A/N: Hi everyone! This came very quickly as an idea for me, so I decided to write it while the idea was still in my head. It's a Doctor Who story based on something I read on Twitter relating to Clara and Rose. Hope you enjoy! Set before 'The Bells Of Saint John'. The speech in italics is directly from the episode, and is the phone call between Clara and the Doctor at the beginning of the episode. I highly recommend that you watch this episode if you haven't yet, otherwise the story will make absolutely no sense to you.
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Listening to: Chasing The Dragon by Epica
The Doctor and Clara's first adventure had just finished. But he had questions in his mind still about Clara, and so recalled his first conversation with that particular version of Clara.
The Doctor had never been more shocked in all his years, and his two hearts had never pounded more frantically when he heard the TARDIS phone ring. He had been in Cumbria, in the year 1207, trying to figure out who the mysterious woman who he had now seen as a Victorian and a Dalek really was when he was interrupted. He took a horse and rode to the sound of the ringing telephone, with the monks following. As soon as he reached the TARDIS, he gestured to the phone, and hesitantly picked the phone and began to speak.
"Hello?" he asked.
"Ah, hello," a woman replied. "I can't find the internet."
"I'm sorry?" He replied.
"It's gone, the internet. Can't find it anywhere. Where is it?" she asked.
"The internet?"
"Yes, the internet. Why don't I have the internet?"
The Doctor walked away from the TARDIS, phone in hand and the telephone line trailing behind him.
"It's 1207!"
"I've got 3:30. Am I phoning a different time zone?
"Yeah, you really sort of are."
"Will it show up on the bill?"
"Oh, I dread to think. Listen, where did you get this number?"
"Woman in the shop wrote it down. It's a helpline, isn't it? She said it was the best helpline out there. In the universe, she said."
"What woman? Who was she?"
"I don't know. The woman in the shop."
Now he thought about the conversation more, the Doctor found that he was becoming more and more confused about something that Clara had said during their long telephone conversation. 'Woman in the shop.'
In the Doctor's eyes, this could mean three people: Rose Tyler, Martha Jones or Sally Sparrow.
A few weeks later, and the Doctor had been given the address of the shop, and was ready to go to the shop as soon as he could. Before he could leave however, Clara asked him where he was going. "Just off to the shops. I'll be back before you know it." He replied.
"Yeah, I bet you will," Clara smiled, glancing at the TARDIS.
"Hey! I'm just gonna walk there!" the Doctor said defensively. Clara laughed and shook her head. As she heard the sound of the TARDIS whooshing, (the Doctor kept leaving the brakes again), she said to herself, 'I bet he won the Lazy Olympics as well as the Anti-Grav Olympics', and headed back upstairs to look at '101 Places To See'.Meanwhile, the Doctor had just parked the TARDIS in a side road, picked up the keys, and left, heading for a bookstore. When he reached the little shop, he looked at a sign which simply read 'Open', and walked in. It was strangely silent, and the only noise there was seemed to be coming from the rustling of the pages in the books. The Doctor was quick to check his surroundings- he hadn't had a good experience the last time he was around books. In fact, the last time he was around books, someone had died. Therefore, the Doctor felt that he had every right to be cautious. The Gallifreyan didn't have much time to reflect, a voice broke the silence quite quickly.
"Hello, can I help you in any way?"
It was a female's voice, and the Doctor was sure, no, absolutely certain, that he knew that voice from somewhere. And when he turned around, he couldn't believe who was standing right in front of him. He dropped the TARDIS keys, surprised, and spoke the female's name in utter disbelief.
A/N: Thank you for reading! I'll let you decide who the woman is for yourselves. That is, unless you want more chapters. Please review to tell me if you like it or not, and also to tell me whether to keep this as one chapter, or do a multi-chapter story. Once again, thank you and I'll see you soon!
