Yaz what else will you call me.... Arrhhh I need to make this work or we will have to draw it ourselves..." few sparks fly from the console and the screen popped up
"You got it...It's working"
"Ohhh....ohhh.... wait a minute....that's interesting...Look..." Doctor pointed to the screen
"What am I looking at, Doctor?" Yaz was squinting at the screen
"Look see there.... this whole area is a massive hole Yaz. I was right and nothing wrong with a sonic. Except..." she goes to the other side of the console where Tardis gave her loads of other readings
"Thaaat is massive...How didn't I see this before...Why didn't I see that before...I was here. How could I miss it?"
Yaz comes up to her and slumps herself on Doctor's back sliding her arms around her waist "You did say you were not in a good place last time you were here love. Maybe you just missed it"
"I must have done...But now I'm intrigued...you intrigued?"
"What to go and have a look?"
"Why not?"
"What if it's just a massive hole filled with magma you know...like a super volcano in Yellowstone?"
"Good point Yaz but...no Tardis would get that reading"
Doctor is moving around the console literally dragging Yaz glued to her back without a care in the world and Yaz finds it quite amusing. She thought by this point Doctor would get irritated, but she clearly isn't too bothered
"And what's that?" Yaz points to the small dot on a screen reaching over Doctors shoulder
"That I'm trying to work out because it's giving me a weird reading like it's almost clocked"
""Maybe this is where all the Dragons are?"
Doctor laughs "No Yaz they are not. Dragons sleep in caves such as the one where we were. There was one just down from us"
"Whaaaaaat?"
"Oh, don't worry it's winter...he can't hear a thing when he falls asleep"
"That was a joke, right?
"Yes..." Doctor laughs "But I got you, didn't I?"
Yaz stands up straight, but she stumbled grabbing for Doctors coat "Doctor"
"Yaz!!!!!!" Doctor turned around and caught her just as she was going to hit the floor
Yaz woke up in their room Doctor sitting by her side stroking her face
"Doctor...What happened"
"How are feeling Yaz" she strokes her face
The Doctor's face was riddled with worry. She's never seen her looking like that even through all the stuff they've been through.
She takes her sonic and shines in her eyes then measures her pulse
"Better now. That was scary" Yaz prompt herself up on her elbows
"Scary? You made my hearts stop, Yaz. You were out for a good 15 minutes" she strokes her cheek "Well we are definitely not going anywhere today. You're resting and I'm doing tests to see what's going on with you"
"Nooo...please don't not now. Just lie next to me"
"Yaz I have to see what's going on. This is the second time and don't tell me you haven't eaten today"
Yaz get up and sits on the edge if the bed staring at the floor
"What's wrong Yaz...you, ok? Do you feel bad again?"
"I'm late"
"Late for what?"
"I'm late"
"Late to go where?" she opens her arms making confused faces
"Nowhere, OMG" Yaz rolls her eyes
"I don't understand what you're saying "
"I'm pregnant!!!!!"
"You whaaaaaat????" Doctor jumped of the floor and took a step back her mouth opened staring at Yaz
"I'm pregnant" Yaz get of the bed and starts pacing around the room
"How is that possible?"
You're asking meee? I don't know how you people make babies``
"Well not like that...like... Blimey...but that's not possible!" Doctor puts her hand on her temples in confusion
"Oh, I can assure you it is!!" Yaz's anxiety is hitting the ceiling
"Nooo it's noot...unless it is?" she scrunches her face "unless...nooo...but how?"
"What? What are you going on about?"
"Well, you know that night in a library...like when I did the CONTACT, I've never done that before"
"Whaaaat? ...So you knocked me up?"
"What? Yaz noo...what the hell? I don't think so...Well, I don't know... Did I?"
"Well obviously you have!!!!...Like don't you have...I don't know...sexual education or...something...from where you are?" she shrugs her shoulders and slumps herself back on a bed
"We do...but that's beside the point...I'm not from there am I Yaz. Don't know who I am or where I come from oh how different I am or am I even because my memories are still in a fob watch...And I'm a woman now it's all so confusing Yaz...And none of this makes any sense...Are you sure?"
"What are we gonna do?"
Doctor is standing in middle of the room completely confused and in shock thinking thousands thoughts all at once desperately trying to work out how she did what she did
"Do you.... even want it?" Yaz was asking anxiously looking up from the edge of the bed
"Wait...Whaaa? What are you saying Yaz?" she looks at her confused
"Well, if you don't...you know...I understand...with how your life is and all that"
Doctor makes her little soft face and crouches down in front her. She lifts her chin up with her finger to make her look at her "Yaz...look at me"
"Mmmmm" Yaz murmured on brinks of tears, her eyes already glistening
Doctor pulls the brightest smile ever "Yaz this is brilliant...of course I do....strange but bloody brilliant!!"
Yaz starts smiling slowly still looking at her sheepishly "Really? Is this really how you feel?"
Doctor runs her thumb across her lips and cups her face with hand. Yaz closed her eyes and tears start rolling down her cheeks
"Yes, beautiful that really is how I feel" she leans over and kisses her
............
That evening Yaz fell asleep in her arms as almost every night but Doctor laid there staring at the ceiling sliding her hand down Yaz's stomach. She stopped for a moment just to keep her hand there...she didn't know what she really wanted or expected. Not like the baby will talk back to her or anything. She just tried feeling it. She wasn't sure how she felt...confused, scared, happy, worried...mostly worried. Suddenly she felt like Yaz was made out of glass that could shatter at any point into thousands of pieces, it was a feeling she already had even before this strange situation, but it seems to have been magnified by the tenfold.
Yaz opened her sleepy eyes and looked at her with so much love it melted Doctors hearts.
"Hey...you're still here?"
"Not going anywhere today...Not happening"
Doctor turned on her side and gazed at her for a long time in silence, running her finger from her forehead down to the tip of her nose. Made Yaz giggle, she ran her thumb over her soft lips and Yaz closed her eyes. This little gesture made her close her eyes every time and the Doctor loved doing it so much. She wrapped her fingers around Yaz's face.
"God you're so beautiful" she whispered and pulled her for a kiss
Yaz rolled her on top of herself and wrapped herself around her. She stroked her face moving her hair behind her ears.
Doctor ran a tip of fingers down her leg that was wrapped around her, kissing her gently.
"I want you" Yaz said quietly sliding her hands down Doctors back wrapping herself more around
"Yaz I'm not sure" Doctors face was riddled with worry and so much concern
"Sure, about what?" Yaz frowned and looked at her panicking inside, uncertain what she meant by that
"I'm not sure we can do that now...What if I hurt you or..." she looks down towards her stomach
Yaz giggled "OMG!!...Don't be silly...of course you're not gonna hurt me...not like we're hanging from the chandelier" she laughs
"I don't know Yaz, I'm just so scared"
"Hey beautiful Bighead...don't be scared just do what you always do...how can kisses hurt us...Ha?" she kisses her worried lips ``just do it slowly if you're so scared ok?"
"Yaz"
"Mmmmm?"
"How is this going to work? In 2 months, we're going back to what our life is...how do I keep us safe? ...All of us...this isn't just you and me now? I want this so much but I'm so scared.... I’ve never been so scared in my life Yaz...I've never been so happy either...Or lost...or confused"
Yaz stroked the back of her neck and smiled. It was the most beautiful thing she ever heard her say.
"It's not your job to keep us safe, love. We do it together as we always did. We have the fam, all of them. We are not alone. You're not alone. Not this time.... not any more" she kept stroking the back of her neck gently feeling herself melting into her completely
"Remember Vinder and Bell. Bell was pregnant throughout the whole Flux when the whole universe was crushing around them. But love abides...surely, we can beat whatever is coming. Please don't worry. Let's just enjoy this, be happy. Are you happy?"
"I'm over the moon Yaz...I'm having to remember to breath since you told me"
Yaz smiled and stroke her face as gentle as she possibly could "Then love me tonight...love me like you always do...every night"
"You're gorgeous...and.." Doctor gets flustered
"And what?" Yaz giggles wrapping herself around her enjoying in Doctors hands running down her legs
"And..." she's desperately trying to get the words out
"And what love?" she giggles more
"Sexy" Doctor finally muttered in the most awkward way
"Thaaaaank you!!" Yaz laughed "Finally!!!...Can you say this more often please...it's not a dirty word you know. It's actually really nice to hear"
"You're crazy Yaz...you really are"
"Just kiss me...You can't say this and not kiss me now...You just can't" she starts flirting and rubbing her leg on Doctor's hip
"Kiss you where?" Doctor smiles kissing her neck
"Mmmmmm.....aallll over....aaallll night please" Yaz giggles
Doctor kissed her breast and wrapped her fingers around her neck. Yaz tilted her head and closed her eyes. Doctor sat on a bed and pulled her by her legs wrapping them around herself. She ran the tips of her fingers down her chest to her stomach kissing it gently. Yaz arched her back at every touch melting into her completely. Doctor kissed her slowly and gently. She wanted her so much that night but she found it hard to let go..she was so scared. Yaz felt her hand wrap around her neck pulling her up for a kiss. She sat up wrapping herself around her kissing her softly running her fingers down Doctors spine and cupping her face with hands kissing her passionately.
"God, I love you so much" Yaz looked into her beautiful green eyes
Doctor ran her tongue down her neck, and it made Yaz dizzy in her head. She started rocking her hips slowly and lifted Doctors head up for another kiss. She kissed her so passionately as iff she wanted to melt inside her feelings Doctor fingers gently scratching her back. She was pushing her hips onto her, more tangling her fingers into Doctors hair feeling her soft lips pressed on her neck and her hands wrapping around her hips. Yaz cupped Doctors face with her hands moving her messy hair out of the way. They gazed at each other for a moment in silence just taking a break to breathe. Doctors' hearts were pounding so hard Yaz could feel them on her chest.
"I love you so much" Doctor whispered wrapping her arms around her hips pulling her onto herself
"I feel your hearts" Yaz smiled
Doctor smiled "I know...it's all your fault"
Doctor wrapped her arms around her and laid her on a bed. She traced her tongue down her body over her breast and her stomach lifting her legs up and wrapping them around her shoulders. She pulled her in closer and buried her head between her thighs.
Yaz was in daze playing with hair and grabbing the pillow with the other hand. Doctor kept stroking her stomach gently. This little gesture made Yaz melt into thousands of pieces, she reached out and stroked her beautiful fingers. She arched her back when she felt her inside her...finally being one again. Together in their universe under the stars.
The Doctor was so different with her this time, so gentle and caring, still worried and scared. Not really knowing how to walk this new path but she was willing to do her best.
But Yaz didn't care because the Doctor didn't have to do anything, she could fly by just gazing at her. She let herself go to this universe, closing her eyes.
Doctor laid her head on her stomach gently. She kept tracing symbols with tips of her fingers on her tummy...doing it for quite some time.
Yaz was still weak and dazed with her eyes half open. She loved her lying there with her arm still wrapped around her hip holding her.
"What are doing?" she stroked her hair
"Talking to the baby " she smiled
"And what are you saying?"
"I love you and I can't wait to meet you"
"You're beautiful...you're so beautiful you know. Come here"
She laid on Doctor's chest making herself comfortable in her arms snuggled under the covers.
"See I'm still here...and you didn't hurt me That was really beautiful"
"I'm still nervous...give me some time"
"How long do I have before you know?"
"I have no idea Yaz. With us is much longer...Almost a year...I have no idea until certain time passes then we will see."
"Well, it's good I have a Doctor then" Yaz giggles
……………
Doctor was working most of the morning fiddling with samples she took from Yaz waiting for Tardis to do all the checks whilst Yaz was sitting in the armchair that mysteriously found itself in the middle of the control room the next morning. And the Doctor refused to admit she had anything to do with it. She was trying desperately to digest a massive breakfast the Doctor made for her and insisted she had to eat it.
"Doctor, are we going to see that hole or not?"
"No not now Yaz" she kept fiddling with samples
"Why not??"
"Because Yaz...I am not having you running around in that state..."
"What state? "
"Well, your state Yaz....Like state.... What if we get into danger?"
"We always get into danger"
"What iff you get taken"
"You will find me. Oh, now you will definitely find me I have no doubt" she giggles
"Yaz!!!! This isn't funny you know.... I can't risk it I'm sorry"
"But you promised!!" Yaz frowns
"I know I did Yaz...but that was before I... well I"
"Knocked me up?" Yaz giggles
"Stop saying that!!" Doctor gets all flustered waving her hands around
"Well, you did...come ooon" Yaz gets up and walks behind her wrapping her hands around her waist "I'm glad you did"
"This isn't going to work this time.... It’s not Yaz"
"Please come oooonnnn.... I’m sure it's fine, and you said it yourself it gets boring all the time inside Tardis"
"Oh, so now you're bored are you?"
"Noooo...stop twisting my words" Yaz rotates her to face her and grabs her braces pulling her like rag doll "Pleaseeee...I'll be really careful I promise"
Doctor is making faces avoiding looking at her but she is slowly softening up more Yaz is begging
"Pleaseeeeeeeee...pretty please...sugar on a top"
"Alright then" she moves Yaz's hands off her braces and points finger at her like to a child "But you're listening to everything I say Yaz...and no wondering off or defining me"
Yaz was trying to kiss her, but Doctor is fighting her hands still trying to make a point "Oooor trying to impress me Yaz...promise or else I'm sending you straight back to the Tardis"
"Promise...promise ok promise"
Doctor slumps her shoulders giving up this argument and Yaz wrapped her arms around her neck kissing her, but Doctor stood there purposely not giving her any reaction back until she finally give in and wrapped her arms around her waist
"You're so not fair you know...I know what you're doing...I don't have all those brains for nothing Yaz ...You're totally manipulating me....But just to be clear, I know it and I'm allowing it"
"Love yaaaa" Yaz flaps her lashes
Doctor takes a deep breath "I love you too"
Tardis made a sound that the results were done, and Doctor almost jumped out of her skin from excitement
"Aaaa!!! It's done Yaz ...look" she points to the blur on the screen
Yaz looked confused squinting her eyes "What am I looking at?"
"Baby...look" Doctor points looking at the screen so close she almost pressed her face to it
"What exactly Doctor, I'm confused"
"It's right there Yaz look!!" Doctor points her finger to a tiny black dot no bigger than a grain of rice. She goes completely soppy “Hello you, I'm you mum...dad...something...well get to that at some point" she scrunches her face "And that's your other mum" she grins at the dot "Say hello Yaz"
Yaz can't help but laugh shaking her head. All she sees is a dot on a screen, but the Doctor is talking to it going all soppy and it is absolutely adorable.
"They are only small Yaz...it's been only a week. But we'll get there"
"Is a baby like you?"
"I can't know now Yaz...But I know how it happened"
"How???"
"My energy when we are together...Well your body was kind of ready and well… when I did what I did it just got attached and because you see...Well it's complicated Yaz Time Lords are loomed"
"What does that mean?"
"Hard to explain Yaz like IVF so you see it started...well… looming"
"So, it is like you then" Yaz smiles
"Probably Yaz...not sure yet how much"
"So does that mean that every time you do.... that...I can stay pregnant?"
"I suppose so Yaz I don't know...I didn't even know this is possible...It's amazing" she stretched a biggest smile on her face
She starts running around the console gathering stuff and zooming around like crazy. She comes up to Yaz and gives her a shot without any warning
"Auch!!!!!.... What was that?" she rubs her neck
"Oh, just some vitamins.... minerals...you know, prenatal stuff and some other stuff you need...No worries"
"What other stuff?"
"Just some stuff against you...you know, fainting like that...I can't deal with that Yaz...I'm sorry It's too stressful it gives me anxiety" she twists her face in discomfort
"Also, we will have you checked every week and take this" she shoves a small cube in her hand
"What's that?" Yaz is twirling it in her hand
"I'll show you in a minute and....What did I forget...oh yes...one more thing..." Doctor grabs her hand and pulls her along the long hallway next to their room. She waives her sonic and the door opens out of nowhere. They walked into a small room that had a miniature version of the console in the middle of it.
"What's that?" Yaz looks around surprised
"Yaz...look at me" Doctor gets serious
"Mmmm?" Yaz is still looking around not really concentrated
"Yaz!" she tries to get her attention
"I'm listening" she finally looks at her
Doctor reaches for her hands holding them tight "Yaz...this is a safe room"
"What's a safe room?" her eyes wonder around the room
"If anything happens to me Yaz, or if at any point I tell you to go here...you have to promise me that you will...And you will not question what I say, or worry about me!! And no matter what...no questions asked Yaz, you will get in here and not come out until it's safe"
"Whaaaa? Nooooo…What are you saying? Nooo...Can we please get out of here!!" she tried to turn around but Doctor stops her
"Yaaaaaz!!! I'm not losing you both. You promise me! Listen to me Yaz!! Nobody can ever get inside this room. It will not open or show itself to nobody except you and me. It doesn't even exist for anyone else. They would have to destroy the Tardis to get to you. So, you go here, and you leave Yaz...you keep yourself safe. Your key opens it, and Tardis will make it appear wherever you are. Also...this console will only work when you're in here. It overrides the main one in case someone, or something takes over Tardis. It will only listen to you...Also..." she points to the wall and pushes with her hand and the door opens to the outside "That's the emergency door out. Did you get that?"
"I'm not leaving you!!! Noooo!" her eyes fill with tears
Doctor wrapped her hands around her face
"This is not a discussion Yaz! Not even an option...This is not only about you and me anymore...You keep yourself safe...both of you...And I will always find you no matter where you are, as long as you're in here you're safe. Tardis will keep you both safe Yaz, no matter what. You can stay here for months until I find you. Tardis will give you everything you need. And I will find you.... remember that!
I can take care of myself like I always have done. But I need to know you're safe. Promise me Yaz right now!!!"
"I promise. I promise...if you get me out of here now...please... I hate this place" tears start rolling down her face and her chin start to wobble
"I love you...both of you so very much" she presses Yaz's head on her hearts and wraps her arms around her tight "I'm sorry...I'm so sorry I put you through this. I had to make sure you know Yaz. The way our life is...I'm sorry. I love you more than anything in this universe...both of you"
"Come on let's get out of here" she takes her hand "I have a nice surprise for you" she smiles
"I need one after this" Yaz wipes her tears holding her hand as tight as she possibly could
"You will love this I promise" Doctor smiles pulling her hand down the hallway back to the control room
She let's go of her hand runs to the console grabbing something and runs back to her and clips a little bracelet around her wrist smiling
"What's that? It's beautiful" Yaz looks at a brass color bracelet with Galifrein symbols all over it
"Look" Doctor pressed on the bracelet and a tiny hologram popped out "See...baby!!!!" she points at the same little, tiny dot that was on the other monitor "Hello again...It's me again. Aren't you a cute little jelly bean? I love you. Look here's your mummy. She can see you now all the time because I made her this bracelet...We both can." she goes all soppy again and it makes Yaz laugh
Yaz's chin starts to wobble again, and she throws herself around the Doctor's neck "What have I ever done in my life to deserve you?"
"It's what I'm wondering about you every day Yaz." Doctor squeezed her tight
"So, tomorrow we will investigate that hole in the ground...Right? You promised" Yaz smiles
"Yap...we sure are! ...But today you're resting.....And I need to do more tests" she zooms to the console
"What tests? I thought you're done?"
"Absolutely not Yaz. This is way too interesting. Now I want to know everything. We can't make a baby Yaz every time...you know...when we...anyway yeah go and rest"
"Yeaaaah...nooo we definitely can't" she makes horrified face walking upstairs
"Oh, Yaz and eat please" she looks up to her
"I just did"
"Well eat again Yaz"
"Dear god I'll be rolling around Tardis by this rate" she mumbled walking up the steps
"And you would look cute doing it" Doctor laughs
"Very funny"
Doctor spent most of the day at the console doing god knows what. Yaz lost track of half of the stuff she was saying. She made her eat 5 times to a point Yaz felt like she would be sick. Yaz still couldn't get over this situation. She stood in front of the mirror in their room. She lifted up her t-shirt and lowered her jogging bottoms. She kept staring at her stomach in a mirror trying to wrap her head around everything. Not just this absolutely bizarre situation, but also everything that has happened since they got to this planet. She kept tracing her hand over her stomach smiling
"I love you...whoever you are in there. I don't know why you chose me...but I'm glad you have"
She had no idea the Doctor stood at the door looking at her in silence smiling. She slowly walked away not wanting to spoil that moment for Yaz...she felt it was something that was just hers to have.
..........
They woke up early the next day.
"Noooo....please I really can't.... you’re making me feel ill" Yaz begged and slumped her head on a kitchen counter
"Yaaaaz...you need to eat more...the energy that your body is now using is enormous...Every cell and every part..."
"Iiii knoooow you told me a million times about the process I know...I just can't eat that much it's making me feel physically ill. Can't Tardis make something...tablet, juice, shake, lobotomy would be nice at this point"
Doctor stopped with her hands in the air in the middle of explaining and twisted her face "Yeah...why didn't I think of that?"
"Whaaaa? I'll kill you I swear I'll kill you. You made me eat 4 plates of this...whatever this gooey thing is" she scoops up the sticky gooey substance from her plate making disgusted face
"That gooey thing is everything your body needs right now" Doctor says offended "I'm doing this for your own good Yaz...And you are feeling much better...not passing out anymore no morning sickness, nothing...I wish people knew that. It would be so much easier on women"
"Noo, no it wouldn't believe me it wouldn't. Don't ever pattern it please"
"Now that's a good idea...haven't thought of that"
"Oh god, shoot me someone please!!!!" Yaz slumps her head on a table again
"By the way I love your new style. You look lovely" Doctor referred to Yaz's floaty cotton trousers and a t-shirt top she started wearing
Yaz gets off the highchair and proudly shows her new wardrobe smiling "Oh, that...yeah. I found it much more comfortable than tight jeans... besides I don't want to squeeze the baby. Glad you like it."
Doctor walks up behind her wrapping her arms around her and placing her hands on her tummy. She lays her head on Yaz's shoulder
"This your new way of cuddling with me?" Yaz smiles rocking them left to right
"Yap...that way I cuddle you both" Doctor smiles
"I was right you know"
"Right about what Yaz?"
She leans on Doctor's chest putting her arms around Doctor's closing her eyes "You are the best person I've ever met"
Doctor kisses her cheek "That could be debatable Yaz...but you definitely are. We need to get moving. Unless you want to stay?"
Yaz jumps "Noooo no, no we are going. I just need to change into something warmer or I'll freeze outside. I'll probably just put jogging bottoms on"
"Well go on then.... get a shift on mummy" Doctor makes a smug face
"Love ya" Yaz smiles on a way out
Doctor and Yaz met in the control room. Yaz changed into more comfy jogging bottoms. The Doctor is already hunched over the console.
"Are we taking Tardis?" Yaz asked confused
"Of course, we're taking Tardis Yaz...You didn't think we would walk, did you?"
"Then why did we walk all this time then?"
"Because....we're on vacation and we enjoyed nature.... this is work. Besides you're pregnant now...things have changed...Ready!" Doctor smiles with her hand on the lever
"Ready babe" she smiles
"Hold on tight...don't you fall"
"Oh, stop fussing just go" Yaz rolls her eyes laughing
Doctor opens the door and takes her sonic out. They stepped out of the Tardis into a massive space underneath the ground that resembled the cave they were in but a lot bigger in size. The cavern branched out into a web of smaller tunnels from all the sides
"Which way do we go Doctor? This place is massive" Yaz walks behind her looking around at least ten different tunnels they have to choose form
Doctor looks at her sonic "This way Yaz" she takes them down one of the passages
They walk through the darkness holding hands with only Doctors sonic lightning the way
"Doctor, can you hear that?" Yaz stopped and pulled her hand
"Hear what Yaz?" she stops listening
"That...seems like...breathing" Yaz frowns trying to listen
Doctors' eyes are wandering around the space until they get fixed on something behind Yaz's back. She squeezes Yaz's hand harder
"Yaz"
"Mmmm?"
"You know when we did the scan of the hole and I said I'm picking up something almost alive?"
"Yesss" her eyes open wider
Doctor doesn't move her face just turns her eyes towards Yaz "Well...It's sort of behind you"
Yaz's hart started pounding and she slowly turned around. Smelly breath of an animal exhaling felt like strong wind blowing into their faces making their hair fly off their face
"Draaaaagooooonnn!!!!" Yaz yells
"Ruuuuunnnn Yaz!!!!!!!" Doctor pulls her by the hand as hard as she could pushing her infront of herself "Run faster Yaz!!!!!"
They both ran as fast as their legs could carry them down the narrow hallway
Doctor turned around while running, blasting an animal with a strong sound wave from her sonic. It gave up and stopped but they both kept running for some time until Doctor grabbed Yaz's hand train to catch her breath
"I think it stopped...I think we're fine" Doctor said still trying to breathe
Yaz leaned her back on the wall trying to do the same "OMG that was close"
"You ok Yaz?" Doctor walks up to her concerned
"Sure...just let me catch a breath"
Doctor scans her with a sonic
"What are you doing?"
"Just making sure you're both fine"
"Don't be silly...of course we're fine...stop fussing" she waved her hand in dismissal
"I am fussing Yaz and I will continue to fuss a lot!!!" Doctor gets flustered
"This is what I was talking about...this is exactly why I didn't want us doing that"
"I'm fine...relax...I'm more worried about how we will get to the Tardis"
"I'll think about that later...Let's just get going Yaz..." she grabs her hand and proceeds down the hallway
"We are not doing this again until that baby comes out...This what happens when I'm too soft...and I'm becoming way too soft Yaz"
She keeps muttering into her chin the whole way and Yaz just smiled and rolled her eyes. She found it incredibly cute and adorable how much Doctor cared, and she was totally enjoying in a moment
"Hey look...lights" Yaz points to the end of the tunnel
"Come on let's hurry up" Doctor pulls her by the hand
They came to the end of the tunnel and stopped completely speechless. The tunnel abruptly stopped at the end and a massive cavern opened up in front of them revealing a huge underground city down below as far as their eyes could reach. Hundreds of small narrow streets and shops with hundreds of people walking through them
"Aaaaaaaaaawww!!!!" Yaz's eyes were open wide and wondering around
Doctor stood looking around, her face dropped to the floor "Yaaaz...I think we just found where all the people disappeared" she smiles looking at Yaz amazed
"This is amazing...and look how huge it is...Doctor it's massive!!!"
"I know!! This is too good to be true Yaz"
"How do we get down there?" Yaz goes closer to the edge looking at the massive drop down to the city streets
"Careful Yaz!" Doctor pulls her from the edge stepping in front of her
"Look Yaz there's steps" she points to the small narrow but very steep steps going down the rocks all the way to the bottom
"Yaz this is very steep hold my hand and please be careful...I'll go first" she starts descending slowly down the narrow path holding Yaz's hand so tight Yaz's circulation almost stops
Halfway down Yaz made a step and half of the step broke under her feet. She grabbed to the Doctor's shoulder with her other hand
"Yaz!!!!!"
"I'm fine I'm fine love"
"Just please hold on to me" Doctor was stressed out of mind. All she wanted at this point is to get down as soon as possible
Slowly they reached the bottom and steep down the street below.
"You, ok?"
"Yes...stop fussing" Yaz smiles
"You want to rest? We can rest...we have time...look cafe...we can sit for a drink" she smiles pointing at a small place that had tables and chairs outside
"Nooo I'm fine"
"I'm hungry...I bet you're hungry...it's way past your meal Yaz you really should eat something" she starts pulling her hand towards the place
"I'm fiiiineeee...OMG I'm not hungry..."
"You may not be, but baby is...come on...all that running not good for the baby Yaz...you need energy" she keeps pulling her along
Yaz drags her feet rolling her eyes, but she gives in on the argument because she knows she won't win it.
They sit at the small stone table and makeshift chairs and a small man approaches them smiling
"Welcome ladies, how can I help you?"
"Hello, I'm the Doctor and this is Yaz. We travelled a long way and she's with a baby, so we need some food...and drink..."
"Oh, that's nice. We don't get visitors around here. I'm Mani...nice to meet you"
"Nice to meet you Mani" Yaz smiles
"Well for a pregnant beautiful lady I have something very nice. I just made a delicious stew I think you will love it"
"That would be very nice...Thank you. And can I have a glass of water please" Yaz smiles to the nice man
"Sure...And for you madam?" he turned to the Doctor
"I don't suppose you have fried egg sandwich"
A man looked confused "Mmmm....nooo"
"That's a shame...I'd really fancy fried egg sandwich...Never mind, I'll have the same as her"
"Very well ladies just make yourself at home"
Yaz leaned over the table and whispered "Doctor...how are we going to pay for that?"
"Oh...shoot...haven't thought about that one Yaz....suppose we will have to wash some dishes"
"Whaaat?"
Doctor bursts out laughing "I got you...didn't I? .... Don't worry Yaz. I got this" she pulls a small card out of her pocket
"You have a credit card????" Yaz looked baffled
"What's a credit card?"
"Never mind...what is that?"
"I can pay any currency in the know universe with this Yaz...so don't worry"
"Right...Where do you get your money from? Not like you work or anything"
"I have some investments you know that I made...all around...Patterns and stuff I did ages ago... the rest just Tardis makes"
"Right...so Tardis prints money?" Yaz looked confused
"Sort of...suppose" Doctor looked as if she didn't really think of that a lot
"Mmmm...ooookkkk. Well suppose I'll have enough for nappies then" she laughs
"What, for the baby? ... Oh, Yaz, don't worry about that...you and the baby won't miss a thing. Talking about that, I need to sort out a room. We need to talk about the baby room"
"You're adorable you know that" Yaz smiles
"Here we go lovely ladies. Enjoy your meal" the man brings the bowls with the stew
"That smells lovely" Yaz comments
"May I ask why you live here...underground?" Doctor looks up to the man
"We can't mam...Suffice is scorched. We wouldn't survive five minutes. I don't suggest you go there"
"Scorched? What do you mean?" Yaz asked confused
"The meteor..." man said, confused as if they were meant to know that "Oh...of course...how silly of me...you're not around here are you. It was years ago...nobody remembers anymore. Meteor destroyed the planet...scorched it completely and destroyed the atmosphere. We took hiding here and... well it's not perfect but it keeps us safe"
Doctor and Yaz looked at each other confused.
"Hey Mani...time to pay" two men approached the man
"I'm so sorry... business isn't doing too well lately. I promise I will have the money soon" Mani looked scared stepping back
"Mani... you said that last time" man approaches him nicking one of the chairs on the way.
Yaz and Doctor looked at each other
"Doctor?" Yaz whispers
"Stay put Yaz!!" Doctor whispers back
"I'm so sorry I promise I will have money soon!" Mani is stepping back even more until his back hits the table behind him
The two men grabbed another chair and threw it in the wall "Now Mani!!!!!..."
"Oh Mani" Doctor gets up "You know that money you lent me ages ago?"
Mani looks at her confused.
"Yeah, about that money...well I have it"
"Doctor???" Yaz looks at her in complete confusion but Doctor singles her to drop it
"Who are you?" one of the men goes into Doctors face
"I'm the Doctor, Mani's very old friend" she looks at Mani and nods her head, then looks back at the man "And you? ...I don't believe we've met?"
"I'm just doing my job...taxes need to be paid and he owes four months rent already" he points a finger at Mani
"Right, and how much would that be?" Doctor askes
"700 HUR" the man replied confused
Doctor makes a confused face "Not really up to date with it but do you accept cards?" she wipes the card out of her pocket
"Whaaa?" the two men looked at each other confused "suppose so..."
Doctor smiles "Right...well that's settled then...and I assume you will knock out the money for that chair you just broke?" she smiles sarcastically in a man's face
"Right" the man replied confused
"Good...that's settled then!" she smiles
Doctor pays his debt, and the two men leave
"Are you alright?" she turns to the man concerned
"I can't pay you back that money" he replies worried out of his mind
"Oh, don't worry about that" she waved her hand in dismissal "What's happening here Mani? Who are those men?"
"Why did you do that? You don't even know me?"
"Do what Mani? We just really loved the food" Doctor smiles "Go on sit down with us"
The man sits at the table still stressed but slowly calming down
"Mani what's going on here? Who are those men?"
"We all need to pay taxes every month and they are getting higher and higher. Nobody can keep up anymore. It's eating up almost all my money. People are really struggling. And if you don't pay, they kick you out on a street"
"Who's they Mani?" Doctor asks
"The chancellor and his men. He practically owns this place. People want to leave but they have no place to go"
"Yeah, talking about that Mani..." Doctor makes a face
Suddenly all the lights go out and the whole city goes into darkness.
"What's going on?" Yaz looks around
"We only have power for a few hours in a day. We need to save. Listen...do you have a place to stay for tonight? Because if you don't, my wife and I have a spare room. It's not good to be on these streets in the dark. It's not safe...specially for a pregnant lady like you"
"That's very nice of you Mani. As it happens no we don't have a place to stay"
"Well, that's settled then...it's at least what I can do for you today. And my wife is even better cook than me, so dinner will be lovely"
They walk through the darkness following Mani with a little lantern. Narrow stone streets stretch for miles. And tall houses make them even darker. They pass next to a few suspicious characters and Doctor grabs hold of Yaz's hand holding it tight.
"Doctor, we need to tell him" she whispers leaning closer to her
"We will Yaz...all in good time. But first I want to find out who this Chancellor character is"
"Here we are...it's not much but it's mine" he opens a squeaking door "Honey...we have guests" a man says straight from the door
A tiny woman with long blonde hair plaited in a big braid reaching over her shoulder and a brown dress tied up at the waist reaching almost to the floor, comes to the hallway. She's wiping her hands into a kitchen cloth and smiles.
"Oh, hello there"
"Hi honey. Let me introduce you to these lovely ladies"
"Hello, my name is the Doctor, and this is my wife Yaz" Yaz looks at the Doctor shocked and confused
Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Kai"
"Honey, they travelled from a far and they got caught in a power cut off having nowhere to stay. And this lovely lady is with a baby"
"Oh, are you honey? Well, isn't that wonderful. You must be exhausted darling. Have you eaten anything?"
"Yes, thank you. I'm fine"
"I will make sure you sleep on a comfier bed tonight. Don't worry"
Kai leads Yaz to the kitchen being extra attentive and it confuses Yaz completely not being used to being treated in such a way. She looks over her shoulder towards the Doctor who just smiled at her.
Later on, they all sit at the table chatting about all sorts of stuff. Doctor explaining how they travel everywhere and how they are on their honeymoon. Kai and Mani explain more about the city and how they met when they were just children and married as soon as they left the school but how unfortunately they cannot afford to have any children. It made Doctor and Yaz sad and angry in a same time and even more determined to put things right in this place.
Suddenly their problems seemed a bit smaller, and they both felt very privileged owning a Tardis that provided everything they needed.
"So, Doctor, my husband tells me you paid our debt. I have no words to say thank you to you. You're always welcome into our home"
"Thank you, Kai," Doctor smiled
Yaz's eyes were closing. Suddenly she felt exhausted.
"Yaz...I think you should lie down" Doctor holds her hand that was placed on the table
"Yes...honey you and the baby need some rest. Let me show you both to your room" Kai gets up and leads them up the narrow staircase to the top floor of the house and into a small room.
"Bathroom is right there and I left some clothes for you to sleep in. Have a nice rest both of you"
"Thank you so much that's so sweet of you" Yaz smiles
"Thank you, Kai, I really appreciate it" says the Doctor
"Well good night" Kai closes the bedroom door
"You take shower first, Yaz I can wait. You're tired" Doctor sits on a bed
Yaz got out of the bathroom in a white nightie reaching to the floor. And her hair loose falling over her shoulders. She plonked herself on a bed exhausted.
"Yaz...I'm not wearing that" Doctor yells from the bathroom
"Wearing what?"
"That dress"
"It's not a dress it's for sleeping"
She comes to the bathroom door upset.
"It's a dress!" she's holding a nightie in her hands making faces
"Well, you're not wearing your clothes to bed either. Stop complicating and take a shower"
"Are you saying I stink?" she pulls her t-shirt away from her chest smelling herself
Yaz bursts out laughing "Nooo I didn't say you stink...you never do...But you're not wearing those dusty clothes to bed either. Besides, it's comfy. Just please try"
"Alright..." she makes a sour face and getting back in a bathroom
Yaz lies on her back and switches her little baby hologram on "Hello" she smiles looking at it for a while
"Who are you talking to?" Doctor yells from the bathroom
"Just the Baby"
"Say hi from me"
"Alright love" she smiles shaking her head thinking how cute Doctor is
"Yaz this is not comfortable" Doctor is scrunching her face on a door of the bathroom fidgeting in a nightie
"Why?"
"I feel like...I dunno...like I'm naked underneath"
"Aren't you?"
"Noo" Doctor gets into bed
"Hmmm shame" Yaz laughs
Yaz makes herself comfortable leaning her head on Doctor's shoulder. "Look.." she points at the hologram in the air "it's not any bigger?"
"Of course, not...it's only been a day" Doctor laughed
Yaz switched off the hologram and turned on her side snuggling in on Doctor's chest enjoying her fingers running down her back.
"What's wrong Yaz. You seem sad"
"I just keep thinking how blessed we are. You know having Tardis...we have everything we need. They can't afford the baby. I want to help them"
"I know Yaz, we will. Someone is using these people and we will come to the bottom of it. Don't worry" she kisses her head "How are you feeling? I'm worried about this being a bit too much for you"
"I'm ok, you really worry too much" she snuggles in more "I'm fine as long as I have you. Tell me one of your stories"
"Alright...what do you want to hear? "
"Tell me about your time on court of Henry VIII You never finished that one last time or you did and I fell asleep"
"What do you remember last?"
"When you came to the court" Yaz starts to have giggles like a kid
"Alright I'll start form beginning" Doctor laughs
She fell asleep in less than five minutes. Doctor stayed awake for quite some time stroking her hair and thinking about this strange place they found themselves in. She thought about Yaz's words about how blessed they are to have Tardis. And no matter how much their life is unpredictable and no matter how many times their lives are in danger the fact still remains that at least in that they were truly blessed.
Yaz opened her eyes in the morning and the first thing she saw was Doctors eyes gazing at her.
"Morning" Yaz smiles
"Morning beautiful" Doctor taps her nose
"Had a nice sleep?"
Yaz stretched a bit and then curled up next to the Doctor pressing her back and bum as close as she possibly could to her as always. Doctor lifted her nightie, placing her hand on her tummy gently stroking it with her fingers.
"That tickles!" she giggles "Did you sleep?"
"I did some...not a lot. We need to get up, sleepyhead. Lots to do today"
"Iii know...just cuddle me a bit more. I don't know what's wrong with me lately. Why am I so soppy? I'm not a soppy person."
Doctor laughs and kisses her shoulder "You're hormonal...but I love it...just hope you don't go into hysterical phase"
"I don't like it...I feel stupid. I feel like a child. What the hell I was fighting Cyberman, and I turned into soppy mess"
"You can still fight Cyberman Yaz. Although I hope you never do again. I prefer this"
"So, what's the plan Bighead? ...I know you have at least ten by now in that beautiful head of yours"
"We are going to visit the big man today. But first I want to talk to Kai and Mani and tell them about the surface. They have to know. Because I was thinking Yaz. If we don't sort this out at least I want to help them. Get them out of this place"
"Me too, I really want to help them. Should we get up?"
"I really think we should Yaz"
"Oh, morning love. Did you sleep well?" Kai looks at Yaz smiling. She was washing the dishes in the kitchen
"We have. Thank you so much Kai, you're really sweet" Yaz smiles
"Morning Kai, we slept really well. Especially this one. She didn't want to get up. How are you today?" Doctor sits at the kitchen table "We will have to leave soon Kai...lots to do today"
"Where's the rush? Breakfast will be ready soon and you my dear need to eat. When are you due? "
"Oh, we're not really sure. It's a bit complicated."
"Oh, I see...well you will know in time I'm sure...They let you know when it's time...can't miss it" she laughs
"Kai...did anyone ever try to get out on the surface?" Doctor asks intrigued
"Oh, few did a long time ago. But never came back. They say they died a horrible death. Nobody has tried since. People are scared. They say there's poisonous gasses and all sorts of stuff up there"
"Kai what if I told you that's a lie"
Kai turns around shocked "What? What are you saying? But surely..."
"Kai we came from up there yesterday. We've been up there for days now. And nothing is wrong with the surface of the planet. Yes, something happened...a long time ago a massive disaster of cataclysmic proportions but the planet was healing and there's nothing wrong anymore. Who ever is saying this to you is lying Kai...using you to work and give your money”?
Kai was quiet. She put the food on a table in front of them and smiled at Yaz stroking her head. "Eat darling...it's nice I made it specially for you"
Her face went serious, and she sat down next to the Doctor putting a kitchen towel on a table and resting her elbow on the edge.
"Don't say this to anyone. What you just told me. It will get you into trouble"
"Why? People need to know!" Yaz says confused
"Listen. When I was a little girl, my father worked in the tunnels. They dig out coal there for heating and cooking and so on. And one day he came home petrified. Said there's a beast living in the tunnels. It attacked the men, and few died. But when they went looking for them one of the men stumbled on an opening in one of the tunnels and they say there's a light...bright light coming from the surface inside. But when they spoke of it all the men disappeared without a trace. Never to be heard of again. So, my father never spoke about it again."
"Kai, your father was right. What they saw was sunlight from the surface. And the beast was a dragon. It was chasing us, but we managed to escape."
"It can't be surly...Dragons are sacred...they are in our legends." Kai continued explaining "Magnificent creatures flying the skies. Never to be harmed because they come from gods. All animals are. They are god’s children never to be harmed. But nobody has seen any in hundreds of years. They say when a meteor hit it was God's anger. He took his children and scorched the surface"
"Kai it is true...we saw them. Doctor showed it to me when we came"
"Even if true Yaz. My people will never go up anymore. Ever...It's not our place amongst gods. It's why we were punished. We took what's not ours to take. But Chancellor is another thing. He's an evil man. He came from the far. Nobody knows from were. Some think he's a god. But I'm telling you he's not...there's darkness in his eyes. "
"Where can we find this Chancellor?" Doctor asks
"He speaks every day…up there in the great hall. People go to borrow money. He gives but he takes tenfold back. I told Mani...no matter how hard it gets don't you ever go up there. We will manage."
"Hmmmm...interesting" Doctor and Yaz look at each other across the table
"Alright Kai, we need to rush. We need to go back soon. Thank you so much for everything"
"Well come and say goodbye before you leave"
"We definitely will Kai" Yaz says smiling
"Thank you for the breakfast that was delicious. What is it?"
"Oh, we grow some beautiful mushrooms in the tunnels. They taste nice, don't they?"
"Best mushrooms I ever had" Yaz smiles
Outside on a street, the Doctor was in her thoughts. She wasn't saying much. Just walking towards the main hall where Kai said the man was.
"Are you ok? " Yaz reaches for Doctors hand
"Who me? Oh yeah...just thinking. They will never leave this place, Yaz. They are too scared. Whatever we do they will stay here in darkness because they believe it's where they are meant to be. It's sad ...all this beautiful world out there and they have never seen it and they probably never will"
"I was thinking the same. But then I was also thinking how the world on the surface is so beautiful and untouched, untainted...all those animals...I don't know Doctor...sometimes maybe it's for the best. We don't know what they did, that they think they have been punished for"
"So true Yaz...I didn't think of it that way" she pulls her along "Hey look it's this way...let's go"
They come in front of the relatively big building on one of the many city squares. People are already gathered in front of the big staircase leading to the main entrance.
"Should we just go inside Doctor?" Yaz looks up o her
"Definitely Yaz...come on"
Masses of people gathered inside pushing and squeezing each other.
"Yaz keep close to me" she tightens the grip on her hand
"So many people OMG"
"So many desperate people Yaz"
"Silence!!!!" a voice of a man echoes across the room and everything goes quiet
Suddenly a flash of light a person appeared on the big podium sitting in lavishly decorated chair
"OMG isn't that??..."
"Space racing guy!!!" Doctor finishes her sentence looking at her surprised
"What's he doing here?"
"I'm afraid we're about to find out Yaz"
Some people came up and borrowed money, about twenty people that day. Then a person was brought up on the podium. A small young man. He looked scared.
“Oh, you again” the Chancellor says
“Im so sorry I don’t have all the money just half of what I owe you. But I will have it next week”
“You said that last week”
“I understand that, but my growth was destroyed by the tunnel collapsing and we need to wait for the new one to grow. Not much I can do about it”
“I made it very clear that those things are not my problem” he says it cold then turns to one of his men
“Make sure they move out by tomorrow please…Next”
“Nooo please give me just one more week…pleeeesee I’m begging you!!”
“Remove him please” the Chancellor says it to his assistant
“Ok…I’ve seen enough Yas. Stay here” Doctor turns to her angry
“I’m not staying anywhere I’m going with you” Yaz frowns
“Yaz please don’t argue with me”
“I’m not. Come on let`s go” she pulls her by the hand
“We will talk about this later Yaz…”
Doctor and Yaz climbed the podium and Doctor goes straight for the Chancellor
"Hello again...remember us?"
"No, in fact I don't. Who are these people?" he turns to his assistant
"Dead poisonous planet, space race. You left us to die. Ring any bells now?" Doctor goes into his face
"Oh, it's coming back to me now" he says confidently
"Change of the carrier? Space race and leaving innocent people stranded on a dead planet got boring for you so you thought hey let's do some real work" Doctor paces around him "Why not lie to the whole nation and enslave them for profit. Is this your real job or just a hobby? Just interested"
"What do you want?" the man sits in his chair without a care in a world not feeling threatened or intimidated at all
"What I want is for you to leave this planet and these people alone. And take your toys with you...go play in your room"
"You really think I'm intimidated by this nonsense?"
"No, I actually don't...and that's just because your ego is bigger that the galaxy" she turns around and yells across the room
"This man is fraud...he's not a God he's just a hologram projection from far away" she swipes her hand through the hologram and people start turning around talking shocked and surprised "Your planet isn't toxic or poisonous. There's nothing wrong with it! That's what he wants you to think so you continue working for him"
"Take them away" he turns to his assistant "I had enough of this show"
"Show us!!!" a man yells from the crowd
"Yeah...show us...how do we know you're not a fraud?"
Two of the guards grabbed the Doctor holding her hands at her back and one man grabbed hold of Yaz
"Get your hands off me!!" Yaz tried to get away, but she can't the man pushed to the gourd on her knees pinning her to the floor he's holding the neuro torture device inches from her head with sparks flying of it
"Get away from her!!!" Doctor yells and uses all her strength to release her arms. She then grabs the sonic disabling device and runs across the room pushing the man off Yaz so hard he falls to the floor
"Are you alright?" her eyes are filled with fear whilst reaching for Yaz's hand
"I'm fine don't worry"
Doctor pushes Yaz behind her and points a sonic at the guards "You really don't want to mess with me right now. Believe me!!!"
"It's true!!!! They are telling the truth!!!" a woman's voice echoes through the crowd distracting everyone
A small woman walks through the crowd to the podium "You all know my father. He was up there. He saw it. It's true...dragons are back"
"Kai!!!!" Yaz smiles
People looking at each other and commenting.
"And your father" she points at one person in a crowd "they all saw it that day in the tunnels. And when they tried talking about it, they all disappeared. You killed them, didn't you?" she turns to the Chancellor "All of them. Shutting them off...hiding the truth. You're not God...You're pure evil"
Doctor looks at Yaz pointing to the table near the Chancellor "remember that?"
She walks to the table and points the sonic at it. It shows the scorched planet covered in dust "Is this what he was showing you? Is this what you believe in? " Doctor yells across the room and then turns to the Chancellor "Using tricks and technology these people don't understand do you...you're a special kind of breed. You make me feel ill" she turns back towards the crowd "It's a hologram...just one of his dirty tricks"
She pointed a sonic again at the table and the now hologram popped up showing a beautiful untouched nature and dragon flying in the sky. A massive sight could be heard coming from the crowd
"Fraud!!! He's a fraud!!!" people start yelling
"Good luck Doctor...we will meet again" the
Chancellor smiles sarcastically and hologram projection disappears
"Aaaaarrrrrr! I hate when he does that!" she yells twisting her face
Ground trembles and pieces of rocks start falling from the ceiling of the cavern down on the streets
"Doctor!!! Whaaaat is going on?" Yaz and the Doctor looked up and around the room
"I don't know?" Doctor looks at her worried
People start panicking and running outside. Doctor grabbed one of the guards by his sleeve pointing a sonic at him "What is going on here?"
"He launched the weapon to destroy the planet" the guard says humbled "I'm sorry...I had no choice he was going to hurt my family"
"Where? ... Where is this weapon? What weapon?" Doctor is shaking him frantically
"I'll show you, but you can't stop it now"
"Show me now!!"
"Kai!!!" Yaz yells and pushes Kai out of the way just before the massive pile of rocks fell from the ceiling
"Let's go! Yaz!" Doctor yells grabbing her hand and they started running following the guard at the back of the great hall
They entered the control room with several monitors on the wall and a console with millions of buttons.
"Oh no, no, no you won't!!!!! " Doctor started frantically looking at the monitors and flipping the switches. She points the sonic at the console plate.
"What's going on Doctor?"
"He's got a weapon launching that will obliterate the service...How did he even get this technology here? Where from? This is Stenza...what is it with Stenza...You know I'm seriously getting annoyed with them"
"How did he get to that?"
"The dead planet Yaz...he must have found it there and thought he could use it.... Aaaaarrr...come on work for me please. If I could just overnight it. But it's controlled from far away"
Doctor rips the whole part of the console plate and throws it across the room
"Does she know what she's doing?" Kai askes worried looking at Yaz
"Most of the time...the rest of the time she's good in improvisation"
Yaz's statement gave little to no insurance to poor Kai whose eyes were frantically wandering around the room whose walls started to crack from shaking. A massive piece of rocks are falling from the ceiling all around them and Yaz covers her head with her hands ducking down.
Doctor turned towards her and grabbed her sleeve shoving her under the console plate
"Stay there and don't move Yaz!!"
"Just hurry up Doctor!!!" Yaz yells as another piece falls to the floor
"I am I am... give me a minute I need to think...I don't have a minute to think...I hate this...this is why I love vacation...I told you this was a bad idea didn't I... but nooo you were bored you needed adventure?" she looks at Yaz freaking out
"Seriously! We're having this conversation now??" Yaz snaps back at her covering her head as another piece of rock falls to the ground
Doctor pulls a bunch of wires out and she reconnects them. "That should work...hopefully" she stands back blasting the console plate with her sonic. The system starts shutting down. Doctor looks around the monitors hysterically pacing waiting to get the answer
"Yeees!!! Total shut down!" she slumps herself to the console plate "That was close!" she sighed relieved
The ground stopped shaking and everyone was relieved.
Doctor reached for Yaz's hand pulling her up and slid her arm around her waist. She looks at her relieved "You both ok?"
"We're fine. Start breathing" Yaz smiles at her lovingly
Later that evening they were all sitting down in Kai and Mani's kitchen having some wonderful food they prepared for them.
"Doctor, I still don't understand what's this hologram you're talking about? " Kai askes confused
"Look Kai" Yaz pressed on her bracelet and her little hologram popped up "See that's our baby here" she points at the little dot melting away
"Waaaaawww...that's amazing. Can I touch it?"
"Yes, don't worry about it. It's just like a picture hovering in the air" Yaz goes with her finger through it
"And that's your baby? ...That's in your belly right now?" Kai keeps trying to touch the hologram with her hand amazed
"Yap...that's our baby!" Yaz smiles and meets Doctors gaze across the table smiling back at her
"So, what happens now? What will your people do?" Doctor asks taking a sip of drink from the glass in front of her
"We decided to stay where we are. We will live the world above in peace. My people destroyed it once and they feel it's for the better that way. We will learn how to live together in harmony"
Yaz yawns and slumps her head on a table
"You should lie down, Yaz. It's been a long day for you" Doctor says looking at her softly "We all should"
"Are you in a rush to go back?" Mani turns to the Doctor
"Not really...no"
"Well Kai and I have been talking and we would love to have you stay with us at least another day. You deserve some nice times as well"
"Yaz...you want to stay?" Doctor asks, smiling knowing the answer already. "Yap, I think she wants to stay" she smiles looking at her giggling across the table
"Alright you...let's go to bed" Doctor gets up walking around the table and reaches for Yaz's hand pulling her up "Good night. Thank you for a lovely is dinner"
"Good night" Yaz smiles going up the steps
"Night lovely" Kai smiles to her
Doctor grabs Yaz's hips pushing her up the stairs laughing "Come on mummy you can do it" She makes Yaz giggle
Yaz was lying on bed already in her nightie playing with a hologram.
"I will never get used to this" Doctor walks out of the bathroom with a sour face wearing her nightie and crawls into bed.
Yaz giggles pulling it up over her head
"Take it off then" she giggles kissing her stomach going up her chest
"Yaz...stop that" Doctor whispers pulling her off herself and putting her nightie back down
Yaz snuggles up still giggling "See you should definitely keep it on...taking it off is way too much temptation"
"I can see that" Doctor laughs
"What was that thing that guard was going to use on me when you freaked out on him?"
"Neuro torture device Yaz. It shoots high voltage through your brain, basically frying every cell. Nasty things forbidden in most parts of the civilized world"
"But he got away, the Chancellor ...again...so he can do this to someone else, again"
"He did yes...but not forever Yaz. Sooner or later, someone will stop him. How are you doing? I was so scared today Yaz"
"I know, you did kung-fu panda on that guy...never seen you like that" Yaz giggles
"I still think this wasn't the brightest idea. I rather have you home on Tardis and having adventures around the lake. Mushroom picking can be fun"
"Stop that. !!" Yaz kicks her shoulder
"Seriously It can...I'll show you in spring" she pushes Yaz's head back down to her chest and kisses her top of her head
"Spring? Are we ever leaving this place?" Yaz looks up to her confused, but Doctor pushed her head back down "Stop fighting...I'm trying to cuddle you" Doctor complains
"You haven't answered my question"
"Don't know Yaz...plans change all the time...it's what our life is...and we have baby to think about now"
"So let me make this straight. You want to hide us here for the rest of our lives away from the Master and everyone else? Is that what you're saying? And Tardis? Should we just build a picket fence around it and get a golden retriever?"
"If it means keeping you safe.. yes"
Yaz gets up and sits on a bed "Are you serious? "
Doctor looks at her in silence
"You are, aren't you?"
Doctor gets up and starts pacing across the room tripping on her nightie "I don't know Yaz...maybe...not sure...right now yes...Not like I will dangle you and the baby in front of the Master and Division. That would be right treat for them" she's trying to keep it quiet freaking out whispering
"We can't be on witness protection program either Doctor"
"The whaaat?" she looks confused
"Hide...we cannot hide on some god forsaken place for the rest of our lives Doctor"
Doctor stops visible hurt "God forsaken place? I thought you loved this place? I thought you enjoyed being here...with me...I thought you wanted to stay here forever with me" Doctor turns her back to her, taking a deep breath trying to control herself from leaving the room. She probably would if she was dressed.
Yaz released what she’s just said and put a hand over her mouth "OMG!!! Noooo" she gets out of bed as fast as she can and walks over to her putting hand on her back "Love...that's not what meant" she says quietly "please look at me. I'm so sorry darling that's not how I meant it"
Doctor turns around. Her lips shut tight and her face in a cramp. She felt like Yaz stabbed her through the hearts. She didn't know what she felt anymore, it felt like falling down into a deep hole
Yaz stroked her cheek with her hand "I'm so sorry...please forgive me. That's not what I meant"
Doctor takes her hand off her face "What did you think Yaz?"
"What I meant is that I don't want me and the baby to be a reason you live in constant fear...looking over your shoulder all the time. I don't want that. Yes I want to spend the rest of my life with you here, I do but not as your burden Doctor"
"You could never be my burden Yaz"
"But I'm becoming. I've seen you today. All you think about is me and the baby. You're a different woman then few months ago"
"But that's how it's meant to be Yaz. Who am I going to think about...butterflies?" she waives her arms and starts pacing
"I never had anyone Yaz...it was always just me. Yes, people came and went but in the end it was always...just me" she shrugs her shoulders
"What about your wife?"
"Oh Yaz...that was not like with you" she turns around and starts pacing again
"Well, what was it like?"
"Complicated Yaz...extremely complicated...But the point being is that for the first time I'm not alone. I want to have that worry. I want to have that responsibility"
"And the Master...Division...? You can't tell me that's not bothering you because it is. You told me yourself that day I told you I was pregnant. You even made a panic room inside Tardis...what are you talking about"
"Oh, that's like putting alarm on a house Yaz...people do it all the time"
"Stop that!!...Stop playing it down. You're worried sick" she's trying not to yell but keeping her voice down is becoming increasingly hard "You used to leave me all the time...just disappearing on me all the time. And now you can't let my hand go...and that's nice, don’t get me wrong, but it's not because you want to hold it...it's because you're freaking out and if you could, you would duct tape me to yourself and carry me around like a kangaroo. And that's nice as well, but up to a point. I'm still me...I'm pregnant, I didn't have a lobotomy. I can still take care of myself and this baby. I'm not a child"
"Yaz I don't think you're a child and I know you're the same person. But before if someone pushed you or kicked you...you would just get off that floor and strike back. I know you know how to take care of yourself. But now Yaz, if someone did that to you...believe me you would not get off that floor!! And chances are you would lose that baby as well. So yes, I am overprotective and will be because I love you. It doesn't mean you're a burden or that I have no respect for you. It just means I love you Yaz. You mean more to me than anything in the world...I don't look at that as a burden. And yes, if that means making some changes to how we live to keep us out of harm's way I would do it in a heartbeat. I don't see it as some heavy duty tasks that's been thrown at me and I have to do it out of some duty. I see it as protecting my happiness...our happiness Yaz. Can't you see that?" Doctor said all of it not even taking a breath or blinking
Doctor stopped and gazed at her for a short moment in silence. Her face softened up slowly. Yaz walked up to her and put her arms around her neck.
"I'm so sorry for what I said '' Yaz looked up into her eyes. "I never meant to hurt you"
Doctor wrapped her fingers around her face stroking her cheek with her thumb. She felt like she could never love anything or anyone more than what she loved them two "I don't want us to argue like this, Yaz. I hate it. Please let me have this...I need it so much. I want to protect you. And it may seem silly to you, but I need this Yaz so much...it's just my way"
"Alright love...I'm so sorry please forgive me"
Doctor leaned over and kissed her gently feeling her beautiful soft lips on hers. They pulled apart just a little bit, so tips of their noses touched.
"I want you" Yaz smiled
"Yaz we can't, not here.."
"I know we can't" she laughs "I'm still allowed to say it. I love you" she strokes the back of neck the way she always did gently sliding her fingers through her hair
"Come on. Let’s go to bed...I can still cuddle you" Doctor smiled at her
"And kiss me" Yaz giggles pulling her towards the bed
"And kiss you..." Doctor trips over the nightie and rolls her eyes “God I hate this thing”
"Oh, for god sake just take it off!" Yaz pulls it over her head and throws it on a side of the bed
She lies on her back and the Doctor puts her head under her nightie kissing her stomach and stroking her legs. It made her giggle, and she placed her hand on her hand over the cotton fabric laughing "You need to stop that right now...that's way too tempting"
She comes back up laughing and lies next to her "I love you beautiful" she kisses her gently
…
"Yaz...you're taking forever, come on!" Doctor is sitting on the edge of the bed all dressed up looking at stains on her trousers "You know we really need to change our clothes"
"I know...well we're going home today so we will finally feel clean" Yaz comes out of the bathroom ready to go
"So, can I hold your hand, or you will freak out on me again" Doctor asks reaching out for her hand
"Don't be silly" she grabs her hand "Let's go. By the way...Love ya"
….
"Hey Yaz come over here...look" Doctor was shouting from across the marketplace
"Sorry I was just looking at some stuff with Kai" she walks over peaking over Doctors shoulder
"Look Yaz...for the baby" she's holding some gadget in her hand that Yaz couldn't really figure out what it's for
"What is that?"
"It's a puzzle box Yaz...look" she's showing her a really complicated little thing and Yaz still didn't get it fully
"That's adorable but I think it's more for adults than for a baby"
"It may be for humans Yaz...not for my baby" she makes a proud face
"Ohhhh I see ...ok love." she kisses her cheek
Doctor paid for the toy and shoved it in her pocket. Music could be heard from the corner of the street and people started dancing
"Hey music...come dance with me" Yaz looks across the street pulling Doctor by the coat
They ran across the marketplace and held hands dancing and swirling around, clapping hands and laughing. Doctor linked arms with her, swirling her around.
Yaz stopped, she was getting too tiered "OMG, I need to take a breath...this was really fun. I loved it...Look Kai and Mani are still dancing. They are so cute"
Doctor smiles and puts her arm around Yaz's shoulder and Yaz slides her hand around her waist
"I really hope now they have their dreams come true. Yaz says looking at them "Like us, you know" they gazed at each other in this short moment of true happiness
They finally got back to the Tardis later on that day.
The Doctor was in a shower and Yaz kept standing in front of the mirror checking her stomach every day and kept expecting to see some change in the size, but she never did. "It's not growing" she says disappointed turning around and sliding her hand over it
Doctor laughs her head off walking out of the bathroom drying her hair in a towel "It won't grow over night Yaz"
"I want it to grow just a little bit"
"Why?" Doctor couldn't stop laughing and thinking how cute and utterly adorable she is
"Dunno...just want to feel like baby is there"
"It's definitely there...no doubt" Doctor bends down and kisses her tummy
Yaz sits on the edge of the bed and slumps herself on a pillow
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. We won't be able to get far from tomorrow. Well not by foot anyway"
"Why?"
"Heavy snow is starting. I did tell you at some point it will get like that...well we could go but I'd be difficult...anyways... Now you got your adventure, no more until that baby comes. I can't deal with the stress Yaz"
"Alright I promise...I feel so tired" she yawns rolling on a bed
"Come on...get in to bed you need rest...besides I'll find something fun for us to do tomorrow so you'll need your strength"
"And you? ...Please stay with me...at least till I fall asleep. Then I know you will sneak out...you always do" Yaz hated when she left the bed every night. She'd turn around in the middle of the night and the Doctor would not be there so she would hug her pillow that still smelled of sweets. But she knew she couldn't help it. She only slept about two hours every night, if that.
"I have some work on Tardis, you know that...but I promise I'll stay till you fall asleep, only if you get your bum under those covers now"
Yaz crawled into bed, and they snuggled
"What is it that you do... all the time on Tardis?"
"Oh, just maintenance. It's a big place, you know. I have to make sure everything works properly...well relatively properly" she laughs
"Will you teach me?"
"Sure, I'll teach you everything. Sleep now" she presses her head on her chest and strokes her back "You need to rest"
Doctor started pushing her other hand between them two in a very awkward way
"What are you doing?" Yaz looked down laughing
"I just want to say goodnight to the baby" she looks at her confused
"Why didn't you say so for god’s sake I'd turn around" Yaz laughed thinking how the Doctor is sometimes acting as if she's not even an adult. So, she turns more on her back and reaches for Doctors hand placing it on her stomach "There...better now?"
"Much better" she snuggles up stroking her tummy and Yaz switched on the hologram
"Oh, hello there jelly bean" Doctor grins
"Do that again...let's see the baby's reaction!"
"Yaz honey baby is just a grain of rice it will not respond" Doctor laughed
"Oh...I just want it to grow" she pouted her lips
Doctor started cuddling her tummy making little circles with her fingers. It made Yaz sleepy
"Mmmm...that's nice...don't stop" Yaz closed her eyes, and she was out in a minute
…
The Doctor stretched the cables all over the floor of Tardis. Her sleeves were rolled up and she had her apron and big gloves on.
"Morning!" Yaz walked in with a bowl of cereal
"Hey, morning...careful Yaz don't fall"
Yaz walked over all the cables and sat on the steps
"Nice...so I don't even get a kiss anymore" Doctor complained sulking
"Whaa? ... Sure you do...I just didn't want to..."
"Yah yah... I can see where this is going" she walked over and smacked a short kiss on her lips " How's my fam?"
"Fine...I didn't want to get up I was so tired"
"Why did you then Yaz...not like we need to run somewhere?"
"Can't stay in bed the whole day, can I?"
"You can now" she's dragging the cables back inside the Tardis
"Oh, I moved us whilst you were sleeping. Snow was getting too high"
"I was thinking...can we sometimes go down to the city and visit Kai and Mani? I really liked it down there"
"Sure Yaz...whatever you want"
"I thought one evening we can go and have a nice romantic dinner"
"I'd like that Yaz. I just need to park the Tardis closer this time, not having you walk all that way and down those steps again"
"Doctor! Doctor are you there Doctor I need your help!! Doctor!" Ryans voice came through the con device
"Whaaa...Ryan???!!!" Yaz gets up worrying
Doctor zoomed around the console "Yes Ryan I'm here are you alright?"
"No Doctor, I need you it's really urgent"
"Alright Ryan hold on I'll put a lock on you...we're coming to get you"
"Hurry up Doctor" Ryan was freaking out on the other side
"Yaz honey put that cereal away we need to go!" Doctor was running around the console getting them ready to leave "Hold on Ryan, I got you we're coming. Yaz, are you holding on?"
"Yes, yes go" she grabbed the rail of the stairs. It was the first thing she could find but her bowl of cereal went flying across the room
They landed in a few seconds and the Doctor opened the door. Ryan ran past her yelling "Doctor just gooo!"
"Go where Ryan? " even Doctor was confused
"Anywhere just get us out of here!!!"
Doctor ran back to the console and pulled the lever. In several seconds they were up in the temporal zone.
"Ryan blimey what happened?" Doctor jumped around flying through the room and in a second, she was in front of him
"Are you alright?" she placed her hand on his shoulder as he was trying to catch some breath
Ryan, still trying desperately to breathe and talk at the same time is struggling to explain "Grandad...they took him..."
"Graham? Who took him Ryan? " Doctors eyes opened wide
"Those big...like black..."his trying to explain with his hands
"Tentacle things?"
"No" he's panting
"Big black fat things?" Doctor goes into his face
"No"
"Lanky black tall things?"
"Doctooor!!!! Just let him talk OMG!!" Yaz yells "Ryan it's ok mate...just calm down...slow down...big breath" Yaz says calmly using her police officer skills trying to get him to relax and he finally does
"We were at home, and we went to bed. I was woken up by this noise. Didn't think much of it at the time, I just thought it was something from the street, so I got up to go to the kitchen and I saw a blue light from grandad's room. So went up there and those things...they were really tall lanky looking things like humans but not. And big, massive foreheads and those big black eyes. As soon as I went in it was like I was paralyzed, I couldn't move. Grandad looked like he was sleeping but one of those things came to me and like he spoke in my head Doctor it was weird...And they just left took grandad" Ryan started at the floor in desperation
"What did he say to you Ryan?" Doctor said quietly
"I can't remember Doctor...I'm sorry...I just froze. Yaz I froze...I didn't help him" he buried his face into his hands
"Ryan it's ok...hey...this wasn't your fault. We'll find him...right?" Yaz looked up to the Doctor
"Sure, we will Ryan...and I know exactly where to look" she runs to the console
"You do???"Yaz said surprised and excited at the same time
"Sure, I do Yaz...if they are who I think they are I know exactly where to go" she zoomed to the other side of the console and flipped the image on a monitor "Ryan is that what you saw?"
"Yes Doctor" he jumps on his feet "those are the things that..."
"OMG what are they, Doctor?" Yaz looks at the monitor feeling a bit of dread inside
"Akani Yaz.. nasty things. One of the most dangerous species in the universe"
"Of course...because hey why not "Yaz comments sarcastically
"Doctor a bit of information please" Ryan asked
"Have you met them before?" Yaz comes closer to the monitor
"Long time ago Yaz...very long time ago...and I was hoping I never will again. Do not under-estimate Akani. They have telepathic powers...do not and I mean do not let one touch you"
"Why? " Yaz askes
"They have a power Yaz to make you believe you're somewhere else, see things that are not there...even make you do stuff you would never do...control your mind. They are extremely dangerous. Clone race...they lost the ability to normally reproduce a long time ago. And they are obsessed with any technology. They destroyed their planet with it"
"Alright...I get all that Doctor but what do they want with grandad?"
"I don't know Ryan, but we will get him back" she runs a sonic over Ryan "Just as I thought" she reads the sonic
"What?" Ryan asked scared
"Ryan, do you remember anything else? Have you been anywhere else?"
"No, I told you everything "
"Right...you wouldn't...but..." she turns around and starts crawling under the console
"Doctor what are you doing?" Yaz asked confused
She wiped out a strange gadget and without any questions shoved on Ryan's head "I need to get all the data Ryan...I could read your mind, but I won't get anything. Your mind's been...well...wiped" she turns back to the console connecting the gadget to the console
"Whaaaat? ...What do you mean?" Ryan panicked
"Doctor, what do you mean his mind was wiped?"
"Partially Yaz not completely. They took Ryan as well, but he obviously didn't have what they needed so they returned him back. Like I told you...they will make you believe something is there that is not...That's why you cannot remember what they told you Ryan...because that never happened. The real memories are buried in your mind....and this will help me to get to them. It will only take a minute, Ryan it won't hurt. Just relax"
Doctor flipped few switches and the gadget started glowing "Be calm Ryan don't worry"
Poor Ryan was just looking up towards the top of his head, petrified. But wish to find his grandfather was bigger than his fears
"Alright all done Ryan...thank you...you did well. Now I have to analyze this. Don't worry"
"Doctor, you will find him?" he says worried out of his mind taking the thing off his head and placing it on the console
"I will Ryan...but I have a lot of work to do all through the night ...don't worry tomorrow we go and get him. You and Yaz go relax. Do something nice together...get your mind off it."
"Alright Doctor...thank you"
"Ryan!!!...You don't need to thank me...you're my fam... Nobody snatches my fam... Oh, and Yaz...don't forget to take your vitamins and please rest you need rest. And tomorrow you're staying on Tardis"
"Whaaaat!!!! Nooo I'm not"
"Oh yes you are...you're not going anywhere in your state we talked about it Yaz"
Ryan was looking at them two in complete confusion trying desperately to decipher the convo but with no luck. He just got even more confused
"I did promise but this different...it's Graham and you're not stopping me"
Doctor looks at her across the console upset "Yaz..iff you do go..."
Yaz runs around before the Doctor finishes the sentence grabbing her face with both hands and shutting her up with a kiss. Ryan turned his gaze to the floor embarrassed.
"Love ya!!!" Yaz giggled and turned around pulling Ryan by his sleeve "Come on...I'm hungry "
Doctor stood at the console speechless and confused "I'm being manipulated...completely manipulated" Tardis hums "Oh come oooon she is totally swinging me around her little finger, and you know it!!" she turns to Tardis
"Hey Yaz...what was that all about? Why wouldn't the Doctor let you go?" Ryan asked whilst walking towards the kitchen
"If I tell you...you promise you won't take a piss out of me Ryan...or the Doctor"
"Promise Yaz...hey you're my mate...are you alright? " Ryan got a bit worried thinking Yaz is ill. He just didn't understand why Yaz would ever think he'd take a piss out of her for that
They walked into the kitchen and Yaz grabbed him for his shoulders making him stand in the middle of the room
"Ready?" Yaz smiles
"Suppose so" he answered confused
She pressed her little bracelet and the hologram popped up. She smiled and looked at Ryan expecting some sort of reaction, but he just started at the hologram confused
"Well??? Aren't you gonna say anything?"
"Say what Yaz...I'm proper confused...what is that?"
"Ryan...it's a baby..."
Ryan still started not really understanding what she's going on about.
"Ryan...I'm pregnant!"
"Whaaaa?"
"Aha!" she smiles nodding her head
"You lost me Yaz...how can you be pregnant? With who?"
"What do you mean with who, Ryan?"
Ryan’s face changed ten different expressions in two seconds "You mean it's hers?" he pointed finger in a direction of the control room
"Yap...hers...mine...ours... we're having a baby Ryan!" Yaz says exited out of her mind
"Noooo...nooo way mate...OMG Yaz... OMG Yaz...now that is some proper awesome Yaz" he grabs her around her waist and lifts up in the air "You're having a baby Yaz OMG!!!!" Ryan is pacing around the kitchen excited smiling "Yaz wait until grandad hears"
"I know it's exciting, isn't it?" Yaz couldn't stop smiling
Ryan stops and gets serious "But wait a minute...does that mean??"
"What?" Yaz frowns
"Does that mean Doctors got...you know...?"
"Ryan!!!!!.... OMG" she smacks him on the head "Nooo...Ryan she's a woman for god’s sake what's wrong with you?"
"Alright... Alright...just asking...not like it would be a problem...she was a bloke before..."
"I can't believe you just asked me that...what he hell"
"But how...how is that possible?"
"Honest Ryan, she knows I'm still not sure...I don't even care, I'm so happy"
He hugs her smiling "You should be Yaz…this is just proper awesome"
They sat down and had some food. Yaz was showing him a hologram and telling him all about it.
"So, when will the baby come?"
"Not sure. Doctor says it could be nine months or a year. But it's growing slow...I want a big belly Ryan, so everyone knows"
"Did you tell your mum?"
Yaz got up and walked to the fridge "Nooo...not yet...That's gonna be an interesting conversation. Hey mum, remember the Doctor...oh well yeah...You know when you asked if we're seeing each other...well we are...in fact she's my wife and we're having a baby oh, oh and by the way mum she's an alien with a time ship"
"Yeah...might hold that convo for a while Yaz"
"Not that she doesn't know Ryan...she does know we're together...she just stopped asking...it's all the other stuff I need to explain now"
"Nah Yaz...I recon she's gonna be proper happy for you...I know grandad will"
"Happy about what?" Doctor walks in the kitchen
Yaz walks over to her sliding her hand around her waist "I told Ryan about the baby"
"Congratulations Doctor! ...This is awesome"
"Thanks Ryan...It is, isn't it?"
"You ok love?"
"Yes, I just need some drink Yaz. This is going to be a long night, don't wait up for me. Just make sure you rest ok...promise"
"Promise" she kisses her cheek
Doctor took the juice out of the fridge and walked out. Ryan and Yaz enjoyed watching a movies and chatting and went to bed. It helped Ryan not to think about all the horrible things going through his mind about where Graham was.
Yaz tried to stay awake, but she fell asleep in the end. She woke up when the Doctor came to bed.
"Hey beautiful Bighead...what time is it?"
"Late...go back to sleep" Doctor slumped herself on her stomach and buried her head into the pillow exhausted and depressed
Yaz felt sorry for the Doctor. She looked so tired and Yaz knew how she felt about desperately wanting a break. Yet somehow troubles always come for the Doctor and this trouble is not something she could ignore. Yaz turns around to face her and meets her exhausted gaze.
"Hey, I'm so sorry darling" yaz strokes her face and Doctor closed her eyes as her fingers went down her cheek "Did I tell you recently how absolutely beautiful you are?
"No..you haven't" Doctor smiled and kissed the palm of her hand
"Did I tell you how hopelessly in love I am with you?"
"Nope...nope you definitely didn't tell me that either"
Those words actually made her feel instantly better. She desperately needed to be loved tonight. And Yaz knew it...she could see it in tiered eyes. Her beautiful green eyes lost their spark tonight.
Yaz sat on the bed and started kissing her shoulders slowly pulling the covers down. Doctor wanted to turn around, but Yaz laid her hand on her back stopping her "No... stay..." she leaned over, moved the hair from her face and whispered in her ear "I want you like this tonight" Doctor smiled
She reached under the covers and traced her fingers down her back and waist. She ran her fingers through her golden silky hair kissing the back of her neck and traced her hand down her spine.
"That's really nice" Doctor whispered but there was sadness in her voice
Yaz kissed every inch of her slowly and gently running her lips down her body and her hand around her curves. She interviewed her fingers with Doctor pressing her hand gently to the pillow and buried her face into Doctors soft neck tangling her fingers into her golden hair.
"I love you" she whispered between the kisses and Doctor felt her warm breath on back of her neck
She moaned into the pillow almost losing her breath as Yaz was sliding herself down her back wrapping her hands around her and tracing her soft lips down her back.
Doctor felt dizzy as flushes of heat rushed through her body. Nothing in the world made her feel like this intoxicating rush. She wanted Yaz to run through her veins to feel her in every cell of her whole being. She lifted herself up, pressing her back on Yaz's chest, reaching for her hands and wrapping them around herself, gliding them across her stomach and the inside of thighs. Her cheeks were flushed with heat burning through her whole body. Yaz wrapped her fingers around her neck and pressed her lips on it kissing her like tomorrow doesn't exist. Doctor was panting trying to remember to breathe between the gentle thrusts of Yaz's fingers inside her talking the language of love only two of them understood in their universe. She grabbed the headboard of the bed holding it tight. Yaz traced her fingers through her hair and down the back of her neck wrapping them around her and running them over her lips. Doctor kissed the inside of Yaz's palm smothering her moans until she flew away into their universe. Yaz held her in her arms kissing Doctors flushed cheeks and letting her head lean oh hers. Her eyes were closed, and her swollen lips half opened. They slumped on a bed holding each other under the covers. The Doctor's eyes looked sleepy, but she had a soft smile across her face. She ran her fingers down Yaz's face kissing her from time to time.
"Yaz"
"Mmmm"
Doctor reached under the covers and wrapped Yaz's leg around herself pulling her closer "I really needed you tonight beautiful"
"I know you did...I'm so sorry this is happening. I really love you"
"I love you too beautiful" she sighs deeply "I don't know what I'd do without you Yaz"
"What's bothering you? Except what I already know...there's something else on that beautiful mind of yours...please tell me"
"I couldn't tell Ryan, Yaz Tardis is desperately trying to locate Graham. I have nothing to lock on to Yaz...I can't find him"
"Whaaaat?"
"I'm going out of my mind Yaz...I have to get up in a minute I just needed a break my mind was going fuzzy"
"Are you saying..."
"I don't know Yaz...I don't even want to think about it. Tardis is working really hard. We are scanning all the known universe"
"I'll help you...please just tell me what to do"
"No Yaz you have to rest...you've been beautiful...I don't need you at the console tonight I needed you like this" tears start rolling down Doctors face. She buried her face snuggling into Yaz crying her eyes out.
"OMG darling...It's ok" Yaz squeezed her thither and tangled her fingers in her hair "It will be ok darling...you're smart...I believe in you"
"Oh Yaz..." Doctor whispered crying
Her tears rolled down Yaz's chest like waterfalls. Yaz stroked her hair until she calmed down. Telling her million times how much she loves her. Doctor got up and got dressed. Yaz got up as well...Doctor protested but she wouldn't have it. She insisted she will sleep on a mattress next to her. Doctor worked all through the night until Tardis finally gave a sound of hope
"Yaz!!! Yaz darling...get up Yaz!!" Doctor stroked her cheek
Yaz opened her eyes "Did you find him?"
"I have Yaz" she grabbed her face with both hands and kissed her hard "I found him Yaz!!!" smile stretched across her face
"I knew you will...never doubted you" she smiled
"Get up darling get Ryan we are going now..." she jumped over the mattress and zoomed around the console doing last minute checks
"How did you find him?" Yaz was tucking her top into her trousers and tied her hair in a ponytail
"They jammed the signal Yaz...It slipped my mind how advanced their technology is.... I was just so tired...my brains went fuzzy...But when Tardis cracked the code we managed to put a lock on him...My beautiful ghost monument..." she kisses the console
Yaz smiles and runs out getting Ryan. She banged on a door with her fist "Ryan!!! Ryan, get up Ryan, Doctor found Graham"
Ryan opened the door still sleepy in his boxer shorts. "Whaaa...noo way!!"
"Yap!!!!...Get your pants on mate let's get our grandad"
"Our grandad?"
"Yap...yours...mine...Doctors...fam mate...get a shift on" she smiles
"You're spending way too much time with Doctor Yaz you're starting to sound like her" he laughed wiles slinging his trousers and a t-shirt on in supersonic speed
They ran into the control room. Doctor was zooming around the console...she flipped the screen "Dan It's me...we need you sharpish...Graham was...well abducted and we need your help. I'll explain in a way. I need all hands on deck today, Dan"
"Sure...what's the time? I need to get dressed Doctor"
"Well go on then...get moving...we'll be there in few minutes...you even have time to brush your teeth" she closes the screen
"Right...what was I going to say? It was right there on the tip of my brain...Yes...Do not let Akani touch you...do not wander off and let me speak" she runs around the console and picks up something from Tardis. Then in few steps jumping over the mattress on a floor she comes to Yaz and Ryan glueing tiny devices on their temples
"What's that?" Ryan asks
"It blocks Akani telepathic attack...not completely but enough to give you some time to run...because remember run"
She turns to Yaz "Yaz do not try to impress me today...I need you to stick to me...like I duct taped you around me...remember...today I need that Yaz...This place is no joke" she bent down and kissed Yaz's stomach "And you my little jelly bean don't you worry about anything...I got my thumb on this. Love ya"
Ryan looks at Yaz smiling "Someone pinch me please...this is so unreal"
"Hold on everyone...Yaz!"
"I'm holding on don't worry"
"I was going to say I need you on the other side"
"Really?" she smiles excited and jumps over the mattress zooming to the console
"Walking Yaz...not jumping" Doctor yells
In a second, they take off
Tardis landed in front of Dan's house. Yaz opened the door and yells "Come on Scouts...get those legs moving" she laughs
Dan hugs her at the door "Hey Sheffield...you look happy"
"Oh, you have no idea...wait till you hear...but no time for that now, need to get Graham"
"Yeah, about that...what's going on Yaz?"
"Doctor will explain everything...we have a big problem"
"Hey Dan, nice to see you again" she runs over to him and sticks the device on his temple "I will explain later"
"It's fine...I don't even ask anymore" Dan walks inside
Doctor explained everything one more time, so Dan got all the information as well and they were ready to go into the unknown jet one more time.
"Yaz...I locked on to Graham not on a planet but on their ship. Can you see? They are far away from us...at very edges of our universe. I'm not quite sure why.... They are miles away from their home...there's nothing there"
"Hold on everyone we're leaving" she pulls the lever, and they take off
Tardis lands and the Doctor opens the door slowly. She scans with a sonic and everyone follows her behind. There was a device on a wall, and she signals to everyone to follow her.
"Right let's see...this should give us an idea where we are" she whispers "Oh...that's odd...look" she shows on a monitor a map of the ship " there's a control room and those I know what they are but this place...why do I detect so many life forms?"
"It may be the crew Doctor" Ryan says
""No Ryan, Akani has a small crew of only seven on their ship. Those are at least 200 life forms...and Graham’s signal is coming from there" she turns around to everyone "Let's go"
The ship looks empty and dark. Only blue light on a wall marking the way through the hallway. Yaz stuck to the Doctor like she promised but this place gave a chill, so she didn't mind her promise.
Dan taps the Doctor on her shoulder pointing to the small room they are passing by. One of the Akani was standing by the massive monitor. He was tall and lanky with extremely long fingers and a disproportionately large head. They sneak around avoiding to be seen proceeding down the hallway. They stopped by one of the doors and the Doctor uses her sonic to open the door. As they walk in shock and horror, they freeze in time and space.
"Doctor..." it was the only word Yaz managed to say from dread that came over her. She grabbed the sleeve of her coat as they walked in
Room was filled with people and creatures from all over the universe unconsciously lying on beds hooked up to the machines that monitored their life signs. Only the beeping on the machines could be heard echoing across the room that otherwise was dead silent. The whole ship was early silent
"What are they doing to them?" Dan asked
"Dunno Dan '' The Doctor was mortified. She ran across the room from one bed to another waving her sonic scanning frantically all the data she possibly could. She came up to one lady lying on the bed and moved her shirt to get the better look. Her face dropped to the floor "This is not possible"
"What isn't Doctor?" Yaz came closer to have a look
"They are using Cyberman technology but modified in their way"
"I don't understand what you're saying, they are not turning them into robots?"
"No Yaz they are not...not yet...look" she pointed to the little container by the side of the bed glowing like it was filled with sparkles. It looked almost magical one could possibly say even beautiful if not related to this place.
"What's that?" Ryan asked going closer to it to get a better look
"Their minds Ryan...all the information from their brains, all the memories, all their thoughts, all the emotions, everything extracted...their whole being extracted to that..."
"It's like they are taking their souls??" Yaz says looking at the Doctor
"That's exactly what they're doing Yaz ...without your mind and your memories you're just an empty shell...body...accumulation of cells with no meaning"
"Why would they want people's souls?" "Ryan asked
"Doctor didn't you say something about them being able to control people's minds" Yaz points out
"So iff they control the mind and mind is put inside the robot ..."Doctor continues
"They have a mind controlled army..." Ryan says
"Using bodies like Cyberman is too nasty for Akani...they like to keep it clean...not only that...with their cloning abilities they can replicate it as many times as they want"
"Still doesn't answer one question Doctor...why my granddad?" Ryan commented confused
"I was thinking that Ryan...because he's the one who was on board the Cyberman ship and he was in that armor...he's got memories of Cyberman ship, the armour, all the events that in some way could possibly be useful to them"
"So was I Doctor!!" Yaz looks at the Doctor in dread and meets her worried eyes
"Let's just try to get those people off these machines" Doctor looked around the machine trying desperately to find a way to disable them "Ryan, Dan go look for Graham and I will try to figure this out. Yaz stay with me"
"Alright Doctor...my god this place is huge...I'll go that side and you go to the other Ryan. We'll be faster "says Dan to Ryan
Doctor took the plate off the back of the machine looking at the circuits and scanning it with a sonic "I'm not happy you're here Yaz...not at all. I'd prefer iff you stayed in Tardis"
"And do what...watch movies...No way...I'd be climbing the walls by now."
"You're really stubborn you know"
"It's that stubbornness that got me going during Flux when I had no clue if you were dead or alive. I'm not going through that again."
"I know Yaz, but this is different. Akani are different...they are dangerous...much more dangerous than anything out there put together"
"Where did you see them before?"
"There was a massive war centuries ago and it involved many of the planet's many races, Yaz. They were the cause of it. They were banished at the very edges of the universe and never heard from again...." she looks at Yaz with a stone expression on her face "Until now"
"What do they want?"
"What do they all want Yaz...to rule the world...everyone wants to rule the world...it's all the greed and malice and evil Yaz...universe is full of it"
The sparks flew off the circuit board and Doctor stepped back a bit "This isn't going to work. If I do disconnect this...and I can disconnect it...I have no way of returning those memories into the person...they will die...or they will be a vegetable at best. This whole place is connected to something else...somewhere else, where all the information is being fed into a giant computer. We need to find it Yaz"
She looks down at the floor and tears up the floorboard. She saw a shaft under which all the tiny tiny pipes from the little pot ran, transmitting all the information to somewhere far away from where they were.
"Doctor, what about that room with a massive monitor? I saw it had huge amount of data running across the screen, but I don't understand their language"
"Hmmmm...could be Yaz...let's hope you're right"
"Doctor! I found grandad..." Ryan comes running from the other side "But I don't know what to do"
"Can't do anything from here Ryan, we need to sort it out from the main control room. Listen up... Me and Yaz will go and sort this out...your job is to be inventive and keep Akani away from us... try to distract them without getting hurt...and please remember do not let them touch you. Let's go"
She explained on a way in detail what they needed to do whiles they walked back towards the room Yaz saw.
One creature was inside...looked like the same one they passed by before. "We need to get inside" Doctor whispered to the others
Dan looked across the hall and saw a small cart parked by one of the doors. It had what looked like lab samples on it. He started sneaking towards it but the Doctor went epic on him signaling with her hands for him to stop.
"Dan noo...get back here!" she whispers frantically
But Dan ignores her tipping the cart on the floor. The Akani leaves the room confused "Hey over here...race ya" Dan and Ryan start running
"Now what?" Ryan asked whilst running
"Don't know Ryan didn't think of that" Dan replies continuing to run
"Come on Yaz...!" Doctor runs into the room and starts flipping through the dashboard. She runs a sonic over it "Bingo Yaz...all the information is here I just need to reverse the procedure and switch off the system"
"Surely they will know what you're doing?"
"They will so we need to be fast Yaz..." she starts reversing the process and small containers start slowly emptying out "I'm sending their coordinates to the Judoon...that's gonna be fun for them" she grins "There done" she turns around towards Yaz and freezes in fear
"Yaz! ...don't move" Doctor stands still staring at Akani behind Yaz
Akani reached for Yaz's head in seconds wrapping his long fingers around the top of head knocking her out on a floor
Yaz opened her eyes, and she was in her apartment sitting at the kitchen table and her father was talking turned to the stove. Air seemed wobbly, something was so wrong and out of place. She took a glass of water from the table and water started flying through the air like in zero gravity. Ryan is standing next to her talking but she couldn't hear him
"Ryan??? What's going on? Why are we in my flat?"
Ryan touched her shoulder, and she woke up on the floor of the Akani ship. Ryan looked down on her "Yaz are you alright?"
"Doctor!!!!!!!" she yells "where's the Doctor Ryan?"
"Donno, Yaz we came back after we lost them, and you were the only one on the floor. Are you alright?"
She got up as fast as she could. She felt dizzy but the first thing she did was switch on a hologram from her bracelet "God I really hope you're alright! Don't worry I'll find her. Love ya"
"Who is talking to?" Dan says confused
"Baby Dan... she’s pregnant "
"Whaaat? …Sheffield you didn't tell me that?" Dan smiled
"There was no time Dan, I'm sorry. We need to find the Doctor"
"What happened Yaz?" Ryan asked
"I don't know Ryan" she shrugs her shoulders "Doctor managed to reverse the process so all those people should be waking up by now. She also notified Judoon about Akani...so they will be here in minutes...but then it was Akani behind me and Doctor yelled and I don’t know, I was in my apartment the next second and then you woke me up. I think those neuro blockers worked or I would still be out of it"
"Look sonic" Dan picked it up from the floor and gave it to Yaz
Yaz took a little tiny cube from her pocket and pressed on it. Another hologram opened up in the air showing the map of the ship and two red dots on it.
"What's that?" Dan asked confused starting at it
"She gave it to me the day she found out I was pregnant. It's a locator if we ever get separated so we can find each other...there she is...Let's go!"
"Hey guys wait. Look, are those weapons?" Ryan pointed at something that looked like a laser gun near the dashboard on the wall
"I think so...Just take it" Dan says grabbing it without thinking
"Ohhh she's gonna kill us" Ryan says
"Ryan, you get your grandad and all the people out, and get them to the Tardis. Me and Dan will get the Doctor. If you need help call us" She felt panicked inside, but not for taking a lead. It was a panic of losing the Doctor.
…
Doctor was lying on a table knocked out and hooked up to the same machine as the rest of the people. Three of the Akani were around her, one looking down on her. The Doctor slowly came around, opening her eyes and releasing that she was strapped to the table.
"CONTACT" Doctor connects to one of the creatures
"Aaaaa telepathic, are you? ...Nice, interesting. "
"Jodoon are on their way you know...so you should stop playing with your chemistry set and go home"
"Oh Doctor, you're in no position to make any demands. Or have you forgotten where you are?" the creature leaned over her and creepily stroked her head trying to knock her out again but Doctor was fighting back with all her strength
"You can't knock me out, can you? You're really trying. It's ok, keep trying...I've cancelled all my plans for tonight, besides those people...they are already with my friends and safe you know" Doctor says to the creature
"So silly Doctor...trying to buy time rambling on. It won't help this time"
He tries again and this time she falls more into the abyss desperately trying to keep herself awake hoping at least Judoon would come. She would rather go back to prison than having her mind wiped again. This time forever and completely. So she keeps rambling on...
"What are you doing here anyway? Why just you? Why not the whole army? ... Does your mummy even know you've taken daddy's car for a ride? Because it seems to me all you lot are solo players otherwise, you'd be already back home with your cargo not floating at the edge of the universe"
"We don't need those people anymore...Doctor...your memories.... Aaaaa....there’s so many of them...centuries. They will be quite enough for us" he reached with his hand to switch the machine on
"I don't think so!!...Get away from her!!!" Yaz stood at the door pointing a sonic at them and Dan behind her with a gun
"Yaz!!!...Nooo...get in a Tardis" Doctor says in a week voice horrified seeing her
"Not a chance, love! Not happening" she looked at the Doctor who was half out of it with her eyes barely open "Wake up Doctor!!!" Yaz yells "Come ooon snap out of it love!!"
"Move!!" Yaz points sonic to the creature
"Feeble creature...you think I'm scared of you" he speaks in her mind
Yaz shakes her head "Get out of my head!!" she says walking few more steps towards him “And you think I'm scared of you, ha? Oooh, you under-estimate me mate"
"Oh...there's another...like you Doctor" he waives his hand and Yaz's stomach glows
"Yaz, noo go! Leave" Doctor shook her head and tried to release her hands shaking the table as hard as could but she couldn't
Dan shoots to the floor in front of the creature "Doctor can I shoot him?"
Yaz looks at her stomach glowing like a light bulb. Fear goes through her veins. She presses the sonic hoping for a miracle. The sound from the sonic gets so loud that the creature starts screaming while holding its head, but the frequency doesn't affect Yaz or the others, so she quickly turns it off and directs it at the handcuffs around the Doctor's wrist, releasing her and throwing the sonic across the room to the Doctor
The Doctor got up a little unsteadily from the bed but shook her head and came around. She points the sonic at the control panel. Sparks fly everywhere.
"Come on Yaz, let's go!!!" She grabs her hand and they run out whilst the Akani are still trying to recover from the sound.
Doctor stumbled and hit the wall as soon as they got out of the room
"OMG...please get up...come oooon get up darling!!" Yaz and Dan help her up
"I'm fine I'm fine, just a head wobble...it's fine Yaz...let's go" she picks herself up again and starts running
They were running down the corridor when a red light began to flash, and the terrifying voice could be heard echoing through the ship
"JO TRO DO PLO NO SHO"
Doctor stops for a second looking around “Judoon!!!!....Run Yaz...iff they find me I'll go back to prison!!"
They ran as fast as they possibly could Ryan was at the door of the Tardis
"Come on Doctor!" he yells "I got grandad Doctor let's get out of here!" he tells her quickly as she passed next to him
They ran into the Tardis and Doctor was at the console in a second. She's manically flipping the switches and red light shines through the Tardis
"Oh no you won't!" she pulls the lever and in a second, they are gone
…
They slowly dropped off all 280 people and creatures they picked up from that ship. Including Graham who was still a bit shaken from the whole experience. Dan was the only one left, but he decided to tag along for a day or two. Doctor checked the baby as soon as everyone left. And Dan went gaga when he saw it properly on a monitor. But it was a long day and night for everyone.
"I have to go to bed I can't think straight anymore" Dan says utterly exhausted
"Go Dan we will as well...it's been a long day. Thank you so much for being here" Doctor says smiling
"Night Sheffield night Doctor. I'm really happy for you both. You're gonna be a great mum Yaz...And so will you Doctor..." he looks at the Doctor smiling back at him across the console "Right you two...get some rest tonight...God, what a night I'll be dreaming of those creepy things" he walks off to his bedroom
Doctor put her hands on a console, and she looked at Yaz across the room who was still looking towards Dan smiling. It was quiet and only Tardis made a gentle sound humming
"Yaz!" she called her quietly
"Ha?" Yaz turned around still smiling
"Come here"
Yaz walks over to her "Are you alright? They didn't hurt you or take some memories or..."
Doctor grabs her face, cutting her off with a long kiss. She lifted her up and sat her on top of the console. Yaz wrapped her legs around her. They pulled apart smiling, their heads still touching and their lips inches away. Yaz stroked the back of Doctors neck as she always did relieved, she's got her back. For a long moment back there, she thought she lost her forever.
"That was the most stupid thing you've ever done in your life...and against everything we've agreed..." Doctor says to her firmly, stroking her cheek with her fingers
"But. I couldn't …" Doctor puts her finger over her mouth
"Shhhh...let me finish...it was also the bravest thinking you've ever done Yaz" she smiles "And you've saved my life...And I'm so proud of you... you have no idea just how much. And you have no idea how much I love you"
Yaz pulled her by the neck and closed the gap between their lips kissing her like tomorrow doesn't exist "Take me to bed" she whispers smiling brushing her lips on hers gently.
They laid in bed wrapped up around each other. Snuggled under the covers gazing at one another just inches apart. Doctor stroke Yaz's cheek with her thumb smiling gently
"How did you know how to use a sonic? I never thought you that"
"I didn't...I just thought what I could possibly lose by trying...there was a lot more to lose if I didn't"
"You're amazing you know that...silly...reckless but amazing...Just don't do that again. I thought I'd die when I saw you in that room"
"You'd die if you didn't see me...You'd be a vegetable by now in Judoon prison" she traces her finger over Doctor lips "I would've never seen you again"
"I would've been yes" she kisses her softly
"How did they even get to you?" Yaz asks confused "I don't understand"
"I only had enough of those neuro blockers for you lot Yaz..I never had one for myself. So, they got to me like that"
She strokes Doctors face "Did I tell you lately how hopelessly in love I am with you?" she smiles
"Nope...you definitely haven't" Doctor laughs and rolls her on her back kissing her passionately.
…..
"So, fam... smaller fam... should we do something exciting today?"
Doctor asks, smiling bouncing around the console while Dan and Yaz were chatting in a corner. Tardis hums and voice comes through
"Doctor! Doctor, are you there? "
"Ryan??" Doctor replied flipping the screen "You alright?"
"No Doctor, I need you, we have a massive problem..." the line cuts out
"What the hell...!!" Yaz rolls her eyes "Are those things back?"
"I don't know Yaz but we need to leave now" she runs around and setting the coordinates "Hold on...we're leaving" she pulls the lever
They got out of the Tardis in the middle of Graham's living room. It was so dark you couldn't see a finger in front of your face. Doctor walked out and and Yaz and Dan followed
"Doctor, where are they?"
"Don't know Yaz...they were here a minute ago"
"SURPRISE!!!!!" the lights come on and everyone was standing in the living room with party hats on
Yaz stood confused looking around. Everyone was there, Graham, Ryan, Dan, Di there was cake and presents and a massive sign hanging from the ceiling and balloons all over the room.
Ryan comes up "It's a baby shower mummy, relax. Congrats mate" he puts a paper crown on her head and kisses her cheek
"I'm so happy for you both Yaz. You of all the people deserve to be happy" Graham puts the sash they all made for her around her shoulder. It looked so cute with a paper Tardis on the front.
Doctor came up to her and nudged her with her hip "Happy mummy?" she smiles looking at her sideways with a smug expression on her face
"Were you in on this as well?"
"Who me? ...Nah Yaz...I had no idea" she smiles
Yaz was sitting on a sofa showing Di a baby hologram. She couldn't stop smiling. The Doctor stood by the door. Life was so perfect at this moment she thought to herself.
It's been several months since the Akani adventure. The two are pretty settled where they are. Had a few smaller adventures in the meantime. They still cannot help answering a call when some trouble is out there but nothing on a scale of Akani. And Doctor always recruits the whole fam. Snow starts to melt and Yaz finally releases it for the better. They just sit still for a while. Doctor explained how she once stayed 24 years with her late wife in one place and it's really not such a tragedy after all. The Doctor did put the picket fence around the Tardis in the end but just for a laugh. She's still not ready to go as far as getting a dog. Not too keen on puppy chewing pieces of the console or peeing all over Tardis.
"Soo??? Any idea when the baby is coming, or you still don't know? Or I will carry it for the next three years?" Yaz puts her t-shirt over a bump that is quite visible at this point.
She's sitting on top of the console playing like a kid with some instruments the Doctor uses to look at the baby.
"The munchkin is healthy but growing slow...more my kind of slow...you know Gallifrey slow. So definitely not nine months. I think year is more likely Yaz"
Doctor takes the instrument away and Yaz makes a sulking face like she just took a favorite toy away
"Goodness quite a wait then jet" she sighs
"Yap...and that's if it decides to be a boy...Girls take longer about sixteen months"
"Whaaaat??? What the hell, why?"
"Oh well just you know...having few extra parts takes a bit longer" she flipped the monitor "see can't see yet" she points her finger at the screen
"Dear god I will grow old by time I pop this baby out" she huffed and puffed
Doctor put her arms around her waist making a comfy place for herself between Yaz's legs "It's fun waiting...at least you get to sleep as much as you want " she kisses the top of her nose
"Oh well you will definitely have night shifts. Your awake half of the night anyway" Yaz smirked and casually moved one strain of Doctors hair from her face tucking it behind her ear
"I don't mind it Yaz...it will keep me busy"
"I was joking...but you're being way to cute" she smiles and giving her a short kiss "Help me down...I'm really hungry...can we eat something before we go?"
"Sure...you must eat..."she grabbed her waist and plopped her down on a floor "Very important I keep telling you that"
"I know you do...eat, eat and eat all the time. I'm definitely getting bigger, you know."
"So... what if you are? There's gonna be more of you for me to love...Come on... I fancy some of those Portuguese we had this morning I think there's some left in a fridge"
"I'm so nervous I can't breathe"
"Don't be nervous Yaz it's gonna be ok...it's not you who your mum's gonna kill...it's gonna be me Yaz"
"I think she's gonna kill both of us to be honest"
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Doctor was setting coordinates for Sheffield and Yaz felt like she's gonna throw up on a floor of the Tardis.
"Ready?" Doctor turns to her smiling
"Yeah...noooo...wait!" she takes a big breath
"Yaz...it's ok we can stay if you want"
"Yap ...can we stay?...We can do this some other day right?" she looked like she's about to cry
"Sure...sure we can...But we're not..." Doctor laughed and pulled the lever
"I'm going to kill you I swear!!" Yaz yells when they landed
"Nah... I’m relatively sure you're not" Doctor laughed and passed by her, grabbing her hand "Come on...let's go" she pulled her out of the door and to the street in front of her building and she is zipping up Yaz's jacket like a child. It always makes Yaz laugh how extra attentive she's become. They come to the door of the apartment
"Ready?"
"Yeah...nooo!!" she pulls her by the hand to walk away but Doctor rings a doorbell and pulls her back
"What are you doing? " she's pulling her hand
"Brave Yaz...remember what you told me...be brave Yaz" Doctor laughed
"It's not the same thing" she whispers
"Hey you two! " Hakim opens the door
"Hey dad" she hugs him and passed him by looking at the Doctor like she will strangler her on a spot
"Doctor...nice to see you again...dinner's nearly ready" he smiled letting her in
"That's brilliant...I didn't eat much today...I am getting hungry a bit. Nice to see you again Hakim" she walks in still smirking at Yaz
"Yaz's mum...nice to see you again" Doctor hugs her
"Nice to see you too honey. How have you been?"
"Hey mum..." Yaz hugs her mum trying to move her stomach away from her it made Doctor laugh how silly it looked her pushing her whole bum out trying to avoid it
Hakim served dinner and they chatted for a while about random stuff. Sonya wasn't that present with her face mostly on her phone the whole evening.
"So Yaz..what's going on with your work honey. I know you and the Doctor have been working together for.... what exactly did you say again honey?"
"I didn't mum...about that. There's something that I need to show you mum...well to you as well dad...well all of you. Sonya...can you get your face out of that phone please...This is important" Yaz starts the conversation with a knot in her stomach
"Yaz? Are you alright honey?" Hakim says worried
"Oh yeah dad definitely...could you just get dressed please and come with me and the Doctor" she frowns a bit uncomfortable knowing what's next to come
"What's going on Yaz?"
