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Chapter 23

A/N - I'm not really happy with this chapter, but I hope you like certain parts.


"Yes, it's a spaceship. Yes, it's bigger on the inside. Now, I don't have time to talk about it," the Doctor said, racing to the controls.

"But...but...but...but it's," Clara stuttered. "Shut up, please. Short hops are difficult."

"No they aren't. You just don't know how to drive her," Elise said, trying to calm Clara. This one was having difficulty processing what was going on.

"Both of you, shut up!"

"Bigger on the inside. Actually bigger," Clara said.

They landed with a thud.

"Right, come on!" the Doctor told them.

"We're going to go back out there?" Clara asked.

"We've moved. It's a spaceship. We flew away."

"Away from the plane?"

"Not exactly." The Doctor threw open the door and they were on the plane.

"How did we get here?"

"It's a ship. I told you. It's all very sciency."

They ran towards the cockpit.

"This is the plane? The actual plane? Are they all dead?"

"Asleep. Switched off by the WiFi. Never mind them." The Doctor soniced the cockpit door.

"What is going on? Is this real? Please, tell me what is happening!" Clara demanded.

"I'm the Doctor. This is my daughter Elise, who's really not my daughter. We're aliens from outer space. I'm a thousand years old, I've got two hearts and I can't fly a plane! Can you?"

"No."

Elise rolled her eyes. "Oh, get out of my way!" She pushed her father out of the way and grabbed the controls. Her fingers flew across the buttons as she flew the airplane.

Soon enough, the pilots came to.

Elise got up and turned to her father and Clara who were staring at her with wide eyes. "What? I read a book in the TARDIS library."

The Doctor laughed and grabbed her face, kissing her forehead. "You are brilliant. My brave, clever girl."

"What the hell's going on?" the pilot asked.

"Well, I'm blocking your Wi-Fi so you're waking up, for a start," the Doctor told him, "Tell you what, do you want to drive?"




"Okay. When are you going to explain to me what the hell is going on?" Clara asked when they got back to the TARDIS.

"Breakfast," the Doctor told her.

"What? I ain't waiting till breakfast."

"It's a time machine. You never have to wait for breakfast." The Doctor threw open the door and walked out to a crowd cheering. "Thank you, thank you. Yes, magic blue box."

He held out his fez and people started putting money in it. "All donations gratefully accepted. Roll up, give us your dosh. Pennies, pounds, anything you've got." He handed it to Clara. "Keep collecting. We need enough for breakfast. Just popping back to the garage."

"Garage?" Elise and Clara asked.

Elise didn't even know they had a garage in the TARDIS.

"So this is tomorrow, then. Tomorrow's come early," Clara said.

The Doctor came out of the TARDIS on a motorcycle.

It was towing a light blue Vespa behind it.

He got off the motorbike and handed the keys to the Vespa to Elise.

"It's mine?" she asked.

"Happy birthday, Elise. Sorry it's kinda late."

Elise smiled and threw her arms around his neck. Elise got on her new toy.

"Helmet," he told her.

Elise rolled her eyes. "Timelord."

The Doctor answered with an eye roll of his own. The Doctor turned to Clara. "No, it came at the usual time. We just took a short cut. Thank you, thank you. Tomorrow, a camel."




They ended up at a rooftop café.

Elise and Clara were finishing their breakfast while the Doctor used Clara's laptop.

"So if we can travel anywhere in time and space, why did we travel to the morning. What's the point in that?" Clara asked.

"Whoever's after us spent the whole night looking for us," the Doctor said, "Are you tired?"

"Yes," Elise and Clara answered together.

Elise was a Timelord, so she didn't require that much sleep. Perhaps that was another trait this new body had taken from their former human companions.

"Then imagine how they feel. They came the long way round. They've got to be close. Definitely London going by the signal distribution. I can hack the lowest level of their operating system but I can't establish a physical location. The security's too good."

"Whatever, I'm getting more coffee," Elise said. She got up and left the table, going back into the café. She collided with someone as she reached the doorway.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" Elise looked up and her green eyes met a pair of blue ones. The next thing she noticed was his dark hair and strong jaw line.

The man smirked. "It's okay, Red."

Elise's cheeks burned as she stood there frozen. It was like her brain had stopped working.

"You okay?" he asked her.

"Um, yeah. Sorry." Elise rushed past him to the counter. Elise noticed he lingered in the doorway staring out onto the patio.

