just a short little drabble.
Clara never asked as to why there was a vase of fresh sunflowers on the kitchen table every morning in the TARDIS. They were lovely of course, but it didn't occurred to her that they meant something. Just some flimsy flowers to make the TARDIS presentable. But she thought, why sunflowers? Why not roses, lilies, daises or peonies? It was one day though that made the wheels in her head turn and question the significance of the flowers.
The Doctor and her had gone back inside the TARDIS from a long day of saving a planet, when she heard the Doctor panicking in the kitchen. She walked inside the kitchen, wondering what he had blown up but instead found him just sitting at the table, staring at the pile of dead sunflowers. Why he was panicking over dead flowers,Clara had no idea. He snapped out of his trance and pretended that nothing had just happened. She raised an eyebrow but naturally forgot as they talked mindless chatter.
The next day Clara asked if they could visit Vincent Van Gogh. Immediately he shook his head and declared that him and Vincent didn't get along. Clara sighed and was in a slump. Ever since she was a little girl, her mother took a museum and showed her a painting of a vase of sunflowers. The painting was beautiful but what made her curious was the inscription on it. To Amy. When she met the Doctor she wanted to meet Vincent and ask him who was this Amy?
She explored some rooms one day while the Doctor was taking his sweet time fixing the TARDIS, when she stumbled across a door that said PONDS. Her curiosity got the best of her and she entered the room, spotting a picture hanging next to her. It was a picture of a beautiful girl with a man with a funny nose next to her. They looked happy. Clara wondered what happened to them. It was then that a she saw a balled up piece of paper near her foot, she bent down and picked it up, unfolding it. There scrawled in the Doctor's messy handwriting was one word. Amy.
It was then that she understood the sunflowers. For this mysterious Amy must have traveled with the Doctor and met Vincent. The painting for the girl who captured hearts with her red hair which was brighter then sunflowers. The Doctor couldn't part with her, so he kept flowers in honor of her. Of the girl he couldn't let go.
Maybe one day he would tell her of the story of Amy.
