"Hold on Clara!" the Doctor yelled as he ran around the TARDIS. He stopped momentarily to straighten his bowtie and continued running about, switching levers that Clara could never begin to understand.
She had always fancied him, but never felt that there was an opportune time to say so. It always seemed to move from one thing to the next with the Doctor.
The TARDIS shuddered and felt to be picking up speed. Clara gripped the railing tightly. Slowly, but surely, the spacecraft began to list.
"Oh my God!" shrieked Clara as she held on for dear life. The Doctor fell to the ground and began to slide. Luckily, he grabbed onto the railing in time, but there was no way he could access the console unit now.
"Clara!" the Doctor yelled.
"What?"
"Do you see those small orange switches?"
Clara glanced at the area of the console that he was indicating with his head.
"Yeah!"
"Flip them both down! It should soften our crash!"
"I'll try!"
The switches were only a few feet away, but at the speed they were going, they looked a lot farther than that. Clara slowly let go of the rail with her left hand, while the knuckles on her right hand whitened. She stretched her arm out, but it stopped just a few inches short of the console. She kept reaching, but she couldn't get any closer without falling. The TARDIS was at nearly a ninety degree list.
"Clara!' the Doctor yelled. "You're going to have to jump!"
"I can't!" she responded in terror.
"Yes you can! You're the impossible girl. Hell, if something went wrong, you'd probably find your way back!"
Clara turned back towards the console and narrowed her eyes. She slowly lifted her feet up to the bottom of the railing.
"Now, Clara!"
With as much force as she could muster, she pushed off. Her midsection took the brunt of the hit as she landed, but she didn't have solid footing for long. Her feet began to slip.
"Clara, hold on!" screamed the Doctor.
Clara flailed her arms, searching for a grip of any kind. Suddenly, she felt something click beneath her fingers. But whatever she had momentarily in the midst of her blind panic moved away. She closed her eyes and fell.