A/N: SPOILERS for The Name of The Doctor!

Also, warning, there's a bit of Rose shipping in this first chapter. It only focuses mainly ONLY in this first chapter, however. The rest is mostly Doctor/Clara. Not that there won't be any Doctor/Rose, Doctor/River anywhere else in the story. If you're like me an believe the Doctor can love Rose, River, and Clara all at the same time, this is the thing for you. Can't we all just get along, shippers? The Doctor loves them all, so can't we all love them, too?

Anyway, Fantastic! Geronimo! Allons-y!

Oh, PS- here's a link to the music "Save the Doctor," which plays during Clara's monologue about all her different lives. It'll help ya get into the mood! Don't forget to remove the spaces!

www. youtube watch?v=7IztfQIB5x4&list=PLE477E14586566D0D

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I don't know where I am. It's like I'm breaking into a million pieces and there's only one thing I remember. I have to save the Doctor. He always looks different. But I always know it's him. Sometimes I think I'm everywhere at once. Running every second just to find him. Just to save him. But he never hears me. Almost never. I blew into this world on a leaf. I'm still blowing. I don't think I'll ever land. I'm Clara Oswald. I'm the impossible girl. I was born to save the Doctor.

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-A PREQUEL-

It started with a leaf. A leaf that had to grow in an exact way, in an exact place, so a precise wind could tear it from a precise branch to fly into an exact face, at an exact moment. If just one of those tiny little things had never happened, a boy never would have met a girl, a child never would have been born, and that child would never have saved the most important man in the universe.

The stars would have gone out, and the universe would never have existed. A million planets would have died, and a million people would have never been saved. A million times the Doctor would have died, if that leaf had never grown in that exact place, in that exact way.

Clara Oswald was born to save the Doctor. That exact leaf grew that exact way so Clara Oswald would be born to live a million lives and save the Doctor a million times. That exact leaf grew that exact way with the guidance of one exact hand. That precise hand that was raised to save the Doctor. That exact hand that belonged to one exact girl. The exact girl who was born to save the Doctor.

It started with a lottery ticket. That exact man had to win that exact lottery, and that precise girl had to work in that exact shop, and that precise lottery money had to be taken to an exact man on that exact day, or that girl would never have met the Doctor. And if that girl had never met the Doctor, she could never have made a leaf grow in an exact way.

My name is Rose Tyler. I was born to save the Doctor. I am the Bad Wolf, and I create myself.

I create the universe.

I destroyed the Daleks. I ended the Time War. I doomed a man to live forevermore and never die. I held Time in my hand and I used it to save the Doctor. I saw everything. I saw the what has been, what is, what could be, what must not. I saw my future. I saw his. I helped shape his future to save him. To protect him.

I saw a leaf.

An exact leaf that had to grow in an exact way, in an exact place, so a precise wind could tear it from a precise branch to fly into an exact face, at an exact moment. I saw a girl, the impossible girl. I saw Clara Oswald. The girl who was born to save the Doctor.

I created that leaf. I created that girl.

I am the Bad Wolf, and I was created to save the Doctor. I create to save my Doctor.

It started with a leaf.

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A/N: Okay, basically, this is the story of Clara's many lives as she saves the Doctor. Most of them are going to probably be pretty short, as in around 500 words. Some might be longer. I thought this might help fill the gap until the 50th! Most of them are just short little snippets telling the stories of the Clara's spread throughout the Doctor's life.

I decided to start off with the Bad Wolf creating that leaf bit because, come on, it fits perfectly. That leaf in TROA honestly didn't look like it grew that way naturally. And…this helps me still be able to ship Rose/The Doctor while also shipping The Doctor/Clara. If you don't like Rose, or if you don't like this explanation, then you can just ignore it and skip to the next chapter. I promise it's not at all relevant to the rest of the story, I just thought it would make a nice little prequel and explain some things.

The next chapter will be posted soon!