"Miss?" the barista asked.

"Oh sorry." Elise gave the barista her order and name. She was about to pay, when the man walked up behind her.

"On me." The man handed the barista some money.

"Thank you," Elise told him.

The man winked at her and said, "Anytime Red." He walked away as the barista handed Elise her coffee.

When Elise turned around, the man was gone. That was odd. Elise didn't remember seeing the man leave, seeing as the door was just a few feet from where she was standing. Elise finally shrugged and made her way back onto the patio, passing her father on the way out.

"Keep an eye on Clara," he told her.

Elise gave him a mini salute and started drinking her coffee. Elise sat down next to Clara.

"Is he really your father? Seems a bit young," Clara said.

"Well he's more of my adoptive father. It's kind of a long story."

The Doctor came running back outside, without coffee. "You okay?" the Doctor asked Clara.

"Sure. Setting up stuff. Need a username."

"Learning fast."

"Clara Oswald for the win. Oswin!"

Elise's head snapped up from the book she was reading. She looked at the Doctor who looked like he was remembering the girl from the Dalek Asylum like she was.

He ran back inside the café, while Clara did her thing. The next time the Doctor came out onto the patio, he calmly walked over to the two women.

"I did it. I really did. I did it. I did it. I found them," Clara told him.

"You found them."

"The Shard. They're in the Shard. Floor sixty five."

"Floor sixty five."

"Are you listening to me, Doctor? I found them."

"I'm listening to you. You found them." His head started to turn, revealing that he was a walking base station.

Before Elise had time to do anything, it uploaded Clara. Elise pulled her sonic screwdriver and tried to reverse the upload, but it didn't work. She cursed the Doctor for not installing all the apps his had on it.

She rushed at the base station, sonic in hand, only to have it grab her around the throat and lift her in the air. With its other hand, it knocked the sonic from her hand. Elise tried kicking the base station, but it was solid like a rock.

"Clara! Elise!" The real Doctor came running out onto the patio.

Clara cried out from the base station. "Doctor? Doctor, help me. I, I don't know where I am. I don't understand. Doctor, help me, please. I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am! I don't know where I am. Doctor, please. Please help me. Please help me. I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am."

The Doctor pulled out his sonic and soniced the base station.

It dropped Elise, who started coughing.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

Elise smacked him. "Elise!" He hadn't been slapped by a redhead sine Donna. Elise was truly her mother's daughter.

"When this is over, I want every single app you have on your screwdriver. No more training wheels, understand?"

The Doctor nodded, rubbing his now sore cheek.

"Now let's save Clara."

The Doctor smiled and opened Clara's laptop.




Clara started to wake up from her sleep. "Doctor?" she asked, as the Doctor stroked her hair. But when she opened her eyes, the two Timelord's were gone.

They eventually returned (outside her home) and Clara knocked on the door of the TARDIS.

"Come in," the Doctor called.

Clara entered the TARDIS and found the Doctor sitting on the stairs, reading a book. "So, they come back, do they?" she asked.

"You didn't answer my question," the Doctor said.

"What question?"

"You don't seem like a nanny."

"I was going to travel. I came to stay for a week before I left, and during that week..."

The Doctor closed the book and put it down. "She died, so you're returning the favor. You've got a hundred and one places to see, and you haven't been to any of them, have you? That's why you keep the book."

"I keep the book because I'm still going."

The Doctor took off his glasses. "But you don't run out on the people you care about. Wish I was more like that. You know, the thing about a time machine..." He joined Clara on the platform. "...you can run away all you like and still be home in time for tea, so what do you say? Anywhere. All of time and space, right outside those doors."

Clara laughed. "Does this work?"

"Eh?"

"Is this actually what you do? Do you just crook your finger and people just jump in your snog box and fly away?"

"It is not a snog box."

"I'll be the judge of that."

"Starting when?"

Clara thought for a moment. "Come back tomorrow. Ask me again."

"Why?"

"Because tomorrow, I might say yes. Sometime after seven okay for you?" Clara ran over to the doors.

"It's a time machine. Any time's okay."

"See you then."

"Clara? In your book there was a leaf. Why?"

"That wasn't a leaf. That was page one."

Clara left and the Doctor ran to the controls. "Right then, Clara Oswald. Time to find out who you are."

The Doctor looked over at Elise.

She smiled. "Geronimo."

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