"Nothing mum...I just think it would be much easier if we show you" she meets Doctor eyes across the table "rather than trying to explain it"
"Alright honey. Sonya gets yourself dressed honey, come on"
"Oh, come on...do we have to? Can't you just talk like other people do?" she rolls her eyes annoyed
"Not this time I can't. Please"
They slowly came down to the street and as they came close to Tardis Yaz grabbed Doctor's hand. Najia saw it straight away and nudged her husband pointing with her head.
Doctor comes to the door and turns around "Ready?" she smiles
"Ready for what? It's a police box? I don't understand? Does this have anything to do with your work honey?" Hakim askes
"Sort of dad" Yaz kept holding Doctors hand squeezing it really tight while she opened the door. They both walked in, but Yaz's family stayed outside
"Well go on...get in" Yaz peaks outside
They looked at each other confused and walked in slowly. Sonya's face was still in her phone while walking in until her dad put his hand over the screen of her phone, lowering it down to get her attention. His eyes were open wide wandering around the Tardis interior and his mouth half open. His wife walked around gliding the walls of Tardis as if she wanted to make sure it was real.
"Welcome to my Tardis" Doctor says smiling
"What's going on here?" Sonya's eyes wandered around the space "Is it a club?"
Yaz rolls her eyes at her sister’s comment
"Mum, dad...this is Tardis...it's a spaceship" she looks at the Doctor "and a time ship"
"Beg your pardon? Did you just say time ship?" Najia repeats
"Yeah mum. It's where I was all this time. I'm so sorry for lying to all of you" she felt like her stomach just dropped to the floor
"I told you...didn't I tell you honey. UFO, conspiracy theories you never believed me. I told you our government has it" Hakim looks at his wife gloating and she frowns back at him
"Yaz this is it isn't it? ...You're both working for secret government organizations like man in black...Are they real honey? Where did they get this from? Or did they just reverse engender technology? Or..."
"She's an alien dad!!!" Yaz yells
"Yeah, ok but the ship where did you get the ship from?" he's still looking around exited
"Daaaad!!!! Doctor...she's an alien...it's hers not the government. It's not a conspiracy theory dad, Doctor isn't from Earth she's from Gallifrey"
Silence filled the room. Even Sonya stopped and stared at both of them speechless.
"Honey...you don't need to lie to me and dad you know we understand there’s some stuff you can't talk about. Like you know, you two...I mean we know, don't we? ... she nudged her husband "It's fine darling...We just want you to be happy. And she's a nice girl..."
"Oh, for god sake mum I'm not lying" she turns to the Doctor "Help me out here...please"
"It's true...she's not lying...I got two hearts as well, look" she turns her sonic towards her chest and her chest starts glowing revealing her hearts like through the ultrasound and the bits could be heard across the room
Sonya dropped her phone on the floor. She just stood there frozen in time and space.
"That's bloody amazing!!!" Hakim jumps excited, breaking the silence in the room "Isn't that amazing honey. Is this your real body or can you shape-shift into a human form?" he continues completely fascinated
"Oh no Time Lords are not shape shifting...but we do regenerate" Doctor started explaining "I did meet some shape shifting species a long time ago.... amazing creatures" Doctor gets all bouncy explaining to Hakim who literally doesn't care about how bizarre the situation is. He's just beyond excited he was right the whole time.
Sonya just walked around amazed, taking photos.
"Mum...are you alright?" Yaz comes up to her mum who sat on the steps deep into her thoughts
"Yaz...I mean...I should have known...all the stories that didn't add up and those giant spiders and everything. How did I miss all of this" she gazed at the distance
"I'm so sorry mum...I feel so bad lying to you all this time. I just didn't know what to say or how to explain or..."
"It's fine baby...I understand. I wouldn't believe you then anyway...there's no way I would have. But now... it all makes sense. And each time you came. You looked...I don't know...different...like I haven't seen you in ages. And you seemed so much more...grown up. And jet it would have been only a week"
"Mum, I've been with the Doctor for years. It's been nearly 10 years for me mum and only three for you"
Najia takes a deep breath, and her eyes wandered around the space. Hakim was with the Doctor by the console. She was explaining to him all about the Tardis.
"Mum..."Yaz takes a big breath
"Yes baby?" she still looks towards her husband
"There's something else"
"What baby? Are you in trouble?" she looks at Yaz worried
"No mum...I'm not...not at all" she takes her mums hand and place's it on her stomach. Tears roll down her face
Her mother’s face was totally shocked "Yaz...is that...baby???"
"Aha..." she nodded not able to speak just looking at her mum with her big brown beautiful eyes
"Oh baby, but this is beautiful" her eyes fill with tears of joy “Ok, so tell me...this may be perfectly stupid and bizarre yet normal question at this point...is she...?" Najia points at the Doctor
"Yes, she is...I'm so sorry mum!!!" tears roll down her face like massive crystals
"What for baby? What are you sorry for? Are you happy?" she strokes her face
"Aha...more than you can imagine" she barely said those words
Her mum hugs her tight "Well isn't that all that matters"
"Oh mum..." Yaz crumbled crying "I love you mum"
"I love you two baby"
She glues Yaz off herself smiling "Sooo...boy or a girl or...how does this work?"
"Yaz smiles through the tears "Were not sure yet. Doctor is monitoring it...It will be a while. Mum I can't tell dad and Sonya and it's just"
"It's ok baby I will...don't worry" she kept stroking her face "I'm happy for you. All mother ever wants is for her child to be happy you know"
"Hey why are you two so emotional...this is amazing Najia...Did you know that she can regenerate, and she was a man before and now she's a lady and this thing is alive it's a ship but it's actually alive, and she talks to it and.."
"Alright...I think we should go home now...you can tell me all about it...come on..." she turns to the Doctor "What have you done to me...he will never shut up about it now"
"Oh...You don't have to go...I mean there's plenty of space and I thought tomorrow I can take you for a trip somewhere. I just told Hakim I'll show him the pink beaches of Navar...and Yaz told me you haven't taken a holiday in three years...Everyone needs a holiday and... well...it's a time ship...so I just bring you back on a same day"
"Oh, come on Naija...just once. Not like everyone's daughter has a time ship" Hakim looked at her with puppy eyes
"Oh, alright then...but we're going home tonight...I'm not going dressed like this and they need some privacy as well so come on" she grabs his sleeve pulling him outside
"Are we going for a holiday in this thing?" Sonya is asking taking photos with her phone
"Can I just look at that please?" Yaz asked for her phone
"Yap sure...they came out great" she passed the phone
Yaz takes her phone and presses it on Tardis console deleting everything
"What are you doing? Give it back"
"I'm sorry Sonya, you can't just take photos without asking a Doctor..." she gives the phone back
"Fair enough...but you can still be so boring sometimes you know" she rolls her eyes
"Alright let's go...Sonya...come on!" Najia pulls her for the jacket
"Meet us in the morning mum...please not before tea. I need my sleep...and don't take loads of stuff please. We have most things here"
They leave and the Tardis door shuts. Yaz slumps herself on a console "Shoot me pleaseeeee"
Doctor comes behind her and slides her arms around her waist pulling her onto herself "Come ooon...I think they took it well Yaz...I really like your dad...he's really smart you know"
"Oh, don't start on that...I just wanted to die"
"But you didn't...and it all went well...and we're going for a trip tomorrow" she holds her tummy "all of us..."
She slumps herself onto Doctors chest "I told my mum...about the baby"
"I know..." Doctor laughs and Yaz turns around “How did you know?"
She holds her tighter around the waist smiling "I have a very good hearing Yaz and I can listen to a few things at once. It's why I was keeping your dad busy...just wanted to give you time. She's happy for you"
"You little tinker...OMG...she is...she's happy for both of us. Confused, but happy"
"I know...so can you please start breathing now?" she smiles "We will have a nice time tomorrow Yaz..." she turns around and goes around the console "Look...this is where I'm taking us" she flipped the screen
Yaz smiled. It just seemed all so surreal. It also felt like someone lifted fifty kilos off her shoulders. She finally felt free.
That night Yaz couldn't sleep. She kept fidgeting so she got out of bed looking for the Doctor and found her squeezed under the console doing repairs. She stood for a while in silence looking at her from a distance. Soft light shining from the console. She had her sleeves rolled up and some strange thing on her head talking to herself about silly stuff. She thought for a moment how utterly in love she was with her and how perfectly silly Doctor was.
"Why are you not in bed?" Doctor pulls herself out and sits on a floor
"I couldn't sleep" she smiles looking down from the top of the stairs "I missed ya"
"Come sit with me"
Yaz runs down and sits on a floor next to the Doctor
"What are you doing?" she grabs her hand desperate to feel her closer
"Repairing that screen for a deep scan that's been glitching for a while now. What's bothering you?"
"Just you know...now mum and dad know...it's weird after all those years you know. Finally having to tell the truth" she leans her head on Doctor's shoulder "It's nice but also scary"
"New can be very scary. But you need your family in this Yaz. Couldn't keep the secret forever"
"I know...mum was so shocked" she laughs
"So was your dad when I told him I was a Scottish bloke before. Should have seen his face. But he's so fascinated with everything I don't think he even cares" she laughs "Come on...go to bed now...Munchkin needs a rest"
"Please go with me...for just a bit"
"Alright then" Doctor gets up and pulls her by the hand "I never get anything done at this rate. I need her ready for tomorrow...you don't care how we get there...I'd be really embarrassing iff I get your family stuck in a wrong century you know"
Yaz laughed at her whinging all the way to the bedroom.
…
"Yaz they're here...!" Doctor yells
Yaz comes from the kitchen with a bagel in her mouth and she shoved a piece of it in Doctors mouth passing her by
"Mmmm those are nice"
"Yap...made them today for everyone" she smiles opening the door
"You look nice today" Doctor commented on the fact that Yaz decided to wear more fitting t-shirt on her jogging bottoms showing her tummy and not hiding it like last night
"Hello darling!" Najia smiles and strokes her cheek "Told him last night...he's gone gaga happy" she smiles
"Love you mum" she kisses her mum on the cheek "Well he can't miss it today, can he?" she smiles looking down at her small bump
"Hey dad! Isn't this exciting?" she didn't know how to act around her dad so she thought chit-chat would do
"Hey sweetie...Your mum told me. So happy for you love " he says with huge grin on his face
"Oh god...come dad get in!" she smiles awkwardly letting him through the door
"Are you kidding me? .... Mum, is she having a laugh...why she's got so much stuff?" Yaz looks at her sister with two suitcases in front "You're not staying a month you know"
"I need it Yaz...come on..." Sonya comes in smiling
"Oh, go on. I'm glad you're going. We'll have a great time you know" Yaz hugs her
"I'm really excited Yaz, haven't been pass Sheffield in ages" I got you something by the way, remind me to give it to you"
"Hello again Yaz's family " Doctor smiles from the console waving excited like a kid
"Hello dear" Najia comes up to her for the first time initiating the hug and Yaz smiles meeting Doctor eyes across her mum’s shoulder
"I'll get them settled and show them around quickly before we go"
"Alright...go ahead...this is exiting" Doctor laughs
She showed her family into the rooms and where the kitchen is. They couldn't get their heads around how massive the Tardis was from the inside. And how it literally had everything you needed.
"Yaz it's like a villa in here" Sonya commented looking around
"It's nice, isn't it?" She smiles proudly. It felt like showing a new house
"Hey let me give you a present" she opens her suitcase on a bed and pulled out a baby lullaby out "I rushed out today to get it when mum told us"
"OMG Sonya...that's beautiful. Yaz's eyes filled with tears. She hugs her sister tight "I love you"
"I love you too"
"Hey, look at this...Doctor made it for me" she presses the bracelet and hologram popped out
"OMFG is that the baby???" Sonya yelled exited
"Yap...it is...look" she points her finger
"Yaz is that?" Najia points
"Yap mum two hearts...Like the Doctor" Yaz says with expression on her face filled with love
"So is your baby like Doctor?" Hakim commented intrigued
"We're not sure just how much yet dad...it's to early to tell. But hearts are definitely there" she switches it off "We need to go now. It's getting late"
She leads them back to the control room "Before we leave just hold on tight...It could be a bit of a bumpy ride" she says with permanent grin on her face
"Yaz!! " Doctor nodded her head showing her she wants her on the other side of the console and Yaz shined like a shiny penny in a second jumping from the stairs down
"Oi...no jumping like that...how many times will say this"
Najia smiled, satisfied Doctors keeping an eye out on her daughter. She never misses a thing going on between them two.
"Ready?" Yaz looks at the Doctor smiling
"Ready Yaz's family...hold on" Doctor pulls a lever and they take off
The ride was way more bumper than usual.
"Doctor...what's going on?" Yaz looks worried
"Oh no no... not today out of all the days...We hit the space storm Yaz...Hold on!!!..."
Tardis was being thrown around like a ping pong ball and everyone held tight. Sonya was screaming "We will die!!!!"
"Yaz we need to land...We won't be able to go through this"
Doctor landed the Tardis and Yaz opened the door "Where's the beach?" she says confused looking at the desert sand
"Oh...well...we made a bit of a detour Yaz" Doctor scrunches her face
"How big of a detour are we talking about?" Yaz is still trying to work out where they were and her family slowly walked out of the Tardis still shaken by the experience
"Aaaaaahhh...2500 B.C... Egypt...Lower Kingdom...Lower meaning up and Upper meaning down...a bit confusing but I'll get to that...oh Yaz...something else honey..."
"You took my parents to ancient Egypt!!!"
"Wasn't me Yaz it was Tardis, and you know that storm and... sorry...It can be fun...like you know, family vacation"
"I always wanted to see Egypt" says Hakim smiling looking around
"Yaaaaz!!!...There's something else..." Doctor yells from inside
"Whaat?" Yaz rolls her eyes looking towards the Tardis
"Aaaahh...a circuit broke..."
"What does that mean? ... Are we stuck????"
"Well, nooo...we never are...just need to get it fixed"
"Well how long will it take?"
"Aaaaahhhh...well I need to get few things and when I do, not long" she smiles casually
"So, we are stuck?"
Doctor walks out into the sand squinting her eyes "No I didn't say that Yaz...just need to go shopping"
"For what? I don't see Tesco's around here honey" she points to endless sand around them
"I need to get my sunglasses and my sunscreen" Sonya passed between them two arguing and Yaz just glanced at her in disbelief
"Were marooned in the middle of desert with my whole family" she grabs Doctor braces "this is highly embarrassing...what do you need?" she goes epic on her
"Oi, entering a hysterical phase, are we? ... Palm oil, some honey and one other part that I can't explain but they have excellent craftsmen here so it shouldn't be a problem to make...can I have my braces back now?"
Yaz signs “We're meant to be on vacation..." she slumps her shoulders disappointed
"We are on vacation!!!" Doctor smiles "Egypt is lovely, Yaz. Especially this time period. You're gonna love it"
"Sonya!!!! Come ooon...we need to get going" she yells at her sister "So where do we go?" she turns back to the Doctor unimpressed
Doctor licks her finger and lifts it up in the air "That way" she points on the other side of the Tardis "Just make sure you all take lots of water with you"
They loaded two rucksacks with essentials and started walking. Yaz speeds up and grabs Doctor's hand "I'm sorry I yelled "
"It's fine...I'm expecting it...I'm surprised you haven't already. It is a bit embarrassing, isn't it?" she smiles
"It is...not a five star holiday resort, is it?"
"Don't worry Yaz it's not a long walk...If it was I would have left you in a Tardis. We'll be there soon" she kisses her cheek
Yaz's mum and dad were behind them chatting casually. They looked like they enjoyed themselves. Her sister was trying to get the signal on her phone waiving it up in the air and nobody had a heart to tell her there's no Wi-Fi around.
By the time they came to the first houses it was already getting dark.
"Doctor…How come it's already dark? We left at 11am?" Sonya asked confused
"We travel through time Sonya...we can land at any point in time. Just so happens we landed in the evening...I do try to get my times right but often I miss a century or two...it happens a lot"
Sonya looked even more confused than before she asked the question, but she decided to drop it
"It's ok don't worry we'll find a place to sleep for tonight and we'll continue in the morning" Yaz hugs her sister across the shoulder
"Yaz honey, but we haven't got any money, I have Pounds in my purse. I doubt they take Sterling here" Najia gets confused
"Don't worry mum, Doctors got...well...it's like a credit card that works on all the planets. Hard to explain but we got this mum. Just relax"
Najia looked totally confused as well. The only person not having a care in the world was Hakim who looked at the stands and stores and people, taking photos with his phone and bunch of selfies.
"Hey look at that !!!" Hakim points at the distance
"Is that..." Najia looks at Yaz
"Pyramids of Giza" Doctor replies smiling "Magnificent isn't it...They are still being built at this point you know"
"I thought they were built by aliens?" Hakim asked
"No, I'm an alien...I should know...Nope...definitely by humans. You know humanity should really take credit for its achievements sometimes. Not all magnificent things are built by aliens"
"That's bloody amazing!! This is the best holiday ever Yaz" Sonya looked at her sister with a massive smile across her face
"Come on...we need to find a place to sleep, and I know just a place you'll love" Doctor reaches for Yaz's hand "And you're gonna love it too" she whispers in her ear
They came to a beautiful house and walked through the main door into enclosed gardens. The structure wowed with colonnaded exterior, cooling pools and extensive gardens. The walls and ceilings were painted with colorful frescoes depicting images of the gods and everyday life. Yaz's family walked through not saying one word just gazing around in amazement.
"Over here...I know the owner...he's a really good friend" Doctor pulls Yaz by the hand straight to the main room.
"Hello, I'm the Doctor, this is Yaz, Najia, Hakim and Sonya we are here to see the owner"
"Doctor?" a man's voice came from behind them "I haven't seen you in ages. Is this the new look? Waaaw I love it. It suits you being a woman" Nadja and Sonya looked at each other confused
"Thanks Kai. Meet my family this is Yaz" she leans closer "My wife” she grins “And her family, Najia, Hakim and Sonya"
"Very nice to meet you all. Are you staying for tonight?"
"Yes, please and I will also need some part for the Tardis. We got stranded a bit" Doctor goes into a long explanation moving away from the rest of them with a man
"Yaz honey Is this normal?"
"Yes mum, Doctor knows a lot of people"
"It’s all settled. Let's go!" Doctor holds Yaz's hand leading them into the house
They are met by the lady at the entrance who escorted them to their rooms. They were not any less impressed when they saw their rooms that were furnished with chairs, tables, mirrors, pottery, and a whole lot more besides that. As well as decorated with frescos.
"Alright mum, I need to rest a bit. That was a long walk” she kisses her cheek “Enjoy yourselves and later we can hang around...go for a meal...something...I'll see with the Doctor what we can do"
"Alright baby, go and rest and if you need me, please call"
"It's ok mum, I'm in good hands don't worry"
"Najia this is like honeymoon we never had" Hakim takes her hand
"By daaaad...Enjoy " she laughs rolling her eyes "They better not make a baby"
"Whaaat?" Doctor looks at her strangely
"Never mind that...let's go...I'm exhausted and I swear my feet are swollen. Are they honey?" she looks at her feet confused. They seemed very tight in her pumps
They came to their room and Yaz plonked on the bed “I can't feel my legs boo"
"Did you just call me boo?" Doctor laughed her head off
"Yeah" Yaz got her giggles "It's like cute"
"I've definitely never ever been called that...But I kind of like it. I'll run a bath for you if you want. It will help"
"That would be perfect...love ya"
The bathtub was big enough to fit five people let alone them two. Yaz leaned on the Doctor, and they enjoyed gazing at the stars through the massive window right next to them. Doctor was showing her all the constellations and naming all of them. She had stories for each and every one of those.
"God this is so amazing. Look at all those stars" Yaz says, looking up.
"It's absolutely beautiful...nothing like the sky filled with stars" she wrapped her arms around Yaz and kissed her cheek
"I think mum and dad are really enjoying themselves"
"Are you?" Doctor asked cheeky, knowing the answer. She just wanted to hear her say it
Yaz turned around to face her and wrapped herself around her. She stroked Doctor waive hair tucking it behind her ears "Don't think you need to ask that"
"Oh, but sometimes I just want to hear it" she kisses the tip of her nose smiling
"I love every minute of every day I spend with you, and I just can't take my hands off you. Cause you're my favorite person in a world...and I love you to those stars up there"
"Only to there...that's not very far" Doctor smirked gliding her hands down her back
They played with their lips brushing them together slowly and smiling then closed the gap between them kissing gently under the stars.
"Yaz" Doctor whispered pulling apart
"Mmmm"
"You're shaking but for all the wrong reasons"
"I'm cold" she smiled
"I'll strangle you...out of the water now and to the bed, you silly sod"
...
Yaz had a nap that she and the baby desperately needed after a long day and all the walking. She was lying in the bed curled up with a pillow between her legs that the Doctor shoved there convincing her it would make it easier on her back....and it did. She woke up to the Doctor's hand gently gliding down her face "Hey beautiful wake up...I'm sorry to wake you up but you need to eat something, and we need to meet up with you family"
"Mmmmmm" she turns around stretching her hands and placing them automatically around Doctors neck
Her eyes were still sleepy, and her cheeks started slowly getting that glow that most pregnant women get at some point. Doctor also loved the fact she got a bit chubby and found it absolutely adorable. She leaned over kissing her gently like she always did, with about ten short kisses one after another that always put a smile on Yaz's face. But since she was pregnant, every kiss was always accompanied with stroking her tummy gently as if Doctor desperately wanted for the baby to feel their love as well, and this small gesture melted Yaz's heart every time thinking how incredibly happy, she is to have her in her life.
"God, I love you two so much" Doctor says stroking her down her waist gently "It's so much bigger...look at that...munchkin is growing Yaz" she pulls her top up revealing a small, cute bump and then placed her ear on it "Wonder if I could hear it...Hello" she taps her fingers “You sleeping? I don't know if you are, but I just wanted to say I love you. And I'm sorry for that long walk today. I promise I'll sort something out for the way back" she kissed the stomach and Yaz twitches
"Aaaaaa..."
"What?!!" Doctor jumped, "Did I do something?" she looked worried
"Nooo...OMG it moved" she looks at her exited out of her mind
"Whaaaa? ... Really?... " Doctor stretched a biggest smile across her face
"There" she reached for her hand and pressed it against her stomach "Right there"
"Aaaaa...I can feel it...Hellooo!!!" she talks to her stomach again grinning and Yaz just couldn't help but laugh at Doctors silliness, she loved it so much.
She pressed on her bracelet to look at the hologram "Do that again"
"Hellooo munchkin...we looove youu" Doctor yelled even louder
"OMG look" she points to the hologram moving. Tears went down her face through her smile
"Hey...why are you crying darling?" Doctor stroke her face
"It's beautiful" she smiles, and tears kept rolling "And I love you so much"
"Come here..." Doctor pulled her up and pressed her against herself holding her tight "You're everything to me...and this is so much more than I ever hoped to have in my life" she pulls her away and kisses her forehead "Hey I got you something whilst you were sleeping"
"What did you get me?" she says exited wiping the leftovers of her tears
Doctor got up and brings a small gift wrapped up in a paper, tied with a string
"It's not much but I got one for your mum and sister as as well"
"You whaa?" she looks at her confused
"Well since I messed this up and we all need clean clothes I thought I make you all happy...open it up...I hope you like to color"
She opens the wrapping and pulls a beautiful cotton dress "OMG that's soo beautiful...look at that blue!!" she wrapped her fingers around her face "You're like a dream, you know that. And you didn't mess up anything" she kisses her softly "I love you"
"Come on, let's get ourselves ready...How's your feeties? Better?"
"Much better" she smiles and reaches for her hand to get up
…
"Why do you always take so long to get ready? I don't understand Yaz...we are so late" Doctor is pacing around the room nervously
"Because for some reason, now I need to go and pee every five minutes and it's so annoying" she yells from the bathroom
Doctor laughed shaking her head "Alright...just hurry up"
"See done...Oh, don't you look dashing" she remarked Doctors white cotton tunic "Goes nice with your trousers" she gives her a short kiss and holds her hand
"You said a year ago my fashion sense was suspect"
"I warmed up to it now when I'm totally into you" she smiles and wipes cookie crumbs off her face "You eat like a child" she giggles
"I got your dad one as well" she smiles walking out of the door
They walked outside where Yaz's family was already waiting for them, but they looked like they had tons of fun taking photos together and didn't notice them two being late at all.
"Hey, you two, this place is absolutely stunning. Thank you so much for bringing us here" Najia walked up to them with a big smile on her face
"Doctor thanks for the dresses, they are beautiful?" Sonya twirls around in her pink dress
"You look very nice Sonya and so do you Najia. I'm glad you're having a nice time"
"How are you doing honey?" Najia comes closer to Yaz and strokes her face
"Fine mum don't worry...Doctor ran a bath for me, it was nice. I needed that"
"Did you get some sleep? You know you have to sleep now"
"I did...oh and baby moved" she smiles putting a hand on her stomach
"Really?!! That's a bit early" Najia looked the Doctor concerned
"Not for my baby Najia...it's quite normal" Doctor says proudly
"Really? Oh, alright then" she turns to Yaz a lot happier now when the Doctor said that "It's a nice feeling isn't it? Oh, you kicked all the time...if it's anything like you, you will have a fun time" she laughs
"Doctor speaks to the baby all the time and she said something today...and it moved...it's the weirdest feeling ever"
"And it made her cry" Doctor kissed her temple
They walked outside on the street. Night was nice and fresh. It was a relief for everyone after all the heat they experienced earlier on that day. They sat in a small place where most locals had a meal. It was more like a little tavern that served local food.
"I love this place...I used to eat here all the time. They have some little fried things I can't remember the name, but they are really nice" Doctor says exited
"Doctor, how can we read all of this and understand people? Surely, they don't speak English"
"Tardis tricks Hakim"
"That's clever. So, Doctor, how will you repair the ship?" he asked, and the Doctor jumped to it. She loved talking to him about the Tardis
They walked from the restaurant, slowly down the street through the marketplace and all the stands. Some man was playing game of shuffling cups and Doctor jumped to it straight away "Hey look I'm good at this" she ran up to the to him and sat at the small stool
"Hello, I don't know how quick your eyes are madam?" the man said
"Very quick...more than average I might add...We had that game back home you know...But we played with disappearing cups...very similar" she's explaining excitedly to everyone, but she got them all confused
"Here we go...see that coin...ready? ... Go!!" he starts shuffling
Doctor was twisting her face and squinting her eyes following the cups around until he stoped "That one" she points her finger
He lifted the cup "Oh, so you are good!"
"Told ya...good eyes" she makes a smug face
Couple more rounds and the guy was getting depressed. "I'm gonna lose all my money for today"
"Oh, I didn't know we were playing for money?" Doctor looks confused twisting her face "I won't take it...I just find it fun" she smiles, and the man's mood changed instantly
"Hey, does anyone else want to try?"
"No they don't honey...come on let's go" Yaz taps her on a shoulder
"I do" Hakim jumps exited
"OMG here we go...those two should exchange numbers" Najia rolls her eyes
"Hey mum, Yaz look..." Sonya points to the sky "What's that?"
Blue and pink clouds went over the horizon glowing in the night sky. They looked absolutely beautiful but at the same time completely unnatural. Yaz taps Doctor on a shoulder who was still fixed on the game.
"Honey...what's that?" she's not getting any attention from the Doctor having a blast with Hakim, so she grabs her jaw and lifts her head up "Babe...what's that" she points a finger up
"Shoot..." she gets up straight away "That's not good Yaz"
"No kidding" she replied
"What can that be, Doctor?" Najia asked concerned
"I have no idea but it's coming from way out of the city...I wish I had Tardis now...I could do the scan. I think you should go back to the hotel, and I'll go and check this out"
"I'll go with you" Yaz says
"Oh no you won't " she pulls her back by her hand
"What why? And don't say because I'm pregnant" she stomps her foot
"That's exactly what I'm gonna say"
"I'm going...Don’t do this again…leaving me"
"Yaz, this isn't a discussion! You're staying with you mum" she said raising her voice at this point frustrated
"Yaz darling" Nadja says calmly "I think the Doctor is right, you know. You don't know what that thing is, and until she's sure I don't think it's smart you going out there"
"You're now ganging up on me all you lot" her chin started to wobble, and she looked to the floor
Doctor puts her finger under her chin lifting her head "No, we are not Yaz, we all care about you and that baby. Please...look... I can't stop you, but I'm asking you"
She paused, taking a big breath before replying "Alright...but I don't like you going on your own. I'm gonna be worried sick"
"I'm not, I'm going with your dad" she turns to Hakim "If you want to, that is?"
"What? Who, me? Hell yes!!" he almost yelled how excited he was
"I thought you might like that" Doctor smiles
"You and my dad???" she bursts out laughing "Oh please can you film it for me"
"Blimey I told you they should exchange numbers" Najia rolls her eyes
"Can I go?" Sonya asked
"Noooo!!!" everyone yelled at the same time only Doctor stayed confused at their reaction
Back at the hotel Doctor and Hakim packed up a bag and were ready to go
"Doctor!!! It's getting bigger look" Sonya points to the sky through the window
"It is, isn't it? ... Right, we have to go" she turns to Yaz and takes her hands "I'm sorry for leaving you. Please don't be upset with me. I need to know you're safe"
"I'm not happy about us being separated again...but please hurry up back, and don't get regenerated in a process"
Doctor laughs "No, I'm not gonna get regenerated silly hormonal sod" they look at each other locking eyes together for a few seconds when Najia kicks Hakim and signals everyone to leave the room.
Yaz starts to laugh "You can kiss me now. Mum took everyone out"
She cups her face and looks at her gently "I'm so sorry, this is weird for me too..." she pressed her lips on hers kissing her for a while compensating for leaving her behind
"Go now before my hormones take a better of me and I start crying again...I don't know what's wrong with me”
“You’re my hormonal cute mess...that’s what’s wrong with you” she laughs
“Oh, did you take your cookies? Take your cookies if you get hungry"
"I did…I have them in a bag" Doctor laughed shaking her head. She felt like a child for a moment
"Go...love ya sexy" she slapped her bum on a way out of the room "you better come back in that same body. And keep my dad safe, don't let him touch anything or wonder off"
"I will" Doctor laughed all the way down the hallway. Yaz started to sound more and more like her every day
They finally set off, chatting all the way to the desert. Both actually enjoyed a time spent together. Hakim was asking loads of questions about different species of aliens, planets and places and the Doctor was more than happy to kill time while walking all that way, by taking all the time. Talking was never a problem for her in the first place.
"I must say Doctor, now that I know you better, I'm really happy for you and my Yaz. She was always a different little girl you know, and not always understood. She went through a lot of pain"
"Yaz is one the best people I've ever known...and I know a lot of people. I'm sorry she went through that, makes me very unsettled thinking about it. She’s a beautiful person and didn’t deserve it. But people can be cruel…Its sad”
"I just wanted her to be happy. And she seems extremely happy with you" he looks at the Doctor sideways and smiles
Doctor looks back at him "And I'm extremely happy with her. Don't worry Hakim, I'd never allow anyone or anything to hurt her Yaz again...or the baby" she smiles "I have a duty of care" she looks in front "Aaaa I think we're getting close"
They approached a massive crater in the sand where the light seemed to have come from. Doctor took her sonic out and scanned the area. "That's odd...there’s masses of artrons here and loads of other stuff. Stay back Hakim, let me have a look"
She goes down the sand into the hole "What is that?" she bends down "It's like an orb" she scans it with the sonic "It seems alive...organic. I've never seen anything like this before"
"I have" Hakim walks down closer to her
"You have?" she looks at him surprised
"I read this article in one of the UFO magazines. I think it was a year ago when they found one in India. It fell one night from the sky and landed in the field"
Doctor got increasingly more interested in his story by this point "Aaaand?"
"There were reports of light in the sky like polar lights and in some villages people and animals died during the night from gas poisoning. After that the river went strange orange color and became poisonous as well"
"Hakim that yellow sounds like sulfur but I can't see how it came from this?" she touched it and the orb vibrates a sound
"Aaaa that's interesting" she touched it again and it moved again vibrating
"That's a nice sound" Hakim says smiling but suddenly the orb started admitting a different kind of a sound "Aaaaaaaa" he covered his ears
"Aaaaaaaaa...." Doctor covered her ears
"What is thaaat?" he yells in pain
"It's a sonic protection"...she yelled and and pointed a sonic at the orb. The sound finally stopped
"OMG that nearly bust my ear drum!" he rubs his ear
The orb moved a bit inside of the ground and suddenly took off, hovering in the air above their heads as if inspecting them. Doctor tried getting a reading, but she couldn't.
"Doctor It's getting away!!"
"I know!!" she yells looking up
The orb disappeared into the night sky in seconds
"Hakim, how do you feel about walking more?"
"I'm not tired…fine with me"
"Brilliant! We're heading to my Tardis then!!"
She started walking and explaining on a way "I need to look something up...I'm sure I have it in the library...I remember reading about it, and then there was this war of the monkeys that disrupted me and I never finished the book...but it's somewhere on a tip of my brains what that thing is" she turns over her shoulder to Hakim "Also we need to take few more things from the Tardis as well"
"Alright...War of the monkeys?" he asked confused
"In a meantime Hakim...tell me what happened with that orb in India? ... You never finished the story"
"Oh, people started seeing strange stuff, you know, like ghosts everywhere. And then in a temple there was a Buddhist monk who finally came up with a solution"
"Interesting...Clever those Buddhist monks I'll tell you...I spent 5 years with them once. What was it? ... The solution"
"I don't remember" Hakim replied
"Oh" she shrugged her shoulders
They continued walking for a while until they finally came to the Tardis. Doctor ran inside and clapped her hands to light up the control room.
"Hello girl, sorry for leaving you alone. I promise I'll sort you out soon. Just need to do this first"
"Hello!" he greats the Tardis making the Doctor smile
"I like having you as a father-in-law...I like it a lot" she says flipping few things on the console and flapping around picking stuff up
"Talking about that...are you two getting married?"
"We are married!" she looks up to him smiling
"You are?" he looked confused
"Weddings are just a ceremony...you know, for the family, it's what you promise to each other that counts Hakim!" she smiles tapping him on a shoulder zooming passed him
"Buuut!!... I suppose we could sort out something...I know it would make Yaz happy...wearing a beautiful dress and all that...maybe when the baby comes...that would be nice" she smiles hopping around the Tardis "Ahaaa...there it is...she yells from the back running with a book and throws it on a console starting to flip through the pages straight away
"One million orbs?" he reads the name of the book
"Oh, this is just volume one...there's six...Many orbs in the universe Hakim" she continues flipping through the pages
"Isn't that it?" he points
"So, it is...10 points for Hakim '' she smiles "Here we go...the orb of Alarum is used as a transport device. It is known to be used only several times in history after a great war of Alarum after which the sphere got its name.... And that's why I got the reading that it's alive Hakim"
"Are those...living bean's inside?" he asked her visible shaken
"Yes Hakim...they are...thousands...maybe even millions of souls from some world out there"
"Why are they here and getting transported where?"
"I don't know...I don't even know where they're from...it could be from another universe..." she wanders into her thoughts for a second thinking million different reasons "Right...we need to go back now. It's a long walk back and Yaz will get seriously worried...so will Najia and Sonya"
"You're probably right"
"Don't worry...we will figure it out...let's get a shift on" she grabs something else from the console and they get going
...
Yaz was sitting by the window in her mum's room anxiously looking outside nervously fiddling with the hem of her dress. She takes the little cube out of her pocket and switches on the hologram.
"What's that?" Sonya asked amazed
"Just something Doctor gave me in case we get separated so we can find each other. See that's her that dot...they are on a way back finally" she switches it off
"Wow that's cool"
"Don't worry...I'm sure they're fine" Najia says stroking her hair "Here you go drink this tea it will help to calm you down"
"Thanks mum" she smiles nervously
"Don't worry sis...she seems really smart...I like her...I didn't before but I think she's quite cool"
"I can't help worrying. I never told you this...but we got separated for three years once and it was absolutely horrible because neither of us knew the other one was alive...and then another time for nearly a year...I never want to go through that again..." she puts her hand on her stomach "Specially now...I don't think I could take it mum"
"I didn't know that honey"
"They're here!!" Sonya shouts looking through the window
Yaz got up straight away and ran out of the room
"Slow down Yaz!!...Goodness, she's coming upstairs darling" Najia yells, but Yaz didn't hear any of it. She was already halfway down the open staircase leading from the veranda.
"Yaz!" Doctor yells "Stop..." she didn't finish the sentence Yaz was already hanging around her neck "running" she smiles hugging her "See still same body" she kisses her on a forehead
"Hi dad...had a good time?"
"Yap...there was this orb, and it flew away and we had to go back to Tardis..."
"You went back to Tardis?" she looks at the Doctor confused "Why?"
"I'll tell you all about it...come on '' she puts her arm around her shoulder "I really like your dad...Did you know that the government has a spaceship in a US military base...Someone should have mentioned it to me...I'm gonna have to speak to Torchwood you know"
"OMG dad what have you been telling her?" she rolls her eyes laughing "Darling those are conspiracy theories...it's not proven dad"
"Never underestimate a conspiracy theory Yaz" she kisses her temple
"That's what I keep saying " says Hakim gloating "God I can't feel my feet and there's sand in my shoes"
"Sand in shoes is never a good thing Hakim" she looks at him across the shoulder "That's why I wear boots...you never know where you end up...much comfier"
"Next think you know my dad will be wearing trousers that don't reach" Yaz laughs
"What's wrong with my trousers?"
"Nothing...Nothing babe" she's pissing herself laughing "I like your trousers"
When they got back upstairs, Doctor and Hakim explained everything they found.
"So now what Doctor...I mean do you usually sort out those kinds of things?? " Najia asked
"Usually yes...there's others like Torchwood but yes"
"What's Torchwood?" Sonya asked
"Oh, they collect all the alien technology that gets misplaced on Earth so it doesn't end up in the wrong hands and put away some bad aliens as well...that's a short version sis"
"Can I get a job there?"
"No babe, not really...besides I want you safe...can't worry about everyone I care about" she looks at the Doctor across the room
"I'll have a plan by the morning, rest now...you all need to sleep, it's really late" Doctor says "Don't worry I don't think this is hostile...I'm pretty sure at least 70%...definitely 50..."
Everyone looked at her weirdly and pretty worried
"Don't worry she does this all the time...come on you...you're scaring the shit out of my family..." she pulls her by the hand
"I'm honest Yaz" she looks at her confused but Yaz signals to her family to ignore her and pushes her out of the room
"Night everyone...love ya" Yaz says from the door and Doctor waives happily
Yaz hangs herself around her waist wobbling towards their room. "God it's nice to have you back...and you need a shower"
"Do I stink?" she says horrified smelling herself
"Yeah, of some chemicals babe"
"That's odd I can't smell it...why can't I smell it?"
"Dunno, but you're going straight to the bathroom" she laughs
Yaz was playing with the hologram in the bed waiting for Doctor to take a shower
"Yaz...would you like to get married?" she yells from the bathroom
"I thought we are married?" she frowns confused
Doctor walks out of the bathroom "We are married that's not what I meant"
"Ulala sexy!" Yaz laughed at the Doctor standing but naked at the entrance of the bathroom "You do remember we have windows here...right?"
"Shoot!!!" Doctor runs back in the bathroom and Yaz gets up to close the shutters
"It's fine...you can come out now babe" she laughs her head off "I was smart and took my nightie"
"You know I hate those" she comes out of the bathroom again and climes to bed laying her head on Yaz's tummy
"What was that about getting married? You lost me?"
"Your dad asked about getting married"
"He would do" she laughs..."Don't know how Nanny would react to that?" she giggles
"I mean is that something you would like?"
"I don't know babe...I'm not bothered...We are married...Is that something you want?"
"I would do it iff it makes you happy..."
"That's sweet babe but let me think ok?" she strokes her hair
"Yaz" Doctor says quietly
"Mmmm"
"You're really sexy" she grins reaching with her hand underneath her nightie
"Am I now?" Yaz glowed finally hearing it normally from Doctors mouth
"I love you" she kisses the inside of her leg
Yaz hasn't said anything anymore. She just stroked her hair and closed her eyes. Doctors' hands sliding up and down her legs and her kissing the inside of her legs prevented her from being able to put a coherent sentence together anymore. It's what Doctors touch would do to her like it had some magical property that would put a spell on her. She knew her so well now that every touch seemed even more hyped up.
Her hand was slowly gliding around the curves of her breast and back down her stomach while she made a usual home for herself between her thighs. Yaz curved herself to every touch following her hand as if she didn't want to lose it somewhere in the universe. Her wife's touch was the most beautiful sensation she ever felt in life, a feeling she could never imagine living without anymore.
She continued running her lips down the inside of her legs and brushing her fingers between her thighs. It made Yaz gasp for air curving her back. She grabbed the pillow and buried her face into it smothering her moans constantly aware they are not alone on Tardis.
Doctor laughed and moved the pillow from her face "Hiding?" she made a smug face
enjoying every second of Yaz struggling with herself.
"I hate you" Yaz looked at her with her eyes half open grabbing the strains of hair on the back of her neck
"No, you don't, you adore me" she laughs kissing her briefly
"Please...stopped torturing me"
"You do this to me all the time...now you know how it feels" she laughs and kisses her passionately finally taking mercy on her.
The Doctor moved slowly watching her frowning and biting on her lips. She loved gazing at her from time to time imprinting in mind every expression of her gentile face, storing it deep into the very core of her being for centuries ahead.
Yaz grabbed her upper arm, digging her fingers into it and then proceeding to gently glide her hand down her curves to her thighs.
They kissed gently and passionately playing with their lips and gazing at each other's eyes taking each other to their own universe.
...
Doctor laid behind her running fingers over her tummy. She buried her face into her hair "It's quite a little bump…maybe it moves again" she runs her palm over it
"Aha...finally" she smiles happily
"You really like it?"
"I love it...I want the whole world to see it"
"You're so silly" she bursts out laughing into the back of her neck kissing it gently "My pumpkin"
"Pumpkin?" Yaz laughed "you just called me a pumpkin"
"Yap...my adorable pumpkin...I love pumpkins"
Yaz turned around to face her
"Hey...why did you turn? I was getting comfortable there" she complained pulling her leg over herself to bring her as close as she possibly could
"I was getting stiff, sorry...this is nice as well" she makes herself more comfortable wrapping her leg around her and kissing her "Love ya"
"Will you help me tomorrow?" Doctor asked running her finger down her nose
"Really? I can go with you?"
"Nope, nope that's not what I said" she shakes her head
Yaz pouted her lips disappointed "That figures...now you got my dad"
"Nobody can replace you Yaz, not even your dad, so don't worry... .no competition there. But I still need you to help me out in something"
"Do you really need to ask that" she laughs "What do you think is in that orb? It gives me the creeps to be honest"
"Why?"
"Reminds me of the passenger form"
"No Yaz it's nothing like that. Passenger form is a prison. This is used for evacuation...if the planet is in danger of some cataclysmic event. Totally different...I just need to find them. They got scared of me and ran off...but they are somewhere close. They can't move very far once they lose the outer shell"
"Outer shell?"
"They were protected in a bigger casing when they travelled through space and then it burned out entering the atmosphere...those were the beautiful lights we saw in the sky"
"How big is this orb?"
"Only small Yaz no bigger than a pumpkin" she smiles and kisses her
"You and your pumpkins" she reaches under the covers and runs her hand down her lower back
"Don't do that"
"Do what" she laughs
"You know that sets me off when you do that"
"I'm not doing anything" she flaps her eyelashes
Doctor kisses her passionately
...
"Yaz darling wake up" she felt Doctors lips pressing on her temple softly
"Mmmmm" Yaz rolled on her back and put her arms around her neck pulling her for a kiss "Morning love"
"You look cute in a morning" Doctor kisses the tip of her nose
"You're looking dashing this morning, and you smell so nice" she buried her face into her neck kissing it
"Come on sleepyhead, I know you want to sleep more but we need to get up...we have a lost orb to find"
"Still need my help?"
"Absolutely...always need you" she smiles and kisses her briefly "Come on" she pulls apart, literally having to remove her arms while rolling her around the bed. Doctor smacks her bum laughing "Shift that bum out of the bed, come on"
Yaz reluctantly gets up dragging herself to the bathroom still half asleep "I will never understand where you get your energy from"
Doctor laughed and picked up a bagel from the breakfast tray that was left every morning in front of their room. "Mmmm...these are so nice...you should try" she speaks with her mouth full
Yaz pulled a dress over her head and reached for Doctors wrist taking a bite out of her hand "Mmmmm.. you're right" she grabs the whole bagel out of her hand laughing
"Oi!!! I was enjoying in that" she frowns wiles Yaz kissed her forehead "Thanks babe...love ya" Yaz smiles cheeky
"Alright let's go...Where are we going anyway?" Yaz reaches for her hand walking out of the door
"Not far from here...I don't want to do this in the middle of the city in case something goes wrong"
"What do you mean by wrong?"
"Oh, you know releasing two million potentially hostile ghosts on a city...but I'm sure it won't happen"
"Whaaaa? You said they are not hostile"
"I don't know Yaz...but I needed all of you to sleep last night not worrying about it" she calmly says walking down the steps to the courtyard leaving Yaz concerned
"Dad...what are you wearing?" Yaz looks down on her dad's trousers that don't reach
"What's wrong with that...it gets hot you know" he tried defending himself
"Don't ask Yaz...he cut them last night...I'm wondering what's next" Najia comments kissing her on a cheek
"Braces and rainbows mum" Yaz laughed
"I like those" Doctor says proudly looking at his trousers
"You would do" Yaz takes her hand rolling her eyes and laughing
"Hey Yaz look what I did" Sonya reached in her pocket and took a paper out with a drawing
"OMG Sonya...that's beautiful" she looks at the pencil drawing of herself looking through the window last night when she was waiting for the Doctor
"That's very beautiful Sonya...you got a talent there" Doctor comments
"That's her waiting for you last night Doctor" Sonya winks at her smiling
Doctor squeezed Yaz's hand tighter and kissed her temple "Love ya" she whispers in her ear
"Right...I think we got fat enough from the city. Yaz honey help me out. We need to set this up on three places like in circle"
"What's that? " Sonya asked looking at strange devices on tripods that Doctor was putting together
"Those will admit a certain frequency...you know...like making a long distance phone call..."
"Saying what? Sonya asked
"Hello...wanna talk"? Doctor replied smiling but Sonya just couldn't get her head around how weird the Doctor was
They were setting it all up for almost half hour. The tripods and the weird monitor Doctor took out of one of the bags
"Right all set. Step back just in case. It's been a long time since I've used those...they only explode sometimes but you know just in case"
Everyone looked a bit horrified and moved far away except for Yaz who wasn't bothered at all and stayed next to her. She pulled the sonic out and aiming at the the small box on the ground. The beams of light shot out of the box and connected to each box on the tripods. Everything was shaking and making a crackling noise until the loud pitched sound went through the air making everyone cove their ears
"OMG what's that?" Sonya yelled covering her ears
Yaz kept her ear covered with one hand and pointing towards the desert with another hand "Doctor!!! Look"
The orb shot through the air and in seconds was above their heads. The sound went from pitched to deep beats in rhythmic patterns. Doctor pointed the sonic into the air towards the orb
"Hello, sorry about yesterday. I meant no harm but you're scanning people here. Where do you come from?" the sound changed the rhythm "How many of you are here? What happened to you?" the sound kept changing and the orb kept hovering around then went lower their eye line hovering in front of the Doctor who pushed Yaz behind her when it came inches from her face "Hello...Don't be scared. I'm the Doctor this is my wife Yaz and her family Najia, Hakim, and Sonya. We only want to help. Are you lost? Did you crush here, or you landed on purpose?"
Nadja looked at the monitor and saw data going through it. She nudged her husband pointing towards it. Hakim looked kept his eyes on the orb and slowly went to the monitor
"Doctor...I think they are sending data to you. I can't understand what they are saying doe" he turns the monitor towards her, and she quickly looked towards it
"I really want to help. Are you looking for a new home? Is your world destroyed? Is that what this is...evacuation? Who hurt you?" she kept asking loads of questions but when she asked the last one the orb suddenly changed the color from light blue the orange and started vibrating
"Alright don't like to talk about that...We can drop it...So you do understand what I'm saying" a beam of light shot out of the orb and started scanning the Doctor revealing her hearts. She stood still carefully not moving
"Doctor...what's it doing?" Yaz asked concerned and Doctor opened her arms keeping her behind her back
"Be still Yaz...scanning"
The orb moved hovering above their heads scanning each and every one of them. Sonya's face froze from fear
"Sonya be still" Yaz said looking at her worrying her sister will start screaming in a second. She could see her face was riddled with panic
The orb came to Yaz and Doctors face went write. She was hoping it will miss her, but it didn't. She hated the fact she had no control at this point over what was going on, but she also knew she cannot panic. It was scanning Yaz from her head down
"Doctor?? " she looked at her worrying
"Don't worry Yaz just keep still" she was reassuring both of them at this point regretting she took Yaz with her
"Alright … enough now. You've had your scan..." Doctor said defensively and moved between the orb and Yaz "So? What are we gonna do now?" the orb went up higher and, in a second, shot through the air into the distance
"Shoot...not again!!!...Why you keep doing that?" Doctor yells scrunching her face irritated "By this rate we'll be here a month" she turns to Yaz "How are you feeling?"
"Fine" Yaz replied calmly more concerned about her family then herself
"Are you hot?"
"It's seven in a morning no" she laughs
"Are you hungry?" Doctor kept asking still flustered and deep down stressed
"Stop that...I'm fine" she rolls her eyes laughing and lays her hand on her cheek "Seriously relax...alright?"
"Right...anyone fancy breakfast? I could really do with a proper breakfast " she turns cheerfully towards her family, but Najia and Sonya are looking at her in complete disbelief
"Doctor" Najia points to all the equipment "What about all of this?"
"Oh, don't worry...we can eat and look at the data in a same time" she started putting all the equipment in the bag with Yaz and Hakim helping her "We are still on vacation, and they seem harmless...just lost...and scared… Nothing to worry about, really…we will get to it in the end"
"Doctor what's this yellow stuff?" Sonya pointed to a mark on her dress
Doctor turned on a heal and in a second, she was next to her hovering her sonic over her dress "That's weird well not weird just unusual...Yaz, you remember when you told me I stink?"
"I didn't tell you stink...just that you need a shower"
"Isn't that the same thing?” she looked up for second confused “Anyway, you said I stink of chemicals" she continued
"I didn't say you stink...but yes it smelled of chemicals" she comes close to her looking at the sonic and then comes and smells the stain of Sonya's dress "Yap same smell...What is it?"
"Sulfur Yaz” Doctor replied twisting her face thinking “Strange..."
"Why Sulfur? Could it be like...I don't know...something that powers up that orb?" Najia comments
"Good question Nadjia but no, sulfur can’t power it” she turns to her husband “Hakim, what was it you said to me?... River turned to sulfur...in India?"
"Yes Doctor...I said river was yellow, and you said to me it must be sulfur"
"No I definitely need more information. Maybe data will help” she pops a bag on her back changing her mood in a second “Let’s go and eat…Oh, and don't worry Sonya small amount like this cannot harm you...but I need to check this out more when we come back to the hotel"
Yaz wiped her dress with baby wipes trying toc get it off just in case.
"Alright everyone...food I'm starving...and I know just the right place and we can do some sightseeing afterwards if you'd like?" she reaches for Yaz`s hand
"That would be wonderful" Najia smiled looking at her husband lovingly
…
Everyone was sitting in a tavern Doctor took them to enjoying in their breakfast chatting. But Doctors face was on her little monitor connected to the tiny keyboard working and chewing in a same time.
"Babe...can you put that down for just a moment and eat in peace" Yaz wipes a honey from the corner of her mouth "You're getting this honey everywhere"
"Mmmm...well I have you to clean me up" she winks at her liking attention and turns the monitor towards them all "Look...this isn't complete because normally I would hook it up to Tardis to translate but I'm working with what I have."
Everyone started at the monitor confused "What's that?" Najia asked confused and Doctor turned the monitor back to herself
"Ups, sorry..." she laughs "That's Galifreyan" she presses a button on a keyboard and turns the monitor back "See"
"OMG it's a map of the universe" Hakim says "They sent you coordinates...is that where they're coming from?"
"Seems to be, yes" she closes the little monitor and leaned over the table "I'm gonna try working it out, but if not, we will have to go back to Tardis...so sorry"
"No, no it's fine Doctor I'm ready when you are" Hakim starts getting up but Najia pulls him by the sleeve "She said maybe...sit down!"
Yaz nudged Doctor with her shoulder "You got yourself admirer babes"
"Doctor" Sonya turns to her across the table "Yaz says you're over 3000 years old?"
"Sonya!!! Shut up" Yaz says annoyed
"What? You said that?" she looks at her sister defensively
"It's fine Yaz...I don't have problem with my age...More or less Sonya...dunno … hard to keep track once you pass 2000" she shrugged her shoulders taking another bite of the cake
"You don't look it? You look like you're no older than 30. Do you...age at all? And were you really a bloke before?" she continued asking intrigued
"Oh yes, I do age … only a lot slower...but mostly I get into trouble and regenerate. I was a man before Sonya... many times. Before I met Yaz I was a gray haired Scotsmen!" she continues explaining exited "She met me when I just regenerated, and I was thrown out of my Tardis. I fell through the rooftop of the train…that was a long fall" she kept cheerful smile on her face explaining excitedly as if the words coming out of her mouth were the most normal thing in a world, not releasing Sonya's and Najia were left speechless
"Excuse me" Yaz got up from the table and almost ran pushing through the tables
"Yaz!! Are you ok honey?" Najia called her but she didn't reply just ran off
"Did I say something to upset her?" Sonya asked worriedly
"It's ok...It wasn't you Sonya" Doctor says getting up..."It was me...Its ok Najia I'll go...This is my mess to pick up" she stops her from getting up..."Excuse me..." Doctor got up and rushed at the back of the tavern where she found Yaz standing in a small allay wiping her tears.
She approached slowly behind her "Are you alright beautiful?"
Yaz wiped some more tears. She was desperately trying to contain herself, but regeneration talk and Doctor saying how she was a man before was way too much. All her fears and anxiety suddenly kicked in mixed with all the raging hormones and she suddenly felt like she was sinking down a deep hole. The thought of losing the Doctor in any shape or form was at this point inconceivable to her.
She could feel Doctors arms slowly, gently slipping around her waist. Just feeling her arms around herself, holding her, already made her feel calmer. She placed her palms on Yaz`s tummy and her chin on her shoulder rocking her gently from side to side
"I'm here beautiful" she said quietly "I'm not going anywhere...and I don't plan to either" she kisses her cheek softly
"But you will one day. When you reaerate. You will leave." Yaz says through tears
"I'm not planning to...as long as I'm with you and you want me Yaz" she kisses her shoulder
"I will always want you no matter what body you have. And I will always love you. But I do like this one and regeneration scares me. It means your hurt and I'm petrified of you being hurt."
"But I'm not planning to regenerate either. Not on my to do list...it never is...I don't like it Yaz I never did like it. Not nice to be someone else all the time."
"You can't promise me that" she strokes knuckles of her hands leaning on her chest pressing her cheek against hers to feel her soft skin
"No... I can't...but I can promise you that I will never leave you on purpose, ever. And that I will do everything that I possibly can, so we never get separated. I know that scares you the most Yaz, not regeneration…I’m not a fool" she felt tears rolling down Yaz`s face as she said that
She rocks her slowly whispering to her "You told me your self I'm definition of impossible. And I told you that love is the strongest force in the universe...So I would say those two make us two unbeatable"
Yaz smiled through her tears and took a deep breath "You're a smooth talker as well you know...you should add that to your resume"
Doctor kisses her cheek "Love ya" she strokes her tummy "Both of ya"
Yaz turned around wrapping her hands around her neck "I don't doubt that...ever...It's losing you that I can't deal with"
"I know beautiful...We will beat whatever is coming our way...we have to believe that" she kisses her forehead gently "Come on...let's have a nice day today...There's so much I wanna show you here...you'll see it's beautiful"
Yaz reached for her hand and walked back to the table where her parents and her sister were getting increasingly worried for her. Her mum specially didn't like the fact she was getting upset considering everything
"Hey" she smiled "Sorry about that..."
"You alright honey?" Najia got up straight away
"I'm so sorry Yaz. Didn't mean to" Sonya saying quietly
"It's fine Sonya...really...wasn't anything you said...promise...just...I think my hormones are having a rave party at the moment" she laughs
…
They walked all around the city. Doctor showing them all the temples and stores and all the small places most people don't know about. They walked up to the building site of the gait pyramid and Hakim was fascinated
"Why there are no workers at the site?" he asked the Doctor
"They were built mostly during flood season” Doctor starts explaining “when fields couldn't be worked on. But it's now lunch time so most likely they are all over there" she points to the long line of workers queueing up for a meal
"Doctor…Is he buried in there already...the Pharaoh?" Sonya asked
"Nah... he never will be...domestic arguments and all that...nasty stuff" she walked around holding Yaz's hand having her other hand tucked in a pocket of her trousers looking up thinking "Hey, let me show you something" she whispers into Yaz`s ear
"Hey mum! We will catch up with you...alright?" Yaz shouts towards her mum who was quite far away from them taking photos
"Alright hun...have fun" she waives
"You do know they can't keep all those photos?" Doctor whispered
"I know...just don't want to spoil their fun now" she smiles
Doctor pulls her by the hand and takes her at the back of the building site were all the ramps were sitting empty wiles workers had their lunch.
"Where are you taking me? ... Do you want to kiss me or something?" she asked giggling
"I do .... but that's not why we are here...Come on...get a shift on!!" She started pulling her by the hand up the wooden platform and halfway towards the top pushing her laughing "Go on mummy you can do this" she pushed her by her waist. In about 10 minutes they were almost to top of half build structure when Doctor ran in front of her reaching for her hand to pull her up on one flat massive stone block "Don't trip Yaz...hold me tight"
She stood behind her holding her around her waist "Look" she points her finger at the distance "Egypt darling...on a palm of your hand"
Yaz leaned on her with a huge smile across her face. Her heart was melting, filled with so much love it felt like it will explode. "This is amazing…. Adventure of a lifetime. Why you do all this for me?"
"Because I love you Yaz" she makes a pause and presses her cheek onto hers "...and because I want to show you how I see the world"
Yaz turned around just enough to kiss her gently "Did I tell you you're like a dream?" she smiled
"So are you" Doctor squeezed her thither and placed her head on her shoulder "....so are you my beautiful"
…
"I'm knackered" Yaz held her hand struggling to walk "I really think my feet are swelling up" she looks down to her ankles "And I desperately need to pee"
Doctor quietly laughed. She found it adorable how Yaz was absolutely confused about all the changes her body was going through "Don't worry Yaz … it's normal...If you'd started growing an extra pair of limbs, I'd be concerned...but for now you're fine"
"Finally!!!" she cheered up seeing a hotel "Are you and dad going out tonight?"
"Maybe...not sure Yaz. I will have a lot to do tonight. I have to try to translate that data...it's so much harder without the Tardis. I underestimated just how much I do use it Yaz. I need to get my brains into gear...I think I'm getting rusty since we haven't gone anywhere properly, I swear they are getting glitches" she shakes her head
"I think your brains are perfectly fine" she rolls her eyes laughing at her silliness "You know, I would reeealy love you if you do something for me?"
"Anything Yaz"
"Run me a bath...pleeeaseeee. I need a nice bath I feel so heavy" she hangs of her waist going up the steps towards their room
"Of course, I will silly...you don't need to beg me for it Yaz" Doctor laughs kissing the top of her head
"Hey, love birds!" Nadjia called them smiling from the bottom of the stairs climbing behind them "Are we having a dinner together? Or my newly discovered Indiana Jones is going out with you tonight, Doctor?" she looks at her husband smiling
"Dinner Nadjia, definitely" Doctor says … "I did promise you vacation...And we are having it despite all that's happening...It's always better to have adventure on a full stomach...I always say that"
"You never say that” Yaz laughs “You hardly ever eat anything… Graham was taking sandwiches with him! ... And you are workaholic as well" she rubs her hand on Doctor's flat stomach "It's why you're so thin and I'm just getting fatter recently"
"Don't say that Yaz, you look as beautiful as ever...Besides its your heart I love...remember that" Doctor says casually smiling and dragging her up the steps
"Alright darling" Nadjia says "... let us know and we'll get ready...take a rest now"
"Alright mum...Oh, Sonya tell dad to bring some clothes for you ... I think we are all starting to stink" she laughs and turns to the Doctor "And you as well...bring us some fresh clothes this time… and don't forget like last time...I can't keep washing our nickers in a sink every day"
"Yaz...can you not talk about our underwear in front of everyone" Doctor whispered in her ear
"Everyone talks about underwear babe it's normal"
"Not where I come from it isn't "
Doctor ran a bath for Yaz and they closed the shutters on the windows of their room enjoying in a cooling shade wiles the sun was scorching outside.
"Hey Yaz, I've managed to decode most of the message. I'll have Tardis do the rest tonight. There's a whole part here I can't even open up." she sat on the floor in her underwear and only a T-shirt with her small laptop in front of her while Yaz enjoyed a bath playing with bubbles
"I knew you would...told you nothing is wrong with your brains. By the way, you look sexy like that..." she said playing with the water in a tub, but Doctor ignored her comment as usual just slightly smiling from the corner of her lips acknowledging she did hear it "So, what does it say?" Yaz continued
"It was a distress call they have sent throughout the universe at the time of a disaster, but unfortunately nobody picked it up Yaz. I don't understand why? There are literally millions of worlds out there...different species...how come nobody picked up the message" she looks up to her clearly disappointed and hurt
"Maybe they did darling, but they didn't care"
"That's just rude not to mention sad Yaz...You don't ignore something like that. Millions of lives at stake...what's wrong with the world?"
"So, I don't understand...are they all in there like...shrunken or what?"
"No Yaz...just souls. Energy...no bodies" she gets up walking around the room explaining "All the souls of millions are stored in that little thing Yaz...not only their species but everything...all living creatures from their world everything that made them...all in that little thing Yaz floating around, traveling and searching for a new world...new home. And when it opens up, all that energy will create new life...somewhere out there in the universe" she looks up towards the sky..."New start Yaz...new life being born" she looks down into Yaz's eyes "That's why it's so important Yaz...for me to help them. They can't stay there forever, or they will die, all of them...I can't let that happen"
"Hey...come here" Yaz reached with her hand
Doctor kneeled next to the bathtub "What?"
Yaz grabbed a handful of her t-shirt and pulled her inches from her face "I adore you...every inch of that beautiful being that you are" she kissed her gently and then more passionately until she garbed her t-shirt with both hands pulling her inside of the bathtub
"Yaz! … Yaz I'm dressed...nooo!" she tried fighting her off but really just a little a bit until she just stepped inside
"You silly sod!! I created a monster!" Doctor laughed as Yaz was disposing her of all her clothes giggling and forcing herself on her lap not taking no for an answer
"You said we're on vacation...Right?" she continued her giggles pulling hair of her face and wiggling her hips rubbing herself on her under the water being totally cheeky and knowing exactly what button to push to get what she wanted
"I did...I did say that...that's true...I should be more careful what I say around you...Or how close I stand next to you" she was desperately trying to keep her cool, but her brains started glitching at the rocking motion of her hips
"Soooo...I expect to be kissed...a lot" she said making one more rocking motion with her hips continuing to giggle
She didn't have to say it twice either, Doctors hands were already gliding down her curves before she even finished her sentence, and her lips were so close to Yaz she could feel her breath in her mouth
"Yaz" Doctor said with eyes closing
"What?"
"Shut up" she grabbed the back if her head and kissed so passionately Yaz felt energy surge going from her stomach into her brain
Yaz was like a beam of light since they were together. Shining so bright Doctor couldn't and wouldn't ignore it. It's been a long time since she herself felt like that, so in a way it was forcing her to find that light within herself as well. She's spent way too long burdened with ghosts of her past dwelling most of the time alone, enjoying in only what in her world seemed like microseconds of happiness, trying so desperately to balance out the pain and anguish that accumulated inside her for centuries. Having Yaz for herself gave her that light she so desperately needed. Yaz never allowed her to dwell. She was her balance on the scale, never letting it tip over the edge. Something she never had before.
Doctor was packing her bag putting some last minute things into it.
"Why you always leave me with my mum...why can't I go with you now? It's night...it's not hot...I can walk..." Yaz winged sitting on the edge of the bed
"Because you're pregnant Yaz …we had this conversation so many times" Yaz memes with her mouth in a same time knowing what Doctor will say
"I'm pregnant babe I didn't have lobotomy...And I could do with fresh air as well" she continues
"Go to the gardens with you mum...it's nice in the gardens Yaz … lots of air" Doctor looks at her sideways wile shoving stuff in a bag
"You just love hanging around my dad, don't you? Admit it."
"I do like your dad...I like him a lot...but I like our baby a lot as well Yaz. And I'm not taking that risk...sorry" she closes the bag and puts it on her back "Come on Yaz …you're with me all the time, you hardly ever see your mum and your sister. Enjoy in this. I'll be back soon I promise" she kisses the top of her head
"Come back in a same body" Yaz yells as she's walking out of the room making Doctor laughs shaking her head "I will Yaz …I will"
"It's a nice evening for walking" Doctor says to Hakim walking down to the courtyard where he was already waiting for her exited
"I was just thinking that, Doctor. Beautiful sky as well. Look up there" he points his finger up in the sky "I just saw Orion's belt. Did you know that it lines up with pyramids of Giza?"
"So, it does Hakim. Beautiful isn't it...Do you know the story of Isis and Osiris?" she gets into the story straight away and they continued chatting about all the Egyptian gods, myths, and legends all the way to the Tardis
"Aaaa here we are...my poor ghost monument" she runs to the Tardis as soon as she saw her, but Hakim took his time walking behind her.
As soon as she walked in, she hooked up her little laptop to the console. Hakim came after her saying hello to the Tardis again and it made her smile.
"I like you saying hello to her.... she likes it too" she looks up
"Well, I figured since she can hear us, it's only polite. Besides it must be lonely for her out here"
"I know...I feel so bad leaving her. But she understands....in fact I think there's nothing wrong with you at all...I think you wanted me to come here and find that orb" she smiles "I don't mind Hakim...she does that a lot...but I go where I'm needed"
"You know I was thinking that, Doctor. Many people would just enjoy the ride and not care very much. But you go out there and help and risk your life for others. Why do you do that?"
"Because someone has to. Besides I would get bored" she flipped few switches on the console and then zoomed around "Right...should we get the clothes? "
They shoved as much as they both could each in one smaller suitcase hoping for the best
"I really hope I hot everything for the girls" Hakim looked at the suitcase rather worrying
"I'm sure you have Hakim. Oh, I got you something...almost forgot" she runs at the back and zoomed straight back "Hope you like those" she smiles handing over a pair of boots like hers
"OMG Doctor...those are perfect. Thank you" she took off his shoes straight away "How did you know my number?"
"I asked Sonya yesterday" she smiled
Tardis sounded off "Aaaa …just in time...we got the reading" she ran up the console and switched the monitor "Look...there...hmmmm...That's where they are from. I've been there once a long time ago. They planet look...it was destroyed by supernova. They managed to evacuate but the system it was damaged. The outer shell got damaged by a meteor shower. That's why they are here Hakim...they crushed to earth...Now I understand sulfur"
"What's with the sulfur Doctor?"
"Their planet Hakim wasn't like ours. Sulfur was to them like oxygen to us. They cannot live without it. But that other orb Hakim. The one from India that was from the same place. Only fell through vortex in a different time. In fact, three orbs left"
"Why did river turn to sulfur Doctor?"
"Because Hakim one fell into the field and another one into the river. It must have been so damaged on the impact it just fell apart and it all leaked into the river"
"I wish I could remember what that monk did" Hakim said
"Do you remember what monk that was? Or from where? Do you think we could possibly find him? I need to try and find the other orb Hakim. We can't let them be stranded like that they will all die."
"I do...I remember that. I think I could help you with that if you give a map. I do remember reading I'm sure I will find it"
"Brilliant Hakim. Should we visit a monk then? ...Well need to get her repaired tomorrow first. Not much wrong but I still need that part. I don't want to get us stranded in wrong century and leaving girls here. Yaz would kill me"
"Sure alright. Can I help you repair it? I do know quite a lot about repairing machines you know. I used to do a lot of with my dad when I was younger."
"Yap definitely I could use some help and some company as well...Shall we? ...I think we're done for today" she grabs the suitcase and they start heading back
They continued chatting all the way back until they've reached the city
"Hey look" Hakim looks towards the tavern "Fancy a drink, Doctor? ...I'm really thirsty after all that walk I could use a drink. We can toast the baby...we never did. Well, I don't drink alcohol but still"
"I think I'd like that a lot, Hakim" she smiles
…
"These gardens are beautiful. Doctor was right. I'm glad we went for a walk. It's a shame Sonya couldn't come" Yaz says hooking up to her mum’s arm
"I think the heat today was too much for her" Najia walked quietly thinking if she should say something but her motherly instinct was stronger "Yaz …"
"Mmm?"
"If you and the Doctor had any problems. You know you could always talk to me, right?"
"Mum...is this about what happened today?"
"Well yes and.."
"Mum, we don't have any problems. Really, we don't"
"Are you sure Yaz …I mean you cried and walked off...Yaz what are you not saying to me? I know you're hiding something I just don't know what. Your life is...strange...and I don't mean that in a bad way Yaz.. it's just...unlike anyone's else"
"Mum..." she stopped to look at her" It's just complicated"
"Yaz ... your wife is an alien with two hearts who used to be a man and now she's a woman, she's 3000 years old, she owns a time ship, and we are in 2500 B.C Egypt am not even going to mention the baby or giant spiders or this alien orb thing you're chasing...How complicated can it be...Try me. I can see it in your eyes honey...I can see it even in hers...something is going on that neither of you two are saying. But you're both in pain"
Yaz started laughing and sat on a stone bench behind them "Waaaaw mum...nothing misses you does it"
Nadja calmed down and sat next to her "I'm your mum Yaz that's my job"
Yaz took a deep breath trying to find a way to even start the conversation because deep down she didn't even know where to start.
"First of all, ...me and the Doctor...we don't have a problem...well not between us anyway. She's...she's perfect...well she's not...but she is to me...and we are happy...really happy"
"There's a 'but' somewhere there I can just feel it" Najia remarks
"This life mum...it's a life I chose, and I wouldn't change it ever. For anything...but this life means that each time she pulls that lever we never know what's out there...I'm just scared of loosing her mum. Getting separated again. I feel like I'm going nuts sometimes mum. I was always scared of that, but now more than ever I feel like I can’t breathe. She's scared for me and a baby so much she even has a panic room inside of Tardis. It wasn't like that before.
"Yaz honey...it's called love. Everyone goes through it lever or not...You don't have to have Tardis or be the Doctor. You both have something that you obviously always wanted...and now when you do, you will be holding each other like a drop of water on a palm of your hand. And there's a baby on a way as well. Just relax...enjoy in what you have. You're one of the lucky ones Yaz. Not everyone finds love. You're both going to be fine...and you're not alone. We are here. What ever you need. I'm counting on that babysitting Yaz...Tardis or not" she laughs
"I love you mum" she hugs her tight
"I love you too baby"
"Mum where are they anyway? Dad and the Doctor? Thay should have been here ages ago"
…
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1...you lost again Doctor!" Hakim laughs
"Aaaarrhh...Not agaaain...Can we play another game?" she took a glass and nocked the drink down her throat slamming it on a bar
"Hakim...I think we are drunk" she draped her arm around his shoulder making ten different uncoordinated facial expressions at the same time
"I think we are Doctor...I thought you said that's not alcohol" he twirls a little glass in his hand
"It's not" she cracks up laughing leaning on his shoulder "What I didn't say is that it won't get us drunk" she grins
"Doctor...now that's sneaky. Oh well..." he raises the glass "To my beautiful daughter and her wife and their baby” Hakim nocked down one more drink slamming the glass on the bar
"Another round please for my father in law..." she slurred at the bartender twisting her face
"I really like those boots...really sturdy they are" he wobbles looking down
"Yap...and you know what else you need?" she starts taking her coat off and unhooking her braces putting them on Hakim "Now...that's better!!" she taps his chest wobbling herself and turns around to get another round of the bar "To my baby and my beautiful wife" she nocks it down in a second then burps "I think we should go home now" she grabs her coat putting her arm around Hakim "You know...whiles we can still walk"
"I think your right Doctor"
They both wobbled out of the tavern and started singing down the road
…
"What's that noise?" Yaz turns around towards the window
"Mum...Yaz …are those Doctor and dad?" Sonya says bending over the edge of the window
"Whaaa" Yaz runs to the window and looks down towards the courtyard "Are they drunk?"
"Yaz …baby! I'm home...In a same body as I promised" Doctor yells slurring half incoherently seeing her walking down the stairs with her mum "I can explain everything!" she contorts her face for a second..."No that's not what we were supposed to say Doctor" she talks to herself
"Are you two drunk?" Yaz looks in disbelief
Doctor scrunches her face thinking for a moment before she barely managed to speak "I think so..." she shoves a finger up her nose "Yap love...I'm drunk"
"Are those braces?" Yaz looks at her father
"They look good don't they darling?0" he stands up wobbling and smiling proudly pulling them
"Alright...I think you are both ready for bed" Najia comes up to Hakim pulling him along having to help him to walk up the steps "Where did you get those boots?"
Doctor stood in the middle of the courtyard looking up in the sky trying to keep her balance completely out of it "Yaz...do you know how many stars are in our galaxy...should I tell you?"
"Nope...definitely not...come on your lordship, let’s get you to bed" she took her arm and hooked it around her shoulder helping her to walk "I can't believe you got drunk...I thought you don't drink"
"I don't..." she wobbles "I very really do...can't even remember last time...I think it must be over 200 years, but my brains are fizzing now"
Yaz rolls her eyes laughing "I bet they are" she managed to get her to the room barely and slumped her on a bed taking her boots off and then her trousers
"You're so sexy Yaz …And you have great …you know...behind... Did I tell you that?"
Yaz busted out laughing pulling her trousers off "OMG you must drunk"
She then tried to get her t-shirt off, but Doctor wrapped her hand around her face looking at her with her eyes half open "Yaz …I really adore you" she barely said it and slumped on a pillow.
"And she’s out…" Yaz comments laughing pulling her t-shirt off and rolling her on her side. Then got in a bed snuggling behind her still laughing "I adore you too silly" she kisses her neck
…
Yaz woke up earlier than usual. The sound of Doctor snoring an inch away from her ear made it impossible for her to sleep. She brushed her teeth looking at the Doctor stretched across the bed with her face in a pillow and her arm hanging over the side of the bed. The sight made her laugh so much she almost choked on her toothpaste. She got dressed and kissed her temple before she left the room.
"Mum..."she knocked on the door and Najia opened up. Her and her sister were ready to go but her father was nowhere to be seen so she assumed he was in no better state than the Doctor
"Your father fell asleep on a bathroom floor under the sink convinced he was repairing the Tardis" Najia said unimpressed
Yaz busted out laughing "OMG...what where they doing last night?"
"Even better...where is all our stuff?" Sonya mentioned
"Whaaat?" Yaz covered her mouth with her hand when she released, they were meant to bring it "OMG yes!!!...They must have left in a tavern. I completely forgot"
"It's where we're heading now Yaz. Before someone takes it. Hopefully they released and put it away for us" Najia says slamming the door of the room
"I was going to ask you Yaz …how come this hotel looks so...I don't know almost modern? " Sonya asked confused
"I asked the Doctor the same thing when I saw the room...the owner is from another planet. I can't remember the name. And all the guests are travelers like us...you know...different places different times...so yeah, it's like universal space hotel" she laughs
They came to the tavern and as soon as the bartender saw them, he started laughing "Did you come for your bags by any chance?"
"OMG please say you got them" Yaz said relieved
"I do...they left last night in right state. I did yell after them, but they didn't hear it"
"That's fine...thank you so much"
"Thank god for that...could you imagine losing all our stuff?" Sonya said relieved
"Oh, don't worry Sonya. Tardis can make it so it's no big deal. I'm so hungry...All I do is eat all the time"
"I must say Yaz …Doctor is just weird …I like her, but she's just...dunno …not all there is she?" Sonya says looking at the menu
"Sonya! That's rude" Najia nocked her hand as a sign to shut up
"It's fine mum...she would probably take it as a compliment" Yaz laughed "I like her weirdness Sonya it makes me laugh all the time. She seems not all there to you, but she very much is all there I assure you ...She's the smartest person I know Sonya, and she's got a huge hart...well a couple of them...so that makes it even more special"
"Well, if it makes you happy, who am I to argue"
"I love you too sis" she laughs
…
Yaz came back to the room finding the Doctor still passed out on a bed. She was well and truly out. Hardly even changed her position since she left her there. Yaz laughed and kneeled next to the bed removing a strain of hair from her face "Rise and shine party animal"
"Mmmm" she mumbled and moved a little but mostly just shoving her face deeper into the pillow
"Come ooon I brought you breakfast it's nice...but you will have to go and settle that bill in a tavern I didn't have any dosh"
Doctor turned around squinting "OMG that light is so bright...how many suns are on this planet?"
"Only one for now" Yaz got up and closed the shutters "Better now?"
"Much better...thanks for that..." she moved a little rolling around the bed "Come here...lie next to me...I feel so rough"
"No, no, no ... you're not getting me to bed. You're getting up and having a shower...come on...I'll help you out" she reached her hand out and Doctor took it
"How much did you drink last night?" Yaz laughed looking at her fumbling around the shower looking for a soap
"I have no recollection Yaz...but by the state of my brains I would say a lot"
"You do know you left all our stuff there?"
"Whaaat? Oh noo...Yaz I'm so sorry "
"It's fine...don't worry about it. We went there first thing in the morning. The bartender kept it for us. It wouldn't be me killing you if you lost them. I'd be Sonya for loosing her makeup" she couldn't stop laughing
"You gave my dad your braces...and he fell asleep under a sink thinking he's repairing a console"
Doctor rested her forehead against the wall of the cubicle and couldn't help laughing “OMG...poor sod...I'm sorry Yaz"
Yaz looked at her for a moment and just smiled at a sorry state she was in, leaning against the shower cubicle letting water run down her body. But she was glad she had fun and didn't mind all the mess. She took her dress off and stepped in a shower. "So, was it fun?" she ran her hand down her back and kissed her shoulder blade.
"It was …your dad is fun to be around" she turned around with the guiltiest expression on her face "I'm so sorry Yaz …I know I'm a nightmare"
"Stop saying sorry...I'm glad you had a bit of fun. Besides if you get drunk once every 200 years, I'll never see it again. So, it was worth it" she runs her hand down her arm gazing down at her naked "You also told me I was sexy" she looks up at her smirking "...and that I have a good ass"
"Whaaa ... Nooo...I did not say...." she gets all flustered, so Yaz puts a finger over her mouth smiling "Oh yes you did missy...Well, you said behind...So do I... have a good behind Doctor?" she moves her finger and starts kissing her passionately pinning her on the wall of the cubicle
…
Doctor sat on a bed, legs crossed still in her underwear and just t-shirt finally back to her old self and enjoying in her breakfast.
Yaz came out of the bathroom drying her hair with a towel and grabbed a bagel over Doctors shoulder giving her a kiss on a top of her still wet hair "I love when your hair curlers up, you should leave like that more often...So, tell me about the orb finally. Surely you two didn't just get waisted last night?"
"Mmmmm" she was trying to defend herself with her mouth full..."Noo of course not Yaz. It's rather exciting actually. Their planet was destroyed by supernova. Turns out there were three of them to start with...orbs I mean. But they fell through vortex in different times. Two in your time in India...unfortunately one got destroyed on impact and one...well, we are trying to find that one. And one fell here. It was a meteor shower Yaz. It damaged their outer casing...it's why they're here"
"OMG that's horrible...How you're gonna find the other one? Can't just leave it there... if it is out there at all"
"Noo I'm not...So I'm gonna repair the Tardis, pop back to your time, find the orb, bring it back put them together and find them a new home.... simple!"
"Simple for you" she laughs
"Turns out you dad might know exactly where it is"
"Whaaaa? My dad?"
"Yap..." she gets up and passes next to Yaz kissing her on a forehead "Smart guy your dad...told ya" she comments wiles getting dressed
"Smart guy...and what am I chopped liver?"
"Oi! I never said that...don't you put words in my mouth Yasmin Khan...Means you just take it after him" she smiles
"Smooth talker..." she pouts her lips still sulking
"Hey, today I need to check the baby as well...I brought everything from Tardis"
"Really? ... Do you think we will see if it's a boy or a girl?
"Dunno Yaz...might be" she clips the braces on and flips them over her shoulders in a second "You're in your 17th week now...should do...maybe. Yaz why aren't you getting dressed?"
"What do you mean?" she looked confused
"I thought you're going with me to get this part for the Tardis?"
"Really? You want me to go?" her face lights up
"Of course I do Yaz ...what a silly question...well go on...get going"
Yaz zoomed to the bathroom when someone knocked on a door of their room
"Oh hello Sonya" Doctor opened up
"Hi…sorry is Yaz there? …I mean I know she is... Can you just please..."
"Sure...come on in Sonya it's fine"
"Sonya is everything alright?" Yaz came out of the bathroom "Can you just tie that for me please" she turns her back to the Doctor to tie strings of her dress looking at her sister worried
"Do you mind if I hang around with you for a while? Don't want to intrude or...."
"Don't be silly...of course you can. Where's mum and dad?"
"Oh, went for a romantic walk around the city...Dad's smaller than a grain of rice after last night. He's trying to make it up to her" she rolls her eyes laughing
"We going to the marketplace it will be fun..." Doctor says cheerfully
"How come you're so full of energy after last night? Dad spent half of the night with his head down the toilet" Sonya remarks laughing
"Oh, this one is a party animal I tell you!" Yaz laughed nudging the Doctor with her hip and grabbed Sonya's hand to walking out
"Oi! Nooo I'm not" she frowns and grabs her coat "I don't remember when's a last time this happened to me...Or do I? Yes, I might do...It was in Rome at that party with Julius Caesar....That was centuries ago Yaz …" she continues talking to herself down the hallway
"She's weird!" Sonya whispered at Yaz's ear laughing
"Told ya...She's adorable...makes me laugh every time"
…
Yaz and Sonya went through the market giggling and going through every single stand wiles waiting for the Doctor to sort out the part for Tardis. It took ages so they managed to spend quite some time together alone.
"When's a last time you and I did this Sonya?"
"Oh, ages ago …I think I was 16...Yaz …are you alright?"
Yaz was fixated on a crowd of people gathering around a man who had something glowing in his hand
"Sonya, we need to find the Doctor!!!" she pulls her along towards the small alley at the back
"There she is..." they enter a small store that smelled of damp and mildew like the old basements. It was cramped with so much junk Yaz and Sonya though it will start falling on their heads
"Doctor!" she pulls her sleeve
"Hey, Yaz!! …Why are you here? Give me a sec please" she turns back towards the owner of the store
"No, it's important" Yaz pulls her sleeve again
"Millisecond? Pleaseee … " she says and turns back towards the owner "Hey!!! You're trying to shaft me...and don't say you're not because I see what you're doing. And... I know that I know you from somewhere it's on a tip of my brains"
"Well, I don't know you. Are you buying this or not?" he says irritated
She looks aside and sees a brown powder in one of the pots sitting on a shelf "Aaaa …I thought I could smell something"
"It's nothing just color" the guy moves closer to the shelf trying to block her way but she grabs it faster
She deeps her finger in a brown powder licking it "Mummy brown...? Is this mummy brown?" she squints her eyes looking at the guy
"Mummy whaa?" Sonya says confused and Yaz looked no less confused as well
"It's a pigment made out of mummies Sonya" Doctor says quickly
"Whaaat?? Like real corps... mummies?" Yaz asked confused
"Yes, Yaz they take parts grinding them up and make paint pigment...it's discussing practice popular in Victorian era. Millions of graves were robbed, and mummies destroyed over it "
Sonya gags to a point tears went into her eyes "OMG!!! She licked it...she bloody licked it Yaz!!!!" she turns around gagging trying to contain herself from throwing up on a floor
"Aaaaa …Now I know where I know you from" she jumps pointing a finger at him "Victorian London 1865...See...it’s all coming back to me now...You're the guy selling artifacts to rich people...Are you grave robber as well?...And how are you here?"
"Doctor!!!!! " Yaz pulls her for the sleeve rotating her around "I don't care about his paint and mummies...The orb Doctor!!!"
"What about the orb Yaz?" Doctor gets her attention finally
"It's there!!! On a market...someone's got it we just saw it"
"Whaaat?"
"Please come on!" she pulls her by the coat
Doctor garbed from the counter a little packed wrapped up in a paper and leaned over into the guys face "I'll see you again...Consider today to be your lucky day" she turns around running out of the store and Yaz pulls her sister along who is still trying not to throw up on a floor
"Hey!!! You still need to pay for that!!" he yells after them
"She's licking corps dust Yaz …and you kiss that mouth?" Sonya says on a way out of the store
"I like her mouth...she's a good kisser...come on!!" she pulls her along whiles Sonya keeps gagging
"There look!" she points to the Doctor across the market "How did they get to it?"
"Its getting weaker Yaz...it can't fly anymore...we have to get...come on"
Yaz stops her by the sleeve "Can't just take it off him in the middle of the market...what's your plan?"
"Don't have one yet Yaz …will do by the time we get there" she speeds up leaving Yaz confused as always rolling her eyes and pulling her sister along
Half way through the stands Doctor turns to Yaz "Right Yaz... you distract the crowd and I'll sneak up and get the orb" she turns around, but Yaz pulls her by the coat
"How can I distract the crowd?" she frowns
"You're a smart girl Yaz I trust you" she turns around and starts crawling on all fours underneath the stands
"What is she doing???" Sonya looks at the Doctor completely convinced at this point she's got not one, but several screws missing "Do you actually find this attractive?"
Yaz wasn't listening to her at all. Instead, her eyes were wondering around the market place trying to find some way to execute the plan. She sees a bunch of wooden crates stacked up one on top of the other on the opposite corner of where the Doctor was heading and gets an idea. She grabs her sister by her shoulders
"Sonya...you know how you always wanted to be a singer?"
"What? ... What are you talking about?"
"Well, everyone gets their five minutes of fame sis and today is your day" she pulls her along towards the crates
"What are you going on about...nooo" she resists along the way, but her sister grabs her shoulders again
"Sonya... there's like millions of lives inside that orb. We need to save them. Pleaseee...it’s all down to you now girl...Besides you have a lovely voice"
"It depends on me?"
"Yes!!!! …Please...get up there and save them..." she points to the crates "I believe in you"
With her sisters help she manages to climb the boxes
"Yaz" she looks down on to her "What should I sing?"
"I dunno …what do you like? ... Anything will do Sonya don't worry about it
Sonya clears her through nervously looking down on Yaz who was smiling at her encouraging her
"You can do it!!" she says smiling
Sonya looks at the massive crowd of people taking one deep breath and starts singing
Yaz was nervously looking for the Doctor, but she couldn't see her anywhere. Her sisters singing did start getting crowds attention and slowly everyone started looking towards her moving closer to hear her better. Yaz finally spotted the Doctor as the crowd moved and headed towards her.
Doctor was sneaking between the stands and came quite close to the guy holding the orb.
"No no I told you my price" he was trying to bargain with another person
Doctor looked sideways and saw a wooden cart filled with massive bags. She saw Yaz and their eyes met across the stands. She pointed at the cart and Yaz got the message. She walked around grabbing the handles and started wheeling it around until she hit the guy who was holding the orb.
"Ups!!! So sorry...I'm so clumsy since I'm pregnant" she flipped her eyelashes "My ankles are so swollen..."
"You stupid cow!!" he yells as the orb shot out of his hand and flew across the market
Doctor jumped across three tables and caught it in the air quickly shoving it in her rucksack
"Oi!!!! YOU!!!! Give that back!!!" he started running after the Doctor who was jumping from one table to the other creating mayhem around herself, knocking stuff with her feet and sonic trying to block his path. She jumped off the last table and grabbed Yaz’s hand "Run!" she yells
"Sonya!!! We need to get her!!" she pulls her in the opposite direction
"Sonya! Come on let's go!" Yaz yells and Doctor jumped up the boxes to help her down
"Doctor! " Yaz points towards the guy ho was fast approaching
"Alright time to go!" Doctor grabbed Yaz's hand Sonya followed them through the crowd. Doctor turned around and pointed the sonic at the wooden crates knocking them down in front of the man's feet blocking his path
They ran quite a bit and finally stopped when they were sure nobody followed them anymore
"Yaz! "Doctor turned around worried scanning her with a sonic "You alright?"
She was trying to ketch her breath holding on to her shoulder "I think so...just need to rest"
Doctor pulls her in on her chest "I'm sorry Yaz...wasn't planning this. But the two of you did grait. Sonya well done. Ten points for Sonya...Lovely voice"
They slowly head back to the hotel. Doctor walked in front of them leaving them chatting
"She's nuts...you do know that? Her hearts in a right place...but she's a proper nutter" Sonya says laughing
"I know...she's brilliant" Yaz looks at the Doctor lovingly
"I still can't believe you kiss that mouth" she laughs linking her sister’s arm "How's the baby?"
"Fine...I might know today if it's a boy of a girl" she smiles
"Well, I got you something" Sonya pulls a small toy out of her pocket
"OMG that’s beautiful....How did you pay for that?"
"I didn't I swapped my bracelet for it. The lady loved it"
"Oh Sonya..." Yaz kisses her temple "I love you"
"Love you too..." Sonya wipes her temple with her hand in case there's mummy powder on it
…
"Well Sonya had a full day today" Yaz smiles lying on a bed with her top pulled up wiles Doctor was running a scan on a baby
"It all seems fine Yaz" she gives her a shot in her neck
"Auch!! …I hate those" she rubs her neck and Doctor kisses her forehead "I'm sorry"
"Sooo, boy or a girl?" she looks at her exited, but Doctor was looking down putting her instruments away
"Oh, come ooon...I saw your face...you twitched your mouth I saw it …you know...Tell meeee!!!" she persists looking at Doctor smiling slightly from the corner of her lips still avoiding eye contact until she finally looked up at her smiling
"What would you like it to be?" she asks
"I'm not bothered as long as it's healthy...Come oooon … speak to meeeee" she squished her face between her hands until it was all scrunched up
Doctor takes her hands intertwining their fingers in the air with a big smile across her face "It's a girl Yaz"
"Aaaaaa!!!!!" Yaz yelled from the top of her voice "Girl?"
"Yap"
"We're having a girl?"
"Yap" Doctor couldn't stop smiling and neither did Yaz
Yaz grabbed her around the neck pulling her down on a bed. They looked at each other smiling for a moment feeling their hearts racing against each others chest. "We're having a girl Doctor" she strokes her face lovingly
"We are beautiful..." she runs her finger down her nose "I adore you" Their lips found a way to each other as they always did
It was early afternoon, and the sun was burning through the shutters of their room. Doctor was sleeping still halfway trying to recuperate from the night before. Yaz woke up and rolled around the bed draping her arm across her back tracing her fingers in short lines down her shoulder blade looking at Doctors face half buried in a pillow.
"Mmmm...don't stop" she said without opening her eyes
"Sorry...I didn't mean to wake you up"
"It's fine I like to wake up like this...you ok?"
"Yap...I couldn't sleep from the heat so I'm just enjoying being totally lazy. We've never been so lazy since we've met like in these last few months"
"We have Yaz...Remember the trip to Tanunga waterfalls after Flux...that was three months of pure lazy"
"I forgot about that...that was a long time ago"
Doctor opened her eyes "You forgot?"
"What did I just say?" Yaz looked confused
"How could you forget Yaz? Oh, I know...you wanted your beach, and you got the waterfalls instead" she laughs..."But you know that was one of two times I ever seriously considered snogging you"
"You whaaa? No, you didn’t." she laughs "Noo way...When?" she looks at her baffled trying to roll in her mind every event
Doctor rolled on her side and propped her head on her hand "When we stood by the waterfalls. You looked so pretty. It was a perfect moment"
"OMG, I remember that. You looked like you're not present...somewhere in your thoughts"
"I was...thoughts about snogging you" she laughs
"Why on god's earth didn't you?"
"I froze...I froze like I've never kissed anyone in my life...My brains went funny Yaz I was so scared"
"Oh babe...I didn't think that could even happen to you"
"Neither did I Yaz...Embarrassing really at my age"
Yaz leaned over to kiss her briefly "Well...you're well making up for it now" she giggles "This is interesting conversation...And second time? Go on, spill the beans Doctor"
"That was the second time.... First was when I was trying to apologize to you after flux...but Dan came in and...well that was it...I probably would have done then"
Doctor moves a strain of hair from her face "So Yaz...did you ever think of snogging me...come on...spill it out..."
"I thought about snogging you a lot...but I wouldn't ever dare doing it.."
"Why not? ..."
"Are you for real? ... Me?... Back then, actually kissing you...the Doctor...the blinking Time Lord...Yeah right, of course...I'd probably eat a handful of nails before doing that. Besides, I didn't think you fancied me.
Doctor busted out laughing "Yaz you're making it sound like I'm so scary...Is that really how you saw me?"
"I bloody well did, yes...You can be you know...First time you grabbed me I thought I would die...like literally die on a spot"
"Grabbed you?... I didn't grab you I kissed you" Doctor protests
"Whaaa?" she giggles "Didn't grab me? You gave me a whiplash, and by the time my brain caught up with it, your tongue was already in my mouth, and I had no idea what to do with it there"
"OMG Yaz!!!" she laughed so much Yaz never heard her laugh so much since they've met, and it made her giggle like crazy as well "I'm so sorry Yaz"
"Oh, don't apologize...it was the best feeling in my bloody life. God knows I waited for years for you to do that. But my legs went"
"I know, you slumped I had to hold you" she cried out laughing
"That's because nobody ever kissed me like that before...my head was spinning"
Doctor just couldn't stop laughing "Well you caught up with it quite quickly Yaz" she laughed and Yaz through a pillow at her
"I bloody had to...you go from zero to a thousand I tell you. You stripped me off before I had time to blink...I didn't know what hit me that night"
Doctor was laughing so much she had to put hand over her mouth. It wasn't really something they ever talked about, and not like anyone ever told her things like that either. But she was enjoying herself hearing it.
"When did you stop being so afraid of me Yaz? " she asked still a bit taken back by it and calming down from laughing her head off
"You're gonna take a piss out of me if I tell you"
"I'm not...promise...please tell me. I had no idea you felt that way come on I'm enjoying in this"
Yaz was making slow nervous circles on Doctor's shoulder with her finger "That day...on a river...when I peaked at you as you were walking into the water. You looked so gentle...so fragile. I've never seen you like that before" she looks up into her eyes "...no Tardis, no sonic just you as you are. I thought...omg you're so tiny and so vulnerable. I never thought you were so fragile. And you were so beautiful you took my breath away that day"
Doctor gazed at her in silence for a brief moment before her hand found its way at the back of Yaz's neck pulling her in for the most gentle kiss ever.
What she said has taken her back and It was probably the most beautiful thing she ever heard anyone say to her. She pulled back stroking her face with her thumb "What you just said is the reason I love you so much"
"What do you mean by that?" Yaz looked confused
Doctor pulled her in closer to lay on her shoulder and spoke quietly running her hand through her hair "Because you're the only person I've ever known who was able to see past the Doctor thing and just see me the way I am Yaz. You don't love the Time Lord Yaz, you love me. You have no idea how much that means to me." she puts a finger underneath her chin lifting her gaze to meet her eyes "I should've given you that whiplash a long time ago...Don't know what my brains were thinking"
"Well Doctor" she moves up and sits on her pinning her hands into a pillow above her head making Doctor grin thinking how pointless that was because she could release them in less than a second
Yaz continued flirting "Maybe...you just have too many brains, and they couldn't all agree on a same thing at the same time"
"Well Yasmin Khan maybe you're on to something..." she scrunches her face "You think I should have a word with them?"
"Yap Doctor, I think you definitely should, because I should've had that kiss a long time ago and they made me wait for years...And you know what that means?"
"No Yaz...no idea, too many thoughts in my brains right now you sitting on me like that...hard to concentrate"
"Means you have to make it up to me for all the time I lost"
"I will if let go of my hands" she looks up laughing and releases one of her hands in a second grabbing the back of Yaz's neck pulling her for a kiss.
She wrapped her arms around her, rolling her gently on her back gliding her hand down her hip. She hovered over her, scared to put any of her weight on her constantly being aware of her every move. Yaz's fingers played with strains of her hair and fingers ran down her spine while trying to wrap her legs around her "Scared to hurt the baby?" she smiled rubbing her leg down her sides and stroking the back of her neck "I miss you lying on me"
"Just in case Yaz" she kisses the top of her nose
Yaz smiled cheeky "Alright then...I think I can make this work"
Yaz started slumping herself wiggling down the bed kissing her chest and gliding her hands down the curves of her waist
Doctor looked down at Yaz disappearing underneath her, running her kisses down her body and cracked up laughing shaking her head "What are you doing silly? Where are you crawling?"
"You'll see" Yaz giggled, wiggling herself down disappearing lower pressing her lips onto her stomach and gliding her hands over her hip bones making Doctor close her eyes. She moved a bit taken back, her brains quickly catching up with what Yaz was doing as she ran her kisses lower pulling her inner thighs down over her lips.
"Shoot!!" Doctor gasped with her mouth half open, her smile disappearing from her face as her tongue slid through her and she felt her warm breath. Her hands pulling her down wrapped around her she buried her face between her thighs. Doctor moved herself and grabbed the sheets with her hands splayed from both sides of Yaz's head scrunching them into her fists and closed her eyes. She started rocking herself slowly in a steady pace moaning deep as she passed through her with every motion. Her cheeks blushed from heat burning through her, eyes half open she glitched without a thought as she thrusts her fingers inside her. Doctor grabbed the headboard of the bed and ran her fingers through Yaz's hair dragging herself against her. Her mouth half open, breathing deeply she cried out a low moan as she picked up a pace and pressed inside her, she rocked herself slowly frowning her face, moaning so loud her own voice ripped through her brains. She put a hand over her own mouth to smother sounds of her own pleasure from the world digging her nails into the hard wood of the bed frame as Yaz's lips sealed themselves onto her and her fingers grabbed her thigh. She dragged herself over her in slow motion one more time until pressure exploded inside her running up her spine like an energy surge hitting her brain. She slowed down and slumped her head, breathing deeply and holding herself to the bed frame with both hands, her legs shaking, her hair glued to her cheeks and hearts popping out of mouth. Her body was burning from the heat, tingles running nice and slow through her, she could feel them in her fingertips.
"Blimey Yaz" she barely uttered still ducking her head down holding the bed frame
Yaz smiled and kissed the inside of her legs that trembled under her lips and ran her fingers down her sides making her twitch. Doctor slumped on a bed next to her grabbing her with her hands and pulling her into her arms kissing her passionately through her daze trying to keep herself coherent as her haze rushed around them. She ran her hand down the curve of Yaz's stomach and slid herself inside her making Yaz gasp for air in her mouth. She picked up a pace fast while she still had a coherent thought left in her brains or strength in her body rocking her gently and kissing her hard. Yaz grabbed herself for Doctors arms, digging her nails into them and raising her hips off the mattress following her hand. It took her seconds to start trembling. Doctor smothering her moans with her lips.
They both slumped exhausted with no strength left in either of them. Doctor laid behind her draping her arm around her waist in lazy fashion while her beautiful haze hugged them both falling asleep in each other's arms.
It took a while for the Doctor to finally open up her eyes
"Rise and shine beautiful" Yaz smiled looking down at her sleepy eyes still half open and a smile stretching across her face
"Hey beautiful" she ran her fingers through her hair
"You alright?" Yaz smiled cheeky hovering above her
"I will be when I get my thoughts back...I lost them somewhere" she said with a massive smile across her face
"I need a shower...I'm burning from the heat" Yaz says looking down at her smiling "Going with me?"
"Yap...I think we both need it. I feel like am burning alive...that's odd" she stumbled out of the bed letting Yaz drag her by the hand towards the bathroom
Doctor slumped, leaning her back to the stone wall of the shower cubicle letting mild water run down her face cooling her down. She closed her eyes whilst Yaz's hands were running down her chest. They felt cold. "Why are Yaz's hands so cold" she thought to herself "Or am I so warm" the second thought went through her mind. She couldn't work it out from the headache.
"OMG you never felt so hot babe" Yaz ran her hand down her hip washing a soap of her body "Are feeling ok?"
"No, Yaz I don't. I'm not sure what's going on I'm burning from inside I can't cool down"
Yaz placed her hand on her forehead and felt it burning through her hand "OMG you're burning. Are you ill?"
"I don't know...maybe...possibly..." she said quietly with her eyes shut before she slumped down the wall and Yaz had to grab her not to fall
"Doctor!!!" she yelped scared out of her mind and quickly closed the water. She tried waking her up tapping her face "Darling...please look at me"
Doctor came around a bit and opened her eyes ``Yaz...It's fine...don't worry I'm fine" she stumbled back to her feet and stood in the middle of the bathroom holding her head that felt as if it will explode wiles Yaz wiped her with a towel freaking out completely. She quickly put shorts and a t-shirt on her but when she looked up Doctors face was bright red her cheeks flushed. It made her even more worried as she's never seen her so bright red. Yaz helped her to the bed and laid her down. As she looked down, she could see Doctors hands glowing orange haze and freaked out completely
"Doctor what the hell is going on?" She cried out in desperation "I don't know what to do '' but the Doctor wasn't responding anymore. Her haze started spreading all around her body as she just laid on bed unconscious freaking Yaz out of her mind.
She quickly ran to the bathroom and pulled a dress over herself running like the wind out of the room down the hallway and banged her fist on her parent’s room "Mum...mum please open up mum dad!" tears went down her face
"Yaz! " her mum opened the door "Yaz baby what's going on?"
"Doctor...mum help me I don't know what to do I don't know what's going on!!! " she was pulling her mums hand crying hysterically
"Alright baby calm down...Hakim!" she yelled over her shoulder to her husband
"Yaz? OMFG what's going on?" Sonya came from the back and freaked seeing her sister’s state
They ran down the hallway and burst through the door. Doctor was lying on a bed, orange glow hugging her body and her hands looking like they are engulfed by flames
"Mum, what do I do?" she cried out "Darling please...please wake up...Tell me what to do!!!" she shook Doctors face trying to wake her up
"OMG she's burning up...like literally burning up" Najia said touching Doctors skin "And what is this orange thing Yaz?"
"Her mum, her energy...it's going nuts...What the hell is causing this?" she looked frantically around the room but couldn't find the reason
"I don't know Yaz but we need to cool her down this instant. Go with your sister down to the kitchen ask for ice...loads of ice Yaz"
"Ok mum...!" Yaz looked at her sister with her eyes filled with tears "Sonya...you go with me?"
"Why are you even asking me this silly...come on!!!" Sonya grabbed her hand pulling her out of the room as fast as she could
Najia ran to the bathroom and threw all the towels into the shower cubicle, wetting them under the cold water. She covered her in them and wiped her face. Steam was coming out of the towel as it touched the Doctor's forehead.
