When he felt the pain begin to ease, he feared again that she was trying to take it from him, but realized that, in fact, she was attempting to heal it. He couldn't deny her that.

The pain eased with her and the more bricks he lay between himself and the diseased part of him. Each one was easier than the last, until he could feel a wall there, a wall between himself and the hole that was his TARDIS.

He shuddered and clung to Reinette as though she were his only lifeline. In many ways, he realized, she was.