After the Rain - Chapter 34"Look, I don't care what it would do to her, I want to know why she's different now!"Shana knew that voice. She didn't know where she was, but she knew that voice and it meant danger. She tried to open her eyes, but she couldn't see. She tried to move, but she couldn't. She had to remain calm.Think Shana... She thought to herself, as she tried to make her brain concentrate on everything around her.She knew she wasn't in the Tardis, Michelle said she was the only one who could get in it, so her peons couldn't have brought her in. If she could guess, somewhere on Earth. Somewhere relatively close to where she was taken from."Welcome ba
After the Rain - Chapter 33The Doctor had been in Sick Bay for hours, running the multitude of tests that he knew would give him the answer he needed. The answer that had to match his suspicions. The centrifuge was running non-stop, spinning her samples. Just a few more minutes. That's all that there is left and he would know.He twirled his sonic screwdriver in his fingers, waiting for the machine to stop. A watched pot doesn't boil. He turned his back to the machine, leaned up against the counter, closing his eyes.It was then, that he realized something was missing. He let his mind reach out, finding a hole. Shana? Did she close him off to spend time with the oth
After the Rain - Chapter 32Shana had walked into the library in search of a book. What she had found, instead, was a napping American, feet propped up on the Doctor's desk, chair flipped back, dead to the world. Shana would have left him alone, let him sleep, just grabbed a book and left... Except for the fact that he wasn't sleeping."Jack, since you are awake, and we have another four hours before the deadline, how about taking me out shopping.""How did you know?" He said, sitting up, stretching his arms. She came over and hopped up onto the desk, grinning at his surprised face that she had figured him out."Jack, I don't know what it is about the Doctor, but app
After the Rain - Chapter 31They had kept the meal courteous, the conversation light. It was hard to talk, when half of everything you know can't be said cause of time lines, paradoxes and secrets.When the last of the large meal was finished, they each relaxed back in their chairs. Jack, having eaten four slices of pizza, had left all the crust on his plate. Shana reached over, snagging one, wishing for some alcohol. She felt the Tardis in her mind, the reaction more like a "not now" then a no or a yes, and she sighed. Damn ship will give her all the Corda she wants, but not alcohol."So, I was going over some thoughts in my head," The leather Doctor started. "Shana,
After the Rain - Chapter 30Shana sat quietly in a far corner of the small Atrium, her legs crossed, her back to a tree, her fingers caressing a fallen leaf in her palm. She closed her eyes, leaning back further into the tree, wishing her mind could be blank of all thoughts, if only for a few minutes of peace.It had been two hours since she had seen Michelle. Despite her bravado, she had been shaking the moment she had heard the greeting. She had worked so hard to push every memory of that whole life out of her mind. Tuck it away into some old dusty box in the attic of her memory. She didn't want the memories of the torment. She didn't want to remember the nights
After the Rain - Chapter 29Shana half ran, half stomped her way through the corridors of the Tardis. Her mind was spinning out of control, angry at the Doctor for his assumptions, his decisions. Angry at the Tardis. No, correction. Angry at two Tardises. One for leaving, and one for trying to constantly supply her with crap she doesn't need. She crossed the Console Room and headed out the door. She needed the outdoors. Wind, air... if she was lucky, it's raining.She flung open the doors to a beautiful, sunny, cloudless, windless day in Cardiff.How in the hell is it windless near a wharf? It's like that to piss you off even further, She thought to herself.She turn