"OMG poor thing, she's absolutely burning up" she was putting cold towels on her wrist. It was the only thing she knew what to do. It's what you would do with humans she thought, she had no idea if it worked on aliens.
"Mum!" Yaz yelled from the door carrying loads of crushed up ice in a big wooden tub with her sister
"Nadja...we should move her to the bathtub" Hakim points
"Yap good idea" Najia says "Can you move her"
Hakim took the Doctor in his arms and moved her lifeless body to the bathtub. Yaz was crying her eyes out grabbing her sister’s hand and when her dad placed her in a bathtub she rushed to help with ice
"No Yaz we got this...just talk to her baby...let her hear your voice" Najia stops her from caring a heavy ice
Yaz kneeled next to the bathtub holding Doctor's hand that was literally glowing in her hand. Suddenly the beautiful orange haze she loved so much looked like a monster devouring everything she loved in this world "Baby please...please love, come back to me. Please...I love you..." she stroked her head as her parents and her sister dumped ice all over her
"There's nothing more we could do Yaz...I can't think of anything else baby" Najia said worrying touching Doctors face "I don't think she's cooling down"
"Yaz...what's that?" Sonya points to the Doctor's bag glowing orange in the corner of the room.
"OMG..." Yaz jumped across the room to grab the bag "The orb...it's absorbing her energy...it's powering itself up on her" Yaz said taking it out of the bag
"What do we do Yaz?" Sonya looks at her panicking
"I don't know Sonya..." she was turning it around in her hand trying to find anything to stop it but the surface was smooth like a glass
"I have an Idea...it might or might not work" Hakim says grabbing the ball and he ran out of the room
"Where is he going?" Sonya turns to her mum
"I don't know Sonya but it's working" she looks down at the Doctor whose orange haze was fast disappearing into her body as soon as her husband left the room
"Doctor!!!!" Yaz throws herself on the ground next to the bathtub "Darling?" she strokes her head and looked up to her mum and her sister "She's cooling down...she feels almost normal mum" a big smile stretched across her face and tears ran down her cheeks
"Yaz..." Doctor half opened her eyes and squeezed her hand
"Doctor!!!" Yaz stroked her head
"Hey beautiful...it's fine" she smiled "I spoke with my brains about that kiss"
"OMG you silly sod!!!" she smiled through her tears and pressed her lips on hers not caring her sister and mum were in the room. She just wanted to feel those beautiful cold lips on hers "Are you alright? How do you feel?"
"Like we are kissing on Arctic circle" she smiled with eyes closed
"You beautiful weirdo" Yaz smiled stroking her face crying
Sonya's eyes filled with tears looking at them across the room
Doctor opened her eyes more, then slowly sat upright "Help me Yaz...I need my sonic" she started climbing out of the bathtub
"Sonic? You have to rest?" Yaz yells at her helping her out of the bathtub
"Uuu...that feels weird...mmmm...it's still fizzy but it will be ok..." she stumbled a bit and then stood up straight "Doctor you alright? Yes, Doctor I think we are...still feels a bit unsettled but we will be fine" she spoke to herself
Najia and Sonya looked at each other frowning confused
"You silly sod" Yaz grabbed both of her cheeks and pressed her lips on hers "Don't you ever do that to me again or I'll kill you myself"
"I'm alright Yaz, don't worry" she kisses her temple "Thanks to all of you. Great teamwork and some beautiful brains put together. Where's Hakim?" she said still a bit wobbling on her feet holding on to Yaz's shoulder
…
"How did you know what to do?" Hakim heard the Doctor's soft voice behind his back while he was holding the orb up in the air towards the sun.
"Doctor! OMG it's so nice to hear your voice" he signed relieved when he turned around "I didn't I just guessed. No bigger energy source than the sun. I figured I got nothing to lose"
"Some powerful mind you have, Hakim...I'm proper impressed. She pulled her sonic out and scanned over the orb "It's ok Hakim, I'll take it from here" she took the orb out his hand "Thank you" she placed her hand on his shoulder
"No need to thank me, Doctor. I'm glad it worked. How do you feel?" he asked as they walked down from the rooftop terrace of the hotel back towards the rooms
"Still fizzy but I'll be as good as new in about 30 min and 25 seconds"
"Dad!" Yaz threw herself around his neck "Thank you" she kissed his cheek
"It's ok pumpkin...I'm glad it worked"
"Anyone hungry? .... I'm really hungry now...I fancy fried egg sandwich" Doctor scrunches her face
"Dinner would be nice after everything. Right mum, dad...?" Yaz says smiling
"Oh, I definitely need to relax after this" Najia says
"But you need to get changed..." Yaz looks at the Doctor's wet shirt and trousers with wet marks as she pulled them quickly over wet shorts when she went to get Hakim
"Alright everyone...out...they need privacy, and we all need to get changed" Najia pushed her family through the door
"Mum" Yaz stops her at the door "I love you"
"I love you too baby...see you soon" Najia closed the door behind herself and leaned her back on the wall in a hallway
"Are you alright?" Hakim asked gently
"I will be...I don't know if that was more scary or weird" she looked towards her husband shaking her head “And did you notice how cold she is normally…like ice…just weird”
"I'm just glad it worked" Hakim said reaching for her hand and pulling her away from the wall
"Me too...I dread to think about anything else to be honest"
Yaz stood in the middle of the room and looked sideways to their bed soaking from the water and still covered in wet towels. Her eyes wandered lost around the room that was in complete mess. Crushed ice still inside of the bathtub half melted floating in the water. How did the most beautiful romantic afternoon turn into a nightmare in seconds, she wondered in her head.
"Yaz?" Doctor says quietly reaching for her pinkie and hooked her finger over it "Are you alright darling?"
Yaz turned around, tears running down her face. Doctor blinked and wrapped her fingers around her face pulling her onto her chest squeezing her tight "It's ok baby...It's ok beautiful...I'm fine...I'm really fine"
"I was never so scared in my life" Yaz cried into her chest
"I know... but I'm really fine"
Yaz looks up with her eyes glistening from tears. Doctor wiped them with her thumb "What happened? What was that?" she asked quietly squishing her with her arms
"The orb lost all its power Yaz, remember what I told you at the marketplace....and when I put it in my bag...Why did I do that? I wasn't thinking...it was in the dark with no sunlight. So, in order to survive it latched on to whatever energy source it could find around...Me!!"
"Glowing like a light bulb after..." Yaz said smiling a bit
"Yap," the Doctor laughed. "It wouldn't harm me Yaz just probably weakened me a bit...well quite a bit. But I understand that must have been really scary for you"
"I was scared out of my mind"
"I know...but I promise I'm fine. Come on, let's have a nice evening...I'm really starving...I still have a bit of head wonk. But that might be from what you did to me earlier...not sure" she laughs tapping her nose with her finger
"Yeah, that was nice, wasn't it?" Yaz smiled cheeky "I'm quite proud of that" she kissed her briefly and rushed to get the wet towels off the bed.
"Don't worry Yaz, it will all dry out by the night in this heat"
Doctor walked up to the orb sitting by the window in the sun "I'm so sorry about that. I didn't know you needed the sun. I hope I helped...but it did feel a bit weird. I promise I'll do everything to find your friends tomorrow. And then we will find you a new home. I have few in mind you might like"
"Hey, you, stop chatting to it and get changed...your still soaking wet" Yaz peaked from the bathroom
As they all walked slowly towards the tavern Sonya rushed ahead pulling her sister’s hand
"Yaz...can I just speak to you for a second?"
"Sure...Go ahead honey...we will catch up" Yaz says to the Doctor
"What's wrong Sonya?"
Sonya took her sisters hand and looked into her eyes "I'm so sorry Yaz"
"For what Sonya I don't understand?"
"For saying all those horrible things about her. I had no right saying that...judging her like that"
"Sonya it's fine...I understand that for you she might seem...well...a bit weird, and you may not understand what I see in her"
"No! ... It's not ok, Yaz. Seeing you today in tears like that....and the way she looked at you and the first thing she said was your name...god...and the way she kissed you with so much love. She didn't even care what happened to her. And stumbled to help dad when she couldn't even walk. I wish someone will love me like that. I'm so sorry Yaz...I don't care if she eats corps dust...god, you two love each other so much"
Yaz looks softly into her sister's eyes and runs her hand down her cheek "Yes we do...we really do Sonya...and someone will love you like that one day as well...I'm sure of it. And thank you for saying this...it means a lot to me" she smiles and grabs her hand "I told you she's a good kisser and she's funny" they both giggle
"Kissing you on Arctic circle...I bloody died Yaz...that's so romantic girl" Sonya placed her hand on her heart signing
Yaz pulled her sister's hand to a stop "Hey wanna know a secret? Haven't told anyone yet"
"Sure" Sonya in anticipation
Yaz puts her sister’s hand on her stomach "We're having a girl Sonya" she says with massive smile on her face glowing from happiness
"OMG Yaz" Sonya through herself around her neck "God I'm so happy for you Yaz...I will be auntie"
"You will yes" she smiles
"I can't wait for you to have this baby Yaz"
"Me neither...but I also enjoy in Doctor fussing over me as well" she smiles cheeky
They walked together towards the tavern holding hands and laughing
"Hakim, are you going with me to fix the Tardis?"
"You're not going anywhere tonight. No way" Yaz jumped
"Yaz I'm fine...I have to sort it out. We can't wait anymore...look what happened today and it's because they are losing power Yaz and I have to find that other orb. They need me"
"And I need you as well and this baby needs you as well...mum" Yaz turned to her mum for support
"Doctor...excuse me for saying this but I do think Yaz is right. Honey you really took a hit today and I really think that just for today you should take it easy. First you two got wasted last night then today. It's just one day. Besides you can go early in a morning before the heat"
"Mum is right, you know. You have to rest"
"Alright but just for tonight Yaz and we are leaving as soon as it dawns"
"Thank you" Yaz snuggled into her shoulder
"So, what happens if you ever get ill Doctor?" Sonya asked
"If I do...and very really do...I got Tardis. But I don't get ill that much...the odd virus here or there I pick up on other planets...I had one that turned me blue and all I did was chirping but it went away by itself. I do get over most stuff. I even grew my arm back ones"
"You whaaa?" Sonya looked at her shocked but so did everyone else including Yaz who was visibly shocked darting her eyes around the table not knowing what to think about her wife growing an arm back
"Oh yeah!!...I can heal most stuff!!" she was explaining excitedly..."I only regenerate if..." Doctor looked towards Yaz and stopped herself in a middle of sentence
"Oh, go on... say it...you're enjoying in this way too much" Yaz rolled her eyes smiling
And she did enjoy it...a lot. There was a part of the Doctor that totally enjoyed being the center of attention. And that in itself was a contradiction because she was also the most private and closed up person as well, with so many secrets, some of which even Yaz still didn't know. She did continue. She was answering millions of questions they asked her all throughout the evening excited to share it with someone.
...
After dinner walking back into the courtyard Doctor pulled Yaz's hand "Hey, stay" she says quietly
"Hey, mum, dad!! We will stay outside for a bit" Yaz yells towards her family as they walked up the steps
"Alright baby, see you in the morning." Najia says waving
"By Yaz...Doctor" Sonya says smiling cheeky
"Why did you want to stay?" Yaz squeezed her hand and kissed her shoulder over the coat
"Oh, I could do with a walk" Doctor held Yaz's hand between her fingers and kissed her knuckles "Besides I haven't seen these gardens in a while"
"I could do with a walk as well after today" Yaz sighed and rocket Doctor hand as they were walking
"I know. I'm so sorry about today Yaz I will make it up to I promise"
"Stop apologizing for something that wasn't your fault darling. I'm just glad you're here with me"
They walked in silence for a while. Doctor gently stroked her hand with her thumb. Yaz loved when she did it, which wasn't very often, only when they were alone.
"You enjoyed talking to my family" Yaz leaned on her arm while walking
"I have...they are nice your family...specially your dad...I do like your dad a lot"
"How come you're comfortable telling them all that stuff? Normally you don't talk that much? ... And by that, I mean about yourself, because you do talk a lot"
"I don't mind it Yaz, they are your family and I want them to get to know me better. Otherwise, they would be scared for you. But I still don't say everything" she smiles cheeky
"Talking about that. You never told me about the time you were banged up. How did you survive all those years in jail?" she shoots out unexpectedly with a question
"Why are you bringing that up now, Yaz?"
"I just want to know. We said some stuff today to each other. It made me think we never talk about some things, and I want to...we should say it...good or bad, I would like to know. Like the whiplash kiss you gave me" she giggles "Please tell me...how the hell did you not go mad?"
"Oh Yaz, it's difficult to explain. Time feels different for me. I'm used to waiting. There were times when I waited a lot longer. Sometimes hundreds of years. But I did think about you a lot. It doesn't change the fact I've missed you. I've missed you a lot Yaz...all of you...but especially you." she pulls her hand and smiles at her "It gave me time to put my thoughts in order...you know...about how I felt towards you. I just didn't know what to do with it when I realized how I felt...But I'm glad I got that sorted" she brings Yaz's hand to her lips and kisses her knuckles making her smile
"Why did you never say how long you were banged up?"
"I don't know Yaz" she shrugged her shoulders..."I was more upset for leaving you all and you were all upset so much. I think I did tell you that once. That wasn't easy...and that shoving didn't help either. I felt so bad for leaving you"
Yaz pulled her by the hand, turned her around and wrapped her free hand around the back of her neck "You beautiful weirdo...You must have been in so much pain. If you only said something, then maybe they wouldn't be so upset, you know. And I wasn't upset with you. I already told you that. I shoved you because I loved you...it all came out in a wrong way...all my emotions...I do feel bad for doing that to you.
I was over the moon to see you...I thought you were dead" she stroked her cheek and kissed her gently "I love you" she whispered still stroking her cheek with her thumb
"I love you too Yaz...loads" Doctor smiled then continued to walk
"You were banged up for longer than I'm alive...my god...gives me chills just thinking about it"
"Ok, that's a weird concept when you put that way" Doctor laughs
"It is, isn't it ...I'm a spring chicken for you babe" Yaz cheered up and got her giggles back
"You're being cheeky now Yaz"
"I love being cheeky with you"
"I noticed" she twitched the corner of her lip
"It gets you so confused" she giggles turning her around by her hand again "I can literally see you glitched just now"
"I did not glitch Yaz..." she protests pointing a finger at her
"Oh yes you did! ... You twitched your lip...right in a corner" she giggles and continued walking..."You'd never think someone so old would do that, but you do, and it's adorable how old fashion you are"
"Are you trying to say I'm not cool Yaz?" she gets all offensive about it
"Nope...that's not what I said...I think you can be extremely cool. You're just not aware of it. And sexy and charming and dashing...Not on purpose either...it's all random with you, which makes it that much more attractive because you're not trying to be. But you are old fashion and that's totally cool and sexy as well babe"
"Old fashion in what Yasmin Khan?" she jumped almost offended
"Oh, you know...you never swear...ever...I don't even think you know how to"
"Ewww Yaz....no, of course not, that's a horrible habit...I would never"
Yaz laughed "Well I did! ... And a lot as well before I met you" she giggles
"Well, I'm glad you're not anymore Yaz"
Yaz smiled and continued "Also...It took 3 months and you being drunk to tell me I'm sexy and I have a good ass.... Well, there was that poor attempt before and it was absolutely cute and adorable"
"There are many other words to describe how beautiful you are Yaz, and I think I say them to you all the time" she makes a smug face
She rolls her eyes smiling "You won't kiss me in public. God, forbid you touch me in any way except hold my hand and sometimes it's just my finger when you get nervous...Even that cute thumb thing you do is only when we are alone..."
"No Yaz...I really don't see a need for public display of affection. We have a bedroom for that...not to mention it makes people feel uncomfortable"
She busted out laughing shaking her head "Well you definitely don't have that problem in a bedroom babe I give you that one"
"No of course not...why would I?" Doctor scrunches her face confused
"And... aaaand.... you never ever show your arms which is a shame because those are some beautiful arms you have there...well your beautiful all over, but my point is…even in a scorching heat like on that poisonous planet or now when everyone is boiling...your constantly covered up to your neck"
"Yaz my body temperature is much lower than yours...to be precise it's 15 degrees degrees Celsius or 59 degrees Fahrenheit so I'm not hot"
"You never told me that!" she glanced at her frowning confused "Well that explains a lot! Like two t-shirts and a coat and why your skin is so cold all the time...Why the hell did I never ask you that? I just thought you were shy...I just got used to it. But I remember the first time I touch you I was in shock...Ryan asked me do I think you're a vampire" she started laughing
"Whaaaa?" Doctor twisted her face confused out of her mind
"Don't get me wrong babe, I told you...I totally love it now, and I can't imagine you wearing anything else, and I'm totally obsessed with your braces...very dashing"
"Well, I think I dress pretty cool...you should see what they wear on Gallifrey Yaz...this is really skimpy"
"I give up with you..." she laughs and turns her around squishing her face between her hands "I love you just the way you are...don't ever change"
"Not planning to Yaz"
"Good...don't! I was just answering your question. I wasn’t complaining...just to be clear on that. To me you are my perfect loveable weirdo, and I wouldn't have you any other way"
"Yaz...your hands are cold and you're shivering"
"I know...I'm a bit cold and my tummy is getting cold. I'm getting worried about the baby...can we go home?"
Doctor takes her coat off draping it around her "Sure let's go..."
"See...now that's sexy what you just did there" she laughs looking at her confused face at comment she just made and takes her hand
"Do you think the baby can get cold? ... " she asked, walking back...
....
Back in their room Doctor sat on a bed packing her bag for the morning
"When are you leaving in the morning?" Yaz peaked from the bathroom wiles brushing her teeth
"Early Yaz as soon as it dawns. We have so much work on a Tardis and I'm planning to get that orb...Hopefully...well...I feel sure I will...should do...I will be proper upset if something happened to it you know"
"God I really hope not. It's bad enough what happened to them. I can't imagine having to leave like that" she comes out of the bathroom in her nightie and walks over to the Doctor "to leave your world like that, and have no home to come back to"
She released in a second what she said when she saw Doctors face "Oh god..." she comes closer and runs her fingers through her hair pulling her on her stomach "I'm sorry...It just hit me"
"It's fine Yaz..." she wrapped her arms around her waist kissing her tummy
"No, it's not...it just hit me now why you're so obsessed with helping them...You always are, but this was different" she kisses the top of head "I'm so sorry"
"I have a home with you now Yaz" Doctor laid her ear on her stomach running her hand gently down the sides of it "Both of you"
Yaz placed her hands from both sides of her head lifting her gaze up to her eyes "You are my home for a long time...way before we were together" she sat in her lap lifting her nightie wrapping her legs around her and tucked her hair behind her ears
"You really like those sleeping dresses, don't you?" she runs her hands up her legs "I like them too" she smirks cheeky
"Did I tell you recently how beautiful you are?"
Doctor scrunches her face making her laugh
"You're still beautiful...even when you make that face"
Doctor glides her hands down her back and brushes her lips over hers with her eyes half open
"Now see that...that's extremely sexy" Yaz whispers, closing the gap kissing her passionately...
...
Early morning came and the sun peeked through the shutters of their room. Doctor was long awake just lying in bed behind Yaz with face buried at the back of her neck running her hand gently over her tummy for more than an hour. She was trying to figure out if she could possibly speak to her baby by using the CONTACT but figured out it doesn't work. She wasn't getting any response back.
She concluded it must be because the baby is still too small and maybe it didn't know how to use it. She was trying to remember if CONTACT was something she was taught, or she always knew how to do but couldn't remember.
Then she remembered that using the CONTACT somehow made the baby in the first place.
A mystery she was still trying to unravel, and she spent almost 45 minutes and 60 seconds trying to unravel how CONTACT could loom a baby. Then she remembered that looming wasn't really something that was fully explained to any of the Time Lords. But then it popped into her brains how she wasn't really sure if she was a Time Lord at all, and that led to thinking about the Timeless Child and Tecteun and she suddenly felt like she would throw up. So went back to thinking about her baby and how she didn't really give monkeys about how she managed to make it, but she was extremely happy that she did. And then Yaz finally woke up and she kissed her beautiful neck that smelled of sandalwood from the perfume she bought her on a marketplace "Morning beautiful" she said quietly "Why did you wake up? It's early"
"Mmmm" she moaned into the pillow squishing her sleepy face into it and pushed her bum closer to the Doctor "Just wanted a cuddle before you go"
"You could have slept, and I would come back before you even woke up and still give a cuddle"
she laughed
Yaz turned around and draped her leg over Doctors hip snuggling herself inches from her face "Nope...I want it now" she puts her lips and Doctor kisses them smiling "How long are you awake? ... Admit it" she moved one strain of her hair that was falling over her face that Doctor obviously didn't care about
"Mmmm 4 hours, 35 minutes and 40 seconds"
Yaz laughed "Well now it's more than 40 seconds"
Doctor glitched and Yaz busted out laughing "See made you glitch"
"You're a tinker...you know that...I never saw this side of you before"
"Well life's a gamble babe...you never know what you're gonna get" she makes a smug face and kisses her confused lips.
She loved when she managed to confuse the Doctor. It was almost a challenge for her of how to confuse someone who had intelligence beyond her understanding. But it proved to her also that the Doctor had a very human, beautiful side of herself and that if she didn't, she would probably be like a machine.
"I have to go now Yaz" she said quietly running her finger down Yaz's nose
"Please don't...just a little bit longer" she snuggled in closer. So close she physically couldn't be any closer even if she tried and she pushed her arm through to reach Doctors lower back stroking it gently with her fingers
"Yaz..."
"Mmmmm"
"We spoke about this"
"About what?" she frowns smiling
"...You doing this every time I have to get up" she tried wiggling out but Yaz held her with her leg and giggled continuing her game "You're naughty" she points her finger at her
"I know" she flipped her lashes and brushed her half opened lips onto hers "Love ya" she said as Doctors eyes started to close, and their lips were already touching.
In the end she did get what she wanted. Doctor had zero capacity in her brains to say no to her and that was another thing that Yaz found extremely attractive.
...
Yaz fell asleep again. Her soft face buried half inside the pillow and her hair across her shoulders she was curled up pressed against the Doctor's chest snuggled up to her as close as she possibly could as usual. It was hard for the Doctor to leave her. As much as she didn't want to admit it to herself, she loved those snuggles a lot, but she had to leave. With a bit of luck, she will be back before Yaz wakes up, she thought. She slowly got up and got dressed, slinging her white tunic over her trousers, looked at the watch on Yaz's wrist and realized she was already 10 min late to meet Hakim. She kissed her temple and Yaz made a quiet moan snuggling into the pillow.
"Morning Hakim" she smiles as she was getting down the stairs
"Morning Doctor, how are you today?"
"As good as new...told ya..."
"We've only been here three days and it seems like a lifetime" he says as they slowly started to walk "so much has happened"
"I know...exciting, isn't it?"
...
Doctor pulled a panel from underneath the console dragging herself underneath it. "Could you pass me that wrench please"
"Sure...Do you do all the repairs on the ship Doctor?"
"Yap all"
"It's a big ship...isn't it a bit too much?" his eyes wandered around the control room
"Nah... gives me something to do. I would be bored otherwise. Here could you just hold those wires for me for a second? Just don't let them touch or...well you'd be dead, and I don't know how I would explain that to Yaz"
Hakim laughed taking the wires "Just tell her I died happy Doctor"
She cracks up laughing "I like you Hakim...I can see now where Yaz gets it from" she gets up and hops to one of the pillars pulling more wires out
"Get what Doctor?"
"Oh, you know...need for adventure and being brave...Very brave your Yaz you know. Not many people faced up to Cyberman and live to tell the story" she runs up to a second pillar pulling massive cables out stretching them all the way to the console
"Cyberman?" he asked confused
"The Cybermen are a race of cybernetically augmented humanoids"
"I'm not sure I follow you Doctor"
She plugged one of the cables into the console and turned around "Nasty creatures Hakim, and very dangerous. They have been altered until they have few remaining organic parts. They retain living human brains"
Hakim looked shocked and confused "Yaz saw those?"
Doctor runs to the other side of the console flipping a few switches and smiles proudly "She took down the whole Cyberman fleet Hakim. Told you, she's very brave. I'm very proud of her...And you should be too" she zoomed around and looked up "Right...let's see if this works, shall we? Remember don't touch the wires" she turns on the Tardis and looks up smiling "Alright Hakim I think we did it! Sounds good to me"
"You know Doctor I was just looking what you're doing, and I think the problem is that those cables there are overloaded and it's freezing your circuits"
Doctor stopped and scrunching her face concentrated on what he's saying
"If you don't mind me saying this, but I think If you re root the energy flow it will still work but it won't put so much stress on those circuits over there"
"Hakim you smart man...I think you're right. Why didn't I think of that?"
"As I said Doctor it's a massive ship and by the looks of your controls, I think it was attended for more than one person flying it..." he points his hands over the console
Doctor smiled shaking her head "You have a brilliant mind...And you would be right...it is meant for more than one person" she turns off the engine "Right let's put this back and let's get that orb"
...
"I found that place you told me about in India"
"You have...well I'm glad I was helpful"
"Very helpful Hakim...the information you gave me helped me to locate all the temples in the surrounding area and there's only one that is Buddhist one there. So... let’s go and visit our friend and see what he can tell us about the orb. Hold on tight Hakim" she pulls down the lever and in minutes they were in India
"Well, that wasn't a bad ride...let's hope we get back without missing a month or two..." she smiles walking out of the Tardis "Yaz would kill me if I miss the baby being born"
Hakim got worried for a second, but he took it as a joke. Then he remembered Yaz saying how the Doctor missed a whole year once and got really worried, but he quickly got distracted when they started walking down the buzzing streets. It was extremely hot and humid, and Hakim was grateful for the cotton tunic he was wearing.
"Aaaaaa...here it is Hakim!" she points towards the small place between the houses. They walked into the courtyard and passed few small kids running around. Doctor smiled looking at them thinking for a second how she's going to be mum soon herself. She felt warmth around her hearts for a moment. "Over there, Hakim" she pointed towards the small door and entered inside. It was quite and peaceful inside and they couldn't see anyone until one priest came around the corner
"Can I help you? Are you lost?" she said smiling
"Oh, hello...I'm the Doctor and this is Hakim, my father in law. We are looking for the man named Dawa"
"Oh, he left for Nepal a month ago. So sorry. But if you come with me I can give you information where you can find him"
"That would be great. Thank you" Doctor says and starts following the man
"Funny that...You said your name was the Doctor?"
"Yes" she replied intrigued
"He said he was waiting for the Doctor" the man opened the small drawer of the desk and took the pen and the paper out writing the details "Here we go...I'm glad you're going there. He's been waiting for a long time to see you"
"And did he say why he is waiting for me?"
"No... sorry"
"Never mind. Thank you so much" she smiled, and they walked away
"That's odd Doctor...How does he know about you?"
"I don't know Hakim...let's find out"
A small boy ran across the courtyard and pulled the Doctor by her sleeve. She turned around and looked down "Well, hello there" she smiled, and the boy pulled her down
The boy comes close to her ear "You are the universe" he says smiling and she looks at him confused
"Excuse me?"
"You are the universe, and she is a morning star"
"Morning star?" she smiled, and a boy took a small wooden symbol out of his ropes showing it to her.
"Mmmm…that's an interesting thing you got there. What is it?" she looks at the round symbol with what looked like branches going to the middle of it and he points with his finger on a circle
"Universe" he says and points in the middle smiling "Morning star" he put his tiny hand on her cheek
"What are you trying to say?" she asked gently
"Nima! Leave the lady alone" the priest comes up to the boy "Sorry about that...he does that a lot"
"It's ok..." she gets up confused and looks at the boy as the man was taking him away
"Doctor? What was he saying?" Hakim asked confused
"Oh, just showing me a nice pendant he's got" she replied, still looking at the boy as he disappeared around the corner entering the house "Right..." she snaps out of it and turns towards Hakim "Let's go to Nepal!"
They landed in Nepal shortly afterwards and stepped out of the Tardis. Beautiful mountains surrounded a small town. Street was buzzing from people and tourists. Doctor looked up and saw prayer flags flying in the wind and she smiled "Beautiful" she said softly
"What are those, Doctor? The little flags?" he looks up
"Prayer flags Hakim" she turns towards him and points up with her finger "Each flag is imprinted with sacred mantras, prayers for peace, compassion and wisdom" she looks up smiling "They are meant to spread compassion and good will throughout the universe. Absolutely beautiful...isn't it?" she drifted for a moment looking up
"That's beautiful" Hakim looked up
"Alright let's go and find Dawa...hopefully we will have some luck this time" she started walking down the street and they entered another courtyard. She saw praying wheels on side of the wall and ran up to them "Aaaaa....I love those" she ran and brushed her hand down every wheel turning them and laughing
"Doctor?" a man's voice could be heard from the other side of the courtyard and she turned around
"Yes?" she saw a man standing by the pillars "Dawa?" she asked as she turned towards the man
"Yes...finally you came. You look smaller than what I saw you" he smiled
"Aaaaaa....Dawa...just a man I need...Nice to meet you. This is Hakim, my father in law.... Saw me? What do you mean by seeing me?" they started walking down the courtyard
"I saw you in my dreams as a vision. I was looking for an answer to a problem and I got a message ``it is you?"
"And what problem would that be Dawa?" she asked frowning her face intrigued
"I believe you know Doctor" the man smiled and led them to the flat rooftop. As soon as they stepped up Doctor saw the orb placed on one stone block wrapped up in some fabric sitting comfortably like in a nest
"Aaaaaaaa....you beautiful man" she jumped running towards the orb and kneeled next to it
A man smiled "Well Doctor I'm so glad I was right"
Doctor took the sonic out and scanned the orb "Aaaaahhh..." she sighed relieved "They seem to be fine" she turns towards the man "Do you know what this is Dawa?"
"No... but some things are meant to be kept as secrets, aren't they Doctor. All I knew is that I had to keep it safe. I'm sorry I couldn't save the other one, I tried but the damage on impact was too great. It literally fell apart into small pieces causing poisoning of the river. I knew people won't understand and they will think it's some sort of a curse. So, I knew I needed to keep it safe. I didn't know what to do with it so asked for guidance. That's when I saw you...I've been waiting for a long time Doctor"
"You are the best...Gold star for you Dawa for what you did" she smiles and carefully wrapped the orb into the cloths placing it in her bag "Don't worry Dawa...they will be safe from now on...I'll make sure of it"
"Would you two like some tea?"
"I'd love to" she smiles
They've spent some time chatting to the man. He then took Hakim to show him around since he was extremely interested in the place. Doctor walked around for a bit and then went up to flat rooftop and sat on the edge dangling her legs over the edge and looking at the mountains and the flags flapping in the wind. She made a wish and wrote it on a small piece of paper she found in her pocket
"Would you like to hang it up Doctor?" Dawa asked gently
She turns around "I'd like that very much"
He helped to attach the little paper to the string
"What is that you wished for, Doctor? "
"Forever" she said, turning her gaze towards the mountains "Do you think there is such a thing as forever Dawa?"
"Everything is forever Doctor...the whole universe...it never stops...You should know that Doctor...you are the universe" he smiled, and she looked at him drifting into her thoughts
...
"So did you have a nice look around Hakim?" she said walking back to Tardis
"This place is amazing...I loved it. But I can't help the feeling I'm not of much use to you Doctor"
"Whaaaa? ... Not much use Hakim?" she draped her arm around his shoulder "Who told me about the other orbs? ... And who helped me to locate Dawa...and and who helped me yesterday when the orb was draining my energy. Aaaaand you helped me to repair my Tardis" she made him smile "Not to mention us two getting waisted...I think we are a right team Hakim" she smiled cheerfully "Yaz wouldn't agree with me on that last one" she scrunched her nose
...
Tardis landed back in Egypt, but she parked it a bit closer to the town this time thinking how she didn't want Yaz to walk that far. She could have landed it in a hotel but Tardis seems to love the desert so she thought she should make her happy since she will be left alone again.
"Let's hope I got the century right Hakim or we're in right trouble" she switched off the engine
They slowly walked back to the hotel, and she saw Yaz, Najia and Sonya walking down the stairs
"Yaz? ... You look different?" she looked at Yaz confused
"No shit Sherlock!" she stormers down the steps and Doctor looked at Hakim confused
"You've been gone for a month!!!!.... Where the hell have you been?..." she yells and Najia didn't look any happier darting Hakim from the top of the stairs refusing to come down.
"Whaaa???" she looked at her genuinely petrified "Ups! ... Yaz...I am so so sorry...I don't know what to say...Tardis was sitting switched off for a long time and needed repair and..."
"I'd shove you now if I wasn't pregnant..." she says frowning coming down the steps ``But I'm happy to see you" she runs throwing herself around her neck
Doctor smiled utterly relieved and kissed her head "I'm so sorry Yaz...I really am…I can’t believe this happen again…what the hell"
"Hey dad...it's nice to have you back...but your dead meat...mums really pissed off with you. Well thank god you gave me that hologram so this time at least I knew you were alive"
Doctor draped her arm around her shoulder and kissed her temple "I'm sorry...but we got the orb"
"Well, I'd be pissed off if you said you didn't after a month" she smiles rubbing her hand on Doctor's stomach "And you've got a massive bill to settle in that tavern...Not like mum could use her Pounds"
Doctor laughed and kissed her head "Alright...don't worry about that...all go down there today"
"Hello Najia...so sorry about that" Doctor says humbly passing her on the steps
"I'm not impressed, Doctor...but I'm glad you're both fine. Been worried sick"
"Sorry...I'll make it up to everyone...promise"
Najia smacks her shoulder "Go on...spend some time with your wife...make it up to her not to me" she laughs and turns her eyes on her husband "You on the other hand...you have some making up to do"
...
They walked into the room and the Doctor pulled Yaz's hand, turning her around. She wrapped her hand around her face and kissed her for a long time "I'm so sorry Yaz...Please forgive me"
"Stop...there's nothing to forgive…But you've missed a lot" she smiles and looks down on her tummy that practically dubbed since Doctor saw her last
Massive smile stretched across the Doctor's face. She kneeled down and lifted Yaz's t-shirt. "Aaaaa...Linea nigra!" she jumped excited like a kid
"The whaaa?" Yaz looked confused
"Linea nigra Yaz...the dark line, you got wiles I was away!" she runs her finger down the dark line across her tummy "That's what it's called.... god it's beautiful"
"I was gonna ask you about that? What is it?"
"It's from your hormones Yaz...they are swirling around you now...there's so much going on inside...you're creating another person Yaz...it's absolutely amazing" she got all hyper excited making Yaz laugh stroking her head
She ran her hands down her tummy and pressed her lips on it.
"I'm so sorry munchkin...I didn't mean to leave you...but I'm back now and I promise I'm not going anywhere" she kissed it again "I love you so very much" she glides her hand over it and stands up gazing at Yaz who stroke her cheek gently "God, I've missed you so much"
Doctor wrapped her hands around her neck and kissed her passionately running her hands down her waist maneuvering her towards the bed behind her. They slumped on a bed and Yaz closed her eyes as Doctors lips ran down her neck and a collar bone. Suddenly the Doctor lifted her head up "Shoot!!"
"Whaaat?" Yaz looked at her frowning confused as she crawled out of bed quickly
"What are you doing?" Yaz looked at her utterly confused
"Don't worry Yaz I'll be with you in a second" she crouched down digging through her bag "Aaaaaa...there we go..." she pulls the orb out of the bag and carefully places it near the other one by the window on a sun "There...peewee...I forgot Yaz" she sighed relieved
Yaz slumped back on bed laughing relieved "Well that was close!" she giggled
"It was, wasn't it" Doctor laughed crawling back in a bed running her hand up Yaz's leg and pulled her cotton bottoms down together with her underwear in one swipe making her giggle like crazy
"Blimey...never seen you work that fast...I would think you waited for a month, not me?" Yaz giggled
"Exactly Yaz...a month is a long time to wait" she smirks and kisses the inside of Yaz's leg gently looking up seeing her close her eyes...
...
"OMG, I don't know how to reach you anymore"
The Doctor laughed as they laid in a bed facing each other and she tried bringing her closer, but tummy kept being in a way. She lifted the covers and peaked underneath "Goodness...look at you...you're so big and you're not even halfway there. What have they been feeding you?"
"You silly sod" Yaz giggled
"I have an Idea...wait..." Doctor started wiggling pulling her leg and managed to drape it over her hip making Yaz giggle like crazy
"What are you doing?"
"Getting ya closer for a cuddle...you won't one right?"
"You're pulling me like a rag doll silly...Of course I want one" she snuggled in and kissed her briefly stroking her hair and tucking it behind her ear "It's so big now...I can't get my shoes laced anymore"
"I'll lace up your shoes beautiful. And you're due for another check now as well...I'll do that later" she says gently "So, tell me...What have you been doing for a month?"
"We went around everywhere...mum got friendly with people in a tavern. Sonya started flirting with the owner’s son"
Doctor laughed "OMG thankfully it wasn't longer...And you beautiful? I feel so bad Yaz I really do...I..."
"Ssshhh..." she puts a finger over her mouth "Don't...I'm not angry...I'm not upset...it happened. You're here now next to me and that's all that counts. Now please...tell me about the orb finally...I'm dying to hear"
"Oh, the orb...so Yaz it was really exciting. First, we went to India and didn't find that priest there. Turns out he went to Nepal. So, we went to Nepal and found him and he was actually waiting for me to come and pick up the orb"
"How did he know about you?"
"Oh well I'm very well known Yaz..." she laughs "Just joking Yaz...he had a vision when asked for guidance and saw me...kept it safe all this time Yaz. Wonderful man. And he helped me hang my little prayer flag as well"
"Prayer flag? I didn't know you're praying Doctor?"
"No Yaz I don't...But that place...it's special...they say all those prayers travel throughout the universe...So you know...if they really do...and you never know...I thought I'd do it just in case"
"So, what was it...your prayer? You don't need to tell me if you don't want to"
She paused in silence for a moment and ran her finger down Yaz's face "It was to have forever with you Yaz" she said gently
Yaz's eyes filled with tears, and she quickly wiped them "I adore you...You big softly..." she kissed her briefly
"Darling..." Yaz said quietly
"Yes Yaz"
"I love this cuddle but I'm going to explode I really need to pee" she frowns smiling making Doctor laugh
"Sure...go on..." she started laughing how poor Yaz was struggling to get out of the bed
"Wait...Yaz wait...I'll help you out silly" she laughs and get up hopping around the bed to grab her hands
"I feel so useless" she mumbled walking into the bathroom
"Your far from useless Yaz...right know your doing the most important thing ever"
"Yeah...what's that? ... Rolling around the bed the whole day? " she yells from the bathroom sarcastically
"No Yaz...you're caring our baby...I think that's quite an important task if you ask me...more important than running around Nepal" she clips her braces on and stands next to the bathroom door "Wanna go with me?"
"I'll go anywhere with you now...Where are we going?"
"I'm going to settle that debt in a tavern, and I thought whilst there you and I can have some lunch...I do feel hungry...I haven't eaten since yesterday"
"Yesterday!!!!!" Yaz peaked out of the bathroom "No wonder you're like a stick...And yes definitely just let me take a shower first...I suppose I can have my third breakfast today" she moans into her chin making the Doctor laugh
...
"So, what will you do now with the orbs?" she asked whilst scoffing through her plate and running bread around it getting the last bit of the sauce from it
"Yaz...do you want some more food?" she giggles looking at her perfectly clean plate
"Well...." she smiles "They do have some nice pie"
"Alright" she bursts out laughing "I'll get you some pie" she gets up and runs to the bar "Could we have one of your pies please?"
"Sure...is that for the pregnant lady?" a young man asked wiping the bar with a cloth and looking over Doctors shoulder twards Yaz
"Yes...it's for my wife" she confirmed proudly
"Sure no problem...it's on a house if it's for her"
"Really?" Doctor asked confused "And why is that?
"She's my girlfriends’ sister...nice lady" she smiles
"Oh...I see...Thanks for that...that's really nice of you" she walks back to the table
"Yaz..."
"Mmmmm?"
"You know when you told me your sister is flirting with the owner’s son?"
"Yeah...what about it?"
"Well, he is under the impression she's his girlfriend"
"He's whaaaa?" Yas looks towards the bar
"So, my conclusion is that...either he is delusional, or we are being lied to" she laughs leaning over the table
Yaz leaned over the table and whispered "She can't date someone from this time...is she for real? She's going back to Sheffield soon"
"I know Yaz" she is trying not to laugh
"How is this gonna work out?"
"I don't know Yaz" Doctor tightens her mouth in a goofy face laughing finding the whole thing quite amusing
"This isn't funny!!" Yaz frowns at her
"I wasn't laughing Yaz" she's replying laughing from the corner of her lips controlling herself
"You're making that face"
"What face" she says confused
"That one...when you find something entertaining"
"I have a face for that?"
"You have thousands of faces"
"I know I've been told Yaz" she laughed
"Aaaarrhh...you're not helping" she rolls her eyes "Mum's gonna have kittens"
"What kittens?" she looks at her confused
"It's a saying...she's gonna flip her lid Doctor"
"And a pie for the nice lady" the young man smiled as he brought the plate and Yaz looked up to him worried
"Thanks" she stretched tense smile on her face looking at the Doctor
"Relax Yaz...eat your pie" she couldn't stop giggles
"Right...tell me about the orbs...I need a distraction" she stubs the pie with a fork looking over Doctors shoulder towards the bar
"Yes, the orbs...I need to find them a new home Yaz but before I do that I need to power them up..."
"Use the Tardis...you always do that" she replied with her mouth full scoffing through her cake
"I thought about that, Yaz, but I can't. The artron energy from the Tardis will kill them. It's too strong...I need to think of other way"
"Why do you need to power them up?"
"If I just drop them on a new planet they won't open up Yaz...they are too weak"
"You're smart...you will find a way"
"Right" she said worried "I haven't got much time Yaz to figure it out. The one we have is still fine but the one that was in your time in Nepal is extremely weak. It's been waiting for a long time"
"I know...take them with the Tardis to our time...surely there must be an energy source that you could use there?"
"That's the thing Yaz...there isn't...can't exactly plug them into a socket, can I? ... I thought the sun would be enough, but it isn't. They need something else and until I find out what I won't know"
“You will…I don’t doubt you babe...” she reached for her hand across the table
“Eat up, and I’m gonna take you somewhere very special” she whispers smiling
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"I wanted to show you something today” Doctor says wiles Yaz was scoffing her pie
"Soo where are you taking me?" she pops a piece of her pie into Doctors mouth "Try...it's nice"
"You will see...it's a surprise...Mmmm...that is nice Yaz...I think I'll go and one myself"
"Uuuuu...baby kicked" Yaz laughed
"It did?" Doctor jumped excitedly
"Yeah...come here...quick!"
Doctor was at the other side of the table in a second with a massive smile across her face. Yaz took her hand and placed it on a side of her bump "Right there...now...did you feel that?"
"Aaaaaa...she wiggled...!" she jumped
"Aha...I think she loves the pie" Yaz giggled
"She might...aaaa!!!...again!!!" she laughs exited "Yaz..." she looked at Yaz dreamy
"What darling?"
"Yaz...I'm gonna be mum" she said not quite believing those words
"You are darling...you're gonna be mum" Yaz puts her hand on her cheek
"I can't get my head around it Yaz"
"I know...seems unreal, doesn't it?"
"Yaz I never thought...like never in million years...it's so real now"
"I know babe...but you are...and I want to kiss you now" she whispers
"I want to kiss you too..." she smiled bringing Yaz's hand to her lips kissing it gently
"I better get that pie..." she laughs cheeky "You want one more?"
"Mmmm...I dunno"
"Oh yes you do admit it..." she started walking towards the bar and turned around laughing "You really want that pie Yaz"
Yaz giggled like crazy "I'm gonna roll out of Egypt"
"I know and you will look cute doing it" she laughed
…
"What is this place?" Yaz looked up at a the tall beautifully ornate building with massive pillars and huge staircase going towards the entrance. Pillars were painted in bright red with palm leaves on top of them
"You will see...come on" she pulls her hand up the stairs and they entered a massive room no less beautiful inside than it was from the outside. "Welcome the library of Egypt Yaz" Doctor says exited as they stepped inside
"Is this the library of Alexandria?" Yaz looked up towards the tall ceiling
"No Yaz...that's gonna be much later on...but...these are the very roots of it Yaz...already they have stored so much information so much knowledge about the history, astronomy, science...Look at this Yaz...all this knowledge will be lost one day...it's magnificent and sad in a same time"
"Can we read some of the stuff here Doctor?" Yaz's eyes were as big as the saucepan wondering around all the scrolls and tablets on the shelfs
"Yap...that's why we came Yaz..." Doctor smiled cheerfully "Come on!" she nods her head grabbing her hand
"Doctor " Yaz pulled her hand "What if they kick us out...look around...we stand out"
"Nah...I know a guy who knows a guy who's my mate...anyway...they know me here Yaz...not the first time I'm here looking for something"
"But you were a man before?" she looked at her confused out of her mind
"Don't worry Yaz...he knows three of my previous faces...Mind you this one might surprise him" she smirks
"Doctor?" a man's voice came from behind the Doctor
"Aaaa...Abasi, just a man I was looking for" she jumped and played the silly game of secret handshake with the man
"Mmmmm....woman.... interesting Doctor...Might take me a while to get used to this one...Nice very nice. And the young lady" the man winks to the Doctor
"Aaaa this is Yaz, my wife...Yaz this is Abasi my very old friend"
"Oh, married again Doctor...nice...sorry about that...I heard the news some time ago"
"Oh yes that..." Doctor gets flustered "It was a long time ago...Don't worry about it"
Yaz frowns confused at Doctors reaction
"Anyway Abasi" Doctor continued..."I'm looking for an information..." she continued to explain to the man whiles Yaz was walking around fascinated with the place
"Yaz..." Doctor called for her from the other side of the room "Let's go"
They've spent hours going through all the books. They opened a massive scroll over the table and Doctor was concentrated reading it. Yaz looked at her sideways and couldn't help herself saying something "Doctor...Why did you react like that when that guy mentioned your wife"
"My dead wife Yaz...You're my wife" she replied firmly clenching her jaw
"Are you upset me asking this?"
"No... I’m not...but you will be if I start answering Yaz...So I suggest you think twice before you ask what you're about to ask" she briefly looked up
"How do you know what I'm about to ask"
"Because I know where this conversation is going, and I rather not have it" she kept her gaze on the scroll
"So... we will never talk about her?" she asked annoyed
"We will ..."
"Then talk to me" she puts her hands on the desk over the scroll stopping her from reading it
Doctor looked at her irritated "No Yaz...I'm not...not here and not now...and not until you talk to yourself and be absolutely certain that you want to have this conversation..."
Yaz's chin started wobbling. She turned around and ran out of the library
"Yaz!!" she yelled after her but she ran outside ignoring her
Doctor tightens her lips and and her face went into almost cramp and throws the papyrus roll on a table running after her. She found her sitting on the massive steps outside like a lost puppy playing with the hem of her dress and wiping her tears and sat next to her. Doctor was quiet for a moment before she spoke with her in gentle voice "Yaz...Darling"
"It's fine...I'm not gonna ask...ever again" she replied abruptly
"Yaz...you're missing a point"
"Am I?" she looked at her angry and filled with despair with tears in her eyes..."You only talk about stuff you want to talk about...leaving gaps in between worth centuries of your life that are kept like some sort of mystery from me. And yet you find it perfectly normal to sleep with me...me knowing every inch of you is normal and not a mystery at all, is it?
"Yaz!!!!...Stop that...Don't talk like that..." she said mortified
"How do you expect me to talk? ... Explain...go on, I'm listening"
"Definitely not like you just did Yaz...that's just...it's...well...not ok...not ok at all Yaz" she gets all flustered "First of all I can't exactly put 3000 years of my life in 3 sentences...definitely not enough time to cover all of it...in fact it would probably take me about 2 months of never closing my mouth to say absolutely everything to you...Second...I'm telling you things...Actually I'm telling you everything you want to know. But my dead wife Yaz is not someone I want you to have in your head...I don't...definitely not. Not because I have a problem talking about her...because I don't...But because I don't think you want to listen about me being with someone else...Why???" she gets up and stands in front of her
"I'm with you now! ... I love you now! I'm even having a baby with you now! ... She's past...she's no longer here she's in library Yaz.
"She's whaaa?" she looked at her completely confused
"That's a different story...never mind that...forget that I said that" she scrunched up her face confusing Yaz even more and continued to talk
"I was a different person then Yaz...Much different than what I am now. In fact I don't even think you would like me how I was...So what's the point?" She waives her hands around "I know how it goes...it starts with this...you wanting to know...and then it ends up with you being eaten up inside from jealousy comparing yourself to her...Absolutely not...I'm not having that"
"I'm not gonna..." she looked up to her confused
"Oh yes you are!!!...You will analyze everything, and it will eat you up and make you miserable and feel like you're sharing me...And you're not Yaz and you never will...and I'm sorry I'm not putting you through that. I love you too much to do that to you. What you and I have is different anyway...completely different...incomparably different...Is that even a word or I just made that up?" she twists her face for a second thinking
Yaz went quite looking down to the floor playing nervously with her dress twisting it around her fingers.
Doctor sad back down next to her and reached for her hand untangling the dress from her fingers "Yaz...listen to me...Let that dress go...you're making a mess out of it" she shakes her hand to let it go and continues to talk to her calmly "As it is you never thought you were worthy of me...am I right?"
"Yes" she replied quietly trying not to cry
"But it turned out I wasn't worthy of you silly..."
"Stop that..." Yaz looked at her sideways
"Oh no Yaz...you're a much better person than ever will be...trust me...Point being...I don't want you feeling like you’re in some sort of a competition with someone who is no longer here. I have no secrets from you, but I will do everything to protect you. Please...understand what I'm trying to say"
"I'm sorry for speaking to you like that" she said quietly
"That was horrible...Blimey Yaz you can really have a potty mouth when you're angry"
Yaz starts laughing and wipes her tears "You haven't heard anything yet" she looks at her sideways laughing
"You're scaring me now" she kisses her knuckles "Love ya" she smiled rubbing her thumb over her hand
"Love you too...I'm sorry...But can I just say something"
"Of course, Yaz always"
"Can you just get to the point next time when you're trying to explain something to me rather that speaking in riddles..."
"What do you mean...I always get to the point" she scrunches her face confused
"No, you don't...You go all the way around like from Sheffield to Scotland and back" she laughs
"Come on you...let's go...this sun is way to strong for you to sit on it like that" she gets up reaching with her hands to lift her up
"Darling...I have a huge problem" she twists her body holding her tummy with one hand and supporting herself for Doctors shoulder with another
"What problem?" she jumped freaked out "You ok? ... Are you in pain?"
"Noooo...listen!!!...I'm gonna piss myself if you don't find me a toilet like now this minute"
Doctor stood for a split second glitching and burst out laughing "Goodness Yaz...you almost made me regenerate...come on...I know just where" she pulled her hand
"Please hurry up!!! I can't hold it anymore I swear I'm gonna piss down these stairs"
"Babe...this is really not comfortable" Yaz was whining out of the public lavatory through the closed door "I really hope I'm not gonna topple over"
"Hope not Yaz that would be really embarrassing not to mention extremely uncomfortable...Are you sure you don't want me to help you"
"Yeeesss...I want to keep at least some of my dignity thank you very much"
"I mean...I've seen it all anyway Yaz" she laughs leaning on a door frame with her hands in her pockets
"That's not the point is it!!" she comes out stressed "When did they invent normal toilets and not just a whole in a ground?"
"Sir John Harrington, godson of Elizabeth I, invented a water toilet with a raised cistern in 1592. But Elisabeth found them being to noisy at night....so they ripped them all out...She always was a light sleeper"
"How would you know that???" Yaz looked at her surprised, but Doctor ignored her
"Let's go back to the library Yaz I have to finish looking at that papyrus" she looks at her cheerfully "I might have a solution for the orbs"
"You do?"
…
"You know I said to you how I thought the sun would be enough but it's not.... Well I've been thinking...Maybe it is Yaz...but we have to make it stronger"
"Make the sun stronger?"
"Yes...We need amplifier Yaz...Something that will direct the sunlight straight to the orbs"
"But you have that in my time"
"I do Yaz but I can’t risk taking them backwards and forwards through time with the Tardis. Artron energy is really harmful to them as it is they will have to hitch a ride in Tardis to their new home...it's just too much...But I think I found a perfect solution right here"
"Where do you find solar amplifier in the middle of ancient Egypt Doctor?"
"Aaaaa Yaz...Do you know who is Ra?"
"Nope...no idea"
"Ra is a main deity here Yaz...the Sun god...Egyptians literally worship the Sun Yaz...so they have temples dedicated to just that...Sun... designed for harnessing the power"
"So this papyrus you were looking at is what exactly? ... A map?"
"Sort of...It describes one of the temples near by...Well it's a blueprint really...describes exactly the engineering behind it...Look Yaz" she shows the sketch "On a certain day of the year the Sun peaks through that opening and then it reflects of the mirrors in the room and falls directly on to the altar right there. So, all we need to do is bring the orbs and place them on the altar at that day at that time"
"Which is when Doctor?"
"Good question Yaz...In three days time...Let's hope I'm right about this Yaz"
"Told you, you will figure it out" she leaned over the table to kiss her, but Doctor put her finger over her mouth
"No... not here" she looks around making Yaz laugh
"Can I go with you? ... You know...to that place...Please" she slumps herself on a table begging her
"It's quite a walk Yaz...let me think ok"
Yaz pouted her lips to which Doctor responded flustered "Stop doing that...that's way too cute...and totally not fair Yaz" she covered her mouth with her hand blushing making Yaz giggle
"Can we go home now...I'm getting extremely tired"
"Sure, Yaz I was going to say that...It's been a long morning for you. Come on let's go" she rolls up a papyrus and putting away and reaches for Yaz's hand smiling "I'll make you a bath when we get back"
"That would be brilliant" she smiles leaning on her shoulder as they walked out
…
Back in their room the Doctor was working on her little laptop sitting on the bed whilst
Yaz was in the bathtub looking at the orbs on a window "Do you think they can hear us, Doctor?"
"No Yaz...not anymore...No power"
"You talk about it like it's a machine"
"It is a machine Yaz...Not what's inside but what's outside is a machine. Imagine it like a spaceship.... you know like Tardis..."
"Only shrunken" she giggles
"Yap"
"Was Gallifrey really high tech? .... You know like futuristic"
"No, not at all...There are many other places far more advanced than Gallifrey"
"But you have Tardis and holograms"
"Yeah...and you know...few other bits and pieces but nothing special"
"Babe, can you help me out the water is getting cold now"
"Sure...she ran to the bathroom and got the towel and helped her out of the bathtub wrapping it around her. Yaz put her hands around her neck and kissed her briefly. "Do you miss home? You know us going back to and just you and me and Tardis away from everyone?"
"I do sometimes...Do you want us to go...home I mean?"
"I don't know...I like being her with my family, but I miss Tardis as well. A lot. Miss not having to be careful when I kiss you" she giggles "Do you know what's this month?"
"No... what’s this month?" She scrunches her face "Please don't say I missed your birthday?"
"No, you haven't" she giggles tucking her hair behind her ears "It's going to be 6 months of us being together...you know...like a half year anniversary...well more or less"
"Is it??" she looked at her surprised with a massive smile across her face "Woooow!!"
"It sure is...It's now 21 weeks of me being pregnant and it only took you...what 2 weeks to make the baby" she laughs
"Goodness that was fast" she laughs
"I know you work fast...one week to get married, 2 weeks to make a baby...for someone over 3000 years old you work at lightning speed I tell you!" she giggles like crazy
"Oh well you know I need to make up for years of anguish Yaz" she taps her nose
"It was years of anguish...of me desperately wanting to do this" she laughs and starts kissing her neck "And this...." she says quietly slipping her hands under her shirt smiling cheeky
Doctor puts a finger underneath her chin lifting her gaze brushing her lips against hers "And me wanting to do this..." she crushed her lips to hers and wrapped her fingers around her face maneuvering her back towards the bed and pulled the towel off her letting it slide on the floor
…
"That tickles" Yaz giggled as Doctor laid behind her running her fingertips down the bottom of her bump following the line where it started to curve "Stop!!!...That really tickles" she giggled like crazy making Doctor laugh and continue to mess around pressing her lips into her neck blowing air making her laugh even more "Aaaaa stooop it...you silly sod" she turns around on her back to stop her from doing it.
They laced their fingers together and just smiled gazing at each other
"You are the best thing that ever happened to me Yaz"
"And you are to me love" she snuggles herself closer to her "Why do you call yourself the Doctor?"
Doctor smiled and kissed the top of her nose "Long time ago I made myself a promise...never to be cruel or cowardly...to never give up, and never give in Yaz...and that's what doctors are..."
"That's beautiful...But why never use your real name? You do have a nice name"
"Many reasons...mostly security Yaz"
"Like a spy" she giggles
She cracked up laughing "Only you can come up with that Yaz...This is what I love about you so much"
"What? But it is, isn't it?"
"I suppose so" she laughs pulling her in and wraps her leg around herself like she always does "You're like this ray of sunshine in a morning Yaz...New and beautiful and clean"
"So, are you?"
She laughs sarcastically scrunching her face "Nah... more like a muddy road Yaz"
"Stop that...Don't you talk like that about the mother of my child"
"Wake up call Yaz...the mother of your child is an ex con and the most wanted person in the universe" she cracks up laughing
"Mmmm...does that mean I'm into dangerous women?"
"I hope only one Yaz"
"Aaaaa...Cheeky!"
"Hey, wanna go with me Yaz?"
"Anywhere...I'm desperate"
"I need to get few things in town I thought it be nice...then we can all go for dinner together"
"Sounds fantastic"
"Alsoooo...I thought..." she runs a finger down her hip "We go and get you few things because there's not much room left inside those clothes anymore for the munchkin"
"Aaaaa wife taking me shopping...I like that" she kisses her softly "She is getting big"
"She is, isn't she...it's beautiful Yaz" her face suddenly shines "Come on mummy...get a shift on" she kissed briefly, and they both got up
…
"Hey Yaz...do you remember that day when you got me my first clothes in that charity shop?" Doctor says standing in front of the cubicle of a small store holding leads of stuff in her hands
"You look like me then" she laughs peaking behind the curtain
"I know" she laughs "...and you got me my earring as well"
"You've cleaned me out that day" she giggles "Ryan only had 10£" she laughs "I had no I idea I'm buying it for my wife" she laughs coming out
"I like that..." Doctor smiles at a turquoise tunic and white linen bottoms
"You do?"
"You look lovely Yaz"
"But tummy is hidden" she puts her lips going with her hand over her stomach
"You really want to show that bump don't you Yaz"
"Aha!!" she laughs "But I suppose it's comfy"
"That's the most important Yaz...come on we will get it...It's lovely"
She picked few more things and Doctor went to pay. Yaz wondered around the store waiting for her when she saw her sister through the window holding hands with the tavern owner’s son. She speeds up to the door to get the better look.
"Hey what's wrong?" Doctor came behind her
"Mum's gonna kill her" she points to her sister
"Oh boy...That's bad...Yaz we can't take him with us"
"I know...It will break her heart babe...I don't want to brake my sisters heart Doctor"
"I know you don't beautiful...We will think of something...come on" she kissed her temple
Doctor takes her hand and kisses her knuckles "Fancy a cake?"
"Uuuu...now you're talking...Yes!!!...I swear you like me putting on weight"
"I do...you're nice and squidgy"
"You're crazy" she laughs
"Mmmmmm....Dooooctor...???" Yaz tugged her hand
"What?"
"Here goes our house"
"What are you talking about Yaz"
Yaz grabbed her chin turning her head
"Whaaaa in the name...Oi!!! Put that down!!!!..." she yelled as she saw two men rolling Tardis on a wooden cart down the road
She ran through the crowd yelling "Oi you!!!...Put my ship down! How rude!!"
"Excuse me?" the man said confused
"Hey...that's mine..." she points up on a cart
"It was in desert"
"I know it was in the desert. It's where I left it!" she climbed the wooden cart and used the sonic to cut the ropes
"Doctor!" Yaz was calling her, but she was still arguing with a man "Doctor!!!" she yelled louder but still nothing "OI...WIFE!!" Yaz yelled from the top of her voice making Doctor freeze in a place turning her head finally
"Whaaat?" she spreads her arms and shrugs her shoulders
"Why is the plate a different color?"
"What plate Yaz?...What are you talking about?"
"The plate on Tardis...it's different" she points
Doctor peaked around the corner to looking at the Tardis door and her face went white "Aaaaaaaaa....Ups!!!!..."
"What?" Yaz yells
"Excuse me...passing by...excuse me...What are you doing with that? That's mine!" a tall lanky man in a brown suit and a bow tie passed next to Yaz running his hand through his hair
"Shooot!!" Doctor looked at him panicked completely
"Excuse me madam but that's mine" he speaks to the Doctor pointing his finger at the Tardis and jumped on the cart
She grabbed him for his shirt pulling him aside "We have a serious problem"
Yaz frowns utterly confused "What are you doing??? What is going on here??"
"Excuse me madam?" he stands up straight confused fixing his tie and a jacket "Problem you said?"
"Yes serious...big problem.... massive problem"
"And what might that be?"
She puts her hand on a Tardis door and it opens up for her
"Ooooooohhhhh myyyyy!" the man replied staring at her and started laughing "I look good...What regeneration are we?"
"13th but that's a long story"
"Right...First thing first" he jumped off and paid the two men "That should be enough. Just take it to the where we agreed. Thanks for that and sorry about the confusion"
"What's going on?" the 13th said jumping of the cart
"It got broken...you should remember" the 11th said confused
"Shoot...Yeah well, it's been a long time give me a brake"
"Doctor...What the hell is going on here?" Yaz comes storming in
"Yaaaz!" Doctor grins "Aaaaa....Yaz, you know how I told you I came here a lot" she scrunches her face
"Yeeeeessss???"
“Well….Meet...ME!" she smiled nervously
"You whaaaaa?" Yaz almost went into labor when she said that
A man comes smiling fixing his bow tie "Hello!" he smiles "I'm the Doctor"
"I'm…I’m Yaz" she reached out her hand utterly confused out of her mind looking at the Doctor over his shoulder
"This is Yasmin Khan...my wife!!” she grins twisting her face in all directions “Our…wife suppose…I guess…technically " Doctor scrunches her face making him almost jump from the floor "Told ya...long story"
…
They sat down in a small place for a cake Doctor promised Yaz. Both Doctors sat at the table and Yaz excused herself to go to the toilet
The 11th leaned across the table "Is she? " he shows with his hand a bump over his stomach
"Yeah" she scrunches her face
"Are weeee?" he points to them both with his finger
"Yeah...another long story "
"Waaaaaaaw!" he smiles from and fixed his tie "I'm a dad in a future" he grins exited "And she's beautiful...Oh... is the baby like us?"
"Not sure yet" she twists her face
"And how did we...you know...do that?" he asked confused
"No idea...working on it..."
"Mmmmm...interesting...I'm so proud of us...I should buy a present"
"Oh boy this is weird even for me" she slumped her head on a table
Yaz came back to the table, and he got up as signs of respect pulling a chair all flustered "Excuse me...could I just...please..." he fiddled with his hands nervously
"He wants to say hello to the baby Yaz...I just told him...Do you mind?" Doctor asked her with expression on her face that was spelling "I give up on this"
"Yea I suppose so"
"Oh...thank you" he smiled exited and bent down a bit "Well hello you little person in there...How are you little munching" he talked being careful not to touch her fiddling with his fingers in the air exited going completely gaga on a baby
Yaz looked at him totally shocked because at that single moment it actually clicked in her brain that this person really is the Doctor. It left her confused but also completely amazed at it. He radiated the same energy like her Doctor. The kind, loving and childlike.
"I'm gonna be a dad!" he looked up at her completely emotional
Yaz smiled to him gently "Yes...yes you are" she looked at the Doctor over the other side of the table smiling
"Hey...give me your hand" she took his hand and placed it on her stomach "Right there...Can you feel it moving? It's a girl"
He looked up to her eyes filled with tears "This is wonderful...thank you...I really appreciate this"
"It's ok" she smiled and walked over to the Doctor sitting next to her. Doctor kissed her temple "You're amazing you know that" she whispered to Yaz and laced their fingers under the table
"So why are we here?" he asked
"Long story short...Tardis got broken and we got stuck then we found the orbs..."
They were exchanging all the information and Yaz didn't even listen to the conversation. She was so fascinated with him so much that all she was doing is looking for similarities between them. The hands, the facial expressions, the way they talked. And for some strange reason not even known to her, she found this bizarre situation almost normal. It made her question how much her world has changed since the day she left Sheffield. From being a junior police officer to this. Alien wife with two hearts and a time ship and meeting her other self from some other time. It also made her release one other thing. That no matter what face her wife may have one day, she will always be her wife.
"Sorry Yaz needs rest. We will have to leave" she said getting up
"Yes, yes of course"
"Well, till later...Se you Doctor"
"Doctor" he replied, "Exiting, isn't it?" he smiled and stood up as soon as Yaz did "I'm very pleased I met you Yasmin Khan" he kissed her hand "You're very lovely"
"It was very interesting to meet you as well. You're very lovely as well" she smiles
"By munchkin" he waves with his fingers bending down a bit and smiling
They left towards the hotel and Yaz was utterly confused "Darling...I'm confused"
"I'm not surprised" she laughs “Are you alright Yaz?”
"Nooo hear me out, not what you think. And yes, I’m fine...How do you not remember...I mean that's your past?"
"He will forget Yaz"
"What?"
"My younger self will forget this ever happened because my timeline has been changed. So, it will stay locked inside until today"
"Ok...that's really complicated hun"
I know...sorry Yaz"
…
They came to the room and Yaz was putting away stuff they bought that day. Doctor stood in the middle of the room smiling from the corner of her lips watching her. She looked as if she just had the most normal day.
She came behind her and put hands around her stomach and Yaz automatically leaned on her
"I saw you...in him” she said quietly
"I know you did beautiful" she rocks her in her arms a bit
"It almost makes me sad he won't remember...he was so happy…it was your face and your words"
"You're amazing person Yasmin Khan" she turns her around kissing her gently "I love you so much my beautiful Yaz"
"I love you too...my Doctor" she smiled and kissed her back "One thing...promise me"
"Anything"
"Please babe my family can't see this...this is waaaay tooo much to process they will go bonkers"
Doctor laughed "I know Yaz I'm aware of that"
"Babe there's someone at the door!" Yaz yelled from the bathroom
"I know Yaz it's just me" she laughs
"Oh...god my life is bizarre" Yaz comments from the bathroom
"I know and I love you for it" she laughs and opened the door
"Evening" he said smiling
"Hey...Come in" she let's him in
"Hello again" Yaz peaked from the bathroom
"Oh, evening Yaz. You look lovely"
"Thanks" she smiles "Sorry today we left earlier, my feet they swell up"
"Oh no problem I understand. It's the change of pressure because of the baby and then it effects your circulation"
"Nothing changes" Yaz laughed "Still the same"
"Aaaaa...is this it?" he comes to the window "That's fascinating" he takes the orb and scanning it with a sonic "I see what you mean...I'm not sure if the light from that temple will be enough"
"Ahaaaa...sharing the brain" she says "I did calculations today and that's what's worrying me. One maybe...two I doubt it"
"But if..."
"We magnify it" they say together "Sonic!!"
"Yes!!" she jumped "It does mean you can't leave for another two days"
"Oh, wibbly wobbly, timey wimey" he dismissed with his hand "This will be fun"
Someone knocked at the door and Yaz's face went blank "Doctor!!!"
"Yes?" they both answered at the same time
"My Doctor....babe...mum" she frantically points at the door
"Shoot!" she grabs him for his lapels "You're my friend John"
"What?" he looks at her confused
"Yaz's mum, she can't know about us like this...complicated...family drama...just go with it"
"Mum...hi" Yaz let's her in nervously
"Hi honey" she kisses her cheek looking at the other Doctor confused
"Najia hi" Doctor waives "This is my friend John, John this is Najia, Yaz's mum"
"Hello Yaz's mum" he waives
"I'm gonna be sick" Yaz grabbed Doctors hand
"Hello nice to meet you John" Najia shakes his hand "And you are from here or?"
"Oh, no, no, my Tar..." he gets frazzled "Ship...my ship...spaceship...time ship...broke down...I come from waaay faaar...And my friend was in town, so I thought I visit...You know for the baby" he waives his sonic around and then nervously puts it in his pocket
Doctor twisted her face looking at him confused "Whaa?" she makes a soundless gesture behind Najias back
"Right...mum...we will be right with you. Did you need something or???" Yaz got all frazzled as well practically pushing her mum out of the door
"No no... just you left this in my room" she passed her little hologram baby monitor
"Aaaa...there it was I was looking for that the whole day today...thanks mum...well see ya in whaaaat? 15 min... babe?" She looked at the Doctor
"Yeah 15 min is fine Yaz" she answered looking as strange and confused as everyone else in the room
Yaz pushed her mum through the door closing it and slumped her back to it "I'm gonna throw up"
"So ok so I need to go...you know Tardis...have to get it fixed"
"Oh, about that...I remembered what's wrong" she started explaining on a way out
"By Yaz" he waives
"By...see ya" she waives back and slumped on the bed
Doctor came back in a room few minutes afterwards laughing "You alright Yaz"
"No...I'm not" Doctor laughed lifting her to sit up by her hands and Yaz slumped her head on her stomach "I'm stressed" she puts her hands around Doctors waist
"I'm sorry" she laughed and stroked her hair "You're doing great Yaz considering"
"I need a cuddle just for five minutes before we leave"
"Oh darling...you're amazing Yaz...you really are"
Yaz lifts up her shirt and kisses her stomach "I love you so much...I want to stay here...with my face buried into your tummy" she tightens her grip around her waist and blows air into Doctors stomach making her tickle and giggle
"Aaa...You silly sod" she laughs
"Got ya" she laughs
"Come on mummy we need go get going" Doctor lifts her by her hands
Yaz and the Doctor came down to the courtyard where her family was already waiting
"Hey...so sorry for being late" Yaz says kissing he mums cheek "John and the Doctor had some work to do and then you know me and the toilet 100 times a day"
"That's fine Yaz. John seems nice...a bit confused but nice" Nadja remarks as they started walking
"Mmmm...he's lovely" Yaz replied feeling anxious
"I love that tunic Yaz" Sonya says
"Aaaaa...thanks...wife took me maternity shopping today...I got lots of new stuff...so much more comfortable. She's getting really big" she runs her hand over her tummy laughing
As they reached the tavern and sat down for a meal Sonya disappeared for quite a while
"Where's your sister Yaz?" Nadja asked looking around
"Oh, she's gone to toilet I think"
"So, Doctor any news regarding the orbs?" Hakim starts the conversation exited to hear all the new stuff
"Yes, I think I finally cracked it. Yaz and me went to the library today to do some research and I found some really interesting stuff...also met an old friend...." Doctor and Hakim went into a long conversation about the orbs that Yaz and her mum ignored talking mostly about the baby and her new clothes Yaz got. Najia also bragging about how her husband took her everywhere compensating for being absent for a month.
"Oh, Doctor is that your friend John?" Najia points to the street
"Shoot!!" Doctor puts hand over her mouth seeing her younger self running down the street waiving a sonic and yelling
"Hey...get back here...what is wrong with you today" he yelled pointing a sonic at the sky
"Babe!!!" Yaz's face cringe seeing Tardis in sky going crazy
"Doctor is that your Tardis up there?" Hakim points to the sky and a small blue box swirling like crazy
"Why is this happening to me? ..." Doctor puts her hands on her forehead in desperation and then quickly gets up from the table "Excuse me...I need to sort this out...and kill myself" she says flapping about making ten different facial expressions embarrassed
"Get back here!!!" he continued to yell running around between the crowd of people who already started to gather looking up in sky
As she got up Yaz and her family followed
"Yaz darling what's going on?" Nadja asked confused
"Long story mum"
"I'm trying to have dinner with my family!!" she yelled at her younger self frustrated
"Sorry...but when I changed the vires on the left side she went nuts"
"I said right side not the left side...that would tickle her like crazy" she yelled
"Ups...sorry I'm just excited about the baby!"
"Aaaarrhhhh...I really am impossible person to deal with..." she runs jumping on one of the stands and he jumped next to her pointing their sonics together at the Tardis
She swerved around like crazy and suddenly headed towards the Sphinx
"Oh nooo! ... not that way...don't go there...Don’t you dare!!" he yelled panicking
Tardis swirls around hitting the nose of the Sphinx chipping a massive part of it
"OMG!!!!...What the hell?" Yaz yelled
"Aaaaaaa..." the Doctor yells "Shoot...come on come to mummy...and daddy...stabilize pleaseee!" she ran all over the street with him both jumping over tables and chairs and knocking stuff over until Tardis finally started to calm down
"Ups!" he says looking at broken Sphinx nose "I didn't know we did this"
"No, neither have I... oh well...at least it wasn't a pyramid because that would be really embarrassing"
"Yap that would be" he concluded
"Aaaa here we go she's stabilizing good job Doctor" she says satisfied hooking her hands onto her braces
"Fantastic teamwork Doctor as always" he agreed pulling his braces and fixing his bow tie
Tardis finally came down on the street and stabilized but the whole circus caused a mayhem on the street and all the people came out watching the show
"Oh, don't worry about this" he says leaning to the Tardis door "We were just...you know...testing a present for the Pharaoh...compliments from our king faaar away"
"What in a name?" Nadja says utterly confused
"Doctor...I... What the hell babe???" Yaz yells towards the Doctor ho was huffing and puffin with hands on her knees in the middle of the road
"Sorry!" she waives to her family grinning nervously
"Doctor that's not your Tardis!" Hakim asked looking at a main door
"Yeah, about that Hakim...well technically it is" she says walking up to them
"What are you talking about?" Nadja said confused
Doctor walked up to her younger self and put her hand on his shoulder "Meet the Doctor...Well...11th regeneration to be precise. Doctor, you met Nadja, Hakim Yaz's dad"
"Whaaaa?" Najias face dropped
"Oh woooow... So that's you Doctor as a man?" Hakim says exited
"Yap" she answered proudly
"This is awesome" Hakim smiled
"Hello Yaz's family" he waives smiling and then fixing his jacket making himself more presentable
"I'm gonna go into to labor I swear" Yaz covered her eyes with her hands
"Mum dad what's going on?" Sonya runs out of the back of the tavern
"I don't know where to start Sonya!" Nadja said "And where the hell have you been all this time?"
…
They all sat back at the table, Nadja was trying desperately to make sense out of everything in her brain and Hakim kept chatting to both Doctors completely fascinated.
"So that's your wife?" Sonya asked Yaz completely confused
"Aha"
"As a bloke?"
"Yap" she propped her head on her hand
"From another time?"
"Sort of...it's complicated"
"And you are ok with this?"
"I suppose so"
"Right...waaaw...Having a weird family just got a hole different meaning today" she continued
"Tell me about it" Yaz said looking at her poor mum "Mum you alright?"
"I'm not sure Yaz...But I think your dad was born for this..." she points to her husband who was happily chatting away
…
They were saying goodbye after dinner standing in the middle of the road next to the Tardis
"Oh...oh...just a minute" he zoomed inside of the Tardis and came back out quickly "A gift for the baby" he gives Yaz a gold color bracelet engraved with Galiifreyan "Joined effort between me and her" he points to the Tardis
"Waaaw...thank you"
"Oh...let me show you...it's not just the jewelry" he takes it and presses on it "See it's similar to sonic but I added some extra features" the energy shield opened up around them and he smiled "See...it's a protection" he touched the bubble with his finger "it's got loads of other stuff as well a hologram a scanner, but she can explain all that later"
"OMG that's fantastic. Thank you...that's really sweet of you. We will definitely keep it for her for when she's old enough to use it" Yaz hugs him squeezing him tight making him confused a bit, but he puts his arms around her "You're amazing Yaz" he says
Yaz takes his hand putting it on her stomach "I don't know if I'll see you again so if you want to say goodbye...well...till we find each other again” she smiles looking at her Doctor
Doctor gazed at her from the side and a single tear went down her face which she wiped straight away. She knew with both of her hearts Yaz was really truly her soul mate.
They said their goodbye and he went into the Tardis but before he stepped through the door, he looked at Yaz leaning on Doctor's shoulder
"Till we meet again Yasmin Khan" he smiled
…
Back at the hotel Yaz slumped to the bed exhausted. Doctor laid behind her and put her arms around her. "Yaz"
"Mmmmm?"
"Look at me darling"
Yaz turned around gazing at her and took one strain of her hair playing with it.
"What you did today was beyond amazing"
"Did what love?" she stroke her face
"Yaz do you know how many times someone looked at me and not seeing me...mourning me whiles I was standing right there in front of them...do you know how that feels Yaz" her eyes filled with tears "It's why I hate regeneration Yaz"
Yaz stroke her face gently tucking her hair behind her ears "I told you I don't care what face you have darling" she wiped her ters with thumbs cupping her face "I will always love you as long I breathe on this earth...you're mine...forever" smiles "But I'm not giving up on this face so don't you dare" she giggles making Doctor smile
"Not planning to Yaz"
"And you know...there's other stuff here as well I'm not giving up on either" she smiles cheeky
"Yeah...such as Yaz?" Doctor laughs
"Oh, you know..." Yaz smirks and glides her hand down her stomach slowly, unbuttoning her trousers and slipping her hand inside.
"You're cheeky Yaz" Doctor started closing her eyes and kissing her passionately
"So, is everything ok babe?" Yaz was lying on a bed as Doctor was scanning her stomach and looking on a little monitor a bunch of Gallifreyan Yaz only half understood. Doctor didn't say much just the corner of her mouth twitched at one point.
"You look worried" Yaz propped herself on her arms
"No... I’m not worried...why would I be worried"
"Babe, you're scaring me I know that face...please" Yaz started crying
"Hey...hey...it's fine Yaz" she wrapped her hands around her face "Babe is fine darling I'm no lying...don't cry...Why tears?"
"Then what?"
"She's fine Yaz in fact she's more than fine. Healthy and beautiful...but she's not like me...similar but not completely. Hey listen"
She points the sonic at her stomach and the rhythm of two hearts echoes through making Yaz cry like a child
"I swear darling is fine...nothing wrong...nothing at all...She's just a bit different that's all"
"How different?"
"I don't know we won't know untill she's born or at least until we get back to Tardis...I'm very limited here...but she's happy and healthy little munching and that's the most important thing"
"Mmmm...You are telling me the truth?"
"It's fine Yaz honest...when we get to Tardis, and I do the scan we will see what she looks like...soon...it will be only few more days before we go" she cups Yaz's face "But she's got, ten toes and ten fingers and two little tiny beautiful harts"
Yaz finally smiled through her tears and kissed her "I love you"
"And I adore you"
"I need a shower...help" she gets up holding on to the Doctors hand
"Oh, one more thing Yaz...you got another 6 months to go" she laughs
"OMG I will explode" she laughs
"Where will I have this baby Doctor? What are we gonna do? I can't go to a regular hospital"
"Don't worry Yaz I know the best place in the universe when the time comes"
"My family will want to be there"
"Aaaaa family birth...I love that" she smiled opening the water for her in a shower and helping her to get the dress off
"And I want you there as well"
"Don't be silly Yaz...You honestly think I'm just leaving some random doctor delivering my baby...no way"
"Oh god...I can just see you pushing the doctor away" Yaz rolled her eyes laughing
"I would do if I had to..."
"And I bed you will feel like you have to" she laughs stepping into the shower "Is that the door?"
"So, it is Yaz" she runs out of the bathroom and opens the door "Oh Nadja hello"
"Hi dear, so sorry to bother you two...I need to speak to Yaz for a moment"
"Come in... she’s taking a shower. Aaaa … wait..." she hopes around the room taking something from the side table "For you and Hakim" she passed her a little paper with a proud face
"OMG...OMG...Doctor!" Nadja went all soppy "baby scan"
"Yap...see look...ten toes and ten fingers and two little harts as well...see right there" she points a finger
"She's gorgeous" her eyes filled with tears
"She is, isn't she...perfect little girl"
"Hey mum" Yaz came out wrapped up in a towel "She's amazing, isn't she?"
"She's beautiful Yaz" her mum kisses her
"Mum how are you doing after today?"
"Well, not something you see every day Yaz I'll admit to that...but I'm slowly getting used to this stuff...I just wish you two stop lying and hiding things from me...You may be older than me Doctor but I'm still your mother in law...emphasis on mother" she points a finger at the Doctor making her chuckle
"Sorry Nadja...Got that...mother...Never had a mother...well, not the one I wanted...I like that"
"You never had a mother, Doctor?"
"Long story mum...and not the one for now" she hugs her "I'm sorry mum I promise we will tell you everything"
"You can start by telling me what's your sister up to Yaz...and don't tell me you don't know...because I know that you do"
"Oh mum...let me just put the nightie on...second" she goes to the bathroom frazzled not knowing what to say
"Is she messing around with that tavern boy Yaz?"
"Is she?" she played stupid
"Yaz!!!"
"Yes mum" she peaked from the bathroom
"Oh god this family is killing me" she sat on a bed
"Oh, mum don't worry...it's Sonya...it never lasts" she came out of the bathroom finally gathering courage to face her "It will bow over in few days"
"I hope so Yaz...I'm not having him living with us as well...the flat isn't big enough Yaz"
"They can have my room" she laughs
"Oh, stop it!!" she gets up "I'm off...I'm not gonna bother you anymore...night kids" she leaves
Yaz burst out laughing when she closed the door "KIDS!!!"
Doctor pissed herself laughing "I was definitely not called that for a loooong time"
…
"So, what's your plan for tomorrow? We only have one more day here, don't we?"
"I think so...if everything goes well Yaz a day after tomorrow we are charging the orbs and leaving" she lied behind her "I will go to the Tardis after you fall asleep, I need to do some repairs
"No, you don't...you just can't sleep and making yourself busy" she giggles
"No Yaz I really do...I..." Yaz turned her head and shut her up with a kiss "Liar" she smiles "Hey I had an idea"
"What?"
"When we come back home...you take me back to that beautiful cave...I want to go before the baby comes"
"Of course beautiful...sleep now. It's been a long day" she kisses her head
Doctor stayed awake for a long time cuddling her and making sure she's sound asleep before she slowly got up and left.
She walked alone through the desert. Cool air hitting her face. It felt nice after all the heat during the day. She finally reached the Tardis.
"Hey, I've missed you" she strokes the door and it opened up. She clapped her hands and lights came up. "Morning...did you have a nice sleep? ...Right let's hope this works ha?" she started flipping the switches and turning the dials placing her hand on the lever "Alright here we go" she took off
…
Morning came and Yaz woke up. It was still cool, so she assumed it was early. Doctor wasn't around. She lifted her nightie and ran her hands over her tummy "Morning beautiful girl. Rise and shine" she tapped her fingers on her stomach "Aaaa you're awake. Your mum's not here so I suppose we will have to do this alone" she wobbled out of the bed and into the bathroom straight to the shower
"Morning" Doctor peaked through the door of the bathroom
"Yey...morning...Did you just came back now?"
"Nope...been back hours ago. I got you brekky...that pie you like"
"Oh god I'm starving. Love ya"
She got out slinging a cotton dress on. "Hey you..."
"What?" Doctor looked at her confused
"Are you gonna kiss me or stare at those orbs"
"Are you jealous at orbs Yaz?" she laughed sliding her hands around her waist
"I'm jealous at anyone or anything that gets between me and your lips" she wraps her hands around the back of her neck
"I assure you nothing can get in between Yaz" she kissed her long and gentle, flattered of her jealousy and totally enjoying in it "Go eat your breakfast...munching is starving"
"I hate to wake up alone...I just want to cuddle you and you’re not there. I wish you just sleep like all the normal people"
"I know you do...I like my cuddles I haven't had a cuddle for a long time...lots of cuddles to compensate...But it gets boring just staring at the ceiling. At least on Tardis I always have something to do"
"Well, one more day and we are off and when we get back home all I will do is cuddle you all the time" Yaz passed next to her sitting at the small table and kissed the top of her head reaching for her pie "Agreed?"
"Definitely agreed"
"What are we going to do today...it's our last day here"
"I think it would be nice for all of us to do something together. I have an idea...but we have to take Tardis because it's right on the other side... It's a surprise"
"Ok...deal"
There was a knock on a door and Yaz got up to open it.
"Sonya! ... hi...what's wrong?" her sister zoomed inside visibly shaking
"Hi Doctor"
"Hello Sonya. Are you alright?" Doctor says worried because she looked like she was crying
"I have to speak to you both" she sat on a bed not knowing how to put the words together
"Sonya what's going on?" Yaz sat next to her
"You know when you told me how I will find someone to love me the way she loves you?"
"You said that Yaz?" Doctor says confused
"Yes, I do..."
"Well, I have Yaz...and I want to stay here"
"The tavern boy?"
"How do you know?"
"We have eyes Sonya" Doctor said "And he might have said something as well" she added scrunching her nose
"Doctor, can I stay? Pleaseeee" she looked uo to her with big puppy eyes
"Oh Sonya...I can't make that decision" she nods her head "This isn't down to me"
"But it is...you brought us here. You're making all the decisions it's your ship and you're the one in charge"
Doctor kneeled in front of her "Sonya this isn't about who is ib changed here.... besides we have a flat team structure...This is about your family...Are you absolutely sure you want to leave your family?...Once you make this decision Sonya I don't know when you will see them again"
"But you can take me to see them" she begged
"Sonya, Tardis isn't Uber" Yaz takes her hand in her lap "She can't do that...and please don't ask this of her. I know this isn't what you want to hear"
"Don't you want me to be happy?"
"I do want you to be happy I do...but the way our life is it's not something that is feasible Sonya and not something Doctor can promise you either. We are never on a same place we are always somewhere"
"But you see us all the time"
"Sonya I've been stuck in 1906 for three years. I've been travelling with the Doctor for almost ten years...how long has it been for you?"
"Few" she answered quietly "I didn't know that"
"I know you didn't...it's why I'm telling you now. You have no idea how many times I wanted to see you and how much I've missed you...It's not that easy Sonya. I live on a time ship, but years pass anyway...You want to stay centuries before our time without it" she sighed deep "Look, just please think this through. Think that what me and her share was built over almost ten years of being next to each other...not one month"
Sonya sights deeply and gets up disappointed and in pain dragging her feet towards the door.
"I love you" Yaz says gently as they git to the door spreading her arms for a hug and Sonya hugs her tight "I love you too sis"
"Thank you, Doctor"
"It's ok Sonya...I'm so sorry"
Yaz closed the door behind her and walked up to the Doctor. She grabbed her braces and buried
her face into her chest. "This is so hard"
"I know it is...I'm sorry" she said stroking her hair "What else is bothering you? Something else is there you're not saying"
Yaz sighed deeply and put her arms around her squeezing her to herself so tight. Tears started rolling down her cheeks.
"Yaz!!...Hey, hey...why are you crying?" she pulled her away and cupped her face wiping her tears with her thumbs "What's wrong?"
"I feel...like" she was desperately trying to speak through her tears
"Like what beautiful? ... Talk to me"
"I feel so scared...of losing you" she sobbed from the pain that was ripping through her "I can't live with you"
The Doctor pursed her lips, the pain of hearing those words was visible on her face.
The words Yaz spoke to her sister rekindled all her fears. And as much as she was ready to go home, deep down, leaving this place once again reminded her that the two of them were somehow hiding from the world. Hiding from the inevitable, desperately trying to buy time for myself. But that clock was still ticking somewhere behind all that, behind their love and passion, behind all that happiness that she felt they had almost stolen for themselves and that she would have to return someday. It was tearing her soul apart
Doctor held her face in her hands stroking her cheeks gently and took a deep breath before she spoke "Yaz...I will not let that happen...I won't"
"But what if it does? What if...?"
"Then I will find you...wherever you are. Do you understand me?"
"Promise"
"I promise I will tear this all apart if I have to, I'll take us somewhere nobody will ever find us but I'm not losing you two Yaz...Not happening, not this time...not again. It's a small universe Yaz when someone steps between me and someone I love, remember that"
"I love you...god I love you so much"
"And I love you with everything inside me. And we're having a baby and we will be happy" she smiles and kisses her
"Yes, we are love" she cheered up a bit
"And you know what else?" she puts arms around her waist rocking her side to side
"What love?"
"I have all these ideas about the baby room...Stars...we need to have stars on a ceiling...You think baby would like stars? Everyone loves stars" she takes her coat as they were walking out
"Stars are nice yes"
"And a mini console what ya think?"
"Alright babe whatever you like" she smiles as they walk outside
As they were walking towards the Tardis Sonya was dragging her feet. She was still very troubled and not really enjoying herself at all.
"So where are we going Doctor?"
"Surprise Hakim...not letting it slip sorry"
Yaz's hart jumped when she saw Tardis. She hasn't seen it for a long time and she missed is "so much. She suddenly let go of Doctors hand and ran towards it.
"Yaz! ... Careful Yaz...slow down" Doctor yells shaking her head smiling
Yaz ran up to it and took her key, but as soon as her hand touched the door Tardis opened it up for her. "You're letting me in honey" she smiles stroking the door and walked in. Tardis hummed for her "I've missed you so much"
"Look at you two having a chat" Doctor smiled standing by the open door with her hands in her pockets
"She let me in without a key" she says exited
"Of course, she has. It's your home Yaz" she comes up to her and kissed her temple "Nice to be home, isn't it? ... Alright Yaz copilot you help me?"
"Any time wife" she smiles
"Just make sure you hold on tight Yaz...It's only a short ride about 6 km from where we are now"
Hakim, Najia and Sonya came after them and as they walked in Najia puts her arm around Sonya "Please honey let's have a nice day today. Try to enjoy yourself baby please. I love you"
"Alright mum..." she smiles a little and her mum strokes her cheek
"Hey, hold on we about to leave!" Yaz yelled flipping the switches and turning the dials "Locking coordinates babe ready to leave" she smiles and Doctor winks at her pulling the lever
They landed within a minute
"Is that it? ... We arrived...already?" Sonya says confused
"Sure, we did Sonya...it was only down the road" she passed next to her with a smug face and opened the door "Welcome to Heliopolis" she smiles and opens her arms as they stepped outside
"Wooow...OMG that's stunning" Najia said looking at the beautiful city in front of them
"City of light" Doctor says "See that there Lunu pillars"
"What are they Doctor? That's massive" Hakim says coving his eyes with his hand from the sun looking at the distance
"Lunu Pillars store the knowledge of the Antediluvian era Hakim...pre flood...ancient times. They are Apparently here since the age of Atlantis"
"Are they Doctor?"
"No... just a story Sonya"
"Oh...sounded better before" she says disappointed
"But fascinating anyway...don't you think?" Hakim turns to his daughter who wasn't impressed anymore
"Alright fam... let’s go" she takes Yaz's hand, and they head off towards the town
"Babe I've got a problem" Yaz says quietly tugging her hand
"Let me guess...you need to pee?"
"Mmmmm"
Doctor laughs "Won't be long Yaz...we'll be there in few minutes, and I'll take you...I know just a place"
They came to the center within minutes. Doctor parked just at the entrance mainly so that Yaz doesn't have a long walk. She took them to a little tavern first as she promised Yaz who was already hopping along nervously by the time they reached the center.
"Another hole in the ground" she winged from the toilet
"Sorry Yaz" Doctor laughed waiting for her in front
"Is this where you're gonna charge the orbs tomorrow darling?"
"Little bit further from here yes...I'm so worried Yaz. What if it doesn't work?"
Yaz came out of the cubicle and kissed her cheek "It will work...because I have a smart wife. And you know what else?"
"Nah"
"And her other self is equally smart, so between you two I'm sure you're gonna figure it out" she smiles "I'm just upset I'm not gonna be there"
"I know you are. I'm sorry but it would be too much for you
"That's the only thing I don't like about being pregnant...I don't get to do anything...I'm just rolling around without a purpose"
"You're not rolling you're still walking Yaz and you do have a purpose...a big purpose"
"I know I know...I want more of purpose ok" she rolls her eyes laughing
They've spent the whole day sightseeing and her family took loads of photos that Yaz still hadn't had heart to tell them they couldn't keep. They came back to the hotel in the evening. Doctor parked in the courtyard this time.
"Night darling" Najia said as they were climbing the stairs
"Night mum"
Doctor tugged her hand "Hey, walk with me...I know you're tired just a little"
"Sure love"
They walked through the gardens slowly. Down the narrow path and away from the main building. Doctor pulled her on a side between the pink oleanders. She slipped her hand around her waist and cupped her face with her hand kissing her passionately for a long time. "OMG what was that for? ... You never do this in public" she smiled
"No reason...besides we're alone" she smiles, and they continued to walking.
"Something is on your beautiful mind" Yaz said as they walked in silence
"Why would you say that Yaz?"
"Because I know you...I know that look. I also know you won't tell me"
"Nothing is on my mind Yaz I'm just enjoying in a walk"
"Mmmmm...If you say so"
It was still dark outside, early dawn before the sun came out from behind the horizon. Doctor walked out of the Tardis in front of a massive temple structure that had a big rectangular base with a huge obelisk rising from the top of it. It was absolutely impressive. Nobody was around. The temple stood in the middle of nowhere surrounded with dessert. And some marches further out towards the river. Doctor sat on a small wall next to the big staircase leading towards the main entrance. She was early, laity she couldn't sleep again, and even when she did, she had nightmares walking up in cold sweat and then turning towards Yaz snuggling herself close to her. She never spoke about her nightmares to her she didn't want to worry her. Another Tardis landed not so far away, and Doctor came out "Hello" she waives
"Hey...you came early. We've got another 20 minutes" she waves
"So did you" he sees her sitting on the stone wall resting her arms on her knees and he knew that look too well
"Couldn't sleep"
"Neither could I... How’s Yaz?" he comes and sits by her
"She's fine. Keeps winning about rolling around without a purpose" she smiles looking at the distance enjoying in a fresh air hitting her face
"Whaaat...without a purpose...that baby is a all the purpose"
"Ahaaa! ... That's what I've been saying"
"Are you alright?" he asked concerned "You're not, are you?
"That obvious ha?" she smirks looking at him sideways
"What's going on? ... Come on...I won't remember any way you might as well spill it out. I've seen that look in a mirror many times"
She smirks from the corner of her mouth "Never goes away, does it? ... I can't not this..." she said quietly
"Oh boy...that big ha?"
"You wouldn't believe me even if I did" she smiles at him
"Can we help? ... You know Doctor to Doctor to Doctor?"
"Not this time am afraid. This one is on me"
"Hey...We always find a way...Where there's hope there's a way...Don't lose hope and the way will show itself. Besides you have a lot to look forward to"
"I do...I can’t wait"
"I'm still trying to work out how you did that" he laughs "I mean...you know" he gestures with his hands confused and it makes her smile
"No idea" she laughs for a moment "I don't even care"
She smiled a little her eyes still fixed to the distance "Never lose hope" she said quietly looking at the sun slowly rising on the horizon
"Come on...I think we should go" he got up and reached for her hand
"I'm very tiny in this regeneration" he comments making her laugh
"Took me a while to get used to it...you know...short legs...I can't run as fast I could" she kept talking all the way to the main door
They walked in a massive empty room underneath the big obelisk and looked around confused "Ok...that doesn't look like what I expected" she comments confused looking around
"What did you expect?"
"Dunno...there's nothing here except that" she points to a big stone table in the middle of the room
"Never mind that now...maybe the architect was minimalist"
She takes the orbs and places them on a table. They both stood there waiting with their sonics out for a good 2 min and then looked at each other confused
"Nothing is happening???.... Where's the sun...there should be sun" she said shrugging her shoulders
"Well don't look at me I didn't do the research"
She starts digging through her pockets "Here hold this" she starts taking loads of random stuff out popping it into his hands
"Can i keep this?" he twirls a small rubber duck in his hand
"Yeah, keep it...I must have given it to you anyway. I found in a Tardis...always wondered where it came from couldn't remember...It's fun...Aaaa here we go" she takes a piece of papyrus out spreading it on a table
"Did you steal that from the library?"
"Oi, I borrowed it!" she said defensively
"Borrowed...you stole it!"
"Alright....no need to get so precise...it will burn anyway" she waives her hands "See here it says everything"
He bends down to read it
"Right there...third column down...by the stork"
He gets closer and takes his glasses out "That's not a stork" he puts his finger on it
"What? ... Of course, it is" she jumped confused
"No, it's not it's a hawk look. You didn't read that properly"
"What?"
"It's clearly a hawk"
"Alright don't get techy … I had and argument with my wife that day"
They look at the paper again and look at each other "Shoot!!" she says
"We're on a wrong side" they yell simultaneously, and both get flustered. She quickly grabs the orbs shoving them in the bag
"Come on...run" he yells running towards the exit she follows him. As they stepped outside, she looks at the sky "Not much time left!!" he pulled her sleeve "This way"
"Look that way" she points towards another entrance "Aaaaa mirrors of course!" she said as soon as they walked in "That's more like it...quickly turn them around" they both run on each side turning all the mirrors around
"May I just make on observation that we sun hits up there" he points towards a high spot on the wall above the alter with the sun disc Engraved into the stone.
"Aaaaa… why put it all the way there?" she looks up worried. They had no place to lay down the orbs "Yap...ok we'll think about that later..."
The light was slowly creeping inside down the stone floor "No time..." she says stressed "Here catch she takes one of the orbs out and throwing it across the room to him.
They both run towards the altar jumping on a top of it and take the sonics out holding the orbs high up in the air next to each other. Light hits the first mirror than another and another in a zig zag pattern across the room. The ray of light turns into almost laser accurate stripe
"NOW!!!" they point sonics up and their energy hits the ray of light inches before it reached the orbs. The light became so bright they both looked down to shelter their eyes from it. The orbs started shaking so much it was hard for both of them to keep them sturdy
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr....Can't hold it anymore!!!" she yelled
"Geronimoooooooo!!!!!" he yelled
Suddenly they both lit up shining bright blue light and started hovering up in the air
"Yeees!" he yells
"We did it!!!!! She jumped up in the air
"We did it!!" he says smiling
"We sure did...look at them..." she points up
"They are amazing...absolutely amazing" he jumped down and reached out with his hand and the orb lands in his hand "Look at that...what a life" he says with a smile across his face
The other one landed down as well, and she put both carefully in her bag.
"So, I guess this is it?" she said sadly "Maybe I'll see you around Doctor"
"Might do...you know...I'm a phone call away" he stopped on the entrance of his Tardis and turned around "And that big thing...Don't worry about it... universe has its way of sorting things out. Listen to your hearts Doctor and it will be ok"
"Thank you! She puts her hand oh her hearts..."Doctor"
He does the same "Always Doctor" he stepped inside, and Tardis slowly faded away
Doctor walked up the steps of the temple and sat high up on one of the platforms dangling her feet over the edge. She sat there for a while looking at the sun slowly climbing up the sky. Wind was blowing in her face bringing smell of the ocean into her face, her golden hair was flowing in the wind across her face. "I've never asked you for anything, but please give me this one thing. I need it so much" she whispered into the wind.
….
Yaz was packing all their stuff waiting for the Doctor to return back when someone knocked at the door of their room.
"Sonya" she sees her sister standing in tears "OMG...come in" she pulls her by the hand into the room
As soon as she shut the door her sister through herself into her arms crying her eyes out
"You told him?"
"This is so hard Yaz"
"I know, I know" she stroke her hair "I am so so sorry Sonya"
They pull apart and her sister looked at her with her eyes blotchy and swollen from crying "I will never be happy Yaz"
"You will...you will be happy. I promise"
"I just couldn't stay Yaz...I can't be without you all"
"I'm proud of you...this wasn't easy, but I promise you...you won't regret it" she stroke her face
"Besides I want to be auntie" she smiles through the tears
"And you will be the best auntie. Hey, we will need babysitting whiles we're chasing Daleks" she laughs
"Deal..." she smiles "I need to go and pack now. Love ya" she closed the door and Yaz went back to packing
She stopped for a second and took the Tardis key into her hand "Going home" she smiles
"Hey" Doctor walked in
"Hey, you...I was getting worried. You're gone the whole morning"
She comes up to her and kissed her briefly "I stayed for a bit. Just dunno, thinking" she puts the orbs back on the window and Yaz comes behind her putting her arms around her waist and kisses her shoulder blade "Are you alright love?"
"Yeah...why wouldn't I be?"
"Because when you say that sentence then you're not" she smiles, and Doctor turns around
"I'm fine" she kisses her forehead
"Sooooo how did go? … Tell meeeeee...I'm dying"
"We managed...but I messed it up...went to the wrong place" she laughs "I think I need glasses Yaz"
"Whaaat?" she laughs "Are you serious now"
"I am... very serious...I wore them before"
"I think they would suit you" she laughs and kisses her cheek
"But I don't want glasses Yaz" she whines making Yaz laugh
"Come on you...we're packed" she shows the bags on the bed
They get down to the courtyard Doctor rolling the suitcase down the stairs hitting the wheels on every single step without a care in the world.
Yaz walked behind her thinking she should say something but then gave up on it. It was just her silly wife being herself
"Hello fam!!" she yelled exited as she came down and letting the bag from her shoulder slam the ground making Yaz wonder what just shattered inside on the impact, but she let that one go as well "Ready to release some orbs?"
"Are we going as well?" Nadja asked confused
"Sure, why not...It's once in a life time experience" she answered pulling the suitcase inside and just dumping it by the door "I mean if you want to...don't have to"
"We do Doctor" Hakim replied swiftly
"Alright then...it's settled" she zoomed inside and straight to the console
"Dad can you just please...?" Yaz points to the bags
"Yeah, sure honey" he takes both and rolling and taking to the side
"Alright...Ready? … Yaz?"
"Wobbling!" she replied going towards the console
They both get the Tardis ready, and Doctor pulled the lever. As they stopped, she opened the door to the weird place that looked completely uninhabitable with volcanoes and lava spilling out of everywhere
"You're leaving them here?" Sonya asked totally confused looking at all the lava
"Oh yeah...this is perfect for them Sonya. Not all the creatures in the universe need oxygen like we do...besides they will make it their own after a while"
She takes the orbs out of the bag letting them go "I hope you like it? ... If not I have 9 other places, I can show you"
The orbs floated for a while and suddenly they started shining a brilliant white light "They like it" says the Doctor with a huge smile on her face
The orb opened up and blinding light dispersed. Beautiful creatures suddenly began to emerge from the orbs of all shapes and sizes. They all appear as shiny silver ghost-like figures.
"That's beautiful" Yaz said hugging the Doctor "You did it love"
"We did it...all of us" she kissed her head smiling "Well, guess we're done here" she closes the door with a big smile and walks over to the console
"That was amazing" Nadja says
They landed in Sheffield and Yaza's eyes filled with tears as her family was about to leave. She knew she would see them soon, but she was still upset. Their presence provided her with the comfort she needed in a way. Spending all this time with them made her realize just how much she missed them.
