A/N - One last chapter to tie up some loose ends before we get into the "Impossible Girl" series arc. Katherine Mcnamara from "Shadowhunters" will be portraying the Second Elise.

Elise woke up in an odd bed in a room she didn't recognize. "Dad?" Elise called.

She wasn't on the TARDIS, that much she knew. She stood up and stumbled to the door. Her mind was swimming. She remembered regenerating and the lizard woman.

What was her name? Vestra? No, Vastra. Madame Vastra.

Where was she? When was she?

Everything was so fuzzy and her head hurt.

Elise made her way into the hallway.

"Madame Elise. You shouldn't be out of bed," a brunette woman in a maid outfit said, coming towards her.

"Who are you?" Elise asked. She didn't understand what was going on. Where was her father?

"I'm Jenny, ma'am. You know that," the woman, Jenny, said, "Let's get you changed." Jenny reached out to touch Elise, but she backed away like a caged animal.

"Get away from me! Where's my father!" she yelled.

"Miss, please. You need to calm down. You'll feel better once you lay down and rest some more."

"I don't want to..." Elise fell to her knees as pain racked her body. She pressed a hand to her chest. "Something's wrong."

"Nothing's wrong, miss. You just need more sleep."

"I...I don't think I want to."

Jenny helped her up and back to her room. Jenny helped her undress and Elise noticed a tattoo.

Roses with thorns wound up her side and stopped at her neck. They were beautiful. Elise touched her neck where the tattoo stopped.

"We'll need to find something to cover that up," Jenny said.

"What? Why?" Elise asked.

"You're in Victorian London, miss."

"Am I?"

Jenny handed her a green dress. "Matches your eyes."

"Does it?" Elise looked at herself in the mirror. This body had more of a womanly shape. She had red hair exactly like Amy's, but her eyes were green. A beautiful pale green.

Jenny handed her a shawl to cover the tattoo winding up her neck.

They went downstairs.

"Who is this?" Latimer asked.

"It's complicated," Jenny told him. Jenny ran over to the window. "They're growing! The snowmen are growing!"

"What should we do?"

"Jenny, did the Doctor leave my screwdriver?" Elise asked.

"No ma'am."

Elise cursed under her breath, making Latimer and the maid gasp.

Jenny smiled. This Elise had more fire than the first one.

"No, you must fight. Hang on and fight, boy. You can do it," Strax told Clara.

Latimer rushed to her side.

"Captain Latimer. Your children. They're afraid. Hold them," she said.

"It's not really my area."

"It is now."

There was a crack of thunder outside and the snow turned to rain.

"What's going on?" Jenny asked.

"The snow. It mirrors."

"But what's it mirroring?"

Elise turned to Jenny. "What's the most powerful thing in the world?"

The TARDIS reappeared in the study.

The Doctor entered the room and found Elise kneeling at Clara's bedside. The newly regenerated Timelord was holding her hand.

"Who are you?" Clara asked her.

"Just a friend", Elise answered.

"You seem familiar."

"Do I? Maybe we've met in another life."

"Yeah, maybe."

The Doctor could see that Elise hadn't lost her compassion for life. If anything, it had been strengthened by the loss they had suffered in the last few years.

"I'm sorry. There was nothing to be done. She has moments only," Strax told the Doctor.

The Doctor approached Clara and Elise.

"We saved the world, Clara, you and me. We really, really did."

"Are you going back to your cloud?"

"No more cloud. Not now."

"Why not?"

"It rained." The Doctor hung his head.

"Run."

The Doctor looked at her.

"Run, you clever boy. And remember."

The clock struck midnight on Christmas day as Clara died.

Clara's funeral was a few days later.

"And what about the Intelligence? Melted with the snow?" Vastra asked.

"No, I shouldn't think so. It learned to survive beyond physical form," the Doctor said.

"Well, we can't be in much danger from a disembodied Intelligence that thinks it can invade the world with snowmen," Jenny remarked.

"Or that the London Underground is a key strategic weakness," Vastra added.

The Doctor took out Dr. Simeon's business card. "The Great Intelligence. Rings a bell. The Great Intelligence."

Elise and the Doctor approached the grave as Latimer and his children left.

"Doctor?" Jenny asked. Jenny and Vastra walked up behind the Doctor as he examined the gravestone.

"I never knew her name. Her full name." She had the same name as the girl from the Dalek Asylum. "Soufflé girl. Oswin. It was her. It was soufflé girl again. We never saw her face the first time with the Daleks, but her voice, it was the same voice."

"Doctor?" Jenny asked.

"The same woman, twice. And she died both times. The same woman!"

"Doctor, please, what are you talking about?" Vastra asked.

"Something's going on. Something impossible, something. Right, you two stay here. Stay right here. Don't move an inch."

"Are you coming back?"

"Shouldn't think so!"

"But where are you going?"

"To find her. To find Clara."

"Hey! Wait up!" Elise called, running after him.

Elise came into the control room. She'd changed out of the black funeral dress, but the dark color remained.

The Doctor looked up and frowned.

Gone were the bright colors and in its place was black.

She wore a black tank top under a black leather jacket. On her legs were a pair of black skinny jeans and black knee high boots.

All the black made her red curls stand out more. It was evident that this regeneration had taken traits from both Amy and River, the two most influential women on her last body. But her eyes were all him. A bright green identical to his own.

"What?" she asked him.

"Nothing." As much as he loved Elise, he'd miss the little girl he raised. His beautiful flower child. The one he got killed.

"You're blaming yourself aren't you?" she asked.

The Doctor smiled. He'd missed her. This version of her had become his best friend. She was always blunt and always said what was on her mind, unlike her first body.

"It isn't your fault. I should've paid more attention." She approached him and he noticed that she held herself differently. Her first body had always tried to keep to the shadows, not be noticed. But this one walked with her head high and a defiant look in her eyes.

The Doctor wrapped his arms around her. He noticed that she was shorter. She usually came up to his chin. This incarnation barely came up to his shoulders. "I'm so sorry. I should've been there when you woke up."

Elise shrugged. "I was scared and confused at first, but Jenny was kind enough to explain what was going on."

Elise stepped back from him and walked over to the console. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's find Clara."

The Doctor laughed and smiled, throwing levers and pushing buttons.

This was going to be fun.