A/N One of my favourite Souffez scenes... Because every Souffez scene is special :)
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It was as if time stopped.
His gaze locked in hers as he closed Clara's hand... Locking a promise.
That she would travel with him.
It was time to move on.
"I don't know why I'm crying."
No one understood her.
Everyone thought she was strange.
Clara was always questioning the unquestionable, running after danger, rather than running away from it.
And now... She found something that her friends would find practically absurd and would think she was absolutely bonkers if she would have told them.
And yet, there he was.
A madman with a box.
Who trusted her.
Who knew she was clever enough to have a plan... To find out his plan from the beginning.
To keep the ice governess away from Earth.
She had found someone just like her.
Alone.
Inunderstandable.
A man who runs into danger.
No...
A man who makes danger.
The perfect pair.
But his eyes showed weariness, a man who had seen many; a man who saw many deaths, and lost much.
And she was helping him, to break the wall he had built around him for the past hundred years.
Since he stopped running.
"I do. Remember this. This right now, remember all of it. Because this
is
the day!"
He spun around the console.
"This is the day. This is the day everything begins."
He was so very happy, and Clara was happy for him. She had known him only for the past 24 hours...
and yet he looked so familiar to her.
She clutched the key tighter in her hand.
He was everything she needed.
She wanted to see wonders.
She wanted adventure.
She wanted to see the unseeable, understand the inunderstandable.
And most of all...
She was ready to leave with him.
But as he starts to crank up the console, her thoughts soon turned into alarm when she felt cold hands grabbing her from behind and drags her outside the TARDIS from her waist. The jerk was strong enough to drop the key from her hand.
"Clara! Clara!" The Doctor panicked and ran outside.
"GET OFF OF ME!
LET ME GO!"
Clara tried her best to release herself from that mess.
He soon realised what mistake he had made. "Water vapour doesn't stop ice. I should've realised."
A stupid mistake which might come by as very costly.
"LET HER GO! NOW! NOW!"
He shifted the sonic from the Governess, to Clara and back.
Nothing bad's going to happen.
He will save her from trouble.
As always.
She was being dragged away, further and further away from the blue box she was ready to call home.
'There was no getting out of this, Clara.
Always getting into danger.
This is where it got you.'
Clara thought.
The cloud... High up.
Uninfinite.
An earthly dimension.
Ending.
Her eyes grew wider in fear as she realised what the ice puppet was trying to do.
Oh God, she wants to drag me to Earth.
"No, Clara!" The Doctor kept on persisting to save her.
To save one of the only people he cared about after what had happened in Manhattan.
The ice lady had took off her tight hold from Clara, only find herself in a greater danger. Soon the girl felt no surface under her feet.
"CLARA!"
The Doctor's voice and the growling of the ice governess behind her was deafened by the sound of the wind.
The supposedly soothing sound of the wind on Christmas eve.
Clara was scared... So scared. She had never thought of dying at such a tender age, and by falling from a cloud, because she had met an intriguing stranger.
Clara's whole life flashed in front of her eyes.
She regretted nothing of what she's done in her short yet vivid years. She had wonderful parents, met wonderful people, especially at the 'Rose & Crown',
...people who loved her and cared for her, even though she was quite reckless and decided to live independently at such a young age.
She was a nanny of 2 brilliant and intelligent children. She grew them well. In them she found a part of her satisfaction in life.
After all, she had nothing to be scared of.
She was ready to let go.
Clara smiled as she sped towards Earth.
She got the Doctor to move on, that was enough.
She will die nobly.
Even if she would died for a stranger, who looked so familiar and so much like her.
A man she knew so well.
Clara knew her death would hurt him, but she relieved him from another.
Goodbye, Doctor.
Remember me.
Her body collided with the dense ice crystals, relieving her from her life, her body frozen in an instant of peace.
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