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Her breath came out in short bursts as she observed the scene. Strange figures roamed around the crash site, their overly large mouths snarling and growling to each other. There were dozens of them. She wasn’t too safe here hiding in the bushes, but she was reluctant to leave, knowing that people will come looking for her, unknowing of the dangers. Ripping some fabric off her pants, she tied it around her bleeding arm, thankful that she didn’t get more severely hurt.
Looking back up, she tried to calm her racing heart, but a blue figure to the right immediately made it go faster.
Leonard.
He was about 20 meters away, making his way out of the woods, oblivious to the creatures that would surely rip him to shreds if he was spotted. Silently cursing to herself, she raced through the trees, staying as low as she could. He was just about to enter the clearing when she all but tackled him into a bush, holding a hand to his mouth before he could yelp. She pushed his body onto the ground and dropped herself onto him to shield him from view. Her eyes darted through the leaves to see if anyone noticed the debacle.
“Y/N!” His voice was muffled and he removed her hand from his face before continuing. “What happened to your arm? Are you okay?” His voice was frantic but she didn’t pay mind to it as she was too busy watching out for their lives.
“Keep quiet!” she hissed, leaning further into him as one of the figures glanced their way.
“Y/N.”
She shushed him again, but he didn’t obey as he kept trying to get her attention.
“Y/N.”
“Shut your pretty mouth, Len, didn’t you see the freaking alien monsters-”
“Y/N.”
“I swear to god, I will kick yo-“
“I thought you were gone.” If it wasn’t for the voice crack at his last word she would’ve shushed him again. Confused, she spun her head only to see his teary eyes only inches from hers. The pain she found in them made her mind go blank and she became vividly aware of the lack of distance between them.
“Len… I, it was a small crash, nothing I couldn’t handle.” She stuttered, her heart leaping at the rare vulnerability the Doctor was showing.
“A small crash? Y/N, you… you jumped on a freaking enemy cargo ship and crashed it! Your comm broke, we thought you…” He trailed off, his hurt face suddenly converting into anger. “God, you just have to play the hero every damn time and pretend you’re not leaving anybody behind, huh?! Do you know what I- what we went through?! No, you only think about yourself, never others! You know,-“ His voice was raising with every word as she frenzied with trying to calm him down.
“Shut up, will you?!” She gave up and tried to put her hand on his mouth again but he pushed it away.
“-sometimes you are just so selfish and I-“
“Len!” She looked up to the site in a panic, hoping he would shut the hell up.
“-don’t understand how I even care for your immature ass-“
One glance at his blabbering mouth during her panicked state was enough for her to shut him up by grabbing his face and kissing him. Her lips tingled as they simply lay there with their lips pressed against each other before she pulled away, angrily fighting off a blush as she exploded.
“I was thinking of others when I took that risk but I see you’re fine with me getting killed by an armed alien-tribe, now will you close that damn mouth and let me try to get us out of here alive, ‘cause as much as I’d like to continue this, I also want to live a little longer!” He stared at her slack-jawed as she glanced back up, immediately panicking as she saw figures approaching.
“Why don’t we just go back to the ship” He suddenly inquired, pulling out his comm and speaking into it. “I found her.” Looking at him in confusion, she had just the time to search for something to defend herself with before they were surrounded by light and teleported away.
It only took her a second to realize she was in the teleporter room, and it took all but five to realize what just happened. Leonard gave her a sloppy grin as she glared at him.
“YOU HAD THAT ON YOU THE WHOLE TIME, WHY-?!” She stopped as she heard other people in the room and realized the exact position she and Leonard were in. Quickly getting up, she straightened her torn clothes and shot a withering glare at Leonard before striding out of the room, ignoring the smirks of her crewmates. She was all but five feet from the door when a hand gently grabbed her uninjured arm. Turning around, she tried her hardest to be angry in spite of his adorable smile.
“You said something about continuing this?” he whispered and this time either of them could hide their blush.
“Maybe if you fix my damn arm first.” She grumbled, trying and failing to fight off a smile.