"Don't cry baby...we will see each other soon" Nadja said stroking her face and wiping her tears "And remember we all want to be there when the baby comes"
"Of course, mum...wouldn't miss it for the world. I love you"
"Love you too baby"
She turns to the Doctor who waived from the door of the Tardis "Hey...that's not the way to great your family" Najia says firmly and smiles spreading her arms "Come here you"
The Doctor smiled and rushed into her arms. Nadja hugged her so hard that her hearts skipped a beat. She cupped the Doctor's face looking into her eyes "We're your family now, remember that. Whatever you need, we are always here whether you like it or not Doctor I don't care how old you are... and I can tell you off as well...both of you" she makes Doctor laugh
"Ok" she smiled back "Oh, I almost forgot...take this" she takes a phone out of her pocket "...just press zero...it's a direct line to us"
"Doctor!" Hakim hugs her "I had the best time in my life. Thank you. And thank you for being a part of my daughter’s life"
"By dad" Yaz hugs him "By pumpkin...let us know about the baby and take care of yourself. Listen to her...she knows her stuff, ok?"
"Alright dad" she smiles
Sonya stood aside. She was still sad and even more upset that she's having to say goodbye to her sister "Hey you...don't be sad. She needs her auntie. You made a good decision Sonya...trust me. I love you so much" she squeezed her tight "I love you too sis...and you Doctor...you really are the best"
They walked inside and Yaz closed the Tardis door and turned around laying her head on Doctor's chest. She strokes her hair not saying anything just holding her tight.
…
Tardis stabilized on the old spot. And the Doctor took Yaz's hand. They walked outside to a familiar place. "We're home love" Yaz said leaning on her chest smiling.
Doctor kissed the top of her head "It's snowing" she said quietly
"It is...it's beautiful...how come it's snowing already?"
"Oh...We missed few months"
Yaz rolled her eyes and laughed
Another month passed, the Doctor and Yaz returned to their little getaway planet. The winter was harsh and the snow deep. They traveled several times to get away to a nice warm place and to celebrate their 6 month anniversary. Surprisingly there were no problems. For the two of them, the outside world almost didn't seem to exist anymore. Even the Doctor managed to forget for a while, but the words she heard on Atropos still haunted her every so often. From time to time, she would still wake up in a cold sweat, huddled next to her wife in the middle of the night.
"Look at her Yaz, she's so big" Doctor pointed happily to the monitor in the medic bay of the Tardis
The baby was getting bigger and stronger by the day, and they were both exited about each month passing eagerly waiting for it to be born. But Doctor still wasn't any smarter about how similar to her the baby is and as the time passed, she was less concerned about it as well.
"She is so pretty. Look at the little nose" Yaz smiled exited looking at the picture that showed every single detail
"And a little feeties" Doctor pointed on the screen "I can't wait to kiss those feet"
"Look at this...I still can't believe we made this"
"Me neither Yaz...it's unreal...like seriously unreal" she takes the shot and gives it to Yaz
"Aaaaa...I really hate those things"
"Sorry..." she kisses her forehead "But you both need it. Come on mummy" she helps her down from the table
Yaz's stomach was by this point quite big, but it was growing at much slower rate than before.
"Help me to the shower?"
"Sure, let me just put this away...Hey I was thinking...fancy a trip tomorrow?"
"Yap I always fancy a trip? Where are you taking me?" she takes her hand walking towards their room
"Surprise...It's warm...and we would be alone" she smirks
"Warm and alone...magic words"
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"OMG...dismantling Tardis, are you?" Yaz came back from the kitchen eating ice cream and walked into the console room that was covered with cables everywhere. Doctor had a full gear on, goggles, gloves and her apron and she was dragging cables from one end to the other.
"There's was blockage I had to sort out just in case for tomorrow. Hey, come and help me out..."
Yaz jumped at the opportunity and was next to her in a second "What?"
"Lift my goggles" Doctor said leaning towards her
Yaz lifts them up on her forehead
"Kiss me" she said smirking
"What?"
"That helps" she grins
"Oh, sod off!!" Yaz puts her palm over her face pushing her away laughing "Come ooon give me something to do"
Doctor laughed taking her gloves and apron off "Alright...alright...open that panel and you will see a bunch of wires. See this" she gives her a little gadget "...connect it for me so I can get the reading"
"Ok...now you can get a kiss" she laughs kissing her and zoomed off to the panel
Yaz was trying her hardest to reach the panel and when she did, she connect the little gadget.
"Alright done" she said satisfied
"Ok great" The Doctor peaked behind the pillar towards Yaz and couldn't help but laugh when she saw her grabbing the console with both hands trying to pick herself up off the floor. She was going to go and help her, but then she decided not to, knowing how desperately Yaz was trying to prove to herself that she could still do things despite her condition.
"You alright there Yaz?" she asked hiding her face behind the pillar laughing
"Yap...fine...Why wouldn't I be?" she barely managed to stand up on her own
"Wanna do more?"
"Yes of course" she pulled her top back down
"Ok...take that wrench and I need you to tighten that valve underneath the lever. You know the one that keeps getting loose all the time"
"Sure" she took the wrench and went down on the floor rolling herself on her back trying to get to the valve, but her stomach was in way and she couldn't get deep enough underneath the console.
"Did you, do it?" Doctor leaned her forehead on the pillar laughing her head off
"Just a minute!!" she yelled
Doctor walked up to her and stood above her laughing "Yaz … it's ok stop"
"Noo I can do it"
She grabbed her by the legs pulling her out
"Yaz …Yaz stop..."
"I could have done it you know" she frowns
"I know...you probably would by the morning...I just have no heart looking at it till the morning...come on get up mummy" she pulls her by her hands
"I wanted to be useful" Yaz plopped her head on her shoulder disappointed and irritated with herself
"I know you did, and I can assure you Yaz you're very useful...but you do have your limitations now...Also I don't want you getting hurt desperately trying to prove it...but It was fun to watch" she smirks
"Thanks"
"Come on...I need about an hour to finish this of, and we can go for a walk if want...It's beautiful out there"
"I'd like that" she kept her hands wrapped around her waist and her head on her chest listening to her hearts
"You have to let me go first" Doctor laughed shaking her head
"I don't want to" she giggles
"Should I just carry you around like a kangaroo then?"
"Yeah, why not" she giggles grabbing her braces with both hands "Than I could kiss you all the time" she pressed her lips on her neck
"Oh, don't do that Yaz" she scrunches her face...you're giving me a head wonk"
"I know" she grins still kissing the soft skin of her neck tracing hands down her waist lifting her t-shirts out of her trousers "You smell nice"
"I smell of Tardis oil" she laughs
"I know...it's sexy" she brushed her lips over hers looking at her seductively unbuttoning her trousers and pressed her lips onto her neck again
"You're totally cheeky" Doctor stumbled and her back hit one of the pillars. Her eyes were already half closed and after seven months of being together Yaz knew exactly which buttons to push "I'm being manipulated" she mumbled...
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Later on, that evening Yaz was in the kitchen digging through the fridge for her second dinner. She took the glass container out and when she opened it up, she almost threw up on the floor from the smell.
"Can you please get another fridge for your stuff omg!" she yells from the kitchen, and as stood up she froze to death and dropped the glass bowl on the floor "DOCTOR!!!" she screamed as loud as she possibly could
"Yaz!!!!!" she yelled lifting her head up panicked
"DOCTOR!!!!!!" she screamed again, and the Doctor ran into the kitchen, jumping over all the cables and stairs and in a second she was at the kitchen door. She froze in fear when she saw the Angel standing in front of Yaz, tears streaming down her face
"Yaz...!!!"
"Doctor" she stared at the statue freaked out of her mind "I can't hold it anymore"
"Do not move" she walked around it and stood in front of Yaz "Get out Yaz"
"Nooo"
"Get out now!!!" she yelled at her the way she never did before pushing her with one hand to move away
Yaz left the kitchen, but she didn't want to move away from the hallway. The Doctor took out the sonic and scanned the creature, slowly raising the sonic to eye line for a quick read
"Yaz...listen to me very carefully"
"Yes listening"
"Go to the console and on a left side take the plate off. You will see a bunch of wires...forget them...what you need is behind them...it's a cable...go and rip it out now...Go! ... Don't run Yaz"
She didn't care less, she ran as fast as she could and got down on all fours, tearing the plate off and pulling out all the wires. She could see the cable, but it was deep... really deep inside and she had no idea how to get to it.
She looked around and saw the wrench the Doctor had thrown on the floor "God give me strength please" she said desperately
The Doctor blinked, she couldn't take it anymore, she was in agony by this point, her mind was racing miles an hour thinking about Yaz, poor Yaz, and how she's going to get that cable. The Doctor knew where it was, and it was deep… deep inside the Tardis.
Yaz grabbed the wrench and squeezed as hard as she could reaching out as far as she could "Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr" she screamed "Come ooon pleaseeee" she managed to reach enough to pull one section of the cable out so she could grab it. The cable came out and Angel disappeared.
The Doctor stormed out of the kitchen and into the control room to find Yaz standing with a wrench in her hand bolted to the floor.
"Oh God" Yaz said in a shaky voice dropping the tool on the floor, hands shaking her legs giving up on her.
The Doctor grabbed her before she fell to the floor and pressed her against her chest. Yaz just collapsed kissing her face and lips crying her eyes out.
"It's ok...it's gone. It's gone beautiful" Doctor pressed her head on her chest holding her tight
"Stay here" The Doctor sat her down on the steps and zoomed around the console taking one of her shots and gave it to Yaz
"This will calm you down" she kissed her forehead and scanned her with the sonic then zoomed around the console kicking the cables with her boot dragging the mattress around
"Come here...you need to lie down Yaz"
"Don't leave me" she said still panicked
"No chance...Not happening...Come on" she helped her up and Yaz was already feeling dizzy as the Doctor's injection knocked her out. She laid her on the mattress and lay behind her, waiting for a while until she fell asleep.
Yaz woke up in the middle of the night. The lights of the Tardis were dimmed and soft music played around. She saw the doctor bending over the console. She was calm inside and assumed the drugs were still working.
"Doctor...darling" she said quietly
"Hey sleepy head" Doctor smiled and walked up to her. She sat on the mattress and kissed her worried lips "How are you feeling?" Doctor stroked her cheek gently
"Better...Come lie next to me"
"I think that could be definitely arranged" she smiled kicking her boots off and lied next to her pulling her as close as she possibly could
"It's ok now Yaz...don't be scared I sorted it out"
"How did it get inside?"
Doctor took her hand and kept kissing her fingertips brushing them over her lips "The circuit I was repairing glitched and pulling the memory out of thd Tardis onto a screen...I'm so sorry it was my fault Yaz"
"No, it wasn't stop that. I got scared it was a Division coming for you"
"I must admit Yaz I was a bit petrified...Shouldn't be really using that word in a same sentence as Angel should I?" She scrunches her nose
"No, you shouldn't" Yaz smiled
"I'm sorry I yelled like that...in the kitchen"
"It's ok babe no need to say sorry but you can really scream you know" she giggles "How can so much voice even come from such a tiny body?" she laughs
"Oh it can...and much more believe me" she laughs "I'm done with work...wanna go to bedroom?"
"Nah...I like this...It's romantic" she says stroking Doctors face gently
"I adore you my little head wonk" Doctor kisses her gently "Sleep now. Tomorrow will be a nice day"
Yaz tucked herself into her neck and fell asleep.
Doctor couldn't sleep. Her mind kept racing with million thoughts and having Angel in a Tardis in front of everything that was her reason for living gave her anxiety like nothing till now. She was scared to close her eyes this night, so she decided to stay awake.
"Morning beautiful" Doctor was happily hoping around the control room and kneeled down in front of Yaz and kissed gently "How are my favorite girls this morning?" she bends down kissing her tummy "Morning munching...we're going for trip today" she spoke to the baby making Yaz smile
"You're happy today...We're fine, both of us don't worry. Whatever you gave me last night knocked me out of this world" she laughed grabbing her hands to get up
"I love you Yaz" she says dreamy and then hops exited before Yaz had any chance to say anything back "Right...get ready quickly and we're off"
"How come you're fine with us traveling all of a sudden?"
"Sort of travelling Yaz...I don't mind travelling I just need a break from trouble...It also doesn't mean I'm not careful where I'm taking us"
"But you're my shit magnet darling it finds you" she giggles
"Oh, one more thing..." she twists her face like in a cramp
"What? ... Why are you making that face? ... What do I not know?"
"I sort of blurbed it out and....Well, I can't really say no"
"Blurbed out what and to who?"
She hopes around the console avoiding the answer "It might be fun"
"Doctor!!"
"You do release you only now call me that when your angry or in trouble...and you’re not in trouble so you're angry" she continued fiddling with the console
Yaz takes a deep breath and rolls her eyes "Who's going with us? ... Spit it out go on"
"Everyone...Oh look I need to fix this before we go" she slumps down to the floor underneath the console
"Whaaaaa? .... Hey...stop hiding!" she storms around the console but Doctor runs to the other side of the control room hopping around
"It will be fun...come on we haven't seen them in ages...And we will still be alone...and it's hot"
"You're acting like a child...stop running...I'm not a happy bunny at all...I don't mind seeing them I want to see them a lot, but I just wanted some alone time...you know...you, me...quality time...wife time" she slumped her shoulders
The doctor came to her and put her arms around her waist "Come on…I promise we will still have quality time together just you and me" she kissed her forehead
"You do know that when that baby comes you will be beginning for quality time" she laughs "So you better use it till you still have it"
"I don't need to beg Yaz...You give it freely" she makes a smug face and zoomed around
"Oi!!!! Cheeky"
"Come on get a shift on mummy...I need to pick them up soon"
"Alright...you promised" she points a finger at her on a way out of the console room
Yaz packed the bags and came back to the control room hoping along in her gray cotton bottoms and white t-shirt caring her trainers in her had.
"All done and packed love all you need to do is tie my shoes" she said exited itching to leave
"I'm glad you're packing Yaz I do appreciate it" she said bending down tying her laces
"I have to because last time you packed us, I had a rubber duck and 20 packets of custard cream but no toothpaste or shampoo" she laughed
"Sorry...I'm not used to packing...I never had to pack...all set to go...go sit up we are leaving"
"You mean on my naughty step"
"It's not a naughty step Yaz" she zoomed at the console "Just making sure you don't fall"
"I am glad we're gonna see everyone"
"See, told ya...we'll have a nice time"
She started the Tardis and pulled the lever
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In few minutes they were in Sheffield Ryan bursts through the door huge smile on his face and Graham behind him
"Slow down son you're gonna break that door than Doc's gonna brake you" Graham says walking in
"Hey...OMG Yaz!!! You're huge" Ryan stood by the door shocked gawking at her
"I'm gonna slap ya in a minute" she laughs hugging him
"Look at you...You look beautiful Yaz" Graham smiles and hugs her
"Hey what about me...don't I get a hug" Doctor smiles at the console
"Of course, you do Doc... it’s so nice to see you again" Graham comes up to her hugging her
"Nice to see you too Graham...How's your...you know"
"Working like a Swiss watch Doc"
"Doctor" Ryan comes up to her and hugs her as well "We having a Christmas again this year?"
"Might do Ryan just might do...We may have a baby by then as well" she smiled looking at Yaz across the room
"No way Doctor...baby coming for Christmas?"
"Might do Ryan...she's due round about that time but we are still guessing to be honest" she turns around and starts flipping the switches "Right, Dan's next and we're off"
They landed in Liverpool and Yaz waited by the Tardis door with a massive smile on her face exited to see him. He shut the door of his house and turned around
"Yaz???...OMG Yaz!!" he ran up to her she threw herself in his arms "You look beautiful Yaz"
They pulled apart and he looked down at her bump smiling
"She's big" Yaz smiled
"She?" he looked surprised
"Yap...we're having a little girl" she reached for his hand and placed it on her stomach
"Yaz...this is amazing"
"She wouldn't be here iff it wasn't for you Dan"
"I thought Doctor is responsible for that Yaz" he laughs putting his arm around her shoulder walking in
"Dan why is Di not coming?" Yaz asked
"Oh, her parents are having anniversary so she said she was sorry"
"Dan!" Doctor jumped and ran around the console
"Doctor....How are you?" he hugged her tight
"Happy...Haven't said that in while" she twists her face "Haven't said that ever to be honest"
"Well let's hope it stays that way ha?" he taps her back
She zoomed around to the console "Ready fam... It’s nice to say that again" she smiles and pulled the lever
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The Doctor jumped and zoomed around the console when they landed. She opened the Tardis door.
"Well, cone on..." she turns around smiling
The Tardis was parked on a huge circular platform that glowed blue. It was smooth and shiny. Above their heads was a huge dome-shaped structure with six massive, rounded windows framed in a silver frame. Each column between the windows was shaped like a fish tail. Through the glass they saw many other shining domes like the one under which they were scattered on all sides built on top of cliffs and rocks all connected by tunnel bridges.
"Doc... aaaaa...are we underneath the sea?" Graham asked looking through one of the windows
"Yap...I believe we are unless fishes are flying in this place" Ryan pointed through the window his eyes open wide.
"Is that a whale?" Yaz glued herself to the window "Looks like some strange whale...Look at the size of those eyes. They are beautiful"
"And look at that" Dan pointed at the strange creature that looked like some cute jellyfish floating around "He's cute"
Doctor still stood by the Tardis laughing at their reactions. "Welcome to the Muramay" she smiles "Amazing, isn't it?"
"OMG you told me you will take me here that night in the library?" Yaz turned to her exited
"Aaaa...You remembered Yaz" she laughed remembering that evening "I didn't think you were listening to me" she looked at her cheeky
"Of course, I did" she smirks back at her "...and the pink caves" she razes her eyebrow
"Doctor!" a tall man called for her walking over smiling "I'm so glad you came"
"Tarnoo" she turned around
"A lady...Waaaw I like this regeneration Doctor" he approached her and raised his hand in the air. The Doctor did the same and they joined hands in greeting.
He had only 4 fingers and they were webbed together like in amphibians and on each side of his neck he had small gills.
"Tarnoo, this is Yaz my wife and my friends Graham, Ryan and Dan" she introduced everyone
"Yasmin Khan how nice to finally get to meet you. Doctor's been all excited about taking you here" he says leaning closer to her
"Has she now" Yaz smiled and glanced towards her "Well it's very nice to meet you Tarnoo" she
"Ok let's get you all settled. I have just a right place for you" a man said
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They walked on the tunnel bridges amazed by the view around them. The domed structures looked like massive bubbles attached to the rocks and cliffs. Fish and some unusual sea creatures were swimming around them, and corals in all the colors of the rainbow could be seen on the rocks.
"Hey Ryan, you know what this reminds me of. Sea Life in Brighton, remember when we went there as kids" Yaz said exited as they walked through the tunnel bridge
"OMG Yaz...Yes I forgot that...Who would think then we would be here now together...that's insane"
"I know, strange how life goes isn't it" she glanced at the Doctor
"It reminds me a bit of the Sea Devils" Dan said
"Dan!!!..." Yaz frowns at him
"Just saying" he shrugs his shoulders
Suddenly they came to the entrance of a huge city that stretched for miles as far as their eyes could see. Above them rose a strange, shining structure. The city looked like one huge coral reef made of glass and silver that shone in all colors. Tiny vessels could be seen in the water circling around them, they looked like small submarines with bubbles, and various creatures could be seen everywhere. Some looked like Tarnoo and some very different with big, massive eyes, some looked almost ghost like floating around gliding through the water.
"Waaaaw...This is proper awesome Doctor" Ryan was amazed by everything
"I wish your Nann could see this" Graham says with sadness in his eyes "She always said there were city's under the oceans and I thought it was silly"
"Yeah, she would tell you, Graham O’Brien didn't I tell you" Ryan puts his hand around his shoulder "I miss her so much"
Everyone got settled in their rooms and Doctor kept smirking at Yaz all the time going towards door at the end of the hallway
"What???" Yaz asked as Doctor was walking backwards pulling her hand and grinning "Why are you grinning? What's that look for?"
"Because I'm about to dazzle you like never before Yaz" she grabs the double door and opens it up
"Are you fricking kidding me!!!!" Yaz practically screamed
"No, I would never Yaz...Soo? ... Tell me you're impressed?" she said smug walking her into a room with a massive crescent window looking outside and all the sea creatures swimming around them.
"This is our room? ... Is this seriously our room?" her eyes were glistening "OMG look at this" she stood by the massive window and couldn't believe her eyes "And a ceiling...OMG the ceiling!" she looked above the bed to a transparent ceiling
"Yap..." Doctor smiled
"Can they see us?" she got worried seeing a bed that was right by the window
"No Yaz of course not" she laughs "We can see out, but nobody can see in"
"I was getting worried for a short second" she giggles "This is amazing"
"Well...I though...since we never really had what you would call a honeymoon and you keep banging on about it..." she grins
"Is that what this is? ... Like for real? A honeymoon?" Yaz looked at her eyes filling with tears
"Well, you know when the baby comes you said we won't have so much time so I thought now's a good time as ever..."
"I don't know what to say babe...you really know how to leave me speeches" she garbed her braces pulling her in "You really are like a dream" she gazed at her with her beautiful brown eyes looking at her universe
"You're my dream beautiful" Doctor cups her face and kisses her gently
"You should rest Yaz..."
"Rest? But we just got here?
"No you really should Yaz...I know you...if we go out now in 35 min you will start saying your feeties hurt, your back hurts, you need to pee and you're hungry"
"But I'm fine...come oooon" she starts winning pulling her braces.
"Noo..." she shakes her hands off her braces "Besides I have loads of things I planned for later...You're gonna love it Yaz"
"What about you? ... No Tardis to repair?" she looked at her cheeky
"Oh nooo...you need to rest Yaz...Emphasis on rest" she sits her down on a bed and pulls her trainers off then lifts her legs on a bed.
"Just a cuddle...one little, small cuddle" she pouts her lips
"Oi...I wasn't born yesterday cheeky" she points a finger at her smiling "I know exactly how those cuddles end" Doctor hopes around the bed pulling the covers "Sleep..."
"And where are you going?"
"To see an old friend" she leans down and kisses her forehead and then the top of her nose "Love you"
Doctor covered her, tucking her in, then waived her hand over some shiny orb that was on one of the pillars right next to the bed and the lights in the room suddenly went out.
"I love you too..." answered Yaz, already dozing off. It seems that the Doctor has recently become more aware of her limits than she herself was because as soon as her head hit the pillow, she was already half asleep.
As the Doctor left, she turned onto her back looking at the ocean through the ceiling above her. The lights of the city made some fish and creatures glow with florescent colors. It was as if she was looking at some strangely magical sky above her. She ran her hands over her stomach and smiled "Come on, girl, let's get some rest," she turned on her side and fell asleep in a few minutes.
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The Doctor went to the other side of town quite far from where their room was and went down to the lower level. She hadn't seen this place in over a thousand years, and it had changed a lot. She wondered as she walked through the streets if she could still find the place she was looking for, but after a long walk she finally saw it.
The small shop had a glowing sign above it and the lights were on. A very petite woman with long silver hair was placing boxes on the shelves. She glided through the air with her feet not touching the ground, hovering just a meter away from it. The long sleeves of her dress reached almost to the floor. The Doctor was standing outside the store a few minutes before she entered.
"Good afternoon. I'll be with you in minute" she said with her back still towards the Doctor
"Shar" The Doctor spoke in a gentle voice and the woman froze with her hand still in the air outstretched towards the shelf. She slowly turned around and dropped to the floor. She looked at the Doctor with her eyes the color of amethyst.
"It's me Shar," said the Doctor with sadness in her eyes
The woman stood looking at her in confusion for a moment, then ran over throwing herself at her and hugging her tightly "It's been over..."
"Long… I know," the Doctor said quietly
She separated and brought her hand to the Doctor's face, caressing it. "You're a woman now?"
The Doctor took her hand and removed it from her face "Yap..." then she pulled apart and moved away "It's a nice place you've got here... You've always wanted it. I'm glad"
"You left" the woman changed the tone of her voice
"I know" Doctor put her hands in her pockets and looked down to the floor
"I woke up and you were gone!" she raises her voice
"I'm sorry" The Doctor looked up and pursed her lips
"You're sorry? ... I woke up and you disappeared into thin air...Do you know how long it's been?" she slammed the box on the counter
"1000 years, 6 months and 15 days ago," she replied
"Did you count?" Shar looked at her in utter shock
The Doctor razed her gaze and shook her head "No, Shar, I don't count, I just remember"
"You bastard!" she yelled throwing a box at her, but Doctor ducked down "Do you have any idea what's that like? What you've put me through!!"
"I'm sorry Shar...No I don't...Well I do but for me time is different" she scrunches her face "I had to leave...I don't know what you want me to say" she looked at her gravely
"I want you to give me explanation...something apart from you being a self-centered cruel pice of shit"
Doctor's face twisted in a cramp when she said that "I had to Shar...if I didn't leave you would have never left on your own. It was the only way I could've protected you...I knew you'd be safe here"
"So, you just took me for a joy ride and left me!!!" she went epic on her screaming "Without any explanation any word not even a fricking note"
"I'm sorry I was a different man back then...But that's beside the point...I did it to protect you and I would do it again in a heartbeat. And I'm sorry I am...it wasn't the best way, but it was the only way I knew at the time" she slumped her shoulders in desperation
Shar went quite for moment and wiped her tears "Why are you here now?"
Doctor twisted her face reluctant to reply
"Why did you come here? Tell me"
"I'm here with my wife..." she finally replied
"Whaaa? ... You have a wife?"
"And a baby on a way" she waives her hands and paced around the room nervously "I'm just being honest...You want me to be honest, so I am"
"Well, that's a change" Shar took a deep breath "I'm happy for you"
"You are?" she looked at her confused
"Yes, you idiot...Of course I am... I just missed you so much" she slumped her shoulders
"I missed you too..." she said sadly
"No, you didn't" she dismisses her "You're flying around in that thing all over the place and once you leave you never look back...Don't give me that shit"
"Most of the time I do...But not always Shar...Not with you...never" she says
Shar sat in a turquoise chair at the corner of the store "Does she know? Your wife...that you're here?"
"No" Doctor put her hands back into her pockets nervously
"Of course not. You compartmentalize...Never mix past with the present"
"I should go" Doctor said quietly. There was sadness and regret in her voice. But what was done couldn't be undone so she had to swallow that and move on.
Shar stood up from her chair and stepped forward blocking her way "I guess you came for this too" she reached around her neck and took a necklace with a tiny purple stone from her neck and passed it to the Doctor holding it in her hand
Doctor stepped forward and reached for it reluctantly "I'm sorry "
"I hope it helps you...You're still a basted, you know"
The Doctor pursed her lips and frowned knowing that she deserved those words "Thank you" she said quietly placing it into her pocket
There was a moment of silence between them and then Shar turned her back to her "Goodbye Doctor" she said quietly
"Goodbye Shar" she turned towards the door and when she was about to step outside, she turned round "I hope you have a good life"
Shar felt tears rolling down her face. She heard the door shut and didn't turn around.
The Doctor walked for a long time. She needed to clear her head before going back to their room. She entered quietly and found Yaz still sleeping. She felt exhausted and broken and desperately needed to remind herself of the present and the love she had now. She showered for a long time just standing under the water and looking aimlessly at one spot, she was not at all proud of herself, almost disgusted with herself. She also kept thinking about what she had said to Shar, but the truth was that she would never do it again, not again. She was a very different person now than she was then at least she told herself that.
And when she finally calmed down, she left the shower and lay quietly behind Yaz, burying her face in her rain-scented hair and snuggled as close as she could to her, feeling her breathing under her arm and on her chest. Soon she fell asleep.
Yaz woke up at some point when she saw the Doctor snuggled up to her. She was still asleep and Yaz wrapped her leg around her and reached for her hand intertwining her fingers. She lay there and watched her sleep. She didn't often get the chance to do that, so she enjoyed the brief moment knowing that she would open her sleepy eyes any minute. So, she did
"Hey you" Yaz whispered
"Hey..." Doctor replied sleepy her eyes still half open
"You fell asleep"
"I did"
The room was dark, and the lights of the city shined a soft light on their faces. Yaz gently caressed the Doctor's face, brushing her hair out of her face. She came closer and reached out to kiss her gently. They kissed slowly, gently, almost dreamily. Just slowly running hands down each other. Yaz kissed her even more passionately, trailing her hand under the covers down the Doctor's waist and back. The Doctor suddenly pulled back and reached for her hand
"What?" Yaz looked her her utterly confused. "What's wrong? ... "
"Yaz..I.."
"What's going on? … " she said shocked and worried
Doctor took her hand and kissed her fingertips "Yaz...I have to tell you something"
"You're scaring me" she looked at her anxiously
"Don't be scared..." she kissed her fingertips again brushing them over her lips as she spoke "You know that friend I went to see?"
"Mmmmm?" she laid with her head on a pillow watching her inches away struggling to talk. She felt fear rising inside her, but she was trying to calm herself down.
Doctor moved a strain of hair from her face and spoke quietly almost whispering. There was a calmness in her voice jet her face was telling Yaz another story, the one of pain and anguish
"A long time ago I went to this planet and whiles I was there a rebellion broke out that ended in total blood shed between the ruling class and the people, thousands of people died, homes burned the whole country was in blaze.
"OMG" Yaz said horrified
"The kings name was Ashan and he was my very good friend for many years. But Ashan made decisions I never approved of, decisions that costs him his life...he betrayed his people and they turned against him. They royal family was slaughtered every single one of them, and there was nothing I could do"
"I'm so sorry darling"
"Ashan had a daughter...Shar. She was only a child when it happened. The day he died I made him a promise that I will protect her. Take her somewhere where his people will never find her and keep her safe"
"Why would they hurt her? I don't understand. She was just a kid, what can a kid do?"
Doctor stroke her face gently "My beautiful Yaz...Because darling as long as she was alive, she was the rightful air to the throne. She was always gonna be a threat"
"That's horrible...so they would hunt her down always as long she's alive?"
Doctor nods her head
"What did you do?"
"I took her that day when her father died. I shoved a child that wasn't mine into the Tardis and I took off...I went to the edges of the universe and found a planet. Uninhabited beautiful planet and raised her as my own...keeping her safe for over 200 years" she went quiet for a moment "Until the day they found us. So I took off...again...frantically looking for a place...place where she could be safe. Where she could start again and live her dreams"
"This place?"
"Yes, beautiful this place...deep underneath the ocean on a faraway planet...so deep she was out of their reach. A place where they could never find her. But I did something...something I can never forgive myself"
"What did you do darling?"
She went quiet for a while and then spoke again "I told her we are going for adventure. She was so happy so elated We came to my friend’s house and when the night came, I left Yaz...I took my Tardis and left...and I never looked back" tears rolled down her face"
"OMG babe why? ...Why not say anything?...Why just leave her like that?" Yaz was horrified and couldn't understand.
"Because Yaz she would never let me go and I just couldn't...I... had no strength to say goodbye...I had no choice...It was the only way to keep her safe...At least that's what told myself then"
"How much time has passed since that day?"
"Over thousand years Yaz"
"OMG...Bighead...wooow" she was shocked and didn't know what to say at first
"I told you Yaz...I'm a muddy water. I'm not proud of myself...or the person I was"
Yaz gazed at her in silence… There was a part of her that understood her reasons, but there was a part of her that also judged her. But the biggest part of her loved her with all her heart because it takes courage to face yourself and admit your mistakes. It takes even more courage to change who you are into what you want to be.
"Thank you...Thank you for saying this to me. It means a lot and I know this isn't easy.... I love you"
"Do you? ... Even after what I just told you?"
"OMG, Don't be silly...of course I do" she propped her head on her arm and stroke Doctors face "Darling we all make mistakes, and we all did things were not proud of...things we feel sick just thinking about and in all long life it would be absolutely stupid for me to think you never did. But I love who you are now, I adore what you're trying to be and how you admit it to yourself when you do mess it up. It takes courage you know...to do that...I adore that about you" she tucked her hair behind her ear and wipes her tears away "I love you my beautiful Bighead I always will" she smiles gently
The Doctor looked at her silently and smiled slightly, she reached out and caressed her face, "I really don't deserve you," she said quietly and cupped her face with her fingers, pulling her into a gentle kiss. "I love you so much Yasmin Khan" she whispered resting her forehead on hers and kissed her passionately.
Their kisses were slow and gentle, then firm and passionate. Yaz reached down the Doctor's back and pulled her shirt over her head then tangled her fingers in her hair pulling her hungry to her lips, she flipped her over onto her back kissing her hard and loving her lips. She paused for a second, just looking into her eyes. Those eyes she loved with every part of her being, the Doctor gave her a gentle smile and then slipped her hand under her shirt and pulled it over her head passing her hand over her breast wrapping her arms around them and kissing them softly causing Yaz to moan softly tugging her hair. She slid her arm around Yaz's waist and gently turned her onto her back hovering over her for a moment and ran her finger over her soft lips watching Yaz close her eyes.
She wanted her tonight so badly it hurt, she desperately needed her inside her, feeling her a part of herself. She kissed her hard, and Yaz put her hands around the back of her head and gently pushed her down. She moaned softly as Doctor's tongue trailed down, her mouth cupping her breast.
"Off...take them off" Yaz said breathing heavily
The Doctor looked towards her and smiled. She grabbed her bottoms and pulled them down along with her underwear leaving her bare and beautiful. She was hers and hers alone, she thought for a moment. This beautiful being who now more than ever was a part of her, carrying her heart inside her. The Doctor hovered over her looking at her gently running her hand over her stomach and her soft breast.
Yaz stroke her face gazing at her, her eyes were half-open and dreamy, her beautiful hair spread across the pillow. She reached and turned the Doctor onto her back, she sat up and quickly slipped a hand between the cotton of her underwear causing her to sigh and arch her back as she passed through her. She pulled them off and sat on top of her lacing their fingers together she pressed Doctor's hands into the pillow and kissed her long and passionately
"I want you" she smiled and rocked her hips dragging over her slowly brushing her lips over the Doctor's watching her half open eyes gazing at her.
"I love how you say that" she smiled "...and I want you my beautiful" she closed the gap and locked their lips together. The Doctor was falling into a daze as she rocked again, moaning softly into her mouth, her cheeks flushed as the heat coursed through them with every move Yaz made pulling herself over her and kissing her passionately. Her warmth spreading through the Doctor's body making her dizzy, making her drift away as she slowly went down her body, letting go of her hands and followed her neck and collarbone with her lips and down her stomach and wrapped them around her hips kissing them tenderly tracing every part of her fragile body with her hands. She sealed her lips firmly against her and the Doctor moaned into the pillow reaching for her hand interlocking their fingers, she flinched as Yaz passed through her. Tonight, she was taking her mercilessly, sealing her lips onto her and going through her, with her fingers picking up the pace inside her.
The Doctor's hand tangled in her hair, her back ached and she moaned loudly as she breathed deeply with her half-opened lips, her cheeks bright red from the heat and skin becoming warm.
"Don't stop...don't you dare stop," she muttered and squeezed her hand, swaying her hips and giving herself over her mouth.
She shook hard letting out a loud moan and slumped on the sheets. Her orange haze swirled around them. Yaz pulled back and kissed her half-opened lips.
The Doctor cupped her face in her fingers and looked at her with half-open dreamy eyes, she was still twitching, kissing Yaz sloppy and open-mouthed, then she dropped her head on the pillow pulling her to her chest "I love you so much" she whispered and kissed her head running lazy lines down her arm.
"Love you too" Yaz replied
She looked at her dreamy with her big beautiful eyes smiling and showing her little dimples Doctor couldn't resist so she turned on her side and, hovering over her, kissed her on the forehead and the top of her nose, and them on the mouth, slowly drawing her lips gently into hers, she slid her hand down the covers passing it down her waist and a curve of her hip, draping her leg over herself she slipped between her thighs. Yaz twitched and moaned into her mouth as she gently brushed her fingers over her.
"I adore you my little head wonk" she said smiling as she went through her. Yaz tucked her head pressing her forehead against her cheek moaning quietly as she her fingers slipped inside her. She held herself for the back of her neck with her fingers running through her hair and moaning into her sweet skin she pressed her lips onto her neck as Doctor picked u the pase slowly and kissed her hairline. She took her slowly gently soaking her in into every part of her being feeling her move with her in the most beautiful harmony as they dance across the universe together. Yaz raised her gaze to meet her eyes and layed her hand on to her cheek. Doctor smiled at her gently and kissed her passionately
Her moans became lauder and Doctor took them all with her lips like the sweetest thing in the universe. She gripped her shoulder digging her nails into it, wrapping herself around her and rocking herself against her. "Don't…please" she whispered against her lips gazing at her dreamy
"I won't" she smiles and kissed her hard
Yaz's moaned loud into her mouth pulsating around her with the heat and tingles coursing through her. Doctor held her tight without pulling back feeling her cramp around her until she sloped in her arms.
"You're everything to me" Yaz whispered gazing at her as she kissed her fingertips smiling.
"And you to me my beautiful"
They curled up into each other and stayed like that for while in silence just kissing and gazing at each other. Time was standing still from them.
Doctor ran her hand down Yaz's shoulder gently gazing through the ceiling of their room into the ocean "This was really nice but you do know we have to get up" Doctor laughed as Yaz twirled the strain of her hair through her fingers her head tucked against Doctors neck "It's technically afternoon our time and we can't leave boys roaming around god knows what they can get themselves into"
Yaz giggled "I know...just little bit more of a cuddle pleasee...I love this"
"You don't need to beg for a cuddle Yaz" she kissed her head "I wouldn't mind staying like this for a whole week"
"Tell me something...honestly"
"Oh here we go...what" she smirks
"Before you and me...how long were you alone?"
"Not sure Yaz but at least few hounded years"
"Whaaaaaa" she lifted her head laughing "OMG...no wonder you don't want to get out of bed...How do you even remember what to do?" she giggles
"Oh I don't know cheeky...like riding a bike" she laughs
"Surely you like...you know sometimes had..."
"Yaz!!!!.." she jumped "Are you're saying what I think you're saying potty mouth...Who do you think I am?"
"I don't know do I?...Just wondering" Yaz giggled
"The answer is noo" she said firmly but not being able to stop laughing.
Yaz giggled like crazy "Alright...you said we can talk about everything"
"I did...and now I'm seriously thinking about taking it back cheeky chops" she squished her cheeks between her fingers
"That's a long time to be alone babe" she said sadly and ran her finger down the little crease on Doctor's forehead. She loved that little crease and Doctor loved how she studied every line and every detail of her so she didn't mind it.
"It is...too long. But I don't want to think about it because I have you now" she slides her hand down the covers and runs it over her tummy "And munching"
"What are we going to name her?"
"No idea Yaz...I have a book of names in a Tardis library...We can go through it if you want"
"Really?...Yeah!!!" she said excitedly "I'd love that"
"We have to get up...and I need a shower" she laughs "I really need a shower" she kisses her grinning
"Me too but you need to show me how to use that bathroom I've never seen anything like it in my life"
"I will" she laughs and kisses her head then wiggles out of bed. Dim lights shined on her as she walked around and Yaz lied gazing at her thinking she was absolutely beautiful. There were times when she looked at her thinking she knew every inch of her body, yet so much of her was still a mystery to her. She couldn't help but think how the part she did know was just a small tiny part, but it was still her part, the one that she was utterly and hopelessly in loved with.
She got up and walked into the shower pressed herself against Doctor's back kissing her shoulder blade and ran her hand down her gentle back.
"What's wrong?" Doctor turned around and moved her wet hair from her face
"Nothing" Yaz smiled gazing at her "Just enjoying in you" she giggles
"Aaaa...are you now" she wraps her hands around her "Well you can do that when ever you want" Doctor knew there was more to it but she let it go for the time being
...
They got dressed and Yaz sat on the edge of the bed for Doctor to tie her shoes.
"I feel like a child when you do that" she giggles
"Don't be silly...I don't mind it" she goes silent for a second "Yaz"
"Mmmm?"
Doctor closed her eyes for a moment before she spoke "I would never do that to you" she looked up "...what I did to Shar"
Yaz looked at her in silence, Doctor reached and wrapped her fingers around her face "I would never do that again to anyone Yaz...let alone you. So you never have to worry about it...ever"
"Thank you for saying that" Yaz cupped her hand that was still resting on her cheek
"Now come on mummy...let's have some fun ok" she helps her up and goes back to her bouncy self
"I have so much to show you, and boys are gonna love it" she was zooming exited down the hallway walking backwards infront of her and rambling on "There's this place where you can see the old sunken city and go for a ride through underwater caves and they have those cakes that look like small sea shells but you need to be careful because some taste really awful"
"Sounds fantastic" Yaz giggled at her excitement and waiving hands as she was explaining
...
"Hey girls!" Dan cheered up seeing them in the lobby and gave a small kiss to Yaz's cheek "How's the baby doing?" he whispers
"She's fine, she makes me sleep when she had enaugh" she laughs
"Doc...this place is amazing...and the food is heaven" Graham said
"Oh you already had a meal?" she got confused
"Nah...just some snacks they left in front of the door but they were gorgeous and I was starving" Graham said "At least I don't need to take a sandwich with me"
"I'm absolutely starving now...Oh Doctor, how do we use that bathroom? I'm getting proper lost with it"
"Yeah Doc, you're gonna have to explain or we gonna smell really beautiful by the end of this trip" Graham laughs
"Alright no problem...They should have instructions I never understood that. This place is built for tourists"
"How do know about this place?" Dan asked
"I came here a long time ago and made some friends during the grait war...Did you know this planet is all water no land...there used to be...long time ago and then a massive volcano eruption took everything down to the bottom of the sea"
"Really?....cool" Ryan said exited
They walked into the restaurant that left everyone puzzled.
"This is the restaurant?" Ryan asked confused seeing no stuff just a massive place filled with tables with hovering menus above them
"Exiting isn't it?" Doctor smiled and found them a table. She flipped her finger over the hovering display making faces "No, no, no" she kept flicking through "Definitely no eeewww" she scrunches her face "Aaaa...that's nice" she smiles finally finding something everyone will
"What about this?" Dan asked
"Uuu nah, you do not want to be eating that Dan...trust me"
"Alright I trust your choice"
Suddenly a little tiny alien comes talking in childish voice. She was bright pink and had at least 6 arms a big head and massive turquoise eyes. She was carrying all the plates with food placing them on the table
"Oh hello" Doctor smiled "Thank you"
Yaz kept staring at her eyes that mesmerized her and Doctor tugged her hand underneath the table as a sign to stop. When she finally left Yaz turned confused
"What?.." she asked frowning
"I know, they are stunning...but don't look into them for too long or you will fall in love"
"Jealous Doctor?" Ryan laughed
"No, not at all Ryan. She's a Aqanian those eyes have hypnotic properties for a reason. Next thing you know you'll be doing stuff you wish you could erase from your brain"
"Talking from experience Doc?" Graham laughs
"What's wrong Yaz?" Doctor turns to her worried
"I feel a bit dizzy"
"It's ok Yaz it will pass...just don't look at those eyes again" she laughs and kisses her temple "Here have this, it will help" she poured her a drink. "Excuse me, I need to go to toilet"
"Are you sick Yaz" Doctor asked worriedly
"No no...the usual" she laughs
"So Doc what's going on in your life?
"Not much Graham...keeping low as much as I can"
"Don't you miss it? I never thought I will see you keeping still like this" Ryan asked
"No, no I don't. I need this Ryan, and I've got priorities now...I have to keep them safe and being out there I can't do that. You know how it goes. Besides, for me this is nothing...20, 30, 50 years even is for me like a minute of your time"
"I think it's good Doc. I think you're doing a right thing...Universe can wait"
"I agree, you two lost enough time already. It's time for you to grab it for yourselves" Dan nudges her with a shoulder
"But you know Doc that if you ever need us we will always be here for you. No matter what" Graham says and reaches for her hand over the table "Cause we're family"
"I know...the best family" she smiles looking at them all
After dinner they went for a ride with a train that made Yaz feel sick and they were on their way to see the old city. When commotion on the street disrupted them.
"Doc what's going on?" Graham pointed towards the crowd gathering infront of one of fhe towers
"Dunno Graham...let's find out" she pulled Yaz's hand
"Excuse me" Doctor taps one person's shoulder "What's going on?"
"Someone broke into the volts and stole the the Eye of the deep
"I don't follow" Doctor said confused "What's the Eye of the deep?"
"You're obviously not from around here"
"No we go around a bit" she replied
"Nobody know really but the story goes that iff the eye is lost the city will fall into the abyss"
"What does he mean by that Doctor? What's the abyss?" Dan asked concerned
"Not a nice place Dan...it's the edge of the cliff on which the city is built. The goes so deep some people say all the way to the center of the planet" she answered worryingly "Come on" she waives her hand
"I thought you won't get involved?" Yaz tugged her hand
"I wasn't going to Yaz but we can't let the whole city go down can we?"
"I knew it...we can't even have a proper honeymoon" Yaz rolled her eyes
"Is that what this is Doctor?" he smirkes
Doctor ignored him completely storming towards the entrance of the tower
"Excuse me, we're here to inspect the robbery"
"What? Who are you?"
She pulled out the psychic paper showing it to the police officer
"The high royal investigator" the man frowns confused
"Yap that's us" she glanced at the paper "I'm the Doctor, this Yaz, Dan, Graham and Ryan. So what's going on here? We were told the Eye of the deep has been stolen?"
Come with me" the man ushered them in, still confused by their presence. They passed through a white, empty corridor that led them to a huge Tardis library-like place with ornate spiral staircases that led to inner balconies whose silver lace railings looked like coral. The ceiling was another dome, but this one was not transparent, just a beautiful light blue. The vaults lined up side by side on each level, their round silver doors intricately decorated with engravings of some sort of sea creatures similar to those on old nautical maps.
"See...empty...not much to go on. No traces no prints, sensors didn't pick up anything and the recordings show nothing"
Doctor entered the volt and scanned it with her sonic "Mmmm" she comments intrigued "You have a recording?...Can I see it"
"Of course this way… You won't see anything we haven't seen doctor," he commented as he walked down the hall and into a huge room with a large glass looking pillar standing in the middle. The man put his hand on the screen next to him. Yaz noticed that his fingers looked just like the doctor's Tarnoo friends. The video popped up on the post and showed an empty volt.
"See, I told you, nothing"
"It may seem like that to you" she runs her fingers over the glass surface zooming in on the screen and puts her face a few inches from the pillar away "See look...that..." she points "Just a tiny wobble"
"Looks like a ghost Doctor" Yaz goes closer
"Well I'll be damaged Doctor so it is" the policeman says scratching his chin
"So Doc an invisible person robbed the volt?" Graham pointed
"Mmmm" Doctor drifted for a moment into her thoughts "So this Eye of the deep?...What is it?" she turns to the policeman
"No idea mam, nobody has ever seen it. It's been in these volts for thousands of years"
"So we are looking for invisible person who stole something that nobody knows what it looks like" Graham comments sarcastically
"Talking about a challenge" Dan added
"Alright, thank you" she says to the policeman and then turns around towards everyone else "Come on let's go"
As they walked outside she turns around towards them "Right, it's really late and you all need some rest. Graham and Ryan tomorrow morning go to the library and pull out all the legends on this "Eye of the deep" so we get some idea what we're even looking for or what is it used for, where did it come. Anything you can find out....and us three are gonna check who entered the city in last few days because nobody comes here unchecked"
"Right Doc no worries" Graham said
"Do you have any idea what kind of a creature can make themselves transparent like that?" Dan turns to the Doctor as they walked back to the hotel
"Few but neither of them could pass the security of the bank completely undetected like that and leaving no trace...so there's more to this"
"Doctor!"
"Yes Ryan"
"Bathroom..." he points towards the door of their room "We really need a shower"
"Ups...sorry...of course...Is it just me or it's really exciting all of us working together again?" she says smiling as she entered the room
"I love it" Ryan says "It's way to addictive Doctor"
"Your room is still there Ryan, it always is" Doctor smiled
"It is Doctor but I think you and Yaz need your space now"
"True, but It's always nice to have my fam back you know"
"We miss you too Doc" Graham taps her on a shoulder
"Here look...just run you hand on this and see...water...then you run it again and it stops. Same with a toilet and a sink. Just don't touch the green button next to the toilet...it won't be a nice experience" she zoomed out of the bathroom
"Alright see you at breakfast and then we will go through all the details"
"Oh, Yaz.." Ryan stops her and runs to his bag taking something out "Here you go" he passed her a little present
"Ryan OMG, a present?" she takes it exited
"Yeah, now I got a new job and I got my salary I thought I get you something for the baby...it's nothing special"
Yaz opened it up and it was one of those baby diary's "OMG Ryan!!!!…This is beautiful" her eyes filled with tears
"Hey don't get soppy on me now" he hugs her "Besides we might be family you and I"
"Say whaaaa?" she looked at him confused
"Oh, shoot..."
"Ryan??? What do I not know?" she looked at him suspiciously
"He's been dating your sister ever since they came back from Egypt" Graham says
"Grandad!!.." Ryan fround "Sorry Yaz I thought she told you"
"No.." she laughed "No she didn't" she rolls her eyes
"Alright Yaz munching needs a rest" Doctor turned her around getting her out of the room to stop the conversation
"By"
"Night" Doctor waives and pulled her hand
"Sonya is dating Ryan??" she frowns down the hallway
"But that's nice Yaz..."
"I don't want Ryan snogging my sister"
"Why not?...I snog you Yaz" she smirks
"He's my mate..." she says wiles Doctor pulled her i to the room
"You're being possessive Yaz" she giggles
Yaz slupms on the bed with her feet dangling over the edge and Doctor comes up taking her shoes off "Feeties hurt?" she says smiling
"Yes...I wish you could run me a bath like in Egypt" she sighed
"Hmmmm...I might have something better" she smirks
"Really" Yaz propped herself on her elbows "What?"
….
Doctor took her to the other end of the hotel and through stunning inner gardens. "Close your eyes Yaz" she reached for both of her hands
"Where are you talking me?"
"You'll see...no peaking" she smirks and leads the way "Careful one step" she held her hands tight "Alright open" Doctor said proudly
"Whaaaaaaaa???...Are you for real??" Yaz screamed
"I am last time I checked...So better than the tub"
They stepped into the dome that was deep under the sea below the hotel where you could see the ocean floor through the glass and all the florescent sea creatures were shining with beautiful lights swimming above the magnificent coral reefs in all the colors of the rainbow and the remains of the old city could be seen in the distance rising from sand. The lights in the room were dimmed, there was nothing inside but a large round tub in the middle.
"Impressed?" Doctor came behind her and slipped her arms around her waist
"I have no words...how many times will you leave me speeches" she leaned on her chest
"You...always" Doctor kissed her temple "Come on"
"I feel like I can't ever match this...it would be nice if I could impress you sometimes"
"I think you being pregnant at this point impresses me the most" she squeezes her
"Well not like I've done that myself babe" she laughs
…
"Why are you so quite?" Doctor was gliding her hand through the water over Yaz tummy.
Yaz was leaning her back on her chest and her head on her shoulder playing with her fingers and looking up to the ceiling dreamy.
"Just thinking"
"About?" she smiled and pressing her lips on her teple gently
"How many magical places exist in the universe"
"Loads love...and I plan to show you all of them"
Yaz giggled "All of them?"
"Yap" Doctor puts her hands around her squeezing her tight
"I'd like that...What is that city there...the ruins? Why is it destroyed is that from the volcano?"
"No, that was much later Yaz. There was war a long time ago and the original city was already underneath the ocean but it got destroyed. This one was built on top of it but parts still remained buried in the ocean floor"
"It looks beautiful" Yaz started laughing suddenly
"What's funny Yaz" Doctor asked confused
"I just remembered us looking for the lost ship"
"Oh god Yaz, why do you have to remind me of that disaster"
"Because now it's funny...it wasn't at the time but now every time I'm thinking about it it makes me laugh...your face"
"My face!!! You should have seen yours Yaz" she laughs "You didn't know where to look"
"Cause you put me through a blender" she giggles
"I did, didn't I....I'm so sorry" she lifts her gaze with her finger "Something's missing" she smiles
"Your lips on mine" Yaz replied gently and Doctor wraps her fingers around her face "I agree" she says taking her lips into hers kissing her gently.
…
It was dawn even dhow it didn't seem like it deep under the sea as their room was dark with only lights of the city shining through the window. But they were used to in Tardis and any window was a change. Doctor woke up a long time ago but refused to move. She enjoyed feeling Yaz pressed on her back breathing into her neck with her leg draping over her hip and her hand wrapped around her waist. She loved every minute of it so much that she felt like her bladder will explode and was putting up with pain for an hour.
"Mmmm" Yaz monad quietly into her neck "Morning" she presses her lips on her shoulder blade
"Hey, Morning beautiful" she smiles "How come you're awake this early? "
"I really have to pee"
"Oh nooo no you don't" Doctor jumped out of bed a lightning speed
"Whaaa?" Yaz was left confused
"I've been holding it for one hour and 15 min...I nearly regenerated" she says quickly before slamming the bathroom door
"Please hurry up I swear I will piss myself and it won't be a pretty site" Yaz got up and she's squeezing her legs together laughing so hard that by this point she'd really finding it difficult to hold it "Mercy pleasee"
"Alright give me a minute"
"What are you doing?"
She opens the door "Go" Yaz squeezed next her running inside
Doctor went back to bed with her stomach still in a bit of pain and discomfort. Yaz came out of the bathroom still sleepy dragging her feet and then crawling back into bed.
"Please tell me we don't need to get up yet" she slumped herself on Doctor's chest and gave her a sloppy kiss then took her arm and rolled her on a side pushing her bum as close to her as she possibly could
"You do relase your dragging me like a rag doll" she giggles
"And you love every minute of it" Yaz giggled and kissed her hand
"Yeah and how do you know that cheeky chops?" she squeezes her tight
"Couse you love me and you're cuddle deprived so you love it" she giggles
"Well that was my psyco analysis done for the morning" she says sarcastically
"You know it's true" Yaz mumbles sleepy
"I never said I don't agree Yaz" she kisses her shoulder
"When do we need to get up?"
"Not for another 3 hours...sleep darling"
"Don't leave" she grabs her hand and presses it to her chest
"I won't...remember cuddle deprived" she giggles and tucked her head into her neck "Sleep"
"Mmmm" she mumbled back and fell asleep in a second. Doctor snuggled up and after a long time fell asleep like a baby but before she did she thought how for the first time in her long life she was the happiest she's ever been
"Yaz...darling" Doctor spoke gently trying to wake her up brushing her finger over her cheek
"Mmmm..." she mumbled back sleepy struggling to open her eyes
"You need to get up...Come on sleepy head" she pressed her lips on her forehead
"Alright" she sat on the edge of a bed still sleepy rubbing her eyes
"You look adorable in a morning" Doctor said taking a tray inside the room that was left for them "Look...we go yummy breakfast" she says nipping into some sweet bread that was on a tray and she puts on the table.
"That smelled nice" she says reaching with her hands for Doctor to lift her up
"Come on mummy" she pulls her up "You just love me doing this don't you?"
"I do" she says still struggling to wake up and kisses her shortly then draged her feet to the bathroom
"So where are we going today?" Yaz peaked from the bathroom whiles brushing her teeth
"You and I will go and check who entered the city in the last 48h and guys are going to the library...Mmmm...this is really nice Yaz" she says with her mouth full
"You like eating anything" Yaz giggled and kissed the top of her head as she passed next to her to sit at the table
"I do but try this it's like jam but isn't jam" she passes her a piece of bread "I never had that before and you know me I'll try anything"
"Mmmm ok sold...I'll have that...How come they have bread here?"
"Mmm...they have to Yaz with all the people travelling from all different places...different species everyone's diet is different. What you and me eat can kill someone else"
"True...I never thought about it that way"
"Also I need to give you your vitamins after breakfast"
"Oh nooo...you took it with you?"
"Of course I took it with me Yaz"
"I was hoping you'll forget" she giggles
"Nope, no such luck Yaz"
"Could you imagine if you were the one who stayed pregnant" Yaz giggled like crazy
"Oh nooo … no way...don't get any ideas" she was mortified with the idea
"Well you're woman...not like you couldn't you got all the parts babe"
"Can we change the subject Yaz"
But Yaz kept laughing like crazy "You would be the grumpiest pregnant Time Lord alive...I wouldn't like to get into your path"
"Did you just call me grumpy Yaz?"
"You can be...I only figured it out laity you got a bad case of pms" she got her giggles
"Thanks wife" she throws a a piece of bread on her across the table laughing "Come on...get a shift on mummy" she kisses her forehead as she got up "We need to go"
Yaz found it fun to wind her up. It was something she had never been able to do before, never would have dared. But now she finally could, she enjoyed their little banter and it always made her laugh how her little wife couldn't shake her Time Lord attitude about some things and yet was the softest with her.
"I'm done love, just shoes please" she sits on the bed
"I'll miss this"
"Miss what?...Don't tell me you'll miss tying my shoes cause that's just weird"
"Why not?..." she razed her eyes as she was tying her laces
"Cause it's weird. Why on gods earth would you miss that?"
"For you maybe Yaz, but I never had that...that closeness...With anyone. For me those little things mean a lot"
"Oh" Yaz went quiet and she wished she could eat those words she just said, because what Doctor just told was absolutely beautiful and sad in a same time "I'm so so sorry Bighead...I never thought about it that way" she puts her hand on her cheek
"It's fine Yaz...I know you didn't. I never had many things people take for granted....you know like mother or a cuddle or even a proper hug...That's what's so beautiful about humans...All this physical stuff...it's beautiful...you know, like kissing" she got up bouncy
"Whaaa?...Are you saying you don't kiss...where your from?"
"No Yaz not really...or hug or hold hands.. well none of that really...I like kissing I think it's beautiful" she reached for her hand "Come on"
"Wait" she tugs her hand
"What? Everything ok Yaz?" She looked at her confused
"No, no it's not" she turns around and wraps her fingers around her face "I love you...I really love you. More than anything in this world" she pulled her in for the softest kiss
"What's that for? she strokes her cheek with her thumb smiling
"I should snog you more" she giggles "Let's go"
As they walked down the hall, Yaz couldn't shake what the doctor had just told her. She was completely horrified and it hit her, everything made sense from beginning to end, the way she acted, the way she was. For the first time, it occurred to her that her wife was an alien who was desperately trying to be more human-like. Everything suddenly made sense, all her clumsiness and inability to express her emotions, her fears and insecurities even her passion suddenly made sense. It wasn't just pure desire it was so much more than that. It was her language of love. And she released just how hard it must have been for her if she never had a reference. She fought desperately against what she was raised to be and what she so desperately desired to be, coping human behavior, watching, observing, learning for hundreds of years the complexity of human emotions, yet she did it all while constantly being alone. Her heart sank with sadness and at this moment she wished they weren't going anywhere because all she wanted to do was cuddle her wife and tell her how amazing and beautiful she was.
"Yaz, are you alright?" Doctor asked worriedly noticing how quiet she was since they left the room. One thing she always knew was when something was bothering Yaz she would go quiet.
"Yah I'm fine love just still sleepy" she laced her fingers with hers and squeezed her hand "Love ya" she smiled
"Love you too my little head wonk" Doctor smiled
"Morning everyone" Doctor said
"Hey girls" Dan hugs Yaz like he always did
"Morning" Graham waives
"Where's Ryan?" Yaz asked noticing he's missing
Dan laughed and Graham was pissing himself laughing as well.
"What?" Doctor asked confused
"Toilet Doc" Graham said trying to breathe from laughing
"Oh, " she answered quite embarrassed
"Well, we all told him not to eat that green jelly thing" Dan said
"He ate that?" Doctor frowned "Blimey I think we should pop to Tardis or he won't get off that toilet for another week"
"He even asked for repeats" Graham said
"Hi " Ryan came out looking green
"Ryan are you alright" she zoomed sonic over him "No you're not...come on let's get you to Tardis. I've got just a thing for it...and please stick to what you know in a future...I already told you that after you went green and remember that time you had a hiccups for three days" she pulls him along
...
"Here we go...you should start feeling better in about 10 min" Doctor said putting down a shot on the console
"Thanks Doctor" Ryan says poorly sitting on a step
"You'll feel better soon" Yaz taps his shoulder
They waited for a bit until he felt better than Doctor came back to see him
"Ryan" Doctor turned to him concerned "If you're not feeling well you don't need to do this, you can stay in Tardis or we will take you back to the hotel"
"No Doctor I'll be fine, thanks"
"Are you sure?"
"Sure Doctor, don't worry" he taps her shoulder and gets up
"Alright then, let's go..."
...
"We're never gonna find this" Ryan through a book on a table "We've been here for hours" Is g
"Patients son, Rome wasn't built in a day"
"We're not building Rome are we" he puffs and gets up on the ladder to reach the higher shelf
"Keep looking, Doc wouldn't send us here if she didn't think we would find something" Graham had his glasses on leaning over the table going through the pages of a massive manuscript
"Well Doctor is on maternity leave at the moment...so" he said with a tiny bit of disappointment in his voice
"I know, I still can't wrap my head around it if I'm being honest" Graham says whilst flicking the pages and Ryan throughs a book down on a table Infront of him
"You mean about the baby?"
"No, oh no... baby I can...I mean she is an alien son and we've seen a lot weirder stuff let's face it, hell we you and I even helped deliver a baby. What I meant is how much she's changed since that day we bordered Tardis"
"What do you mean"
"She smiles Ryan, when did you ever see Doc have a good laugh. I sure haven't in all the time we've travelled with her. She's been, well quirky and all that and getting over excited about stuff. But this is different...it comes from the heart"
Ryan sat on the ladder for a moment and thought about what his grandad just said "You know what...You're right...I never noticed"
"She laughs at jokes Ryan, she actually laughed at jokes...Hey look at this Ryan...I think you found something"
"I did?" he comes down from the ladder
"Eye of the deep is mentioned here briefly but it could be useful"
"What does it say?" he leans over the book
"Eye of the deep was created by the celestials and given to the people of Muramay as gift after the gait flood. It is mentioned that its power gives life to the city"
"Life? ... How?"
"It doesn't say...it only has a drawing of something...I have no idea what this is Ryan...some sort of machine"
"We need to get this to the Doctor she's gonna know" Ryan thinks for a second "Wait...I'll take a picture on my phone"
"Something doesn't add up here Ryan" Graham says looking at the drawings puzzled "If this is Eye of the Deep is this machine...You tell me how in the hell did they steal it.... I mean look at the size of that...it's bloody huge...Not as if you can just shove it in your pocket"
"And if it's meant to be of such huge importance for the city, what is it doing in a vault? What use out of it in a vault"
"Someone is lying Ryan...question is who...come on son let's go"
...
"You alright walking?" Doctor asked walking towards the entrance to the city
"Yeah, don't worry...I will just have to pee soon" she giggles
"Why does that not surprise me" she laughs "We won't be long"
"We can stop and rest Sheffield" Dan says
"No, no I'm fine really...stop fussing you two"
"Hey...wait" Yaz tugs her hand as they were passing through one of the tunnel bridges
"Something wrong Yaz?"
"No... look at that" she points at the beautiful ghost like creature floating through the water "What's that love?"
"Aaaa...they call them fire dragons Yaz. Very rare"
"He's beautiful...look at that red color...it's stunning" she says mesmerized by it
"This place is just so..."
"Magical..." Doctor says
"Yeah, it is"
"I wish Di could be here..." Dan says sadly
"I know...I'm so sorry Dan" Yaz says "Next time...we will have more trips, promise" she smiles
They continued walking for few more minutes until they reached the main gate.
"Dan come with me...Yaz...wait for me here...I'll be back in a minute"
Doctor and Dan walked up to one of the guards and she pulled her usual psychic paper stun on the guard then turned around waiving to Yaz.
"We're in" she grins
"What the hell did you tell him"
"That we are border control oversight"
"And I'm pregnant looking like I will pop the baby any minute" she laughs "we are so convincing"
"Super convincing Yaz, as always" she winks at her "And I do hope you won't pop the baby any minute" she laughs
They walked into the tall building and took one of the elevators to the top floor.
"Should be here" The Doctor looked down the hallway "Aaa...this way" she pulled Yaz by the hand and they entered a room filled with white shelves. Plates that looked like glass were lined up like books on the shelves. The Doctor took one of them having a look.
"Oh boy...Seriously...can't they have easier system"
"Why? What's the problem?" Yaz asked
"Each of these is like a separate file Yaz...look" she runs her finger on a glass surface and a screen comes up with a photo of the person and all their information "There are hundreds of them here and they are not even filed in any order just years" she points to the shelfs deflated
"Hey, we'll do it together don't worry" Dan says looking at one plate
"I might just need a toilet and takeaway, but I don't mind" Yaz laughed
"It will take us hours...If this is too much..." Doctor says worried looking at Yaz
"Hey Doctor, I can take her back to the hotel and come back here"
"Oi...you two!!" Yaz frowns "No absolutely not. Stop treating me like I'm gonna fall apart. I'm perfectly capable doing this...just show me what to do"
Doctor and Dan looked at each other and both gave up arguing with her.
Few hours into it Yaz was sitting on the floor, legs crossed with bunch of glass plates around her, and Dan was on the other end still trying to go through one of the endless shelves.
"How many people go through this place?" he puffs "We'll be here till Christmas. You'd think a place like this would have more advanced technology"
"Dan... look at this" Yaz points on two files Infront of her
"Aaaa...Sheffield...I think you might be onto something finally"
"Hey...look what I've got for you two" Doctor walked in with bunch of food and drinks "I got a pie as well" she ruffles a bag smiling
"Aaaaaa...you're the best...give, give, I'm starving" Yaz reaches with her hands like a kid and digs into t,he bag as soon as Doctor gave it to her
Dan grabbed a bag out of her hand a minute she walked through the door.
"Goodness you two are really starving" she laughs shaking her head
"Hey look what I found whilst you were away" she says with her mouth full pointing at the plates
"Those two entered the city together and on a day of the robbery she left the city. It could be coincidence, but she was only here for few hours and then left. Also...also...when I checked through the records, she was charged with artifacts theft 20 years ago and she was using a fake name several times as well."
"So, she's a criminal?" Dan asked
"Well technically rehabilitated criminal" Yaz says "She served her time Dan and she's free. It's just on her records. But it's weird"
"Gold star for my Yaz...I knew police training comes in handy" Doctor leans over and kisses her temple
"It seems so far away now"
"What does Yaz?"
"Me being in a police...It was ten years ago...It seems like another life now"
"Do you miss it Yaz?" Doctor asks a bit worried what her answer will be
"Noo of course not" she frowns "Why would I ever miss that when I have you"
"Oh" she smiles relieved
"You silly woman"
"And she still has doubts" Dan smiles shaking his head
"I know, can you believe it" Yaz looks at him giggling
"It wasn't her that had to listen to that hologram five times every day for years" he laughs
"Alright you two...I'm only an alien give me a brake" she laughs
"What about you Dan? Any wedding bells soon?" Yaz smiled "You've been engaged since Christmas"
"Definitely...just need to see when...probably next spring"
"The baby will be here by then" Yaz smiled
"OMG Sheffield so it will"
"You alright Yaz?" Doctor asked worriedly seeing her fidgeting as if she was in pain
"Yeah, just my back is starting to hurt a bit. I think from sitting on a floor for hours"
"We will pack it up Yaz, you need to rest. This isn't good for the baby either. I think we got what we need. I'll go and find this guy today, but you need to rest"
"I can't believe I'm saying it, but I think I agree this time" she plops her head on Doctor's shoulder
"Oh boy" she kisses her head "I'm sorry...we should have left earlier"
"But I loved it" she smiles
"I bet you did" Doctor gets up and takes all the rubbish shoving it in a bin on a wall "Come on mummy" she reaches with her hands to get Yaz off the floor "Let's get you to bed shall we"
"Mmmm...can you carry me?" she giggles grabbing for her braces
"I can...just not all the way home" she laughs
...
They walked back to the hotel, but Graham and Ryan were still out, so Doctor decided to wait.
"Alright Dan, I'll see you later then"
"Bye" Yaz waives exhausted
"I can't feel my legs" she drags herself down the hallway
"I know I'm so sorry" Doctor brings her hand to her lips and kisses her knuckles "But you were great today"
As soon as they came back to the room Yaz hit the shower and slumped on the bed "I was dreaming about this bed for hours" she moaned hugging the pillow
Doctor laughed from the bathroom. She took her coat off and kicked her boots off her feet. "I'm exhausted from that. I can't imagine how you feel. I rather run around the whole day then do paperwork...eeewwww. It's one of the reasons I hated academy" she stood in a shower enjoying water running down her body "At least we have some lead" she yells from the bathroom
"I hope boys found something as well or we are well and truly stuck"
"They will...We will...we are a great team. When have we ever failed Yaz...Never" she says cheerfully waking out of the bathroom and crawling into the bed next to her.
"True...totally agree"
Doctor ran her hand over her tummy then tucked her head into Yaz's neck "I love you" she mumbled into her skin
"What's wrong love?"
"Nothing...why would anything be wrong Yaz? Cuddle deprived remember" she laughs
Yaz turned on her side and they curled up together "You tiered?"
"Little bit" she says into her neck and pulls Yaz's leg over herself
"Sleep with me...come on"
"Mmmmm...I need to meet up with boys" she sighed into her neck
"It can wait...I'm sure Graham and Ryan won't feel like going back out as soon as they come back. This is meant to be a holiday you know"
"I know...why do I always do this to myself Yaz? Why can't I just leave it alone?"
"Cause you're a silly little alien with a sonic and a blue box who needs to put her cute nose into everything. You can't help yourself"
Yaz kissed the top of her head and put her hand on the back of her neck, caressing her gently. She absolutely enjoyed the Doctor having super emotional outbursts when she just wanted a cuddle.
She released she's not answering, and her breathing slowed. The Doctor fell asleep like a baby wrapped around her with her face pressed into Yaz's neck.
For someone who hardly ever slept, Yaz recently noticed that she was sleeping more and more, realizing that her lack of sleep had nothing to do with being an alien, but more to do with her anxiety and her beautiful, brilliant mind running hundreds of miles an hour.
It was a good thing because it meant she finally found her peace, but the one thing that scared her the most was that trouble would find them again and just as her beautiful wife found her place in the universe, something would come and destroy it for good.
This was the nice, beautiful life they never had, the life they both so desperately wanted and Yaz only hoped it would last for them. Having adventures was nice, but not if the price you have to pay for is your own happiness. She felt that her little wife had paid too much, and it was time for her to get some of that happiness herself. Tears rolled down Yaz's face soaking into the pillow. She pressed her lips to her head again and smelled her hair, closing her eyes for a moment. She loved her with every breath she took and felt now more than ever that she was a part of her, a part of her universe growing inside her. Yaz cupped the back of her head with her hand, pressing her closer, her eyes were tired and heavy, and she was overtaken by sleep. "I love you so, so much," she whispered to which the Doctor moaned softly tucking her head further into her neck.
Yaz woke up after a while, it was dark in their room, only lights were shining through the window. The Doctor was still asleep wrapped around her with her head on Yaz's chest and her hand hugging her tummy. She smiled as she admitted to herself that she couldn't move even if she wanted to, not without waking her up. So, she just stroked her hair while looking through the glass ceiling. The Doctor twitched slightly and often, when she dreamed, she was closing her hand and opening it again. She wondered what her dreams were. What the Time Lord's dreams look like. She wondered a lot about these things. How she sees the world, how she feels it. She wished she could see it, at least for a few minutes. She placed her finger in the Doctor's hand and she closed her palm holding it tight. Yaz found it adorable, and it made her smile.
"Mmmm..." Doctor moaned softly and stretched a little then readjusted herself moving her head lower down Yaz's chest "Hey beautiful" she mumbled
"Hey love" Yaz ran her fingers gently through her hair "Had a nice sleep?"
"Mmmmm...I did actually. How long did I sleep?" she stretches a bit and pulls Yaz's top up to kiss her stomach. "Hello, my beautiful munchkin...had a nice sleep?" she taps her tummy with her fingers
"No idea, I just woke up as well"
Doctor slides herself over Yaz and up on the pillow "Come here" she pulls her on herself and wraps her fingers around her face "I love you"
"Love you to" Yaz smiled showing her little dimples
Doctor kissed her gently and still dreamy running hands down her back
"Trying to get into my pants, are you?" Yaz giggles
"Maybe" she smiles cheeky "Don't need to try Yaz, I have VIP entrance"
"Oh, do you now?" she raised her eyebrow and tucked her hair behind her ear
"I bloody hope so Yaz"
Yaz giggled like crazy "So what's the password then" she smiles cheeky
"You cheeky bugger" she laughs making Yaz giggle even more "Password...a blinking password?"
"Yap" she laughed like crazy
Doctor brushed her lips onto hers with eyes half open "You want a password?"
"Mmmmm" Yaz mumbles
Doctor slipped her hand between her thighs smirking at Yaz who twitched and moaned against her lips "And there's your password cheeky bugger" she locked her lips with hers kissing her passionately....
...
"Sleepy head, I have to get up" Doctor ran her finger down her nose gazing at her sleepy face she loved so much
"But I don't want you to go" she moaned "I want you here with me...forever" she smiles dazzling her with her dimples
"Your adorable little head wonk and I would love to stay. But I have to meet the boys"
"I'll go with you"
"No...no you won't. You will stay right here resting mummy" she kisses the top of her nose, but Yaz snuggles in wrapping her legs around her
"Nope...I waited 10 years of my life to have you for myself" she pouts her lips
"I know beautiful...And you do have me for yourself...all of me...in fact you have every inch of me" she giggles "But some of me you do have to share with others sometimes...just a little"
"Mmmm...not fair" she complained "Kiss me"
"If, I do kiss you Yasmin Khan, you won't let me go" she smirks "I know that game of yours"
"I promise I'll let you go..." she flaps her lashes
Doctor gives in and kisses her gently, but Yaz locks her in and starts running her fingers down the back of her spine making Doctor dizzy.
"...I'm too good...I am... you are totally wrapping me around you fingers"
"I am... quite literally in fact" Yaz smirked cheeky...
...
Doctor finally managed to get out of bed and get herself dressed. But as much as she was complaining deep down all she wanted to do was stay in that bed for a whole day.
"I was thinking Yaz" Doctor said clipping her braces on "I would prefer if you stayed with Dan and not alone"
"Why?"
"Just humor me please" she put her coat on a walked to the bed "I still don't know who I'm dealing with Yaz and you being pregnant I just feel more calmer not leaving you by yourself" she strokes her face "Please darling. This isn't Tardis...It's just...different"
"Alright then... I bet he'll love that...being my babysitter" she says sarcastically rolling her eyes
"I'm sure Dan won't mind Yaz...We won't be long I promise"
...
"Waaaw...Being bodyguard to Doc's wife and a baby...You must be flattered Dan" Graham laughs
"Yeah...except he's a dead man if one hair drops off Yaz's hair" Ryan laughed
"Oi...I would never hurt Dan" she jumps...Besides it's just a precautionary measure Ryan...You never know"
"I agree Doc... Yaz being pregnant I do think it's better if she's not left alone at all to be honest. You never know"
"Soo...Now we got that sorted...tell me...What did you find?"
"Look Doctor" Ryan shows her the photo "That's meant to be the Eye of the deep...what is that thing?"
"That's the whole machine" she takes his phone and shows it to Dan
"That's what we thought but how do you steal that?" Graham asked
"Could they dismantle it or something" Ryan asked
"Possibly Ryan but even if they did you would need more than one person to take that out. Not to mention time it would take to dismantle it as well...Hmmm"
"I have an idea" Dan said "What about those teleports like that little guy, you know Doctor the one who stole your Tardis?"
"Dan my man...not a bad idea. But teleports leave a trace and my sonic would pick it up so" she scrunches her face "Sorry not a teleport Dan"
"What is that Doc? This machine? What is it actually used for?"
"Not sure...I would need a bigger picture Graham, but I can run it through Tardis later" she looked up to them "It would give us more information and compare it to all the information in database. I'm so sorry I got you wrapped up into this on a vacation...You don't need to go with me if you don't feel like it I do understand"
"Don't be silly Doc we don't mind" Graham says tapping her shoulder
"Yeah, come on Doctor" Dan smiles "We're always here to help you. Besides I can't relax thinking all these people can die"
"No Doctor me neither, we really don't mind" Ryan says
"You really are the best of humanity all of you" she smiles "My beautiful fam" she sighed happily "Alright...let's pay a visit to this man and see what he has to say," she turns to Dan "Have a nice time Dan. I appreciate this"
"Hey, you don't need to say that...Me and Sheffield we're beasties. I'm happy to spend some time with her"
"Alright then see ya" she waives, and they left
...
Yaz got ready and she was brushing her hair when someone knocked at the door
"It's me Sheffield" Dan yelled
"Hey babysitter" she laughs
"I prefer a bodyguard" he laughs
"I bet you do...This girl can take care of herself" she looks down on her belly "Well used to be able to" she giggles
"How you're doing?" he hugs her as he came in "Feeling better?"
"I do after I had a nap that's for sure. My feet are killing me. You know babies don't come with instruction manual...I had no idea this is how it will feel Dan"
"Oh, it can get much worse Yaz. My cousin was cursing heavens and Earth. She swore she won't let her husband come near her again"
"Well, I'm not in that faze thank god"
"Ok so what do you wanna do? ...Wanna go out or stay in or?"
"No out definitely out for now...I'll see how long I can walk...and I am hungry again...Didn't have my second lunch" she giggles
"Alright then...dinner and fun it is. Ryan and I went to this place yesterday it was so much fun I can take you. It's a tour with a little submarine and you don't need to walk"
"You got yourself a deal" she grabs a jacket from the bed and links arm with him "I like this"
"Me too" he cups her hand "I've missed you...both of you"
"I missed you too Dan... not same without you"
"So how is Doctor handling she's gonna be mum soon? God it even feels weird saying it"
Yaz laughs "I know...feels weird for me as well Dan it's all so fast. But she's the best honest, you'd never think would ya. But she's amazing and so happy. But it does worry me Dan"
"What worries you hun?"
Yaz stops and turns to him "You know how she never slept before. I released Dan she was just so stressed out of her mind and now it's like she can't get enough sleep. It's like she's finally found some peace in her mind."
"But that's good Sheffield...right?"
"It is Dan but what if something goes wrong...I don't think she can take it anymore. You know I just.... She burned out Dan. Everyone has a limit...even the Doctor. And I still have no idea what she's been through...God knows...you know...before"
"Yaz...has it ever actually popped in your mind that it's you who gives her that piece?"
"What do you mean?" she continued to walk linking arms with him
"Sheffield...you really can't see it can you?"
"Whaaat?" she frowns confused "See what?"
"It's you"
"What do you mean it's me?"
"It's you Yaz...what she found with you. That huge love of yours you give her. That's her peace...that's her safe place, her sanctuary. When she's with you the only thought that occupies her brain is you and how much love you two have for each other. Now I don't know her past...neither of us do...but obviously Yaz it's something that the woman never had"
"I never thought that"
"No, you never did Sheffield" he turns her around holding her shoulders "Just love her, like you always do, and everything will be fine. Don't worry...and you have baby coming. You have any idea what that means to her. It's family she never had...it's everything"
"Look what you did now" she smiles through tears and wipes them quickly "You're making me soppy"
"Hey, I know...it's only been what 6, 7 months"
"7 now" she says
"Hell Yaz....7 months ago you were on that beach...spilling guts to one another not knowing where to turn and now you gonna have a baby. My head would spin as well...Believe me it's fast for her as well. Faster than for you...she's what how old?"
"Old" she laughs
"So just take a deep breath honey. It's nice...it's good you two are alone and good you're doing all these nice stuff together. She's gonna be ok. It takes time to heal...and she will as long as she's got you"
"She keeps taking me to all these places and I feel like it's almost a pressure like she feels that she has to...and she doesn't have to...I don't need any of that I don't...it's nice but..."
"She's doing it because she's into you Yaz...she wants to compensate for all the shit from before...She's charming you Yaz it's what you do when you're with someone...when you're in love with someone...You're trying to impress them and make them happy. You just never had that before. You were chasing Daleks instead" he laughs "I mean come on...even the most important conversation you two ever had was between time loops, Sea Devils and holograms separated for years. She just wants normal relationship like it should be"
Yaz's eyes were full of tears. It was really hard for her to believe that she would mean so much to someone, and she had never thought about it. She never attached such importance to herself. She knew the Doctor loved her, but she never stopped and thought about why she loved her, she just considered herself extremely blessed that she did...
"Thank you...for saying this to me" she hugs him tight "Sorry for making you listen to that hologram all the time"
"Don't be silly. It's fine as long as I don't hear one again as long as I live" he laughs "I must say there were nights when I was dreaming it"
Yaz laughed "OMG...Sorry I know that was brutal"
"Never mind it was all worth it. I'd be pissed of it was for nothing"
"This is all like a dream Dan... I can't even say this to her...I'm still not really quite there...I keep thinking I'll wake up...It's so stupid"
"No, it's not and I bet she feels the same. I bet she goes to bed thinking when she wakes up, she'll be still banged up in that prison and this is all dream as well. You should tell her Yaz...talk to her...please...say stuff"
"Alright matchmaking bestie...I promise. Now let's have some fun I've drained enough blood out of you for tonight"
"No... never Sheffield. I'm actually really happy you're telling me all of this" he kisses the top of her head "I'm absolutely starving"
"Me too...did we miss the restaurant? " She looked around confused
"Aaaa...I think we did...Where are we anyway?"
"No clue...let's go back" she laughs
....
"Doc where are we going?"
"Other part of town...accept on a second thought we should have taken Tardis...this is taking forever. But in my defense, I haven't been here for centuries...They really expanded a lot" she looked up at all the towers around them
"Well at least we get to see the city" Ryan says sarcastically
"Ryan.!!" Graham tells him off
"Whaaa...Just saying"
"No, it's fine Graham...I'm so sorry. This isn't how I planned it" she twists her face embarrassed "it was meant to be fun and going places"
"Well, if you planned for the whole city to be destroyed Doc, I'd be seriously worried...Besides we're used to it...I even took a sandwich" he pulls it from his pocket making Doctor laugh
She shakes her head "Nothing changes...I promise after we sort this out, I will give you experience of a lifetime...I will totally redeem myself"
"Relax Doc... You still can't beat me planning a holiday and taking us to Orphan 55"
Doctor chuckled "Trying to make me feel better Graham?"
"She laughed...see Ryan...told you she laughs at my jokes"
"I laugh...I laugh all the time" she complained
"Not like now you never did Doc... It's nice...Relax We love spending time with you...even if it is chasing space psychos"
"And walking for hours" Ryan added
"Aaaa...here we are..." she stopped in front of a tower "It's up there" she points up "Says 56th floor penthouse"
"Figure that...56th floor under the ocean grandad...that's proper awesome"
"Nah... I actually preferred it when it was smaller...it felt cozier...That's why we are on the other part it's nicer. I never liked heights"
They walked out of the elevator and to the door of the penthouse. Doctor knocked on a door and very tall man opened the door.
"Can I help you?" he asked politely
"Hello, I'm the Doctor, this is Graham and Ryan. We are investigating the robbery that happened in the center of the city. And well you happen to just arrive a day before so"
"I don't know anything about the robbery mam...I'm visiting my family and I was with my sister and her family the whole time. Please come in" he lets them inside
"Parin...is everything ok?" a small woman comes into the room
"This is my sister Ania. It's a police officer questioning about some robbery"
"Oh, we're not a police just stolen artifacts. Quite a big value and we would really like it back"
"We were all at the restaurant down in this building on that day...you can check with the owner. We had reservations"
"What about this woman Parin?" Doctor showed a photo "Why was she travelling with you and where is she now? Is she family, friend?"
"No neither...I've never seen her before. We've met on a shuttle, started talking. She said she doesn't know the city that well and she was here on a business. So, I offered to help her.... you know to get around. I showed her to the hotel, and I've never seen her again"
"Did she say what business son?" Graham asked
"No, she never did"
"And what hotel did she stay in?"
"East part of the city...By the caves. It's the only hotel there"
"Ok, you've been very helpful Parin" Doctor said "Thank you"
"No problem"
They all turned around and left no smarter that they were before they came. Ryan's disappointment was written all over his face whilst he was dragging his feet back to the elevator
"What now Doc?"
"Yeah Doctor...this guy didn't give us anything"
"He did give us a hotel Ryan and I'll definitely go and check it out. But it's miles from here and I'm gonna have to take the Tardis."
"What now?"
"Noo Ryan not now!" she looked at him as if he dropped from Mars "...I do have a wife and a baby you know...Well all in one still...But that's beside the point I need to go back I promised Yaz"
"Well, some things have definitely changed Doctor" Ryan comments smug
"What are you talking about Ryan...?"
"Just saying...just saying" he grins walking into the elevator
"So tomorrow first thing I'm gonna go to that hotel. You two have done enough just have fun go somewhere...go see Mermaids.
"Mermaids??" Ryan frowned
"...I'll ketch up with you both later. Hopefully I'll have more. And as I'm at it I will scan this photo through Tardis see if we can find out what this machine is"
"Sure, you don't want us to go with you Doc?"
"Yeah sure...don't worry Graham...just have some fun. I won't be long with Tardis. I'll be back before lunchtime"
"Alright Doc"
"Now let's go back. It's getting late"
"Is it...I'm losing track of time in this place" Ryan said looking at his watch "And my watch doesn't work here"
Doctor grabbed his wrist and scanned the watch with the sonic "Hmmm...that's weird"
"Why?"
"Never mind...let's go home" she jumps
"On a second thought Doc can we go with you? I really don't mind this. And to be honest I've missed it"
"Are you sure Graham?"
"Yeah absolutely..."
"Alright...Brilliant" she jumps exited "Let's go now it's really late and we have a long walk back"
...
Doctor opened the door of the room and found Yaz and Dan sitting on a floor next to bed playing cards.
"Hey love" Yaz smiled
"Doctor..." Dan waived
"Hey, you two...see you had fun together" she smiles and takes her coat of then goes to Yaz and kisses her forehead "Hey beautiful" she smiles to her and Dan winks to Yaz behind her
"Dan took me on a submarine ride and we saw the whole city and the ruins it was beautiful, and we had dinner"
"Did he...I'm glad you two had fun"
"And got lost on a way to the restaurant" Dan laughed "How was your evening? Did you find out anything?"
"Well, the man we saw had no idea who the lady is. He was just helping her to get around. But he did give us the name of the hotel where she was staying and I'm gonna check it out tomorrow morning...so could you please..." she scrunches her face
"Be with Yaz...sure Doctor not problem"
"Hey, you two!!...I don't need a babysitter all the time" Yaz frowns protesting
"Yes, you do" Doctor points a finger at her "...Until I sort this out, I'm not leaving you alone Yaz...No discussion"
"No problem, Doctor...Have fun girls and see you for breakfast Yaz"
"By Dan.." she smiles and reaches her hands for the Doctor to pull her up "Aaaarrrh...my spine is killing me" she scrunches her face in pain
"Oh Yaz...I'll get something from Tardis tomorrow. I'm so sorry"
"It's fine...not your fault" she kisses her briefly "Well, partially it is" she grins "Go to bed with me?"
"Sure...I just need a shower...that part of the city is not nice at all...I feel all mucky"
"You still smell nice" Yaz tucked her head onto her neck
"You always think I smell nice Yaz...that doesn't count" she smiles "Go lie down...I'll be fast"
Yaz was lying in a bed looking at her baby hologram waiting for the Doctor.
"She's so beautiful...I can't wait to hold her" she says touching the projection
"Oh, I know Yaz...I don't think I'll ever leave her alone. I'll be permanently carrying her around"
"No, you won't...Not when she wakes you up 50 times at night you will change your mind" she giggles
"No, I won't..." Doctor comes out of the bathroom and crawls into bed. She presses her lips onto Yaz's tummy "She's my little munchkin and I'll never get tiered of her...How is she doing?"
"Happy and kicking all the time. She woke me up earlier today kicking around" she laughs
"I'm going be mum Yaz" she looks up at her grinning
"You are love" she says gently stroking her hair
"I'm so sorry this holiday turned out the way it did...wasn't planning it to be like that...I will make it up to you I promise"
"Hey, come here" Yaz opened her arms and Doctor snuggled next to her "Will you pleaseeee stop apologizing all the time. I'm having a grait time"
"You are?"
"Yes...all I need is you. Can you get that in that beautiful head of yours finally"
"I can try" she grins
"Please try...As long as you're next to me I really don't care what I do or where I am... It was always like that since I've met you. Nothing changed you know"
"I have to get up early tomorrow and run that photo through Tardis. We need to know what that machine is"
"I know...it's fine" She starts giggling at Doctor's rainbow boxer shorts
"What's wrong?" she asked confused
"Your nickers...I died when I packed them. When did Tardis make you those?"
"What's wrong with my nickers?"
"Nothing...absolutely nothing...they are all you all over" she laughs
"You're the one to talk...you got teddy bears"
"What's wrong with my teddies? My nanny got me those"
"Absolutely nothing," she laughed and turned her onto her back, pulling her under her as much as she could.
Yaz gazed at her lovingly "I miss wrapping my legs around you" she giggles
"I miss it too" she peaks between them "Little munchkin is in a way" she laughs and swings Yaza's leg over her side "That's as far as we can go for now"
They both laughed and kissed a bunch of short kisses. The Doctor kisses her lips and the tip of her nose "You are so beautiful Yaz"
"And you're stunning" Yaz replied ".... aaaand here she is" she giggled, knowing the Doctor would scrunch her nose like she always did "You're absolutely beautiful" Yaz wrapped her fingers in her hair and pulled her in "I want you" she smiled inches away from her lips
The Doctor raised an eyebrow and flashed a cheeky smile "So take me Yasmin Khan"
Yaz pulled her in and kissed her, pressing her lips to hers, she grabbed her t-shirt pulling it over her head. The Doctor slipped her hands under Yaz's nightgown, cupping her breasts with her hands, and trailed her lips down her neck.
"Take it off" Yaz whispered, and Doctor didn't have to be told twice. She wiped it over her head and sealed her lips onto her breast wrapping fingers around her neck. Yaz ached her back and tangled her hands into her golden hair.
The Doctor trailed her hand down her legs and hips and slipped her fingers under the hem of her underwear, pulling it down. She ran her palm over the beautiful curve of her stomach and pressed her lips to it, kissing it gently
Yaz looked down on her smiling and ran her fingers through her hair "Kissing the baby?"
"Yap" The Doctor smiled back and kissed her with soft little kisses making her giggle
They kissed slow and gently, holding each other
"Love ya" Yaz giggled playing with her hair
"You're cute...really cute you know" Doctor said kissing tip of her nose trailing fingers down her spine
"And you're just stunning" she says with loving eyes, her heart beating faster as she lost herself in her gaze. Yaz kissed her passionately and turned her onto her back pressing lips to her collarbones, kissing every inch of her body from her breasts to her stomach. Trailing her hands over her hips and her sides. She took her time tonight, there was no wildfire, just a beautiful soft flame burning between them. She was slow and gentle as if carving her name into every part of the Doctor's skin. Her fingers gliding over her like a summer breeze.
She ran her finger over the hem of her underwear and pulled it down gently kissing her hip bone.
"I love those rainbows" she smiled pulling them all the way down "Very sexy" she lifts her eyebrow cheeky
"I have them just for you love," says the Doctor smugly
"Thanks honey," she grins and runs her lips down her stomach and over her mound. The Doctor twitched as she passed through her, her lips let out a soundless moan. With her eyes closed and her mouth half open, she slowly began to rock against her and threaded her fingers into Yaz's hair moaning softly and falling into her.
The Doctor curved to every touch, following her every move as her fingers slid over her stomach and cupped her breast. Her soft moans grew louder with her every passing through her, her hearts quickened their rhythm. She reached out and intertwined her fingers "Kiss me Yaz," she says breathlessly, pulling her to her eyes.
The Doctor smiled gently at her, her eyes half open, she moved the hair from Yaza's face, which was all messy and falling over her shoulders. She kissed Yaz with her mouth open, messy and passionate. A muffled moan left her mouth as Yaz pushed into her gently.
She gripped the back of her neck "I love you," she said almost incoherently, pulling herself over her and tucking her face into Yaz's neck.
"I love you too..." Yaz whispered and pressed her lips to her forehead "...so much" Emotions ran wild in her as the love she felt for her consumed her very being.
The Doctor's moans filled the air with her lips brushing over her neck and shoulders and clinging to Yaz's collar bone. She pressed her forehead to hers breathing deeply and opened her eyes gazing at her in desperation of desire
"Yaz" she whispered her name into her mouth
"Yes, my love?" she smiled at her
"Don't you stop Yasmin Khan…" a breathless plea left her mouth running thumb over her mouth and then pressed her lips to hers kissing her sloppily.
"I won't..." Yaz smiled pressing deeper into her "Fly my love" she whispered.
The Doctor shuddered and grabbed Yaza's wrist, not allowing her to pull away.
Yaz smiled as her haze began running around her tingling her skin. She kissed her wife's rosy cheeks, the tip of her nose and the half-open soft lips "I love you so much...so, so much"
The Doctor opened her eyes smiling, ran a finger over Yaza's lips watching her close her eyes, then wrapped her hand around the back of her neck pressing her lips to hers. She kissed her slowly and gently for a long time.
"What are you doing?" she smiled through the kiss as Yaz pressed against her thigh dragging herself over her
"I want you" Yaz replied dreamy
"I can see that" Doctor chuckled "I do have hands you know" she kissed her laughing
"Well use them then" Yaz grabbed the back of her neck gazing at her desperately
"I was going to" she laughs and kisses her again sliding her hand between them brushing her fingers over her gently.
Yaz let out a soft sound and rocked against her arm "Stop that…" she begged her" making the Doctor giggle again. She kissed her hard and pressed into her making Yaz bite her lip. She wrapped her arms around the Doctor's neck rocking herself over her, crawling over her desperately trying to get more of her. "More...please..." she cried and grabbed the Doctor's hand that was stuck between her thighs pressing it harder against her raising her hips off the mattress following her hand.
The Doctor smiled from the corner of her lips turning her on her back and ran her lips down her collarbones and breasts, wrapping her fingers around her neck and her face and thumb over her half-opened lips.
Doctor felt a fire rising inside her, overcome by desire she grabbed Yaz's wrist pinning it into the mattress and lowered her lips over her breast.
Yaz was still chasing her hand, her loud moans filling the air and the Doctor appreciating each one, her back aching as the Doctor tightened her grip on her, fingers deep inside her and lips trailing down her chest. Yaz bit the Doctor's hand that was still holding her down, her legs trembled, heat coursing through her, she shuddered and collapsed onto the mattress. The Doctor caressed her face, kissing her blushing cheeks, forehead and the tip of her nose, "I adore you beautiful," she whispered to her ear kissing her temple.
They snuggled up looking at each other, losing themselves in each other completely wrapped together under the covers. The Doctor ran her fingertips down her back in a lazy fashion, her eyes heavy, tiered. She showered small kisses on Yaz's face which made her giggle.
"You’re studying me again?" The Doctor smiled at Yaz, running her fingers over her face as if trying to remember each line.
"Ah," she giggles, "it's fascinating how it changes...but this one is mine," she says possessively
"I'm all yours" The Doctor kisses her fingertips and pulls her closer just inches from her face kissing her slowly and gently
"I'm sorry I bit your hand," she says, looking at it, making sure she didn't hurt it too badly "What the hell was wrong with me"
Doctor chuckled "It's ok...I'll survive. I almost broke yours...remember"
"I love you so much"
"I adore you, my little head wonk," she said in a tiered voice, closing her eyes
"Your tiered love, sleep it's ok" Yaz runs her finger over her face and Doctor snuggles into her neck
"I really love you Yaz" she mumbles into her skin
"And I really love you Bighead" she threaded her fingers into her hair and closed her eyes letting herself drift away
The Doctor woke up early, it was already dawn, although it didn't seem like it in their room. She pulled the covers higher over both of them and wrapped an arm around Yaz's waist and buried her face in the back of her neck. Yaz moaned softly and wiggled her bottom, squeezing herself even closer to her. For the Doctor, there was nothing better than waking up next to Yaz. Waking up next to someone else, someone she absolutely adored. But I'll have to get up soon, in less than two hours actually, she thought. She did not want to. She felt guilty because as much as she wanted to find this Eye of the Deep, she was also deeply upset that she had to look for it in the first place because all she selfishly wanted was to spend time with Yaz and her family. On some level, it bothered her that she felt the way she did. But she also thought how she had given so much of herself over the years and centuries and never asked for much in return. Was it really too much to ask this from the universe? No, it wasn't, she thought.
"Oh, sod it… " she whispered into Yaz's neck and closed her eyes again smelling her wife's hair and cuddling her baby running her hand over Yaz's tummy.
Three hours later they were both awakened by a loud knock on the door. The Doctor jumped "Shoot!!!...Yaz..Yaz wake up" she shook her
"What!!!" Yaz opened her eyes trying to get her bearings
"It's Dan Yaz, we overslept" Doctor jumped out of bed
"OMG What the hell...How?"
"No idea...But I'm fricking naked" she stood by the bed confused "Give me a minute Dan!!!" she shouted
Yaz laughed seeing Doctor flustered. She grabbed her nightie off the floor and threw Doctor her t-shirt.
"I overslept Yaz...Me... how?" she shrugs her shoulders "When did I ever do that?" she said nervously
"Go in the bathroom I'll let him in" she rolled her eyes laughing "Love!!" she stopped her on a way to the bathroom
"What?"
Yaz raised an eyebrow laughing as she dangled the Doctor's rainbow underwear in her hand
"Blimey" she grabbed them and ran to the bathroom
"Morning Dan" Yaz opened the door smiling "Sorry... I fell asleep and the Doctor is in the bathroom... sorry for keeping you waiting"
"No problem Sheffield...I'm sorry to wake you up"
"Nah, it's fine, I can sleep all day long now..." she laughs
The Doctor was frantically trying to get ready while standing in the shower and brushing her teeth at the same time. She then ran out and almost fell, slipping on the floor and nocking shampoos off the shelf.
"You alright love?" Yaz yelled
"Yap...yap...why wouldn't I be" she said nervously trying to untangle her foot from the towel that had fallen on the floor. "I'm fine...we're fine...everyone's fine...." she hopped on one leg pulling her pants and socks on, then realized she had her shirt on backwards "aaaaarrrhh" she takes it off and puts it back on tucking only half of it in her pants, then finally clips on her braces and quickly brushes her hair. "It was a lot easier to dressed as a man…" she muttered, then scrunched up her nose at the sight of one of her socks that was wet from the floor "Oh hell…" she muttered and walked out.
"Morning, Dan," she smiles and starts walking around the room looking at the floor.
She then got down on all fours, lifting the covers off the bed and crawling under. Dan gave her a confused look over Yaz's shoulder making Yaz turn around. "Are you OK?" she asked the Doctor confused
"Boots?" she answered
"Hey...over here" Yaz grabbed them off the floor dangling them in her hand
Doctor turned her head with her bum still sticking up in the air "Aaaa....Smart Yaz" she hopes back on her feet "Can't have universe without Yaz" she grins grabbing them
"Obviously not" Yaz rolled her eyes laughing and walked over to her stuffing her shirt into her pants as the Doctor hopped on one leg putting her boots on her feet.
The Doctor was still frantically circling the room looking for something.
Yaz grabbed her coat from the chair and passed it on to her "This?" she asked smiling
"Yap...thank you" The Doctor kissed her forehead
"Do you have your sonic?" she asked at this point not sure if the Doctor had even found her brain this morning, let alone anything else
No longer sure of herself, she reached into her pocket and took it out. "Yeah… I got it," she smiled and stormed out of the room slamming the door, leaving Dan and Yaz looking at each other laughing. Suddenly the door opens again and the Doctor runs back in giving Yaz a quick kiss on the cheek "Sorry...a bit of head wobble today"
"No kidding!" Yaz chuckled
"... I'll be back very soon, I promise..." she twisted her face "Sorry... See ya Dan....Thank you" she waved slamming the door again
"Wow...." Dan says laughing
"Yeah...What can I say...Lovable weirdo" she laughs "I only need 15 min Dan" Yaz points to the bathroom
"Don't worry Yaz...take your time...We're not in a rush"
"Thanks" she zooms into the bathroom, and Dan sits down at the small table that was in the corner of the room and enjoys looking outside at the fish passing by
"I'm starving" she yelled from the bathroom picking up soaking wet towel from the floor "What the hell was she doing?" she hangs it on a side
"Breakfast first then?"
"Definitely..." she yelled and looked at the bottom of the shower at all the shampoo bottles on the floor and a toothbrush in a sink "My god...it's like a tornado went through"
...
"Morning..." Doctor yelled walking fast down the hallway towards Graham and Ryan
"You're late?" Ryan says confused
"I know"
"An hour late?" he says
"Sorry..." she twists her face
"Everything OK Doc?" Graham asked concerned
"Oh, yeah...No worries...I just overslept"
"You sleep?" Ryan asked
"Whaaa? Of course, I sleep Ryan...What the hell?"
"So where first Doc?"
"Tardis" she said walking fast
"Hey Doc" Graham says 10 steps behind her
"What?" she turns around
"Are we on a tight schedule?"
"Oh, sorry Graham...A bit of a head wobble today"
"Are you sure everything is ok Doc?"
"Yeah...sure it is Graham...Why wouldn't it be?"
"Just asking..."
They walked to the Tardis and Doctor zoomed inside. "Morning...Sorry you're alone again...Hope you like it here...I also hope you can tell me something about this" she turns to Ryan "Can I have your phone please?"
"Sure"
She flicked through the pictures "Aaaaa Sonya...that's a nice photo of you two"
"Aaaaa Doctor...Yeah...Maybe I should find a photo" Ryan grabbed the phone from her hands and flicked through "There..." he passed the phone back
Doctor placed it on a console for Tardis to read it and in less than a minute a whole bunch of information popped up on a screen
"Here we go..." she turns around to read it "Wow...ok...that's interesting...Oh, ooohh...alright"
"Doc... care to share some of that?"
"Oh, sorry...nobody really knows who designed it or where it really came from, but it is extremely sophisticated piece of machinery.... Well, more like a sort of AI"
"What does it do?" Ryan asked
"It creates breathable air, regulates atmospheric pressure, purifies the water, it can even create atmosphere for the entire planet...it's amazing"
"So basically, sustaining life under water in this place Doc?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying Graham. Without this everyone in this city would die...But it makes absolutely no sense...If someone did move it everyone would die...it would be a catastrophe"
"Doctor wouldn't these domes like explode or something...you know from pressure"
"Exactly Ryan...Which means it wasn't stolen...Not yet anyway..."
"Why would someone steal it, Doctor?" Ryan asks
"Machine like this is worth a lot Ryan...There are civilizations out there that would pay huge money for something like this"
"But why would a police officer lie about it being stolen?" Ryan asked
"They would if they were in on it Ryan" Graham says "I mean were not talking about stealing a watch are we...Everyone gets their cut and walk out with nice sum...never mind a genocide" he says sarcastically
"Alright we need to move fast see what's going on here. I don't like this at all and there are so many questions that still need answers...and I have a feeling we are running out of time. I've been way to laid back about it"
"Laid back?" Graham come to her defense "Give yourself a brake Doc you've only been here 3 days and you've been running around ever since we came"
"I know Graham, but time is running out and all these people are in danger I have to figure out what's going on before it's too late" she paces around Tardis "Nothing makes sense...Why would information go out that something like this is stolen and yet it's obviously not. Who is behind this and what are they planning. It could be anything stealing it, disabling it. We don't know now do we. We don't even know where it is.... Come on let's go and see who this woman is and then we will go and find that police officer...Boy do I have some questions for him" she started up Tardis and pulled the lever
...
