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"Hold on, Sarah!", the Doctor yelled over the noise as he pulled her over to stand between him and the Tardis console. He was frantically working the controls, attempting to stop the horrific sounds of the cloister bell, mixed with other system alarms going off simultaneously, along with the constant motion of the Tardis being rocked back and forth roughly as if she were a sailing vessel caught in a hurricane. Sarah held on to the console for dear life, making sure to keep her hands away from the controls the Doctor's hands were frantically working on. The constant back and forth of the Old Girl was really starting to cause Sarah to feel motion sickness and she found herself leaning back against the Doctor as an even stronger rocking sensation jolted the Tardis. She felt as if she was on an incredibly fast version of an amusement park ride called The Scrambler, which she used to love, but felt she'd never want to ride again after all this. She was relieved when the Doctor had reached out for her and placed her between him and the console. It gave her a small measure of security, although she knew she wasn't safe by any means. The Old Girl was a tough ship/sentient being, but even she couldn't constantly withstand whatever this was that was attempting to tear her apart.

Over the cacophony of alarms, Sarah could have sworn she heard the Doctor saying something, but she couldn't make out the words. As the intense rocking movement of the Tardis began to subside and as the alarms began to stop one by one, she was able to hear the Doctor more clearly. The cloister bell rang again, though, and the Doctor was concentrating intently on working the controls. What she heard him say, she still couldn't make out any of the words. They sounded eloquent and unlike any language she had ever heard before. As the cloister bell chimed a final ominous toll, Sarah realized something she should have known right off the bat. He's speaking Gallifreyan. The Tardis should be translating his words into English. Why isn't she doing that anymore, she wondered to herself in concern. The Doctor said another few words, this time with insistence, while touching her shoulder gently. She turned around to look up at his face, and asked, "Doctor, why isn't the Tardis translating your words for me?"

His look was one of surprise and concern. "I don't know, Sarah."

Sarah looked relieved as she said, "Now I can understand you."

As the rocking movement finally came to an end, the Doctor moved to the other side of the console, bent down, opened up one of the panels, and checked the circuitry. "That's because I'm now speaking to you in English. Whatever it was that the Old Girl went through has singed her translation circuits. I can repair them, of course, but it'll take time. With the multitude of other systems that need to be repaired, I fear that we'll have to dematerialize somewhere nearby and quickly. She won't be safe to travel in for a while".

He stood up and walked back around the console next to Sarah. Before he could even begin to search for a nearby planet, the dematerialization sequence began on its own. As the Doctor tried to determine how that happened, he switched on the view screen, a look of intense worry and fear in his eyes. The planet the Tardis had chosen to land on did not look inviting in the least. The landscape reminded Sarah of a desert wasteland on Earth, except the sand was a dark purple. There looked to be no vegetation at all and the night sky was beginning to get overcast, the ominous looking storm clouds slowly blocking out the stars.

Sarah looked from the view screen to him, noticed his expression, and asked in a slightly nervous voice, "Doctor, where has the Tardis brought us to?"

"It wasn't the Tardis that brought us here. Something set the dematerialization sequence. Sarah, the Tardis isn't showing any coordinates for this location. I have no idea where we've landed! How can this location not have coordinates? Every location in the universe has coordinates," the Doctor exclaimed, his anger more evident now than his fear.

Sarah laid a comforting hand on his forearm. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly, attempting to calm down and think logically through this problem. He noticed her hand on his forearm and gazed into her eyes. Even though he could see worry and fear there, he saw courage and strength as well. She looked at him as if she had no doubt that he would find a way to repair the Tardis and get them off this planet. Her confidence in him still amazed him, even after all they had been through on their adventures. He gently lifted her hand from his forearm and, without breaking eye contact, lifted her hand to his mouth and kissed it. "Thank you for your confidence in me, Sarah," he stated quietly with a small smile on his face.

All she could do was smile as she tried to fight the blush rising in her cheeks at such an intimate touch. In all their travels, he had never kissed her hand before. I wonder what it would be like to be properly kissed by him, she briefly thought to herself before quickly pushing that thought aside. Now was not the time to be thinking of such things. The Doctor had to get the Tardis repaired quickly and, by the Doctor's reaction to this planet, they had to leave as soon as possible.

He was still holding her hand and now had a more serious expression on his face as he stated, "It will take me at least a week to repair the damage done to the Old Girl. In that time, you are not to wander off outside. I'm hoping that the lack of coordinates has to do with the amount of damage inflicted. I should have a better idea of where we are once I've made the necessary repairs," he tried to sound optimistic about that, but he couldn't help the incessant fear and worry plaguing him about this planet. There was something very wrong about it, as if it shouldn't exist. His time sense was at a complete loss here, which left him feeling extremely vulnerable.

"Don't worry, Doctor. There's no way I'm going out there," she stated adamantly.

It was at that precise moment that the lights went out, the emergency lighting flickering feebly, along with the console and time rotor lights.