Space was always silent. Always, well, at least in that certain time period. Nothing was heard, ever, or ever changed, with the exception of the orbiting planets and moons, as well as the occasional supernova every few thousand years.
So if anyone just so happened to be around when a police telephone box come spinning through space, they'd be surprised.
"All of time and space, and I still can't figure out how on Earth she died, then died again, then I found her again, but she doesn't remember me! How does that work?" Asked a man sitting on a chair inside the bigger on the inside console room. He had floppy brown hair, and was wearing a grey vest over a shirt, with suit pants and army boots, with a bow tie to top it all of. He shut the book he was reading and stood up in a frustrated fashion.
"Over a thousand years of time and space travel, and I've never ever had to deal with something like this!" He yelled while waving his hands about as he talked.
"Eleven versions of me, and none of them have any knowledge on the subject!" He suddenly stopped, and leaned against the console unit, a confused, yet happy look etched upon his face.
"Actually, this is kind of nice!" He said, grinning, standing up fully and slightly swaying back and forth on his feet. "Something I don't know! That's new, I usually know everything, and that gets really annoying sometimes" The TARDIS made a groaning noise. Annoyed, the man hit the console.
"It's not bragging, it's just, well, true" He replied to the machine, straightening his bow tie. "Actually, no it's not true, I don't understand Clara Oswald, even though I pretend to" He said, no walking around the TARDIS. He suddenly stopped, and looked down at his watch.
"Actually, it's Wednesday! Well, not really, it's Monday in this time zone, but let's go to Wednesday, 2013! One, well, it's 'Clara day' really, and two, I hate Monday's their boring, nothing happens on them" The Doctor ran around the console unit, flicking switches, and pulling knobs, the TARDIS zipping through time to 2013.
"Besides, when did I last see Clara?" Asked the Doctor. The TARDIS made a slight groan sound in response. The Doctor once again looked annoyed at his time machine's answer.
"Well, I did see her yesterday, but, that was yesterday for me, a week for her, so, never mind!" He said, throwing his hands in the air in exclamation.
The TARDIS materialised in the front yard of where Clara Oswald lived while taking care of her family friends children, Angie and Artie. Inside the TARDIS the Doctor put on his long purple coat, and literally ran out the door.
It was a bright and sunny day, all of the flowers in the garden in full bloom. The Doctor smiled to himself, admiring the day for a second, before walking up to the front door, and knocking on it.
When the door opened, instead of seeing Clara Oswald, a young boy with long curly brown hair was standing their.
"Ah! Artie, hello! How are you!" The Doctor said, smiling down at the Artie Maitland. Artie smiled back politely, looking at the Doctor.
"I'm very well, thank you. Are you here to see Clara?" He asked simply. The Doctor beamed, and clapped his hands together, leaning forward on the soles on his feet.
"Yep! It's Wednesday! Well, at least now it is, it was Monday before, but never mind that, it's a bit confusing" Finished the Doctor, as Artie was looking at the Doctor, slightly confused.
"Ill just call Clara" Artie said politely. He turned around, and yelled up the stairs.
"Clara! Your boyfriends here to see you!" He yelled. The Doctor gave a quiet chuckle at that. For some reason, he had no obligation to being referred to as 'Clara's boyfriend'.
It took a few moments, but finally, Clara came down the staircase. She was wearing a purple dress with white dots, black legging, a purple cardigan and her long brown hair untied. When she got down to the bottom of the staircase, she basically jumped at the Doctor, hugging him, and nearly knocking the time lord off his feet.
"Doctor!" She said, still hugging him.
"Clara Oswald!" He replied, Clara letting go of him. "How've you been?" He asked. Clara smiled.
"I've been very good! So, where are we off to today?" She asked, but the Doctor nodded towards Artie. Clara laughed.
"Sorry Artie, nearly forgot you there! Well, I'll be out for the day, as always on Wednesdays, are you doing anything?" She asked.
"Not much, I'll just be at home" Artie replied. Clara ruffled his hair.
"Well, you have fun doing not much" Artie grinned, and went back inside, shutting the door behind him, leaving the Doctor and Clara outside. They grinned at each other.
"So, as I said earlier, where are we off to today?" She asked, clearly excited.
"Well, I don't know, actually! Any requests?" Asked the Doctor. Clara's smile only got larger.
"How about somewhere amazing!" She said. The Doctor grinned.
"I think I know just the place" He replied. The pair ran inside the TARDIS, Clara taking a look around when they got in.