Dan and Yaz went to walk around the city and found the most charming place for breakfast underneath the big dome there was beautiful restaurant filled with fountains and artificial waterfalls it was at very edges of the city so there was no traffic above them just beautiful see life swimming above and around them.
"God look at this place Dan" Yaz's eyes open wide "This is amazing"
"This must be the most stunning place I've ever seen. I really wish Di was here to see it" he says sadly
"I know" she linked arm with him "I wish Doctor was here as well and Graham and Ryan"
"Hey...wanna hear the news Sheffield?" he got suddenly cheerful
"It must be good news with that grin on your face"
"We picked a date for the wedding"
"Nooo...get out...are you serious? When?"
"We spoke last night, and Di found this amazing place in Scotland and it's free for next Valentines"
"OMG that's so amazing!" she stopped hugging him "I'm so happy for you"
"Also...something else"
"Yeah?"
"Would like to be my maid of honor?"
"Whaaaaa?" she jumps "Are you for real?"
"Yeah...very much Sheffield. I know it's like you know I should be having a best man. But you're my best mate Sheffield and..."
"I would be absolutely honored Dan" she says with eyes filled with tears
"Well, that's settled then...Also you're gonna have a baby by then so I don't think date should be too much of problem...I said to Di we can't get married straight after you have a baby it would be too much for you and you know...Need to heal and all that"
"That's so...my god...I don't even know what to say Dan"
"Here... look we can sit here it's nice right by the window" he points to the table, and they sit down
"Talking about that...I am nervous Dan"
"What having a baby?"
"Yeah...Closer it's getting I'm more freaked out about it all. What if something goes wrong and the pain aaaaaa...I'm seriously freaking out about the pain" she laughs nervously
"Hey, you're having Doctor's baby I really can't see her leaving you in pain Yaz...I think she'd chop off her arm before she'd ever let you go through that"
"You're probably right...but still"
"Have you told her?"
"Nah"
"Yaz...do you actually talk to her about any of that stuff that's bothering you?"
"No, not really" she giggles
"Well, why not?"
"Dunno...Suppose I don't want her thinking I keep winging about everything" she looked down, playing with the menu nervously
"She's never gonna think that...You should really be saying stuff Yaz. You are married to her you know. Also...hear me out...talking from experience here. When you keep things in, they attend to come out sooner or later and not in a best of ways either. So, you better start talking to her"
"Alright...I suppose you're right"
"You know I am. Besides you've been badgering her to be honest for 10 years. Not really fair for you to keep things from her now, is it?" her says bluntly raising his eyebrow
"Suppose not" she looks up to him feeling guilty knowing he is right
"Come on let's order some food I'm absolutely starving, and I bet you and the baby are as well" he waves to the waitress
...
The Tardis landed on the other side of the city and the Doctor zoomed around the console. Inside she was nervous and unsettled. She didn't like the fact that she was tapping in the dark with so little to go on, and deep down she didn't have high hopes for this trip either. She grew increasingly concerned that time was running out now that she knew exactly what she was looking for and what damage this could potentially do.
"Right...let's go..." she walked outside, they were not very far from the hotel they were going to.
This part of the city didn't look very inviting, in fact, everyone got a little upset when they saw the poor state it was in and some very suspicious characters walking around. The biggest problem in this place was that the city was constantly in darkness, so being early morning meant very little for either of them. It felt like walking down dark city streets in the middle of the night expecting to be mugged at every corner. Most of the streetlights were not working, and rubbish was piled up on street corners spreading an unpleasant smell. It was the complete opposite from the part of the city where they were staying
"I didn't expect this to be honest" Ryan said looking around horrified
"Unfortunately, Ryan poverty exists everywhere, and this place is no exception. Sad really come to think of it...isn't it? When there is no reason for it. All it needs is good will and a bit of effort from those on a top" Doctor looked around saddened by the state of the place
It made everyone think how blessed they were by being able to stay where they did. There was an old man sitting on pavement begging. He was some aquatic species none of them have ever seen. He caught Doctor's attention, and she walked up to him crouching down to his eye level
"Here... this is all I have with me. I hope it helps" she took something out of her pocket. A small round token and placed it in his hand
"What did you give him?" Ryan asked
"Oh, just some credits for food I had from the hotel. He can use it anywhere in a city"
"That's very nice Doc"
"No Graham is nothing really, it won't help his situation. Just a temporary patch...It makes me angry when I see this. Do you actually know what century we're in?"
"No clue Doc"
"34th century by Earth time count. You would think they sorted out poverty by now"
"Wow" Ryan's face dropped in disappointment
"Here we are" she stopped in front of derelict hotel
They walked inside to the reception area that was relatively dark for the lack of lights on the ceiling. And older lady was behind the desk. She was also some other unusual species Graham and Ryan have never seen before. Her ears were big and pointed, skin shiny blue and no hair, she had relatively big eyes and very small mouth. And as she put her arms on the counter Ryan noticed she only had three long fingers. He's never seen anything like it in his life and was completely fascinated with her. Well, he was sort of assuming it was her by her voice that was "
gentle and soft.
"May I help you?" she smiled, and her big eyes closed for a moment
"Hello, I'm the Doctor this is Graham and Ryan. I was wondering if you can tell me about this woman. We were told she was staying in this hotel 3 days ago"
"Oh, yes I remember her" she smiles "We don't get many guests, so I remember most faces. She was a quite lady and she only stayed here 3 days. Didn't really get to see her much"
"Did she maybe aske around about some stuff or say why she was here?" Doctor asked
"She said she was here on business, something to do with antiques and asked me about directions to the other side of the city"
"What other side of the city?" Doctor asked intrigued
"Wait I'll give you address.... Is she is some trouble?"
"That depends..." she answered shortly "Thanks"
Doctor said taking a little note and asked her few more questions, but lady had no clue where the woman was or where she came from.
"Well, another address" she walked out irritated "Are you getting fed up with this? Because I'm getting fed up with this really fast"
"I must admit it's becoming annoying, and we are no further forward" Graham agreed
"Doctor but have you thought that maybe that guy from yesterday just sent us on a wild goose chase to destruct us?" Ryan asked concerned
"You might be right Ryan that's exactly what I'm starting to think. Well let's go and check this address"
Graham snatched a paper from her hands "No Doc me and Ryan are gonna go and check this address" he says firmly "You are gonna go and spend some time with your wife and baby"
"Nooo Graham absolutely not!!" she protests
"Yes, you are...Flat team structure Doc... sorry. You came here for your honeymoon and yet I don't see any honeymooning here at all"
"My honeymooning will have to wait Graham"
"Doc please. Us two are perfectly capable of doing this together. Just for today go have some fun"
"Yeah, Doctor this can't be fun for Yaz either. It's like she's on a honeymoon with Dan" Ryan laughed
"You're probably right" she says saddened "But I don't feel comfortable leaving you to do this on your own. We have no idea who's behind this. Also, I have to go to the police because I think we can safely say that machine hasn't been moved"
"Doc we will go and check this address and we can pop to the police tomorrow come on give yourself a brake. Stop worrying..."
"We've been through worse. At least now we know it hasn't been stolen and probably can't be either, so nothing is going to happen till tomorrow morning" Ryan says trying to reason with her
"Alright then...I'm going soft definitely...but you call me in case anything goes wrong. Tardis is only around the corner"
"Deal...now come on...go back to your wife Doc"
"I'll take you there with Tardis it's not far from the hotel where we are"
She gave them instructions maps everything they needed and reluctantly she let them go.
But then when she was left alone it was bugging her and she simply couldn't resist the urge. She zoomed around the console and pulled the lever. When Tardis landed, she walked out in front of the massive building and walked in. The police officer was at the main desk, and she walked straight to him
"Hi, I need to talk to whoever is in charge here" she flashed the psychic paper in front of his face
"International bureau of investigation?" the man reads the paper
She turns it towards herself "Yean, I got some questions regarding a robbery I need to speak to whoever is in charge here"
"Give me minute please" the man flipped the hologram up and made a call "You can go in. 28th floor room 78"
"Thanks" she walked to the elevator and pressed the floor. She felt a bit anxious hoping she'd get some answers. The elevator finally came to a halt, and she walked down the narrow hallway to the room 78.
"Doctor. Nice to meet you. What's this all about?"
"I have few questions about the robbery at the volts 3 days ago"
"Excuse me did you just say robbery at the volts?" the man looked confused
"Yes...Why? "
"There was no robbery reported at the volts" she said convincingly
"Excuse me?" she said confused
"No, definitely not" he takes few seconds to check his data "No definitely no robbery at the volts reported for pass few days"
This information left the Doctor intrigued not even confused, she's been expecting to hear it. But nevertheless, it adds hundreds of more questions in her head.
"That's odd because 3 days ago I was at the volts myself with a police officer explaining to me that Eye of the Deep has been stolen"
Her sentences left the man even more confused and surprised "Stolen? Did you say Eye of the Deep?"
"Yes...you think that's odd...Why do you think that's odd? Explain" she tilted her head in question
The man chuckled "Noo mam it hasn't...it cannot be. Eye of the Deep is pretty safe I can assure you"
"And you know that how?" she adds another question she desperately needed to be answered
"Because mam it's right underneath us and I can assure you I would know"
"What? Here?" she jumps "In this building?"
"Yes mam. In fact, we can go down there, and I can show you. Very safe"
"I would very much appreciate that" she asked politely and exited at the same time. She's been dying to see it ever since she released what it was this morning. She always had a soft spot for any sort of machinery but this one was a stuff of legends that not only she never knew existed but now when she did, she would literally do anything to see it. She was getting exited like a child on Christmas eve
"Sure, come with me" the man escorts her out of the room and towards the elevator "Just wondering, how come you came here mam?"
"Oh, not on business actually. Honeymoon...but we came across the robbery on a way out of the restaurant, so you know...Police never sleeps" she smiles
"So true, the number of times I was on my holiday and ended up working. But I do appreciate you letting us know about this"
"Anything I can do to help"
"Much appreciated mam" the elevator stopped down in a basement "Ah...here we are" the man came out of the elevator and pressed his eye on a retina scan by the massive door. They entered another hallway that was clearly leading towards another room at the very end.
"I must say I'm very excited to see this" she was hopping along behind him itching "So I understand you people got it as gift and this thing is keeping all of this running?"
"Yes mam, amazing piece of machinery. It's been here all my life I remember first time I saw it my eyes were like in a whale" he laughs
"Woooow..." Doctor's eyes open wide as her eyes cough up with a massive machine standing at very end of the room "This is absolutely amazing" she zoomed around it, her back half crouched as she's bending down to look at every detail inside and out "Aaa...I recognize this" she nods smug "It's atmosphere regulators" she was walking around the metal giant completely mesmerized and almost felt humbled by Its presents "So ancient and yet so sophisticated"
The man smiled at her enthusiasm that in his mind he didn't expect from the police officer
"You know your machinery, Doctor?"
"Hobby of mine" she looked up to him briefly "Amazing things really" she gives vague explanation and goes back to admire it
"So, what did this police officer tell you exactly?"
She walked back to him slowly "He said Eye of the Deep was stolen out of the volts and how city is in great danger without it. But I bought the story because I had no idea what Eye of the Deep really was until I looked it up. It seemed highly unlikely someone could just snatch something this size. But now when I see just how big it is, it's even more unlikely...Makes me wonder why the whole story? Why go to all that effort? Very confusing. There must be a reason I just haven't come to it yet"
"I don't understand" the man was equally baffled "Well I'll have my men look onto it. But in any case, Doctor it is safe and sound here. So, nothing to worry about"
"Glad to hear that. Well thanks for everything I should be heading back now"
"Yes of course Doctor. I hope you and your husband are enjoying your honeymoon"
"Wife actually" she twitched
"Oh, I see, I'm sorry for my assumption"
"Don't worry about it. And yes, we are enjoying ourselves very much. Beautiful place"
"Oh, one more thing Doctor before you go"
"Yes?"
"The location of this place is highly confidential for obvious reasons so..."
"Oh, yes of course...No need to explain I totally understand"
"Thank you"
The Doctor left with some answers, but more questions. The day passed quickly, and she left it for later because right now all she could think about was her Yaz and how she missed her so much. She had gotten so used to spending all of her time with her, slowing down her life, that now any minutes away from her seemed like days gone by without her around. So, she sped her way back to the Tardis.
...
Doctor entered their room and Dan was sitting at the little table
"Shhhh" he points to the bed "We had to come back she wasn't feeling well" he whispers
"Wasn't feeling well how?" she asked panicked a bit and wiped her sonic out walking over to her and scanning her "Hmmm...they both seem fine...just this little thing. She must have eaten something wrong"
"She did say she felt dizzy and a bit nauseous, so I thought we better come back. She fell asleep as soon as she lied down but she wasn't sick or anything, so I just let her sleep"
"Thank you so much Dan. I really appreciate this. I'll take it from here. We will see how she feels for later"
"Yeah, that would be nice but don't worry Doctor. As long as she's ok. I'll leave you two alone now. And I wanna hear what happened but now she needs you more. See ya"
"See ya Dan. Thank you so much" she closed the door and went back to Yaz took stethoscope out and pressed it to her stomach "Hey munchkin...you seem fine...just sleep" she whispered and then pulled covers over her. Then touched her forehead and took her wrist measuring her pulse. She took a little patch out of her bag and stuck it to the side of Yaz's neck. "There...you will feel better now" she kissed her forehead. Yaz slept through all of it just making few quite noises.
"What a day" she mumbled taking off her coat and boots. "Why do I always mess things up?" she walked into the bathroom feeling miserable about herself
Yaz was still sleeping when she came out of the bathroom, so she just crawled into bed and laied behind her quietly.
When Yaz woke up an hour later she found Doctor sleeping on her chest with her arm wrapped around her. Her hair over her face that was squished comfortably between her breasts. It made her chuckle how the Doctor made a pillow for herself. She had no idea when she came back but it felt so lovely to wake up and find her next to herself. She run her fingers through her hair gently looking through the ceiling
"Mmmmm....I like this" Doctor moaned satisfied
"Hey...sorry I woke you"
"You can wake me up like this any time" she smiled and kissed her chest "How are you feeling?"
"As good as new" she smiled looking at Doctor's bag on a floor "You brought stuff from Tardis?"
"Good that I did. That was a nasty bug you picked up. Same as Ryan"
"Ryan had a bug?"
"Mmm..." she laughed "I didn't want to freak him out. You know him and space bugs and viruses" she stretched crawling over Yaz showering her with kisses over her chest and neck enjoying in a cuddle.
"OMG what if you pick it up? ...Or others?"
"I won't don't worry. And others don't eat that jelly" she laughs
"I got worried about the baby"
"I would never let anything happen to you or the baby. Besides Tardis is around the corner" she looks up to her "I'm sorry I messed it up"
"Messed-up what love?" she moves her hair of her face gently
"That I wasn't here"
"Oh, don't be silly. You didn't mess up anything. How come you're not with Graham and Ryan?"
"They wouldn't let me...Told me to get back to my wife" she chuckles
"Waaaw...And you actually listened?" she ruffles her hair playfully
"I know...can you believe it"
"No not really...Who are you and what have you done to the Doctor?" she giggles
Doctor laughed and tickled her "You cheeky bugger"
"Stop!!!... I will legit piss myself" Yaz laughed fighting of her hands and
Doctor pinned her down playfully to the pillow holding her wrists "I love you so much" she smiled hovering over her and kissing her gently "Wanna go somewhere? I'll take you were ever you wanna go today"
"Anywhere?"
"Anywhere...I'm all yours till tomorrow"
"Mmmm...and after tomorrow? Not mine no more?" she says cheeky
She scrunches her face "Still yours just have to share me a bit"
"As long as I don't need to share you in my bed it's fine" she giggles
"Yasmin Khan!!!" she jumps "Did that just leave your mouth?"
"Just saying" Yaz giggled like crazy
"What in a world? ..."
"Kiss me" she demanded with her hands still pinned to the pillow
Doctor shakes her head smirking and kisses her nose
"Noo...kiss me properly"
"And where do you want me to kiss you, Yasmin Khan?" she smirked and brushed her lips on hers
"Everywhere please"
"Sure, you're up for it after today?"
"Yes I am... I'm as good as new...now stop talking and kiss me properly!" she giggles, and Doctor obliged taking her lips into hers
She had this desperate need for the Doctors lips that never left her. She felt her love grow in stages from admiration when she met her to obsession when she fell for her to now addiction when she finally had her for herself. And Doctor loved and cherished every part of it. She loved being needed so much she adored this magnetic pull they had between each other. This almost painful feeling of desire and passion that they both couldn't resist. They both controlled these feelings for so many years that it became a standard practice in their lives, don't touch, look away, move away, these thoughts became like mantras in their minds like the slow torture they both condemned themselves to. So now when those shackles are off, and the chains are broken, they desperately wanted to melt into each other. For their lips never to part, for those hands never to stop exploring for those eyes to get lost in each other's gaze.
Yaz fell asleep again and Doctor went into the shower. She was getting worried because Graham and Ryan still didn't call. So, she rushed to put her clothes back on and made a call.
"Doc everything alright?" Graham picked up straight away
"Yeah, why wouldn't it be. I was getting worried. You alright?"
"Yeah, why are you calling?"
"Whaaaa? What do mean why am I calling Graham? Why aren't you calling me?" she got flustered and confused
"Because time off means time off Doc, it's only been two hours since you dropped us off. Are you getting bored with a married life?"
"Graham!!!! " She yelled and then released she will wake up Yaz, so she went out of the room into the hallway "What in a name..." she yelled frustrated again as soon as she shut the door and was outside "Just tell me what you found"
"Nothing Doc... absolutely nothing. That address doesn't exist"
Doctor stomped her foot completely frustrated and leaned her forehead against the wall "What do you mean Graham it doesn't exist? What doesn't number, house, hood what?"
"Nothing Doc... it's a rubbish dump. There's nothing here but a pile of very stinking rubbish" Graham was literally standing at the site as he was speaking to her looking at endless piles of rubbish
"What the hell...I can't I really can't no more" she could feel herself going slowly into a melt down and slumped to the floor of the hallway sliding her back down the wall "I need something anything...one little, tiny thing just one...is that so much to ask"
"No Doc it's not...But here we are surrounded with people's old shoes...sorry Doc... it's why I didn't call. We're gonna come back now"
"Alright Graham...thanks" she was about to hang up when Graham called her name again
"Doc"
"Yes Graham"
"Hey don't worry. Just enjoy today...You know sometimes we are so stressed we can't see the obvious solution that may be right there in front of us. You're a smart woman...you'll get to it"
"Thanks Graham..." she hangs up the phone completely deflated
"Love...is everything alright?" Yaz peaked through the door wrapped up in a sheet
"Yeah...yeah it is" she got up "Go inside Yaz don't stand here like this what iff someone comes"
Doctor walked back inside, her shoulders slumped and her back hunched in disappointment. She was again no further forward. How does she stop something when she has no idea who is planning it or where or when. And jet she knew it's coming, right around the corner.
"Babe what's going on?" Yaz stood in the middle of the room still wrapped up in a white sheet that would normally spiral Doctor straight into one of her head wonks, but not this time. She was pacing the room worried with her head down and hands on her hips. Trying to think what is missing. Is there something that she didn't do. Is she losing a touch she thought to herself.
"Babe speak to me" Yaz tried getting her attention and stepped in her path bringing her hand up to her face "What's going on?" she repeated the question in hope she gets an answer this time.
Doctor cupped her hand and brought it to her lips kissing her knuckles "I'm stuck"
"Stuck?"
"I'm stuck Yaz..." she looked at her with desperation
Yaz kissed her short and ran her hand down her chest then slipped it around her waist "Hey, no, no you're not. We'll figure this out. I'm so sorry I'm a bit of waist of space in all of this"
"Don't say that Yaz you're never waist of space. You're pregnant"
"I'm pregnant not brain dead. Come on...tell me everything...
Doctor explained everything in short including the conversation she just had.
"What if we're following wrong leads?" Yaz said worried
"What you mean Yasmin Khan?"
Now Yaz started pacing around holding the sheet with her hand dragging it around the room.
"We need to start thinking the other way now. Why would someone fake a robbery? It was either to deflect from what was really going on at that preset time or to draw attention...Who knows you're here?"
"You think this has something to do with me?"
"Maybe...Not sure...If I wanted to get your attention, I would do that because you can't help yourself. You will stick your nose into it"
"Thanks babe"
"Don't mention it" she smirks "Just saying...Don't know why but I'm worried just be careful babe. I don't want someone using you that's all"
"You got a point there Yaz I must say...haven't thought about it...Did I tell your you're the smartest person I know?"
Yaz laughs "No I'm not...your just so desperately in love with me babe" she flaps her lashes cheeky and runs her finger down her chest seductively
"You'd be right in that" Doctor grins and slips her arms around her waist and down her backside then turns her around "I am desperately in love with you" Doctor sealed her lips onto her neck pressing her against herself and trailing her hands over her breast and down her stomach holding her chin up with the other hand. The move that Doctor did was so slick it made Yaz quiver. She was a goner, closed her eyes leaning on her chest and brought her hand to Doctor's neck. Her lips trailed the curve of Yaz's neck dropping down her bare shoulders. She was maneuvering her slowly towards the table by the window and Yaz allowed herself to be led wherever Doctor wanted her to go. She didn't care less as long as she was in her arms.
"Take me" Yaz whispered with her eyes closed she found Doctor's hand that was on her stomach and run her fingers over her wrist. It was a subtle sign that Doctor knew, her body language speaking to her what she wanted her to do next.
"I plan to," the Doctor grinned whispering in her ear, wrapping her fingers around her neck, kissing her earlobe, and trailing her lips down her neck. She felt the nudge of the Doctor's leg pushing her forward and then the table in front of her. Her hands slide down her curves. Yaz reached for the edge of the sheet, but the Doctor stopped her "Don't...I want you like this" she whispered in her ear again grabbing her side pushing her one last time...Her voice sent shivers down Yaz's spine.
"Please..." Yaz tilted her head and found her lips kissing her passionately "Please...take me" she spoke into her mouth
Doctor kissed her hard and pressed her hand between her thighs over the sheets and Yaz let out a moan into her mouth. She played with her over the cotton fabric making her twist chasing her hand and grabbing her neck.
"Bed?" Doctor asked shortly
"Too late for that" Yaz replied sliding her hand down Doctor's wrist
"What do you want Yasmin?" she whispered her name in full. There was something incredibly sexy about the Doctor when she said her name in full. She didn't do it often, but when she said it like that, it sent Yaz into the stratosphere
"You...I want you" she answered back catching her lips "I want you inside me" she cried out
The Doctor parted the fabric and lightly ran her fingers over her, and Yaz grabbed her wrist and guided her hand, which made the Doctor smile. She lifted Yaz's leg on the chair that was next to the table and wrapped her arm around her.
"Tell me again Yaz" she said kissing her cheek and brushing fingers over her thighs making her twitch
"I want you inside me" she repeated the request "please" a loud moan escaped her mouth clutching the hair at the nape of Doctor's neck, her legs twitching as she pressed her fingers against her. Yaz reached behind her running hand down the Doctor's side and grabbed the fabric of her pants pulling her closer to lean against her as she was passing through her. Yaz chased her hand rocking against her. She found Doctor's hand that held her tight and laced her fingers with her. Her moans grew louder with each passing through her, heat coursed through her cheeks her legs shaking and weaker she slumped for a second, but Doctor held her tight.
Yaz's gripped her hand and caught her lips one more time. Doctor knew she was gone as sounds muffled into her mouth and Yaz shattered in her arms. She kissed her temple and let her lean on her "I adore you beautiful" she whispered keeping her lips pressed onto her temple.
Few moments passed before Yaz turned around and reached for the Doctors hand shoving her fingers in her mouth licking them gazing at her in a same time. Doctor's face twitched in utter confusion. She found this incredibly attractive, but her brain was trying to catch-up. Yaz kissed her fingertips her eyes still locking on to her, she brought her hand at the back of Doctor's neck and caught her lips kissing them hard. She ripped braces off her shoulders and unbuttoned her trousers.
"Yaz!" Doctor said confused looking down, but she pulled her neck into another kiss "Shut up Doctor" she mumbled and pulled her t-shirts over her head and slipped her hand down her trousers kissing again.
Doctor moaned into her mouth taken back, her head was spinning. She wrapped her fingers around Yaz's face kissing her passionately messy open mouth moaning as Yaz was going through her.
"Off!!!" Yaz demanded with fire burning in her eyes "Take them off" she fiddled with small buttons.
"Yes mam!" Doctor grinned lifting her chin with her finger into another kiss and kicked her boots off stepping out of her pants slinging them across the room. Yaz was drunk with desire, crushing her lips on her ones again into a messy kiss then rotating Doctor hitting her back to the table. Doctor's brains glitched for a short second as Yaz grabbed the sheets and slumped on the floor leaving Doctor a confused mess trying to gather her thoughts, but as she felt her brains glitching Yaz's lips were sloping down her stomach, her fingers running down the hem of her underwear pooling them down followed by her tongue running over her mound.
"Shoot...Yaz!" Doctor hit the table with her back and grabbed her hair as her lips pressed into her. She leaned on a desk holding the edge with one hand hoping this table won't collapse underneath her or that would be truly embarrassing. Yaz's lips were sealed on her running through her like fire burning through her. Her hot breath between her thighs. She tapped her leg and moaned giving her signal then draped it partially over her shoulder. Doctor found herself speechless, not that she could speak at this point even if she wanted to. She tangled her fingers into her hair desperately gripping the edge of the wobbly table thinking how maybe this wasn't such a good idea and bed wasn't that far away. But it was too late for that she figured as shivers went down her spine a second later when Yaz slid her fingers into her slowly one by one and grabbed her thigh with another hand. Doctor's moans filled the air. She looked down for a split moment and her brain glitched again at the sight of Yaz on her knees wrapped up in a white sheet, her hair falling down her shoulders and her lips sealed onto her. She shut her mouth smothering her moans and frowned her face tilting her head back. Yaz moved slowly and she moved with her. She ran her fingers through her hair moving it from her face her hearts speeding up her breathing quickened. Yaz moved her hand from her thigh and ran her hand down her stomach pressing harder.
"Blimey " words escaped her mouth and she grabbed Yaz's hair tight then releasing her hand worried she's tugging too hard. Another moan escaped even louder as Yaz was picking up the pace and Doctor shut her mouth again. Yaz hummed into, her desire washing over her she grabbed Doctor's hand lacing their fingers.
"Yaz…don't…" she tried to say gripping the table, gripping Yaz, trying to keep her balance at the same time and Yaz sped up again as a sign that her plea was heard.
Doctor dug her fingers into the edge of the squeaking desk. She opened one eye worried it will collapse but the shivers went through her in another wave, so she quickly gave up on a table all together. She shuddered and soundless moan left her mouth she gripped on Yaz's hand. Yaz stopped for a moment pulling back then slipped her fingers back. Doctor's back hit the table feeling she will explode, regenerate on a spot. She felt her legs shaking until it washed all over her. Weakness came over her and she slumped. Yaz kissed inside of her legs and wiped her face in a sheet. She stood up clumsy grabbing the edge of the table and wedged herself between Doctor's legs letting her slump head on her shoulder. She ran her fingers through Doctor's hair and down her spine and kissed the hot skin of her shoulder "I adore you my love"
Doctor razed her eyes looking at her exhausted hair stuck on her face, blushed face, she flashed a lazy smile and kissed her messy
"You look a bit fucked Doctor" Yaz said smirking and Doctor ran her hand over her face in lazy fashion "Shhhh.. potty mouth" she said still smiling kissing her one more time
"Brains rebooted Doctor?" Yaz laughed cheeky
"Blimey Yaz definitely" she sighed satisfied her legs still shaking "Bed" she got up on wobbly legs pulling Yaz along
Yaz was beaming inside out. There was nothing in her world more satisfying than seeing Doctor stumble like this. Making Time Lord begging for mercy in her arms. She was totally getting off on it, and it was a new discovery in her life. The fact that she had that power over her for at least that short time, that she was in control over her body that melted under her touch.
Doctor stumbled into bed...and pulled her by the hand "Come here you" she smiled "What have you done to me" she put her arms around her as she laied on her chest proud of herself
"I love you" she smiled trailing finger down Doctor's arm
"I adore you" she kisses the top of head "You've ruined me Yaz" she chuckled
"That was the intention" she giggles looking up to her and Doctor pressed another kiss to her lips "Can you walk?" Yaz laughs
"Not sure" Doctor squished her cheeks between her fingers "Cheeky bugger. But I desperately need a shower so we will see. I just need to pull myself together, you threw me to another dimension"
"Well, I'm in a desperate need of a shower as well. I'm overheated"
"Come on then" she nods her head and Yaz gets up straight away "Coming with me?" Doctor grins
"You seriously need to ask me that?" she smiled cheeky and got up as well
Yaz couldn't help but keep her hands on her at all times. She trailed them lightly down her waist and sides all the way to the bathroom.
Doctor stepped over a wet towel that was on the floor, a nasty habit she just had of slinging towels around that Yaz simply learned how to ignore. Being with the Doctor was 99% perfect so the little habits that would otherwise annoy Yaz didn't matter to her at all because she simply adored every part of the Doctor.
She ran the water in a shower and before allowing Yaz to step one foot inside made sure water wasn't too hot or cold. One other thing that Yaz adored was the amount of care and attentiveness Doctor gave her at all times. This side of her that only came to pass truly since they were together and if it ever was there before, Doctor made a good job of hiding it from Yaz. But now she felt so protected almost sheltered from the world by the invisible shield Doctor has created around her making her wonder if she would ever allow her again to face forces of the universe like before, or she would just keep her locked deep within the Tardis where nobody could ever harm her. Iff she was perfectly honest with herself she didn't even mind as long as she was with her, she will find a way.
"Here perfect" Doctor says holding her hand "Carefully Yaz don't slip"
Water felt soothing on Yaz's skin. She felt overheated from everything and unlike Tardis that was regulating temperature in just the right way, hotels always felt too cold or too hot for her. She lived inside Tardis for many years now and her body wasn't used to it anymore. Doctor pressed her head on the tiles letting water run down her spine. It was her thing and Yaz found it incredibly attractive. Doctor was so tiny she could count every vertebra. Yaz trailed her hands down her back resting them on her hips and kissed her shoulder blade. When they would take a shower together like that it was moment to just looked her. She loved looking at her without clothes. Again, something that was so personal intimate, it was body that nobody ever saw but Yaz. There was something so amazing about that fact.
"Mmmm...that's nice" Doctor smiled and pulled one of her hands around herself resting it on her stomach "Wanna go with me?"
"You need to ask?"
"Well, you don't know where"
"I don't care" she laughs "But do tell"
"I wanna go back to the volts. I keep thinking i missed something. It's bothering me"
"Sure...I just need to eat something" Yaz rinsed soap of Doctor's shoulders and pressed another kiss on her back
"Also, I wanna take you out tonight"
"Really?" Doctor shifts away from the wall pressing her hand on the tiles above her head still holding Yaz's hand around her waist. This makes Yaz concentrate really hard on a conversation.
"I feel bad...we've been here three days and I haven't done anything with you"
"You've done plenty with me babe" she giggles pressing herself on Doctor's back and showering her with small kisses down her shoulder blades
Doctor smirks looking down "Yeah, that's not what I meant"
"I'd love to go out with you...Wear a tux for me?" she kissed her again
"Yaz"
"Mmmmm?"
"You fit into me"
"What do you mean babe?"
Doctor turned around and cupped her face gazing at her lovingly "You fit into me Yaz, like a perfect part of me"
"You're making me soppy now" she smiled controlling her emotions "And you into me love like I never thought anyone ever will"
Yaz looked absolutely adorable gazing at the Doctor with her big beautiful brown eyes. Smile across her face showing her cute dimples. Her hair was getting wet draping across her shoulders and as she lovingly gazed at Doctor's eyes getting totally lost in them, she kept blinking as water from the shower was splashing in her eyes. Doctor kissed her softly for long time.
"Come on beautiful you're turning into a prune" she smiles "Cute prune but nevertheless"
"What should I wear?" Yaz was standing in her underwear digging through the drawer.
"You look beautiful in everything" Doctor kissed her shoulder passing next to her
She was already dressed herself and making a call to boys. They figured it would be nice to go somewhere for meal for a change before going back to the volts. It was way pass lunch time anyway and Doctor figured everyone was hungry, she also felt a guilty for making everyone run around for the past 3 days and wanted them to have some fun as well.
"Wear those cotton white pants and blue t-shirt I got you. It looks nice showing the tummy" Doctor added just before Graham picked up the phone on the other end
"Excuse me?" Graham said confused
"Whaaa???" Doctor answered then she clocked on to it "Not you Graham...Yaz" she looks at Yaz across the room laughing silently
Yaz pissed herself at the thought of Graham showing his stomach through the blue tight t-shirt. Then deleted the image out her head straight away and walked up to the bed to get dressed. She got her trainers and sat on a bed waiting for the Doctor to put them on. Since their last conversation about it she gladly let her do it, even enjoyed in the little routine they had now.
"Right...all arranged Yaz. Oh, I promise I will make it up to all of you today" she walked up to the bed and crouched down grabbing her trainers "Specially you beautiful" she looked up smiling
"You don't need to make up for anything to me love I promise" she strokes Doctor's hair "But..." she puts a finger underneath her chin lifting her gaze "It would be a treat to see you in a tux" she smiles
"Might do Yaz...just might do" she got up and kissed her forehead then reached for her hands to lift her up "Let's go mummy"
They laced fingers together and walked out of the room.
...
"Yaz...nice to see you feeling better" Dan smiled and kissed her temple
"Thank god...thank you so much. And I'm so sorry for that Dan"
"Nah, don't worry...what are mates for"
"Hey Yaz, Doc how are you? ...We heard what happened. Gave us a scare a bit" Graham says
"Gave myself one as well. Not for me but the baby. Where's Ryan?"
"Oh, went to get something from the shop for your sister he will come directly to the restaurant" Gram said with satisfaction in his voice
"I will kill them both just so you know. I was he literally listening to her wining in Egypt for hours and now they both keep a secret from me...Totally not cool"
"To be fair you kept you and Doc a secret" Graham gives it back to her
"Oi, not the same thing but ok I'll take it..." she smiles "I suppose I deserved that one"
They walked slowly through the city, which was built in a very unusual way. Some parts are completely enclosed within massive domes, and some buildings like the hotel they were in are submerged under water with only massive crescent-shaped windows giving a beautiful view of the ocean. The part where the Doctor had taken them now was the part that was under one of those huge domes and the feeling was unusual as the streets down there seemed like any other city until they looked up and instead of the sky, they saw a glass dome that had a distinctive shimmer almost like it's covered in glitter. The only problem was that all of them were slowly losing perception of time not knowing whether it was day or night because the place had no natural light at all, so it constantly felt like it was night.
Yaz didn't mind it, she was used to Tardis and the crescent window in their room was a nice change.
Doctor was happily chatting with boys and Yaz was got lost in her thoughts looking around at all the different alien creatures passing by and unusual transportation devices in a shape of a bubble hovering around silently as if they had no engine. Suddenly something caught Yaz's eye, and she stared at it so much that she didn't release she pulled Doctor to a halt tugging her hand
"Yaz? You Alright?" Doctor caught her attention, but Yaz didn't answer. Her eyes were fixed to a store window and Doctor looked in that direction. Her face went soft and subtle smile flashed across her face when she released Yaz was fixated at the baby crib on a display.
"You like it?" she asked quietly smiling
"It's amazing" Yaz pulled her hand and pressed her face to the window. The crib was semi-oval in shape made of the same crystal-like material as the domes in the city and supported by a silver stand beautifully crafted like thin lace that hugged the cradle. The sheet fabric was something Yaz had never seen, soft and pleasant like cotton, but it was as thin as a cobweb. She was completely mesmerized.
This was the first time since she was pregnant that she had actually stopped in front of a baby store. If she had been on Earth by now, they would have already been buying things, but Yaz was in the Tardis on a distant planet away from it all.
"It beautiful and look see that thing on a side" Doctor pointed to the little display attached to the side of the stand "That's a hologram for the baby"
"OMG"
Doctor glanced aside and released the store was shut. Her heart sank to the bottom of her boots.
"Hey, I promise we will sort out the baby room as soon we come back"
"Promise?" Yaz looked up to her with a bit of sadness in her eyes
"I promise...We should have done it by now" she kissed her temple and they turned away from the store continuing towards the restaurant
The Doctor gripped her hand tighter, almost as a comfort. She felt bad that she hadn't thought of it sooner. She felt so clumsy about it all, but the last thing she ever wanted was for her inability to recognize the obvious to hurt Yaz. She didn't want Yaz to feel as if she was deprived of normal. Penny dropped for the Doctor, and she admitted that she hadn't thought about things like cradles and buggies. The truth was she hadn't thought about it at all. The baby was like some abstract thing in her mind that still hadn't arrived even dhow she knew it will, apart from being completely beside herself from happiness she hadn't thought of much else. She leaned in and kissed Yaz's temple again. She looked at her with eyes filled with so much love Doctor felt as if she didn't deserve that look at this point in time but as always there it was. Only Yaz could ever give her that look without any resentment at all. She questioned every day how she ever managed to be so lucky to fall from the sky through that train straight in front of this absolutely wonderful human being. She also wondered in a same time what the hell was wrong with her to wait for so long to be with her, but there it was, same as always right there in front of her nose and jet it has to smack her on head each time for her to release. Suddenly she jolted releasing they were in front of the restaurant
"Aaaa here we are" she looked up "See right there at the top" she points to the terrace roof that was miles up in the air. "Ryan!! just in time" Doctor saw him walking towards them
"Hey son...got what you wanted?" Graham tapped his shoulder
"Yeah, and some extra" he smirked "Hey Doctor...Yaz...feeling better?"
"Much better"
"Sonya send kiss and she said...Quote "Tell her she's got family on Earth as well"
"Alright, thanks Ryan. I'll call them today"
"Hey Yaz...you think she'd like this?" Ryan gets her to smell his wrist for the perfume he picked
"Oh, totally...She loves sweat notes. Don't worry about it"
"Awesome...thanks"
"Got something for your grandad?"
"Why? You're here with me?"
"Thanks...how observant of you Ryan. I don't think I would know that if you hadn't told me"
"You alright Dan" Doctor walked up to him as they entered the building "You very quiet"
"Oh, yeah all fine Doctor just getting lost in my thoughts a bit that's all"
"Missing Di?"
He smiles "Yeah, that obvious?"
"Come on, let's get some food I'm starving"
...
Doctor explained during the lunch all about the machine and her going to the police. But it left everyone confused same as her, not sure if they should be pursuing it any further now with the new information.
"Doctor does that mean you can stop worrying about it now. I mean it's safe" Ryan asked
"It's still bugging me Ryan...Something is very off here. But at least for now I'm glad everyone is safe...Well for now at least...But there's a place I'm taking you tomorrow you're gonna love it. It's on the other side of a planet so we will take Tardis. I hope you got swimming trunks"
"Going swimming?" Ryan asked exited "Is it the surface Doctor?"
"Yap it is Ryan"
"Hey Yaz, you're finally getting your beach holiday" Ryan laughed and she made a face across the table
"So, what have you all been doing now when you're back at Earth?" Doctor asked secretly hoping they will say they miss her
"Not much Doc... I'm just enjoying my pension"
"And hanging around the Bingo ladies at the local community center" Ryan nudged him
"Aaa Bingo...I love Bingo...I'm good at Bingo" Doctor says cheerfully
"I love my new job I have some new mates" Ryan says "But it's hard not talking about last several years of your life. You know when something is right there on a tip of your tongue, and you need to stop yourself. I bet half of them just think I was banged up for several years. That's what's nice about Sonya I don't need to hide"
"I know the feeling Ryan" Yaz says "Been lying to my family so much I didn't know what I was saying half of the time anymore. God it's nice just calling my mum and saying Hey guess where I've just been"
"I'm getting married for Valentines" Dan shot out the information leaving everyone speechless
"You whaaaaa mate?" Ryan jumped exited
"That's beautiful news Dan. Congratulations" Graham smiled tapping his shoulder
"Wedding!" Doctor jumped "Oh, so happy for you Dan. I love weddings...I know this beautiful place you know I can make few calls, very hard to book"
"Thanks Doctor, I really appreciate it, but Di found this beautiful place in Scotland, and we would love for all of you to be there. I just asked Yaz today to be my maid of honor"
She nods smiling proudly
"Just released Doc, you'll have a baby by then" Graham noticed
"We sure will" Doctor covered her face with her hands "I still can't believe I'm saying that" she laughs "Well that's cause for celebration...Let's order some drinks" she waives the waitress
"What about you Doc?"
"What about me Graham?"
"You and Yaz...will you ever tie the knot you know with family and all that?
"Not down to me Graham....I'm leaving that to Yaz. I'm happy either way"
"No" Yaz says "We are married" she glanced at the Doctor eyes glistening with love "...and that's all that matters to me I don't need a piece of paper telling me that" she said but deep down the only reason Yaz never wanted a big flash wedding was because she would have 50 family members there and she knew Doctor doesn't have even one. Fam was different, it was her family of choice, but Doctor didn't have a real family and Yaz was painfully aware of that. She loved her way too much to put her through it. She also knew that as much as the Doctor was relaxed in front of the fam she was still socially insecure around people she didn't know, and her family can be intimidating at the best of times.
They've spent over three hours in a restaurant chatting and laughing after which Doctor took them to see glowing caves nearby. Yaz was getting tiered, and it was becoming difficult for her to walk so Graham and Dan managed to convince the Doctor to drop the trip to the volts and just enjoy the rest of her day with a promise they will go together first thing in the morning.
"So, what are you all gonna do for the rest of the day?" Doctor asked as they entered the hotel
"We will go to swimming pools, and we saw casino on way. Don't mind losing some money" Graham laughs
"What about you girls? Wanna join us?" Dan asked
"Thanks Dan, but I promised a date night to my wife" she glanced at Yaz looking up to her smiling
"Uuu....way to go Doctor" Ryan makes a joke as usual "Well Iff we see you we will pretend we don't"
Doctor shook her head laughing from the corner of her lips. She still wasn't used to being taken a piss out of in this way, but she didn't mind it either. It felt nice to have that closeness and her relationship with all of them having more intimate tone to it than having to be the one in charge on board the Tardis.
"She ya" Yaz waives as they headed back towards their room. Doctor draped her arm around her shoulder and kissed her temple
"Happy?" she asked smiling
"You really need to ask that?" Yaz slipped her hand around her waist leaning on her
"So, it's now around 18 our time and I have a table booked for 21. What do you wanna do?"
"Absolutely nothing" she laughs
"Nothing, nothing?" she chuckled
"Well...use your imagination" Yaz smirked
"You sure about that Yaz. My imagination can be pretty wild at times"
"I'll take my chances" she giggles
Yaz slumped on the bed kicking her shoes off "I need a shower...at least to cool down my feet" she huffed
"Why don't you have a nap Yaz, so you get rested for this evening?"
"Might do actually...What about you? Nap with me?"
"Well...I was gonna go to Tardis to check something that's been bugging me, but I don't want to leave you alone"
"Don't be silly, honestly if you wanna go, go I'll be fine. Just lock the door with sonic. How can anyone come in babe"
"Oh, I don't know Yaz"
She got up and grabbed Doctor's braces pulling her in quite rough "You're panicking for no reason...you're also complicating things. Go! I don't need a nanny"
"You sure?"
"Yes...go. You're absolutely itching to go admit it. Besides what's the point if you will just stare at the ceiling" she turned her around and slapped her bum pushing her out of the door "Love ya. Just don't be too long... oh oh...please hun can you bring me that hair clip you got me for Christmas it's in a first drawer next to the bed
"Sure" Doctor wrapped her fingers around her face kissing her softly and then closed the door securing the lock with a sonic
She rushed to the Tardis and zoomed inside flipping the switches in a hurry then pulled the lever.
Yaz took a shower and changed into her nightie. She laid on the bed and looked at her baby monitor for a while then picked up the phone.
"Hey mum" she said happily
"Yaz, honey thank god you called I was getting worried about you
"No mum I'm fine sorry for not calling"
"How are you doing? How's the baby. When are we gonna see you two?"
"Hey slow down mum" she laughed "We are actually on a honeymoon.... delayed honeymoon and I'm calling from under the ocean...it's amazing this place mum it's a whole city under the sea. Baby is doing great 6 and a half months now and I'm absolutely huge" she chuckles "And I promise we'll come and see you as soon we come back. What about you and dad?"
"Ah, the usual. Nothing new here. You father may get promotion and I'm still waiting to see about that new job. Keep your fingers crossed. We told your nanny about the baby"
"OMG and how did that go?"
"She's excited about the baby, and she said she guessed about the Doctor and you, but we left out the part about Doctor being an alien, then your nanny said the weirdest thing"
"What did she say mum?"
"She asked are you two still travelling through time?"
Yaz pissed herself laughing "Oh..."
"Yaz what is she talking about?"
"Long story mum...Well smart lady nanny. I'll have to go now mum. Doctor's taking me for a date tonight and I have to take a nap"
"That's nice...Your father never takes me out. We'll have fun honey and please don't forget to call. I was gonna call the Doctor"
"Alright mum, promise. Love ya...send my love to dad and Sonya"
"Will do and you mine to the Doctor. By love"
Yaz settled into bed. She missed the Doctor, but she was so used to her being in bed practically just for sex that it was a welcome change to have her sleeping next to her. But she was happy to see her relaxed even happy. She knew the Doctor would run away somewhere. No matter how desperately she tried to stay still, it was as if the Doctor's genetic code was programmed to keep moving. She even jumps when she walks, and her hands are never still no matter what words come out of her mouth, they are constantly waving and even when she is standing still, her shoulders sometimes move as if in a slight twitch. Yaz found all those things adorable, cute, and sometimes she wondered if her own genetic was programed to just simply adore the very ground the Doctor walked on. She was tired and her eyes heavy she fell asleep quickly.
Doctor stepped out of Tardis and walked towards the very building where it all started...the volts. She managed to pass the security one more time and shortly she was back in the volts but this time all by herself. She was determined not to miss anything this time. It was bugging her more than words could explain and also making her feel stupid that she couldn't figure it out. She wiped the sonic out running it all across the volt then got down on all fours with one of the security guards looking at her weirdly from the outside.
"Just checking for details" she lifts her head shortly explaining herself then continuities to crawling across the floor. Suddenly something caught her attention that was not meant to be inside the volt. A very thin line across the floor barely noticeable but when her face was just an inch from the floor, she could clearly see it and follow her fingers down the edges. She stood up and pointed her sonic. Suddenly a click sounds, and the plate popped up from the floor. It was a hatch in the floor. She opened it up and caught the guard's attention
"Hey...what are you doing?" he yelled
"Did you know that was there? Couse, I didn't know it was there and I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be?"
"No... what is it?" he walked inside
"No idea but we won't know unless we open it" she ripped the plate off without asking for permission and peaked inside leaning over the edge "It's a tunnel...a long tunnel..." she yelled with her bum sticking up in the air and half of her body inside "Not a well-kept one either" she puffs the cobwebs of her face and comes back up "Wanna have a look?"
The guard slumped on the floor and used his flashlight to peek inside "What is this place?"
"No idea...you don't happen to have a blueprint of this place?" she asked
"We do" he walked out of the volt and opened up the hologram, but the blueprints didn't show that tunnel
Doctor lowered herself down into the tunnel and took her sonic out. The man went after her walking the narrow dark tunnel
"You don't happen to know anything about the robbery of this volt few days ago, do you?" she asked the man
"No, none of the volts were robed. Where did you hear that?"
"Mmm...just a rumor. No worries. And was anything ever in it?"
"To be honest Doctor we are not familiar with content of the volts. It's not allowed. We only check things like weapons, explosives dangerous stuff. But just plane valuables no"
"Do you know who was using it?"
"I don't but there are records you can have a look iff you'd like"
"Oh, great. That would be extremely helpful"
The tunnel wasn't long after walking about 200 meters down the dark damp place Doctor saw light at the end and sped up her pace. When she walked out, she released the exit was made at the back of what looked like a freezer room
"What in a name?" she realized that she was in the kitchen of an abandoned restaurant in one of the small alleys. She walked between dusty tables that still had menus on them, taking one of them and shoving it into her pocket. At first glance, there was nothing unusual, and the sonic didn't show anything either.
She suddenly remembered...the date with Yaz. "Oh shoot" her face went white. She completely forgot and panic set in.
"Right...well I have somewhere I need to be...oh about an hour ago" she scrunches her face "Just make sure you tell your boss about that shaft will you. And I will definitely wanna see those records tomorrow"
She left the man confused and ran out of the restaurant. When she got out, she realized that the Tardis was at the other end. "Shoot... I swear I would divorce myself" she mumbled into her chin and stared running down the street. After a few minutes she finally reached the place where she left Tardis. She flew in and zoomed around the console and in a second she was gone. She parked the Tardis in front of the hotel and ran inside
"Doctor?" Ryan looked at her confused as she ran through the door
"Not now Ryan" she said quickly and ran off
"Yaz...I'm so sorry" Doctor bursts through the door "Yaz?"
"You're late" she said walking out of the bathroom wearing a beautiful floor length black dress hugging her curves and tummy beautifully, her hair falling over her bare shoulders in a French braid on the side. The Doctor felt her hearts skip a beat at the sight of her, then she felt them fall to the floor releasing that Yaz had been waiting for her for over an hour
"I know I'm so sorry Yaz" she scrunched her face and started pacing around the room "I went to volts and there was this shaft and it led to the restaurant..." Yaz stood in front of her and pressed his lips to hers, cutting her off leaving the Doctor in complete confusion with her eyes still open as she kissed her, she moaned briefly into Yaz's mouth still trying to talk
"My lovable dork" Yaz said calmly pulling back and looking down at the Doctor's chest running her hands down her braces then she looked back at her eyes still looking at her confused "You owe me one, now go get dressed" she smiled
"I don't deserve you Yaz" Doctor said shortly
"Go!... Now..." Yaz points to the bathroom
Yaz took out all the Doctor's clothes and laid them on a bed for her whilst she was in a shower. Doctor ran out of the bathroom all flustered only in her boxers. Yaz's eyes trailed down her body and suddenly she didn't feel like going out for a date. She was perfectly happy skipping it and staying in the room. But she pulled herself together and made herself look the other way.
"And you took all my clothes out as well" Doctor came up behind her and kissed her shoulder
"Noo...please don't" Yaz pulled back and quickly turned around
"Whaaa?" she looked at her taken back
"No no... just I... you like this..." she points her hand at her practically naked body "You're giving me a head wonk ok" she yelled
Doctor stood confused and then started laughing like crazy "I'm giving you a head wonk?"
"Yes!!" Yaz covered her eyes with her hand and turned towards the window "Just get dressed will you...I swear my hormones are coming out of my ears"
Doctor walked up to the bed shaking her head laughing "It's normal Yaz" she started explaining wiles getting dressed "Many women experience an increased libido late in the first trimester and in the second. And a hypersensitive clitoris due to extra genital blood flow"
"OMG shut it will ya!" Yaz yells
"You're embarrassed now...Why Yaz?" Doctor said clipping her braces on and walked up behind her moving hair from her shoulder "You don't need to be embarrassed in front of me Yaz" she kissed her shoulder "I love every minute of it. It's nice to be wanted like that and I want to hear it from your mouth. I want to know beautiful" she puts her arms around her and her head on her shoulder "I love you"
"I love you too Bighead"
"Come on...I'm ready. Let's go"
Yaz finally turned and looked into her eyes. She felt herself getting lost in them again. The Doctor kissed her forehead, then the tip of her nose and her lips. "You look fantastic," she smiled
"And you look beyond sexy" she straightened her bow tie "Now get me out of this room before it's too late" she smiles
"Yes mam" she winked at her and grabbed her jacket of the bed
...
The restaurant was beautiful and once again Doctor managed to dazzle her to oblivion. Their table was right next to the window and the view was breathtaking. Dimmed lights gave a very romantic atmosphere. Yaz gazed at the Doctor across the table her eyes filled with her. The golden hair falling down just above her shoulders. She released it grew quite a bit in past seven months. She studied every line of her face under dimmed lights and her eyes looking darker, deeper, she felt like they looked straight into her soul. The white shirt peaked underneath lapels of her jacket and visually made her chest quite flat, almost masculine and Yaz found it unbelievably attractive. She loved Doctor's ability to be both feminine and masculine at the same time. Her energy felt the same as if traces of her male existence were still present in some form. It was showing even in the way she moved. Yaz knew her body language inside out and she felt the switch many times she liked that.
She kept thinking about the braces that hid underneath the lapels and Yaz had the urge to run her hand between them down to the hem of her trousers. She found it hard sitting across the table without any physical touch, so she reached across the table sliding her hand between the glasses and Doctor got the message. She smiled subtlety from the corner of her lips and met her in the middle gently playing with tips of her fingers as they were talking. Yaz looked beautiful and radiant. Few strains of hair falling over her exposed shoulders distracted the Doctor, and the curve of her collarbones became more pronounced as the shadow of the dimmed lights fell on them. Doctor found her eyes escaping down the dip of her dress between her breasts which now became fuller in past few months. And she could swear she's put shimmer on her cleavage because the silky skin glistened under the lights. She laughed at Doctor's jokes showing her dimples and Doctor cracked more jokes to keep her smiling. Her smitten gaze never escaped Doctor's eye. Nobody ever looked at her in this way.
"Happy?" Doctor asked with permanent grin on her face
"This is amazing" Yaz said "thank you"
"You don't need to thank your wife for taking you out. Especially when she made you wait for over an hour" she chuckled
"Oh, but my wife is lovable weirdo and it's a part of her charm"
"Your wife should pull herself together because you deserve better"
"Anyone in mind?"
"Are you serious? I love my life. Your wife is not to be messed around with"
"That dangerous ha?" she raises eyebrow
"Yeah, most wanted criminal in the known universe"
"Yeah, I'm into dangerous blondes" she laughs
Doctor laughed from the corner of her mouth "Can a dangerous blonde ask for a dance?" she laced their fingers together across the table
"I thought she'd never ask" she smiled
Doctor walked her to the floor and slipped her hand around her waist trailing finger over Yaz's arm and draped it over her shoulder before slowly pulling her closer. Doctor was a good dancer and Yaz let her lead the way. She had a way of gazing at her when they would dance that sent shivers down Yaz's spine. Her eyes fixed on her never leaving, never moving and lips parted just a bit. Then after few circles around the floor she trailed her hand down her spine gently ever so subtle. It amazed Yaz how this woman who was ball of fizzy energy could become so still so subtle.
Yaz gazed back at her sinking into her completely. She trailed her fingers at the nape of Doctor's neck sending shivers down her back. Doctor leaned her forehead against hers never taking her eyes of her. She smiled lightly and Yaz felt her breath on her lips.
"I want to kiss you" Yaz whispered twirling a strain of her hair at the nape of her neck between her fingers
"I can't tell you what I want to do to you" she flashed a cheeky smile back licking her lips
"I want you" she whispered
"Shhhh" Doctor pulled apart and swirled her around then pulled her back to her chest. She broke eye contact and brought her head above Yaz's shoulder
"I want you too" she whispered in her ear and Yaz shivered
"You're driving me nuts" Yaz said into her ear
"I would be worried if I didn't" Doctor looked at her smug "Bed?"
"Hell yes" Yaz replied relieved
She thought Doctor would never ask and few more minutes on the dance floor she wouldn't be able to vouch for herself anymore.
The hallway to their room was empty and they were the only ones on it. By the time they reached the door Yaz was exploding. But she would never break the rule. Doctor was dead against public display of affection and even the way they danced tonight was bold for her standards. But when the door shut behind them Yaz was relieved. She had a fire in her eyes and Doctor took a notice, she pulled her hand and slipped arm around her waist wrapping her fingers around her face. Their lips crashed together Doctor's back hitting the door. Yaz pulled the jacket of her shoulders in one single swipe and grabbed her braces with both hands. She kissed the Doctor like tomorrow doesn't exist and run fingers through her hair. Doctor's hands were trailing down her back and her fingers quickly found the zipper of her dress. Yaz leaned her forehead on Doctor's and nervously fiddled with tiny buttons on her shirt in a darkness of the room.
"Need help with that Yaz?" Doctor laughed
"Dear god just get it off" Yaz pleaded
Doctor laughed and quickly unbuttoned it "Better?"
"Much" Yaz pulled it apart and trailed her tongue down her chest unbuttoning her trousers in a same time. Her dress was already on the floor, and she craved to feel Doctor skin on hers. Doctor pulled her up for another kiss and kicked her boots off. Yaz kissed her passionately forcefully. Fire burning behind her eyes. She slipped Doctor trousers down and reached for her hand pinning it above her head. Doctor raised an eyebrow and blinked. She could see where this night was going but it was side of Yaz she was ready to explore. And she was letting her show it to the fullest. It was something Doctor saw a long time ago inside her. That spark behind her eyes, but Yaz had to grow into it slowly. Feel comfortable with it and with herself owning it.
She changed the energy and started kissing her softly and Doctor accepted it. Yaz pinned her other hand above her head trailing lips down her neck and pushed her leg between Doctor's thighs.
"I love you Yasmin Khan" she whispered and Yaz smiled
"You're stunning" she said back and released her grip slowly tracing lips down Doctor's chest slumping slowly to her knees trailing her body with her lips and her hands. She pressed a kiss to Doctor's hip reaching the hem of her boxers teasing with her fingers down the line. Doctor bucket and wrapped her fingers in her hair "Yaz" she moaned
She was sliding them off slowly tracing exposed skin with her lips. Doctor moaned loudly tugging on her hair waives of heat surged through her she felt the cold metal of the door on her back mixed with hot breath of Yaz's lips between her thighs. Yaz went through her slowly sending shivers down her spine. She brushed her fingers on her lightly and Doctor shivered under her touch. She felt herself going and Yaz didn't even start. Her knees buckled and she shuddered. Yaz looked up "Did you just?"
"Mmm..little...don't" she grabbed the nape of Yaz's neck
Yaz smiled "Not a chance" she sealed her lips on her and ran her fingers through her.
Doctor's head hit the door so hard Yaz looked up. She shut her mouth to muffle her moans and grabbed Yaz's shoulder to keep herself from falling, again the bed was close but way too late for that. She felt herself going again. Doctor was strong but keeping herself stable was proving to be a challenge. Yaz pressed her hand on her stomach as if she got the message. Doctor shuddered she felt her cramping around her, but Yaz led her through it. She kissed her hip bone and got up as she felt her starting to wobble.
Doctor kissed her hard her eyes half open, haze running around her she sloped her head on Yaz's shoulder.
She felt her chest moving hearts pumping fast. "Love ya" Yaz smiled and kissed her head. She strokes the back of Doctor's neck pressing her against the door, so she doesn't fall.
Doctor was weak, her legs trembled but night was young, and she wanted Yaz. It was on her mind since the restaurant, and she had to control it. She was good in controlling herself but even she felt herself slipping from time to time.
"Was it nice?" Yaz asked still stroking her neck
"Are you seriously asking me that?" Doctor razed her gaze "That was...What's that word" she scrunched her face teasing her "It's on a tip of my tongue...aaa yes...Amazing Yasmin Khan" she laughs playfully and kissed her nose stroking her hair..."Bed?"
"Mmm definitely" Yaz smiled
They stepped over the clothes scattered on the floor. Yaz held her hand leading them towards the bed, but Doctor tugged her turning her around. She wrapped her fingers around the back of Yaz's head pulling her into a kiss
"I thought you said bed?" Yaz smiled into her lips
"I did" she kissed her short and ran her hand down her spine. Clever fingers unhooking her bra with one hand. Making Yaz wonder many bras did those hands take off. There was something about this night, fire burning in both of them, they were bouncing of each other in a perfect way. Maybe this is what happens with time she thought this amazing feeling and it was this night out many spent in Doctor's arms that Yaz released how she no longer found Doctor intimidating, she was simply hers. Someone who's body she knew as well as her own, someone who's touch felt as a part of her, and who's lips made a permanent home on her own. And even dhow there were many layers of the Doctor's past still unknown to her, it was this layer that she knew the most that belong to her completely and she belonged to it utterly. She didn't know when it happened, it was slowly over time them finding a place within each other like the river grazing itself into the rocks finding its place setting the flow it's how the two of them slowly found a way within each other.
Doctor kissed her slow, very slow. Running lips over her neck and her shoulders. Her hands trailing every part of her slowly, gently wrapping themselves around her like cotton sheets.
Yaz climbed the bed and kneeled pulling Doctor's hand to follow her and kissing her passionately. She ran her hands down her chest and fingers threw her hair "Do something" she said inches away from her tucking strains of hair behind her ears
"What beautiful?" Doctor asked between the kisses
"Do something you never did before"
Doctor pulled back confused her hand still wrapped around her neck "What do you mean Yaz?"
"Take me like you would if you were a man"
"Whaaaa?" Doctor twitched not quite sure if she understood that request
"I'm serious. I wanna know"
"Yaz...I..." she got all confused
"I want to know"
"Yaz...I'm like missing basic parts you know"
She giggles "I know...but that's not what I meant silly...I just...I want...Never mind...I'm sorry" Yaz looked down suddenly embarrassed she asked, feeling silly about herself, and felt like she's put Doctor in uncomfortable position
"Hey...Yaz...look at me" Doctor put a finger underneath her chin and raised her gaze "Don't be embarrassed...It's fine"
"No... it's not...Look I'm sorry I just messed this up. Forget I ever said that please" she wanted to leave but Doctor pulled her by the hand
"No... I'm not Yaz...We're having this conversation now. I'm not upset with you beautiful. I'm just confused what you want me to do. Please...tell me"
"I just...I..."
"Please...I need you to say these things Yaz" she wanted to touch her face, but Yaz pulled away
"Noo...forget it, please I'm an idiot"
"Yaz..." Doctor grabbed her chin fixing her eyes on her "Don't ever say that. You're not and idiot. If there's stuff you want, I want you to say it...it's important...really important. This isn't all about me you know. Please don't let me beg because I will. And I can't believe I'm saying this but for you I will Yaz...please...I don't understand honey"
"It's just...You were a man before? Like many times"
"Yes, darling I was"
"And you well...and you did stuff differently"
"Yes and no...."
"I just wondered...if you were still a man...how would you be with me. But obviously without...you know...And don't finish that sentence please because I'm gonna die"
"Ok" Doctor laughed "I won't...But I do want to know why you wanna know that darling"
"Because it's a part of you. You're a woman now but it's a part of you still in so many ways. It's your past and it may be your future. I just want to feel it. I want to understand it. Does that sound stupid? Probably it does"
Doctor moves closer to her and cups her face "No it's not stupid, and don't ever say that Yaz, nothing you ever say is stupid. It's actually amazing"
"Whaaa?"
"You are truly remarkable you know. And yes, it is a part of me darling a big part of me, it is all me Yaz" she took her hand kissing her knuckles and ran a thumb over her cheek "I love you. More than anything in this world"
"I love you too"
"I want you to know me Yaz...all of me...I already said this to you. Whatever part of me you want is yours for taking. And I'm sorry, I was just taken back I got confused"
"I'm so sorry"
"Don't say sorry. You have nothing to apologize for. Come here you" she pulled her in for a long kiss and pulled apart just a bit leaning her forehead against hers "I can try do my best without essentials...we just see how it goes. But I assure you it's not that different, just a little bit" she smiles
"You're really gonna do this?" she smiled at her
"I would do anything for you Yaz" she pulls back puffing a strain of hair off her face and runs fingers through it "So am I manly enough for you darling?" she smugs
Yaz giggled like a kid and trailed her hand down her chest "The sexiest man alive" she raises her eyebrow
"I think I was sexy" she smirks "Well in my younger versions anyway. Alright, well..." she rubs her palms together fidgeting a bit looking around the bed
"What?" Yaz asked confused
"Give me minute...need to think how we're gonna do this...this isn't that easy you know...given the lack of stuff you don't want me to mention"
Yaz giggled "Alright...think away just don't take too long I'm getting cold"
"Oh, I'll warm you up don't worry about that" she smugs "Right I think got this...sort of...kinda...Trust me?" she looked at her one more time under the eye
"Are you kidding me?" Yaz laughed "Lead the way Doctor"
"Right...Mmm...here goes me embarrassing myself for the rest of my regeneration"
"I'm sure you won't" Yaz smiles
"Nervous?" she scrunched her face
"Not with you babe"
She smiles in relief "Brilliant..." then her face went serious, and she brought her hand back to Yaz's face running her thumb gently over her cheek then wrapped her fingers around the back of her neck with the other hand pulling her close to her lips "So we're doing this wife?"
"We are husband" Yaz laughed and closed the gap kissing her passionately
Doctor kissed her for a long time trailing her hands over her back then ran her lips down her neck and shoulders lowering her to the mattress trailing her lips over her breast bringing one of her hands above her head pinning it gently to the pillow. Yaz was gone, her body arching following her lips and her hands. Doctor trailed her hand across her breast and down her stomach pressing it between her thighs over the cotton of her underwear. Yaz moaned quietly twisting her hips and Doctor took her lips into her own one more time before sloping down between her thighs slipping her underwear down her legs, kissing the soft skin of her inner thigh then draped her legs over her shoulders. Her hot breath hit Yaz's skin before soft lips pressed themselves onto her. She quivered reaching for her hands lacing their fingers together. Doctor took her slowly, passing through her gently.
And Yaz melted into every passing, quite moans leaving her mouth lingered in the air. But then Doctor pulled back kissing the inside of her legs.
"Come here darling" she pulled her hand and lifted her up kissing her one more time gently stroking her face then guided her to turn around and lean on her chest. She trailed fingertips down her arms making Yaz shiver under her gentle touch.
Yaz was floating leaning on her chest her eyes closed feeling gentle pressure of her lips tracing down her shoulders and her neck and her hands traveling down every curve of her body. Doctor was moving differently, her energy changed, her touch slightly different but it was still her and Yaz let herself be guided. She had no idea where it's heading but she loved every minute so far. Doctor's hand was gliding down her stomach and then preceded on the inside of her thighs. Yaz moaned as she passed through her, her back arching, Doctor's fingers wrapped around her neck and lips trailing down her earlobe. "I love you Yasmin" she whispered softly and Yaz sunk into the abyss. She turned her head and found her lips kissing her slow and gentle moaning quietly as Doctor's fingers went through her she rocked her hips following her hand. But Doctor pulled away again.
"Mmmm" Yaz grabbed her wrist complaining
"I will" she said softly kissing her shoulder "But it's a bit different this time" she finished by kissing her cheek and smiled then ran her hands down both of Yaz's arms lacing their fingers and pressing hands down to the sheets sliding them forward seamlessly maneuvering Yaz across the bed nudging her with her hips to slope forward until her head was on the pillow and hips up in the air still pressed to the Doctor's back. She started pulling away from her hovering above her trailing lips between her shoulder blades and down her spine followed by her hands gliding all across her curves cupping her breast and running down her stomach. When Doctor pulled away completely behind her Yaz felt unusually exposed, but Doctor's lips pressed on her lower back and her hands were still here. It felt unusual not seeing her, but Yaz knew she was still there. "I'm still here beautiful" she kissed her hips then hovered above her kissing her earlobe "You're beautiful" she spoke softly "May I have you this way?" she whispered and wrapped her fingers around her neck pressing lips to her cheek
Yaz felt tingles going down her spine "You can have me however you want" she whispered
"You're absolutely gorgeous" she said softly and ran her lips down her spine making Yaz shiver under her touch hot breath tracing her skin until she was again behind her, and she felt her hand trailing around her hips. Doctor twitched and took a big breath tiny bit nervous herself and pressed her lips to Yaz's lower back.
"You alright darling?"
"Stop asking me" she said shortly, and Doctor couldn't help but chuckle she pressed her lips to her hip again and ran her hand between her thighs
"OMFG" words escaped Yaz's mouth and Doctor almost died trying desperately not to laugh
"Shhh...potty mouth" she teased her fingers over her making Yaz press her face into the pillow moaning low and twisting sheets in her fists. She forgot her bum was essentially up in the air with the Doctor having a graphic view. Not like her face was never there but this time it was on display.
"Please...stop teasing me" she begged
Doctor pressed her lips on her lower back again she felt her hot breath on her spine and her hand between her thighs brushing fingers and her knuckles over sensitive skin. Yaz was goner and she knew she wouldn't last much longer "What do want Yaz? Tell me"
"Inside me please" she whispered squishing sheets in her fists and rubbing her face into the pillow. Her back ached as cold fingers went through her she pressed her forehead onto the pillow.
There was something so different about this not being able to see Doctor's face and having to anticipate her every move. Every touch seemed stronger in some way without the visual and she was deep, deep inside her like never before, touching parts of her she never knew were there.
Her hand wrapped around her, whiles other deep inside her, her soft lips trailing her back. She moved slowly setting the rhythm and Yaz followed collapsing into the pillow melted into every touch. As Doctor picked up the pace moans escaped her mouth, she couldn't control any longer, she was running through her like a molten lava burning through her skin.
"Fuck" she smothered the word into the pillow and Doctor smiled. She hated swearing but knew Yaz couldn't help it and she was the one making her do it. Yaz was dizzy, legs going num tingles running up her spine she felt herself falling. Suddenly Doctor stopped pulling away slowly and ghosting her fingers through her thighs kissing her hips
"No don't...don't you dare" she yelled
"Shhhh slowly" Doctor said quietly trailing her hand over her spine "I'm not" she pressed her lips from each side of her hips "You're so beautiful" she said as she went through her again. Yaz moaned and bit her lips as the Doctor picked up a pace again, her other hand wrapped around her pressing against her. Yaz shuddered underneath her, she was gone this time, checked out, feeling dizzy as heat coursed through her and Doctor led her through it until she slumped, and Doctor pulled away.
She laid her on her side and pressed herself onto her back trailing her hand down her arm and kissed her shoulder softly. Yaz slowly came around and turned towards her
"Hey beautiful" Doctor smiled and kissed her gently "You alright?"
"Mmmm...dizzy" she smiled
"Head wonk?"
"Big one. I'm cold"
"Oh, sorry love" Doctor grabbed the covers and threw it over them then pulled Yaz as close as she could draping her leg over her hip "Better?"
"Much better" she kissed her slowly, gently tucking her hair behind her ear "That was nice"
"It was?" Doctor asked suddenly feeling unsure if maybe she let herself run with a passion to high
"Yes? Of course, it was? It was beautiful"
Doctor sighed relieved as if a ton of bricks fell of her back.
"Why wouldn't it be? Didn't expect it" she giggled "You never did that before"
"No, I didn't" Doctor took her hand and kissed her fingertips
"Why not?" she asked confused and in way so innocent it made Doctor's heart sink. Yaz loved her so much and trust she had in her had no limitations but walking a line was Doctor's responsibility. She wanted Yaz to be the owner of her passion to explore her own limitations and know herself, be able to express it and vocalize it. And as far as the Doctor was concerned what they had was forever and she wanted them to navigate this path together.
"It wasn't the time my little head wonk" she kissed tip of her nose again
"What do you mean love?"
"Iff, I did that before it would scare you Yaz, you wouldn't feel comfortable not seeing me like that and not to mention being exposed like that. Knowing you, you'd probably let me do it but that wouldn't be fair to you"
"I liked it dhow...a lot" she giggled "And I trust you with everything love. You always make feel beautiful and you're always so loving and gentle"
"But I also trust you to tell me if you don't like something"
"Babe...You're kissing me, loving me...OMG...making me feel like I'm the most beautiful woman in a world. And more I'm with you more I feel that way. How in god's name can that be wrong?
"Mmm"
"Darling...I want to know you...I really do...I'm not scared of you I never was. Intimidated yes definitely because I had no clue what I was doing, and I felt like an idiot half of the time. Sometimes I still do. And you...Well you...you were even a man for God’s sake. Like how the hell do I ever top that" she laughed "But I couldn't ask for a better teacher" she smiled cheeky
"Teacher Yaz?" Doctor cracked up laughing
"Yap...Everything I know is from you...and you're always so wonderful with me. And this...this was awesome"
"It was?"
"Yes silly. It was different...you were different. You felt different, stronger more powerful and moved differently but it was you" she brought her hand to Doctor's cheek "It's what I wanted to feel. And it was beautiful" she said softly, and Doctor finally felt at ease "I wouldn't want it all the time because I love to see you as well, touch you, see your eyes kiss you wiles your inside me"
"I know beautiful me too, can't not kiss you. I want to kiss you all the time" she pulls her in more kissing her gently
"All over?"
"All over my beautiful wife"
"Did I tell you recently how much I love you?"
"Nope...definitely not"
"I love you till the end of time"
Doctor gulped, her eyes tearing glistening in a dark "Oh Yaz, till the end of time my love" Doctor kissed her gently for a long time then Yaz tucked her head into her neck breathing softly into her skin. Doctor stayed awake for a while running fingers through Yaz's soft hair. and they fell asleep curled up together.
It was dawn and Doctor sneaked out of bed quietly. Yaz was sound asleep, and she left a note on a pillow just in case. But deep down she was hopping she won't wake up before she was back. She carefully closed the door and locked it with a sonic.
Two hours have passed, and Doctor hovered over Yaz. She was excited her hearts beating fast. She had a smile right across her face
"Yaz...sleepy head wake up love" she said gently running finger down her nose
"Mmmmm...Why? It's early"
"Because I have to show you something and I will totally explode if you don't wake up"
"Whaaa?" Yaz popped her eyes open "What are you talking about?"
"Come on get up.... Close your eyes"
"If, I close my eyes I will fall asleep standing"
Doctor rotated her legs over the edge of the bed and pulled her up to sit. She was literally hopping on one place and couldn't keep still
"OMG love what's going on"
"Come on up, up" she covered her eyes with her hand and helped her to get up
Yaz started giggling " What are you doing...What's going on here?"
"There" Doctor smiled literally from ear to ear and moved her hand
Yaz woke up in a split second her eyes open wide.
"You whaaaaa!!! Nooo waaay...no...no you didn't"
"I did" Doctor smiled, she was shaking herself from excitement
There was a cradle by the window and Yaz though she was dreaming. The same beautiful cradle her eyes glued on through the store window. It was right there in front of her in the middle of their room. Yaz stood bolted to the floor her chin started to wobble and tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Happy?" Doctor asked hopping on one place in
anticipation
"Happy? Happy?" Yaz said barely managing to speak. She grabbed Doctor's face squishing it in her hands "You beautiful, perfect, wonderful woman...I bloody love it!" she pressed her lips on hers "And I love you so much" she showered her with hundreds of kisses all across her face
"I love you too Yaz and I'm sorry I didn't think of it before. I'm so sorry I'm so dizzy"
"Stop...just stop" she tucked hair behind her ear "You're beautiful absolutely beautiful. And you're perfect for me"
"Wanna have a look" Doctor jumped of the ground. She couldn't wait to show her everything
Yaz circled the cradle and it felt surreal. She ran fingers on the edge and over the fabric inside. She was almost afraid to touch it. It's where their baby will sleep, she thought. Right there inside and it felt like a dream.
Doctor was zooming around explaining every function.
"It took a while to assemble. I was hoping you wouldn't wake up. See look it has a music, loads really...not sure I know all of it...probably none of it. And this look Yaz heartbeat...only one but then you only have one so that's fine. And you can change the temperature and then there's this" she pressed the button and holograms popped up scrabbling in the air "Ups....well that's too many I need to look at that... I did something wrong there" she bent down to look and saw Yaz wasn't present "Yaz? You Alright?"
"No...no I'm not babe"
"What's wrong beautiful?" she got up worried and wrapped her arms around her "Iff it's too much I can return it"
"Shhhh..." Yaz put finger over her mouth and sighed "It's perfect absolutely perfect...babe this is it...isn't it? We're having a baby"
"Blimey Yaz...I though you don't like it" she wrapped her hand at the back of her head and pressed her on her chest "Yes love we are...we are having a baby"
It was around nine in the morning, but Yaz didn't feel like getting out of bed. After morning surprise that Doctor pulled on her all she wanted was her in a bed. After all, this is what you're meant to do on a honeymoon, never leave the bed. So that's exactly what they did, went back to bed and snuggled together under the covers trailing hands down each other and kissed gently.
Yaz took her hand and traced her finger over her palm gently
"What?" Doctor smiled looking at her doing it and studying it with her gaze
"Nothing...just thinking that's all"
"And what are you thinking about" she makes a funny face squinting her eyes "Can I peak inside?"
Yaz giggled "Silly sod...I'm thinking how we have changed. How I have changed. You know from that time I first met you too how I am now with you"
"In what way darling? I know you have I just want to hear your thoughts"
"You know...from being naive girl who wanted adventure in a blue box to being smitten by you. Trying to impress you and being so proud when I saw you were" she giggled "Or when I was disappointed, I just found a bunch of rubbish under the ocean, and I thought I found a planet on my first solo outing"
Doctor laughed "I was relieved it was just rubbish and you were still on Earth Yaz. I think I would've popped a vein if you ended up on another planet"
"Oh, I was so disappointed with myself. I really wanted to impress you" she laughed
"I'm glad you didn't Yaz" she kissed her nose "Tell me more come on...I love this"
"You know then you seemed so big and so unreachable, mystery that I wanted to unravel. And now...now I know every inch of you. My lips kissed every part of you. And I carry your hearts inside me...I find it unbelievable and amazing"
"And I know every part of you my little head wonk...I though at one point you're gonna leave me...It was the scariest thing ever. I thought I really messed it up this time. But you've put up with me and you deserve a gold star for that one Yaz I'll give you that much" she giggled
"You were a nightmare you know"
"I know...I still am Yaz I'm aware of it...but I'm really trying"
"I know you are...but not a nightmare" she rolls her eyes smiling "maybe just a little bit" she shows with her fingers and Doctor kissed them
Yaz stroke her face gently gazing at her eyes smiling "I just wonder what our future will be?"
Doctor pulled her in as close as she possibly could without one inch between them making Yaz laugh because she wrapped her around herself practically tangling them together.
"Our future is this...you, me and a baby together. Being happy Yaz. It's what we both want, and I am making it happen. I'm not giving up on that no matter what"
The phone rang and Yaz puffed knowing it's the boys calling and she's gonna leave the bed. She didn't want her to. She wanted them to stay like this for hours just cuddling and chatting. She missed it so much, missed her. But she also knew she had no choice either.
Doctor reached out to the side table it was Dan calling her.
"Morning Dan"
"Morning Doctor, I hope I'm not disturbing, just wondering what the plan is for today?"
"One hour...meet me in a restaurant and I'll tell you everything"
"Alright...deal see ya Doctor"
"So does that mean I have you for another half hour?" Yaz flapped her lashes and slipped her hand around her giggling
"Mmmm...if we get ready really fast, and you don't go peeing ten times I think we can squeeze longer" she grins
"Deal..." Yaz smiled and started kissing her
...
"OMG...I never got dressed faster...shoes babe?"
"Yap...yap...shoes...second" Doctor ran around clipping her braces then grabbed Yaz's shoes kneeling next to the bed laughing "We are not doing that again"
"What part?" Yaz laughed
Doctor looked up razing her eyebrow "Yeah...you're probably right" she scrunched her face then finished trying her shoes and grabbed her hands to lift her up "Come on mummy...let's go"
"Love ya" Yaz cupped her bum laughing
"Yaaaaz you cheeky bugger we need to go! ...Come on" she kissed her short and reached for her hand to leave the room
"Your coat!" Yaz said at the door
"Shoot!!" she ran back inside and grabbed it from the chair slinging it on as they walked down the hallway "We are really late"
"I know...half hour?"
"25 min"
"Is there a difference?"
"Yeah...five minutes Yaz"
Yaz just rolled her eyes laughing as they got into the elevator
"Doc..." Graham razed his hand from one of the tables in the restaurant
"Hi...sorry" she scrunched her nose embarrassed
"Relax Doc... it's a holiday...We still didn't order we were waiting for you"
"Awww...thanks that's so sweet" Yaz said sitting down
"How are you sweetie?" Dan asked kissing her cheek
"Like new today..." she smiled
"So, Doctor what's new?" Dan asked
"I went back to the volts yesterday. There's an opening in the floor to the passage down underneath"
"What the hell?" Ryan frowned "Surely that's not meant to be there?"
"No of course not...went down there and it led me to this" she popped the menu from the restaurant on the table
"Whaaa?" Dan took the menu "This is just getting weirder by the day"
"They must have someone in those volts Doc... You can't tell me this isn't an inside job"
"Definitely Graham...I'm just wondering what was in that volt and who hired it. I'll try getting information today. Aaarrrhhh everything about this is just rubbing me the wrong way"
"I know what you mean. I feel like we are being made fools of to be honest" Dan said
"We are Dan...and nobody makes a fool out of me...Well, sometimes they do...but not for long anyway"
They finished breakfast and then went straight back to the volts. The guard was there waiting for the Doctor already
"Doctor" he waved as he saw her at the door
"Hi, thank you for meeting me"
"I got really intrigued Doctor. Spoke with my boss I've got everything. Come with me"
"Brilliant" she smiled happily
"See the original recording was deleted" he pointed at the screen "...the one you saw was tampered with. It's not even real. Then we went back to the records and released that one of the men left. He took a sick leave straight after the evening you're talking about. It's all very strange because that night of the robbery there were only two people here. No report of the police or anything going on. It's all strange. Then the records show that the volt in question is owed by the police. It contained highly classified documents. But they were moved to the other volt a week before and volt was left empty"
"What documents?" she asked intrigued
"No idea...as I said we don't hold information like that Doctor. But here is the name of the person who signed the papers for renting the volt. Maybe he will be of more help"
"The shaft? How could you not know about it?" Dan asked
"Oh, that...yes...as I said, the recordings were tampered with. It was an inside job. We notified the police. That's all I can tell you for now Doctor"
They all came out confused more than ever.
Doctor stood in the middle of the pavement frustrated "I'm seriously annoyed...Is anyone else annoyed or am I the only one here who is seriously getting FED UP WITH THIS!!! Aaaarrhh" she yelled
"I'm on that hill Doc" Ryan said
"Yap so am I" Dan said
She started walking and everyone just automatically followed. A habit that stayed with all of them since the time they travelled together
"Where is she going?" Dans asked randomly
"I have no idea but she's not a happy bunny" Yaz replied and tried to ketch up with her "Babe...where are we going?"
"Police station...I had enough of this. I'm not spending the rest of our holiday chasing ghosts"
They get to the police station, and she just marched through next to the policeman at the entrance shoving psychic paper into his face practically not even waiting for him to read it and went straight to main desk.
"Hi" she said
"Oh, it's you again" the man rolled his eyes
"Yeah, believe me I rather not be here...but here we are. I need to see your commander...captain...person in charge...the big guy on a top"
"Yes alright, I get" the guy rolls his eyes and makes a call "He will see you now you can go through
She marched all the way to elevator and back towards the same room that she visited before. She entered without knocking just basically busted through
"Doctor, pleasure to see you again"
"Yeah, we need to talk" she marched to his desk
"Alright" the man pulled back his hand and sat down "Talk"
"We've just been to the volts...actually let me back up...I've been to the volts yesterday and funny thing...you have a shaft going half way across the city into abandoned restaurant and nobody seems to care, you got a fake robbery going on that nobody seems to care about and apparently a real one that happened...also nobody seems to care about...I'm confused, are you confused?" she turns towards the rest of them
"Yeah, really confused" Ryan said and rest nodded
"See we all are...Why are you not?" she leans over the desk "
The man sighed deeply leaning his back into the chair "Doctor you're on a holiday here. You've helped enough. Why do you care?"
"Because it's rubbing me in a way I don't like to be rubbed. You have 560 000 people living in this city and it all evolves around one machine that pumps oxygen into everyone's lounges and something smells rotten here. And I can't leave it alone. You see I'm not built like that. When it bugs me, I need to know. And for now, I'm confused"
"The machine is safe Doctor"
"For now...What was in those volts? Tell me...What is it that you moved? Who was involved? ... I know you know...it's your signature on that paper...well, glass plate...but that's beside the point. Please I'm trying to stop catastrophe and believe me it's coming for you"
The man got up, walked a but around the room
"Come on man...just say it. We're all just trying to help" Ryan said
"You've got an inside job right from your station isn't that worrying you" Grham added
"Right...I'm only gonna say this Doctor because I do understand how you feel. I've been in your situation many times myself. Yes, it was an inside job. People from the volts and one person from my station. They're all gone, vanished into thin water like they never existed. We are doing the best we can, but all the leads have gone cold...we've got nothing. They were looking for the machine but what was really inside of that volt were instructions of how the machine works. Thankfully we moved them to another volt before, so they didn't find anything. And that woman you told me about...It's fake profile, she doesn't exist. We checked everything nothing is real not even her photo. Like I said, we have nothing"
"Thank you" Doctor sighed relieved "I appreciate you telling me this. The restaurant, who owns it?"
"We checked nobody. It's been abandoned for over ten years taken over by the city council over debts. They must have spent months digging that tunnel, and they had blueprints of the building inside and out, they knew everything every single detail. All we can do now is hope they didn't find what they were looking for and gave up...ran. As you saw machine is heavily guarded at all times, we just need to hope that whatever was planned was ditched"
"What about..."
"Please Doctor, enjoy in the rest of your holiday and leave it to us. And also, please stop going into restricted areas of the city with that paper of yours or I'm gonna lose my job" he laughed
"Please let me know if you find out anything" she said on a way out
"I will...now please go and have some fun. It was nice seeing you again"
They left but Doctor sank. She walked silent for a long time till they finally reached the hotel
"I'm sorry" she suddenly turned around
"For what?" Dan said confused
"For dragging you all into this and for ruining your holiday. I'm so sorry"
"Don't be silly Doc" Grham put his arm on her shoulder "You haven't ruined anything. To be honest there's only so many restaurants I can see before I get bored. At least it was fun"
"Yeah...felt like the old days Doctor" Ryan said nudging her shoulder and she smiled a little
"Right...who wants to go on a beach?" she pinned right back exited
...
It was nice for everyone to finally see the daylight. The city was magical, and it was unbelievable to be underneath the ocean but after almost a week in a dark and under artificial lights everyone's perception of night and day has jumbled into one and they all missed sun. The beach was beautiful, warm sand and turquoise water of the ocean glistening in a sun. It was just a small island. The only piece of land on this side of the planet and waves were strong so they all kept to the small little bay sheltered between the massive rocks. Dan was talking to Di on a phone, Graham and Ryan decided to try out some fishing from the rocks and Yaz was looking for seashells in a shallow water. Doctor sat in a shade. Her skin couldn't deal with the strong sun, and she could burn easily, so she enjoyed in gazing at the ocean and Yaz pottering around in her cute pink maternity swimsuit with ruffles on the edges. She looked adorable with her tummy and Doctor soaked in the rare view of her beautiful pregnant wife on what seemed like a normal day out on a beach with her family. Everyone she loved in her life was right there having a beautiful day out and she felt blessed to have it.
"Hey look what I found" Yaz came over with hand filled with seashells "I'll keep them for a baby's room" she sat on her knees on a towel smiling and Doctor looked at her smiling. Then pulled her arm to get her closer
"What?" she giggled
"I love you" she grinned and kissed her
"Since when do you kiss me like this in the open?" Yaz smiled placing her hand on her face
Doctor scrunched her face "Neah...I figured it's just fam"
"That's nice"
"Are you hungry? You should eat something, we all should"
"I am actually...I'll go get the others"
"Alright darling I'll go get some iced tea from Tardis" she got up and then helped Yaz to get up slightly sliding hands around her waist not being able to help herself touch her as she found her absolutely adorably cute
"Hey guys foood...Come on let's eat"
"Doctor how come you're not swimming?" Ryan asked
"I can't take the sun Ryan"
"That's a bummer Doctor"
"Neah it's nice to just sit here looking at the ocean"
"So, the planet you're on Doc. Do you plan to stay there" Graham asked whilst making himself a sandwich
"Don't know Graham. Probably, most likely yes... Here you go Yaz" she passed her a tea
"You ok with that Yaz? Do you miss travelling?" Ryan asked
"Yes and no. I miss travelling and adventure Ryan, but I don't miss being scared of losing someone. And with the baby I seriously don't think I can deal with that. As it is each time, we go somewhere I'm turning around the corner expecting the Master or something else like that"
"I think we all feel like that Yaz after everything" Dan said "Sometimes it's nice to just do this"
"Besides I haven't even seen the whole planet we are on" she glanced at the Doctor "Plenty to see"
"Well, I think we can still do travelling and adventure. Just in a bit of different way" Doctor said passing the ice tea to everyone "In the end all I care about is all you lot being safe"
"Have you ever done this before Doctor"
"What do you mean Ryan?"
"You know, stop like this...get your feet up for some time on some far away planet and think screw it all"
"I have...Many times Ryan when it all gets a bit too much. I just always did it alone. That's the difference"
"Doc seriously what's it's like...to be as old as you?"
"Oh, I don't know Graham" she sits down "Complicated for the most part...Not as nice as you think either. You think all of you now exist in a same time. Share your lives together, laugh go for adventures. And one day more or less in a same time your journey will come to an end"
"What's you point Doctor?" Ryan asked
"Mine won't Ryan..." she looked at him "I will have to continue without you...all of you, for a very long time. Now come on, can we talk about something more cheerful. Did you get some fish?"
"No... nothing Doc"
"Oh, well maybe for the better Graham most are poisonous anyway and if you get this thing that looks like a red jellyfish...just don't ask any questions and run"
"You think you could've told them that a bit earlier Doctor" Dan laughed
She scrunched her nose and shrugged her shoulders
"Darling, your face is bright red" Yaz brushed her fingers on the Doctors cheek "I'll get some cream" she got up and went to the Tardis and Ryan smiled finding it cute
"What son?" Graham looked towards Ryan
"Ah nothing...just thinking"
"Iff you're thinking kids I suggested you stop. There's plenty time for that"
"I wasn't thinking" he looked at him frowning "Alright...maybe...kinda...Can't believe she'll be mum"
"Alright let's get more sun before it goes" Graham said and got up "So this is the only piece of land here Doc?"
"No, there's one more on the other side but it's not as nice"
Everyone got up and went their way and Yaz came back sitting next to the Doctor on a towel.
"Why don't you go and have one more swim before we leave Yaz?"
"I will...just wanted to spend some time with you" she said spreading cream across her face then kissed her lips
"This is nice we should come again" Doctor smiled looking at the ocean
"We still have four days left" Yaz said laying down and placing her head in Doctors lap "I'd like that...I'd like to come here alone one day...with you" she flipped her lashes
Doctor smiled looking down at her stroking her forehead "I think we can arrange that Yaz"
...
By the time they came back it was evening and everyone was getting ready for a dinner. Yaz came out of the bathroom wrapped up in a towel and Doctor was on her laptop sitting on a bed in her t-shirt and nickers, legs crossed, and craned head concentrated deeply into what she was doing.
"What are you doing?" Yaz passed by and kissed the top of her head
"Oh, just bits and bobs nothing important...You smell nice" she pulls her by the arm and rolls her on a bed
"You look sexy" Yaz giggled pulling elastic of her boxers
"Mmmm" she scrunched her face "Maybe we should do something about it?" Doctor grins pulling her towel to open exposing her to her eyes
"Maybe we should" Yaz smiled stroking the back of her neck and flinched as the Doctors hand was passing between her breast and over her tummy down to her thighs. Her eyes automatically closing as she felt fingers lightly brushing over her, she moved her hand and slid it under the Doctor's shirt down her waist and under the hem of her underwear.
Doctor closed the gap and took her lips as her fingers slowly began to move catching a soft moan from Yaz's mouth.
Doctor's phone rang jolting both of them.
"You gotta be kidding me?" Yaz slumped her head on a pillow
Doctor closed her eyes pursing her lips "Seriously?" she took a deep breath and rolled around to take her phone of the side table
"Doctor?"
"Can I help you?" she answered confused
"You told me to call you If I remember something else"
"Oh, you're a shuttle guy" she suddenly remembered "Yes tell me" She looked at Yaz looking back at her confused
"The lady, she mentioned something about her father being killed when she was a kid and how she was brought up here in a city by his friends...something...I can't remember exactly. I'm not sure if that makes any sense to you or...anyways I hope it can help"
"Yes, it makes a perfect sense. Thank you" Doctor hang up the phone. Her face went paler than usual
"Darling?" Yaz said worriedly "You look like you've seen a ghost"
"Maybe I have Yaz" she takes a phone again "Dan... I need you to be with Yaz. There's something I need to do"
"Sure, Doctor I'll be right there give me ten minutes"
"Thanks Dan. I appreciate it" Doctor sat on a bed then turned to Yaz "I'm so sorry I promise I'll make it up to you"
"It's fine...shit...I need to get dressed" she quickly got up "Babe what's going on?"
Doctor started to get dressed quickly "I have to go...I'm sorry but this is really important" she clipped her braces and came up to Yaz grabbing her shoulders "Yaz listen...Stay with Dan and do not open this door to anyone. Do you understand me?"
"Yes...yes...can you please tell me what the hell is going on" she said frantically putting her clothes on
"Do you remember Shar? The girl I was telling you about?"
"Yes...yes I do...What about her?"
"She's been playing me around all this time. You were right Yaz. It is someone who knows me...someone who knows me really well" she stood in one place eyes locked to one spot her mind razing in disbelief
The knocking on a door snapped her out of her thoughts and she rushed to open it.
"Dan... thank you so much"
"Don't mention it...What's going on Doctor?"
"I know who's behind this Dan. I need to go...sorry no time to explain"
"Doctor!" he grabbed her forearm "Don't you think Graham, and Ryan should go with you?"
"Not this time Dan. I have to do this on my own"
She kissed Yaz's temple "I won't be long... promise...Don't open the door"
"I'm worried...I don't like what you're doing" Yaz grabbed the back of her neck
"I'll be fine Yaz...I always am..." she smiled and took her hand kissing her knuckles then rushed off
"I don't like this Dan" she looked at him concerned as she shut the door
"No, me neither...But you try reasoning with her, it's bloody impossible"
The Doctor rushed through the Tardis door flipping switches and running around the console, then pulled the lever. She parked on the side of the dark street and approached a small shop. The lights were on, and the door was open. She took a deep breath and entered
"Shar!" she called but there was no reply "Shar!" she called again and went behind the counter and at the back of the store. She entered a room full of boxes and a small table on the left. Only one small lamp lids up the room, which was small and dark. Shar was nowhere to be found. She looked around the room and there was nothing in it but boxes and a few things, so she went back to the front of the store and noticed a small glass plate on the counter and picked it up pressing her finger to the surface. A hologram appeared.
"Hello Doctor, I see you found it. Put two and two together. Meet me iff you want to talk the coordinates are inside. I'm sure Tardis can find it" the hologram switched off
She sighed deeply "Shar what are you playing at"
Doctor ran to the Tardis and hooked up device to the dashboard then took off. She stepped out of the Tardis into a huge warehouse. It was dark and the only light came from the Tardis. It looked industrial and smiled at the sea water. She assumed that it was a factory that had been abandoned a long time ago. This place was on the other side of town which was not residential, mostly just factories and warehouses. Her footsteps echoed throughout the vast place
"Shar!" she called again, and the woman came from the dark
Her long silver hair tied into a messy bun she wore a purple dress with thick sash around her waist. Her eyes glistening in a dark
"Shar...what is this?"
"Doctor...I'm glad you found the message"
"I did...We could have gone for a meal you know it would've been a lot more pleasant than this" she looked around the dark place
"I disagree...it's poetic you know. Can't you see.... big cold dark place...like the one you left me in"
"Shar...come on...stop this. What did you get yourself into to? Why all this? What's going on? ...Iff, you wanted my attention you got it you didn't have to play this game you know"
"Game...you think this is game Doctor?"
Doctor sighed "Fine...this is ridiculous...What do you want from me? I said I was sorry...I cannot change the past Shar. Yes, it was cruel, no you didn't deserve it and I'm sorry. But let me change it...please"
"Oh, you will believe me...You will get me the Eye of the Deep
"What?" she frowned confused
"You heard it right Doctor I need that machine"
"Are you serious?"
Shar looked back at her silently
"You are, aren't you? Why? ...Why do you want it?"
"My planet is dying, and my people need me. But you wouldn't know that Doctor would you. This machine can help save them and help me to get my life back"
"By killing thousands of people here? Why? Why would you do that?"
"Why not? I am the queen of my people it's my duty to think about them. They are my priority"
"You're queen of nothing. It's been thousand years Shar. They killed your father and will kill you your people don't want their queen. Specially not the one who is willing to kill thousands of innocent people. What the hell happened to you?"
"You happened to me Doctor. You messed with my brain and just left me on this god forsaken place, discarded me like rubbish and took off"
"I was trying to protect you!!"
"You were getting rid of the responsibility Doctor. Enough!!!... I need that machine"
"Then get it yourself Shar...Obviously you have plan you don't need me" she turned around and started walking back to Tardis
"I did...but then I came into a problem you see, and then you came to my store that night and it was perfect...too good to be true. I was thinking later on...and you were my solution...the Doctor with his Tardis" she tilted her head "Sorry habit...her Tardis" she looked her up and down sneering
"You lost me there" she scrunched her face "Would you mind clarifying it...old brains...I'm not as sharp as I used to be"
"See I couldn't find it...I thought it was in volts...We planned it for a year, digging the tunnel from the restaurant, fake identity, a suspect that didn't exist. But then we found nothing, empty volt. I was desperate. Then it dawned on me...if I stage that robbery, you couldn't help yourself...you will find it. It was all already there, and nobody knew about it. It was perfect...All I needed was a fake police officer...I played you Doctor...and you were eating right out of my hand...following all the crumbs I left you...And you found it for me. And now you will bring it to me. And you will take me home with it so I can get my life back"
Doctor smirked sarcastically "I thought you knew me better Shar...Don't blackmail me, you know it doesn't end well"
"Oh, I do know you Doctor...I know you very well. That's why I made sure I have a something of yours...something you mentioned that night in a store...it was perfect" she winked at her circling around her "Well, few things really"
She pressed a button on a remote and the lights came up. Doctors face dropped in absolute horror. Graham and Ryan were held by two men with a knife to their throats both she knew. They were disoriented and Shar slapped them across the face "Wake up boys mummy came for you!"
"Whaaa...oh boy...Doctor" Ryan said
"Who is this?" Graham asked confused trying to come around
"Someone from my past" Doctor replied shaking her head ad Shar
"Another good friend Doc?" Graham asked sarcastically "Do you have any friends who are not trying to kill you?"
"Shar! You've gone way to far stop this...And you!" she looked at the guy holding Graham "You're the shuttle guy" she jumped
"Sorry Doctor, I needed to make sure you came tonight"
"And you" she looked at the other guy "You showed me that recording the night of the robbery, you told me The Eye of the deep was stolen" the guy just laughed at her
"Shar, you don't want to do this" Doctor walked up to her.
Shar smiled at her pressing the button on a remote "Oh yes I do Doctor" more lights came up "Oh, look Doctor....two in one" she laughed pointing
As Doctor turned around, she felt the blood disappear from her body and she was covered in a cold sweat. Yaz was in a massive glass enclosure at the far end of the warehouse tied to a chair placed in the middle.
"Yaz!!" she yelled in complete horror and found a knife under her throat stopping her from running
"Doctor!!" Yaz screamed
Graham and Ryan yelled but found knives to their throats cutting deeper.
"She's pregnant...what is wrong with you!!!" Graham yelled but the guy pressed the knife deeper to his neck
Doctor found her body and mind had disconnected and it was buzzing in her ears. She heard her own hearts pumping in her chest and in a split second her fingers were around the woman's neck smashing her back against the wall "I'm going to kill you" she said into her face with a cold and chilling tone
"Doctor!!!" she heard Yaz screaming
"No, you won't Doctor" Shar sneered at her barely managing to talk from the Doctors grip around her throat "You don't kill people"
"Don't count on it tonight!!" she smashed her back against the wall again pressing her whole body weight on her "Let her go. Do not play this game on me Shar I'm warning you. Tell your men to stand down" she squeezed tighter, and the woman pressed another button on a remote in her hand. Suddenly the tank started filling with water
"Tik-tok Doctor...time always runs out" she said trying to swallow grinning at her
Doctor released her hand and ran to the enclosure "Yaz! ...I'll get you out I promise" she put her hands on the glass frantically looking around how to get to her
"Love?" Yaz looked at her frightened and then looked at the floor filling with water
"Get me the machine...Now!!" Shar shouted in her ear and snapped the knife next to her face "Or I'll just give you the baby Doctor" she grinned early next her cheek.
Doctor turned around knife sliding across her cheek. Her face like stone breathing deeply, she felt her hearts pumping hard. Never did she feel like snapping someone's neck like she did now and found it increasingly difficult to control herself. Calculating in her head, but Graham and Ryan had knives under their throats and Yaz was in the tank. She felt rage boiling inside her like never in her existence.
"I will kill everyone you care about in this room and then you will know what it's like to be alone" she went into her face "I want you to feel my pain on your perfect skin Doctor for eternity of your existence"
The Doctor looked at her cold breathing deeply, jaw clenched and placed her hand over the knife that slid through her flesh until it fell to the floor, then turned her gaze to Yaz mouthing a soft "I love you" from her lips as she pressed her hand against the glass. She glanced one more time at Shar and preceded to the Tardis.
Doc, you can't do this..." Graham said in despair and she just looked at him as she passed him "You can find another way you're a smart woman"
"No time" she said slamming the Tardis door behind herself
The Tardis landed in the middle of the room containing the Eye of the Deep and the police surrounded her as soon as she came out. The station commander walked between the men. "Doctor what is the meaning of this?"
"I need your help and I need you to trust me. Do you trust me?" she said with her hands up in the air
"I don't know why I'm saying this, but I do"
"Brilliant...then tell your men to stand down and help me out"
...
"We need to do something" Ryan turned to Graham still having a man's knife pressing on his neck then looked at Yaz who was desperately trying to get her restrains off. She was frantic, scared and crying. Water was already to her knees
"I tell you what Ryan...I'll take the guy behind me you take the one behind yourself then we get the crazy bitch and free Yaz"
"How?"
"I don't know son...you tell me!" he said frustrated "Hey you...Why do you hate her so much that you want to become genocidal psycho killer?"
"None of your business" Shar said pacing around
"It is my business if you gonna kill my grandson and my mate who's pregnant. You made it my business"
"She took everything away from me then took off. My life, my title, my future and left me to rot for thousand years"
"Oh, well that's good enough reason to kill a pregnant woman and thousands of other people"
"Shut up!" she screamed
"Why? I'm gonna die anyway...I just feel like saying something before I do"
"OMG shut up...you are all the same as her never shut up"
...
"Doctor I'm not sure I understand if we disconnect it everyone will die" the commander asked confused
"I won't let that happen" she was hoping around like crazy dragging cables around Tardis "I'm hooking up Tardis to your system. It will power it up for a while. Giving me time to sort this out and get my family out. Then we will hook it up again"
"And what if you're late" he looked at her bringing her the cable
"I won't be late. I promise" she looked back at him "I promise"
"You better not be Doctor"
"Just make sure your men are ready on my mark"
"I will Doctor don't worry"
"Doctor" one police officer ran inside Tardis "We found your friend in a hotel. He will be fine he's been taken to a hospital now"
She sighed relieved "Thank you so much" she smiled to him "Right....let's get this show on a road, shall we?"
