Titel: You, my Compass and my Sea

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who. Simple as that. It never stops making me sad, though.

Synopsis: Traveling changes you, people said. The places you go and the people you see change the way you look it at life. It expands your horizon. That's what people say about traveling on Earth, so how much will traveling through all of time and space with the Doctor and his snog box change Clara? [A collection of Whouffle/Clocktor one shots and drabble thingies based on the prompts given by the OTP Boot Camp Challenge.]

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Injustice

Clara isn't stupid, of course she knows that the world isn't all justice and fairness sprinkled with happiness and laughter. She has learned that at the tender age of 16, when her mother died and left her gapingly empty and heartbroken for months.

Of course that was nothing in comparion to the pain her father, Dave Oswald, felt, even though he tried his very best to hide it from her. Consciously she knows that he only tried to protect her, but back then, she felt as if he was excluding her from his grief and left her alone with her own. It took her teenage mind and teenage heart a bit of time to forgive him for it.

That wasn't really fair from her either and the knowledge of the additional pain she inflicted on her father with her cold looks and the way she had sometimes flinched or turned away when he tried to hug her makes her insides churn.

She hates thinking about the way she has added more injustice to the already too big pile of it. She generally hates thinking about injustice because there is just so much of it in the world and what can she, a little girl from England, do about it?

Nothing.

Or at least that's what she thought because standing here, on the edge of this asteroid in a foreign solar system in a galaxy far away from home, watching this thing – this God – parasite – sun – planet – alien – thing – shrivel up and die away next to this impossible boy makes her believe that maybe there is something she can do.

It makes her believe that even though there is so much injustice in the world – like Mum's dying long before their time and starving children in Africa or little girls being expected to sacrifice themselves to a God – there is someone who is trying his very best to change that. To righten some of the injustices.

It makes her believe that even though the world isn't all justice and fairness sprinkled with happiness and laughter, it isn't the bleak and terrible place she thought it was at sixteen.

It makes her believe in hope and justice again.