"I'll never get over how amazing this place is" She said breathlessly. The Doctor, who had bounced over to the console, smiled.
"It never ceases to amaze, does it?" He said in reply, look around his home.
"No, it never does" Replied Clara. Looking back at the Doctor, she smiled.
"So, where are we going?" She asked. "It better be amazing" She ran up to the console unit, and lent against it. The Doctor grinned, and began running around flicking switches.
"Oh, somewhere that I know you'll love" He relied, reaching around Clara to flick a switch, then kept on running around.
"How come your always running around the TARDIS when you go from place to place?" Asked Clara. The Doctor smiled.
"Well, the TARDIS is meant to have multiple pilots, six I think, anyway, theirs only me" He replied. Clara nodded slowly.
"So, your doing the work of six people?" She asked. The Doctor grinned.
"Yep" He said. He finally came to a stop, his hand resting on one of the levers. He looked at Clara, both of them grinning.
"Ready?" Asked the Doctor.
"Always" Relied Clara. The Doctor pulled the lever, and the TARDIS dematerialised from Clara's front yard.
"Geronimo" Said the Doctor, running over to the door, Clara right behind him.
"Where are we" Asked Clara eagerly. The Doctor opened the TARDIS door, light flooding inside.
"Have a look" He replied, grinning. Slowly, Clara looked out of the TARDIS.
The TARDIS was a top a large ice mountain, which over looked a valley that was covered in beautiful ice shapes, and more snow topped mountains. Clara looked out of the TARDIS, a look of delight appearing on her face as she stared upon the beauty of the planet they had landed on.
"Wow!" She said, starting around in amazement, picking up a handful of snow, and twirling her finger through it, comparing it to the snow back on earth, which Clara was sure was millions of miles away.
"This planet, this amazing planet, I absolutely love it! Only been here once, but all the-" The Doctor began his usual standard protocol of giving his companion the brief overview of the planet, but he quickly stopped talking, just realising where the two had landed. He looked around quizzically, then staring back into his time machine, the mechanical wonder taking it's mind of its own, and bringing them to a destination that was millions of miles away from the destination in the mind of it's driver.
"The snow's the same" Clara said, twirling about the snow, then suddenly dropping down onto the enormous white pillow of snow, and began doing a snow angle, laughing.
"Well, this planet is amazing, but..." The Doctor began, looking around for some sign that they would be needed on the planet.
"But what?" Asked Clara, rolling onto her stomach and looking at the Doctor, still laying down in a completed snow angle.
"This isn't where we're supposed to be. I mean, I know where we are, it's the home of the Ood, great species, but still, I have no idea why we are here" Clara propped herself up onto here knees, before standing up, and walking over to the Time Lord, shrugging.
"Well it's still a nice place" She said, crossing her arms, her expression a mixture of wonder of the place, and confusion at the predicament at hand. "So are you saying that the TARDIS-" She was cut off by an excited noise that came from the Doctor, causing Clara to look at him, baffled by his sudden change of expression.
"Look! Over there, it's an Ood!" He said excitedly, pointing over to where the hill began to slope down, revealing a character that was walking towards the pair. When the character walked over the hill, the Ood was revealed, it's orb that granted it the ability to talk in it's hand.
"I love a good Ood! Really, when their nice, they are very nice. Unfortunately, I have met them a few times and they've been a tad bit evil, but you know, that was all possession-y stuff" The Doctor explained to Clara, then proceeding to put his hands behind his back, and walk up to the Ood to great it, Clara behind him.
"Ood, hello! I'm the Doctor if you don't recognise me, last time I saw you I was all spiky hair if you recall" The Doctor attempted to spike his hair up like his previous incarnation, only for it to flop down onto his face again.
"Doctor" The Ood said, tilting it's head to one side, as if considering him, it's orb in it's hand lighting up.
"Does it need the orb to talk?" Asked Clara, her voice a whisper, still keeping her eyes on the new alien.
"It's telepathy, but yeah, it basically does need to orb thingy to talk. Always wondered if they could talk without it, but probably not" The Doctor replied, a grin set upon his face.
"The Doctor has returned to the planet of the Ood" The Ood continued, it's orb lighting up once again. "The story continues" The Doctor's face lit up even more if possible, bouncing on his feet.
"Ood Sigma! Sorry I did not recognise you, how rude of me, I am very sorry" The Doctor said, hands waving about as he addressed the last living creature his tenth incarnation saw.
