Hi guys.

I know I said that this would be up earlier but I have had a really crazy month and I got behind and I tried to catch up but I have weirdly not felt in the mood to write or do anything really. But luckily that has picked up again and now I am hopefully back. I know I keep saying but I am surer than ever that things are looking up and that things will be changing in my life. Even if they are only small changes, it might give me the time and energy to through myself back into fanfiction properly rather than just feeling that I am doing the bare minimum. I used to plan my stories but now I am planning them as I write them.

Anyway, here is this story finally. Sorry, it is going to be another small one. It is based on the same idea as Peter Kay's Car Share and if you haven't watched it, I think you should. It is really fun and has a great storyline.

Please enjoy.

Chapter 1

Clara had started her day so positively, and not just because it was Friday. She had been more than eager to find out who she had been paired with for the school's new car sharing initiative. It was just something that the school was trying to do to look more 'green' and to reduce the number of cars in their small car park. There wasn't enough room for every teacher to drive in and park as well as the sixth formers that had managed to pass their tests and it did make sense to her to car share. Plus she also saw it as a way to get to know one of her colleagues a bit better.

Only, she had been given the last person she wanted.

"So are you ready for Monday?"

She turned to Adrian and gave him a glare. "Not particularly."

"You were all for this car share idea. Actually, you made me want to be a part of it."

"Yeah, well that was before I was pair with who I have been paired with. Why couldn't I have you or Danny or someone else? Anyone else?"

"Who have you got?"

"The Doctor."

Adrian suck in a breath and Clara couldn't work out whether he was sympathising with her or just mocking her.

"Well, I live nowhere near you so if I was to pick you up or you were to pick me up, it would defeat the object of the initiative."

"I know but… the Doctor. I swear he has hated me since I started. Probably didn't help that on my first day he came into my classroom and shouted at the students because I couldn't get them to shut up."

"I am sure that he doesn't."

She ignored him. "Like I went over to say hi and ask him who was driving and what time did he think he was going to pick me up and that we should exchange numbers just so that we know if the other one is running a little late due to traffic and he was so rude about it. He pretty much said that I would never drive because I ride a 'death trap' and that he is always on time and I wasn't going to make him late. Then he told me that he was going to pick me up at 8 and if I wasn't there waiting for him, he would leave without me."

"Unfortunately, that has always been the Doctor."

"Not helpful. I think he was judging me."

"Look, I am sure that it will be fine. Surely if anyone can change him, it will be you."

"I don't think I can." She mumbled as Adrian walked away.

Clara sighed as she pulled her helmet onto her head and clipped the strap up. She knew that this would be the last time she would drive her motorbike home before the car share initiative was going to start. She knew that she would miss making her own way in on her own terms. She knew that she would miss the weaving in and out of traffic as she got to her destination as quickly as she as could on the days that she was late.

As she made sure that her bags were secure, she caught the Doctor walking towards her. She groaned before wondering whether she could get on her bike and go before he got to her like she didn't see him. Instead, she chose to gentle lean against her bike.

"Just a reminder not to be late." He said.

"Look, I don't want to start this on a bad foot. I know that you have always looked down at me ever since you came into my classroom during my first week to find the students running rings around me. I was grateful for your intervention that day but I am passed that now. So please could we start Monday as two different people. I am not the same person that I was during my first week."

He snorted at her and Clara hoped that the next sentence to come out of his mouth wouldn't be something degrading in any way.

"Don't be late." He said before he walked off.

Clara couldn't believe him and watched him as he walked to his car. She sighed and shook her head. She wasn't going to change him. He would always be the same person who always judged others on his first impression of them, which usually wasn't a good impression. She would always be the incompetent teacher who spent the whole of her first week attempting to control her classes. At least it was better than some of the other teachers who just got called a pudding brain before he walked away without even helping them.

She watched him drive off before she got onto her motorbike to drive it home one last time before she had to get picked up and dropped off by the Doctor. It would be a long weekend for her as she attempted to get as much marking as she could do before the next week started while also worrying about how the hell she was going to get on with the Doctor. She could already see their first journey being in a horrible awkward silence, something that Clara hated.

She kicked her motorbike into life before she headed home. She knew that Sunday night she couldn't just relax on the sofa and find something to watch but would have to make sure that she had everything together because she wouldn't be running on her own time any more. She would be running on the Doctor's time and it was probably the most annoying thing ever. She felt like she had lost control over part of her life and it just didn't sit right with her.

Monday morning would come around quickly and Clara desperately didn't want it to. Why couldn't she had been given someone else? Someone who wasn't constantly judging her?

This was the worst initiative ever.