AU Clara Oswald has just got the best job she has ever had and a million doors have just opened in front of her. However, when she meets the mysterious Doctor John Smith she becomes fascinated in both him and his reclusive ways. Will she ever find out who he really is and what has made him pull away from life?
I own nothing unfortunately. I got the idea after watching Charlie St Cloud after the series finale and it implies spoilers but I only see them because I've seen it (and it's so good :D ) also sorry for the bad punctuation, grammar and probably spelling as I am only half awake.
Torchwood was the leading organisation for scientific research in the UK. The areas they researched spanned from stem cells to space travel and only employed the brilliant and the brightest people in the world. So Clara Oswald applied on chance. Clara was clever but believed herself to be entirely ordinary with a long list of waitress work and shop assistant jobs behind her at only twenty four years of age.
The real reason she applied for a job in the IT department was because her latest placement as a governess had been terminated as the father had met a woman and had become so besotted with her that she had moved in within a few weeks. The woman seemed nice at first when she came round for dinner and always complimented Clara on how beautiful she was and how good she was with the two children. Then she moved in and developed what Clara called 'wicked step-mother syndrome'. The house was rearranged to how she wished it to be, the children had a brand new routine consisting of doing school work for most of the evenings and getting out of the house on weekends so they spent as little time with her and their father as possible, all meals were to be vegetarian and there was to be no meat or fast food consumed in the building. The woman's comments towards Clara turned vile and bitter with the devious look a bully would give their victim. Of course throughout all this the father remained oblivious and saw nothing but perfection in the woman who was far from it in the eyes of everyone else. Then one day Clara snapped. It was at breakfast and everything was fine until the woman 'tripped' and 'spilt' her coffee all over Clara's brand new shirt. All the bottled up feelings came pouring out of her like a waterfall of rage. The woman cried, the father shouted, the children watched in horror as their only source of hope was kicked out of their lives. Clara didn't care about herself, she cared about the children and she had failed them.
Staying with her father until she found a job and a flat, Clara was going for whatever job was going in Central London so the IT vacancy at Torchwood was among many others that went from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the business food chain. For most she had been unsuccessful which had left her in a state of complete hopelessness.
She was lying on her bed in the room she had slept in since she was a little girl. So many dreams had been dreamed in that room and so far non had come true in reality. That was the saddest thing for her; being back with nothing when she left with so much ambition.
Her dad knocked on the door and entered, a phone to his ear and a grin on his face.
" Yes, here she is." He told whoever was on the phone and handed it to Clara giddily.
"Hello?" Clara spoke into the devise nervously and almost jumped at the formal female voice on the other end of the line.
"Miss Oswald, this is Harriet Jones and I am the executive manager of Torchwood. I am ringing personally to tell you we were all very impressed by your online application and we would very much like you to come down and take up the vacancy. We will give you a six month contract to begin with and if there are no serious issues you will be offered something more permanent. Your job begins next Monday but may I ask you to come in tomorrow to get a tour of the building as you will need to know that as well as the software from top to bottom. I would also like to talk the formalities of you employment. It would really be a pleasure to have you aboard."
Clara was taken aback by both the job and how enthusiastic this Harriet Jones was about her taking it. Not wanting to give her a reason to rethink her offer however, Clara replied with the same amount of enthusiasm.
"Yes, that would be great. Thank you ever so much I am really grateful for the opportunity."
Harriet Jones continued to tell Clara about what to do upon arriving the next day but she was only half listening. Finally something was happening and in the best way possible. Yet again she would be leaving the house in the morning with all those hopes and dreams she had the first time round.
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