She hooked up the cables to the generator and started the process. But time was running out. Water in a tank was around Yaz's waist. And now she started feeling sharp pain. She squeezed her teeth and shut her eyes. The pain went but her anxiety was hitting the ceiling and she felt fear like never in her life. What would the Doctor want her to do...stay calm for the baby, she's coming for her...she would never leave them, any of them. She looked at Grham and Ryan tears rolling down her face.
Tardis landed in the warehouse and Doctor got out. She waived the sonic and a massive door of the warehouse locked. One look at Yaz made her blood run cold, water was to her chest.
"You got my goods Doctor?"
"It's inside Tardis, let my family go"
"Not yet Doctor"
"I did what you asked...let them go" she grabbed her forearm
"Not until you take me home"
"There's no time for that...let them go now!"
"Sorry Doctor...that was not the agreement. Chill out, you have a time machine. Iff, they die you can come back in time and save them" she shook her hand off and glanced inside the Tardis
The massive machine was inside the control room "How did you fit it in there? Never mind who cares...Come on" she waived her hand
Doctor waived the sonic and the Tardis door shut in front of her face. "I told you not to play that game with me" she said grinning "Last chance Shar...Let my family go"
"You're in no position to demand anything"
"Wanna bet?"
Suddenly the woman looked at her panicking. Graham and Ryan as well
"Doc... What?" Graham asked gasping for air
The woman fell to her knees and Doctor kneeled in front of her razing her chin with her finger
"Tardis is sucking up air in this place and in about one minute and 35 seconds you will be on that floor begging me for mercy like my wife was begging you. You messed with the wrong family Shar"
The men holding knives behind Grham, and Ryan dropped on their knees, Graham and Ryan stumbled away from them the two gasping for air. Shar fell to the floor looking at the Doctor standing above her with a cold face.
Tardis door opened and police came out restricting the men and the woman. Doctor waived her sonic and room started filling with oxygen.
"Are you alright?" she ran to Graham and Ryan
Graham waived catching breath "Yap...go" he pointed to Yaz.
Doctor ran to the tank and to the massive hose filling the water. She stood back and pointed the sonic to the glass "Yaz, close your eyes love!!!" she shouted and the waive from the sonic hit the glass shuttering it to pieces. Water running everywhere. She ran to Yaz and united her
"Yaz" she cupped her face
"Dan!!" Yaz said with a week voice
"He's fine"
"Baby...I'm in pain" she cried out
"Shoot...noo this is not happening...Come on darling hold on to me" she scooped her up carrying her to the Tardis "We need to go now!!!" she yelled, and Graham and Ryan followed her to the Tardis
"Is she ok Doctor?" Ryan asked scared
The Doctor burst through the door and laid Yaz on the mattress on the floor then scanned her with a sonic "You'll be fine I promise" she stroked her face then stood up frantically running around the console "Graham, Ryan!!"
"Yes Doc"
"You're gonna fly Tardis"
"Whaaaa?" Graham practically whimpered
"Don't panic Graham, it's not that difficult" she ran to Yaz and yelled instructions what to turn what to lift. She had no time, the machine had to go back.
"Left Ryan...that one there left" she pointed
"Alright Doctor" he said shaking
She gave shot to Yaz and showed something in her mouth. "Just swallow that darling" Than took stethoscope pressing it to her stomach.
"Doc we're ready to go!!"
"Pull the lever!!" she yelled to Graham
Graham looked up towards the ceiling "Grace, I need you honey" he pulled the lever and Tardis took off shaking, Yaz was crying her eyes out looking towards the Doctor for answers
"Baby is fine Yaz...perfectly fine" she strokes her face gently and kissed her forehead "I'm not lying I promise. I love you so much"
"Alright love" Yaz took her hand shaking and squeezing it. Tardis landed and Ryan puffed in relief
"Graham...be with her"
"Sure Doc" he ran up to Yaz taking her hand and smiled "You'll be ok sweet pea. You're safe now" he said to her gently
"Stay with her keep her warm...I have to sort this out"
"Sure, Doc no problem"
"Yaz darling I have to..." she said frantically completely desperate
"I know...go babe" Yaz put her hand on her cheek and Doctor kissed it briefly
She ran to the console and Tardis took off leaving the machine in its place and landing few feet away from it. She then ran out and started hooking it to generator frantically.
"Still 30 seconds left...I owe you fam" she said relieved looking at the dial on the generator. She hooked up the last cable and pointed the sonic at the machine. It powered up and Doctor slumped to the floor on her knees "Thank you my beautiful ghost monument" she sighed relieved
"Doctor" the commander came up to her "You did it. They are in custody. It's finished"
She smiled looking up to him "Thank you for trusting me"
"Thank you for helping me Doctor" he reached out with his hand to help her get off the floor
"I have to go to my family now"
"Of course, Doctor"
She ran to the Tardis and to Yaz slumping to the floor "Hey lovely" she brushed her hair. You're all wet let's get you sorted ha?"
"Cuddle" Yaz opened her arms crying
"Oh beautiful" Doctor pulled her in squeezing her tight "It's ok darling. You're both fine, promise"
Graham ran his hands over his face and sighed still shaking Ryan came up to hug him. "Hey...we did it...Man we flew Tardis" he offered his fist
"We sure did son" he smiled
…
"Tell me!" Yaz cried out lying on a bed with her shirt up looking at the Doctor anxiously as she was doing a scan on a baby.
She turned the monitor and smiled "She's happy and healthy darling" she said leaning over kissing Yaz gently "But you missy need to rest and you and I... well, we can't for few days. Just in case"
"Alright" she ran her hand over her face "I love you" tears rolled down her face
"It's fine beautiful I promise she's fine. You were just scared, and it was a cramp from the cold water nothing else. You were in shock...that's why you need to rest now" Doctor wrapped her fingers around her face "I absolutely adore you" she grins kissing her and starts climbing the bed. Yaz curled up in her arms tucking her head into her neck
"I never seen you like that...Like today...would you?"
"Yes" she said shortly
"Whaa?" Yaz looked up horrified
"It's scary Yaz I know...but I'm honest with you. I never thought I would be able to...but I... Can we not talk about it anymore...please"
"Alright darling...we won't" Yaz tucked her face into her neck again kissing soft skin "I love you more than anything in this world" she said quietly wrapping her arm around her snuggling in her arms
"I adore you so much" she kissed her head and stroke her hair.
"It's so nice to just feel you like this" Yaz looked up to her smiling
"Same here darling...same here" Doctor smiled and kissed her gently
Someone knocked at the door and Doctor jolted.
"It's ok love...probably the boys" Yaz smiled
"Doc it's us" Graham said behind the door, and she opened up to see all three of them with flowers grinning
"Hey" she flashed a massive smile "Come in"
"Where's our favorite girl?" Dan said smiling. He still had a bandage over his head
"Dan" Yaz smiled OMG I'm so glad to see you mate" they hugged "Your head?"
"It's fine hey...I'm tougher than I look" he smiled and kissed her forehead "Sheffield I'm so sorry "
"Don't be daft hey" she smiled "We're fine that's all that matters"
"Yaz how are you feeling honey?" Graham kissed her cheek
"As good as new...just need to rest"
"And the baby Doc?"
"She's fine...they both are" she smiled
"Look what Doctor bought" Yaz points to the cradle
"No way man!!!" Ryan jumped "That's awesome Doctor...Waaaw"
"Yeah...come I'll show you" Doctor jumped to the opportunity to show Ryan all the functions
...
It was early morning and Doctor was up for hours already, lying in a bed looking at fish through the ceiling and running her hand gently over Yaz's stomach. She was sound asleep, her hand draping over the Doctors chest. The room smelled of flower's boys brought for Yaz. Yaz moaned rubbing her face into Doctor's chest and stretching her arms
"Sleep more darling, it's early" Doctor said threading her fingers through her hair
"Mmmm...need to pee" she mumbled into her chest
"That's new" she laughed
Yaz crawled on all fours over her, Doctor laughing the whole time, and then wobbled to the bathroom.
"Did you sleep at all?" Yaz asked from the bathroom
"Little, an hour or so"
"Babeee...you really need to sleep. That's nothing even for you"
"Your mum sent a text"
"Mmmm...Now you're just changing the conversation" she mumbled wobbling back to bed "I'm too tired to think about my mum now"
"I'll get some sleep later I promise" she opened her arms letting her snuggle into her arms
"I'm just worried about you that's all"
"I know.... I'm gonna have to go soon"
"Noooo....where now?" Yaz grabbed onto her and slumped her leg over her definitely
"Just need to finish something...that's all"
"You never give me proper answer.... you do release that? Just please don't get into some shit again...I seriously had enough now"
"I won't potty mouth...We can go to the beach today if you like?"
"I would very much like" she looked up smiling "Kiss me"
"And where do you want me to kiss you Yaz?" Doctor turned around giggling and pushing her underneath herself
"I would say all over, but you said we can't" she pouted her lips stroking her face
"I never ever said I can't kiss you...I would never say that Yasmin Khan" she smiled dotting kisses all over her face making her giggle
Yaz gazed at her eyes trailing her finger over her face and Doctor kissed her fingertips "What love?"
"I thought I'd never see you again" tears rolled down her face
"Hey....shhhh...don't...you're here now in this bed, with me beautiful....and I love you more than anything in this world. Please don't cry...I really hate when you cry" she kissed her tears and wiped them with her thumb
"Love ya"
Doctor didn't answer she kissed her instead. She kissed her gently as if Yaz was made of glass, and you shatter in million pieces.
...
"Hello Doctor" the police commander shook her hand "How is your wife?"
"She's ok...more or less after everything"
"You don't need to do this you know"
"I know...But I want to"
She walked down the narrow hallway and threw the double door into a big white room. Shar was sitting on the floor surrounded with a force filled coming from the ceiling all the way to the light blue platform she was sitting on. Doctor's harts were braking, she found no satisfaction in what she saw or a place where she was. She just felt empty, sad and disappointed.
"Doctor!!" Shar jumped to her feet as the Doctor walked towards her slowly looking up at the ceiling and down to the force field around her.
"Hello Shar" she said calmly and put hands in her pockets
"I'm so sorry...I really am"
"For what Shar? Yourself?"
"For doing what I did. Is she going to be, ok?"
Doctor tilted her head and her eye twitched just a bit "She is someone you don't get to talk about...ever"
"I'm sorry I needed that machine"
Doctor smirked looking at the floor then came up to the shield raising her gaze "I would've built you one if you asked. But you didn't ask...instead you blackmailed me. You made your choice"
Shar looked at her shaking her bottom lip wobbling "I loved you"
"And I loved that little girl...So much...and leaving her was one of the most difficult things I ever had to do in my life"
Shar started crying, tears rolling down her face
"Please get me out of here. I know you can...you have connections...you have Tardis...please. Take me with you I know you can"
"I'm sorry"
"Please if you love me, you'll get me out"
"I'm sorry...not this time" she shook her head, her hearts ripping in half
Shar's face changed her desperation turning in to rage "You selfish piece of shit...Get me out... You owe me that much"
"Goodbye Shar" Doctor turned around
"Nooo pleasee...look at me...I'm begging you" she cried, and Doctor continued to walk "You fucking bastard look at mee!!!" her scream ripped through Doctor's ears, and she shut her eyes for a moment as she walked out of the room.
"I'm sorry you had to see that" the commander said as she came out "Here are the blueprints you asked for"
"I really appreciate this" she smiled
"Don't mention it, if it can help someone else out there, I'm glad I could be a part of it"
"What's going to happen with her"
"She is getting transported to colonies. She will be trialed and sentenced there. I'm sorry"
"Thank you, well I need to get back to my wife now. I hope I see you again"
"I hope we see you, Doctor. You're always welcomed here"
She walked out of the station and took a deep breath then walked the streets for nearly two hours before returning to the hotel.
"Hey, you" Yaz smiled as she walked into the room. She was preparing a beach bag for later
"Hey beautiful" she reached for her hand lacing fingers and pulled her to herself then cupped her face gazing at her in silence
"Are you alright love?"
She smiled "I am now...Did I tell you recently how much I love you?"
Yaz smiled back "Nope"
"Then I should"
"Mmmm"
"I absolutely adore you with every cell of my body...and don't cry...just kiss me"
Yaz smiled and pressed her lips to her gently and passionately. Doctor hugged her tightly and put her face into her wife's hair that smelled of summer rain then sat on the edge of the bed pulling Yaz's hand and wrapped her arms around her waist kissing her stomach.
"Babe I'm worried about you" Yaz said stroking her hair
"I'll be fine Yaz...just hold me please" she squeezed her tight
She cried silently, her tears rolling down Yaz's stomach. Yaz ran her hand down her back and held her kissing the top of her head gently.
"It's ok love...I'm here. I love you so so much my beautiful Bighead"…
...
Boys were on a top of the rocks fishing and Yaz sat in a shade. Doctor's head in her lap, she strokes her hair. Doctor was reading a book out loud making her laugh. She would make faces and impersonating each character. They did that often even before they were together. It all started with one night Yaz was missing her family and Doctor finding her in a library all by herself reading a book. She told her that's no way to read a book and took it to herself to show her how books are read properly making her giggle, making her cry as well on sad parts but it was amazing and beautiful. She would kiss her forehead when she would cry and say how books are meant to make you laugh and cry. That's how you know they are good, she would say. Ever since that evening on a sofa, Yaz would come up with a book and they would snuggle on a sofa with the Doctor reading it for hours. They went through hundreds of books from the library in years of travelling together.
They heard boys screaming from the rocks and got up.
"What's going on?" Yaz asked shielding her eyes from sun with her hand
"I think they caught the jellyfish" Doctor laughed looking at them running over the rocks
"OMG but it's poisonous" she looked at her
"Neah...I was messing them around Yaz" she winked at her
Yaz walked into the shower and pressed her lips to Doctor's shoulder blade running hands gently down her waist. Doctor took her hand and wrapped it around herself pressing it to her chest. Neither of them spoke a word, just stood underneath the warm water running down between them. They had a beautiful day on the beach, but the pain of recent events was still lingering in the air and Yaz knew Doctor was blaming herself for all of it.
Yaz dotted kisses across her back and trailed her fingers down her sides. Doctor turned around and moved the wet hair from Yaz's face kissing her gently then kissed the bruises on her wrists that were still there from the rope.
"It's fine, it doesn't hurt" she said glancing up
"They shouldn't be there in a first place"
"I know...but we are both here now, and that's the most important thing" she placed her hand on her hip and pushed her gently to the edge of the shower until her back hit the wall. She was moving with intent and Doctor pulled back.
"Yaz you can't"
"Shhhhh..." she put a finger over her lips "But you can...just don't fall" she smiled and sink her lips into hers. Doctor wrapped her fingers at the back of her head deepening the kiss. Yaz trailed her hands down her sides and pressed her more against the stone wall slipping her hand between her thighs.
"You don't have to..."
"But I really want to" she kissed her again and Doctor grabbed the tap on the wall hoping to God, she doesn't rip it out of the wall as Yaz draped one of her legs over her side. Yet again she thought how bed would be a lot easier, but Yaz had a thing about pinning her against the walls. Not that she was complaining. Her head bumped the wall when she slipped inside her without the warning her lips traveled down her neck and shoulder. She was gentle, moving in a slow steady rhythm kissing her gently and Doctor melted into her arms. She needed her more than she was willing to admit it to herself. Yaz's soft kisses on her skin and her hand stroking the back of neck gently. She needed to know she wasn't alone more than anything else because being alone scared her the most.
"Yaz be faster...please...I can't"
"Stand?" Yaz laughed
"Cheeky bugger" she grinned and kissed her hard whimpering into her lips as Yaz did exactly as she asked. She slumped her head on her shoulder as she was pulling her apart shuddering in her arms.
"I love you so much" she looked at Yaz with dreamy eyes dotting kisses over her face and
stood up on wobbly legs leaning on Yaz's shoulder.
"I love you too...you look a mess Doctor" Yaz giggled and Doctor sleekly turned the water to cold making Yaz scream giggling
They dried themselves off and crawled into bed. Yaz's hair was still a little damp because the hair dryer wasn't working properly and she kept forgetting to say something at the front desk, but the room was warm, so it didn't matter. She curled up against the Doctor's back kissing her shoulders and pulled the covers over their heads. In most cases it would be the Doctor pressing herself on her back and slowly running her hand over her until she fell asleep, but today she knew that the Doctor needed a cuddle, and she wouldn't object to Yaz giving it to her. She rarely asked for one though but would never refuse it.
Yaz knew even before they were together that the Doctor liked to be cuddled. It was written all over her face in the rare moments she would relent. Like when they were watching movies together and Yaz could have sworn the Tardis turned the temperature down on purpose, so they had to be under the covers together. And only once did the Doctor fall asleep and put her hand over Yaz's waist, pulling her head into the back of her neck, which made Yaz's heart jump out of her chest. She had never told her that, not even now that they were together. It was her sweet little secret. They fell asleep together on the sofa that night huddled together, but when Yaz woke up the next morning, the Doctor was gone and she never talked about it, never mentioned it. The next day she kept dropping things around Yaz and avoiding eye contact, she even shorted the control panel and had to fix it. Then shortly after that Flux came along and they got split up.
And now she was hers, every inch of her belonged to Yaz's lips and she had a part of her inside her. But Yaz's heart would still skip a beat every time she felt her pressing on her, only now it wouldn't be from fear, but from the love she felt for her that was so strong she would literally lose her breath just thinking about it.
"Hey darling, tell me a story" Yaz said leaning on her shoulder her hand over her chest and their fingers laced together tight "You didn't tell me a story for a long time. I think last time was before Egypt"
"Yeah, you got a point Yaz. We haven't done this in a long time...Alright beautiful what do you wanna know?"
"Tell me about Rome and the Pompey. You said something about Tardis being stolen"
"Aaaaa that...yes...that was a long time ago. I was traveling with Donna then. She was such a sweetheart and so funny. You would like her Yaz... she told me off each time. Really yelling at me as well"
"OMG...What did you do to her for god's sake?"
"You know me Yaz...I can really be impossible"
"Mmm...confession" she smiled kissing her neck squeezing her
"Only to you Yaz...don't ever tell anyone" She chuckled
"My lips are sealed" she giggled "Mostly on you though"
"I like your lips sealed on me Yaz, I will never complain about that"
"Tell me...Donna you and Pompey"
Doctor was talking late into the night and took them both to another time, another land and universe. Yaz loved hearing about her past lives, the people she met, things she did and the people she loved. She fell asleep with her head resting on the nape of her neck. Doctor knew when she drifted away when she twitched her hand and grabbed onto her finger. So, she kissed her knuckles and tried to sleep herself.
...
"Babe what are those papers?" Yaz asked as they were packing and saw them laying on a bed
"Eye of the Deep...blueprints. I have something in mind"
"Why do you need them?"
"Planet that Shar came from Yaz, they need that machine...I'm gonna build it for them"
"You whaa?"
"Yap...with your dad" she grinned
"Say what?" Yaz turned around confused
"You heard it right...I called him this morning...we are picking up you family Yaz in few days...You up for family trip?"
Yaz cracked up laughing "Your crazy you know that?"
"I know it's great" she grinned kissing her cheek
They dropped the boys' home and now the Tardis was empty again with just the two of them. The soft lights of the console illuminated the Doctor's face as she stood hunched over it with her shirt sleeves rolled up, loading blueprints into the Tardis program. Yaz watched her in silence from the corner of the corridor. Her beautiful little wife was once again working to save someone's life out there. She wondered how many lives she had saved without anyone knowing. She never asked for anything for herself, she never complained about her pain and her loneliness and those she lost. She wondered how many times someone had hurt her, and she regenerated in pain surrounded only by the silence of the Tardis without anyone knowing about it, then came out of her little box with a new face smiling like the pain didn't exist. She remembered that first night on the train and the cheerful little Time Lord she met. She never dreamed how much pain and hurt there was in that soul, she never dreamed how desperately she needed to be held like the other night in the hotel room when she melted into her touch. And yet in all the endless universe there was never anyone to hold her. So Yaz made it her mission to compensate for the long years of loneliness and all the nights in an empty bed and all the tears she shed with no one to wipe them from her face. She promised herself that she would wipe away the last drop of pain with her lips and all the loneliness with her hands.
Yaz came down the stairs and the Doctor glanced at her smiling slightly. She walked up behind her sliding her arms around her chest kissing her shoulder.
"Hey, you should rest you know" Doctor said
"I am resting" she rubbed her face over her back and Doctor rested her hand over hers smiling
"Hey look...I wanted to show this. It's amazing Yaz and we are going to build it" she opened the screen showing the machine in its full glory.
"Who made it love? Where did it come from?"
"I don't know darling...But I would love to meet them. Apart from Tardis I've never seen anything more beautiful, more sophisticated...a machine developed to such a high degree of complexity it's amazing Yaz"
"And where are you gonna build it?"
"I contacted Zwari, Shar's planet they are expecting us. We will work together until it's done"
"I spoke with Dad...he is beside himself...did you know Sonya and Ryan are coming?"
She turned around grinning
"Babeee" she giggled ruffling her hair "You're so cheeky...you knew before you left Ryan home"
"I did...I spoke to him last night in a kitchen" she laughed "Happy?"
"I can't wait to see my family...I miss them...it's been five weeks"
"I know...I'm counting by munchkin...she's 26 weeks now Yaz"
"That's crazy...where did the time go?"
"I know Yaz five months to go and you're popping"
"I'm nervous about it I can't think"
Doctor turned around and slipped her arms around her "It's going to be fine...I promise" she kissed her forehead
"Easy for you to say" she laughed
"Believe me I get panic attacks as well Yaz...I'm just not saying it. But I'll be there next to you...all the way"
"You better be or I'm keeping her inside me until you are" she laughed
Doctor tucked her hair behind her ear and kissed her forehead "Come on beautiful...you need to rest now. Long day tomorrow"
"You're staying, aren't you?" she glanced at the console behind her
"As it happens no... I think I can finish later"
"Really?" Yaz flashed a big smile not believing Doctor is actually going to bed with her
"Yeah" she reached for her hand pulling her away from the console "I need a cuddle Yaz" ...
Yaz stood in front of the mirror running her hand over her stomach then lifted her top and lowered baggy pajama bottoms to have a better look. It was big and she was so proud of it. She was also still trying to calm down from what happened, and she was glad they are going to be alone for few days before picking up her family. She needed her wife and just them two together on their little planet far away amongst the stars.
The Doctor came out of the bathroom patting in her little boxers and a t-shirt, hopping around the room on her cute skinny legs and taking the earring out of her ear leaving it on the side table then walking up to Yaz kissing her shoulder and hugging her. "Look Yaz, soon I'm not gonna be able to reach around you" she said looking in the mirror over her shoulder
"I know...she's growing so fast she's gonna topple me over soon" she leaned on her chest with a big sigh "God it's so nice to be back home with you"
"I was just thinking that...Come on let's go to bed it's really late" she took her hand pulling her to bed and Yaz couldn't help pinching her bum as she turned around "Oi...keep your hands to yourself" Doctor frowned messing around
"It's just so cute I can't help it" she giggled
"I assure you there's nothing cute about my behind Yaz" she said climbing the bed
"I strongly disagree...it's the cutest thing ever"
"You silly sod...get into bed"
They snuggled up and Yaz buried her face into the duvet that smell of home. The soft hum of the Tardis and the dim lights of their bedroom finally calmed her. She felt safe inside the Tardis and safety suddenly took on a whole new meaning. She looked at the cradle in the corner and imagined that in five months there would be a new life in it, a part of the two of them, of their love. It made her emotional and she wasn't sure if it was her hormones or just the events of the past few days, but she suddenly felt like crying so she turned and buried her head in the Doctor's neck, wrapping an arm around her and a leg around her hip.
"Hey...are you ok?" she asked combing fingers through her hair
"I am now...I love you" she mumbled into her neck kissing it
"I know Yaz...it shook me too. As much as we both want to forget it's still at the back of my mind. But time is healing beautiful, and it will go away I promise"
"Can you do something for me?"
"Anything love"
"Now when go there, if we will sleep someplace else, can you keep Tardis in our room?" she looked up
"Yes...Of course I can darling" she kissed her softly and ran her hand over her face "It will be right there next to you. Come on love please try to sleep, you both need rest"
"I love you so much" Yaz said inch away from her lips gazing at her, her eyes trying to stop the tears
"And I love you more than anything in the universe, both of you" she kissed her again and pushed her head gently back into her neck
One thing Doctor released at this point was just how shaken Yaz really was and how much she was trying to keep it together. She wrapped her hands around her and kissed her head then started telling her a story to make her fall asleep.
....
"Morning" Yaz came to the console room eating her cereal. She was still in her pajamas and a dressing gown.
"Aaaaa...morning" Doctor waived from underneath the console and pulled herself out
Yaz left her cereal on a side and lifted her goggles on top of her head kissing her "Sexy" she giggled smacking her bum
"Blimey Yaz...I'm hardly sexy covered in engine oil"
"Mmmm" Yaz lifted an eyebrow "super sexy"
Doctor shook her head laughing
"Repairing or just general maintenance?" she asked sitting in her armchair in a corner
"Maintenance Yaz...We don't want to be stuck somewhere with you family...That would be really embarrassing"
"You mean like Egypt?" she laughed
"Mmmm" she nodded and hid behind the console pretending she's got something really serious to do there "That was not my fault Yaz"
"I never said it was love"
"Hey...you wanna go for a walk later? It's snowing but I checked this morning and snow is not that deep"
"Yeah, alright then...I missed this place. Can we pleaseeee go to the cave before I pop?"
Doctor peaked from underneath the console "Sure Yaz I did promise you...We can go when we come back from the trip if you'd like? We have enough time"
"I do...I really do wanna go"
"Alright darling you don't need to beg me Yaz. I'd take you anywhere you know that. I still need to show you those pink beaches I really want you to see them. But we can do that when we come back. And the water there is really excellent for your condition"
"My condition?" she laughed
Doctor zoomed around the console and took a wrench from the floor "Yeah...pregnancy Yaz"
"Mmmmm" she giggled eating her cereal enjoying in a view of the Doctor's bum in the air whilst squeezing herself underneath the console in a tiny hole to reach some valve
"Are you looking at my bum Yaz?" Doctor peaked sideways frowning
"Yeeees" she laughed like crazy almost choking on her breakfast
"Seriously Yaz...What have I done to you"
"Knocked me up babe" she laughed
Doctor laid on her back and squeezed herself underneath laughing at all times "I must say Yaz I missed this"
"Missed what darling?"
"You and me, alone. See I feel myself when I'm with you Yaz, It's nice. I can't feel that around anyone else" she got up throwing the wrench on the floor and taking her gloves off "There...all done Yaz. Well...hopefully. I should be fine. I need a shower"
"Aaaaa...she kicked me so hard" Yaz lifted her top
"She did?" Doctor jumped and ran across "Let me see Yaz...Aaaaarhhh...I have dirty hands"
"Oh, who cares...give your hand" she took her hand and placed it on her stomach then opened the hologram from her bracelet "Loook...she's turning"
"Yaz...I'm pretty certain I'm going to cry now" she said bending over holding her hand on her tummy
"Cry you silly sod...I'm gonna cry with you"
"Yaz, I made that baby...her...she's mine" she was literally hopping on one place exited
"You have yes" she smiled and pulled her in for a kiss.
Yaz found it funny how the Doctor still couldn't get her head around it after all these months even though the evidence for it was now so blatantly obvious. She wondered if, when the baby comes, she would just stand by her for hours and think about the same thing, and she could see her banging on about it about three times a day and telling her daughter how she made her.
"She's going to move now more and more Yaz...I mean she always did move, but you just couldn't feel her as much. But now, bigger she is more you will feel and see as well. You will see on a tummy when she stretches her little leg or when you get a tiny fist in your bladder" she laughed crouching down and put her ear on Yaz's stomach
"Babe, I think that's my digestion you can hear not her" Yaz laughed combing fingers through Doctor's hair
"I think she might have gone back to sleep" she opened one eye squinting at Yaz with her ear still pressed on her stomach
"You're so silly" Yaz shook her head giggling "My lovable weardo"
"Come on Yaz go get dressed. Let's go for a walk before it gets dark. Remember days are short now and it's coming up to twelve o'clock already"
"Alright love" she passed her the breakfast bowl and reached out for her hand to get up.
...
They stepped outside and the Doctor pulled the hood over Yaz's head making sure she was wrapped up warm. She had to get a new jacket because she could no longer zip up the old one. A reminder of how much bigger she was than the last time they were home. It was a strange feeling how Yaz now considered this distant planet her home. Earth was too, but this was her heart's home now, the one they had chosen for themselves. The Doctor was also wearing a thick winter coat for a change, but her lower legs were still bare and Yaz felt cold just looking at them. She laced their fingers and showed their hands in her pocket. They walked slowly along their usual path through the frozen forest. It was quiet, only their feet made a sound as they walked through the thick snow.
"Hey Yaz look!" Doctor pointed to the beautiful rainbow lights in the sky
"OMG are those polar lights"
"Similar yes...they are stunning"
"So magical" Yaz said smiling and then saw a beautiful white bird in the branches of the tree. She tapped Doctor's shoulder "Hey...loook" she pointed
"Aaaa...I haven't seen them in centuries" she whispered
"What is it? OMG look at those eyes" she was gasped at the piercing big blue eyes
"Similar to owls Yaz...stunning. They are very rare because they only have one baby each ten years"
"How come?"
"They live over six hundred years Yaz, nature's way of keeping a balance"
"Waaaw...I'm so emotional babe...why do I feel like crying?"
"Oh boy" she turned towards her and smiled "I think your hormones going a bit crazy. Like you know...you're preparing to be a mum"
"Oh god I'm either crying or I'm horny this is horrible"
Doctor burst out laughing and kissed her forehead "Come on mummy...let's go back it's getting late"
"Anyways the bird is beautiful" she smiled, and one tear dropped down her cheek.
They continued walking for nearly an hour before turning around to go back to the Tardis.
"Be careful darling don't slip" Doctor said as they came back inside "Your boots are full of snow. Hold on to me I'll take them off"
"I needed this...and now I need some tea" she said holding on to her shoulders "Want some?"
"Definitely" she said pulling her boots of "Here we go...all done...go down and don't be barefoot"
"Yes mum" she giggled
"Just making sure you two don't get ill Yaz that's all"
"I know and you're gorgeous" she said hopping along towards the kitchen "Oh look you have a message from your best mate love" she said passing next to the console
"I do?" she asked confused taking her jacket off and shaking a snow off it "Who's my best mate?"
"My dad" she laughed and zoomed of to the kitchen
"Baaaaabe!!!!" Yaz yelled from the kitchen then came to the hallway "Why is kitchen covered in water?"
"Whaaa?"
"We have a flood babe"
"Why does everything always have to go wrong Yaz...tell me" she walked irritated towards the kitchen
"No idea darling...actually I do babe...you're a shit magnet" she laughed
"Blimey....what the hell" Doctor stood at the door looking at the kitchen floor covered in water up to her calves "What's going on here...oh don't tell me swimming pool leaked again" she walked through the water and the spark flew off in the corner
"OMG! get out of there...you're gonna get electrocuted"
"There's no electricity inside Tardis Yaz...don't worry...I wanted a nice quiet evening just you and me and now I need to repair this...Aaaarrhh"
"We can still have it babe...I'll help you. Go have a look what's going on I'll sort out this water"
"You will do no such thing Yaz. Tardis can suck up the water out don't worry. But this will take time...I'm so sorry" she slumped her shoulders
"Why are you saying sorry that's so silly come on. We will do it together" she reached for her hand
...
"See look inside here Yaz can you see that little valve there?" she said pointing at the deep hole in the wall
"Yap"
"Close it clockwise when I say?"
"Alright. Why did my dad call you?"
"Nothing important Yaz, just for a chat"
"You're just having a casual chat with my dad?"
"Yeah...why not?" she shrugs hopping around "You can open it now Yaz...and your sister"
"You whaa?"
"She calls me once a week just to give an update"
Yaz rolls her eyes laughing "I can't believe this...Wait a minute...did you say once a week"
"Mmmmm"
She walks over to her and turns her face with her finger "So you knew about her and Ryan?"
Doctor grins and then hops away on the other side "Hey look at this Yaz I always wanted to show this...this is how I add rooms"
"That's interesting but you're not changing the subject"
"I can't tell a secret Yaz...it's not fair"
"Not even to me when it's my sister and my mate dating each other?"
"Yaz I am not getting into your family drama...You're gonna have to take that one with your sister"
"I'm your wife!"
"You are...that's true" she moves to another side pulling some wires out of the wall
"Don't I come first?"
"Oi...that's not fair Yaz...you always come first. But if your sister doesn't want to tell you maybe you shouldn't be blaming me Yaz"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You should ask yourself why she's telling me and not you"
"I don't understand"
Doctor left the wires and turned to her "Yaz you haven't been very supportive you know. Ryan said he loves her, and he feels he can be himself with her...you know...talk about everything he`s been through. Has it ever crossed your mind how difficult it must be for him. He can't exactly say to a random girl how terrifying it is to meet a Cyberman Yaz or how much Orphan 55 practically traumatized him. But he can to your sister. She understands...they share this world Yaz...Just put yourself in their shoes" she got back to her wires leaving Yaz standing feeling horrible about herself. She turned around and walked away
"Yaz!" Doctor yelled as she walked out "Oh boy" she rolled her eyes and wiped her hands on her sides then went after her
Yaz was sitting on the steps by the console twirling the edge of her sleeve through her fingers looking at the floor. She felt horrible and selfish, and she knew Doctor was right. She also remembered how much it hurt when her sister kept taking a piss out of Doctor and their relationship and how she apologized to her in the end. But when Yaz looked back she was no different to Ryan or to Sonya.
"Yaz" Doctor walked in "Hey don't sit on the cold stairs you're gonna ketch a cold"
"I'm fine" she moves her bum a bit to show she's sitting on a cushion
"Yaz" Doctor sits next to her "Darling I didn't mean to upset you"
"I know"
"I was trying to explain. I'm not hiding stuff from you Yaz, but I have to also respect your sister. It's not a nice position to be in because I love you and I want to tell you everything"
"I understand"
"Do you Yaz? Because right now you don't look like you do, you just look like you're gonna cry...your chin is having a wobbling moment...right there" she pointed her finger making Yaz laugh a bit.
"I do understand...and you're right. I'm sorry I lashed out on you"
"It's ok I'll survive...nothing kiss can't repair Yaz" she said so obviously waiting for one to come her way and it did immediately afterwards
"I'm so sorry I yelled" she said into her lips
"Aaaaa...That feels better" The Doctor hugged her shoulder and pulled her into her "You can always talk to them both you know...we're going on a trip together
"Is that why you called them?" Yaz looked at her
"I might have done" she smiled and kissed her forehead
...
Kitchen was dry and Tardis repaired. Yaz finally got to making a tea. She put mugs and custard cream biscuits on the tray.
"Hey...I have the movie ready" Doctor peaked from the door smiling "Uh...no no I'll take that Yaz" she rushed to take the tray "What if you tripped Yaz?"
Yaz laughed "Babe I think I'm perfectly capable of caring the tray"
"Nope...you can't see your feet Yaz...you said it yourself" she took the tray and walked out
They came to the library, Yaz's favorite place in the Tardis. Doctor prepared the sofa and the big screen. The fire was crackling in the fireplace and smell of books and wood with dimmed lights made it all very cozy. They made themselves comfy snuggled up on a big sofa. Yaz found this incredibly special because for years she was yearning this kind of closeness with the Doctor and now when she's all hers Yaz was using every opportunity to snuggle as much as it was physically possible. But she also noticed Doctor was no different than her. Her hands were on Yaz any given moment sometimes just brushing gently on her passing by and Yaz loved every second of it.
"Mmmm....look we have a tray" Yaz laughed wedging a plate between her stomach and her breast.
"You silly sod"
"My boobs are so much bigger my god...Did you notice that?"
Doctor laughed shaking her head "Yes Yaz believe me I have. You look beautiful darling"
Yaz fell asleep halfway through the movie. The sofa was big and cozy and fitted both of them perfectly. She turned around at some point and tucked her head into Doctor's chest wrapping her arm around her. This was one of those lazy beautiful evenings when it was just the two of them and Tardis and was Doctor's favorite. As much as she loved having family and friends around, she was also craving for alone time with Yaz and yet she found herself constantly again traveling surrounded by people. She decided that this was going to be their last trip before the baby comes, more so because Yaz's pregnancy was slowly coming to term, and she didn't want to take any risks anymore.
"Yaz...darling" she kissed her hairline
"Mmmmm?"
"You fell asleep...come on. Let's go to bedroom"
"Mmmm"
Doctor smiled "Wanna stay here?"
"Mmmmm" she rubbed her face into her neck
She chuckled "Alright...I suppose we can stay" she took the remote and found another movie to watch
...
"How are my favorite girls this morning?" Doctor came to the kitchen kissing her shoulder and then capturing her lips as Yaz was chopping some banana
"Still trying to find my brain" she laughed and put a piece of banana into her mouth "Want some cereal?"
"Might do...that looks yummy" she peaked over her shoulder
"What are you doing since five in the morning? I woke up and you were gone"
"Studding that machine...it's so amazing Yaz I can't wait to get my hands on it. It can actually provide enough energy source for the whole planet and not just one hemisphere. I found the way of adapting it"
"Waaaw...it's absolutely amazing when you think. What happened to that planet babe?"
"Solar storms are getting stronger Yaz, they are destroying their atmosphere. Stronger they get more exposed they will get to radiation"
"Oh...I can't imagine something like that happening to Earth...well I can but it gives me the creeps.... Here you go babe, your cereal"
"Thanks...mmmm that looks yummy. Well, technically Yaz each planet will eventually come to same faith. It just you know...takes time...a lot of time"
"I wanna talk to you about something"
"You look very serious Yaz...what is it?"
"Well, you know how we talked about baby names"
"Yes"
"Well now we know it's a girl. I had this name popping in my head that I thought was very beautiful and also meaningful"
The Doctor leaned her head on her hand intrigued "Okay...let's hear Yaz...now I'm excited
She left the knife on the counter and looked up to her "Anaya...it's Indian, name and it means..."
"Completely Free" Doctor finished her sentence
"Yes" she smiled
"I absolutely love it Yaz"
"You do?" she asked all exited
"I do" she nodded happily "There's a power in that name Yaz...nothing in this universe is more powerful than love and freedom"
"But iff you have any other ideas love I don't want this to be..."
"It's perfect Yaz"
"Sooo, does that mean we have our baby's name?"
Doctor got up and took her hands "I think it does mummy" she nodded smiling
"You do know I'm gonna start crying now again?" she smiled with a bottom lip wobbling
"I know you're getting a wobble" she cupped her face and kissed her gently then pulled her into her chest "I absolutely love it Yaz" she then slumped down and started tapping on her stomach "Hey did you hear that...we have a name for you...Anaya...do you like it? One tap for yes and two taps for no"
"You're absolutely insane babe" she started giggling
"I figured Yaz she's way too small for two taps so it will have to be YES"
"Are you being cheeky with the baby?"
"Yeeees" she laughed
...
It was the day before the trip and Yaz was nervous. She suddenly felt nervous about leaving the safety of the Tardis and it was an extremely strange feeling as she had never been nervous about anything before. On the contrary, she would have endless arguments with the Doctor about what she can or cannot do while pregnant and would have serious problems accepting the restrictions that pregnancy has placed on her. To be honest half the time she knew the Doctor was right and she knew she was being stubborn. She also knew the Doctor knew she was getting on her nerves quite consciously which made things worse when they argued because one thing Yaz couldn't do was win the argument with the Doctor. To be honest, she hasn't met a single person who could, with one exception, her mum. The Doctor would literally shut up every time to Yaz's absolute astonishment when her mum argues her corner. And she had never seen her do it with anyone else. Actually, Yaz's mum just didn't care that the Doctor was an alien thousands of years old, she would put her foot down like she was talking to a 30-year-old woman letting her know she's the mother. And in some strange way the Doctor took to it and would like the idea of having a mother figure in her life. It was beautiful and special for Yaz because it was the bond the Doctor had with her family that meant the world to her. But her thoughts went back to her anxiety of leaving for this trip and usually she would brush over it and not say anything, but she desperately needed her.
Doctor was lying on the floor with her head deep inside the console. She was tapping her hand over the floor trying to find the tools that were right beside her. Yaz laughed and moved the pliers in her reach.
"Oh...Yaz...I didn't see you there...I though you're packing?" she asked with her head still stuck underneath the console
"I was...babe can we talk?" Yaz asked a bit sheepish
Doctor grabbed the console with both hands and pulled herself out of the hole "Always Yaz...is everything ok?"
"No, not really"
Doctor got up and wiped her hands into her trousers "What's wrong Yaz" she came up and wrapped her arms around her
"I don't know what's happening to me babe and it's scaring me"
"What's happening to you love. Tell me"
"I have this stupid fear all of sudden...of leaving Tardis" Yaz nervously played with her braces looking down at them "...and I feel so pathetic babe" she looked up into her eyes looking for answers her eyes filling with tears "What's happening to me?" As she said it tears rolled down her cheeks. She felt almost embarrassed saying it.
"Oh darling...c'mere" she pulled her in onto her chest and stroke her hair "It's ok beautiful It's not pathetic...not at all"
"I feel so stupid babe"
"It's not stupid and it's not pathetic. You're just still in shock Yaz, it's normal" Doctor cupped her face gently brushing her thumbs over her cheeks wiping her tears "Thank you for telling me this Yaz. I'm glad you did"
"But I don't understand. I've seen worse, been through worse as well"
"You have. And you've been absolutely amazing, and you still are... but you never had someone else inside you Yaz" she put her hands on sides of her stomach "Someone who's life is the most important to you now. Your priorities have changed...We will take risks when we are alone, but when someone else depends on us we will think twice Yaz before we do"
"I think you're right...all I could think about was the baby...she was the only thing in my mind...I was so scared of losing her babe"
"I know...that's all I can think about for months now Yaz...how to keep you two safe. And I'm so sorry I wasn't there I'm so sorry..."
"Noo...you're perfect" Yaz palmed her face "You're doing the best that you can, and this wasn't your fault, I never thought that for a second. And I'm sorry I don't listen to you half of the time" she smiled
"No, you don't ever...and it's annoying Yaz"
"I know I'm sorry...I promise I will from now on"
"Even when I say don't walk barefoot around" she asked suspiciously
"I promise" she laughed
"I'm gonna hold you to that one" Doctor kissed her palm
"I love you my beautiful Bighead...I don't know what I would ever do without you" Yaz gently tucked her hair behind her ears and wrapped her hand around her neck pulling in for a kiss
"Right" Doctor jumped taking he hand "Wanna see what's new on Tardis?"
"What's new on Tardis?" Yaz frowned "Please tell me you replaced the dishwasher"
"No... but I will get around to that as well" she said pulling her through the corridor
"You're saying this for months"
"I knoooow.... give me brake Yaz I had so much to repair"
"Alright" she rolled her eyes laughing "You're pulling me like crazy...my god where's the fire?"
Doctor opened the door of their room leaving Yaz confused "It's our room babe...what am I missing?"
Doctor smiled nodding her head pointing towards the bathroom on the right side of the bed.
"That door wasn't there this morning?" Yaz looked at her confused
"Nope" she nodded smiling "Wanna look?"
Yaz walked up to the door and grabbed the handle then turned towards the Doctor "You didn't?"
"I don't know what you're talking about Yaz" she smiled
"You did...didn't you?"
"Oh, just open the damn thing will ya" she jumped excited
Yaz opened the door and was speechless entering the room. There were stars on the ceiling and planets spinning around that looked so real as if there was a window into space above her head, an armchair in the corner and beautifully crafted wooden furniture. A small wardrobe, a changing table and shelves of toys that Yaz had never seen before in her life. The room replicated the library in many ways, Yaz's favorite place. It even had a small shelf on the wall with children's books.
"I still need to put a cradle inside and I was debating on a style because of the cradle" she scrunched her face "I know it's not a same style now, but I know you love the library and it's relaxing for you so...I can always change it if you don't like it"
"OMG stooop" she turned around smiling "It's bloody perfect...I love it" she squished her face between her palms "Everything is perfect...everything about you is perfect...I can't" she starts crying again "I'm a fuckin mess...I love you" Yaz pressed her lips on hers
"Alright then" Doctor said into her lips making her laugh "I'll move the cradle today if you want...or it can stay next to bed for now"
"Leave it for now...I like to look at it"
"Alright..." she jumps of the floor exited "Hey look at the toys Yaz" she started showing her all different gadgets making her laugh
Yaz was lying in a bed waiting for her to come and peaking at her through the open bathroom door as she wiped herself with a towel making her laugh how she would put it on a side of the sink completely ignoring it falling to the floor. She walked around the bed towards the chest of drawers.
"Don't" Yaz said turning around in a bed
"Don't what Yaz?"
"Don't put anything on...just come here" she reached her hand
"Mmmm...you want to see me naked Yasmin" Doctor smiled at the request and crawled into bed on her hands and knees over the duvet making Yaz giggle.
"Yeah" she laughed ruffling her hair as she hovered over her
"And why is that Yaz?"
"Take a wild guess" she giggled like crazy
Doctor shuffled around the bed and pulled the duvet from her "Aaaaa...and why are you in your pajamas then?"
"Cause I was hoping you'd take them off"
"Really" she raised an eyebrow pulling her bottoms down and frowning them across the room then making space for herself kneeling between her legs pulling her top off as well slinging it to the other end of the room as well.
"Very beautiful" Doctor said looking between her legs
"Stop that you silly sod" Yaz laughed covering her face with her hands and trying to put her legs together
"I'm only telling the truth Yaz" she hovered above her blowing air into her hands "Hey...do I get a kiss or you're gonna hide your face from me the whole night?"
Yaz opened her palms giggling "You're a nutter you know that?" she tucked her hair behind her ears and kissed her "Come just lie next to me...I want a cuddle first"
Doctor slumped on a bed and Yaz wrapped herself around her "Tell me something"
"Something" she laughed
"You're in your element today, aren't you?"
"Maybe...Well I can't be miserable all the time Yaz"
"Oh, shut up, you're not miserable"
"I have been a bit Yaz I am aware of it you know. I had a lot on my mind. Well, I always have a lot on my mind...but more than usual"
"You've been fine babe considering everything. To be hones it's surprising we're both normal considering everything we've been through since we met"
"We're not normal Yaz...who told you that"
Yaz burst out laughing "You do have a point there" she said trailing her finger over her shoulder "But I wouldn't have it any other way"
"Which part Yaz because I can assure you there are parts I would gladly erase or at least change if I could"
"I'm talking about good parts...We had some really good parts and those I would never change and if bad parts are a part of it all then all take the whole lot because I got you out of it all. And that's the best part"
"No darling neither would I... But I do wish I could have given you more of those good parts" she said trailing her finger over Yaz's open palm then lacing their fingers together "I do have a feeling sometimes like all I have given you is pain. Adventure yes, but also pain"
"No, you haven't. Pain is a part of life and I had it before I met you...it's unavoidable. But what you have given me is myself and found myself within you babe and that's worth all the pain that came with it"
"I really love you Yaz...so much" she brushed her finger over her nose smiling
"You can kiss me now" Yaz giggled
"I'm planning to" she laughed
...
Tardis landed in Sheffield and Yaz rushed to the door. She could already hear voices outside arguing over the amount of luggage.
"Hey you...stop arguing" Yaz laughed opening the door
"Sweetheart" Nadjia turned around exited
"Hi mum"
"Look at you" she came over kissing her cheek
"I know big, ha? Come on in mum"
"Hi darling" Nadjia came up to the Doctor and hugged her
"Aaaaaaa....so nice to see you again"
"How are you doing?"
"Not bad at all"
"I missed you" Yaz hugged Sonya
"I missed you too"
"Ryan haven't seen you on a while" Yaz laughed
"Hello pumpkin" her dad hugged her tight "You look beautiful"
"Thanks dad"
"Hakim!" Doctor zoomed around the console and
"Doctor so nice to see you again. I'm so excited"
"I know me to...wait until you see all the plans its fantastic...Right fam... are we ready?" Doctor asked already having her hand on the lever
"Ready" Yaz said
"Zwari here we come" she smiled and pulled the lever
Chapter 38
Tardis landed and Doctor hopped around the console and opened the door. Intolerable heat hit her face straight away "Woooow that's intense" she pulled back "Alright I think I might have missed a spot a little bit" she walked outside and zoomed the sonic above her head "Yap definitely missed the town for about aaaahhh 50 kilometers"
"Baaabe!!! How?" Yaz came up to the door and peaked outside
"Noooo no" Doctor pushes her inside "You missy get back inside...this is way too hot for you and the baby...this is way too hot for anyone" she shielded her face from the sun looking around "It's like a desert...there's nothing here Yaz"
"Well, this is a deja vu" Yaz rolled her eyes
"It does seem like it a bit" Sonya added laughing trying to look outside over Yaz's shoulder
"Is everything ok?" Nadjia asked Sonya
"We seem to be a bit off course mum"
"It's ok Nadjia...at least we got the right planet" Ryan said laughing
"Oi!!!...Pack it in or I'll leave you here!" Doctor points a finger at him "Alright...Alright...I'll get us where we need to be...I just think the planet is a bit out of orbit so that's why we landed on wrong place but nothing I can't fix" she marched back inside "Right...hang on everyone...Yaz...you got the lock on it?"
"Yap got it...let's go babe!"
She pulled the lever, and they landed in the middle of a busy town. She runs to the door scanning with a sonic "Aaaaa see...we got it right this time" she turns around the corner and sees relatively big house looking rather wonky with round windows and a flat roof "...aaaaaaa" she jumps exited "And right in front of the hotel as well!"
"Doctor....how many of those hotels exist around the universe?"
"Oh, many Sonya...most developed planets have them...People travel around the galaxy all the time and they need a place to stay. Not everyone has a Tardis...right" she turns towards everyone "Let's get our luggage, shall we?" she walks back inside
"Babe" Yaz pulls her sleeve
"Yes Yaz?"
"Can I show a baby room?"
Doctor's face goes white releasing she again forgot about those things and how dizzy she is in all of it. Her hearts sunk yet again. Of course, Yaz wanted to show it and of course it means a lot to her and of course it would be absolutely normal thing to do. But yet again she was getting lost in what's normal.
"Oh Yaz" her face goes soft "I am so sorry...I messed it up again, didn't I?"
Yaz kissed her cheek smiling "No you haven't...relax...come on let's show it" she nods her head towards the steps smiling then takes her hand and turns to everyone "Hey...excuse mee!!" she yells
"Yes love?" Nadjia turns around
"Before we go to a hotel Doctor, and I want to show a baby room" she smiled squeezing her hand in a comforting way
"You have a baby room?" Sonya jumped exited
"We do now" Doctor makes a smug face "Come on" Doctor says
For Yaz and the Doctor, this was also the first time they had opened the door to the most intimate part of the Tardis to someone's eyes. Something that in Yaz's world wouldn't be a big deal, but in the Doctor's world the bedroom was off limits and a space only Yaz could see. It showed Yaz how much love she has for her family, and she couldn't love her more for it.
The Doctor was all excited showing everyone all the functions of the cradle, but Yaz saw her mother standing by the bookshelf, sadly running her finger over the edge of the shelf.
"Mum...are you alright?" she came up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder
"No Yaz...I'm not" she turns around eyes filled with tears "I'm happy for you Yaz...I am... for both of you"
"But?" Yaz asked worriedly
"But...you're so far away darling...please promise me I'll see the baby"
"Mum OMG of course you'll see the baby...definitely you will see the baby all the time"
"Will I Yaz?"
"Yeees...we don't have a babysitter do we mum so...you know get ready to be one" she smiled
"You better keep that promise Yaz"
"I will"
"Is everything ok Yaz?" Doctor comes up behind her
"Mum's worried she'll never see the baby"
"Absolutely you will if I have anything to do with it Nadjia..."
"Promise me both of you" she points a finger at them
"We promise" Doctor said smiling and Nadjia opened her arms to hug them both.
"I just wish you two had a flat in Sheffield" she smiled squeezing them both so tight
"Yeah, mum we will just park Tardis in our living room" Yaz laughed "Come on let's go...Doctor has a meeting to go to later"
...
"Babe are you gonna just leave her parked like that?" Yaz asked as they came outside, and she released Tardis is literally in the middle of a some square
"Right..." she turns around "I should probably move her"
"Yeah, I think you probably should babe"
"Don't get a parking ticket Doctor" Hakim laughed
"Alright let's get settled first"
"Alright" Yaz leaned closer to her "Besides you promised me something"
"And I will keep my promise Yaz" she kisses her temple
"Oh, by the way..." Doctor turns around "Welcome to your first alien planet"
"Blimey I didn't even register that to be honest" Nadjia says
"Funny how having a daughter in law whose alien changes perception" Hakim said to his wife
"Just proves nothing can surprise us anymore" Nadjia shakes her head
"Doctor...where is this actually?" Sonya asked rushing to catch up with her
"Well, it is about 3500 light years away from Earth Sonya but also looking from our perspective about 1500 years into the future as well"
"Blimey" Sonya shook her head a bit taken back "I guess this is normal for you, ha?" she said to Ryan
"Oh, totally normal" he laughed "After a while you stop asking and just go with it"
The town looked rather funny and not what anyone really expected. All the houses were wonky with several floors and round windows in. Some had steep rooftops some had flat roofs like terraces and there were clothes hanging to dry out in the sun. The whole town was in earth tones presumably because the local area was all desert.
"Babe what are these houses built off?" Yaz asked
"Local stone Yaz...there's a query on the other side where they get the stone from. Quite interesting really, then they make a mixture of soil, sand and poop and smearing it on the outside for extra protection from heat"
"They smear poop on the walls"
"Yes, Yaz poop is used quite a lot...excellent binder"
"Right..." Yaz decided to ignore the last information for her own sake
Sonya's eyes teared up and she felt yet again as if she's going to throw up on the floor.
The hotel was beautiful with a huge courtyard that had unusual plans that looked like massive trumpet shaped flowers in different colors growing out of the ground, some of them as big as a person. The interior looked no less unusual. Not a single room has a single straight wall or corner. Everything was rounded and smooth, and also all the walls were perfectly white. No one knew how to use the bathrooms or toilets that didn't even look like regular toilets, so the Doctor had to show everyone the basics. Then she and Yaz were finally in their room which was absolutely beautiful with a large balcony that looked out over the street below and Yaz wasn't able to wrap her head around the stone base of the bed with a thick mattress that looked more like a puffy duvet than a mattress.
"I really hope this is comfortable to sleep on or I'm sleeping in Tardis" she said lifting the mattress
"Wanna test it?" Doctor kissed her shoulder smirking
"Silly sod" she laughed ruffling her hair "We definitely will but I suggest you go and get the Tardis babe"
"Shoot yes" she kissed her cheek and grabbed her coat
"I really think you don't need a coat on hundred degrees outside babe"
"Right...aaaa" she stopped by the door confused and flustered
"It's fine babe it's not inappropriate you know...just leave it here"
"Right...you're probably right Yaz" after shortly considering she did opt for leaving it and rushed outside
"And you look much sexier without it," she said smiling as she left
As Doctor came out, she found two men standing by the Tardis one knocking on the door and the other walked around it confused.
"Hello...can I help you?" she said approaching them squinting her eyes from the strong sun
"Is this your box?"
"Oi, that's not a box...but yes, it's mine..."she said confused
"Well then this is for you" the man passed her a note
"A fine?" she exclaimed "I got a fine?" she looked at the note, frowning in confusion
"Yes...you're obstructing traffic"
"I'm whaat?"
"You're obstructing traffic...You can't just leave it here...So, pleeeeease move it...What is that thing anyway?"
"First of all it's not a thing...second...It's not even on a road!!" she points "That's good twenty centimeters from the edge you know...look!"
"It's in the way of the traffic" he said clearly irritated by her at this point trying to leave but she followed him
"It's not even on the road? How can I obstruct the traffic?"
"Look I really don't care...just pay the fine or go to jail...it's actually very simple"
"Jail? How rude... And I was going to move it, you know... Not to mention I'm here to clean up your mess... Aarrrh... Never mind" she shrugs and slams the door behind her.
Yaz was taking the essentials out of the bag. She had packed virtually none of their clothes figuring the Tardis would be in the room anyway as they had agreed, which in itself was pretty stupid that they were sleeping in a hotel and not in their own room. But them two loved the change from time to time and to wake up with sun on their faces. The Doctor also wanted her family to have the opportunity to enjoy a hotel vacation on an alien planet.
Tardis landed by the bed and Doctor stormed out fuming.
"Hey babe...What's wrong?"
"I got a fine!!" she shows her the paper
"You whaaa?" Yaz tried holding off from laughing
"A fine Yaz....a parking ticket for obstructing the traffic"
"Say whaaa?" she started laughing
"It wasn't even on the road Yaz...it was twenty-five centimeters away from it"
"You got a parking ticket for Tardis?" she burst out laughing
Doctor stood in the middle of the room taken back as Yaz literally pissed herself laughing
"Are you laughing at me Yasmin Khan"
"Yeeees" she barely managed to say "You got a bloody parking ticket babe...for Tardis...OMG I'm seriously gonna piss myself"
"I can't believe this" she started laughing herself
"For a time, machine" Yaz said screaming
"I'm totally losing my authority here"
"Did you ask iff you can use your space credit card....aaaaaa...I can't...this is too much"
"Yaz what the hell...did you eat something from the fridge again?" Doctor couldn't help it and burst out laughing
"I'm sorry" she came up to her and squeezed her face between her palms kissing her "You're so bloody cute sometimes.... I have to pee" she ran into the bathroom and continued laughing
"Wanna go with me Yaz later on?"
"Yeah sure" she came out of the bathroom and reached for Doctor's hands lacing their fingers together "Hey" she smiled "thank you for this" she pointed towards the Tardis and Doctor pulled her in
"You don't need to say thank for that Yaz" Doctor smiled and wrapped fingers around her neck "I love you...so much"
"I love you too" Yaz came closer to her face and smiled softly "Wanna test the bed" she said kissing her lips and moving one strap off her shoulder then moving on to her neck sliding another one off as well
"I can't really see myself saying no to that Yaz" she said closing her eyes
...
They walked down the busy street and even though it was early evening already it was still extremely hot and Yaz was struggling with it, but she wanted to be there with her to feel as if she's doing something rather than nothing, which is pretty much how she felt most of the time since she stayed pregnant. Doctor didn't mind one little bit in fact she was more than happy with Yaz just resting and doing absolutely nothing at all. But for Yaz not doing absolutely anything for nearly six months felt deflating.
"Hey, look Yaz" she pointed to the one house down the street that was absolutely insane looking like it almost came out of the circus. With a pitch wonky roof and balconies. It was also the only one in bright colors.
"That's insane what is it? It's the only one that is different"
"It's the one where we are going Yaz...this where the council is"
"That's the government building...like Houses of Parliament on Zwari?"
"Yes...cute isn't it"
"It looks like a candy store" she laughed
"Well people of Zwari were suppressed for centuries Yaz so now they like to keep everything more fun in life...I like that approach. I like what it became as well. Last time I was here there was a war Yaz many centuries ago. A lot has changed. I did read about it, but I was never here since"
"It still blows my mind you say it"
"What darling?"
"When you say things like centuries ago" she looked at her and slightly squeezed her hand
"I know Yaz" she kissed her knuckles "Come on...let's go"
"Doctor....How nice to see you" a man waited for them as they came inside the big lobby
"Hello Kargan...this is my wife Yaz"
"Yaz very nice to meet you" he smiled
"Nice to meet you too" she smiled
"So, Doctor" he started walking and they followed "We have the best team of people to help you out with whatever resources you may need"
"Thank you I appreciate that, and may I say I love what you've done with this place. It's beautiful"
"Thank you, Doctor. You were always welcome guest here. I heard so much about you it is such a pleasure to finally meet you"
"I must admit I didn't get that impression"
"Well, that was a long time ago. I know some people will disagree but then we all need to move on. You are being here now helping us says a lot"
"Right...I'm more worried about those who don't agree with you" Yaz looked at her worried as she said that.
...
"What's wrong Yaz? You're looking worried?" Doctor asked as they left the building and were walking for nearly ten minutes without Yaz saying one word.
"I didn't think after so many centuries there would still be people here willing to kill you"
"There's always people willing to kill me Yaz...sorry that's not really the right way of answering that question, is it?"
"No, it's not...can you please rephrase that" she looked at her sideways
"Yaz what I did was equivalent if saving Car Nikolai's kids in the middle of Russian revolution. Of course, there will be still people out there extremely happy to see me dead whiles I'm a big fan of being alive. Besides people on this planet live for a long time you know, one thousand years here is like ten years on Earth"
"I'm worried that's all"
"I know" she glanced at Yaz and couldn't help but see how scared she still was so she tugged her hand smiling "Hey, wanna go for a cake...What would you like to do tell me?"
Yaz let go of her hand and slipped it around her waist leaning on her shoulder "Anything that will cheer me up right now"
"Right well, I do have few things in mind Yaz but let's start with a cake"
"Silly..." she rolled her eyes smiling and hooked her hand into waistband of her trousers
...
"Yaz blimey slow down on that cake you're gonna choke" she laughed
"It's nice" she said smearing the spoon over the plate scooping up every last bit of it "...it's so nice and I needed sugar"
"You want one more?" Doctor chuckled anticipating her answer
Yaz looked up to her with a massive grin on her face and eyes sparkling
"Goodness..." she frowned "Yaz that look gives me a head wonk stop that"
"I know" she said cheeky
"Right...I'll get you that cake sharpish" she stood up and zoomed around the table hopping to the bar.
Yaz sat back looking at the people on the streets. She always loved taking time to observe different cultures and places whenever they traveled and make mental memories of those for years to come. Most of the time she didn't have time for that. But when she did, she would just sit quietly and watch. And this place seemed so beautiful. It had an almost organic feel to it. Flawless technology, it was there, but not in your face. And all the colors of earth and stone on people's clothes. The most beautiful, embroidered flowers and leaves on women's dressing and fabrics light and flowing, she wondered where all those designs came from because she only saw desert sand.
"Getting lost in your thoughts beautiful?" Doctor leaned over her shoulder and kissed her cheek then presented her with another cake that made her smile satisfied
"Mmmmmm...thanks babe...god I'm getting so big"
"And you look as beautiful as ever Yaz so just enjoy in that cake"
"I'm starting to think you're really into this"
"I don't understand Yaz? ...Into what?"
"You know...my chunky thighs" she laughed
"It's all you Yaz...there's just more of you to love now that's all"
Yaz rolled her eyes laughing, she found it adorable, and it did wonders for her self-confidence, but she still couldn't wait to get back to her old self after the baby.
"So, tell me...what's the plan?" she said digging into her cake
"Plan Yaz?"
"The machine..."
"Oh that...no, not yet Yaz but I will do by tomorrow. Today is just fun...are you done? Cause if you are done I wanna take you somewhere"
"Yap...where to?" she said getting up
"It wouldn't be a surprise if I tell you Yaz"
Doctor took her back to the hotel and it completely confused her "I thought your taking me somewhere?"
"And I am Yaz" she opened the Tardis "but it's on the other side of this planet" she scrunched her face "At least I hope it still is or that's gonna be embarrassing"
"Is this a date?" she said passing her at the Tardis door
"Might be Yaz...just might be" she smiled closing the door
She zoomed around the console all exited "Oh Yaz you will love this...As I said if it is still there" she frowned "Iff not I have a backup...and we still have time for family dinner Yaz..."
"Babe...relax...we have time machine" Yaz laughed seeing her all flustered
"We do...but with changes on this planet I really don't want to risk leaving you family stranded and being late for a week ...or a month...I think your mum would kill me"
"She would" she giggled preparing Tardis
"Alright wife, hold on...let's go for a date" she grinned and pulled the lever
Doctor ran outside exited as soon as they landed. Yaz could think what it was that made her so happy, but she hasn't seen her like this in a long time. It was a nice change because last time she's seen her on this level of excitement was years ago when they just met.
"It's here Yaz...Aaaaahhh I'm so chuffed...come" she reached for her hand
"Wooooooowwwww!!!!" Yaz was a bit taken back as she stepped out of Tardis. It wasn't what she expected at all. They parked on a top of the massive floating rock thousands of meters above the ground and all she saw underneath them was crystal blue ocean and beautiful tropical islands underneath. Sun was setting and Doctor helped her to sit down just in front of the Tardis entrance then sat behind her and wrapped her arms around her laying her head on her shoulder.
"Look at that sky" Yaz said dreamy gazing at the sun setting down between the clouds in all the colors of the rainbow
"Like it?"
"OMG babe...what's not to like? This is amazing. Aren't you a romantic?" she smiled turning over her shoulder
"I can be when I put the effort"
"You always put the effort...You're like a dream" she smiled brushing lips at hers and laced their fingers at her chest
"You're missing the sunset" Doctor smiled into her lips with half open eyes
"I can't see you looking either" she giggled
"Mmmm" she murmured and kissed her slow and gentle
And she was missing it...but Doctor had a way of kissing her that would sufficiently make her forget how to breathe. Combined with the incredibly romantic place she had taken her to, all she could think about at the moment was her.
"Wanna go for a swim?" Doctor asked happily as the sun went down
"What now?..."
"Aha" she nodded grinning
"What down there?"
"Yap...if you're up for it? Water should be very warm now Yaz...in fact it's the best time of the day for a swim"
Yaz smiled eyes open wide "Yeah...let's go...help me up...Don't want to learn how to fly and I don't trust myself not to just roll over this rock" she giggled
"Don't even joke about that Yaz" she got up and gave her a hand "Come on...slowly darling"
As beautiful as it was Yaz was happy when her feet were back on a solid ground. Normally she wasn't scared of heights but with her big tummy now she didn't feel as confident.
Doctor lowered the Tardis on the beach, it was early evening but as soon as the sun went down the sky was lid by beautiful two moons on a horizon whose silver shine was referring in the water. They took their shoes off and enjoyed the soft sand underneath their feet that was still warm from the sun.
"Are you sure we are alone here?" Yaz asked before taking her dress off
Doctor was laying a blanket on the ground and looked up razing an eyebrow "Do you seriously think I would take us here for a swim if I had any doubts Yaz?"
She giggled taking her dress off "You have a point...I think you would legit regenerate iff someone saw you"
Doctor laughed shaking her head.
Yaz stood in water up to her chest looking at the horizon. It was perfectly still, with only the sound of light waves crushing the sand. She ran her fingers over the surface, disturbing the glow of the moonlight. The warm air smelled of the ocean and light breeze played with her hair tickling her back. Loving hands moved her hair and beloved lips dotted kisses across her shoulders.
"Hey you" she smiled
"Hey beautiful" Doctor said between the kisses her hands trailing over her tummy gently
Yaz turned around and raised her hands over her shoulders tangling her fingers through her hair. Doctor eyes glistened in the moonlight and her pale skin was glowing. Yaz smiled gently then tucked hair behind her ears "You're so beautiful"
Doctor scrunched her face making her laugh
"You're still sexy when you make that face" Yaz said flapping her lashes and wrapped her legs around her with surprising ease showering her with small kisses
"And you're just cute when you say that...well you're always cute...and I'm literally holding you and the baby now Yaz" she smiled exited like a kid dipping them into the water
"OMG so you are" she smiled leaning her forehead on hers
"Both of my beautiful girls in my arms Yaz"
"You're gonna make me soppy now...stop" she tucked her head into her neck kissing it "this is so beautiful...I can stay like this forever"
"You can't you'd be like a prune Yaz" she chuckled
Yaz giggled and razed her gaze to meet her eyes getting lost in them. She brushed her lips on her hers gently twirling her hair through her fingers.
"Kiss me Yasmin" Doctor whispered trailing fingers down her spine.
"I was planning to" she smiled and captured her lips into slow and gentle kiss
She loved the feeling of weightlessness in the water as she was wrapped in his arms, the feeling that she truly belonged to her. A feeling that Yaz so desperately needed because it provided her with comfort and security. As much as she wanted to be an independent person, she also needed to feel that she was completely hers. The Doctor felt the same, although she wasn't aware of it before, she really was now. A topic they discussed many times. Independence was not a choice for either of them, more of a self-preservation tactic that both had to deal with loneliness. Neither of them lacked inner strength and ability to hold their own ground, that much was always clear, but it was loneliness that was tearing them from inside So now that they were together, they were both completely committed to showing each other that codependency without any shame in how hungry they both were for it. Constantly reminding each other how much they need each other's closeness at all times.
"Your adorable little head wonk you know that?" she smiled into her lips
"Mmmmm...am I giving you one now?" she smiled cheeky and rolled her hips
"You always give me one cheeky bugger" she closed her eyes and sunk her lips into hers then dipped them into water
"You always do this to me" Yaz giggled standing up
"And you always think you're being cheeky, and I don't know what you're doing" she grinned splashing water on her
"No, you don't...Not every time"
"Oh yeah" she slipped hands around her waist pulling her in "Tell me once I didn't know...go on...I dare you"
"So many times...like even before we were together, I would ask you to get me a plate out of the cabinet and it was only because I wanted you to stand behind me and you had no idea"
"I did Yaz" she laughed
"Nooooo you didn't...lier lier ...pants on fire"
"Yaz you're three and a half centimeters shorter than me...and Dan was right there...aaaand aaaaand... you wouldn't move out of the way....Believe me I knew" she pouts her lips "But as it happens I enjoined doing it as well...I would absolutely hate it if you asked Dan" she laughed kissing her nose "I also knew when I was teaching to fly the Tardis you would deliberately ask me stupid questions just to come behind you to help you out...but I enjoined in that as well...In fact I was quite upset at the times when you didn't do that"
"OMG...Now I'm embarrassed" she covered her face with hands
"Of what Yaz?"
"Being so desperately transparent"
"Why? That was very flattering at the time Yaz" she moved her hand from her face wrapping hand around her waist firmly "May I remind you that you are literally sleeping with me so nothing to be embarrassed about"
"Still...I wasn't at the time babe..." she peaked through her hands
"But you wanted to so badly Yaz" she grins cheeky
"You silly sod" Yaz rolls her eyes laughing "I am cold now"
They came out of the water and Doctor wrapped the towel around her "Better?" she wrapped hands around her to keep her warm
"Much...thank you...but you need to keep yourself warm as well...it's starting to be a bit windy"
...
They laid on the blanket under the covers watching stars in the sky. Doctor showing her different constellations she'd never seem before and telling her stories about them.
"I missed this" Doctor said trailing her finger over her collar bones and kissing her shoulder "Mmm..your salty Yaz" she smiled
"Me too...so much...Just you and me like this, no madness...still...And we never did this before" she smiled running fingers through the strains of hair falling on her face "It's special"
Doctor ran her fingers down the side of her arm gently trailing the outline of it then took her hand and kissed her fingertips holding them over her lips
"I'm scared Yaz" she said quietly
"Scared of what love?" Yaz stroke her face gently "Tell me"
She sighed deeply and pursue her lips "Of being a mum...What if I'm a lousy mum Yaz? What if I completely fail on every possible level...What if I'm not cut out for it because I never had a mother, or a family and I don't know first thing about what being a parent means...What if she hates me Yaz? What if I...."
"Hey...hey...stop..." Yaz wrapped her hand around the side of neck with a light squeeze "It's ok, darling"
"I'm petrified Yaz" she sits up holding a sheet to her chest "I wanted to tell you, but I was worried you'd misunderstand" she was nervously looking down and lacing her fingers with Yaz's hand "I didn't want you thinking I'll bailout...Cause I'm not Yaz!" she looked up at her "Never...I'm over the moon for this...I'm just petrified I'll fail"
Yaz sat up and put a finger underneath her chin razing her gaze "Hey look at me" and Doctor's eyes filled with tears gazed at her helplessly looking for insurance or an answer.
"We're in this together and we will make mistakes for sure...both of us...I have no idea how to do this...I really don't. But I know one thing for sure...all we need to do is love her, and she is already so loved. And you may not know what having a mother is...but I'm sure you know what you would love for her to have been. So be that...be whatever it is that you needed and never got. Give her whatever it is you wished you were given...Be that and you'll see babe you'll be perfect"
Doctor was breathing deeply, her bottom lip started to wobble "But I'm so dizzy Yaz...I keep forgetting your birthday and Tardis has to remind me"
"That's only because you didn't have one until we decided that the day you fell through the train will be yours" she smiled
"I love my birthday Yaz...that made me very happy"
"I bet you will never forget the day she will be born because it will mean so much to you"
"I never thought about it that way"
"And I bet she'll be as dizzy as you...if not worse...and that she will be as hyper as you, and as goofy as you are" she stroke her face gently "And as beautiful as you...And I bet you two will drive me nuts together" she chuckled but Doctor did too.
"I want to teach her everything Yaz"
"And you will...and how to drive the Tardis" she smiled
"Oh, definitely Yaz" she said proudly "And what if she's like you?"
"Then I can guarantee you that she'll adore you" she tucked her hair behind her ear "C'mere" she opened her arms and Doctor just fell into them tucking her face in a crook of her neck
"I love you Yasmin" she said squeezing her tight "Both of you so much"
"I never doubt that for one second of my life...and you are everything to me...and I've never loved anyone like I love you"
Doctor looked at her with a dreamy look in her eyes and moved little strain of hair from her forehead. Her gaze traveling between her eyes and her lips gently smiling. "We still have little bit of time before dinner" she smiled
"Well, then I suggest we take advantage of it" she brought her hands to the back of her neck playing with her hair then pulled her for a kiss crushing them both down onto the blanket
...
"Come on Yaz...get a shift on...we are so late" Doctor
"I know I know...Shoes?" she came out of the bathroom and sat on the bed
"Tomorrow, we start building that machine Yaz I'm so excited" she said whilst tying her shoes
"I can see that, you're like a kid sometimes"
"Only sometimes? Come on Yaz...let's go"
...
"Hey, you two...we've been waiting for ages" Nadjia said sitting on a little stone wall in a courtyard
"Sorry mum" she kissed her cheek "We were on a date" she whispered in her ear
"Oooohhh...ok then you're forgiven...your dad never takes me for a date anymore
"I didn't know you wanna go Nadjia" Hakim remarks
"Where's Sonya and Ryan?"
"They lost patience and went...they will meet us there" she laughed
"So, Hakim ready for tomorrow?"
"I'm so excited Doctor I couldn't sleep last night"
"He couldn't sleep for a week since you called him" Nadjia rolled her eyes and linked arm with Yaz "He's been torturing me till three in a morning each night...At least now I'll finally get some sleep"
"Oh, you won't know he's alive mum...Talking about that I think once they start you and I will spend a lot of time alone cause she's no different either"
"Oh, I didn't tell you Yaz your sister has some sort of allergy can Doctor have a look?"
"Yeah sure...I'll tell her...From what though?"
"No idea Yaz...her and Ryan went out this afternoon she came back all covered in some red rash
"Hey babe!" Yaz called the Doctor who was way ahead of them chatting away excited with Hakim
"Yes darling?"
"Mum said Sonya has some rash can you have a look?"
"Sure Yaz...Don't worry Najia I have few things for that in my Tardis"
"Thanks, hun"
"So, mum what's it like on an alien planet?"
"I don't know Yaz to be honest between your sister, Ryan and you dad I haven't had time to even think about it. It took me three hours just to unpack all the stuff and someone always needs something I haven't had time to breathe"
"How about you and I go to town tomorrow morning before the heat? They will be all wrapped up into that machine and you and I can go and do some shopping? They have beautiful clothes here I need to get something"
"That sounds like music to my ears Yaz"
"Aaaaaa...loook" Doctor points exited to one of the houses with a massive terrace rooftop "this is it"
"That looks nice love" Yaz looked up
"Oh, some food can be a bit...well weird...so let me look what they have first. I wouldn't want you having itchy tongue...that was really uncomfortable for me"
Nadjia laughed shaking her head "Alright hun"
Yaz screamed as a weird little animal climbed on her back out of nowhere "OMG!!!...what the hell"
Doctor turned around and released he was being chased by a man who had a chain in his hand
"Woooooow....now stop" she put her arm out stepping in his path
"He's mine...he keeps running away" he said looking over her shoulder for the little animal "Come here you stupid thing"
The little gray fluffy animal with massive blue eyes and big ears clenched to Yaz with his long fingers "You're scaring him" Yaz said holding on to him
"Go on give him here" the man said
"Something tells me those are for him?" Doctor said looking down at the chain in his hand
"I have to...he keeps running away"
"So would I if you tried putting those on me" she said
"Move out of my way" he tried going around her, but she wouldn't let him blocking his path each time
"That animal" Doctor said "...he's not indigenous to Zwari...in fact that animal is protected by law...How did you even get him?"
"None of your business"
"It is my business if you're smuggling practically instinct animal and want to put that thing on it...So I suggest you give up before I report you to authorities"
"I paid good money for him!!"
"Oh well...we all need to cut our losses sometimes" she scrunched her nose "...you'll be paying good money in fine as well if I report you, so I suggest you leave whiles you still have a choice"
The man shoved her so hard Doctor almost lost her balance.
"Hey!! Don't you shove her!!!! Yaz jumped but her mum stopped her grabbing he arm
"Yaz noo!" Doctor signaled for her to stay put
"Hey mate!" Hakim jumped between them "Like shoving women ha? ....How about you shove me and see where it gets you?"
"Oh god..." Nadjia exhaled
"You're nuts...the lot of you...it's just a stinking animal" he waived his hand "Fine...have him...bloody idiots" he looks over Hakims shoulder at the Doctor "And you...I'll see you around when you're alone little woman"
"Oh, don't threaten me mate. And who are you calling little? ...Did he just call me little?"
The man finally turned around and left angry
"Thanks for that Hakim"
"Any time...I hate bullies...been dealing with them all my life"
"Come on let's go" she walked over to Yaz and kissed her temple "So... guess we have a pet now Yaz" she smiled looking down at the scared animal "You're cute...we need to give you name"
"We are keeping him?" Yaz said shocked
"Iff, you want Yaz...he's home no longer existing darling...long gone...he is probably one of just hounded left in the universe. There's nowhere to take him unfortunately" she picked him up like a child and held him up in the air. And the little animal made baby like noises tilting his head.
He looked funny and cute with long thin legs and lanky digits.
"OMG his eyes are like galaxy" Yaz said mesmerized looking at massive blue eyes that were so deep and had sparkles in them
"They are beautiful aren't they Yaz? They are extremely intelligent animals, so he was probably using him to steal...and they are telepathic as well Yaz, so he understands you no matter what language you speak" she gave him back to Yaz and he huddled in her arms clenching at her t-shirt
"Really? Nadjia asked surprised
"We really are on alien planet" Hakim said "Poor little love he was so scared"
"Well then we are definitely keeping him cause I'm not leaving him here" Yaz said, and the animal showed signs of understanding her by making purring noises and tucking his head between her elbow and a tummy
"Well, I'm starving now I need some food...anyone else starving?" Doctor said exited
"I am... I haven't eaten since we got here" Hakim said
"Blimey...alright...let's go" she slumped her arm over Yaz's shoulder "That was very silly by the way Yaz...don't you do that again" she kissed her temple "Nice but silly"
"Sorry, it was automatic" she smiled gazing at her lovingly
"You need to feed him as well he is totally malnourished. But we will sort that part when we get to the Tardis"
"Alright....what do they eat?"
"Fruit"
Yaz sighed relieved, she was worried Doctor will say worms or bugs because that's not something she could deal with.
They came upstairs and Ryan was already there with Sonya waiving his hand from one of the tables.
"Where have you all lot been?" Sonya said getting up "We've been waiting for ages"
"Ran into some minor problem but we have a new pet out of it" Doctor said exited
"OMG what's that?" Ryan frowned
"Oi...he has a name you know?" Doctor jumped
"He does?" Yaz looked at her confused
"He does now...I just thought of one as we are coming upstairs actually...How do like Nardo Yaz?"
"I actually really like it.... Do you like it? Wanna be Nardo?" she looked down at him, but he was half asleep and just purred satisfied "Too tiered" she said sitting down "Dad almost got into a fight!"
"You whaaaa?" Sonya looked towards him
"The guy just shoved the Doctor I thought I'm gonna swing him across the road I swear"
"He shoved you? Why...what the hell?" Ryan said
"Animal trafficking Ryan...big business across the universe.... Cruel and inhumane and I wouldn't have it, so he got a bit heated"
"I just can't stand people like him" Hakim said
"Alright kung-fu panda...calm down" Najia tried changing the subject "So how is your rash Sonya?"
"Oh...let me look at that" Doctor got up and moved the collar of her T-shirt away then looked at her arms "Aaaaarrr....c'mere Sonya" she pulled her on a side
"What's wrong Doctor?"
"I don't know how to say this Sonya, but you will have to change a place where you and Ryan are...you know..."
"Oh...oh..." she brushed embarrassed
"Yeah" she scrunched her face "That sand is not agreeing with you at all"
"Oh god I'm gonna positively die now.... Don't tell my mum"
"Do I look like a snitch to you" she laughed "I'll give you something for it don't worry...just stay away from sand...oh and there's a nice place on the other side I'll send a a text to Ryan"
"You're crazy you know that..."
"Neah...just romantic Sonya...let's get back to the tables or we're gonna look weird"
"Yeah, you got a point" she laughed "Thank you"
"Don't mention it"
Doctor sat back at the table and Yaz looked at her for answers, but she just nodded indicating they'll talk later.
"Ryan...wanna go with us tomorrow morning? I could use extra pair of hands?"
"Yeah sure...I didn't think I could help?"
"Of course, you can Ryan"
Suddenly the table shook violently, and everyone stayed silent for a second looking around as candle holders fell off the tables and the sound of shattered glass echoed from somewhere inside the restaurant
"Woooooow" Doctor jumped
"OMG what was that?" Najia jumped
Doctor pulled her sonic out and scanned the surroundings "Mmmmm...remember when I told you how the planet is slightly out of orbit? ..."
"Yeeeeah?" Yaz said in anticipation to get some answers
"Well, now it's even more...tectonic movements due to changes in magnetic fields.... nothing too worrying" she scrunched her face "For now at least"
"Right" Nadjia said worriedly
"Doctor is this gonna get worse?" Hakim asked
"Good question Hakim...yes with time it will but we are here to stop it...it just means I will have to make some serious changes to that machine"
"Can you do it Doctor?" Ryan asked
"Sure, I can" she said sitting down again "It just means more time...I hate that...never enough time for anything"
They walked back slowly and as they came to the hotel Doctor tugged Yaz's hand gently. She knew exactly why and just smiled to her then turned towards her family
"Hey...we're gonna stay a but longer"
"Alright darling" her mum smiled and and others just waived
She slipped her hand around her waist and leaned her head on her shoulder.
"It's a nice evening...I though we walk a bit if your feeties are ok with that?" Doctor said draping her arm over her shoulder and kissing the top of her head
"Mmmmm...for a short while yes...he's sound a asleep" she smiled looking at Nardo sleeping in her arms
"Poor thing is malnourished and probably completely exhausted. But he will love the rain forest in Tardis"
"Oh...is that where he is going?"
"Iff he wants to...I can make a habitat just for him...it's a bit of time but I don't mind Yaz"
"And you're worried about being mum?" she kisses her shoulder "Seriously?"
"Thank you for what you said to me Yaz...it cheered me up"
Yaz leaned more into her and rubbed her face into her shoulder "I love you so much" she whispered
"I adore you...but you're tired...it's been a long day Yaz...let's go back ha?"
"Mmmmm" she moaned into her
...
"He should be fine? Right?" Yaz asked worried as she set Nardo with his own bed on the chair next to the window. She brought blankets and a pillow from Tarids and made a little nest for him. Doctor gave him a shot of vitamins and some other stuff he absolutely hated but then he was way to tiered and fell asleep again. He made the most incredible noises when sleeping that made them both laugh. It was a combination of cute snoring and moaning like a baby.
"He's fine darling" Doctor came out of the bathroom and kissed her shoulder "Underwear?"
Yaz turned around with a cheeky smile "You don't need any babe"
"Hmmm...commando...alright" she nodded and slipped into bed making Yaz laugh
She left her nightie on the floor and laid next to her smiling wrapping her hands around her and kissing her shoulder.
"When are you leaving in the morning?"
"Waaay before you open your eyes Yaz" she chuckled "We will go before the heat at dawn and come back some time in the afternoon...Please Yaz if you go out don't be outside in a heat. It's not good for you or the baby"
"Alright darling...I promise" she buried her face into her neckline kissing her
"Yaz..."
"Mmmm" she said trailing kisses down her neck
"I thought you're tired?" she frowned
"I was" she looks up at her with a cheeky smile and she moves around pressing herself to her and draping Doctor's leg over her side. Something her wife taught her not so long ago that made things a lot easier since she was pregnant. She grabbed her hands pinning them to the pillow. "But you smell way too good"
"So, you decided to have your way with me?"
"Hmmm...she kisses her cheek" you don't look abused" she looks at her grinning
"I didn't say I was Yaz"
"I can totally stop if you want" she continued running lips over her neck and Doctor already started falling closing her eyes but trying desperately to keep her composer. Which was incredibly hard with Yaz grinding herself over her having her lips firmly pressed to the side of neck and trailing them down to her collar bones
"Right...doubt that you want to Yaz" a moan escapes her lips as Yaz rolled her hips making Yaz chuckle into her skin
"What was that Doctor?" she looks up
"Me embarrassing myself Yaz"
"Did I just find a new spot there? I thought I knew all of them by now" Yaz laughed and went back to the same place and Doctor twitched trying to lift her hands off the pillow. She did find something new and now she was obsessed with it. But she also needed to feel her hands on herself so released her grip.
"Shoot" Doctor moaned tangling fingers through her hair. Yaz sat up straight melting into her fingers trailing down her curves then reached for both of her hands lacing their fingers together keeping herself sturdy swaying slowly. She watched as the Doctor sank into the sheets with closed and flushed cheeks. She's rarely had this kind of complete control, and she's completely thrived on it watching her fall apart underneath her with her every move. Doctor pulled her hand and sat herself up wrapping arms around her and kissed her deep. She reached around her hips, pulling her onto herself in a steady rhythm. Her half-open eyes gazed at Yaz, her fingers wrapped around her face and lips sinking passionately into her.
"Oh God," Yaz moaned into her mouth and wrapped her arms around her back
"That's it darling...fly" she smiled, and Yaz looked at her drunk with passion, her hair stuck to her face. The Doctor kissed her deeply taking all her moans into her lips. She felt herself shiver and Yaz trembled in her arms moments later slumping her head down on her shoulder, trying to catch her breath, Doctor gently rocking them, her beautiful hase swirling around them and then sinking back into her body. She dotted small kisses across Yaz's shoulder and trailed her fingers down her back "It's ok, I got you beautiful"
Yaz cried, clutching her tightly and burying her face in her neck.
Recently, it would often happen that she would become this emotional when they were together. Her hormones had completely taken control of her and the Doctor would just gently rock her saying all the words of love.
"Sleep my little head wonk" she kissed her shoulder and tucked her head into her neck "I adore you"
"I love you to the stars and back" Yaz said sinking into the pillow
"I didn't say I was Yaz"
"I can totally stop if you want" she continued running lips over her neck and Doctor already started falling closing her eyes but trying desperately to keep her composer. Which was incredibly hard with Yaz grinding herself over her having her lips firmly pressed to the side of neck and trailing them down to her collar bones
"Right...doubt that you want to Yaz" a moan escapes her lips as Yaz rolled her hips making Yaz chuckle into her skin
"What was that Doctor?" she looks up
"Me embarrassing myself Yaz"
"Did I just find a new spot there? I thought I knew all of them by now" Yaz laughed and went back to the same place and Doctor twitched trying to lift her hands off the pillow. She did find something new and now she was obsessed with it. But she also needed to feel her hands on herself so released her grip.
"Shoot" Doctor moaned tangling fingers through her hair. Yaz sat up straight melting into her fingers trailing down her curves then reached for both of her hands lacing their fingers together keeping herself sturdy swaying slowly. She watched as the Doctor sank into the sheets with closed and flushed cheeks. She's rarely had this kind of complete control, and she's completely thrived on it watching her fall apart underneath her with her every move. Doctor pulled her hand and sat herself up wrapping arms around her and kissed her deep. She reached around her hips, pulling her onto herself in a steady rhythm. Her half-open eyes gazed at Yaz, her fingers wrapped around her face and lips sinking passionately into her.
"Oh God," Yaz moaned into her mouth and wrapped her arms around her back
"That's it darling...fly" she smiled, and Yaz looked at her drunk with passion, her hair stuck to her face. The Doctor kissed her deeply taking all her moans into her lips. She felt herself shiver and Yaz trembled in her arms moments later slumping her head down on her shoulder, trying to catch her breath, Doctor gently rocking them, her beautiful hase swirling around them and then sinking back into her body. She dotted small kisses across Yaz's shoulder and trailed her fingers down her back "It's ok, I got you beautiful"
Yaz cried, clutching her tightly and burying her face in her neck.
Recently, it would often happen that she would become this emotional when they were together. Her hormones had completely taken control of her and the Doctor would just gently rock her saying all the words of love.
"Sleep my little head wonk" she kissed her shoulder and tucked her head into her neck "I adore you"
"I love you to the stars and back" Yaz said sinking into the pillow
Chapter 39
It was down outside and still dark when the Doctor woke up. She still had a little time before she had to get up so she rested her head on Yaz's stomach and gently ran her hand over it. Yaz slept soundly and she was thankful for that because most people would wake up in the morning to what she always did to Yaz. It involved various things from patting her belly to running her fingers over it, talking to it, kissing it, pressing her ears against it and using a stethoscope from time to time to listen to the baby's heartbeat. She was literally obsessed with it and was well aware of her obsession. But in her mind, of all the miracles she had ever seen in her long life, this child was one she couldn't wrap her head around. By this point she was pretty sure how it happened from a biological point of view, but the fact that it was hers was something that made her happier than anything in her existence. She often wondered what she would look like and how similar she would be to her or Yaz. She wondered something else that she didn't dare talk about. Something that was hard for her to think about as well, but she couldn't escape from it either, the regeneration. She knew her child had two hearts, but she wasn't sure how similar she really was to her. She was sure of one thing though, that she did not want her child to be human. Mortality was something she couldn't deal with at best, and the thought of both her wife and her child being human was too much to bear. But she also didn't want her to share the same pain of regeneration because she knew too well what that incurred.
She knew for a fact Yaz shared her thoughts, because she told her numerous times she wished her baby wasn't human. But unlike her, Yaz embraced her own mortality and simply wanted to leave something of hers behind which in itself made Doctor hearts bleed. She would often talk about it in terms of thousands of years and almost prepared everything now to be left behind which Doctor found morbid and dark and would purposely stop her from even finishing her sentences or thoughts.
She didn't want to think about it and wasn't prepared to give up either. She was going to turn the universe around on its head to keep her if she had to. But now her thoughts became too dark, so she refocused back on her baby and smiled tapping Yaz's stomach.
"Darling, I will piss myself if you continue" Yaz said with a sleepy voice stroking her hair and looked down
"Sorry" she grinned apologetic "I was bored"
"I can see" she smiled "Help me to roll out I really need to pee. Then you can continue"
"Alright" she gets up happily and reached for her hands
"Morning" Yaz smiled into her lips when she got up
"Morning beautiful" she kissed her shortly "Go pee...I have too as well"
"My god it's already warm here" she moaned wobbling to the bathroom
"I know, could you imagine the noon Yaz. As I said, if it's too much just go to Tardis Yaz, please don't play with this I am worried. Iff, I knew this I wouldn't brought you"
"Whaaa? You would've left me?"
"I never said that Yaz...all I'm saying is that if I knew this, I would've found another way. Don't get stroppy with me"
"I'm not stroppy" she brushed her teeth complaining then wobbled back to the bed
"You are a little Yaz you must admit it"
For the past month they had shared the bathroom without any shame which clouded Yaz's mind in so many ways to think that just 7 months ago she was afraid to put her hands on her and now she is sitting on the toilet peeing next to her while she's brushing her teeth. It also kind of blue her mind that it was such a human thing to do as well.
"Fine I am a little" she peaked over to Nardo, but he was sound asleep curled up in a little ball "God he's so cute"
"I know, he woke up last night so scared I had to rock him back to sleep. Honestly Yaz it makes me furious that someone can do such a thing. Also please do not take him with you...I don't want trouble" she said crawling back into bed
"What do you mean?"
"That guy isn't the only one who would pay good money for him. Just leave him in Tardis before you go. He'll be happy" she said pulling Yaz over and draping her leg over her side
It was something Yaz got so used to it almost made her laugh how Doctor who was so tiny was man handling her with surprising ease but also not even asking her opinion on a matter either, just simply dragged her along possessively to myself. She absolutely loved it and wouldn't dream of complaining about it.
"Sleep Yaz it's so early" she said kissing her forehead and ran her finger down her nose so gently it made Yaz sleepy in a matter of seconds.
"Mmmm...I love you" she said curling up and slipped her arm around her
"I love you too beautiful"
She had to leave in about an hour, but she decided to enjoy in a cuddle first.
....
"Morning" Doctor smiled as she walked down to the courtyard
"Morning Doctor" Hakim said haply
"Morning" Ryan said yawning "This is really early Doctor" he moaned
"Come on Ryan...it's not that bad...How many times you get to see a sunrise?"
"Never"
"Exactly...so enjoy in it. You know the average person will only get to see 29 366 sunrises in their lifetime and that's under a condition you live up to you 80s"
"That's depressing" Ryan said dragging himself
"It is Ryan...and that's why you should cherish each and every one of them"
"Right...how many have you seen" he askes
She scrunched her face thinking "Well, I should have seen around a million Ryan...but I wasn't looking every morning"
"Brilliant...can we move on to something more cheerful or you just woke up today and decided to choose violence"
"Doctor...when was a last time you were here?"
"1200 years ago, Hakim...a lot has changed since"
"And the war...what was it all about?"
"The ruling family Hakim were quite brutal, and the people raised up against the suppression...can't say I blame them at all"
"But they were you friends Doctor?" Ryan asked confused
"So was the Master" she smiled sideways whilst walking
"Right..."
"Who's the Master? I'm confused?" Hakim asked
"Oh, Doctor's psychotic ex-boyfriend"
"Oi you!!...Friend Ryan...not a boyfriend.... although I did have a man crush once but not with him" she scrunched her face thinking
"Oh god.... delete delete" Ryan said plugging his ears
"Ryan, I did not say anything about being intimate you know"
"OMG what the hell happened to you?" Ryan said shocked
"We're friends Ryan...we talk...You talk to me about Sonya"
"I'm gonna murder you in a minute now" he nodded towards Hakim
"Neah Ryan relax" Hakim laughed "...I know my daughter isn't just holding hands with you...I wasn't born yesterday you know"
"See" Doctor looks at him smug "Anyone hungry?"
"I'm staying in a hotel tomorrow" Ryan shook his head
....
They came to the big warehouse looking place where six other people were already waiting for them, together with the whole facility fully equipped with everything they possibly needed.
"Aaaaa morning" Doctor walked in happily, big smile across her face
"Hello Doctor" a man approached her "I'm Inu"
"Nice to meet to Inu, this is Hakim and Ryan..."
"Hi!" they both shook hands
"So, you really put effort into this"
She walks around massive desks filled with high tech equipment and what Hakim and Ryan could recognize as some sort of computer monitors or projectors looking more like holograms like the once Doctor has in her Tardis
"I must say I'm impressed" she bends down over the table to look closer
"Also, I understood by your messages we will need to build the casing. We already have it arranged in the other facility to be custom made by your blueprints"
"That's brilliant..."
"Waaaw look at all this" Hakims eyes open wide
"Oh, we're gonna have some fun Hakim" she says grinning
"So how do we build this thing from scratch Doctor? I'm confused?" Ryan asked picking up some small device from the table and twirling it in his hands
"Same as any other machine Ryan, it's all just bunch of parts put together. We just need to make all the parts"
"Right...well, sounds easy" she smirks
"Well then...let's get to work" Hakim pulls on his braces
Yaz was in a bathroom just stepping out of the shower when suddenly she felt a kick in her stomach so hard, she had to stop for a second "Wooow...what was that girl?" she laughed "You're getting stronger"
She picked a nice pair of cotton bottoms and a loose tunic that Doctor got for her. She ordered it special delivery saying it's from a very well-known maternity store. In fact, she went a bit mad by ordering so much stuff for her that Yaz had a whole new wardrobe. But she didn't complain because it was all extremely comfortable, and fabrics were beautiful. She was utterly spoiling her in every possible way so much that Yaz felt guilty for not being able to reciprocate. She just got ready when her mum knocked on a door
"Hey mum...Where's Sonya?"
"She said it's too hot and stayed in her room"
Oh, well that's a shame...I was looking forward in us all going together" she shrugs "Oh well, her loss...By the way...I need some help" she lifts the shoes "please Doctor does it for me"
"Oh" she laughs "sure darling"
"I can do it" she sits on a bed "...but it's really hard to reach"
"I know...don't worry about it...She is really getting into this isn't she?"
"She is...still getting lost in some stuff bless her...but she is trying so hard"
"I know I can see...oh what happened to the little animal?"
"I took him to Tardis...Doctor said I shouldn't really be carrying him around"
"Oh...Yaz how big is the Tardis?" she got up and reached for Yaz's hands
"Huge mum...it's like a world inside...It's got loads of rooms a massive library, rainforest..."
"Yaz, are you taking a piss out of me now?"
"No mum I'm not. I would show you...but that's her decision not mine...sorry...she's very private like that" Yaz said as they left the room
....
"Hey look at that!" Yaz points to a man leading a strange animal across the street that looked like a mix of cow and a mammoth
"God I can't wrap my head around this Yaz...seriously...I feel like I'm on a set of a movie"
"I know.... I felt the same in a beginning mum"
"What are you two planning when that baby arrives Yaz?"
"Being parents" she giggles happily
"Yaz...I'm not joking"
"I know you're not...sorry" she pulls her hand and kisses her cheek "Don't worry...we will stay put for quite a while"
"Really Yaz? Honestly you actually believe that?"
"Mmmm...I do" she said chewing on some treat she bought on one of the stands "Doctor had enough anyway mum...she took us on that place because she wanted to get away.... she had a bit of a melt down with everything that happened in past few years.... It wasn't easy for her"
"I wouldn't know would I Yaz...I have no idea what you were doing for all those years baby...But you have changed...you grew up so much"
"Let's go for lunch...I need to pee, and my feet are really swollen from the heat...besides Doctor said I need to keep away from the sun as much as I can"
"You're just deflecting answering me Yaz"
"Seriously I'm not mum..."
They sat down in a little place that looked like it's serving some nice food. Yaz was guessing really hoping she made a right choice. She was hopping that it tastes as nice as it smelled, she also learned a long time ago never to ask what she was really eating and just going along with it as long as it wasn't poisonous or giving her stomach cramps which did happen on several accounts and was extremely embarrassing as well. But she kept to some basic instructions from the Doctor to avoid certain colors at all costs.
"This looks nice?" Nadjia sat down and looked around the cozy restaurant half tavern half fast-food place
"Aaaa...that looks familiar I suggest we have that mum" Yaz points to them cooking some nice stew in massive pot over open fire "Doctor had that the first evening and I tried it. It was really nice...although her taste in food can be dubious sometimes" she laughed
"Whatever Yaz...I trust you not to give me food poisoning" she laughed "It does smell really nice though"
"I have to trust myself as well mum...not easy without her around" she looked at her mum and suddenly felt really bad for avoiding her questions. She was playing dumb a bit and now she felt bad about doing so. In the end of day her mother was extremely supportive in everything, and she owed an explanation
"Mum...come on...tell me what do you wanna know? What's bothering you so much?"
"First off all those bruises you have on your wrists Yaz...I did see them you know and I'm afraid to ask what they are"
Yaz pulled the sleeves over her wrists looking down at the table for a moment
"Yasmin?"
"We ran into some trouble mum...but I'm fine..."
"Yaaaaz..." she sighed rolling her eyes "Who did that to you?"
"Mum....listen...what I do with the Doctor is no different than what I chose to do as a police officer ...alright ...there's always a risk...it's a part of a job, it comes with the territory. But it's not something I would ever give up on"
"But you're having a child now Yaz...both of you"
"And that's why this is the last trip mum before she comes...and it will be a last trip for quite some time...until we figure stuff out...alright. There's a lot more we need to figure out as well. Solders have kid's mum...no different"
"I hate this...I really do Yasmin...Now don't get me wrong I don't mean anything bad about her.... she's lovely...But I'm equally afraid for both of you now...You're my baby Yaz and she's the person you love and that child's mother. This kid needs you both alive"
"I know mum...we both do, and that's why we are changing stuff...alright" she reached for her hand across the table "I love you"
"I love you too Yaz"
"So, you like her that much?" she smiled
"Don't be stupid Yaz of course I do" she shakes her head "I'm not even gonna mention your father...she's a son he never had" they both end up laughing
....
It was late afternoon when the Doctor came back. Blinds where down and the sun peaked through. She walked slowly to the bed and moved a strain of hair from her wife's face and gently kissed her temple.
"Thete?" she said opening her sleepy eyes just a bit and smiled to her
Doctor smiled softly and brushed her finger over her nose "You only call me that when you really missed me" she kisses her gently
"Mmmm...I did" she opens her arms
"I need a shower darling" she kissed her lips
"Well hurry up"
"Alright" she chuckled
Doctor took a quick a shower and slipped into bed with her. As soon as the bed dipped Yaz turned around and draped herself over her kissing her neck.
"You smell divine" she murmured into her skin
"And you feel even better" she smiled and kissed her gently
"How did it go?"
"Brilliant Yaz...you need to go with me one day. They gave us all we need to get this thing rolling...We already did quite a bit today...Did you meet your mum?"
"Mmmm...went shopping...I bought a nice dress"
"Aaa did you now? You need to show me"
"I bought you something as well...let me show you" she smiles and tried to get up, but Doctor stopped her
"Aaaa...nooo...later..." she smiles pulling her back
"Mmmm...possessive" she runs her fingers through her hair and then over her shoulders
"Always over you Yaz...missed you too, you know"
"I thought your beautiful brain was all into that machine...too busy to miss me" she laughs kissing her
"It was...won't lie" she scrunched her face "But you're always there you know...in my mind...I wanna take you some place nice later...when heat goes down" she says trailing hand down all over her looking at her beautiful curves
"I'd like that" Yaz smiled moving a strain of hair from her face "You have any particular plan?"
"I will do...by the time we leave" she circles her fingers around her breast and looks up to her smiling "But I have another plan now"
"Something tells me it involves you and me staying in this bed" she giggles
She tilts her head "Might do...or not...I can be inventive"
"I can be open minded" she giggles tracing a finger down her back
"Well, that's a good combination then" she grins happily kissing her so sufficiently to drive air out of her lounges making her moan into her lips, her body instinctively arching towards her hand that was already busy where she needed it the most
....
