The Doctor Hunt

by LifeOfCarlos

When the Doctor drops Clara back home after the events of 'The Doctor Fans' (you might want to read it before you read this although this is basically stand alone) she is confronted with Doctor's grave. And when she finds that the Doctor has disappeared, it's up to her to find him again - whatever it takes...

My name is Clara Oswald, I used to be like you but, well, then I met the Doctor. He took me off into stars and we saw Cybermen and Ice Warriors and soul-eating stars. Unfortunately, when we destroyed the soul-eating star, we probably condemned every inhabitant of the rings of Akhaten to eternal doom. I kept trying to tell him that we sort of needed to find them a new sun of some kind, but the Doctor refused to go back. He never goes back – except for me, that is. I thought it would all keep going on like that until I saw his grave. And then I saw his grave again.

He had dropped me off at what he thought was my house, on Earth. It did look like Earth at first; I was in a graveyard by a church made of a normal type of stone. The grass was green and the sky was... purple. That definitely wasn't right and, when I looked closer, the architecture on the church seemed a bit weird too- everyone in the carving had two heads it looked like they were somehow levitating. I could go on listing differences but I didn't really need to notice anything more to work out that this wasn't my house. I was going to tell the Doctor to see if he could actually get me back home but, as I turned round, I noticed the writing on the grave:

HERE LIES THE DOCTOR

THE MAN WHO WALKED IN ETERNITY ;)

Did aliens have emoticons? And would they really put them on grave stones? This seemed unlikely, as did the Doctor's death, especially as he died at Trenzalore and I knew that for certain because I'd been inside his tomb. Anyway, this grave was probably just some ruse he'd have sometime in the future to get himself out of a tight spot. Nothing more said. I walked back to the TARDIS; I needed to get home properly. To be honest, that fact the TARDIS was still there sort of surprised me. I couldn't see the Doctor anywhere; the control room was empty. I managed to get the TARDIS to scan for life and it found nothing. I looked down and noticed the slip of paper on the console with some writing scrawled on it:

Run you clever girl.

Something had definitely happened to the Doctor and I couldn't help feeling that I needed to find out exactly what it was. I wouldn't be getting home any time soon.