A/N - I really love this chapter.

"It is our intent to leave. If it is your intent to stop us, perhaps we should get down to business," Vastra said and they raised their weapons.

Elise, Jenny, Strax, and Vastra went to work slicing at the robots, but they just kept coming.

It was strange to see Elise fighting, but Clara had no idea what had happened on Trenzalore.

"How many do you estimate, my dear?" Vastra asked Jenny.

"More than upstairs. About twenty, thirty?"

"The ones upstairs were mere decoys. These are battle ready. I anticipate a challenge."

Strax laughed as he mowed down the robots. "Don't worry, my boy, we shall die in glory!"

"Okay. Good-o!" Clara said.

"Why can't you stay dead, coward?"

The robots kept getting back up.

They grabbed Vastra's arms and forced the sword from her grip. "Jenny!"

"Hold your breath. They're stupid. Everybody hold their breath," Clara told them. They did as Clara said.

The robots paused and then lowered their weapons.

Clara picked up the Doctor's screwdriver and crawled through the robots to the door. She tried sonicing it, but it wouldn't work.

Strax was about to fire his weapon when he passed out.

"Stop!" Vastra yelled.

Everyone started breathing again.

Just as the robot were about to run them through with their swords, they stopped. They doubled over, deactivating as Clara and Jenny fainted.

They arrived back at Madame Vastra's, but the Doctor was nowhere to be found.

Clara walked up to where the TARDIS had been.

"I fear we have missed him," Vastra said.

"He'll be back," Elise reassured Clara.

"How do you know?"

"Because I know him." Elise turned and went inside to get changed. As she was lacing up her boots, she heard the time-rotor. She sprinted down the steps.

"Elise!" Vastra called.

"Yes?"

The lizard woman smiled. "When you find him, the one you're looking for, please come by for a visit. I'd love to meet him."

Elise nodded and ran outside with Clara.

The TARDIS had cleaned herself up and given herself a new paint-job.

Elise couldn't wait to see the inside.

Clara and Elise entered the TARDIS.

"You've redecorated," Clara said.

There were now stairs leading up to an upper platform that went all around the perimeter. There was a chalkboard and bookcases.

The Doctor sat in a leather armchair. "Yes."

"I don't like it."

"I love it," Elise breathed, looking all around her.

There was a twitch at the corner of the Doctor's mouth. No matter what body, he loved seeing Elise happy. "Not completely entirely convinced myself. I think there should be more round things on the walls. I used to have lots of round things. I wonder where I put them?"

He descended the stairs. "I'm the Doctor. I've lived for over two thousand years, and not all of them were good. I've made many mistakes, and it's about time that I did something about that. Clara, I'm not your boyfriend."

"I never thought you were," Clara told him.

"I never said it was your mistake." He put the TARDIS in flight. "What do you think?" he asked.

He threw back his jacket, exposing the red lining. He was wearing rather tight pants and chunky Doc Marten shoes that suspiciously looked like the male version of a pair that Elise herself owned. Other that the red lining and the white shirt, he was dressed all in black. Apparently another trait he'd picked up from his daughter.

"Who put that advert in the paper?" Clara asked, ignoring his question.

"Who gave you my number? A long time ago, remember? You were given the number of a computer helpline, and you ended up phoning the TARDIS. Who gave you that number?"

"The woman. The woman in the shop."

"Then there's a woman out there who's very keen that we stay together."

The TARDIS landed smoothly.

"How do you feel on the subject?" the Doctor asked.

"Am I home?"

"If you want to be."

"I'm sorry. I'm...I'm so...so sorry. But I don't think I know who you are any more." Her cellphone started ringing.

"You'd better get that. It might be your boyfriend," the Doctor told her.

"Shut up. I don't have a boyfriend." Clara went outside to answer the call.

Elise noticed a glint in her father's eye.

"Elise!" Clara called, "I...uh...I need you to come out here."

Elise looked at her father and he nodded.

"Go on."

She left the TARDIS and Clara handed her the phone. "Hello?"

"Ellie." The voice nearly sent Elise to her knees.

"Dad?"

She heard him sigh on the other end. "My Ellie. My clever, brave girl. I need you to be brave now."

"But..."

"Promise me. Promise me you'll help him."

Elise sniffled. "I promise."

"I love you Elise. You are the best thing that ever happened to me."

"I love you too, Doctor."

"Do you remember what I said to you? The very last thing I said to you?"

"You and me, no matter what."

"No matter what. One more thing. When the time comes and you meet him..."

"Who?"

"The one River told you about. The one you're meant to be with. Just know that I approve and I just want to see you happy. Goodbye Elise."

"Bye daddy."

The Doctor came out of the TARDIS. "Who was it? Was it the Doctor?" he asked.

Clara sniffled. "Yes."

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"He asked you a question. Will you help me?"

"You shouldn't have been listening."

"I wasn't. I didn't need to. That was me talking."

The Doctor scoffed. "You can't see me, can you? You look at me, and you can't see me. Have you any idea what that's like? I'm not on the phone, I'm right here, standing in front of you. Please, just, just see me."

Clara started to walk forward, but Elise stopped her.

Elise approached him, staring up into his now piercing blue eyes. "You and me, no matter what," she told him.

He offered her a small smile. Something about that smile was familiar to her. "No matter what."

She grabbed his face and pressed her forehead to his. Something she hadn't done since she was a child. She could look at him and still see the green eyed, bow-tie wearing Doctor and the Doctor who saved her. So she showed him.

The Doctor reversed the connection and showed her herself as a child. The scared brunette with the big blue eyes.

She laughed and threw her arms around his neck and he froze.

"I...I don't think I'm a hugging person now," he said.

"And I really don't care," Elise told him.

"Whatever you say."

Elise stepped back and Clara walked up to them.

"Thank you," she said.

"For what?" the Doctor asked.

"Phoning. This isn't my home, by the way."

"Sorry. I'm sorry about that. I missed."

"Where are we?"

"Glasgow, I think."

"Ah. You two will fit right in then. Scottish."

"Right. Shall we, er. Do you want to go and get some coffee, or chips, or something? Or chips and coffee?"

Clara and Elise laughed.

"Coffee. Coffee would be great. You're buying," Clara told him.

"I don't have any money."

"You're fetching, then."

"I'm not sure that I'm the fetching sort."

"I'm not sure you get a vote."

A/N - Do not be fooled by the fluff. They've still a while to go. There will be up and downs and arguments.