The Doctor once again took the Tardis to the other side of this strange little planet. They landed on some high rocks overlooking the massive canyon below, laid a picnic blanket out front and brought food from the kitchen and watched as the setting sun changed the colors of the rock formations and illuminated the ancient layers of blue and turquoise crystals within. Beautiful bird was flying across the canyon gliding through the air and its voice echoed throughout. Doctor loved nature and most of her romantic dates always evolved around some beautiful romantic places which made Yaz release how many times in the past she was dazzling her by taking her to different places when they were alone. It was her language of love and Yaz loved every part of it, and it was only now when they were together, she saw all the layers of it that she'd never recognized before. But she didn't mind because it seemed like their love story was unfolding more and more as time went on and she came to understand her wife more and more for what a beautiful being she is. Yaz adored the subtlety she had in expressing her feelings. She loved the shyness of the ancient Time Lord and profound way in which she expressed her passion. It was smooth and deep, not loud and raw, yet there was so much of her passion, in fact it was such a massive part of her that it was shocking to Yaz how she always managed to mask it and hide it so well that it was completely invisible behind her quirkiness. She was sitting crossed legged eating ice cream waiting for the Doctor to bring some iced tea from the Tardis.
"Hey...you missed the bird" she said smiling over her shoulder
"Aaarhhh noo...they are rare since all the climate change. But it will all go back to normal once I finish the machine" she sat down behind Yaz and curled her legs around her "So enjoying yourself?"
"Yeah...I always do" she took her hand and laced their fingers in her lap "You have a talent in picking the most gorgeous places...you always have" she put the ice cream down and leaned on her chest
"It makes me happy I have you to share it with...not the same thing to come to places like this alone you know" she nuzzled her face into her cheek and put her arms around her
"There's nothing worse than being lonely"
"No... there isn't" she squeezed her tight thinking how Yaz won't ever be lonely again but one day that's waiting for her again, and how this time around it will be ten times harder than before. But she would still never change her decision.
"Yaz..."
"Mmmm" she hummed lulling herself in her arms
"Iff you could be like me...would you, do it?"
Yaz frowned in confusion not quite understanding the question "I don't get it babe? What do you mean by that?" she turned a bit over her shoulder
"Iff you could...argument's sake...you know...change...to be as I am... Say if that would be possible...would you, do it?"
"You mean be able to regenerate?"
"Mmmm?"
Yaz sighed and took her hands wrapping them around herself even tighter "Oh baby...I've dreamed about it so many times you know. The idea of us being together for years and you not having to look at me getting old and dying...but what's the point.... it's just a dream darling"
"But if it were possible Yaz...?"
"Iff yes definitely...absolutely" she sighs "But it's just a dream my love"
Doctor kissed the back of her head and rubbed her face in her hair closing her eyes inhaling the smell of her shampoo
"Please...can we not talk about it now" Yaz said melting into her completely "I just wanna enjoy in you now.... whilst you still have me"
"Alright beautiful...I'm sorry"
"Noo..." she turns around over her shoulder "Don't say sorry...not ever...not for that...Just kiss me...please"
CONTACT" The Doctor whispered in her ear and kissed her so deeply Yaz felt her surging through her every cell, her beautiful haze swirled around them going through every atom of their being. She heard her hearts beating in her chest and felt herself falling, becoming one for a moment in time melting in love they felt for each other, unbreakable, eternal, stronger than any bond in the universe. Tears flowed down Yaz's face, and she whimpered into her lips. The baby moved so suddenly it startled them both.
"OMG...she felt you" Yaz smiled through her tears and pressed Doctor's hand on her stomach
"I love you both so much Yaz" Doctor barely managed to say it nuzzling her face into her cheek her bottom lip wobbling
"Hey...it's ok" she said gently "I'm still here for a long time you know"
"Yeah...I know" she wrapped her fingers in her hair and kissed her temple "Well I have rare talent in making a romantic date utterly depressing as well" she sniffled
"I would never have you any other way" she giggled "You make me laugh in everything else...Ice cream?" she smiled picking up a tub from the floor
"It's all melted Yaz" Doctor peaked inside
"Alright...vanilla custard then?" she giggled scooping it with a spoon and shoving it into her mouth
"Mmmm...not bad either" she kissed her cheek and laid her head on her shoulder pulling her closer "Yaz"
"Yes darling?"
"Do you want ice cream machine in Tardis?"
She giggled "Yeah...I do"
"Alright..." she replied watching the beautiful sky as the sun slowly went down
....
Yaz moaned quietly, her legs draped over her lover's shoulders as she pressed her lips on her passing through her gently. A light warm breeze brushing her skin. She opened her eyes to the night sky above them, her fingers combing through her wife's hair as she was taking her to those million stars slowly and passionately.
"Oh god..." she arched her back and grabbed her free hand lacing their fingers
Recently she was so sensitive it all felt ten times stronger, and all Doctor had to do was touch her she would already be half undone underneath her. She gave her all the medical explanations that Yaz was way too embarrassed to listen and just simply took it as it was without putting too much thought into it but it felt like she will literally explode, having no control over her own body and Doctor relished in it, taking her time with her more than usual, trailing her hands and lips over each and every part of her, making her giggle dotting small kisses under her breast where it tickled. They knew each other so well that being together now was like a well-rehearsed dance across the universe of passion, a new level of existence where nothing mattered but the sheer amount of pleasure, tearing them apart, filling them from the inside out. She was barely aware that she was coming again, trembling and moaning as she clutched Doctor's hand. Keeping her eyes open proved a difficult task, her eyelids felt heavy and waive washed over her surging through her body, the world around her went blank for a moment, her toes curled up making Doctor smile as she kissed the inside of her legs
"Four" she grinned
Yaz put her hand on shoulder utterly exhausted and laughed slightly, her eyes half open "Are you counting?"
"Mmmm.." she grinned leing next to her and kissed her shoulder
Yaz looked at her sideways smiling her body felt like jelly, ungracefully spent "Silly sod...you'll make me go into labor"
"Neah...way too early for that Yaz" she kissed her smirking satisfied with herself "Iff...say you were in your 9th month then yes it could help" she continued and pulled a blanket over them then dragged Yaz's as close to herself as she physically could "but even then...hmmm...interesting...not sure Yaz because I'm a woman now and I don't have a pe..."
"Alright...I get it!!!" she put a hand over her mouth
"...penis" she mumbled into her hand
"Stooop!!!" she giggled
"Just saying Yaz...it goes deeper"
"Aaaaaa....OMFG....no details" she shook her head laughing and covered her eyes with her hands "Just don't want that picture in my head"
"Oh...sorry" she hovered over her and moved her hand "you can look now Yaz...I definitely don't have it"
"Yeah" she ruffled her hair "At least that's one thing I don't need to worry about just yet"
"Right...well let's hope you never will either Yaz"
"How different is it for you as a woman...how you feel?" Yaz snuggled into her and kissed her shoulder
"Oh...different" she put her arms around her "I don't know how to explain Yaz...very different...just comes from a different place and sometimes I wish I could feel you like I would do if I was a man"
"Oh...Do you miss it love?"
"Maybe" she said kissing her forehead and moved a little strain of hair from her face "...Sometimes...little bit...but mostly when I'm with you"
Yaz went quiet and slipped her hand around her gently making lazy lines down her lower back.
"It's alright Yaz" she wrapped her fingers around her face "I'm not saying I don't like it darling...not at all"
"But?"
"Nooo...absolutely not saying that at all...I just love you so much I want to feel so much of you Yaz in every possible way...and that's also a part of me, it would be nice for me be able to feel you like that as well...a bit different...because...it's just like..."
"Like what baby?" she looked into her hazel eyes and kissed her gently "tell me please I want to know these things"
"Like I want you to be a piece of me Yaz...the part that never leaves me in every way" she took her hand and kissed her fingertips
"I want that with you...I want you inside me and never leave me. And when you do I miss you already like someone ripped you away from me." she cupped her face "It sounds stupid and obsessive I know..."
Doctor smiled "No it doesn't Yaz...It sounds beautiful and how it should be...I absolutely adore you"
"And I you my love" she took her lips into hers and rolled her on her back
....
Early morning everyone was already in a warehouse busy making parts for the machine. Ryan came in half asleep again was beardly managing to keep his eyes open since Doctor was getting them up at 5am and he could swear this planet was in different time zone from Earth as well, so he was getting a jetlag on top of it all because he constantly felt as though day was night and in reverse. In fact, everyone seemed to feel like that, everyone accepted the Doctor who was bouncing around as if she was on drugs.
"Doctor can you please check what I did" Ryan tapped her on a shoulder as she was welding something together
"Sure Ryan" she lifted the goggles on top her head and took off the gloves "Goodness Ryan are you alright?" she put her hand on his forehead
"No, not really Doctor...I feel horrible"
"You look horrible" she took a sonic out and zoomed over him "Hmmmm....your temperature is a bit elevated"
"Am I getting ill or something?"
"Not sure Ryan, I'll give you something when we get back. In a mean time why don't you go lie down over there" she pointed to the bench in the corner "Let me just finish up this and we go home alright"
"Alright Doctor"
She got back to the big table with all the equipment and walked up to Hakim "Hakim...how are you feeling?" she scanned him with a sonic
"Fine Doctor, just tiered a bit"
"Right" she looked at the reading worriedly than scanned herself "I think we should all go back actually"
"What's wrong Doctor?"
"Not sure Hakim...I need to do some tests when come back"
By the time they came back to the hotel Ryan was already feeling extremely weak. He had trouble walking and he was breaking into sweat.
"OMG what's going on?" Sonya said as they walked into the room
"Sonya...go to your mother" Doctor said firmly helping Ryan to walk
"Why? What's going on?"
"Not sure need to do some tests but you need to keep yourself away until I know more"
"Dad? ...OMG are they gonna be ok Doctor?"
"Mmmmm...should be Sonya" she said laying Ryan on a bed ".... please go to your mother's...Hakim"
"Yes Doctor"
"Keep an eye on him.... I just need to pop to the Tardis"
"Sure"
Doctor came through the door of their room so suddenly Yaz almost dropped the book she was reading.
"OMG babe...what the hell?" she got up, but Doctor yelled
"A a...nooo...don't come near me Yaz..."
"Whaaaaa?"
"No darling...stay away from me...I might be infected I need to check"
"Infected by what?"
She asked but didn't get any answer as the Doctor disappeared into the Tardis as quickly as she came into their room. She zoomed around the console and took a test pressing it to her neck then put the sample for Tardis to run the scanning together the data she took from Hakim and Ryan. It took few minutes that seemed like hours of her sitting on the steps worried sick thinking how she may have been infected with a disease that was relatively harmless for humans but could be seriously dangerous for the unborn child. She felt a whole in her stomach that seemed to get bigger by the minute until the beeping shook her from her thoughts.
"Ufffff" she sighed relieved and slumped on top of the console "thank you...but just in case" she flipped few switches and waiting for extra several minutes took a little bottle that Tardis provided and injected herself with it. Then picked up few more within minutes and some other stuff along the way filling up her pockets then finally came out to absolutely petrified Yaz
"I'm sorry...I had to make sure" she said apologetically kissing her forehead
"What's going on?" Yaz asked worried sick
"Oh, chicken pox Yaz...not the humankind though...a lot stronger...c'mere" she moved her hair from the neck and gave her injection then kissed her temple "Sorry darling I can't risk it"
"Who's ill babe?"
"Your father and Ryan" she scrunched her face "oh...well...and probably the rest of your family as well"
"OMG!!!...Are they gonna be, ok?"
"Yes...but just Ryan has symptoms for now. No time Yaz I need to give them medication"
"Yeah sure...go go" she kissed her briefly and let her go worried.
It wasn't the first time they picked up a virus or bacteria on a foreign planet, and it probably won't be the last either. But Yaz still worried about her family. The only positive side of it was that the Doctor knew most of them and had a cure for almost anything going around in the universe, accept maybe a thing or two like when Yaz got a rash from a plant she brushed on, and had to suffer the itch for three days and when the only thing that helped was putting fresh tomatoes on her skin which made her incredibly embarrassed when the Doctor had to apply it on her back and she just wanted to die at that moment.
"Doctor...my god what's going on" Nadjia opened the door
"It's fine Nadjia, really nothing to worry about.... just...sorry I have to" she showed the injection
"Yeah sure"
"Sonya...I'm sorry you as well"
"Sure Doctor...can we go to them now?"
"Yes of course...just needed to make sure you're all safe. Anyways...it's like chicken pox but a bit stronger, really nothing to worry about.... just uncomfortable. I was more worried about Yaz and the baby that I might have given it to her...but I'm fine"
"Oh god...well that's good because I was with her yesterday the whole day as well"
"I know...well, we were all in contact with each other. They must have picked it up that day in a restaurant.... oh"
"What?"
"Nothing..." she shook her head "Another thing...take this...just use it for Hakim and Ryan...it helps with an itch" she gave her a cream
"Thank you"
"It does smell bad, I have to warn you, but that paradactyl poo is really soothing for the skin...Just wait 30 min before you go and see them"
"Did you say poo?" Nadjia asked confused
"Right" she tapped he shoulder "I have to go and give this to boys...see ya"
She zoomed out and Nadjia opened the cream. She almost threw up on a spot and quickly closed the container.
Doctor came back to Ryan and Hakim. Ryan was burning up by this point.
"Hello Doctor" Hakim opened the door
"How is he doing?"
"Not good, look" he showed his arm
"Goodness" she rolled up his sleeve and moved a t-shirt away from his neck as well "Ewwww that's bad...and itchy...well it will be by tomorrow. But this will help. At least it will make it go away faster. He is in for the rough night though"
"Thanks Doctor...what about the girls and Yaz?"
"They're fine...I'm just keeping Yaz away from everyone for next 48 hours just in case and I will come by in the morning to give you all one more shot"
"Thanks...see you tomorrow then"
"Alright Hakim...see ya"
....
"Hey" Doctor walked into their room and Yaz jumped immediately
"Hey darling" Yaz came up to her and Doctor kissed her forehead "How's everyone...dad? Ryan?"
"They're fine darling...Ryan is in for a bit of a rough night, but he should be better by the morning"
"OMG poor Ryan...not again"
"I know, he really has no luck with alien viruses. I need to take a shower and change darling...I'm still dirty from the work. Also, I wanna keep you and the munchkin away from them for at least 48h"
"Oh"
"Yeah, just in case"
"Does that mean I have to myself for two days?" she glides her hand over her chest and kisses her neck
"It does" she smiles "You can go with me tomorrow if you want?"
"Alright...go now make yourself smell nice"
"Do I stink Yaz?" she lifted her t-shirt and smelled herself scrunching her nose
"No silly...go" she slapped her bum "Maybe I just wanna see you naked, ha?" she winked
"I am worried Yaz" she said taking her clothes off "This disease...I do get worried it will spread amongst the population you know"
"I thought you said it was chicken pox?" she frowned confused leaning her back on the door frame enjoining in a view in a same time
"Technically yes Yaz...but unlike chicken pox this can easily spread amongst the adults and that could potentially be a problem. Also, there are a lot of pregnant women around as well..."
"Blimey...so we can have a pandemic is what you're saying"
"Mmmm....possible" she shrugs stepping into shower "Although unlikely...still there's always a possibility"
"Oh god I really hope not" ...
Chapter 40
It was early afternoon and the heat from the outside was unbearable. Sun was burning through the open window of their room through the closed blinds made out of some sort of a plant woven into a beautiful design. But even the blinds didn't stop relentless heat.
"This is a third shower I'm taking today" Yaz moaned as she was coming out of the bathroom wrapped up in a towel "I've never experienced anything like this in my life"
Doctor was sitting on the bed in her boxers and short sleeve t-shirt, legs crossed and deeply into her work on her little laptop.
"Sorry Yaz...Seriously go into Tardis darling, why are you torturing yourself?"
"What's the point of being here if I'm gonna be inside the Tardis the whole day"
"I just don't want you suffering that's all" she pulls her arm and kisses her shortly
Her phone rang, it was Sonya "Hey girl, how are you all doing? I was just about to call you"
"Oh, please can you speak to the Doctor...this cream really smells horrific I can't Yaz I'm gonna be sick it smells of shit"
"Whaaa?" Yaz smacked the Doctors shoulder "Did you give my sister shit cream for Ryan?"
"The what Yaz?"
"Shit cream...you know for Ryan's rash?"
"It's just a bit unpleasant smell Yaz...that's all. It will help him loads"
"Baaaabe....Sonya is literally throwing up"
"Sorry Yaz...it really does help"
"OMG I'm so sorry...yeah I'll speak to her...and how's dad?"
"He's fine.... everyone is fine don't worry...just don't go out Yaz keep yourself safe"
"I will babe...I'll call you later"
She hangs up the phone shaking her head. Doctor didn't even flinch still deep into her work "Babe"
"Yes Yaz" she looked up so softly at Yaz that she simply couldn't be upset with her
"Oh boy..." she sighed "Could you give my sister pleaseeee something that smells a bit nicer...please"
"I suppose so...I'll figure something out don't worry. Hey, look at this" she pulled her hand to be closer to the monitor "I just finished the drawing" she said haply showing her the Eye of the Deep
"Waaaw that looks amazing love"
"I can't wait to finish it Yaz" she smiled
"I know baby" she put a finger on her chin and turned her gaze "You're amazing you know that"
"Neah...You just love me Yaz" she smiled "I am smart though" she said smug
"Yeah, you're both babe" she kisses her quickly "I'm starving"
"Me too...but we can't go out just yet it's too hot"
"I do have Tardis though...and you can take food to my family"
"I definitely could...let me just finish this we'll do it together"
"Alright" Yaz leaned over and kissed the top of her head making her smile then went to get dressed
It was those little, tiny things that would make Doctor's hearts jump. Just knowing how much she's loved meant so much to her she would still get little fuzzy feeling in her stomach each time Yaz would randomly come up to her kissing her or cuddling up to her and she was hoping that no matter how many years they will spend together this part will never get lost.
...
"You missed a part" Doctor pointed to a corner of the baking tray as Yaz was laying pasta for lasagna and kissed her shoulder
"I was going to put it there" she laughs
"Didn't look like that to me" she takes a pickle from the fridge "Pickle?"
"Uuu yes please" she opened her mouth "We could have a movie night?"
"Aaaaa...I think we could Yaz. But you do need to sleep if you're going with me tomorrow morning to the workshop"
"You know I never have a problem with sleeping" she laughed "Waaaw that looks nice.... that's it...pop it in the oven" she said standing back admiring her cooking skills
"That does look nice" Doctor picked up the tray and shoved it in the oven "I do love your cooking Yaz"
"I would've done it before. Just never had time. I'll never forget poor Graham with his sandwiches" she laughed "And you always had pockets filled with sweets"
"I still do Yaz" she wiped out a who bag of sweets out of her pocket
"Silly sod" she takes the bag and puts it on kitchen top then wraps her arms around her "I love you" she looked up to her lovingly and Doctor cupped her face between her palms
"I adore you my little head wonk" she kissed her gently "Come...let me show you something"
She led her to the console and pulled up the picture on screen "Look...."
"Oh...waaaw...that's beautiful" she leans closer
"Aaarrr....about that Yaz...no it's not" she scrunched her face
"What? Why?"
"You're looking at their dying sun"
"OMG" Yaz stood back horrified "What does that mean babe?"
"It means that it looks absolutely beautiful until it destroys their word"
"Shit" she looked at her worried "How long do they have?"
"Oh well, in your terms Yaz long....about two thousand years...but in their terms one generation" she flipped the screen and pulled out another reading out "And that's not all...you need to understand it's a process Yaz...so before they will be essentially cooked to death this world will slowly become toxic to live in... look"
"OMG...this is horrible..."
"Solar storms Yaz, radiation, toxic gasses, heat in which no creature can possibly survive. As that star expands it will become more and more like inferno down here. Not to mention all the other climate changes, oceans evaporating and so on"
"What the hell.... can we help? Can't we do something...anything to stop that?"
"Relocate the whole planet and I can't see how Yaz"
"So, you making that machine means nothing then?"
"No, Yaz it does. It will shield them for a while...buy them time"
"Time to do what?" Yaz got upset at hopelessness of the situation. She kept thinking about that day she was sitting in a little tavern looking at the people passing by and a thought of them all dying couldn't now escape her mind. She suddenly felt ill
"Time for me to think of how to move them or stop the process..." Doctor walked around the console "There's something else...something that bothered me when we came here, and I couldn't put my finger on it...and I still can't...not really" she flipped few switches "Well I can sort off"
"What are you going on about?" Yaz frowned
"Come" she pointed at some information "Remember what ai thought you Yaz...Tell me what's odd about this reading?"
Yaz concentrated on a data across the screen in Gallifreyan and suddenly it clicked
"That looks man made?"
"Bingo!" Doctor jumped "Is that what you say? I can't remember...old brains" she frowns then shakes her head "Anyways, yes ten points Yaz...it doesn't look real...something is off"
"And how do we know for sure iff it is, or it isn't?"
"I have to go and have a closer look Yaz"
"You whaaaaa?....No no no no... what in a Tardis?" Yaz stepped in front of her blocking her path
"I have to be sure Yaz what it is...the readings are incomplete...I can't see from here Yaz...we are way too far for that kinda reading" she tried going around her, but Yaz placed her hand on her chest
"Noooo!!!!" she yelled "You're not going anywhere...no way...I'm putting my foot down on this one. Find another way I'm not interested"
Yaz jumped up in complete terror. She knew what was coming next, the Doctor was not the easiest person to talk to when she had something on her mind. And it was absolutely impossible to change her mind"
"There is no other way Yaz...Don't worry ...I've done this before. Tardis has shields"
Yaz rolled her eyes "I don't give a shit...find another way!"
"Blimey Yaz...calm down...this isn't good for the baby" Doctor tried calming her down but Yaz moved her hands away
"What you're doing isn't good for the baby!!!" she started pacing around "In fact it isn't good for anyone" Yaz lost it completely "This is madness" she pointed to the screen "How do you know it's not alien? What if you get trapped? What if you get taken? What if they shoot at Tardis and nock your ass sideways to another blinking dimension and I never see you again like when you were in a prison...What if you get..."
"Yaz!!" Doctor yelled grabbing her shoulders "Calm down...please"
"I can't" she looked up eyes filling with tears "I want to help these people I do... but I'm sorry iff this will sound selfish...I'm not prepared to lose you over it...I'm not" she shakes her head tears rolling down her face
Doctor wiped them with her thumbs gently "Ssssshhhh....calm yourself Yaz...it's ok...I won't go"
"You won't" Yaz whimpered
"No.." she shook her head
"Promise me...swear to me on Gallifrey you won't"
Doctor smiled "I swear by Gallifrey I won't...I'll find another way" she pulls her in on her chest "Can you stop crying? ...Please I hate when you cry"
"You're the one who made me cry you silly sod" Yaz mumbled into her chest "Don't do that to me anymore please...I'm beginning you don't gamble with yourself anymore"
"Alright...I won't ok...please calm down now" she kissed her head and ran her hands over her back gently "It's alright Yaz..." Doctor looked around suspicious and smelled the air "Yaz? ...."
"Mmmm?"
"What's that smell?"
"Oh shit!!!!!....Lasagna....noooo"
She wanted ti run towards the kitchen, but Doctor stopped her "No no no... you walk I run"
"Oh boy..." Doctor took the burned food out of the oven
"Is it edible?" Yaz came after her worried to even peak through the door
"Aaarrhh...suppose so" she scrunched her face "Maybe" she waived the kitchen cloth to get rid of smoke
"Oh nooooo....noo...come ooon" Yaz looked at the tray and slumped on the kitchen top
"I'm sure it's fine if we scrape the top Yaz" she lifted the charcoal crusty bit from the top with the fork "See it's fine underneath...."
"Is it?" Yaz lifted her head hopefully
"At least 10 percent Yaz"
"Aaaaaarrhhh" she slumped her forehead back to the kitchen top
"We can make pizza" Doctor tried cheering her up hopping to the fridge "I'm sure we have everything...Oh...we need to do shopping Yaz"
"Forget it" she turned around to walk out and Doctor hopped to stop her grabbing her for her t-shirt and pulling her back
"Oh no no... you're not giving up now.... can't be a quitter Yaz...Come on we can make it work"
"Right" she giggled as Doctor was pulling her by the t-shirt
"Come on mummy...let's cook" she turned Yaz who pursed her lips like a grumpy child and put an apron on her that she grabbed from one of the drawers, then pulled out one of those big white chef hats and shoved it on her head
"Baaabe...what are you doing to me?" she rolled her eyes giggling.
"You look cute Yaz..." she smiled and put one hat onto herself
Yaz looked down and her pinny said - Hot and spicy, and the food is pretty good too - and burst out laughing "When did you get this?"
"I was going to give it to you for Christmas but now is a good time as ever"
"Are you saying I'm hot and spicy?" she smiled cheeky
It was as good as actually saying it...although Yaz knew she would absolutely never say those words, but it was as good as.
Doctor grinned and took her hands pulling her towards the fridge "See...it made you laugh"
"You're adorable" she pulled her hands and smashed her lips on hers "Pizza?" she leaned her forehead on hers
"Pizza"
...
Later on, Doctor went over to Khan's to check on Ryan and she took a less smelly cream with her as well that Yaz made her find. She was also taking a whole tray of steaming hot pizza Yaz and her just made for them. Her hands were so full she had to smack the door with her boot instead of knocking.
"Hey sweetheart" Nadjia opened the door and started laughing when she saw the Doctor balancing a hot tray in one hand a plastic container with cakes in another and big Doctors' bag under her arm
"Uuh.. hot hot" Doctor was fidgeting
"Blimey hun...let me take that" she took the tray "Oh waaw...did you make that?"
"Aha...there was a lasagna first...but we burnt it. Tardis made cakes so we take no credit for that one."
"Hi Doctor, Sonya came and took the cakes of her "Oh waaw, did you say your ship made that?"
"Yes...Tardis can cook well I do have a food machine and it does automatically stock up some stuff, bread, milk, eggs.... but food shopping can be fun" she smiled cheerfully "Also Yaz prefers old fashion way"
"Well thanks for that...really appreciate it"
"Where's Hakim?" Doctor turned around the rooom
"He came down with a fever as well an hour ago" Nadjia said worriedly
"Oh boy...and Ryan?"
"Not good at all Doctor" she opened the bedroom door
Ryan was in a bed and not in a good shape at all. He was burning up and rash spread all over his body. Doctor moved his t-shirt to have look and scrunched her face on horror "Blimey that's bad...and surely uncomfortable...Right" she took a sonic and scanned him "Really high fever as well...poor sod" she took out few things then game him another injection "Here take this" she passed a little box to Najia "Two of these, every six hours...same for Hakim"
"Thank you, Doctor,"
"Is he gonna be, ok?" Sonya asked extremely concerned. She was not comfortable with Ryan being ill from some alien virus, it made her cringe a bit.
"Yeah, he will...Don't worry. It's only a first day Sonya. He should be much better by tomorrow morning" she scanned her and Najia just in case "You lot seem fine...that's good"
"Well at least that's the good news...I'm just glad Yaz is fine" Nadjia said relived "How long is it going to last hun?"
"Hard to say, not sure with humans Najia, but it shouldn't be more than few days. I'll come back in the morning before we go to the workshop"
"Alright hun..." Najia said with a worried look on her face
"They will be fine honest" Doctor said at the door
...
When it finally got cooler in the evening Yaz desperately needed to get out because their room was starting to feel claustrophobic for her. She was sitting on the edge of the bed like kid waiting for Doctor to put her sandals on looking at her fiddling with the straps
"Oh, for good sake give it to me" she laughed "You'd think in 3000 years you'd learn how to undo the sandals babe"
"Why they have to make them so complicated?" she shakes the shoe in her hand nervously "It's just shoes"
"They are not complicated...look" Yaz unclipped the small buckle with ease laughing "Besides who's they? Tardis made them for me" she giggled
"Well, they should come with instruction manual Yaz" she continued to complain putting them on her "Oh, pink toenails...that's cute" she grabbed her toe wiggling it
"Neah...stop that.... that tickles" she giggled "I can paint yours" she makes a cheeky face
"No way Yaz...not happening"
"Why not? You have cute toes"
"I do not have cute toes Yaz...and I draw the line with hair straightening"
"You don't have to straighten your hair...I love it curled"
"You just love everything about me Yaz" she reached for her hands pulling her up "Which is cute.... really cute" she wrapped her arms around her "But you're not painting my toenails...and do not make that face either" she smiled at Yaz making a puppy face pouting her lips
"Just once...they can be Tardis blue" she flapped her lashes
"Noooo...and stop making that face Yaz my brains are going funny" she grabbed her hand pulling her out of the door
"Hey, wait I need to pee"
"Oh blimey...go...now" she laughed rolling her eyes "We can play scrabble later on" she said leaning on the door frame
"It's not scrabble babe and you cheat"
"Excuse me! I so do not cheat Yasmin Khan" she said offensive
"You do cheeky...you make up words" she Yaz smiled and kissed her offended lips shortly passing next to her "Come on grumpy.... let's go...and yes ok we can play so called scrabble"
"Honest Yaz they are real words"
They walked down to the main road with all the small stores and stands passing by a beautiful park with same giant flowers like in the hotel courtyard. Yaz couldn't stop staring at cute wonky houses, each different than the other. Considering how Shar was terrifying, this place was quite the opposite and Yaz never thought she would actually like it so much. She's been to so many different places with the Doctor but this one had some charm she that was drawing her in. Maybe it was beautifully embroidered clothes that people wore or wonky houses and curvy narrow streets that looked magical in the evening with all the lights turned on. Or maybe it was the sweet smell of the air and some local plants in a warm evening with light breeze hitting her still hot skins. She wore the beautiful, embroidered dress she got for herself, and local fabric definitely made the heat more tolerable.
To her absolute shock Doctor wore short sleeves with no under shirt. Which for her was absolutely unbelievable. It was strange to see her without her coat let alone showing her arms.
But there she was giving into the relentless heat of this place. They walked through the beautiful gardens and Doctor showed her tiny lizard looking creatures in beautiful colors who could actually fly to Yaz's absolute shock when one of them took off over her head making her scream and Doctor laughing at her cheeky.
"So where are you taking me babe?" Yaz asked as they left the park and continued walking down one of the smaller streets. She looked up and saw clothing lines above their heads and smiled. She really loved this place
"Well, Yaz since now I have a wife to answer to and my wife will not allow me to go and investigate that sun over there...Weeeeee are going to the library where the public archive is to see what we can find about their sun"
"See...there's always another way love" she grinned at her pulling her hand
"Right...sure there is Yasmin...there's always the most painful way of going through 280 000 years of hysterical records looking for a needle in haystack and hopping for a miracle"
"God, you really are grumpy about me asking you not to go"
"No... Yaz I am absolutely not grumpy. What makes you say that? I was merely saying how this is no easy task and probably with minimum results whiles flying over and having just a quick look..."
"Are you trying to annoy me into submission"
"Excuse me?"
"Hey, don't play that with me...I know you for ten years, and I know what you're doing. You will now never shut up about it and give me million reasons why that's the only plan that works"
Doctor didn't reply to that, she just scrunched her face defiantly knowing deep down Yaz was on to her. She also knew deep down Yaz was right in asking her not to go, but she still wasn't ready to admit it.
Four hours later they were still in the archives digging and they still haven't found one singe information about the sun possible being man made structure or alien origin.
"We've been here for hours" Yaz threw a book on the ground. She was sitting on the floor back propped up against bookshelf
"I'm not saying anything Yaz" she put a book on a shelf then looked down from the ladder at Yaz sitting on a floor picking a corner of a page with her fingers disappointed. Suddenly picking on her didn't feel funny anymore. Although she was just messing her around, now she felt sorry for her seeing her being so disappointed. She came down and sat on a floor in front of her then hooked her hands behind her knees and pulled her over the floor closer to herself. "Hey...don't be sad"
"Never mind" Yaz started down between them
"Hey" Doctor put a finger under her chin lifting her gaze "I'm sure we'll find something Yaz. I was just joking with you"
Yaz pouted her lips disappointed "Yeah...and what if we don't?"
"We will...we always do. And you know why Yaz"
"Whhhy?" she asked with a distinct tone of disappointment in her voice
Doctor dragged her even closer until Yaz's legs were practically wrapped around her "Cause we're the best Yaz...you and me...Nobody like us two out there"
She managed to drag a smile out of Yaz, and she looked at her with a glimpse of hope in her gaze
"We're the smartest" Doctor kissed her forehead "And the most persistent..." then another kiss on her cheek making her giggle little bit "...and the most capable I might add...the most qualified out there" she kissed her nose
"You really think highly of us, don't you?" Yaz smiled raising her eyebrow
"Of course, I do Yaz....When did we ever fail?"
"There's a fist time for everything" she looks up to her and tucks her hair behind her ear "I love you"
"I love you too my sweet round potato...Wanna go and get some nice pie? I know just the right place. Found it the other day with your dad and Ryan"
"Yeah...pie would be nice" she strokes a palm over her cheek "And what about all this?"
"Aaarrrh" she scrunched her face looking at the pile of books on the floor around them "Well, I figured we have at least 1000 years to figure it out Yaz...it can wait till tomorrow evening"
Yaz giggled and wrapped her legs around her more "I wanna kiss you" she whispered laughing
"We're alone here Yaz...why don't you then?" Doctor smiled "You think I'd be doing this if we weren't?"
"Mmm.."she winks "I thought I was just irresistible to you, and you just can't help yourself"
"Mmm...and that...still waiting for that kiss Yaz"
...
It was late into night and Yaz rolled over the bed finding it empty. It didn't take long for her to figure out where her wife was. So, she rolled the sheet over herself and stepped into the Tardis.
"Hey, you" Doctor smiled looking up as she was hunched over the console "Why are you not sleeping beautiful"
"I should be asking you that question" she said walking down the steps and
"Arrrh my mind was raising I thought I need to try something else"
"Any luck?" Yaz kissed her shoulder blade and rested her head on her back
"I think so...I'll show you in a minute...I made some changes on Tardis so I can amplify the reading" she moves around the console making Yaz giggle when she casually takes her arm wrapping it around herself dragging her along with her "....so Tardis signal bounces off the surface giving me a picture like ground penetrating radar"
"That's cleaver"
"I really don't know why I didn't do that before Yaz...very useful really...I mean we could do it before just not as far"
"So, when will you have a reading?"
"Soon Yaz...in about 45 minutes"
"And what will you do in a mean time?"
Doctor lifts her head up from the console smiling "Oh...I don't know Yaz...I always have something to do"
"Oh...alright then...I'll leave you to it then" she rubbed her face on her back
"Yaz"
"Mmm?"
"I never said that what I have to do doesn't include you" she smirks and turns around
"It does?" Yaz wrapped her arms around her neck
"Absolutely" she kissed the top of nose "It's a very important work Yaz" she trailed her finger at the edge of the sheet wrapped around Yaz
"Bedroom?" Yaz closed her eyes as Doctor's lips pressed on a side of her neck
"Hotel or Tardis?" she mumbled into her neck then kissed her earlobe
"Oh god.... Tardis" Yaz already had trouble speaking "...more private"
Doctor smirked into her skin and scooped her up into her arms "Ough...you two are getting heavier"
"I know" Yaz giggled "Surprised you can still do this"
"Oh, I can always carry you Yaz...specially to where we're going" she smirked cheeky
Yaz giggled and tucked her head into her neck
....
Doctor lied behind her trailing her fingers lightly down her arm.
"Where are your thoughts?" Yaz turned around tucking herself underneath her as much as her stomach allowed her
"Honest Yaz...nowhere....just enjoying in this...In you" she smiled and kissed her nose
Yaz ran her finger over her forehead and that line she loved so much "What do you think she will look like?"
"Anaya? Oh, she's gonna be gorgeous...big beautiful brown eyes just like yours and your hair"
"So, she's not gonna be anything like you, ha? ...You made her, not the postman" she giggled
"Goodness Yaz, not the postman.... we get post from Kerblam" she scrunched her face in disgusted
Yaz giggled into her neck "OMG I just want to bleach my eyeballs now"
"Me too Yaz"
"So maybe Anaya will look like you...maybe she will have your eyes and blond hair...she's got your hearts"
"Little tiny hearts Yaz...beating inside you" she goes all soppy in a second squeezing her hand between them to place it on Yaz's tummy
"I just can't wait to see her and touch her and kiss her"
"Oh, Yaz I might just never let her go"
"You might not be the only one" she laughed "I still can't believe I'm gonna be mum...I think we will both just stare at her not believing she's real"
"Oh Yaz...just few more months"
"Do we actually know when she's coming?"
"Should be around Christmas Yaz...I bloody hope I'm right or that one's gonna be embarrassing...and complicated" she said confused
"Oh god" Yaz giggled "Darling"
"Mmmm?...what love"
"Can we just stay home after this trip? You know...till the baby comes?"
"Sure..." she kisses her forehead gently "Why you ask me this beautiful? Something bothering you you're not telling me?"
"What makes you say that?"
"Because when you just stayed pregnant, we had arguments about you staying put and you wanted to go to all these adventures, and I've been taking you everywhere...So why change of heart? I thought you love it?" she rubbed her thumb over her cheek gently
"I don't know...after what happened with Shar I just had enough baby" she strokes her hair tucking it behind her ear "I get worried something will happen to you and I will stay alone, I get worried something will happen to her and we will lose her" she sighed deeply "I'm not saying I never want to go anywhere again...no... because I definitely do. I just need to keep still for a while and think only about us and what movie we will watch"
"Yaz...I am so sorry about Shar"
"Nooo don't say that"
"No... listen" she takes her hand and trails her fingertips over her lips "I do feel responsible Yaz...and whatever you say won't charge how I feel. And I'm so sorry, I never wanted you to go through that"
"I love you" Yaz said quietly, and a single tear rolled from her eye over her nose and soaked into the pillow
It made Doctor's hearts bleed, she absolutely hated seeing Yaz crying for whatever reason. She wipes her face with her thumb gently and wraps her fingers around her neck "Hey beautiful, don't cry" she kisses her gently dotting around her whole face "Please...besides I did promise you that cave, and to go back to the underground city to see our friends" she moves her around draping Yaz's leg over her hip to get her as close as she can
"Mmmm" Yaz mumbled
"Come on...sleep now darling it's so late. You need to sleep"
A part of Yaz felt guilty, because Doctor was putting so much effort into all those trips and partly because she felt so much better in their bedroom than any of the beautiful hotel rooms that Doctor was taking her to. It was smell of the room and sheets, the sound of Tardis and having Doctor's arms wrapped around her so tightly and her fingers tangled in the hair at the back of her head. Having her face pressed into her skin that smelled so wonderfully sweet. It was the safest and the most beautiful place in the universe. So Yaz wrapped herself around her even tighter, her tummy pressing on her and the thought in her mind how like this, between them their baby is safe. Nothing can ever happen to her because they would both die like this protecting her. It was a dark thought, but the one that also comforted her in some strange way.
"Please stay" she said quietly, and Doctor's hands wrapped around her tighter in response
"Not going anywhere beautiful...not tonight. Sleep love" she held her tight
....
Doctor was bent underneath the console, head deep inside amongst the cables and her bum up in the air. Yaz walked behind her and slapped her bum "Morning sexy!"
"Shoot" Doctor jolted bumping her head on the top of the console "...Aaahh"
"Ups ...sorry babe" Yaz giggled rubbing the top of her head and kissing it "I thought you heard me coming...soo sorry"
"It's fine Yaz...just not used to being groped at the console"
Yaz giggled like crazy "Groped babe?" she laughed
"I'm not complaining" she gets up her hair all messy "Morning" she grins and kisses Yaz quickly "Goodness don't you look cute"
"It's cute, isn't it?" Yaz turned around proudly showing off a cute white maternity dress. It had thin straps tied into little bows on her shoulders and was cut underneath her breast falling over her baby bump to her knees. Doctor made a rather funny looking face grinning at her. It was one of those expressions between happy, admiration and getting hot on her. It always made Yaz giggle because only Doctor could look so cute and goofy getting hot on. Then she shook her head visibly getting over exited and trying to get herself back on a track.
"Look Yaz" she grabbed her hand before Yaz could say anything and drags her over to the other side of the console "Loook Yaz" she points to the monitor that was showing the sketch of the planet or rather spherical object with several massive round holes
"Is that?"
"Yap..." she said exited hopping around the console "It's definitely artificial Yaz"
"I can see that....waaaw...who made it? What is it?"
"A bunch of very good questions that I have no answers to at the moment Yaz. But what we do know is that it's a machine, or structure, or a ship or...well something"
"Right...so can we stop it"
"Too early to tell Yaz...not enough information" she said flipping stuff on the console than she pulled up more information "Look...it's like a pulse...rhythmic pulses send out into the universe Yaz, like a message, signal...SOS we don't know. Maybe they are asking for help Yaz"
"Waaaw...I don't know if I should be excited or terrified"
"Exited" Doctor grins into her face "Please don't be terrified" she kisses her quickly making her laugh
She missed her hopping around all exited like this. And whatever this new discovery is, it's worth seeing her little wife so excited and hyper
"Alright babe...if you say so...So basically they have neighbors who are about to explode"
"Essentially yes...So, if Tardis can decode those signals Yaz then maybe we can send the message back, start some sort of communication with them"
"Aaaaa...OMG you're so right...and maybe they can tell us what's going on and maybe when we know more, we can help everyone.... well, you...I'm pretty much like Tardis interior anyway"
"Oi...stop saying that Yaz" she points a finger at her across the console "I really hate when you talk like that"
"I know...sorry...I just wanna help"
"And you are helping Yaz...if you didn't stop me from going, I wouldn't come to this. Now go put some shoes on Yaz, don't be barefoot. I don't want you getting ill"
"Babe it's 100 degrees for god's sake how can I possibly get ill?"
"Just humor me Yaz"
"Alright...I'll put some flip-flops on...want some ice-cream?"
"No... thank you Yaz" she said not lifting her head from the console already concentrating on the work
Yaz was just about to open the fridge door when Tardis started to shake so strongly it threw her on one side and she hit the counter falling to the floor
"Yaz!!!" Doctor yelled and ran towards the kitchen "Goodness Yaz...are you alright?" she bends down wrapping fingers around her head "Did you hit your head?"
"No no"
"Did you hit anything Yaz?"
Tardis shook violently again and Doctor blanket herself over Yaz against the cupboards. They heard crackling and glass braking, squeaking and stuff falling around them out of kitchen cupboards, glasses and plates smashing all around them. They could also hear people screaming from the outside. The shaking seemed like it was never ending. They huddled together, Yaz desperately trying to hold hands over Doctors head in same time as her body was protecting her worried glass falling down will cut her to bits.
"OMG what's going on?"
"Earthquake Yaz...it will pass" and it did slowly, the shaking was stopping "There, it stopped" she looked up and around
"My family!" she wanted to get up, but Doctor stopped her
"Noo Yaz!!" she squeezed her not letting her move "Glass...you're barefoot" she got up and moved some pieces of broken glass with her boots then picked up Yaz from the floor and carried her into the hallway then took her phone out of her pocket. Tardis was still shaking a bit and Yaz was clenching for her arm looking up
"Doctor" Nadjia picked up "We're all fine...you two?"
"We're fine as well...I think we should maybe all stay in Tardis for the time being...I'm coming to get you Najia" she put the phone down
"Is everyone ok?"
"Yes...come with me Yaz"
As they got back to the console Doctor was flipping switches really fast "Hold on Yaz" She yelled and pulled the lever
Yaz opened the door to her parent's room "Mum!!" she hugged her tightly and looked over her shoulder all the cracks in the walls and ceiling
"Come on everyone" Doctor came out ang grabbed Ryan "...no doodling...get inside...Yaz stay away from Ryan and your dad for now, they need to go to medic bay"
"Babe there's people hurt" Yaz says to her as her family was getting inside
"I know Yaz....we'll get to that as soon as everyone is settled" she said helping Ryan to walk
"Daaad!" Yaz almost cried seeing him barely managing to walk
"Hey pumpkin" he waived to her "Don't worry, I'm fine"
"Oh god..." Yaz felt utterly useless at this point, standing on the far corner of the console room watching her family. Ryan and her father barely managing to walk, and she couldn't even touch them
"Right..." Doctor said as they all came back to the control room. She turned towards Najia and Sonya "This is really important so listen up. I'm sorry about this...I really didn't know this was happening here. So, if you want me to leave you on Earth, I'm gonna do it now. Iff, you stay I can't guarantee...." she pointed towards the door helplessly "I'm sorry"
"No!" Najia said firmly
"Whaaa?" Doctor looked at her surprised
"Now you listen to me Doctor, because what I'm gonna say is important" she started walking towards the Doctor making her step backwards shocked "All of us" she swirled finger around the room pointing to everyone "We're family...and we stick together...and us Khan's...we're not quilters. Now...there's some injured people out there that need our help and I suggest we get moving Doctor because there's no time to waste"
"I'm there with mum" Sonya said still hugging Yaz by the stairs
"I'm not going anywhere...don't you dare even think that thought" Yaz said
After initial shock Doctor flashed a massive smile and hopped to Najia kissing her cheek quickly "Thanks mum" she grins "Now...let's go Khan's" she turned on a heel like the wind flipped few switches and pulled the lever
....
When Tardis door opened up the sight was horrible. The hotel they were in was relatively undamaged but injured people were stumbling all over the street. Roof tiles shattered on the payments, broken pottery and glass some houses crumbled like a giant fist squished them into dust.
"OMG" Yaz stepped outside shocked
"Blimey" Doctor followed her outside "Right...I need to get to work...Yaz honey please put some shoes on" Doctor ran towards the console and pulled a big bag out from underneath one of the panels filling it up with all sorts of stuff "Nadjia, Sonya" she called them
"Yes Doctor" Sonya turned around
"Medical supplies...all pretty self-explanatory, give one shot right there in the neck to those who are bleeding a lot...Stops the bleeding and... well repairs small stuff until medics come. Then put this patch on their neck...it shows all the information to the medical team"
"Got it"
"Questions? .... No... let's go" she said so quickly that nobody even had time to ask any questions
"What about me?" Yaz asked standing at the door lost
"Yaz darling I can't have you do stuff like that pregnant...But you're definitely coming with me" she grabbed her hand "Yaz shoes!" she looked down at her bare feet
"Oh yeah sorry...I'm stressed"
"I'll get them" she ran towards the bedroom
....
Few hours have passed, and Doctor was jumping around ruins helping to move the ruble and helping people as bast as she could. Sonic helped in many ways as well. Sonya and Najia were in makeshift hospital helping with everything they could and Yaz found herself useful with a local tavern owner preparing meals for those who had no home to go to this night.
The horrible heat didn't help the situation one little bit. Those left under the ruins were in danger of dying from heat and lack of water.
Suddenly a noise ripped through the sky. A massive shuttle was landing down.
"OMG what's that?" Yaz asked the tavern owner
"Hospital shuttle...finally" the lady said looking up in the sky
"Aaaa I've been on one of those"
"Oh, have you now?"
"Aha...sonic bomb"
The lady looked at her quite horrified "Blimey...you're lucky to be alive love"
"I know...can you believe it" she smiled
The lady reminded her of Grace. She looked extremely similar to her and had the same kind and beautiful energy. She also kept calling her love and it made Yaz's heart jump. It's been over ten years since Grace died and yet Yaz could still hear her voice in her head. Like it stayed there forever imprinted on her soul. Then she remembered how Doctor said she carried those she lost inside her, and she wondered if this what she meant.
"Listen...why don't you sit down honey and have some rest. You are with the baby"
"No, it's fine really" Yaz shook her head
"No love, you're not fine. You've been standing for five hours straight" the woman said "Go rest and eat something yourself. I will need help for dinner" she practically pushed her to sit in a big comfortable chair on a terrace "I bet you're hungry?"
"I am a little"
"See...told you...you both need to eat"
"So, boy or a girl?" the lady asked sitting opposite her at the table
"Girl" Yaz smiled digging into the nice stew
"Awww...I like girls...I have three...And the lady with gold hair, is she the other mother?"
"The Doctor, oh yeah" Yaz said proudly
"That's nice...Did you say Doctor? That's the Doctor?"
"Aha...you know her?"
"No... but everyone knows of her. Good way or bad, I still think God's sending her to help us with that machine she's building. Nobody else in the universe bothered helping. Now I can say I fed her wife and the baby"
"Oh, she would be absolutely grateful to you for making me eat" Yaz giggled
"So how much longer before"
"Five more months.... we think...not really sure.... it's complicated"
"Well, babies come when they are ready to come...when they are called to this world"
"That's a very nice thought"
"We are all called you know...for a purpose, a task to fulfil in a big wheel of time. We all have a place in it"
"Waaaw...you're making me soppy now" Yaz's eyes glistened
....
Sonya wiped her forehead with a side of her hand. Her face was covered with dust sticking to sweat on her skin making her itchy. She looked around hopelessly at makeshift beds and hundreds of people. Some crying some moaning in pain and some just being quiet like they have purposely detached themselves from the reality and floated away into some other prettier place. She felt as if someone dropped her in the middle of world war without any explanation. Suddenly she felt fingers wrapping around hers. They were cold and skin felt paper thin. She looked down
"Have you seen my grandson?" the old lady said with a soft voice
"No, I'm sorry...What does he look like?" she kneeled next to the bed
"The bakery"
"Excuse me?"
"Baker...he was in the kitchen"
Sonya looked at her murky lilac eyes and suddenly released what the woman was saying. "OMG .... wait for a minute" she ran to one of the rescuers and pulled his sleeve "Hey you!"
"Yes mam?"
"The bakery...did you find a child?"
"What?"
"Who was at the bakery for god's sake? Did you find a child there"
"Oh, wasn't me...but he was" he pointed to another person and Sonya ran up to him. She grabbed the man for his tunic turning him around "Hey, were you at the bakery!"
"Aaaahhh yes why?"
"Have you found a child?" she asked franticly
"I don't understand, what child"
"OMG, am I speaking Spanish...for fuck's sake have you rescued a child from the bakery?"
"No mam just old lady"
"Oh shit..." she grabbed fistful of his shirt shaking him like a plum tree "There's a kid underneath that rubble...he was in the kitchen...please fucking go!"
"How do you know that?" the man asked shocked
"His grandma just told me...just please go and find him"
The guy nodded and rushed to other two men having a break smacking them on a shoulder and explaining
"Oh god I hope they are not late" Sonya looked towards the tent
Doctor was desperately trying to move one of the big slabs of stone having few other people joining in to help. There was a woman trapped underneath and time was desperately running out.
"Arrrrrhhhhhhh" Doctor grunted pulling all her strength then peaked underneath the part they managed to lift and realized where the problem was. There was a metal bar preventing the stone slab from being moved and further. "If I could just...shoot..." she tried slowly balancing with one hand and quickly got her sonic out with another hand "Aaahhh..." she pointed, and the bar released
"That's it pull!!" the men yelled, and the slab finally moved
"Well, that was a nice team effort" Doctor wiped her hands on her sides then hopped down onto the street looking for Yaz. She saw her behind the long table scooping stew and pouring it into bowls and smiled. "Any for your wife?" Doctor squinted from the sun leaning over the table
"Babe!!" Yaz smiled and ran around the table throwing herself at her
"Missed you too" she kissed her temple "So how's it going? Yaz are you sure this isn't too much for you?"
"I'm absolutely sure and I had a rest, and I had some food as well"
"Good then" Doctor draped her arm over her shoulder "Oh Yaz...there are so many people injured"
I know it's horrible. I just saw a child pulled out of the ruble half an hour ago. Made me cringe...I've never seen devastation like this in my life"
"I've seen worse, but it doesn't make it any easier...I'm glad you found a way to help Yaz"
"Me too. Aaaa ...there's mum and Sonya" she points amongst the crowd "Mum!" Yaz shouted and waived
"Hey, you two" Najia said looking absolutely exhausted
"Hi" Sonya waived lazy with her hand
They were all covered in dirt, dust and blood, exhausted and drained not only from what happened but also from the relentless heat
"God, I stink" Sonya lifted her shirt little bit of her chest. It was sticking to her skin making her feel ill.
"Your sister saved a child today" Najia said proudly
"Really?" Yaz smiled
"I'll tell you all about it" Nadjia said beaming
"Are you hungry? I've got some food here" Yaz said pointing to big pot
"Yes, oh god yes please and water...I really need water" Sonya said
"There's clean water there" Yaz points towards some machines that they brought in for everyone
When they sat down Yaz brought everyone some food and sat on the Doctor's lap. Something she never did in public, but she needed it today, and the Doctor didn't protest, on the contrary, she seemed to welcome Yaz's gesture and wrapped her arms around her, resting her head on her shoulder. She looked tired the way Yaz really saw her. The ground was still occasionally shaking in small tremors, which made everyone nervous. It was not a pleasant feeling and Yaz was happy to sleep in the Tardis. They still had Hakim and Ryan to worry about. And at this point, this trip seemed like a nightmare.
"Doctor, you look tiered and haven't said a word" Sonya said worriedly
"I am Sonya...sorry...my mind is racing. I need to resolve this fast. See that sun there, it's not a sun. Yaz and I just found out this morning it's some sort of a machine or ship or something that is artificially made"
"Whaaat like alien...like a death star?"
"No Sonya not quite like that" Doctor laughed
"What's a death star?" Nadjia asked confused
"Star Wars mum" Yaz smiled shaking her head
"But it is sending a signal, like a message that need to decode. Maybe we can send the one back...see what's happening, help do something. I don't know" she buried her face into Yaz's shoulder and squeezed her harder around her waist
"I'm sure you will figure it out Doctor....there's nobody out there smarter"
Doctor chuckled into Yaz's shoulder "Right...no pressure then"
"Doctor....Doctor" the lady ran over all covered in dirt
"Yes" she turned around
"We need you Doctor I'm so sorry"
"Yaz I'm..."
"No darling it's fine.... go"
....
Evening came and darkness hugged the city streets. They were all dropping of their feet and Yaz's feet specially were swollen like a pair of donuts. She was eagerly waiting for the Doctor, her mum and Sonya already sitting in the tavern. Sonya fell asleep resting her head on the table and Yaz was getting worried where the Doctor was.
"She's gonna come back" Najia got up and kissed the top of her head. Yaz just smiled at her sadly "There she is" she points smiling and Yaz jumped off the chair and ran to her embrace
"Stop running" Doctor laughed "Two seconds are not making any difference Yaz" Doctor wrapped her fingers around her face and kissed her lips to Yaz's absolute shock
"Waaaw" Yaz smiled into her lips
"I really missed you Yaz...let's just go home" she draped her arm around her shoulder
When they came back to Tardis Yaz and the Doctor showed them around then Doctor went to see Ryan and Hakim and Najia and Sonya brought them some food as well. They were all finally clean and finished with all the obligations and could relax. Doctor suggested movie night with popcorn, and everyone was delighted.
"Yaz I really thought your pulling my nose when you said how big this place is" Najia said putting food back into the fridge "It's massive...it's like a hotel Yaz"
"Wait till you see the library mum" Yaz smiled
"Do you have a hairdresser Yaz?" Sonya asked making Yaz laugh like crazy
"Oh yeah, and a nail salon and massage parlor after a hard day of work.... silly"
"Well, you did say you got a swimming pool"
"Come on let's go" Yaz picked up a big bowl of popcorn and led them to the library
"Hi...almost ready" Doctor hopped around setting up a big projector screen
Najia and Sonya just stood completely wordless staring around
"Bloody hell!!" Sonya said
"Nice ha?" Doctor smiled
"Nice? It looks like a bloody National Library...a British museum...this is...OMG...how the hell?"
"I really thought nothing can surprise me anymore" Najia said speechless
"Right...all done" Doctor jumped around to the sofas "We have candy, popcorn...you also have some nice blankets to make it cozier. Awww I'm so chuffed..." she smiled scrunching her face all cheerful "Family movie night...what an end of a day"
In half an hour, everyone was nice and cosy. Sonya fell asleep with her head on her mom's lap and Yaz lay with her feet on the Doctor's lap enjoying the gentle foot massage she was getting, which was divine after a long day. The Doctor also knew all the pressure points and that helped with her swollen ankles. Yaz also learned how the Doctor and Nadjia are the same in the voiceovers during the movie and having both of them doing it at the same time seemed like audio commentary. They managed to find a flaw in every single scene and yelled at the character how stupid they were. It felt more like watching football than a movie. But having her sister and mom in the Tardis library and watching a movie with the Doctor was like an impossible dream for Yaz. Something she would never have believed a year ago. And she cherished every minute of this moment that meant the world to her. She just hoped her dad and Ryan would get better soon as well.
"Alright girls...I'm off to bed" Najia got up when the move finished "Sonya darling come on...let's go to sleep"
"Ha? Whaa? ...oh" Sonya woke up disoriented "OMG did I fall asleep"
"Girl, you passed out in first ten minutes" Yaz giggled
"I'm bloody knackered I am" Sonya got up stretching her arms "Alright, night you two"
"Night girls" Najia waves
"Night night...remember your dream" Doctor said
They stayed alone in a quiet of the library. Yaz was way too comfortable on Doctor's chest to even think about moving. She looked up smiling showing her little dimples.
"What's that happy smile for?"
"It was a nice evening"
"It was Yaz, and I was thinking how this year we need to have your family over for Christmas"
"My family doesn't celebrate Christmas silly, we're Muslim...but I can still ask them"
"You celebrate Christmas Yaz" she moved a strain of hair from her forehead stroking her gently
"That's because you do and it's fun....and I get the presents" she laughed
"Aaaaa so it's the presents"
"Yeah" she giggles kissing her fingers
"Come on mummy...you should go to bed you know" Doctor glides her hands over her gently
"I can't be bothered to move" she moaned and turned around tucking her face into her neck kissing her
"Yaz..."
"Mmmm?"
"Are you being cheeky with me?" Doctor scrunched her nose as Yaz brushed her fingers on the edge of her trousers
"No" she mumbled into her neck and released the waistband hook on her trousers
"Right...is your hand being cheeky Yaz?"
"Mmmm" she giggles kissing her collarbone popping a button
A small moan escapes Doctor's mouth and her back arched a bit as her hand slipped between the fabric with ease. Doctor reached for her sonic and pointed it over her head locking the door whiles still having any composure to do it.
Chapter 41
Another light earthquake shook the Tardis in the middle of the night throwing some books of the shelfs and waking up Yaz. They fell asleep on a sofa snuggling underneath the blanket.
"It's fine Yaz...just tremors" Doctor kissed her head
"What if another one hits?"
"We will be running around naked and it won't be pretty site Yaz"
Yaz giggled into her chest "OMG...maybe we should get dressed"
"It's all your fault we are naked anyway Yaz...nothing to do with me"
"It takes two to tango" Yaz smirked
"That wasn't a tango Yaz" she laughed
"That was better than a tango" she kissed her chest
"It always is...sleep beautiful...you need to rest. It's really early and tomorrow will be a hard day again"
"Mmmmm....Cuddle" she said gliding her hand over her side underneath the blanket
Doctor ran lazy lines down her back and pulled a blanket more over their shoulders. Then slipped her hand under the cover and laid it over her tummy. The baby moved little bit and put a massive smile on her face. If all the pain she ever had to endure in her long life was all for this moment she thought, it was well worth it and she would gladly go through it again. Everything she loved most in her life was right there in her arms and now it was lying next to her, breathing against her skin and nothing could compare to this. And she thought of all those who had lost that very thing today that made her hearts ache and made her feel incredibly blessed. Yaz murmured soft sounds and snuggled up against her neck, wrapping her arm around her and caressing her lower back until her hand calmed down as she fell asleep
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Early morning and the doctor got up before everyone else. The Tardis was quiet, just humming softly as she walked down the hall, took a shower and went to the kitchen. The smell of freshly made cinnamon rolls wafted through the hallway. Earlier she shoved them in the oven hoping they wouldn't burn and her plan to make a good breakfast for everyone fails. But to her surprise it wasn't and they were perfect.
Yaz was still fast asleep on the sofa, her sweet face now chubbier from pregnancy tucked into a soft burgundy pillow, her beautiful hair falling over her bare shoulders. The Doctor left the tray of her breakfast on the coffee table and pulled the covers over her. She knelt down next to her and brushed a strand of hair from her face, then kissed her forehead.
"Stars, you're beautiful" she whispered, running a finger across her cheek, then went to do her routine rounds seeing Ryan and Hakim in the Tardis medical bay.
"Morning!!" she walked in and turned the lights on making them both jump
"Blimey Doctor" Ryan pulled the covers over his head "That's bright"
"I know...it's gonna wake you up proper" she laughed
"Morning Doctor" Hakim said still sleepy
"I see you two feel a bit better today"
"Couldn't sleep though" Ryan completed
"Oh, why's that?" she moved the cover from his face quite violently and zoomed a sonic over him "Aaaaa...no fever today...that's good"
"He snores" he nodded at Hakim
"Oh" Doctor raised her eyebrows and moved his shirt looking at his skin
"And you're on that phone the whole bloody night" Hakim gave it back to him straight away
"Because you snore....how the hell can I sleep"
She glanced confused from one to the other then decided not to get involved and stick to just checking them up.
"Right...one more shot" she gives Ryan injection into his neck
"Auch...you're making me into a pin cushion with those needles" he rubbed his neck
"Sorry...Better pin cushion Ryan then having to take you to snow mountains of Naradoo to stand on the top for 20 minutes naked"
"Ha?" he looked at her confused
"That's the alternative...the high altitude and the low temperatures destroy the virus...but you need to stand naked on below 35...Believe me it's not pleasant"
"You've done that?" Hakim asked confused
"Oh, only once...or twice" she scrunched her face "Can't remember...old brains"
"Blimey Doctor"
"How do you feel Hakim?"
"Better....but I do have a headache"
"Oh, that's normal...It will go away and this should help" she shoots him with injection as well
"The earthquake...was it a lot of damage?" Hakim asked worriedly
"Yes...it was...but still...it could've been worse actually. Alright...well I need to go...get some more rest you two"
"Thanks Doctor....when are we gonna be good enaugh to go out?"
"Might be even today Hakim....just wanna make sure you're fine before seeing Yaz that's all...she's vaccinated and all that but still...never too cautious cause of baby"
"Sure...of course"
"Se ya" she smiled and as she walked out bumped into Sonya
"Oh...morning Doctor!"
"Sonya! Morning....how was your night?"
"Slept like a baby....then that shaking woke me up"
"Sorry...it will pass...Hopefully...should do"
"Right...anyway...So what's the plan for today?"
"Oh, later Sonya...take your time, make yourself at home. Just don't go down there" she pointed to the far end of the hallway "You never know...might get lost and if you get lost it can take me ages to find you, days really...and that would be very uncomfortable experience and I would have no idea what to say to your mother either and..."
"Alright!" she cuts her off "Don't worry I will definitely not go there so calm down"
"I am calm...Right...see ya"
"Oh...and kitchen is? Sorry I forgot...too many doors"
"Down there...fifth on a left" she smiled pointing
"Thanks" she turned around and was about to leave when Doctor called her again
"Oh, Sonya...don't eat the jelly from the fridge"
"Suuure" she frowned confused "I won't " she shakes her head confused with the conversation. She had no clue what Doctor was going on about but one thing she was definitely sure about was that she will not go around Tardis alone after this. She liked the Doctor and was getting really close to her recently but Sonya still though Doctor had few screws lose in her head, although she love that about her now.
Yaz woke up and sat on the sofa. Her hair was all down and she had a sleepy face, then she smiled seeing breakfast on a tray with a small rose. Everything looked like something out of a fancy hotel. The Doctor completely spoiled her, especially since she was pregnant. But Yaz had her own plan she was making with the Tardis for this evening and she hoped nothing would disturb it. She moved the tray across the table and took the cinnamon roll that smelled so wonderful. The Doctor even made her her favorite tea. Then she saw a small note under the cup.
"Morning my favorite girls. I hope you both love the breakfast...so happy I didn't burn it...phew. When you get yourself ready you can find me on my usual place over the console eagerly waiting for you two to join me. I love you both more than all the stars in the universe...And that's a lot...infinite I might say...Yours forever Theta xx"
Her heart skipped a beat reading that. She didn't leave notes that often and Yaz treasured each one, putting them in her diary for safe keeping. The Doctor who gushed about loving her was still so special to her and her heart would skip a beat at every word. She looked up to see that some books had fallen off the shelves and some other things had also been knocked over, but nothing was seriously damaged. She wondered how much damage the Tardis could really take from an earthquake since every time they were in the air it shook more and the Tardis would just snap everything back into place after that. She also knew that the Tardis would do anything to keep her and the baby safe and apart from the odd bruise they were both safe as long as they were inside. It also kept her calm about her family. She finished her breakfast and went to get ready.
"Morning" Yaz smiled over the railing
"Aaaaa my girls" Doctor lifted her head happily from the console "Morning beautiful"
"Thank you for the breakfast" she came over and ran her hands over Doctor's chest kissing her then wrapped them at the back of her neck "And I love that note...I'm keeping that"
"You're cute...really cute...too cute Yaz...it's making my brains go fuzzy" she smiled
"I'm so powerful" she giggled playing with her hair "Love the curls by the way" she was sure Doctor kept them because only yesterday she told her she loves them so much. There was one curl right by her ear that Yaz adored and she kept twirling it around her finger as she spoke with her.
"How's my munchkin today" she kneeled down and lifted Yaz top kissing her tummy "You're due for a checkup Yaz...as soon as Ryan and your dad are out of medic we have to do it" she said running her hands gently over it and looking up at Yaz
"Alright love" Yaz ran fingers through her hair brushing it backwards from her forehead "So what's our plan for today?"
"Aaaaa...yes" Doctor got back up on her feet "Look Yaz..." she started running around the console and flipped the screen "Look tomorrow I'm sending the signal...I'm almost done with alterations...I tried today...failed miserably I might add" she slumps her shoulders "The signal is just not strong enough....Iff it wasn't for the earthquake I would've done it already...
"You will...you always do" she stood next to her tucked her hair behind her ear "Don't beat yourself up alright?"
"Something is always in my way Yaz and it gets so frustrating at times....really....Why does it have to be so hard?"
"I know it does seem like that. But then who else out there has to deal with this kinda stuff...ha? Nobody...this isn't easy"
Doctor sighed deeply, her hands splayed over the console she looked at Yaz sideways and smiled slightly "I need to hear that sometimes you know...to stop hating myself for failing"
"We all do love" she combed fingers through her hair and leaned over to kiss her "I wouldn't change you for the whole universe" she said into her lips
"Morning girls!" Nadjia walks in "Look at you two love birds" she smiles
"Morning Nadjia"
"Hey mum"
"Thank you for breakfast...that was really nice"
"Aaaaawwww did you make breakfast for everyone babe?" Yaz smiled and brushed her hand over her back
"Mmmm" she shrugs "I thought it be nice...it's your first night in Tardis after all"
"This ship is incredible...I can't wrap my head around it being inside of police box....that's just making my brain hurt to be honest"
"Hi there" Sonya walks in
"Aaaa look at all of you...morning meeting with my fam...that just put me in a nice mood for today....Right how do you all feel about a feald trip?"
"The what?" Sonya frowned looking at Yaz confused "I thought we need to help people?"
"We do...and we are...but in another way"
"I'm confused" Sonya said
"Let her speak Sonya for god sake" Nadjia turned to her "I'm sure it makes sense iff you're little bit patient"
"Alright...just asking....don't get a knots in your stomach straight away"
"I noticed some disturbance on the other side of the planet. It's uninhabited but I want to check it out...it's working me a bit with all the earthquakes. Also how do you feel about working on Eye of the deep later on?"
"Yeah sure hun whatever you need" Nadjia said
"We need to speed it up and with boys out of commission I need all hands on deck. We can't have another earthquake"
"No of course not"
"Can I work on the machine as well?" Yaz asked sheepish half expecting to be turned down
Doctor looked at her smiling "I think I can find something that's safe for you to do"
"Yeeeess!!!" she almost jumped exited
"Ready everyone?...Right hold on...Yaz!" The Doctor says then her and Yaz flip a few switches exchanging smiles across the console before the Doctor pulled a lever
When Tardis landed Doctor hopped across and opened the door. Intense heat hit her face "Blimey that's intense" she looked around then saw rock formation on the left from where they landed. It's where the signal was coming from.
"Babe...don't stand in that heat you will burn" Yaz said from the inside "It must be 50 degrees out there"
"56,7 degrees or 134,1 Fahrenheit to be exact darling...you could say that classifies as hot....Well as hot as Death Valley" she walked inside and as soon as she stepped in Yaz pulled her by the arm and started smearing cream all over her face. Doctor pulling funny faces as Yaz was applying it like to a kid.
"Stop making faces" she giggled "You will be like a lobster by the time we get to that cave"
"I won't now with all that on my face Yaz I feel like I'm being prepared for a barbecue"
"You are...it is a barbecue out there" she rolls her eyes "There...you're done" she said and smeared it all over herself as well then gave it to the girls "Sonya no kidding put that on...trust me"
Yaz learned the hard way when Doctor took them to a desert planet looking for some minerals she needed and they all burned to a crisp. Doctor heals fast but even she was in pain. Yaz felt like her face will peel off how much it burned. So she made sure they got a special cream Tardis makes for them now.
Doctor stepped outside once more and started heading towards the cave. Everyone followed but after few minutes of walking it became obvious just how hot it was. Relentless sun felt as if it was was burning their skin and even the cream started melting on their faces.
"Doctor look" Sonya pointed towards the horizon "There's a city there"
"Oh, that" she turned around "Just a mirage I'm afraid Sonya...from the heat"
"Oh...it looks so real"
"I know...many died following it Sonya...It's an image caused by atmospheric refraction. In this case, light waves as they move through mediums of different density, typically layers of air with different temperatures. In particular, a Fata Morgana is a superior mirage...fascinating isn't it Sonya?"
"Yeah...a bit creepy but yes" she said not hugely impressed
"It really is scorching hot" Nadjia said lifting her top of her chest "Yaz hun are you ok?"
"Yeah...me and the baby cooking but we're fine" she giggled
"Sorry Yaz you should've stayed in a Tardis" Doctor said pulling her by her hand to go faster
"Maybe but I don't want to...besides It's only a short walk I'm not made out of sugar
"I might disagree on that one Yaz" Doctor smiled glancing at her sideways "Finally...blessed shade" she said as they walked underneath the rocks
It was nice and cool or so it seemed after their painful short walk. The extremely cold air coming from the depths of the cave hit their skin and felt incredibly soothing. The entrance was clearly visible in front of them. A winding path leading deeper into the rock formation with a massive entrance at the bottom. The ceiling above them was very high and Yaz looked up at the beautiful pink colors of the rocks that sparkled in the sun as if they were covered in diamonds.
"What's that love" she pointed up to the glittering rocks
"Minerals Yaz... crystallized salt. This used to be the ocean millions of years ago" she zoomed her sonic up and around
"Waaaw...that's beautiful"
"You just wanna chip it off and make it into a necklace" Sonya said
"Yeah that's true" Yaz said
"Come on girls let's go...we need to go inside and we need to be fast because the heat will get worse as the day goes by. We need to go back soon" Doctor said walking them towards the entrance
As they walked further, the path became darker and the Doctor illuminated the path with her sonic. They made it a short way through the tunnel before a huge cave opened up before them. Ceilings as high as 30 meters tower over their heads. The cave was huge and impressive. The stone tunnel now turned into a man-made stone path carved into the solid rock, and on each side of it the ground plunged hundreds of meters down into the lower level of the cave. A path that led to what looked like a massive arch carved into solid rock.
"What is that?" Yaz said as they approached
"Not sure Yaz" Doctor scanned with the sonic
"Those symbols" she looked at the engravings on the rock...Looks like a gate Yaz...a portal...teleport maybe...it's definitely a machine" she walked around
"Is it working?" Sonya asked
"Doesn't look like it Sonya...step back a bit... don't go so close" she said and moved her to the side "Iff that thing opens up you can end up on another side of the universe"
"Oh..." Sonya moved as far as she could from it
"Darling look" Yaz called from the other side "It looks like a control panel"
"Don't touch it Yaz!" Nadjia said worriedly
"Don't worry mum"
"So it is Yaz" she wiped the dust off with her hand "But it hasn't been used for a very long time" she looked at the readings on her sonic "And looks like it's broken. I'm not getting anything from it"
"But you did pick up some signal babe?"
"Not from this Yaz"
You don't think this could be a teleport leading to that sun...planet...ship or whatever it is?"
"Hard to tell Yaz...could be...might be...possibly...But I can't know like this"
Doctor tried to fiddle with the control plate for few minutes but with no luck. She took the plate off and looked behind twisting her lips "Neah...this is all fried completely...it all has to be exchanged" she shrugs her shoulders "I can't do nothing like this"
"Surely you can repair it?" Yaz asked
"I can Yaz but not just with a sonic...Also we have to go soon or we will become shish kebabs oh in 25 minutes when that sun reaches it's peak"
"Well I suggest we get going then hun" Nadjia says. She sat on a rock nearby, letting the girls explore and she was unwrapping some candy she found at the bottom of her bag. It was Jelly Tots from Sainsbury's and it made her go blank at the thought of eating it in a cave on some alien planet. She wondered if he leaves a package for joke if someone will find it and wonder what it was.
"Doctor what's this" Sonya pointed to something poking out of the ground she tripped over "it looks like a peddle...I wonder if I just..."
"Nooo!!!..." The Doctor shouted, but she had already pressed it down and the ground beneath her began to crack and crumble. The Doctor jumped up towards her and grabbed her leaving her lying on the ground holding Sonya's wrist whiles she was dangling over the edge of the cliff.
Nadjia and Yaz yelled and Doctor held on to her so tightly she couldn't feel her arm anymore. She was dangling over the edge watching rocks falling down into a deep hole below. "Don't look down" Doctor said "Look at me Sonya...Give me your other hand"
Yaz went on all fours crawling towards the Doctor to help her
"Yaz!"Najia cried out as she got stuck at the other end. She was on her hands and knees helplessly watching one of her daughters hanging over a huge hole and the other desperately trying to keep her wife from falling down.
"Yaz...get back!" Doctor said almost angry
"No way" Yaz grabbed her ankle and then crawled more up putting as much of her body waight on Doctor as she could hoping they don't all slide of the edge together
"Yaz...get off me...get back there!"
"I'm not leaving you!"
"Why do you have to be so stubborn" Doctor rolled her eyes and reached out her arm towards Sonya "Come on Sonya...you can do it...just grab my hand"
"Aaaarrrhhh..." she cried out trying to swing herself so she can reach out, which put even more pressure to the Doctor desperately trying to hold on to her. She finally managed to grab Doctor's other hand from second attempt. She used all her strength to lift Sonya up enough so that both her and Yaz could pull her over the edge until they were both safe. Sonya threw herself to the Doctor hugging her "I'm so sorry" she cried sitting in a dirt squeezing her tight
"It's ok...you're safe" Doctor rocked her relieved her eyes meeting Yaz. Then she reached her hand and brushed her finger over Yaz's cheek "And don't you do that again either" she smiled still nervously
Najia sighed relieved hopelessly sitting on the ground on the other side of the massive hole between them.
"How are we gonna get across?" Yaz asked worried looking around
"Doctor what do I do?" Nadjia asked
They all got back to their feet and Doctor pulled Yaz's hands. She walked to the edge and looked down twisting her face then looked around and relazed they were stuck "Aaaaarrrhhh...Nadjia...do you have pen and a paper in your bag?" Doctor asked
"I think so...why?"
"I will need you to get Tardis for me"
"Whaaaaa?"
"Oh, don't worry Najia...just follow instructions and it should be fine" she shrugs "Should be"
"Are you kidding me?....I can't fly that thing"
"Yes you can mum it's not that difficult when she tells you what to do"
"Oh god" Nadjia was beyond worried but she really had no choice.
She wrote down the instructions. It took her a while to write down every tiniest detail and repeat it to the Doctor several times making sure she didn't fly the machine off to some god forsaken place in space with her husband and Ryan on board. She ran to the Tardis and burst through the door.
"Come on you cleaver thing!" she looked up "I know you understand me...Help me to get my girls back...and that includes your girl as well"
She dropped her bag on the floor and carefully looked at the instructions walking around the console, giving herself time to make sure she got this right. She was painfully aware that one flick of the wrong switch could leave them all stranded forever, and she wasn't thinking of herself. All she could think about were the girls dying stranded on the other side of that cliff without anyone even knowing they were there. So she had to get this right.
"Ok...so, here's how we're gonna do this" she looked up to the Tardis "I will do this and you hum iff I made a mistake....You got that?" Tarids hummed and turned the lights blue
"I knew you understand me"
….
"Poor mum" Sonya sat down on the ground.
"It's ok" Yaz tucked her hair behind her ears sitting next to her. She saw that her sister was scared and felt so guilty blaming herself. The Doctor walked nervously with her hands in her pockets. Yaz looked up at her and their worried eyes met. They didn't need to talk, they knew what the other was thinking. The chances of her mum getting it right from the first move were almost nil, but hope was all they had at this point. Yaz looked back at her sister and smiled "Hey I wanted to tell you something"
"How stupid I am?"
"No...that's not it. And you're not. It was a mistake...mistakes happen. I wanted to tell you how happy I am for you and Ryan" she took her hand in her lap rubbing her thumb over it
"You are?" Sonya smiled a little and sniffled wiping her tears
"I am...I was telling her the other day. I'm really glad you two found each other"
"Too bad I will kill everyone"
"Don't be silly. Tardis will be here in no time...Hey that's mum...she will just order her to fry herself" she laughed
"Yeah you're probably right" Sonya smiled
…
"Right....flick the switch on the third place to your right...Top row" she read aloud as she walked around and found them, then flipped them all over as the Doctor noted. She walked around and continued to do everything as instructed until she stood in front of the two and the instructions were unclear. She turned one and the Tardis hummed "Oh, so the other one?" The Tardis hummed again but turned on the lights when she got it right That was it, time to pull the lever. Her hand was on it and she was sweating nervously. "Please let this be right," she looked up, closed her eyes and pulled it down. The Tardis shook a little, made a terrible sound and then fell silent. She stood next to the console petrified, unable to move a muscle, and then the door slammed open. The Doctor runs inside. Najia slumped down on the console, tears running down her face.
"You did it! Gold star for Nadjia" Doctor hopped towards her and Nadjia pulled her in for a surprise hug. She saw the girls walking in over Doctor's shoulder.
"Oh, what did I do to deserve this?" Doctor said confused
"Being alive" Najia smiled
"Mum you flew the Tardis!" Yaz shouted exited as she walked inside
"I did baby and let's hope I never have to do that again" she hugged them both kissing them
"I'm so sorry mum" Sonya said
"Let's forget about it ha?" she stroke her face and kissed it
Doctor took a deep breath and Tardis hummed "Aaaaa...did she really?...That's clever?" she spoke with Tardis "Nadjia...did you speak to my ship?" Doctor smiled pleasantly surprised
"I needed help" she rolled her eyes in relief
"That was very resourceful Nadjia...All this made me hungry. Are you hungry?"
Nobody was but they just nodded going with it. "Alright then...let's get some food" Doctor pulled the lever
….
They all walked the streets of still ruined city. But things tit start slowly getting back to normal although the aftermath of the earthquake was still everywhere around them. But people's will to continue as normal as they possibly could was very present on each corner. Food still being sold on stands and taverns being reopened. The ground still shook from time to time making everyone nervous. Doctor parked not far from from the little tavern. It was hot outside but the place was in a deep shade hidden in one of the small alleyways. As they walked towards it Doctor draped her hand over Yaz's shoulder and kissed her temple.
"What's that for?" she smiled at her and slipped her arm around her waist
"For what you did back there....But that doesn't mean I approve it" she smiled
"You may not but I'd do it again in a heart beat" she leaned on her shoulder
"Aaaaa here we go. We can take some food for the boys as well"
"Can they come out of the medic bay soon?" Sonya asked
"I think so. I need to check-in on them when we come back. But I believe it's safe now"
Sonya and Yaz looked at each other sneaky and smiled. There was a plan they were cooking up together and they needed boys on board. So things were going well.
Yaz didn't have much of an appetite. She was twirling a fork around the plate for quite some time. The heat made her lose any feeling of hunger and all she wanted was as much liquid as she could pack inside her. Which ultimately made her go to toilet fifty times a day. Being pregnant in the middle of summer wasn't much fun either carrying all the extra weight. And she was getting bigger by the day to a point where she wondered how much more bigger can she possibly get and did they miss one more baby somewhere. But Doctor kept telling her it's quite a normal thing for her race and went into deeper explanation about it all.
"Yaz darling you need to eat" Doctor said looking at her barely touched food
"I'm so hot I can't" she sighed "I'll eat later I promise"
"I was pregnant in a summer" Nadjia says "And it's no fun. Just make sure you eat later"
"I will...oh can you too stay here. Me and Sonya need to go and buy few things?" Yaz said
"What now Yaz?" Doctor looked confused "You just said you were hot...I'm confused"
"It's only around the corner...it's just something for Ryan"
"Oh boy...well stick to the shade Yaz please....I'm not happy with this"
"Will do" she got us happy and leaned over kissing her cheek "Be right back" she smiled and nodded to her sister
….
"I thought we never leave" Sonya said as they went around the corner
"Me neither...Well we would've done it yesterday morning if it wasn't for the earthquake. I just hope the store is open. Where did you say you saw it?"
"Just around there. And they have a beautiful choice"
They were soon there and to their relief the store was open. It was a small place half inside and half outside. Beautiful dresses were hanging outside the store and the cutest baby clothes Yaz had ever seen. Beautifully embroidered with leaves and flowers in all the earth tones going from light badge to terracotta.
"OMG...I'm dying now...we haven't done any baby shopping at all Sonya" Yaz was taking alk the baby clothes out and her eyes were popping out at them
"Well Doctor's pretty lost in it isn't she?...But that's cute in a way....also girl you got that ship that makes pretty much anything for you so she's probably used to that as well"
"She is" Yaz said shaking her head laughing "Uuu look at this" she held up a baby shirt
"That's so darn cute....I can't...and look Yaz it's baby jewelry I'm fricking dying here"
"Can I help you ladies?" The woman came out of the store
"Oh, hi...yes I think you can" Yaz smiled
…
They ended up buying so much stuff that Sonya rushed back to Tardis to leave it all there. Yaz waiting for her around the corner in a shade. She sat on one of the stone benches underneath some beautiful bright blue tree.
"Hey...all done" she passed her back Tardis key "I stuffed it in a kitchen cupboard...sorry I didn't know where else to put it"
"It's fine" Yaz laughed "I'll make sure I do everything whilst you're at the building site"
"My brain still can't adjust when I open the door of that telephone both" Sonya laughed "It's like that cupboard from Narnia"
…
Yaz was lying on a bed looking at her little baby monitor waiting for the Doctor to come out of the bathroom. After their lunch and early morning adventure she felt tiered
Doctor stood at the bathroom door in her boxers and a t-shirt drying her hair in a towel "You alright mummy?"
"Mmm" she looked at her smiling "just really tiered"
Doctor casually through the towel towel over the sink and climbed the bed on her hands and knees lifting Yaz's dress and shoving her head underneath it kissing her stomach "It's been a hard day beautiful" she said between the kisses
"Would you mind if I stay here and not go to the workshop later on?" she said stroking Doctor's head over the cotton fabric of her dress
"It's fine mummy" she peaked her head out with a grin on her face "You two rest" she kissed the side of her breast over the fabric and laid her head on her chest wrapping her arms around her "Mmm...You nice and soft" she snuggled in
"And I miss these cuddles" Yaz said running fingers through her damp hair. It felt nice on her skin after all the heat. Even Doctor's cool hands trailing down her leg felt nice so soothing "You stay with me for a bit?"
Doctor moved up higher and dotted kisses over her face "I thought that's what I was doing Yaz" she grinned haply
"I never know with you" she smiled tucking her hair behind her ears "You're always running somewhere"
"Not for much longer Yaz" she laid back on her chest and trailed fingers over her stomach and the curve of her waist "After this it's just you and me until munchkin comes" Doctor ran her finger over Yaz's open palm "I just want you and me...is that selfish Yaz?"
"Nope" Yaz stroke her forehead gently "I think you well deserved it"
"We both do" she trailed Yaz's wrist where the bruise from the rope was slowly disappearing, then brought her hand up to her lips to kiss the skin there.
"I still can't believe my mum drove the Tardis" Yaz started giggling "She must have been petrified"
"I think it's safe to say we've all been Yaz...there was a point when I seriously thought I'll never see Tardis again...I was starting to think of hundred different ways of how to get us of that rock and they were all stupid plans Yaz" she looked up at Yaz "Being stranded on a top of the rock with over 200 meter plunge down below was not my idea of the morning adventure"
"I felt so bad for Sonya...but honestly what came over her to press that thing" she was giggling so much she cover her face with hand
"I would've done the same" she grinned
"I know you would" she ruffled her hair "You're infamous for What does that button do thing"
"You're trying to say I have no control over myself Yaz?"
"You don't...You can't help it" she laughed
"Well, maybe you're right" she shrugs
"I am right...but I wouldn't have you any other way"
They fell silent enjoining in stillness and Tardis hummer, she dimmed the lights in their room and started playing soft music.
For the first time in ages Doctor felt sleepy and her eyes seemed so heavy. When they were alone like this in a rare moments of stillness she would feel her mind going quiet and only her, Yaz and their unborn child existed in all the space and time. Just them three in whole universe. She wasn't sure when she drifted away, but she did. With her head resting on her beautiful wife's chest and her hand trailing down her curves until it went still Doctor fell asleep. And Yaz gently combed her fingers through her soft golden hair and ran lazy lines down her spine until she herself fell asleep.
When Yaz woke up she was gone. Only a note on a side table. She relized she overslept and quickly got up slipped her feet into flip-flops, quickly getting herself sorted in a bathroom when a knocking on door jolted her.
"Ryan!!!" she jumped all exited when she opened the door "OMG" she hugged him
"We were let out jail earlier" he smiled "Girls went to the repair shop"
"What dad as well?"
"Yap"
"Good cause I need you both"
"Need us for what Yaz"
She quickly slammed the bedroom door and pulled Ryan for his arm down the hallway
"You're creepily reminding me of Doctor now Yaz....where are we goin"
She turned around and smiled cheeky "You will help me make a cake"
"Whaaa?"
"It's Doctor's birthday today"
"She has a birthday?" he frowned confused
"Well...falling through the train day Ryan"
"Right...I suppose it could work"
"Daaad!!!" she practically screamed seeing him in a control room
"Pumpkin" he came over and she threw herself in his arms "I missed you" he kissed the top of her head
"Oh I missed you too...how are you dad?"
"As good as new honey"
"Thank god...I was just telling Ryan I need you two to help to make a cake for the Doctor. It's her birthday today I wanna surprise her"
"Is it?" Hakim asked surprised "How old is she?"
"Well more like falling through the train day...and not sure about the other one dad...over 3000...but numbers are not important once you get to that age" she giggled
"Blimey, she should start counting backwards"
Ryan
"So I have this recipe and it shouldn't be that difficult" Yaz put a cook book on a counter then started taking stuff out of the cupboards
"No yaz this is easy" Hakim said looking at the recipe "but I can make that even better iff you have lemons"
"I do...bottom of the fridge if not we have some in Doctor's garden"
"Since when is she's doing gardening?" Ryan said confused
"Since always" Yaz giggled
"Nice apron Yaz...is this yours or hers?" Ryan was holding her hot and sexy apron against himself laughing
"Oi!" she grabbed it and showed it in one of the drawers
"So what did you get her Yaz?"
"Something she mentioned to me she really wants but we never had time to get it. You know those things for carrying a baby on you like a kangaroo thing" she was showing on herself
"Oh those yes...no idea what they're called...like a scarf thing that wraps around"
"Yeah that's it...Well she wants to have the baby like that on her whiles she's flying Tardis and you know late at night when she's fiddling over the console she keeps gushing about wanting to have a baby next to her. She must have mentioned it to me thousand times by now"
"Yeah well not like you can put her in a buggy and fly Tardis she'd be flying all over the place" Ryan laughed
"I never thought of that Ryan...that's just horrible" she scrunched her face in horror "Anyways look" she bend down to get the bags from the store that Sonya stuffed into the kitchen cupboard and takes out a beautiful blue embroidered baby wrap
"Tardis blue" Hakim said "Was that on purpose?"
"Yap" Yaz nodded "Well it's also her favorite color"
She put everything away and continued with the cake. It took them three hours but they made a beautiful cake and Hakim drew a Tardis on it.
"Dad that Tardis looks really cute"
"I can't get that plaque properly"
"It's ok dad we are not on master chef" she kisses his cheek " You did a greit job"
Ryan put the the candles 3000 on a top giggling
"Are we really putting 3000 on it?" Yaz laughed
"Absolutely" Ryan giggled and put the last zero on it making them all laugh
"She's gonna love you mate" Yaz said tapping his shoulder "Alright we haven't got much time... let's put this in a fridge and put some balloons up and wrap up the presents.
"But we didn't get her anything Yaz" Hakim said disappointed
"You have dad...Sonya got a present from all of you lot"
"She did?...What did she get?"
"Baby diary...you know where you write all the first stuff...first tooth, first steps...first evening...she's gonna go gaga over that"
"Why are all the presents for the baby Yaz?" Ryan asked frowning confused "I thought this was her birthday not a baby shower?"
"Cause she legit has everything and what ever she doesn't Tardis makes for her or she makes it herself. Baby is her absolute obsession right now....trust me anything to do with her being mum works wonders"
"Alright...well you know your girlfriend"
"Wife Ryan" she said almost offended
"Sorry...keep forgetting that part"
….
"We did brilliant today ..gold stars for both of you" The Doctor said sitting on a small bench in the corner and marveling at how far they had come with building the machine. The new parts of the case arrived and the workers were welding it while they worked with the Doctor on the smaller parts, which she explained work like organs in the human body. Each has its own special purpose.
"This was so much fun Doctor" Sonya said fixing her ponytail and sitting next to her "I can't believe I actually did soldering"
"Fun ha?...Oh I love building stuff Sonya...It's so special to make something out of nothing. Give life, purpose to something...it's amazing"
"I can totally see it now. But if you told me to do this a year ago I'd tell you to bugger off" she laughed then went silent for a moment "Doctor"
"Yes Sonya"
"I wanted to apologize for this morning. I am so sorry. That was just so stupid and I've put everyone in danger"
Doctor rested her arms on her knees "Are you apologizing to me or to yourself Sonya?" she smirked looking at her sideways
"Both I suppose" she said looking down to the floor
"We all make mistakes Sonya...What's really important is admitting to ourselves that we have...Something even I struggle with sometimes and I need your sister to remind me" she nudged her with shoulder and smiled
"Thanks...you really are cool"
"Come on...let's go back slowly...It's been a long day for everyone"
…
Yaz was lying on the bed same as in the afternoon waiting for Doctor to get out of the bathroom same as in the afternoon. But there was a wicked plan they all had and she was hoping Doctor would be dressed by the time it all comes into action except it didn't look like it was going that way. Doctor was just casually walking around the bedroom in her underwear with no top on chatting away about the Eye of the deep and Yaz wasn't even listening. She wasn't sure was she more in agony by watching her half naked parading around the bedroom knowing she can only watch this time or the fact that Ryan could be knocking on their bedroom door at any minute and Doctor was half naked. Either way she turned it, things didn't look good at this point.
"Babe" Yaz got up and stood behind her kissing her shoulder "You're totally distracting me...and we need go for dinner"
"Oh...didn't know I was so distracting Yaz" she smirks sideways and wrapped Yaz's arm around herself
"You're always distracting" Yaz brushed her nose on a side of her cheek "specially half naked at my hormonal state you're dangerous"
Doctor shook her head laughing then knocking on a door made them both jump
"Doctor!!" Ryan shouted from the other side and knocked once more
"What is it Ryan?" Doctor rolled her eyes
"There's something wrong with lights in a library"
"The whaa?" she twisted her face confused
"Lights...in a library...they are not working"
"Oh, stars" she sighed "Alright Ryan...give me a minute and I'll come and have a look"
"Thanks....sorry Doctor"
"Noooo problem Ryan" she said looking at Yaz shaking her head "Every time"
"Sorry" Yaz stroke the back of her neck and "I love you my beautiful Bighead"
"I love you too my beautiful sweet potato" she grins
"That's so sexy babe....I always wanted to be called a potato" she giggled "Come on hurry up"
"You're a cute potato Yaz" she defends herself taking her clothes out and getting quickly dressed
"Oh yeah cute makes a big difference" she laughed "See...your mum calls us potato" Yaz looks at her stomach
"No Yaz...I call her bumblebee" she said hopping on one leg putting her boots on. Then clipped her braces on
"Bumblebee?....That's adorable"
"Come on let's go" she said ready to go
They walked down to the library and she walked into the darkness. They could hear their footsteps echoing around the massive space.
"Ryan?..." she called out and zoomed the sonic "That's weird"
"Whaa?"
"Lights are fine? What in a name of Tardis is going on here?"
"Babe what's that?" Yaz pointed further away into the dark "Are those flames?"
"The waaaat Yaz" she squinted worried "Blimey...stand back Yaz I think you're right something caught fire"
Suddenly there was a loud pop that made them both jump and lights came up
"Surpriseeeeeee!" everyone yelled exited and Yaz threw a bunch of confetti on her
Doctor stood completely shocked and confused looking at everyone with party hats standing behind a trolley with a birthday cake and a massive banner spread between the library balconies saying Happy birthday you old hag.
Everyone started singing her a happy birthday song and Yaz threw another handful of confetti on her then placed a tiara on her head saying birthday girl "Happy birthday my love" she cupped her face and kissed her confused lips.
Doctor looked at her with massive smile across her face "You did all this for me?"
"Yap all for you"
"I forgot it's my falling through the train day"
"I know" Yaz brushed her finger over her face and smiled "But we didn't...go on blow your candles...all 3000" she giggled
Doctor smiled so happy like a little kid "Aaaa Tardis cake" she jumped. "That's cleaver...oh look it even has a plague"
"Dad did that" Yaz said proudly
"Oh, did you Hakim...That's brilliant I love it. Thank you so much everyone"
"Stop talking Doctor and blow those candles" Ryan giggled
"Oh...yes yes of course....all 3000....bet that's you Ryan" she points a finger at him "It's actually more you know...I can't really remember to be honest and then there's all those lives from the fob that I have no clue about..."
"Blow the candles Doctor" everyone yelled laughing at the woman not being able to shut up
"Alright...alright" she shut her eyes really tight in almost comical way and thought about the wish "I wiiiish.."
"Can't say it out loud!" Sonya said
"Can where I'm from"
"Don't....just in case" Yaz said laughing
"Oh.." she closed her eyes again and blew the candles then raised her gaze to everyone with a massive smile on her face "Alright...well let's hope that comes true"
"Happy birthday honey" Nadjia came up to her and kissed her cheek "This is little something from all of us. I hope you like it" she passed her a present
"I get presents as well?"
"Of course you get presents" Sonya smiled "Happy birthday Doctor"
"Happy birthday Doctor" said Hakim "... and I wish you another 3000...just don't forget about us one day"
"Never Hakim" she replied with tears in her eyes
"Are you gonna just admire the wrapping or you're gonna open that Doctor?" Ryan said cheeky "Happy birthday"
"No Ryan of course I'm gonna open it. But I am saving that bow" she ripped the packet open and looked confused at the book
"It's a baby diary love" Yaz stepped in "See..." she opened it "It's where you put all the babies firsts"
"Aaaaaaa.....waaaaw...no way. That is so brilliant ... Oh look and little teeth a hair lock...That's so cleaver"
"Do you like it?" Sonya asked
"Like it?...I love it" she said exited "We don't have things like that where I come from Sonya. I love that" she pressed it against her chest "Thank you...I can't wait to start filling it in"
"And this..." Yaz passed her a present "Happy birthday love"
"Oh Yaz" she smiled
"Go on open...." she nodded
"Aaaa blue...my favorite" she smiled as she tore the paper then took it out and turned her gaze to Yaz "Yaz...is this...?"
"Baby wrap...oh yeah"
"You got it for me!!!" she jumped exited and squeezed Yaz to her chest "Oh Yaz this really making me happy" she kissed her forehead
"I'm glad you like it"
I love it..I got me baby scarf....Only I have no clue how to wear that" she took it all out stretching it around confused
"Iff you have a doll or a stuffed toy I can show you" Najia said "it's very easy"
"I'm sure I do somewhere....thank you...I got all me baby presents all I need is baby"
"Well you did make one Doctor so it is coming" Ryan giggled
Few hours passed fast and everyone started getting tired slowly retiring to their bedrooms.
"Alright we are off" Sonya said leaning on Ryan's shoulder
"Night night" Ryan waived
"Niiight" both Doctor and Yaz waived
The door shut and they were left alone. Yaz was putting the paper plates away, throwing them in a bin liner. Doctor stood with her hands in her pockets behind her and smiled gently then came up behind her and moved her braid on a side pressing her lips at the back of her neck.
"Hey you" Yaz smiled "Mmmm...those lips feel nice"
"Hey yourself" she slipped her arms around her waist "Tardis can do that you know"
"I know" she leaned on Doctor's chest
"Thank you for this" she squeezed her tight and kissed her cheek
"You don't need to thank me for your birth party you know. You spoil me all the time"
"Do I Yaz...spoil you?"
"You know you do"
"I know I want to..." she rested her head on her shoulder rocking them side to side "Not sure iff it feels like that sometimes with all the mess"
"You do love"
"Come on mummy leave this here...
let's go to bed "Doctor kissed her cheek"
"Mmmm....can we stay here?"
"I should move our bed here Yaz" she giggled
"Mattress is quite enough I assure you" she smiles looking at her sideways
"You can't get up from the mattress Yaz" Doctor kisses the tip of her nose
"Well then I'm gonna have to stay in a bed the whole day" she laughed
Doctor trailed her lips down the curve of her neck "We also need a bathroom" she took a sonic out and pointed towards the door locking it without lifting her gaze.
Yaz moaned as her lips sealed on a side of her neck "I'm sure you can manage that" she smiled
"I'm sure I can...But we're stuck" she moved herself on the other side of Yaz's neck "Without it now" she continued kissing her and trailing her hands over her stomach and her breast
"I'm sure we can manage" the lights dimmed in the library. She raised her hand to Doctor's neck as her lips traveled down her shoulders.
Doctor spun her around and wrapped fingers around her face "Hey beautiful" she smiled at her and pulled her in to a slow kiss making Yaz whimper into her lips.
She pulled her braces down and lifted her t-shirts out of her trousers then slipped her hands underneath trailing every curve of Doctor's body feeling under her fingers her ribcage moving as her breathing quickened.
Doctor felt herself falling slowly the feeling only Yaz ever gave her of losing herself in a moment forgetting her own name. Her skin so warm and soft underneath her fingers, the smell of Yaz's hair as she buried her face deep into her neck. She reached behind and slowly unbraided her hair as she trailed kisses over her jaw line then capturing her lips.
"Hands up" Yaz said and pulled her t-shirts over her head then smashed her lips i to hers again unbuttoning her trousers.
Doctor giggled into her lips
"What?" Yaz asked
"I'm not gonna run, you know," she ran a finger across her cheek and reached up with her other hand unbuttoning her own trousers letting them slide to the floor and kicking her boots off her feet. "Slowly" she cupped her face in her fingers and brushed her nose over hers then kissed her slowly "Easy …" she whispered into her lips as her hands wrapped around Yaz's back trailing her fingers down her spine making her shiver and unzipped her dress letting it fall to the floor then went back for her bra. Clever fingers unhooking it with one hand and then running her thumbs over her breast as she pulled it down. Her lips never leave Yaz's, one kiss follows another and they are all slow, passionate and gentle giving Yaz head rush. The Doctor took her time, enjoying every curve of her body that was changing day by day. Even the smell of her skin had changed and became sweeter. She wanted to remember every detail, every soft beautiful curve.
Yaz breathing quickened her chest rising her forehead pressed on Doctor's she moved them backwards until Doctors back hit one of the wooden panels between the book shelfs.
"I want you" she said pinning one of her hands next to her head.
Doctor glanced sideways and smiled then looked back at her "You have me Yasmin" she whispered then ran her lips over hers "Every inch of me" she said gazing at her with her half opened eyes.
"I need you" she whispered into her lips and slipped her hand between them. Doctor's hips bucked her eyes slammed shut and silent moan leaving her half open mouth. She titled her head back hitting the hard wood then garbed the back of Yaz's neck pulling her for a passionate kiss. The smell of freshly cut grass hitting her face as she buried her face into Yaz's neck and rolled herself over her hand in a steady pace desperately trying to keep her balance and not pulling them both to the ground.
"Yaz..." she panted into her lips eyes half open and her pale face flushed bright red "I...please I can't darling"
"Brace up" Yaz said cheeky and grabbed her shoulder slumping herself to the ground
"Blimey Yaz" Doctor looked down as she grabbed her underwear pulling it to the floor kissing her breast and traveling over her her stomach that arched towards her lips then tapped her leg placing it on her shoulder
"Yaz careful...shoot" Doctor tried and failed finishing the sentence her eyes rolling at the back of head as her lips sealed themselves on her and fingers got buried deep inside of her. Yaz pressing her hip hard enough to the wooden panel she felt it was the only thing keeping her from falling as Yaz took her with almost relentless pace. She felt so dizzy she grabbed the bookshelf frantically and stopping one of the books from falling onto the floor. "Stars....I...." she frowned, her moans echoing across the massive space as she shuddered, fingers tangled in Yaz's hair, head tilted back she rolled her hips slowly barely noticeable until she fell silent. Yaz felt her leg trembling underneath her fingers. She kissed the wobbling leg and put it back on a ground then garbed the bookshelf pulling herself back on her feet in an utterly ungraceful way as she thought. Doctor pulled her up and kissed her messy smiling with eyes half open dazed up. Her haze swirling around them both.
"Happy birthday" Yaz giggled into her lips stroking the side of her neck
"You'll be the death of me" she smiled brushing her nose on Yaz's cheek "I'm spent Yaz I need to lie down" she slumped her face into her neck giggling "Look what you did to me"
"I know...shameful"
Doctor giggled into her shoulder..."I'm losing every ounce of dignity"
"Me love youuuu" she smiled and kissed her golden locks
"I adore you my sweet potato" Doctor looked up at her and smiled then laughed her head off looking over Yaz's shoulder
"OMG what's gone into you?" Yaz looked at her confused
"Look Yaz" she turned her around
"Is that a bathroom?" she started laughing like crazy
"Yes" Doctor pissed herself laughing standing behind Yaz leaning her head on her shoulder "Well I do need one" she chuckled
"I hope it has a toilet cause I really need to pee"
"We are so not doing this again until that baby comes" Doctor said trying to walk on her wobbling legs making Yaz laugh as she was holding herself to her shoulder "Your lucky I didn't tumble on you Yaz"
"I didn't think of that" Yaz giggled
"No you didn't" she said wobbling to the bathroom
After making a good use out of the new addition to the library they huddled up on a sofa. Yaz loved that sofa as much as she loved their bedroom. There was something cozy about the library. The smell of the books and all the wood the humming of the Tardis that was so loud echoing through the space. The cracking of the fireplace in the darkness.