"Your mind is clouded, Doctor. Always, you are saving people, alway, yet your mind is preoccupied by a mystery" At the words of the Ood, the Doctor's smile faltered, the corners of his mouth drooping. "Sorry?" The Doctor asked, knowing exactly what, or rather whom, Ood Sigma was referring too.
"The enigma that your mind is forever preoccupied in. Yet the enigma has now become a rose, inside the garden in your head" The Doctor stared at Ood Sigma, eyes wide, explosions going off inside his brain, as he realised just how right Ood Sigma was, revealing the truth that the Doctor had subconsciously trying to block out, the truth that he was unaware of.
The Ood then suddenly broke it's prophecy like gave on the two, turning to the valley, and gesturing to it wiht it's free hand. "Would you like to visit the city of their Ood?" A smile returned to the Doctor's face, the Time Lord not entirely sure if it was fake, or real, yet the Ood's words had certainly triggered something inside the Time Lord's head, his though's set into motion.
"Certainly! Clara" He said, turning to his closest friend, some tiny bit of paranoia going off inside his brain, saying that Clara had understood the Ood's message to him, however strange it was. "The Ood city is a work of pure art and beauty! Never mind where we were going, I personally think we should take a look at the city" He said, this time a real grin set upon his face, the prospect of returning to the Ood city exciting. Clara grinned, grabbing the Doctor's arm. Despite her doing doing this on multiple other occasion where he was perfectly comfortable with it, the Doctor felt slightly awkward, and felt his face heat up.
"Well, any alien planet is bound to be amazing, right? But the creature, the 'Ood', they don't make prophecy like things all the time, do they, because that sounded like some sort of prophecy" She said, looking up at the Doctor in wonder and excitement, while the Doctor, began having a very rare panic attack.
"Prophecy? What, no, that wasn't a prophecy, not in the slightest. I've seen prophecies, not one of them was like that!" The Doctor said, waving his hands about more than usual, and nodding his head once he'd finished his answer. Clara just shook her head at the Doctor's reaction to her question. "Well, anyway, lets go visit some Ood's!" He said cheerfully, heading down the hill after Ood Sigma, with Clara.
Hours later, or earlier, depending on your point of view, the Doctor dropped Clara back home, before stepping inside the TARDIS, where his usual cheerful grin fell from his face, and was replaced by a look of confusion, which was directed at the TARDIS console.
"You took us their on purpose, you wanted me to realise!" He said in confusion, throwing his coat down across the passenger seat. "Why on Gallifrey would you do that, I mean you don't even like Clara!" He began pacing around the console unit, flicking switches and levers, sending his millennium long companion into flight through the time vortex.
"Really, you just wanted me to, you know, realise!" He said awkwardly, his pacing stopping as he wronged his hands together in an awkward position. The TARDIS made a made a small beeping noise at the Doctor, who just threw his hands up, and replied "Does it really need to be said?" In reply, the TARDIS made another beeping sound, this time louder than before.
"Fine!" The Doctor said, throwing his hands down, and looking anywhere but the TARDIS console or central column. "I'm in love with Clara Oswald!" The Doctor yelled, declaring his love for someone in over a millennium, his voice bouncing off the walls of the time machine in echo's.
"But it can't work, can it, I'm Time Lord, she's human, it would never work!" He yelled, then suddenly leaning against the TARDIS console in frustration. "That's the curse. The curse of the last Time Lord in existence. I'll be lonely forever" He said, his shoulders drooping while he looked at the floor. The TARDIS made another small beeping noise, causing the Doctor to look up, the Time Lord being the only person who could understand his machine.
"That's why you did it?" He asked, his voice barley a whisper. "You did it because I'm the last of the Time Lord's, you did it because I'm lonely!" His frown exploded into a smile, while he spun around laughing. "Thank you dear" He said, giving the console a fond pat, which was responded with a small beep from the machine.
"Well, I now have non idea what to do" He said, his face turning into a puzzled look. He look up at the central column, as if for help, but no response was made. He disappointed scowl appeared on his face. "So I have to do this part on my own, hey? That, that is very you" He said sighing. The shoved his hand in his pockets, before wondering off into the depths of the TARDIS to the library, where he would hopefully find some book on love.
A/N Hello, and welcome to my fanfic! Ok, I will admit, this is the third upload of this chapter, but hey, won't happen again. Anyways, enjoy the story, I've enjoyed writing so far, and don't fret, chapter five is still coming, it's on its way! Please review, fav and follow!
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