"Tomorrow I'm trying out that long range scanner Yaz. Keep you fingers crossed"
"I'm just wondering if that portal thing has anytime to do with that sun...I'm wondering if it's a teleport to that place"
"Me too Yaz. I will try to repair that. But one thing at the time...No use from repairing it if nobody is there"
Tardis shook again and them two looked up as few books fell on the floor
"Another one" Yaz huddled closer to her "It's making me nervous"
"Just one more reason to hurry up with everything Yaz. Eye of the deep is soon done...Won't be long now"
Yaz looked up to her and ran her finger over her cheek lovingly. "You're so beautiful" Yaz said dreamy
"I also eat cute fingers Yaz" she said cheeky trying to catch Yaz's index finger with her mouth making her giggle
"I don't think you want me fingerless" Yaz says giggled
"Uuu..."
"Yeah genius..." she laughed
Doctor scrunched her face "Didn't think that far ahead...ok changed my mind Yaz...you keep those"
"Baby..." Yaz said rubbing her face into her chest
"What sweet potato"
Yaz giggled "Tell your potato one of your stories" she said tucking her face into her neck
"Alright..." she smiled and kissed her head "Ones upon a time there was and idiot with a sonic who stole broken time machine...." Doctor started the story and gently trailed her hand down Yaz's back until they both fell asleep
…
Yaz finished preparing her breakfast and slowly wobbled towards the control room. She was still tiered as the shaking from after shocks kept waking them up throughout the night keeping her nerves well on the edge not able to relax properly. Having to put up with ground shaking during the day was one think but being woken up suddenly like that was a nasty experience on another level. She found herself glued to Doctor like an octopus feeling for some reason safer that way. It also felt utterly ridiculous to her that all of sudden she had all these fears she never had before and she slowly started to feel more and more pathetic with herself.
"Whaaaat the hell?" she was stopped in her thoughts as she walked up to the control room and smiled from the top of the stairs looking down "You look absolutely adorable" she said holding back the tears
"Hey...morning" Doctor flashed a massive smile "Looks good? Does it suit me Yaz?"
The Doctor was standing in front of the console with a doll wrapped in baby wrap across her chest, a sight that shook Yaz emotionally in the best possible way. Her eyes will need time to adjust to this beautiful new reality and she was looking forward to every minute of it.
"Yes darling very much so" she nodded smiling
"Feels amazing" she opened her arms and smiled happily "Your mum showed me what to do. It will take a bit of a practice though...see that wrap around at the front and then you put the baby in here" she pointed "and I can't remember if it goes one time around me and then...
Yaz came up to her smiling and wrapped her hand around her "You're amazing you know that"
"I can't wait Yaz...I feel like I'll burn out...combust...regenerate"
"Aaa!!!" Yaz put a finger over her mouth "not that last one...thank you" she pulled her in and kissed her short "God I love you" she pressed her forehead on hers
"I love you my sweet potato" she kissed her gently
"Kangaroo" Yaz giggled into her lips
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My take on pregnant Yaz
"Morning have you seen Sonya?" Ryan came in "Woooowwwe...." he shook his head and started giggling seeing Doctor with a doll strapped to her chest "I think my brain needs to recalibrate"
"Does it suit me?" Doctor asked happily
"It does" he said "Seeing her pregnant needed some adjusting but seeing you like this is a whole another lever Doctor...I actually think it's cool"
Suddenly Tardis started beeping and lights changed in the control room
"What's going on?" Yaz rushed to Doctor's side
"My scanner...it worked Yaz" she jumped all exited and started running around the console
"Easy with that baby Doctor" Ryan laughed "You better not do that with the real one"
"What does it say. Can you see? Is anyone living there?" Yaz kept asking millions of questions exited
"Look Yaz....big beautiful artificially made sun" she popped the picture up on the screen. Aaaa... No life forms detected on a surface or underground" Doctor was reading the results "But I think I found a source of that signal Yaz...right there in the meddle of it" she shows exited to the scan pointing to something in core of the sun
"Well the core should definitely not be in a shape of a cube" Yaz said squinting at the screen
"No...it absolutely shouldn't...that really tickles my brains Yaz. What is that? Why is there, who made it and for what purpose and why is it now going wrong...All these questions and no answers to any of them. Hmmmm...was this planet tera formed by someone a long time ago?"
"Again...I'm really bothered by that portal. Are the same people who built this the same once who built that thing?" Yaz pondered
Doctor tilts her head and nods "I guess we will have to repair it to find out"
"What's the signal Doctor?"
"Not sure Ryan...it only sounds like no more than an alarm...warning system of some sorts"
"Yeah telling us to get the hell out of here before it explodes" he said sarcastically
"I'm afraid you might be right in that Ryan" she stood hunched over the console thinking
"When are we leaving for the workshop Doctor?"
"Half hour Ryan"
"Alright...well see you then" he waived going up the stairs
"What's bothering you?" Yaz came over to her and stroke her cheek with her knuckles
"Time" she sighed deeply looking at the scan "The lack of it to be more precise Yaz...See that rim around" she pointed to the outer rim of the star "I don't think I have as much time as I thought I did darling"
"How much time do you have?" Yaz asked half expecting some horrifying answer already
"A year...maybe. But that means that things will progressively get worse here Yaz and these people have no more than a month before conditions here become impossible for living"
"Can we finish that machine in few days?"
"We can iff we work all day and night we can"
"Well let's get to it then...and surly I can help...please baby...let me be useful"
"You are very useful Yaz....don't be silly now" she taps her nose "But yes of course you can help. I just don't want to put extra pressure on you Yaz that's all...carrying a baby is not easy on your body and you've been through enough stress as it is"
"I know" Yaz comes up to her and raises her hand to Doctor's chest kissing her cheek "Me love youuuu" she smiles rubbing the doll over the wrap "You're really cute like this"
Doctor scrunches her face silly making her laugh "Alright mummy...let's get ready and go make that machine"
….
It was already late afternoon and they were still in the workshop. Yaz was sitting behind a massive table between her mother and her sister soldering part after part. Sweat pouring down her temples as the temperature climbed up to almost 40' C.
"Yaz" Doctor came behind her "C'mere darling" she reached for the part she she was soldering leaving it on a table then took her hand
"What's wrong?" she asked confused as she got up
She wiped the sweat of Yaz's face with her thumb "You're stopping now Yaz" she pulled her towards the bench in a corner
"No....why?" Yaz complained as Doctor was pulling her by her hand and sat her down then took her sonic out scanning her
"This is not good for you or the baby Yaz....this was a mistake bringing you here"
"Is everything alright?" Nadjia came over concerned
Doctor pursed her lips and nodded her head "She's ok for now but she needs to cool down. This is way to hot for the baby Yaz"
"I don't understand...I'm just a bit hot that's all"
"Yaz darling that's my baby...she's not human...this temperature is effecting her differently "
"Oh god...I didn't think that way" she looked at her mother worried
"It's ok Yaz...just need to cool you down a bit that's all" she brushed her finger over her blushed cheek "There's a nice park across the road...let's take a walk...and some air will help...It's a bit stuffy in here....Nadjia wanna come?"
"No hun...I'm fine...you two go ahead"
The Doctor took her across the road and she was right. The temperature in the park was much lower and she definitely needed some fresh air. They walked slowly holding hands without saying much, both tired from a long day.
"When do you think we will finish this machine babe?"
"I hope in a day or two Yaz...and I still have to go and repair that teleport, gate...portal thing"
"I'm so sorry I can't do more"
"You're doing great darling" she swings her hand smiling at her "I wanna take you somewhere today if you want...You just need to rest first"
"Date?"
"Mmmm...sort of...could be"
"Charmer" Yaz giggled
"Yaz...I wanna talk to you about something"
"What darling?"
Doctor took a big breath before she started to talk. Deep down she was dreading this conversation "If...and that's If Yaz ... I'm not saying it will happen but if conditions here worsen I..."
"No!" Yaz turns and steps in front of her
"Yaz I haven't even..."
"No you haven't...and I know exactly what you're gonna say and the answer is NO...I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying right here with you"
Doctor pursed her lips and rolled her eyes "Yaz you're being unreasonable"
"No...you are not leaving me again....I can't live like that anymore"
"I can't have you here...none of you...you have no idea how bad it can get Yaz...Do you know what happens when the sun is dying? You think this is bad? You haven't seen anything yet....this is a vacation....a holiday on a tropical island compared to the absolute hell hole this place will become in a month and I am not leaving you and a baby here!
"What about you?"
"You're not alone in this Yaz"
"No...I'm not...I'm with you in this and we are staying together"
"You wanna lose this baby Yaz?" she yelled completely frustrated and regretted the moment those words left her mouth
"Whaaaa?" She stood in front of her shocked
"Sorry I didn't..."
"Nooo..." she frowned and shook her head "How could you say that?"
"Yaz... I'm sorry..." she held out her hand, but Yaz waved her hand away, taking a step back
"Of course I don't...I can't believe this" she shook her head looking at the Doctor then turned and walked away
Yaaaz!" The Doctor lowered her shoulders "Oh don't leave again...I hate it when you do that....Yaaaz" The Doctor brought her hands to her forehead tilting her head back in frustration "Aaaarrrhh...a gold star for you Doctor...I and my big mouth" she sighed deeply and followed her through the park and found her sitting on a stone bench under the trees and crying
"Leave me alone" she said wiping her tears "Go… leave me in Sheffield and do what you want"
The Doctor knelt in front of her and took her by the hands "Don't be like that...it's not nice and it's not fair either"
"Neither is what you told me"
"Okay...I deserved it...it wasn't and I'm so sorry"
"You don't know what it's like" Yaz said looking down at their hands. Doctor rubbing her thumb over the side of her hand didn't help this time to calm her down.
"What darling? Tell me...what do I not understand?"
She looked up, eyes full of tears "When you piss off and leave me and I wonder countless nights if I'll ever see you again...I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat with panic attacks where my throat is so tight I can't breathe... .And then you come back after months with the biggest smile on your face as if nothing had happened"
Doctor watched and listened. It was a hard pill to swallow but she was giving her best at this point.
"You have no perception of time...one month or four years, it's all the same to you. Do you have any idea what it's like? You have no idea what you're asking of me"
"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry Yaz..."
"And no...I don't want to lose my baby...this baby is everything to me...I can't believe you even told me that. But you are also...my everything...both of you" she held out her hand on her cheek "I can't do this anymore...live like this anymore...don't you understand that?...I need us to be together and face everything out there together," tears rolled down her face as she said this. She rubbed her thumb over the Doctor's cheek and shook her head "I need you by my side no matter what happens...I can't sit and wonder if I'll ever see you again...please don't ask me to do that again...pleeease don't ask this of me"
"Alright...don't cry" The Doctor wrapped her fingers around her neck and pulled her head back resting her forehead on hers "We're staying together...no matter what...ok?...Just please don't cry...really i hate it when you cry...especially when i'm the one who makes you cry"
"Promise me"
"I promise...I'm sorry...I just don't want anything to happen to you or the child because otherwise I'd never forgive myself" she squeezed the back of Yaz's neck harder and then gently rubbed her nose against hers "I just want to protect you Yaz ...nothing else...you're the only thing I have...You have your family...mom, dad, sister...All those people Yaz...life...Sheffield" she ran her thumb over her cheek "I have only you...Do you understand that?"
Yaz whimpered at the words. Breathe caught in her throat. As close as the Doctor's relationship with all these people was, it hit Yaz like a ton of bricks that apparently she still felt so alone.
"We're a right pair together" Yaz smiled stroking her cheeks between her palms
"We are Yaz...we're a hot mess we are" Doctor chuckled "I'm sorry... I didn't mean what I said...I really didn't...I"
"Oh shut up and kiss me" Yaz pulled her in and took her lips in his gently kissing her without caring about the Doctor's rules against public displays of affection and the Doctor kissed her back not caring about it either. She rested her head on Yaz's neck and put her hands on her tummy "I love you Yasmin... I'm just doing the best I can"
"I love you too my beautiful hot mess and I hate arguing with you...can we please not argue?"
"I don't wanna fight Yaz, I hate it…" she rubbed her face against Yaz's neck and sighed deeply, then gave her the little finger. "Pinkie promise?" she smiled
"Pinkie promise" Yaz smiled and hooked her little finger on hers
"You feel cooler?" She looked at her grinning happily
"I do" Yaz smiled and tucked her hair behind her ears "But now I'm hungry...and I need to pee" she giggled
"We can buy some food on a way...can you hold a pee till we come back?"
"I'm gonna have to" she giggled
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"Hey food everyone" Doctor smiled holding paper bags with meals for everyone
"Oh god I needed that" Ryan said
"Bless you I was starving" Sonya grabbed a packet
"Here take this as well, we got some drinks" Yaz said passing her little terracotta bottles "It's like a local ice tea...just pop the lid it's sealed with wax, they are very nice and cooling"
"How are you pumpkin?" Hakim asked kissing her cheek and taking some food for himself as well "Thank you Doctor"
"I'm better now I cooled down. And now it's not that hot anymore....It's finally cooling down"
"Doctor can you come over here I have a question" Hakim said
"Sure...is something wrong?"
"No...I was just wondering Doctor....you know how we talked about making changes to give it more power so that it covers both hemispheres... Look...if we exchange those two" he pointed at the monitor "Could we actually harness the energy of that sun to power up the machine and be stronger?"
"Woooooowwww....Hakim!!!" Doctor looked at him shocked amd took a step back "Did you just read Gallifreyan?"
"Oh, yeah....Yaz was teaching me a little bit"
"Hakim you smart man! You never fail to amaze me. I can totally see where my Yaz gets it from...I'm impressed" she looked at the screen and then ran to the other one "Hmmm....Not like this no...but if we do some modifications then maybe...possibly....now that's a fantastic idea. Solar powered....It popped in my mind but I didn't think there's enough power. Now with all those changes it might just be"
"So it could work?"
"It could...not sure yet though but worth trying for sure...we need energy source that is very powerful" she tapped his shoulder "We can try tomorrow"
"Look what I did Doctor?" Sonya showed proudly all the little connectors she finished
"Look at you Sonya" she smiled "You're almost done and they look absolutely perfect...Should we try them?"
"Yeah!!!" she said so proud of herself and exited
"C'mere!" The Doctor nodded and jumped to the machine opening one of the compartments and inserting one plate after another.
"You see, they go in here and when you put them together, they each have a separate task. They all together make up one part of the cerebrum. It's like you have a balance center or a speech center...that's how they work," she explained as she placed them all inside, and when she was done she zoomed in with her sonic and connected a few wires and the whole thing came together light up like a Christmas tree
"Woooow....no way....no way I made that!" Sonya jumped exited "Hey look what I made!" she turned to the others pointing exited
"It works" Yaz smiled "That's bloody awesome"
"See told you you're smart" Ryan said kissing the top of her head and putting his arm around her
"Not bad for just a simple girl from Sheffield who wants to be a makeup artist" she laughed
"Hey...Sheffield is the best" Doctor turned around "My kid is from there I'll have you know....Well...from Gallifrey as well but best mixture" she nods smug "And my sonic...Sheffield steel I'll have you know" she points proudly
Suddenly the machine starts to shake and the doctor turns, bending over the hatch to get a better look when a pile of engine oil explodes in her face
"OMG babe!!" Yaz jumped
"Ups" she turned around covered in oil
"Doctor! God, are you okay?" Nadjia walked over to her and took a random cloth from the table, passing it to Yaz
"I forgot to close the valve" she said spitting out the oil from her mouth "Eeeeewwwwww....that doesn't taste nice at all...very bitter...Tarids taste much better I must say"
Ryan just laughed and Sonya smacked his shoulder "Oi...stop that"
"Oh babe...c'mere" Yaz grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the little toilet they had at the back of the workshop
"You silly sod...God your hair" she looked at her in horror as she tried to wipe all the grease off her hair and face. The Doctor was making all sorts of faces and blinking like a child while Yaz was desperately trying to clean her up at least a little
"Stop fighting" Yaz giggled and wiped around her eyes with a wet cloth
"It's ok Yaz...I'll take a shower"
"You can't go home like that we have twenty minutes walk"
"Hey at least my skin won't burn" she chuckled
"You're such a kid you know that" she kissed her quickly "Well that's as good as it gets"
The Doctor still looked like someone rolled her in a black paint and her hair was all stuck to her head greasy, but at least her face was clean. She walked to the Tardis with absolutely no regard for making everyone laugh the whole way. A few people gave her strange looks as they passed her on the street, and she told each of them how she forgot to close the valve, leaving them even more confused.
"You're never bored are you Yaz?" Sonya said giggling as they walked
"Nope...definitely not boring" she laughed rolling her eyes
"Hey Yaz...you remember the slime?"
"Oh, God nooo please you're gonna make me feel ill" she laughed
"What's with slime?" Sonya asked confused
"We had a space squid spitting a lot of slime all over us, but Yaz was covered from head to toe and everything was dry on her by the time we got back to the Tardis so she needed someone to help her with her clothes and the Doctor is the only woman on the boat"
"That's not even funny I was dying Ryan"
"Well now I know why" he laughed "I didn't know you have hots on her then...Doctor saw you naked Yaz?" he laughed his head off "Her clothes were like someone dipped her in a glue"
"She did not see me naked Ryan" she hit his shoulder "Well...she saw enough for me to die of embarrassment"
"Hey, at least she knew what she was getting" he laughed almost choking
"I hate you" she laughed
….
The Doctor was in the shower and Yaz was standing by the bathroom door in her white shorts and short white top. Her tummy in full view. She didn't care because it was still hot as hell and even the Tardis was having trouble regulating its temperature as it was constantly being hit by the extreme heat. The Doctor planned to move them to the park under the trees in the evening so that they would at least have some normality when they were inside. She entered the nursery and left a new toy on the shelf. Ryan bought it for her at the market today. He was all excited about the baby and kept buying her toys. Her heart skipped a beat every time he did that, thinking how much everyone loved their baby already. She stood by the white curtains that covered the fake window of the nursery, looked at the beautiful holographic projection of the summer field and drifted off into her thoughts. She remembered the day she took Ryan and the Doctor to her parents apartment and Sonya thought she was paying them to be there. She was so lonely then. It was precisely because of this loneliness that she recognized the Doctor. Even then they didn't need words to feel each other's pain. But now her heart was so filled with the love of all those people around her.
"Hey mummy" Doctor kissed her shoulder. Her wet hair falling on her skin then her arms wrapped around her stomach gently
"Hey...you smell nice"
"I thought I'll never get it out my hair" she giggled into her neck kissing it
"I'm so tired" she leaned on her chest "Can we just lie down for a while"
"Lying down is a great idea Yaz...I must admit this heat is getting to me too...I need to move the Tardis...I should really do that now"
"Noo...it can wait till later"
"It will only take a minute"
"And then you will stay at the console" Yaz giggled "I know you"
"Alright...I'll move it later" she kissed her temple smiling
"Sorry I'm a limpet I know" Yaz giggled
"You're my favorite limpet" she rocked her side to side kissing her cheek "Come on mummy let's have a rest I still wanna take you to that special place this evening before dinner"
She took her hand walking her to the bedroom.
"You help me repair that gate tomorrow?" Doctor said running lazy lines down her arm
"Yeah!!" Yaz said exited
She desperately needed to feel useful and do whatever it took to feel like her pregnancy wasn't limiting every aspect of her life right now. And doing little things with the Doctor like before made her so happy and fulfilled that it was music to her ears. As exhausting as helping in the workshop was, she didn't let her know, it was worth the pain of sitting for hours with backaches and swollen legs and sweat dripping down her temples. She missed flying the Tardis and the repairs, learning new things every day. As much as she loved this new normal, she couldn't wait to have a baby and get back to all the other things that had been their life together for over ten years. But she also knew that the birth of a child would fundamentally change that same life, and she still wasn't sure in what way. A thought that sometimes scared her. And she knew that it scared the Doctor too, but she would never dare say that. They just lived day by day forgetting the reason why they were hiding on that distant planet. Putting everything to the back of your mind and enjoying every minute of their life and future together. At least the one they were both hoping for. Was it a dream, a wishful thinking....did the two of them just run away from reality and forget all the events of eight months ago? She wasn't sure, probably. But deep down she also hoped that they would be able to keep their little world of their own having their own little family despite everything out there, despite the warning that hung like a dark cloud over their heads. Something neither of them wanted to think about.
"The machine is done in two days Yaz...I'm so exited"
"I know it is...can't wait to start it up and see how it works. You think we managed?"
"Sure we did Yaz...we always do...Never have doubts"
"No? Not even a little bit?" she looked up to her giggling
"Never...we're smart you and me...nobody like us out there Yaz" she kissed the top of her nose
"No...that's for sure...there's nobody that mad out there" she giggled
"Mmm" she scrunched her nose "that as well" she giggled
The Doctor was silent for a while, gently caressing Yaz's hand and kissing her hair every now and then. Listening to the Tardis hum as she lost herself in her thoughts.
"Yaz"
"Mmmm?"
"I was thinking...You know when we finish this... Would you like us to go shopping with your mum and sister for the baby?"
"Whaaa? Yaz jumped up and sat on the bed with a huge smile on her face. "Really?... Seriously?
"Yeah...very seriously" Doctor smiled "I'm sorry Yaz my brains haven't really been there recently"
Yaz threw herself on her doting kisses all over her face making Doctor laugh "Yes yes yes yes and bloody yes...thank youuuu!!"
"Yaz you don't need to thank me for this...It's my kid as well...I'm so sorry" she took her hand and laced their fingers together "I told you...I'm not good in this...I'm getting lost a bit and I know I haven't been the best...But I am really trying"
"You are the best...best for me love"
"You have very low standards Yaz I must say" she giggled
Yaz put a hand over her face playfully "Shut up silly...You're the best I ever had Bighead and I wouldn't have you any other way. We're gonna figure this out together"
"So...you have a task because you know those things better than me. Make a list of everything we need because ones we're home we are not hopping with Tardis for nappies...What do we need Yaz? What do babies need?" she scrunched her face "I don't even know where to start Yaz...I'm useless in this"
"Honest..." Yaz sat on a bed giggling "I have no clue I'm gonna have to ask my mum...God help us both" she laughed
"Oh this is gonna be one tragic parenting between you and me" she chuckled
"That's why we have the most valuable bonus...my mum" Yaz giggled and winked
"We might have to borrow that bonus for a while"
"Somehow I don't see her complaining" she giggled
"C'mere mummy" The Doctor pulled her hand to lie next to her "I need you" she cupped her cheek and Yaz leaned against her palm closing her eyes, then the Doctor kissed her gently and pulled her leg over her hip with a deep sigh
"What's bothering you my beautiful Bighead?"
"I don't know Yaz...it's like something is pressing inside me that I can't explain...I've never felt like this before...At least I can't remember ever feeling like this. I just need you next to me" she rubbed gently nose over Yaz's and snuggled up.
She looked sad and worried and that worried Yaz. Not that they didn't have anything to worry about, but the Doctor rarely fell into this kind of melancholy, and Yaz knew something was lurking deep inside her when she did. She learned not to ask too many questions and just go with it. Be there and hold her in her arms and tell her how much she was loved. Sometimes she had a feeling that all the pain her beautiful wife was bottling inside would simply catch up with her from time to time. And she was convinced it was similar to human PMS when you just can't control your emotions. But the Doctor didn't remember her female regenerations so it was completely new to her and not something she knew how to deal with too much.
"Me looove you" Yaz smiled and kissed her all over her face and wrapped her arm around her
"I know you do beautiful," the Doctor said sadly, just lying there and looking into her eyes as if helplessly searching for an answer to a question she didn't have
"Everything will be fine...you'll see. We'll work it out together. And you'll build this machine because you're the smartest person in the universe...a real genius" she kissed the tip of her nose making her smile "And then we'll leave to get all the baby stuff and come home and cook together and make cakes wearing that silly apron you got me"
Doctor smiled a little "It's good apron"
"That's the best apron ever..." she smiled "And we're going to go for nice walks" Yaz continued "Save a few worlds here and there in the meantime because the universe still needs a Doctor" she giggled and ran a hand down her back
"And then? Tell me Yaz..."
"Then we will decorate everything for Christmas in August" she giggled
"Oh...it is August isn't it? Well on Earth anyway...oh well...no need to be picky"
"Yeah but who cares...we're time travelers ..we can have Christmas when ever we want.."
"Or have two" Doctor said smug
"Or have two...exactly...and then the baby will come" she smiled and pulled her hand out bringing it to the Doctor's cheek gently rubbing her thumb over it "And we will be soooo happy when that happens my love"
"We are?" The Doctor asked sadly in a shaky voice and Yaz saw a tear roll from her eye over her nose soaking into the pillow and her face turn red
"Soo happy darling...you have no idea" Yaz wiped her tears and kissed her face "Don't cry baby...I love you so so much. I know you're scared...we both are...but I believe in us"
"I need to keep us safe Yaz and I'm so scared..."
"Shhhhh..." she put finger over her lips "You're doing a great job...in fact a wonderful job...and you're absolutely spoiling me rotten. But you know what darling....we need to keep each other safe...ok...That's not just your job Thete"
"I like you calling me that" she said moving little strain of hair from Yaz's forehead
"I love your name...it's beautiful and I wanna shout it from the roof top"
"Please don't" she smiled
"I can whisper it to you when we are alone..." she smiled
"That you can...any time" she sniffled
"I adore you my beautiful Thete" she kissed her lips and another tear rolled down the Doctor's face
"Why Yaz? Why you love me so much? I'm just a mess...my life is mess"
"Home can be a person...and you are my home and my person. I don't need any other reason" she stroke her cheek and Doctor closed her eyes for a moment and all the tears that were stuck in them just rolled down her face "You and all your mess is all I ever wanted"
"That's bit scary Yaz" she smiled a little
"I love it all...you gave me the universe on a palm of your hand. You gave me more than anyone can possibly dream about"
"I just provided the transport Yaz"
"You silly sod..." Yaz giggled "You are my universe, you always have been since the day I met you"
"And you were mine Yaz" Doctor tucked her face into her neck "Just took a while for these old brains to admit it...I had to have a serious chat with them"
"Well I'm glad you have" she chuckled
"Yaz"
"Yes darling?" she asked running her fingers through her golden hair
"Please just hold me" Doctor wiggled closer and Yaz opened her arms and squeezed her tight.
Her hair smelling of summer rain was the Doctor's home, taking her to some beautiful place she couldn't quite remember. Her breathing against her skin was her lullaby as if her racing hearts were keeping up with the slow pace and it calmed them down. She buried her face deep into the crook of Yaz's neck and took a long breath. Maybe Yaz was right, she thought to herself. Maybe her mind was racing so much that she couldn't think clearly anymore. So she just settled into her arms and drifted off thinking about their little distant planet that she missed so much, about walks in the forest and swimming in the river. She thought of their hidden cave and the beautiful magical lake inside and dreamed of the day their baby would arrive in this world and what it would be like to hold her in her arms. She made herself think of all the wonderful things she had and she was pushing down her fears so hard and hoping to erase them all until she fell asleep in Yaz's arms.
Yaz held her tightly and kissed the top of her head. She felt her dreaming as she twitched slightly and made a snuggling sound against her neck. There was nothing cuter than the Doctor sleeping, and Yaz loved watching her. She still wondered what a Time Lord's dreams looked like.
Yaz was in the bathroom and to her surprise Doctor was still sleeping. She's been sleeping for nearly three hours and Yaz left her to it.
"Yaz goodness" Doctor opened her eyes rubbing her sleepy face sitting on the bed. Her hair was all messy and eyes still swollen from crying
"Hey sleepy head" Yaz peaked from the bathroom smiling "Morning beautiful"
"How long did I sleep? Why didn't you wake me up?"
Yaz crawled on the bed on all fours smiling "And why would I do that?" she kissed her sleepy lips "You needed to rest and looked way too cute to be woken up" she smiled into her lips dotting kisses
"I'm everything but cute I can assure you" she stroke Yaz's face lazy with her hand still half asleep
"I strongly disagree" Yaz crawled back on her feet barely managing to roll off the bed making Doctor laugh
"Wait I'll help you potato" she got up quickly and pulled her up "What's the time? I need to get ready...I wanna take everyone to that place I told you" she started zooming around and went into the bathroom
"Slow down...you're gonna pop a vein"
"I don't think I can Yaz" she peaked out of the bathroom brushing her teeth "Pop a vein I mean..."
Yaz shook her head laughing and took Doctor's clothes out of the drawer laying them on a bed. She was glad to see her happy again, iff only for a moment.
"Mmmmm...Did you tell you family we're going? Because if you haven't we need to let them you know" she quickly jumped into the shower and continued talking
"Yes babe I have...chill out" she rolled her eyes laughing
"Noo Yaz you don't understand we don't have time" she yelled from the shower "it's just something really special and it only happens every 1000 years...And I could go back if we miss it...maybe...possibly...but things are too messed up now and If I do go back we may miss a month or two and...well that would be...nevermind"
Yaz heard things fall on the shower floor, then something smashed the shower door and the Doctor yelped in pain.
"OMG are you alright there?" Yaz opened the door of the shower and Doctor was on the floor
"Yap...yap...fine Yaz...just slipped that's all" she picked herself up from the floor
"Have you recharged your batteries or what?...Slow down for god sake"
"Oh I'll be fine Yaz...that nap did me a word of good...I really needed a nap" she got up picking up shampoo bottles from the floor
"Alright babe just please be careful" Yaz laughed and closed the cubicle
"It will be so worth it...you'll see...Can't see stuff like this anywhere"
"Now you're getting me all exited"
Doctor got out of the shower hopping around naked drying her hair in a towel in a super speed then quickly getting dressed.
"You're nickers are inside out babe" Yaz laughed
"Oh," she looked down and shrugged "Never mind now, no time" she grabbed her trousers and pulled them on quickly then the rest of her clothes and hopped around on one foot getting her boots on "Aaaaaawww shoot" she looked at the broken laces then tied them the best she could "I need new boots"
Yaz just laughed and passed her the coat "Sonic?"
"In my pocket Yaz ...check" she said sitting on the edge of the bed tying the other boot
Yaz dug through her pockets and scowled as she took out the candy wrappers and placed them on the dresser. Then half a packet of custard cream that looked like it had seen better days, ribbons, a miniature rubric cube “Oh, how much stuff babe?
"Inner pocket Yaz...I never know when I need that stuff...it all has a purpose" she said fiddling with broken laces "When did this happen? How did my laces get broken?" she scrunched up her face confused
"Library babe" Yaz looked at her cheeky
"Oh.." Doctor looked up at her and she saw a light bulb lighting up in her head
"Yeah..." Yaz raised her eyebrow "here it is" she wiped the sonic out
"Brilliant..." she jumped on her feet and kissed Yaz quickly then grabbed her coat "Ready mummy? Let's go"
….
Doctor rushed to the console but nobody was there yet "Where is everyone?...No time Yaz...noo time"
"I'll go get them"
"I have a much better idea" she smiled and picked up the microphone "Attention all passengers...Tardis team...fam...Yaz's family...never mind...scratch Tardis team" her voice echoed through the Tardis "This is an emergency broadcast from the control room. We're leaving in one minute and 30 seconds" she looked at Yaz grinning pleased with her idea and Yaz just laughed wordlessly "Well I suggest you drop whatever you're doing...It would be really embarrassing to roll around floor when I start the engines"
"Coming...coming" Ryan ran inside still eating his sandwich
"Wait up Doctor" Hakim and Nadjia ran down the stairs
"Sonya?" Nadjia turns around "Where the hell is she?"
"Sonya darling" Doctor spoke into the microphone "I'm sure you look absolutely lovely as always but I really need you here in a control room....Like yesterday" she shouted quite loudly making everyone scratch their ears
"I forgot how loud she can shout" Ryan glanced at Yaz laughing scratching his ear
"I'm here....sorry" she ran down the stars "I lost my shoes...took me ages to find them"
"Oh that's Nardo" Yaz said "We let him out this afternoon he takes my shoes all the time and hides them....he's so cute"
"Right.. ready?" Doctor said happy flipping the switches and then placed her hand on the lever
"Take it away Doctor" Hakim yelled and they took off
The Tardis screeched to a halt and the Doctor jumped across the console room and grabbed Yaz's hand. "Come on...let's go" she opened the Tardis door and they all got out and walked outside on top of a massive cliff overlooking the huge cannon below. The moonlight lit up all the rocks like millions of diamonds covering the rocks beneath their feet as far as their eyes could see
"Wooooowwww...this is awesome" Ryan said holding Sonya's hand and pointing down below "Look daring over there" he said leading her as close to the edge as he could and her eyes opened wide.
"What a site" she looked at him exited
"This is magical Doctor...it's all the minerals" Hakim said
"Millions of years of settlement within the rocks Hakim... beautiful" The Doctor said "This whole place was the bottom of the ocean at some point" she gestured to the entire valley below "Fascinating isn't it?"
Everyone stood in silence for a while. Whispering and pointing to each other at different parts of the rocks that glow. Sonya rested her head on Ryan's shoulder, wrapping her arm around his waist. Nadjia and Hakim were holding hands and talking quietly. He was explaining to his wife all the science behind the magnificent place.
Yaz rested her back against the Doctor's chest and enjoyed in her rocking them from side to side. "What a world Yaz" The Doctor laid her head on her shoulder and whispered in her ear "I want to show you so much more Yaz"
"You will baby" she turned around and captured her lips briefly
Suddenly the sky started shining and Sonya pointed her finger above her head "Falling stars"
"Aaaa...it startled" Doctor said exited "That's the real reason why I brought you all here"
"Is it a meteor shower Doctor?" Sonya asked
"Tears of the Gods it's called...well...they're not really...just meteors...thousands of them Sonya...Wait until you see the good part" she said haply then licked her finger and raised it up in the air above Yaz's head still holding her "In about three seconds"
And before the Doctor even finished her sentence, the whole sky lit up like fireworks. It was raining meteors. Millions fell one after the other like a glittering carpet covering the sky.
"Woooooowwww....look at that!" Hakim looked up amazed
"I love you Yasmin" Doctor whispered in her ear
"I love you too darling" Yaz said quietly and pressed her lips at hers kissing her gently
"You're missing the show" Doctor smiled into her lips
"So are you" she smiled back then they watched in silence the rest of the beautiful display
When it all went quiet Doctor became hyper again "Right...now let's go to town for the feast"
"Feast Doctor?" Nadjia asked intrigued
"Yap...there's a great big feast tonight. They always celebrate this event," she said as they made their way back to the Tardis. "It is believed that the next year will be blessed when the gods have cried out all their sorrow. A new beginning, a new chapter"
"That's beautiful" Sonya said
"It is...Oh you will love it. There's gonna be food and music and dancing....I love dancing" she hopped around the console
"Do you believe in God Doctor?" Ryan asked
"I believe in energy Ryan…" she said as she prepared to fly again "I believe that all creatures in the universe have energy that comes from tiny particles of consciousness. They interact and communicate, exchange information and grow, learn. .evolve. And all is consciousness is a part of the universe that breathes with it as one big organism" she shrugged her shoulders "I guess some call it God"
"Do you pray Doctor?" Sonya asked intrigued
"I speak to the universe...argue with it as well...It knows all the secrets of my hearts" she winks and glances at Yaz "Come on...we don't wanna miss the best part of the celebrations and I'm really hungry now as well" she pulled the lever
When they landed, music could be heard in the control room and when the Doctor opened the door, they found themselves in the middle of a busy square. The Doctor came out and the little kid bumped right into her.
"Did you just come of that box?" the kid looked up to her
"Yeah I suppose I did" she smiled
"What were you doing inside the box?"
She crouched down to his level and whispered in his ear "Can you keep a secret?" He nodded exited "It's a spaceship"
"Whaaa? That can't be a spaceship...it's too small"
"Oh well…it's a little bigger on the inside," she nodded pointing
The kid frowned "That's a lousy spaceship lady" he ran off unimpressed
"Oh boy...she's not gonna like that" Ryan leaned towards Yaz
Doctor got back up and scrunched her face "Well that was rude...Lousy! Did he just call Tardis lousy"
"He's just a kid" Yaz pulled her sleeve rolling her eyes laughing "Get used to it babe...god knows what we will here from ours"
"She'll be much better behaved than this Yaz…that's for sure" she straightened her coat and started walking, only to be distracted by a street performance within two seconds and dragging Yaz through the crowd
"Fire twirling batons...look" she pointed towards the dancers "Oh I love fire twirling batons"
Drums beat and dancers spun and threw fire batons into the air, then a girl took a sip of a drink and blew into a torch. A flame blazes above her head.
"This is so much fun" Sonya said clapping her hands with the rhythm of the music
"I love the music" Doctor wiggled her bum completely out of rhythm but she was doing her best. Yaz looked at her laughing thinking how absolutely adorable she was. Her heart skipped a beat seeing her happy and laughing again..
They walked the busy streets and stopped at almost every stall. Ryan was buying jewelry for Sonja, and Najia was looking at a beautiful scarf at one of the stands.
The Doctor and Yaz walked slowly eating fine pancakes filled with fruit and something very similar to ice cream with a jam-like spread that tasted like strawberries
"Don't you want anything from the stands Yaz?" the Doctor asked, turning to face her
Yaz laughed and wiped the jam from the corner of her mouth with a tissue "Honest you eat like a kid...No babe...I have everything...besides we need baby stuff now"
"They have toys further down" she pointed with the pancake and spoke with her mouth full which made Yaz laugh even more
"Alright babe I suppose we can get more toys...just in case the thousand we already have isn't enough"
And so they did. The Doctor bought 5 more toys, justifying that they are all for different ages and are not the same at all.
"Hey...look" Hakim pointed as they came to another little square "Wanna dance?" he turned to his wife
"Whaaaa? " she looked at him suspiciously "What was in that drink?"
"Some fruit that's all...C'mere" he pulled her hand through the crowd and to the dance floor
"Aaaaaa dancing" Doctor jumped "Wanna dance Yaz?"
"I can roll" she laughed
"That's fine mummy I'll roll you" she took her hand exited "Hey you two" she called for Ryan and Sonya "Whanna come?"
"Neah ….I have two left feet remember" Ryan said "You have fun"
"You can still dance with two left feet Ryan...not all species have left and right"
"Alright leave them be" Yaz pulled her for her coat
"Just saying Yaz" she completed "Am I being a bit too much?"
"No baby, you're just being you again and I like that... Come on... roll me sexy" she laughed and pulled her coat as hard as she could towards the dance floor almost sending the Doctor flying through the air
They danced a bit until Yaz could no longer feel her feet, then the Doctor found a stack of wooden boxes and lifted Yaz up on top of one of them so she could sit and watch. She stood below her, squirming out of rhythm and looking at her from time to time with a big smile on her face. Then the fireworks started and the Doctor jumped onto the wooden crates lifting Yaz to his feet. Together they watched the beautiful display.
"Remember the fireworks at the Elf warehouse Yaz?" she said still looking at the sky
"Of course I do," she said, looking up
"I really wanted to kiss you then" she turned to Yaz and their eyes met.
Yaz's eyes filled with tears as the Doctor looked at her lovingly "Why don't you do it now?" she smiled
The Doctor pursed her lips for a moment, then reached for her hand, hooking her index finger into Yaz's, pulling her in. "I was such a dork, you know," she cupped her face in both hands and kissed it passionately.
A loud bang surprised them both and they smiled as the sky lit up with beautiful lights. The Doctor pulled her in front of her and wrapped her arms around her stomach
Chapter 43
"Did you have a good time?" Yaz asked lying in bed waiting for the Doctor
"I have Yaz…I needed that," she left her earring in the drawer of the side table
"Are they new?" she laughed pulling the elastic of the Doctor's little boxers with rainbow candy on them
"Yeah...like them?" she grinned happily
"C'mere sexy" she pulled her elastic and kissed her as she climbed into bed
"I should get some more if you like them so much" she giggled kissing her collarbones sinking under the covers
"You'd look sexy even if you were wearing a bin liner and an antenna on your head"
"You too," the Doctor said lifting up Yaz's top and brushing her lips over her breast
"Excuse me?" she raised an eyebrow moving the duvet and placed a finger under the Doctor's chin "Did you just accidentally call me sexy?"
"I said you'd look beautiful whatever you wear Yaz," she smiled
"No no...you didn't say that" Yaz giggled and cupped her face in her hands "Tell me again"
"I don't know what you mean" she looked at her pretending to be stupid trying to get back on her breast
"Tell me...please" she giggled and kissed her "Am I sexy baby?" she said into her lips, smiling
"Yes, you are beautiful…truly stunning," the Doctor said, then pulled the duvet back over her head and got under the covers
"Your never gonna say it properly are you?" Yaz smiled gently caressing her head through the duvet
"Hey you… How's my favorite munchkin doing?" she pulled down Yaz's bottoms and ran her hands over her stomach
"Today she kicked like crazy"
"Oh, did she now? You've been kicking your mum a lot? You're my big girl, but can't kick mummy too hard," she tapped Yaz's belly with her fingers "I sang to her the other day while you were sleeping. I think she likes it... You know, I should really check on you two tomorrow Yaz"
"Okay baby," Yaz said with a yawn. They had had a busy day and she found herself bearley keeping her eyes open.
"You're tired Yaz..." The Doctor mumbled from under the duvet, resting her chin between her breasts "You need to rest... sleep darling"
"Will you stay with me?" Yaz asked, almost anxiously moving the duvet and playing with her hair
"I was planning to work...I was going to move the Tardis to that gate tonight and see if I could make it work"
"Please stay," she stroked her head imploringly
"Oh, don't make that puppy face at me, Yaz...you cheeky bugger...You know I can't say no to that"
Yaz giggled and spread her arms and the Doctor crawled into them, then the Tardis dimmed the lights and played some beautiful music. She snuggled in and as much as she didn't want to admit it, she wanted nothing more than to stay next to her all night.
"You like this" Yaz smiled "You found yourself a new place"
"Mmmmm...nice and soft" she wrapped her arm around her "Also...I love your tummy next to mine like this...sometimes I feel the baby move"
"Oh god, I didn't think of that...that's why you're squeezing me like that"
"Yap.." she lifted her face grinning and pecked Yaz's lips then tucked her face back into her neck "I love you Yasmin"
"I love you too my beautiful Bighead"
Yaz's fingers gently running down her back lulled her to sleep and she felt herself drifting off within minutes.
....
A violent shaking of the Tardis woke them in the middle of the night. Things falling to the floor.
"Whaaa!!!...God" Yaz woke up screaming and sat up in the dark room completely disoriented for a moment
"It's okay Yaz...It's fine darling it stopped" The Doctor comforted her hugging her tightly against her chest "Nothing can happen to us here"
"I hate this… I really do," she said petrified
"It's okay darling" the Doctor ran a finger over her face "Just another jolt that's all...Which is exactly why I would feel so much more comfortable if you were on Earth Yaz" she cupped her face and the Tardis turned on the lights and beeped alarm from the control room. The Doctor looked worried
"What's going on?" Yaz looked up worriedly
"I don't know Yaz....I have to see"
"I'm going with you"
They got up and dressed as fast as they could. Yaz just pulled on her dress and she had never seen the Doctor get dressed so quickly in her life. She even forgot her braces and just shoved the broken laces into her boots.
"I really need new boots," she complained as they walked towards the control room
"What happened?" Ryan walked out in his boxers
Into the hallway and Sonya stood behind him in her pajamas petrified
"No idea...meet me in a control room Ryan...wake up others"
"Right...I'm on it" he shut the door quickly
The console was blinking and all the monitors were up and running all the data on them. The Doctor ran down the stairs and frantically around the console and Yaz went to the Tarids door.
"Oh this is not good" Doctor said hunched over the console then ran on the other side
"What's not good babe?"
"Oh this is bad...this is really bad Yaz"
"I hate when you do that...What the hell is going on...speak" she opened the Tardis door and looked out "Doctor!!!"
"You never call me that anymore Yaz, unless there's trouble or your upset with me...and you're not upset with me sooo..."
"What the hell is that?" she pointed to the bright red sky in the distance
The Doctor jumped up and ran to the door. "Fire...it's fire Yaz"
"Fire from what?"
She scrunched up her face "Aaahhh... you know that sun Yaz"
"Yeaaaah...what's the fire babe?"
"Well a massive chunk of it just fell on the planet"
"Whaaaa?"
"Yeah...not good Yaz" she ran back to the console
"What's going on Doctor?" Hakim said running into the control room, the rest of Yaz's family following
Najia was in her dressing gown, still sleepy, but very shaken.
"Well..." The Doctor squirmed turning to them "I have good news and bad news...the bad news is that a huge chunk of that sun just fell on the planet...that was the earthquake we felt.. ."
"Shit" Sonya said petrified
"What's the good news?" Ryan asked
"That it didn't fall on us" Doctor said scrunching her nose
"Fantastic" Najia said sarcastically
"Yeah...sorry" said the Doctor running back to the console "There was a build up of energy...like a big cauldron overheated and just exploded..." she gestured with her hands and looked at the monitor "It's very.. . .very unstable...I mean it's dying...so eventually it will explode and everything will start falling to the planet""
"Any other good news you have?" Ryan asked sarcastically
"What do you mean?...like falling meteors?" Sonya asked frantically "Like in the movies?"
"Oh..." the Doctor waved her hand "Those are movies Sonya...much worse than that" "Whaaah?"
"Alright..." Yaz walked up to her pulling her aside "You're scaring the shit out of them..."
"I'm just telling the truth Yaz…it's going to happen. It's overheated and it's going to end up falling apart piece by piece until . . ."
Yaz put her hand over her mouth when she saw everyone looking at them in utter horror. Everyone except Ryan who was completely used to it by now.
"Can you skip to the part of what you're planning to do babe?" Yaz asked still holding her hand over her mouth and the Doctor nodded muttering into her palm "You do have a plan don't you? Please tell me you do" the Doctor nodded again muttering into her palm
"Right..." she turned back to them all "We have to finish the machine tonight...Any questions?"
"Tonight!!!" Sonya frowned in confusion "How the hell are we going to finish it tonight?"
"Doctor, that machine is nowhere near finished," Nadjia said
"We can try," Hakim added
"Aaaah positive thinking Hakim" the Doctor jumped pointing finger at him "I like that"
"Ryan!" Yaz nodded to him to say something
"Okay...let's get to work...we can do it" he snapped his fingers turning to everyone "No worries...we've been through worse...Right Yaz" he turned to her
"Absolutely...a hundred times worse"
"We can do it" the Doctor jumped up and started running around the console " ...there isn't much left to do" she flipped the screen " Just a few things...well...more than a few...But let's stay positive... "
"Right" Najia said not so positive "Doctor...how is that thing gonna stop this?"
"Yeah, how we're gonna stop massive chunks of molten rocks falling on a planet Doctor?" Sonya added
"Well, it can't really stop this sun from exploding but...oh, and this bit is exiting" she ran around the console and pointed to one of the screens nobody understood
"There's exciting bit?" Sonya asked confused
"Oh definitely Sonya...see I made many modifications from original model...because I knew it's not just life support we needed...We needed much more than that...so I copied Tardis shield and amplified it...quite a bit really"
"Oh, so it can work on a whole planet Doctor?" Hakim asked his eyes getting bigger
"Yes...it will ...well it should enclose the whole planet...at least that's the idea...Still not sure iff it will work.. should do" she squirmed "...Well, we're gonna soon find out"
"And what if it doesn't?" Nadjia asked worried
"Aaaarrhhh...then we're in a bit of pickle as they say..." she scrunched her face "But I'm good in a pickle...I'm very good in improvisation..." she smiled
"Oh God" Najia sighed and sat on the stairs
"We can always run" Sonya added
"We never run from danger Sonya...well we do sometimes" Doctor said "But definitely not from problems and we're really good in solving problems"
"That's encouraging" Sonya said
"Right...Get dressed everyone no doodling...we're leaving in ten minutes"
Everyone left the control room leaving Ryan Doctor and Yaz alone.
"Doctor...honest" Ryan turns to her "This is just us your talking to now...What are the chances of us actually sorting this out?"
"Not sure Ryan...I haven't tested it. This is all happening way faster than I expected...I didn't think we will have to build the whole machine in several days"
"Oh boy" he said worriedly and sat on the stairs
"I believe in you" Yaz smiled
"Oh Yaz, you always do" Doctor brushed her finger over her cheek "But this is very different...This machine is not even close to being finished and we need a very powerful shields to protect the whole planet. Tardis shields are powerful but they run on artron energy. This machine doesn't"
"I still believe in you" Yaz said
"Me too" Ryan said "I mean you know this stuff Doctor...iff anyone knows how to do it it's you"
Doctor took a deep breath and leaned over the console. "Look at you two...how much you've grown...Staying positive in a face of danger. I'm really proud of both of you"
"Thanks Doctor" Ryan said still sitting on the stairs
…
They parked the Tardis outside the workshop and stepped out into the dark street. It was late at night and the air was relatively fresh. The sky was still red from the explosion and looked beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Nadjia watched Yaz walk with the Doctor holding her hand and constantly wondered what her daughter's life was like. How many things she saw and went through with that woman, and she never told anyone. She kept thinking about the times when Yaz would come home to a birthday party or just Sunday lunch and sit at the table as if it were a normal day.
"Alright Tardis team..." Doctor said flipping the lights in a massive workshop "Let's get this party started...Well it's not really a party...But it could be if we finish in time"
"It could be a party we really don't want as well" Sonya said
"Come on..." Yaz put her arm around her sisters shoulder "It's gonna be fine you'll see...she's really good in a tight spot...at least historically she was"
"You two are proper nutters you know that" she giggled "You really found each other"
"I know right... it's brilliant" Yaz smiled and kissed her cheek
Everyone immediately went to work. They didn't need much explanation from the Doctor. Everyone knew what needed to be done by that point and worked together as a pretty good team. They made part by part and the Doctor put them all together slotting them in their places and connecting them all together. Hakim worked on redirecting the energy source with the Doctor coming to his desk from time to time to check on him. She would pat him on the shoulder and smile completely impressed. Yaz was helping her put everything together. With the modifications, the machine was similar to the Tardis in many ways and Yaz found her way around it quite easily. Every so often she looked at the Doctor, exchanging smiles. Working side by side with her again, it made her heart skip a beat.
"How are you doing darling" Doctor came up to her and kissed her temple "Whanna rest a bit?...You should rest just a little"
"Nooo babe...no time to rest now"
"There is for you darling. I don't want you to over work yourself. Come on just sit for a bit...pleaseeee" she begged
"Alright...but just for a little bit"
"Good..." Doctor jumped and rolled some boxes closer to the machine and made her a little bench to sit on so she could be closer to her
"Excuse me" a tiny woman walked inside the workshop followed by few other people
"Yes?" Doctor looked towards the door
"Hi...we heard you are the people working on that machine"
"Yes...yes we are" Doctor walked over to the them "I'm the Doctor and this is my family... Hakim, Najia, Sonya, Ryan and my wife Yaz"
"We brought you some food and thought you might need some help?"
"Goodness...aren't you nice...thank you...Yes we could definitely use extra pair of hands"
"These people are all engineers and my husband is really good with machines, he is inventor so he knows quite a bit"
"Brilliant!!..." she stood happily in front of them with a big smile on her face "Well I think we might just finish it tonight" she turned to others "See I told you it will be fine in the end"
They all ate and got back to work. Doctor was zooming around frantically explaining everything to everyone. It was almost dawning and Yaz walked outside to look at sunrise. Her back was aching and she was trying to stretch. She looked down and her feet were swollen like a pair of donuts. Familiar hands rested on her shoulders and she turned around
"Hey baby" she smiled at the Doctor
"Hey beautiful. You're in pain darling" she rubbed her back and her shoulders trying to relief the tension
"I'll be fine" she smiled across her shoulder to her
"I'm worried about you" Doctor wrapped her arms around her shoulders and kissed her cheek
"Look...isn't it beautiful?" she looked at the pink sky as the sun came out slowly over the horizon and leaned on her chest
"It's stunning...We are soon finished Yaz" she rubbed her nose over her cheek "We made it beautiful"
"I never doubted you"
"You never do" Doctor kissed her cheek again "I love you so much"
"And I you baby...see we're not such a hot mess after all" she giggled
"Maybe we're just perfect hot mess Yaz" she said looking at the sunrise
…
"Alright my team" Doctor stood in the middle of the workshop "Guess we're done"
"I can't believe we did it" Najia said relived
"Start believing..." Doctor smiled "So...should we turn it on?" she asked completely exited
"Yeah Doctor...go on...let's see if it works" Hakim said exited
"Wait...but how are we gonna get it out of here? It's massive" Sonya asked confused
"Aaaaa" Doctor jumped "We don't have to Sonya" she hopped around and grabbed a big switch then pressed a big button on it and looked up.
The whole ceiling of the workshop slowly opened up to the sky.
"Woooow...that's proper awesome" Ryan said looking up
"When did you do that?" Yaz asked confused
"Oh...I didn't Yaz...I arranged it way before we came here...Right, let's see if it works, shall we?"
The Doctor hopped around and took the massive lever in her hand, then took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Everyone stopped breathing for a second as she pulled it down, and the huge giant turned on millions of blue lights. The big engine started pumping with a loud noise that sounded like a hum. The small pipes filled with a glowing liquid that began to flow through all parts of the machine, then the ground shook beneath them almost knocking everyone to the floor, and a massive beam of blue light shot up into the sky. Everyone looked up excitedly and horrified at the same time not knowing what to expect. The Doctor ran outside and looked up at as an energy dome began to spread across the sky. People ran out of their homes and into the streets looking up at the sky as it slowly closed into a huge bright blue dome that shimmered until it completely engulfed the entire planet
"Did it work!" Yaz ran outside "Did it?"
Doctor looked at her with a massive smile across her face and ran up to her cupping her face and planting a loong kiss onto her lips squishing her cheeks between her palms "It did Yaz...we did it" she said shaking
Everyone else was already outside looking up "Doctor is this it?" Ryan asked "Did we do it?"
"We sure did Ryan...Brilliant job everyone...My fam...extended Tardis team...you briliant people....We made it"
They all smiled and hugged and kept looking at the sky above their heads turning slowly beautiful light blue color.
"OMG...rain" Sonya said reaching out a palm of her hand
"Briliant...that's exactly what I was waiting for...Now I'm sure it works properly" Doctor said haply as the rain started pouring down from the sky and she draped her arm around Yaz's shoulder
"Told you...you're the best person I ever met" Yaz looked up at her and Doctor placed a small kiss on her lips
"So are you Yasmin...so are you" she turned back to the sky her hair getting wavy from the rain and closed her eyes smiling
….
They parked in the park underneath the trees and went for a little walk. It was still early morning and the lack of sleep was soon catching up with Yaz. But the air was still fresh on a skin from the rain and the scorched ground now wet started to smell of herbs. Doctor was swinging their hands as they walked slowly and every once in a while planted a surprise kiss on Yaz's cheek
"What's that for?" Yaz giggled
"No reason...just happy Yaz" she looked at her sideways smiling
"So what now? What's the next step?"
"I have to get that gate repaired Yaz. After that I really don't know. Guess we'll have to see where it leads"
"And what if it leads to that hell hole up there?"
"No idea...but I will do once it's repaired"
"Isn't that dangerous? You don't know what's on the other side?"
"Says the woman who just walked through the teleport and ended up on a bottom of the ocean then called me to tell me she's on some other planet" Doctor laughed
"Oi...That was a long time ago. Besides I was trying to impress you"
"You have, I never thought in minion years you would do something like that...Not to mention you went through another gate and ended up on Gallifrey" Doctor taped her nose
"I was worried about you"
"You could've been killed by the Master"
"And I'd still do it in a heartbeat for you"
"I know beautiful, but please don't" Doctor draped her arm around her shoulder and kissed her temple "Not ever again...Don't ever face the Master darling...ever...you have to promise me that"
"Why are you so scared of him? "
"No...not scared darling...I'm not scared of him. I'm just very well aware he is unpredictable and dangerous and I don't want you anywhere near him"
"What happened to him?"
"He...well...he's not well darling. The Master was driven insane after looking into the Untempered Schism on Gallifrey when were kids.
"What's Untemered Schism? Why would that drive him mad?"
"It's a gap in the fabric of reality from which you can see the whole of the Vortex" Doctor shook her head "It's just not something pleasant to be looking at Yaz...but on Gallifrey it's a apart of initiation ceremony for children entering the Time Lord Academy...Master just saw something her shouldn't have and with time it drove him mad"
"OMG...that's horrible. So him being the way he is...that's not really his fault?"
"No Yaz...it isn't" she she took her hand and squeezed it tight
"Did you have to look into it?"
"Yes" she kissed her knuckles and smiled for her a little
"Was it horrible?"
"Yes...it's not pleasant at all Yaz"
Yaz walked in silence for a moment then turned to her "Darling..."
"Yes Yaz"
"You wouldn't ever want our kid...."
"Noooo" Doctor jumped and stood infront of her "Absolutely not Yaz...my life and my past...that's not her path...she will choose her own"
"Cause if it made Master go mad...I just"
"No darling...look I grew up there. I love Gallifrey. But it doesn't mean I agree with everything...far from it...I don't agree with a lot to be honest. And I would never put my child through it either. Master and me...we share those thoughts darling...he wasn't always like this. Besides baby...Gallifrey is no longer there...it's just ash and death"
"Is that why you would always forgive the Master?"
Doctor took deep breath "Forgiving and forgetting are two different things Yaz. I would forgive him because he is beyond help and I so wanted to help him. But there were things he did I will never forget and never go over..."
"Would you help him...still...iff you could?"
The Doctor sighed and stood in front of her, brushing strands of hair from her face "Yes...I'm sorry"
"For what?" She brought her hand to her cheek "You don't need to say sorry for that"
"I just don't want it to upset you...make you feel uncomfortable"
"If you mean make me feel jealous...It's not baby...I know a part of you will always love him. And you've always been honest with me about how you feel" she brushed her thumb over her face "It's what makes you so beautiful...It's why I love you. I would never have you any other way" she frowned and shook her head
The Doctor leaned against her palm and closed her eyes for a moment, then took her hand and kissed her fingertips. She placed a long kiss on her forehead "I love you Yaz" she said into her skin "Nothing can change that...you are my future....He is just a part of my messy past
"I don't have doubts if that's what you're afraid of" she brought her hand to the nape of her neck and looked into her eyes "So chill out" she smiled and kissed her briefly
Doctor draped her arm around her shoulder and pulled her in kissing the side of her head "Let's go back mummy...You need to rest"
"I'm knackered...I could fall asleep standing up" Yaz said leaning her head on her shoulder and slipping her arm around her waist
…
Tardis was quiet when they came back, everyone was sleeping. Doctor quickly checked the situation on the console and smiled haply "Working like a Swiss watch" she said and they walked to their room.
"Turn around" Yaz tapped her hip and tangled her fingers into Doctor's hair spreading the shampoo
"You're really enjoying in this?" Doctor smiled blinking as the water from the shower splashed against her face
"Yeah" Yaz kissed her shoulder "Besides you still have oil in it...you didn't wash everything out" she rubbed the back of her head "here at the back"
"Oh...I thought I have"
"Nope...but it should be out now" she ran her hands over her shoulder blades "There...rinse it out" she said and took a shampoo bottle squeezing it on her hand and rubbing it into her own hair
"I need to check you and the munchkin later" Doctor said running her palms over her stomach then ran a finger down the line in the middle to her belly button smiling and Yaz jumped giggling
"Aaaaa....tickles...cheeky"
"Look Yaz...your belly button is popping out" she poked it like a child "Waaaaw"
"Of course it is...I'm spreading like a doe" she giggled "Soon everything is gonna be popping out" she said rinsing her hair ignoring Doctor studding her tummy. She found it funny how she was fascinated with every single change her body is going through. Studying her like some new galaxy she just discovered. She finished and stepped out of the shower.
"How much more will I...you know grow?" she giggled as the Doctor rubbed her hair in a towel
"Dunno Yaz...I never had a pregnant wife" Doctor laughed and leaned over her shoulder kissing her cheek
"Are you sure you're not missing one baby in there?"
"Nope...only one Yaz...Not sure I would know how to handle two at the same time to be honest. It would be a disaster...turn around"
"I'm sure it's no different than one"
Doctor wiped her face with a towel playfully "I'm quite happy with one for now" she kissed her lips quickly "We can talk about a second one when we see iff we survive this one" she said casually leaving a towel over the the sink
"Excuse me?" Yaz frowned "Second?"
"Mmmmm" Doctor nodded and reached for her hand "Careful Yaz...floor is wet...I'll bring you a dryer"
"Are you serious? You would want another baby?"
"Dunno...why not?"
"Blimey...You're really into this aren't you?" she said walking into the bedroom
"You wouldn't?" Doctor peaked from the bathroom with the softest extension on her face
"I didn't say that darling...I'm just taken back by you....I mean...loads of people have two or three kids, for me it's normal. And my family is huge so I'm used to it" she was explaining whiles taking clothes out of the drawer and pulled the nightie over her head
"Loads of people had more than one child on Gallifrey Yaz" she put a hairdryer on a chest of drawers "It was just never my life...I never thought I'll ever get fixed to nobody...have a wife and a baby" she chatted away pulling t-shirt over her head then walked over to Yaz and slipped her arms around her kissing her shoulder "But now I have you"
Yaz leaned into her automatically and closed her eyes "I just want us to be happy...I want us to have a life we are dreaming about" she brought her hands over Doctor's
"We will beautiful...I don't care what it takes" she kissed her cheek
"I'm making your t-shirt wet" she giggled
"I'll change..." she rubbed her nose over her cheek "I adore you my sweet potato"
"And I you?"
"Come on dry your hair. I don't want you getting ill"
"It's like a furnese babe, how the hell can I get ill"
"Don't know...but I don't want to find out...besides why do you not use Tardis to dry your hair....why use that thing?"
"Because it makes my hair split babe...I'm human remember...different hair than yours"
"Oh...right...forgot"
"What that I'm a human?" she giggled
"Mmmm" Doctor nodded and sat on the edge of the bed fiddling with some part of the machinery
"What's that?"
"Oh...it's a control panel I took off that gate. I've been trying to make it work" she scrunched her face twirling it in her hand "...but I've never seen a technology like this before. It's really challenging. I do like to be challenged Yaz but not when the whole planet is about to explode and my family is on it" she frowned
"I've seen that before" Yaz said
"Excuse me...you what Yaz?"
"Let me see" she took it in her hand "Oh, yeah...it was just much bigger..."
"Where did you see it? And where was I when you did?"
"You were in Madagascar collecting dead stinking birds" she was yelling whiles drying her hair "...and I went through a teleport that looked exactly like that...but much bigger"
"Noo way Yaz...shoot...I don't like this"
"They were ill with that plastic thing...can't remember what was it called"
" Praxeus Yaz... I don't like this at all"
"We can't open a portal to a planet infected with a virus" Yaz said worriedly
"No we can't Yaz...Well this a game changer...I need to know more about where this came from"
"And how the hell will you find out? That girl...did she ever tell you where she came from?"
"No...she never did Yaz...I have no idea. She did the most stupid thing and sent to her home planet information for the human vaccine. But before she did that she injected herself with it and it and it sped up her illness...So my best guess is that they are all dead Yaz. All the data was on her ship I had no time to look where she sent it"
"But we already established that this star...sun...thing was built thousands of years ago...so could it be that the teleport is leading to that past? Or it doesn't work that way?"
"I'm not sure until I get it to work...I have no idea"
"Iff it does...Can you give them the right medication?"
"Slow down Yaz" she looked at her worried "Technically yes, but the risk of opening that gate is big...I'm gonna have to think Also I can't disturb the past...our past...it's not that easy...I need more information...but" she left the part on the bed and walked over to Yaz cupping her face "I have a very smart wife who just gave me something to work with"
Yaz smiled and Doctor kissed her gently "Now come on mummy...your hair is dry, get your cute bum into bed now...you look like you're gonna fall asleep standing up Yaz"
"So I have cute bum?" she giggled cheeky walking towards the bed
"Yes Yaz you doo...your cute all over...Bed!!" she shook her head laughing
"What about you?"
"I'm fine...I'm gonna do some work"
"Please lie with me till I fall asleep"
"Alright potato...but please just get into bed...you two seriously need to rest...and your feet Yaz, they are soo swollen"
"They are going down...that shower helped"
Yaz snuggled in and put her leg over the Doctor's side. She was extremely exhausted and didn't even notice how much her back hurt until she lay down. The cuddling made her fall asleep halfway through the sentence, which made the Doctor chuckle. She stayed a little longer, thinking about their conversation. She never thought family would be on the menu or her path given what her life had been like. She always thought that the only thing that would be left behind her would be a dying Tardis, and she never thought that she would fall in love, even promised herself that she would never let it happen again. But then she met Yaz, and she stole both of her hearts from the moment she laid eyes on her and things changed so much, something planned, she thought, mostly unplanned, and then again that was her, she never had a plan, so no wonder the baby fit into it perfectly, she thought. But now, for the first time, she had dreams, and she hoped with all her hearts that she was strong and smart enough to make them come true. Because the alternative scared her beyond belief, a fear she had never experienced in her long life. Pure dread of losing what she already had. But she pushed those thoughts away and stroked Yaz's tummy, humming some long-forgotten song from some long-forgotten memory. She didn't want to leave the bed. It was nice and cozy and she loved every minute of it being cuddled, but the pressure of the problem was weighing heavily on her mind so she kissed Yaz's face gently and then slipped quietly out of bed.
…
"Hi Doctor" Sonya said quietly as she stepped into the control room holding a tray with tea and some cookies
"Oh, hi Sonya" Doctor raised her head from the console smiling
"I made you some tea"
"Oh did you now? How nice of you. Thank you"
"It's ok...Didn't you sleep?" she asked passing her a mug "here...have a biscuit"
"No..I have too much work to do" Doctor sat on the steps next to her
"You don't rest a lot do you?"
"I don't need as much rest as humans Sonya"
"Oh...alien...I forgot...I do forget sometimes. You don't look alien...but then neither do these people...except for number of fingers and color of their eyes. But you look completely human"
"I assure you I'm not...very different from the inside"
"Yeah...two hearts...So does that mean if one stops you can live with only one?"
"No...not really...I just regenerate if I'm...well, too damaged"
"I don't think I could handle that if you were my wife...or a husband"
Doctor smiled from the corner of her lips and sipped some tea
"I'm sorry...I didn't mean to offend you"
"You didn't..." Doctor smiled at her "Everyone is different. I suppose I'm just lucky I have your sister"
"I think that luck goes both ways" she smiled "I never saw Yaz so happy" she went silent for a moment "I don't think I ever saw her truly happy at all to be honest...I don't think any of us ever have" she looked at console "This ship...you and the baby...it makes her so happy. She found her home"
"I don't think I ever was either till I met her. I thought I was...sometimes at least I thought" she scrunched her face and took a biscuit "But sometimes we don't really know what happy means until we really are. And I think that's what happened to me" she grinned haply
"So what are you working on?"
"Wanna see?" she nodded smiling exited
"Yeah sure" Sonya left a cup on the tray and followed her to the console
"See this control panel I took of that portal, I was trying to figure out how how to repair it"
"And did you?...Repair it?"
"No...not yet"
"Oh"
"But I never saw this technology before...Can you believe it Sonya...me never seeing it...I've seen so much stuff and I still get surprised...I like to be surprised" she scrunched her face "Well, most of the time I do but not when I need to stop the sun from exploding...Anyway" she hopped to the monitor "Your sister recognized it from way back, so now I'm doing all this research to find out where it came from"
"And did find out?" she asked exited
"No" she said abruptly leaving Sonya frowning confused "But I'm sure I will" she smiled exited
"Right...ok" she shrug her shoulders "I should be going...and you seem to be busy...soo...yeah...thanks for the chat"
"Always Sonya" Doctor waived and went back to her work
The Doctor continued to work, just her and her Tardis, chatting while everyone slept. It was unusually quiet unlike in the past days when someone would always be walking around, passing by or asking questions.
"Hey love" Yaz smiled from the top of the stairs
"Hey beautiful...had a nice sleep?"
"Missed you...but yes" she came up behind her and kissed her shoulder.
The doctor took her hand and wrapped it around herself "I'm sorry... but I do have some good news" she turned her head and kissed her gently
"What did that beautiful brain of yours find out?"
"Well, do you remember Yaz when I was saving Jake? Adams husband"
"Yeah...police officer" Yaz leaned on her back looking over her shoulder
"When the autopilot failed and I had to pick him up with the Tardis. Well, I went to check the data..." she walked a few paces around the console holding Yaz's arm around her without letting go "I found that the debris transmitted ships energy at the time of the explosion that was picked up by the Tardis"
"Really?....So can you track it?" Yaz smiled over her shoulder
"Bingo Yaz...well I hope I can...I don't have a lot...but hopefully it should be enough for Tardis to work out where they came from...should do...it's really the only thing I have...so let's hope it works"
"I knew you will find a way" Yaz kissed her cheek
"It's only because you knew where the teleport comes from Yaz...I'm afraid this has nothing to do with me" she turned around and slipped her arms around her "and everything to do with my very, very clever wife" she grinned
"Joined effort baby" Yaz smiled running hands over her chest and pulled her by her braces into a slow kiss
Coughing jolted them both and they quickly pulled apart.
"Sorry" Ryan said not knowing in which direction to look embarrassed out of his mind
"Yes Ryan?" Doctor asked fixing her coat frazzled and Yaz turned around laughing
"Sonya sent me to tell you that there's a weird noise coming from our shower and there's no pressure...Sorry I didn't meant to...you know...yeah"
"Oh" Doctor frowned "It must be that filter again...no worries. I'll take a look...I thought I fixed it?"
"Want me to help you?" Yaz asked exited hoping she'll agree
"Yeah sure..."
"Yeees!" Yaz jumped exited
…
"That's fine Yaz...just turn it a little bit more" said the Doctor from the hole in one of the walls where she squeezed herself up to her knees "I need just a little bit more pressure...just tiny bit Yaz"
"Is that okay? Tell me when to stop!" Yaz shouted from the other side if the room turning a massive valve
"Stoooop!!" Doctor yelled
"Done"
"It should be fine now...that filter was so clogged...It's a miracle we even had any water" she said wiggling out
"I did notice pressure was off when I got up...I forgot to tell you"
"Well that's all sorted now Yaz. I have some serious maintenance to do when we get home" she wiped her hands on her hips "I need the Tardis in perfect condition for when baby comes...can't have no water, or heating...or something else going wrong and something always goes wrong" she turned and looked at some other cables hanging from the ceiling above them scrunching her face "Yeah...definitely needs work Yaz"
"I want us to do it together...pleaseeee" Yaz said putting the tools back in the bag "I want to do more...I can do it...You know, like this what we did now...it was easy babe and it really makes me happy" she zipped up on the bag then put the Doctor's goggles on her face "I can be your pregnant mechanic" she giggled
The Doctor moved her gaze from the ceiling towards her and when she saw her started laughing
"How do you see anything through that?" she looked up and around the room
The Doctor laughed and stood in front of her raising goggles on her forehead "You look like a pregnant Minion" she laughed
"Brilliant... just the look I was going for"
"Minions are cute" Doctor kissed her temple and put goggles away
"Well, you look super sexy when you wear them" she squeezed Doctor's cheeks between her palms and kissed her
"I think you're making up for thousands of years of no one ever calling me that Yaz" the Doctor laughed grabbing the bag off the table "Shall we?...Or do you just want to stay in the engine room for few more hours?"
"Mmmm...at least no one will barge in when we're kissing" she shrugged following her
"That was embarrassing," said the Doctor as she climbed the stairs, "Now I need a shower again," she wiped her hand on her trousers again and blew a dirty strand of hair from her face
"At least you have pressure" Yaz giggled and smacked her bum playfully
"My bum never got that much attention either," she said climbing the stairs and Yaz rolled her eyes laughing
"Maybe it wasn't as cute as this one babe" she laughs
"Auch..." Doctor laughed
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Chapter 44
"It all looks really good Yaz. She grew a lot...I'm making a recording so you can show your family" Doctor pressed few things on a monitor then hovered with a scanner over her stomach
"Her hearts are beating so cute" Yaz smiled
"You can see them here...look...here's one and the other one" she pointed smiling "They are very strong"
"So everything is ok?"
"Everything is perfect Yaz...she's a beautiful healthy baby....And your blood work was fine" said the doctor looking at the results "There is a little iron deficiency but nothing alarming. Nothing that can't be fixed by a few jab. There's one more thing" she smiled happily kissing Yaz's tummy and pulling her dress down "Come on" she reached out to help her off the table then jumped to the other side of the room and stood in front of the big monitor on the wall "Look darling"
"What is it?...Nothing is wrong?"
"Noooo Yaz…do I look like something's wrong?" she asked smiling. "It's exciting...C'mere...So you know how I check everything from her bones to all her organs and I can see how much she weighs and even do scans and blood work?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, now you are 32 weeks pregnant so nearly eight months...eight months Yaz...can you believe it?"
"Waaaw... it will be almost nine month's that we are together" Yaz smiled leaning on her back and kissing her shoulder blade "And before we know a year"
"I know...time flies doesn't it?...Seems like yesterday" The Doctor smiled and tapped her finger on the monitor displaying the information "Look Yaz"
"What am I looking at?"
"Now she's just about big enough for one other scan...so I thought I'd try and see if I could get anything and I have...I'm so chuffed" she said excitedly, hunched in front of the massive monitor and sliding her fingers over it pulling up all the results
"What scan?"
"You know how we did paternity test to see what her DNA is...it's similar to that only this is showing much, much more and it picked up something very interesting...something that will make you very happy"
"Stoooop this!" Yaz laughed exited pulling the sleeve of her coat "Just tell me already..."
Doctor looked at her laughing "She's like me Yaz..."
"She's a Time Lord? Is she? Really baby?" Yaz jumped exited pulling her sleeve
"Well it clearly shows traces of regeneration energy Yaz"
"But you were not sure before...are you sure now?"
"I wasn't sure Yaz because her DNA being more like me didn't mean she will display same physical characteristics as I do...and she may have some and not the others. Like she can age slowly but then not have ability to regenerate fully and so on...buuut...there's definitely regeneration energy there....it's very clear now" she tapped the screen showing the results "And look...you can even see it here when I magnify the scan...see right there...the little haze around her body. It's how she's growing Yaz," Doctor smiled and placed her arms on her hips proudly
"OMG baby...OMG I'm so happy" she threw herself into Doctor's arms "She's not gonna die"
"Oh Yaz...don't say that word....She's definitely not human I can assure you and I can't believe you're so happy about that" Doctor cupped the back of her head
"I told you" Yaz looked up to her "I don't want her being like me. I can't deal with that" Doctor smiled and kissed her forehead then turned back to the monitor.
She stood there in silence for a moment and Yaz put her arm on her shoulder blade "You alright?"
"Mmmmm" she turned over her shoulder smiling and wiped a tear off her face
"Hey....why tears darling?" Yaz stroke her cheek gently
"I couldn't deal with it either Yaz. You both being mortal...I just...How do I say that to you? How do I..."
"Hey...It's alright" Yaz came up to her and put her hands at the nape of her neck "I knew it anyway darling. I could see it was bothering you...You could've told me" she kissed her cheek gently "It's ok...you're never gonna lose her"
"Oh Yaz" Doctor slumped her head on her shoulder and wrapped her arms around her "I don't wanna lose you either...Ever"
"Don't think about that now...This is so brilliant ...I'm so happy baby"
"Why do we have to deal with all this Yaz?...I feel like a part of our happiness is constantly taken away from us in some shape or form and it's eating me up inside"
"But we're getting there...slowly..." she stroke her hair gently
"I love you so much Yasmin" she squeezed her thither and buried her face into her neck
"I love you too...it's alright baby...You're brilliant and smart...and stubborn" she smiled "We will get there in the end. Come on be happy about this...You will have her forever darling...she's never leaving you"
"I am happy about this...I can't tell you how much" she kissed her neck gently and rocked her in her arms slowly
"It's gonna be fine...And I know this is all so hard baby...but we will get there in the end"
"Just hold me"
"As long as you want love" Yaz ran her fingers through her hair gently
….
Evening came and they all went out for a meal. Sitting at the table Yaz leaned over to the Doctor and whispered in her ear "Whanna tell them?"
"Yeah" she smiled happily "Do you?"
"Absolutely" she smiled
"Well go on...you do it then...it's your family"
"Alright" she grabbed her hand underneath the table "Hey...we got something to tell you"
"What is it pumpkin?" Hakim asked "You getting properly married finally?"
"We are properly married dad" she rolled her eyes smiling "Doctor did some tests today on a baby and we have results"
"Oh...is everything alright sweetheart?" Nadjia asked worried
"Yes mum...everything is perfect...well more than perfect...She's like the Doctor...she's gonna be able to regenerate"
"Whaaa?" Ryan asked surprised "So she's a miniature Time Lord?"
"Aha" Yaz nodded happily
"No way....that's awesome"
"Yaz darling what does that mean really?" Nadjia asked confused
"It means" Doctor said "That although a grait deal of her DNA is human, she will display some physical characteristics of a Time Lord. Slower aging, ability to heal much faster, and probably... this I'm still not sure...but bigger physical strength than humans, and most importantly if she ever gets seriously hurt, ability to regenerate"
"Woooow...that's brilliant" Hakim said
"So what does that mean Doctor?...How long will she stay a child? Nadija asked confused "I'm sorry...this is beautiful in so many ways I just want to understand how this works. Is she going to be a child for longer...or?"
"Cleaver questions Nadjia" Doctor smiled "No... On Gallifrey we reach full adulthood physically in the same way as humans. It just means that once the individual is fully grown and developed, the aging process slows down due to our ability to self-repair. So what you would experience as aging is different for us because our cells are repairing themselves to some extent. But we do consider 200 years still a teenager" she laughs
"Goodness" she smiled "I'm sorry Doctor...I didn't mean for it to come across as rude"
"No Nadjia...not at all...I'm glad you're asking me all the questions. I do understand this must be very confusing"
"So Doctor" Sonya turned to her "Does that mean that she's gonna be born as a girl and then can regenerate into a bloke like you?"
"Mmmmm" Doctor took a bite of her food "Not sure about that yet...I didn't even know I can make a baby as a woman" she sipped so juice
"Oh..." Sonya stayed confused "How did you make her then?"
Doctor choked on her drink for a second
"Sonya!" Nadjia jumped
"Just asking mum"
"I don't think Doctor wants to talk about that"
"Hey look" Yaz smiled "We have a recording" she put a tiny egg shaped hologram on a table and pressed it "Look at her"
"Waaaaaaw..." Nadjia sighed haply as the hologram recording hovered over the table "Look how clearly it shows her face"
"And the little feet...they are so tiny" Sonya said
"She's still very small...nowhere near the size to be born"
"Why is Yaz so huge then?" Sonya asked confused
"Her body adapted now to this baby" Doctor explains "...so there's a lot more of amniotic fluid than with a human baby and blood flow is a lot more richer due to her binary vascular system. It's one of the reasons Yaz needs to take iron supplements and a lot more than that so her body doesn't reject the baby. This isn't easy for her. It's is a hard pregnancy for a human and her body isn't designed to carry a baby for 12 months. We are compatible on some level and human can carry a Time Lord but...it does come with risks"
"Can you carry a baby Doctor?" Nadjia asked
"I suppose I could...as woman, yes definitely...not as a man...some parts come only with a female anatomy" she laughs
"Right...sure" Najia replied a bit embarrassed but Doctor seemed comfortable talking about it.
"I might consider that option at some point" Yaz laughed ruffling her hair
"Mmmm" Doctor nodded ambiguously
…
Doctor sat on a bed taking her boots off and Yaz draped herself over her back kissing her shoulder "Feeling better?" she stroke her hair
"I am...sorry about that" she said throwing her boots on a side
"Will you stop saying sorry for being emotional. I want you to tell me how you feel. I wanna know and I don't want you bottling everything inside. You've done that since I met you"
"I don't wanna burden you Yaz" she got up and took trousers and her t-shirt off then slipped under the covers into Yaz's arms "I don't wanna moan all the time"
"Saying how you feel isn't moaning"
"Feels like it recently" she laid her head on Yaz's shoulder and ran her palm over her breast and her tummy "Oh, forgot to tell you that Tardis got coordinates"
"Really?"
"Just saw it when we came back...I'm gonna look at it tomorrow. Wanna help me out?"
"Of course I do!...You don't even need to ask"
"I need you to do some research in the library about that place...I'm sure once I know where it's located we can find some information about it in the library. Anything you can find out and in a mean time I'm gonna see if I can finally fix that teleport"
"Why do you think they built it...that sun?"
"I assume it was built to be exactly what it is Yaz...sun...I think it was made to give life to this planet. But everything has expiry date. I just want to see iff there's a way of us fixing it"
"How do you fix a sun darling?"
"It's a machine Yaz...extremely advanced machine...but still a machine. Any machine can be repaired"
"Wouldn't you have to...you know...switch it off first?" she giggled
Doctor chuckled "I suppose so Yaz...I never saw anything like this before"
"And wouldn't that cause this planet to freeze?"
"It would, yes...well spotted Yaz...but that's why we have Eye of the Deep darling...it can take over temporarily...not for a long time but it can"
"I'm exited about working with you again"
"I do miss you Yaz...I really do...I just don't want you exhausting yourself"
"I'm not...serious...And I would tell you"
"You have to tell me. I'm counting on it, and I'm also counting on you not desperately trying to impress me either" she moved up and propped her head on her arm "Cause you do impress me all the time anyway" she moved hair from her forehead and brushed her finger over her cheek
"Deal?" Yaz offered her pinky smiling
"Deal" Doctor hooked her pinky to hers and pulled her for a kiss "Come on...let's get some sleep and hopefully we won't be woken up again by yet another earthquake cause I'm literally gonna lose it if that happens Yaz"
Tardis deemed the lights and started playing soft music for them as it would always do.
"I know...I can't take it anymore" Yaz moved to her side and snuggled up "I feel like all we will do is sleep when we get back home"
"Yeah for a week...I don't need much sleep but I must admit even I'm struggling with this"
Yaz started squirming and wiggling as soon as she got comfortable.
"Oh don't move...I just got comfy there"
"I neeeeed to peeeeee" she whined
"Oh.." Doctor laughed
"Aaaarrhhh" Yaz pulled the duvet off and rolled over the bed "I was just nice and comfy" she complained all the way to the bathroom
"Better now then in the middle of the night" Doctor laughed "she's right on your bladder...I just saw it today...she's literally rubbing her feet on it " Doctor giggled
"Fantastic...can't we just turn her around?"
"Nope" Doctor held the duvet up and Yaz crawled back into bed on all fours assuming her previous position
"Mmmmm....this is nice" she tucked her face into Doctor's chest and slipped her arm around her waist
"This is my favorite part of the day" Doctor whispered "Nightie night...love ya"
"Night Thete...love you too" she snuggled closer
….
Another shaking woke them all up in the middle of the night with Yaz waking up screaming again
"What the hell is going on here!!!" Doctor jumped
"Why is this happening??? Whyyyyy?...I thought you said this machine will stop it"
"I have no idea Yaz, but I'm really, really, reeeeally fed up with it!!" she said pulling her trousers on nervously and fiddling with her boots "And I really need new boots...why do I keep forgetting my boots?" she tossed them across the room and started marching towards the control room barefoot with her shirt pulled out of her trousers and no braces, nervously trying to fix her hair that was everywhere
"Doctor...what the hell?" Ryan peaked out the bedroom
"Go back to sleep Ryan…I don't know" she said walking past and Yaz shrugged looking at him trying to keep up with her
She nervously walked around the console flipping switches and monitors, and Yaz went to the door again
"I can't see anything" she said looking outside "And nobody came out of their homes...I think everyone gave up"
"You wouldn't Yaz...see anything"
"Why? What was that?"
"Ahhh...canyon landslide...I think of all the earthquakes...okay...Eye of Deep looks good, readings are fine, everything is fine...let's go back to sleep.. . I've had enough"
Yaz closed the door with a big sigh and dragged her feet "God I just want to sleepeeeeeeep" she whimpered slumping onto the Doctor's back
"Right...that should do it...thanks for that" she said to the Tardis and pressed something on the console "Come on...bed"
Yaz grabbed her trousers dragging herself up the stairs "I'm exhausted"
"I know you are...come on...it won't happen again"
"You already said that"
"I'm serious this time," she said, rattled by everything, and dragged Yaz, who was falling on top of her, towards the bedroom
…
Ryan woke up to find the entire Tardis empty. Everyone still sleeping. He had his headphones on and was dancing to the music while eating a cinnamon roll and taking a cup of tea heading towards the control room. He entered and to his surprise it was empty. So he walked around the console
"Morning!" he shouted loudly to the Tardis and opened the door "Cool" he said looking around and took a step nose diving from the Tardis to the ground. The tea flies through the air, and the headphones end up around his neck
"What the hell?" he turned and saw the Tardis hovering half a meter above the ground "Whaaa? Why are we floating?...What te hell??"
…
The Doctor was awake, but this morning she was in no hurry to get out of bed. She spooned behind Yaz and slid her hand around her stomach, burying her face in the back of her head. She closed her eyes and dowsed in and out of sleep with a laziness that was not at all like her. But today was one of those days where even she felt burnt out. The first thought that came to her mind in the morning was that her child was like her and that brought a big smile to her face. It was one less worry in her life and one less burden she didn't have to carry. As exhausted as she felt, she also felt a new spark of energy flickering inside her, a new hope that she had lost somewhere along the way. She inhaled in the scent of Yaz's hair and ran her palm over her entire stomach, smiling sleepily.
"Mmmmmm" Yaz moaned and wiggled her bum "Morning" she smiled
"Morning beautiful" she kissed her shoulder
She turned around sleepy with her eyes half open and placed a lazy kiss on her lips "You look happy"
"I do?"
"You dooo" she smiled rubbing her face into her neck and slipping her arm around her waist
"It's still early...sleep more"
"And you?"
"I don't feel like getting up"
Yaz lifted her head surprised "You don't?"
"No I don't" Doctor cupped her head and pushed her back to her neck "I feel like cuddling"
"Mmmmmm....one cuddle coming your way then" she wiggled draping her leg over her and slipping her hand into Doctor's underwear cupping her bum
"So my bum gets a cuddle?"
"Always" Yaz giggled
"Alright" Doctor shrugged and closed her eyes again
….
"Morning Ryan" Doctor walked into the kitchen with a yawn, still sleepy and barefoot, both unusual for her.
"Morning Doctor" he said ravaging through the fridge and stood up
"Wooow!" Doctor looked at him horrified "What happened to your face Ryan?"
"I feel out of Tardis"
She chucked "You did what?" she lifted her eyebrow "Let me look at that?"
"Why are we hovering?"
"Because I'm fed up with earthquakes... I didn't think anyone would fall out... We're only floating 25 centimeters above the ground," she said looking at his face closely "I'll give you a cream for it...it will heal quickly...sorry Ryan"
"Please no shit creams"
"Don't be silly" she said turning towards the kitchen top
"Why are you barefoot? he looked at her feet and thought how he had never seen the Doctor's feet in all the years he had known her. He also never eves saw Doctor walking around sleepy with a messy hair and t-shirt out of her trousers with no braces on. So it was all very new. He also thought how she looked a lot less like a Time Lord and lot more like a human this way and suddenly she seemed almost cute.
"I need new boots and I keep forgetting...so I thought iff I'm barefoot I'll definitely remember to get some" she explained making herself a tea
"Right" he nodded frowning sitting at the bar
"I need a favor," she said, putting the bread in the toaster
"Anything"
"I need you do go and get me some stuff...I'll give a list and tell you where to go. I just haven't got time today...Too much to do"
"Alright...no problem"
"Thank you, I appreciate it...toast?"
"Yes please"
"Morning Doctor" Nadjia said walking into the kitchen
"Morning Nadjia...Oh, oh" she turned over her shoulder "Watch your way out of the Tardis...Toast?"
"Yes please that would be lovely...Why...what's with Tardis?...OMG what happened to your face Ryan?"
"I fell out...we are hovering"
"Hovering?" Najia asked confused
"Yeah Doctor got fed up with earthquakes...so now we are levitating"
Nadjia shook her head confused but dropped the subject
"Last night, up where that canyon is, there was a landslide...And that was one drop too much even for my patience" Doctor said passing toast to everyone
"You don't have any patience...it's normal for you" Ryan smirked
"Oi!" she jumped up "I have a lot of patience I'll have you know" she said smugly sitting at the bar failing to look intimidating as her bare feet dangled from a high stool "I once waited 25 years to see my friend...and I was stuck in a confession dial for four and a half billion years...did drive me mad a bit I must say"
"You whaaaa?" Ryan asked shocked
"Morning" Yaz walked in sleepy dragging her feet
"Morning sweetheart" Nadjia kissed her cheek
"Morning potato" Doctor smiled as Yaz draped herself over her back kissing her cheek "Sit down I'll make you breakfast"
"Nooo...eat babe...I can do it myself" she tapped her shoulder "OMG Ryan...what?"
"He fell out of Tardis" everyone said at the same time
"Whaaaa?"
"We are hovering Yaz" Doctor said "I really needed to sleep"
Yaz shook her head laughing and opened the fridge
The Doctor was finishing writing a list on a small piece of paper "Here Ryan" she gave it to him "I'll tell you where to go"
"What's that?" he pointed confused to the drawing on the paper "Is that a worm?"
Mmmm...that's so you don't get confused...they should have those little things on the top of their heads" she pointed, twirling her finger above her head "You'll see...looks like a crest...really cute"
"I'm buying worms?"
"I need them for my garden Ryan...they are excellent in making soil nice and soft"
"Dooooctooor" he whimpered "That's gross...why do I have to buy worms?...Why can't it be butterflies?" he moaned sitting looking at the picture in disgust but she completely ignored him "I hope they come in a plastic container"
"Right kids...I'm off" Nadjia waived
"Me too" Doctor got up "Meet me in a control room Yaz" she kissed her temple and walked out
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Doctor was hunched over the console. Still barefoot walking around looking at the screens.
"That's interesting...and far...that's really far" she looked at the monitor frowning "Not to mention worrying"
"What's far?" Yaz said walking down the steps
"This place Yaz...I'm just looking...Tardis found the location...it cross-referenced all the information and they seemed to be coming back to the same place all the time. So we can only assume that this is their base. I'm not very pleased with it at all. That's the seventh galaxy" Doctor spreds her arms over the console
"Why? What's in a seventh galaxy?"
"Skaro Yaz..and all the other places I'm not very fond of visiting"
"Oh noo"
"Yeah I know" she says looking at her "That's it...I'm not taking any chances with that Yaz" she straightens her back turning a few things on the console obviously annoyed "Of all the places in the universe...why there Yaz?" she spreads her arms
"Look, maybe there's another way...Maybe iff we look at the data and information in the library we could find something...something to help us fix this thing"
The Doctor sighed and hooked her fingers behind the buckles of her braces pacing the console with her eyes on the floor "Maybe I could...no...or maybe that could...too risky...What if I mess up and make it worse?" she looks up to her "Skaro Yaz...noooo"
"Come on...let's see what we can find...maybe you're stressed for no reason"
"I'm never stressed for no reason"
Yaz raised an eyebrow
"Okay...maybe sometimes...but it's never completely without a reason Yaz"
"Fine...whatever you say...Come on...Let's take a look" she laced her fingers into his, pushing her a little until the Doctor let go and took her hand
…
"We got everything. We just have to get that bloody worm now" Ryan said to Sonya
"God this is so disgusting...what is this thing?" Sonya asked looking inside the transparent containers in a store
"I have no idea...something for her garden" he said holding the paper studing the worm collectors on display
"Remind me not to eat tomatoes" she said putting the container back
"Noooo...we need that Sonya" he said turning over his shoulder
"What that slime?" she pointed to what she just left on the shelf
"Yeah...I don't ask anymore I just forget I ever saw it" he shrugs "I think it's this one" he points "That thing is huge...She didn't say they are huge...I hope they give transporter...Does that look the same to you?" he looks at the paper
"Oh, god Ryan I don't knoooow just call her"
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The Doctor was at the top of a tall ladder in the library trying to get hold of one of the books. The ladder was too far for her, but she couldn't be bothered to climb down and move it, so she stretched her arm out and reached as far as she could until she was able to hook her fingers on the hard cover of the the book to pull it out when the phone rang and she nearly lost her balance. "Shoot!" The book fell to the floor, and she managed to grab the ladder with her other hand
"Doctoooor!" Yaz yelled from the bottom "Please don't get splattered
Like I said…you never call me that unless you're upset" she said wriggling trying to get her phone out of her pocket "Yes Ryan!" she said jumping off the ladder
"I don't know which one to buy...this worm thing"
"It has a crest Ryan...on the top of his head" she twirls her finger around her head pointing for no reason as if Ryan can see her
"Yeah...but there's three of them who have the crest...and they are all ugly the same" he looks disgusted into the glass enclosures
"It's read...it's the only one with red crest" she said pacing hunched up
"You gave me a drawing in a blue pen Doctor...how the hell would I know it's red?"
"Oh" she stopped and scrunched her face "Oh well...it's good we have the phones then" she said haply
"Right...thanks...and they are huge...I thought they are tiny worms...this is creeping me out"
"Oh don't be worm-phobic Ryan...they are really not that bad"
"Nothing is to you...alright let me get this and we're coming back"
"See ya" she clicked off
….
"So?" Sonya asked "Do we know which one?"
"Yeah...the red one" he pointed to the store manager with a tense smile "Do I get the transporter?"
They walked out of the store and Sonya was laughing so much she couldn't breathe
"This is not funny!!" Ryan said trying to hold a fat almost half a meter big animal in his arms that was jiggling as he walked
"Didn't she tell you?"
"No...no she sad nothing about me having to cuddle it"
Sonya burst out laughing "Well cuddle away babe...but you're not coming anywhere near me until you take a shower" she laughed and looked at Ryan pausing as the creature slid through his arms and he was grabbing it from below
"I really hope this isn't his ass" he said as it jiggled away in his hands and looked like it buried its head in his neck closing it's huge green eyes purring "Oh gooood...he's breathing down my neck"
"It looks more like a huge caterpillar with big eyes" Sonya laughed
"It's a worm...and It's so heavy...and soft," he said desperately trying not to drop the animal that had tiny front legs holding onto his shirt
Sonya laughed all the way to the Tardis
…
"Hey...babe...look at this?" Yaz said going through the pages of one of the books "I think I found it"
"You did?" Doctor approached her leaning over "I think you have Yaz" she kissed her cheek "Ten points for Yaz"
"What? Only ten?" she frowned
"You'll get the bonus points later" Doctor smiled cheeky and nudged her with her hip
"I'm holding you to that...just so you know" she laughed
Doctor was going through the pages reading quickly.
"You look worried?"
"Mmmm…maybe…" she turned the page which contained a drawing very similar to what the Tardis scanner showed the Sun to look like. But it also had Dalek drawings on it and Yaz was getting more and more nervous about it.
"Dooooctoooor!!!" Ryan yelled from the control room so loud his voice echoed across the Tardis
"Aaaa....they're back!!" Doctor closed the book exited and ran towards the control room and Yaz slowly followed her
"Take it off me!!!" Ryan whined struggling to hold the animal
"Aaaaaa..."Doctor hopped exited down the stairs "Look at you" she smiled
"It's nuzzling my neck Doctor" he said disgusted
"He's just scared Ryan and feels safer that way. Also he is shealding his eyes from the sun" she said full of compassion "Just because he's a big boy doesn't mean he's not scared" she cuddled the animals back smiling gently
"Well since you love him so much take him"
"Alright...alright...I got him" she takes the jigging animal into her arms "Oh, you're gonna love your new home...wait until you see....and you will have friends" it made a deep sound and nuzzled into her cheek
Sonya frowned in disgust "You have more of them?"
"Oh yeah...ten to be exact...They are very useful...and lovely" she smiled as he rubbed his nose against her cheek
"Hey you two" Yaz came down smiling "Oh waaaw...he's cute" she came over and cuddled his head "Bigger then the others"
"Oh god...you two are made for each other" Sonya said "Come on...you need a shower" she pulled Ryan's for a sleeve
"Thanks for that" Doctor said smiling "Just leave the rest here Ryan"
"Them two look happy" Yaz laughed and turned to the animal "You like that don't you?" she rubbed his head
"Come Yaz...let's introduce him to the others" Doctor nodded happily
….
They released the animal into the rainforest and sat on one of the roots of a massive tree. Yaz was playing with a butterfly that came to her intrigued by the floral pattern on her dress
"I love coming here...why don't we come here more often Yaz?"
I don't know...we should" she smiled playing with the butterfly "I think sometimes we get so stressed out with so many bad things out there that we forget what a world we have here"
"I think you're right" Doctor sighed looking around
"I do love this place...it reminds me of our home"
"You just took a word out of my mouth Yaz"
"What worried you so much in that book?"
"Oh..." she scrunched her nose "Nothing Yaz...I'll look at it later...come on...I'm hungry...I fancy fried egg sandwich" she held out her hand helping her to get up
"Yummy...one for me please" she smiled leaning her head on her shoulder and slipping her arm around her waist
…
"Soo tell me" Yaz said leaning over her shoulder as she flipped through the pages
"Right...so they come from the planet 'Xeron' it's part of the seventh galaxy as is Skaro. It's a very old civilization dating back thousands of years. They were mostly stonemasons and they had colonies all over the universe where they would mine stone . This was one of them. It was abandoned because they were attacked by the Daleks."
"On nooo...So that's why that teleport was abandoned"
"Probably yes, honey. They won the war, but their planet was left devastated and poverty reigned. It was also overpopulated with refugees from other planets... The overcrowding led to the depletion of natural resources, and the heavy pollution led to the development of various diseases and of viruses...one of them was Praxeus"
"Poor people" Yaz said leaning onto Doctor's arm listening
"I know it's heartbreaking Yaz"
"What about this sun darling"
"This is the interesting part. See when they got here the environment wasn't habitable. So they created artificial sun Yaz"
"Really? What the whole thing...how?"
"Yes...look...it was all made in parts then remotely sent up there and remotely assembled from down here. Amazing Yaz"
"That's crazy...And amazing ...So it's literally artificial sun"
"Yes...look Yaz I have all the blue prints...but it's so old and without maintenance...well...it started deteriorating. I have a whole design Yaz...I know exactly how it is done. I'm impressed"
"Can you fix it darling?" she looked at her
"I don't know beautiful...I need to really study everything. Even if I can...this isn't going to be easy. I can't do this alone. This was done by hundreds of people all working together"
"I believe in you" she smiled
"I think you're giving me way too much credit Yaz" she said closing the book "Come on...let's get ready for dinner. I can't believe I had it here all this time...Just didn't know what I was looking for"
"You keep saying we need to sort out the library"
"We do...we should do that when we get back home" Doctor draped her arm around her shoulder kissing her temple
….
They walked down the street slowly towards the tavern. Doctor was chatting away with Hakim and Yaz was walking with her mum. Sonya and Ryan took off on their own somewhere so it was only them four.
"I can't wait to see the book" Hakim said exited
"I can't believe I had it...all this time I'm trying to figure out what that thing is and I had all the answers right there under my nose"
"So what are you going to do Doctor? Can it be repaired?"
"Not sure...I need to look at it more...It's a challenge I must admit"
Yaz took her mother's hand as they walked and smiled at her sideways "What's bothering you?"
"Nothing Yaz...I was just thinking, that's all"
"What about?"
"You're gonna think I'm crazy" she smiled
"Me...seriously...didn't you notice my life?"
"I was thinking do I want to go back home"
"Whaaat?....What do you mean?"
"I don't know Yaz...sometimes I just look at all these places and I'm wondering do I wanna go back to my life"
"I thought you like your life?"
"I did too...but then I sometimes look at the simplicity of life on all these places amd I think...do I?...like it" she looked at her dreamy "Or would I prefer to just lead more simpler life on one of these places"
"But mum...what would you do?"
"I don't know Yaz...maybe I'm just dreaming...that's all" she cupped her hand amd smiled "Your eyes have seen soo much baby...all I've ever seen is Sheffield"
"Oh mum" Yaz slipped her hand around her waist and kissed her cheek
"I know it's not all nice Yaz...I get that...but still. Sometimes I look at you two...there's so much love between you. And you get to see it all together. It's so beautiful...special"
"Well...I tell you what" she pressed her cheek to her mums "I'll speak to her...see if we can do this more often...Would you like that?"
"I'd love that Yaz...And one more thing I wanted to tell you"
"What mum?"
"I'm sorry iff I sounded a bit weird when you said about the baby...I was just confused"
"Mum...don't be silly...I know...It's just something that means so much to both of us. I don't want her to be alone one day. Losing me is one thing, but losing your child is something completely different...I don't want her going through that again"
"Again Yaz?"
"Yeah...she only told me once...she said a part of her died with them"
"OMG...I'm so sorry"
"So she's over the moon for this...this means to her more than anything and she was so, so scared. Instead of being truly happy she kept crying thinking how this is just all a short moment and then she's gonna lose it all again.
She sees it as another chance that she's been given...a miracle"
"Poor woman" she shook her head "I can't even imagine...uff"
"Doctor is old mum...she lost more than any of us can even imagine" Yaz looked towards the Doctor lovingly "So this baby being like her means a little bit less pain...and a lot more happiness for her in a future"
"I didn't see it that way Yaz...I'm sorry"
"Don't say sorry...how could you know" she smiled "Love ya"
"Hey Yaz...look" Doctor turned around haply pointing to the sky
"Oh waaaw...what's that?"
"Galaxy...like Milky Way" she smiled "Amazing isn't it? Billion stars Yaz...right up there"
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Doctor was sitting in a bed with her back against the headboard and reading through the book waiting for Yaz.
"Did you know that they were mining here for over two thousand years Yaz"
"Blimey" she turned around as she was brushing her teeth "That's a long time"
"Their history is amazing...Also they had mining colonies on fifty other planets all across the universe and they were supplying stone to over 350 different worlds...it's staggering"
"It's so tragic what happened to them"
"It is...it's sad" Doctor closed the book and put it on a side table
"So people of Zwari never new this?"
"No...it looks like they didn't. Even iff they have found leftovers of some other civilization before them Zwari are not really that enthusiastic about archeology Yaz"
"How can you not be...I would be so intrigued" she said slipping under the covers
"Well Yaz...you and I love to ask questions...some people don't" she said yawning
and lied next to Yaz snuggling "What's wrong with me? I'm so tired" she said wrapping her arm around Yaz and rubbing her nose against her cheek
"Even you have limits darling" Yaz started giggling suddenly
"What?" Doctor asked confused
"Just thinking about Ryan flying out of Tardis"
"How did he not see we are almost half a meter of the ground?" Doctor laughed
"I don't know...I don't think he looked down" Yaz laughed like crazy
"You got the giggles Yaz" she laughed
"And the worm"
"You should've seen his face when they came back" Doctor slumped her head into Yaz's chest laughing
"You didn't tell him did you?"
"Noooo" she she laughed like crazy "He thought they come in a box" she almost screamed laughing
"Poor sod"
"Iff I did he would've never agreed to go" Doctor laughed into her neck
"You're cheeky"
Doctor looked at her grinning "But it's so cute...and the jiggle"
"I love the jiggling...it's adorable" Yaz giggled
"I love those dimples" she looked at her lovingly "My little head wonks"
They fell silent gazing at each other "What would I do without you?" Yaz said stroking her face
"Sorting out parking tickets in Sheffield" they said together laughing
"You silly goof" Yaz said dotting kisses on her lips
"I love you my sweet potato" she kissed her gently
"You and your potato" Yaz smiled into her lips then tucked her head into her neck "I'm so tiered"
"Me too" Doctor wrapped her fingers at the back of her head and sighed closing her eyes
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