THE IMPOSSIBLE ADVENTURES OF CLARA OSWALD
I do not own Doctor Who or Game of Thrones and I am making no profit off of this.
Author's Note: This story is set in the Guardian Who universe but you won't necessarily have to have read any of those stories in order to understand this one. I'll explain everything as I go along. I hope you'll like it. For those of you who do care about such things though, this story takes place sometime after It's Better With Two Chapter 54.
CHAPTER 1
A GAME OF CLARAS PART 1
Leeds, England - 1955
"Mum, where are you? Mum?" Six year old Abigail cried out in fear as she stood all alone in the middle of a crowded sidewalk.
Yes, technically the sidewalk was filled with people, but she might as well have been completely alone because all of them were complete strangers to her. No one there knew her or her mother, and not one of them could help tell her where she was.
The terrified little girl had absolutely no idea what was going on. All that she knew for sure was that moments earlier she and her mother had been walking home after enjoying a happy day together at the neighborhood playground. Then her mother had suddenly vanished into thin air . . . while she was still talking to her!
Abigail hadn't been looking at her at the time that she had vanished so she really didn't know what had happened to her. All that she knew for sure was that she had been desperately searching for her ever since then but hadn't been able to find a single trace of her anywhere. No one had even seen her.
Now she was just barely able to keep from completely panicking as she began to become more and more terrified by the moment. The longer that she had no idea where her mother was, the more uncertain that she became that she would ever find her again. This just added more fuel to her growing desperation to find her.
It also made her become increasingly reckless . . . perhaps far too much so for her own good.
As soon as Abigail saw a woman who looked similar to her mother walking away from her on the opposite side of the street, she immediately raced after her.
"Mum! Wait! It's me! Please wait!" Abigail cried out.
She was so intent on catching her that she didn't even bother to watch for oncoming traffic. Nor did she heed the warning of the oncoming truck's horn as it sped straight towards her at full speed while its driver desperately tried to stop it in time.
There wasn't enough time however. The brakes would never be able to slow the truck down fast enough to save the little girl's life. Normally nothing would be able to save Abigail from becoming just another unfortunate traffic fatality by this point.
Abigail screamed just as she was about to be hit head-on by the speeding vehicle as she finally saw it at last. She closed her eyes and silently prayed that her mother would save her somehow just a moment before the truck reached her.
Then she heard nothing but silence.
"And what do you think you're doing running into the middle of traffic like that? Didn't you mother ever teach you any better than that, Abigail?" An angry, and very familiar, voice suddenly said from somewhere nearby a moment later.
Fortunately for Abigail, Clara Oswald didn't know the definition of the word impossible . . . which was more than a bit ironic since she was an English teacher.
Abigail now opened her eyes and smiled from ear to ear as soon as she saw Clara standing on the very same spot where she had just been standing herself moments ago. Time had completely frozen all around them so that the truck was, for the moment at least, in absolutely no danger of actually reaching her.
"Well, hurry up then. I'm still a bit too green with my cosmic powers to know for sure what I'm doing so even I don't know when time might start up again," Clara said in a worried voice as she beckoned to the child to come to her.
"Mum!" Abigail shouted with joy as she ran straight to Clara and hugged her tightly.
"Mum?" Danny Pink said in surprise as he finally caught up to Clara at last after she had suddenly sprinted away from him a moment before.
Up until now, he had had absolutely no idea what she was up to. She had just said something about 'not on my watch' while he had just been about to kiss her on a date. Then the next thing that he knew they were both stuck in the middle of the 50s while she rapidly ran away from him far faster than he would have thought that any one that size could possibly run.
Then again she did have similar Vortex abilities to Rose Tyler's which she had accidentally gained when she jumped into the Doctor's timestream before he had met her so maybe she had Super Vortex Speed or something for all he knew.
"I'll explain it to you in a mo, Mr. Pink. Sorry about the kiss by the way. I really was looking forward to it. I'm not your mother, Abigail. I'm your Aunt Clara, remember? Your mother introduced us before. Remember?" Clara said as she stroked the confused child's hair with a concerned look on her face.
"Aunt Clara?" Abigail asked in an uncertain voice.
"Yes, sweetie. You don't have to worry anymore, alright? You're safe now. I'll take care of you until we find your mother again," Clara promised with a reassuring smile.
"She's the daughter of one of your echoes, right? The ones like Cydonia who look just like you. You realized that something was going to happen to her mother and came here as soon as you could to save her," Danny said as he tried to process what was going on.
Clara grinned with approval as she said, "You're getting better and better at this, Mr. Pink. Soon enough now you'll be able to go through an entire day without having to ask for an explanation for something weird from me once. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not though."
"It depends on whether I'm still sane by then," Danny said only half joking.
"Eh, sanity's overrated in the Doctor's world anyway. Besides I'm still perfectly sane myself so there's always hope, right?" Clara said as she winked at him.
Then she stopped her usual banter with Danny as soon as she realized exactly how upset Abigail really was. She immediately chastised herself for not paying more attention to her as soon as she saw the devastated look on the child's face.
"I'm sorry, Aunt Clara. I . . . I thought you were her. I've been seeing her everywhere but every time I stopped it was never her," Abigail said as she finally started to cry now at last.
She hadn't allowed herself to do so before. She had to remain focused on finding her mother after all.
"You don't really know what happened to her at all, do you?" Clara asked her in a disappointed voice.
"No. I – I wasn't looking. I should have looked. It's my fault for looking away. If I had been looking, maybe I could have helped her," Abigail said in tears.
Clara immediately shook her head as she said, "No, you couldn't. It's not your fault, sweetie. There's nothing that you could have done that would have made any difference whatsoever so you can just stop that right now."
"Are you sure?" Abigail asked in an uncertain voice.
"I'm positive. No one could have helped her. Not even me and I tried, Abigail. I really tried. I will find her though. I promise. I'll find her and bring her back to you no matter where she's gotten off to, okay?" Clara said as she kissed the top of her head.
"Do you mean it?" Abigail said with a hopeful look.
"Of course I mean it. She'll be coming back, Abigail. You can count on that," Clara reassured her even as she hoped against hope that she wasn't lying this time.
She was far from feeling reassured herself in that moment however. Abigail's mother was the third of her echoes to suddenly disappear for no reason recently, and this time it had almost cost an innocent child her life as a result. Whatever or whoever was doing this had to be stopped right now.
The problem was that she had absolutely no clue at all about how to do that or even where to start looking for one for that matter. She wasn't about to find one here either.
"I didn't get to her in time, Danny. Another one just vanished into thin air. This time it was almost right in front of me," Clara said in anger.
"At least you saved her daughter," Danny said with a reassuring smile.
"Yeah, that's about the only thing I've done right since this all started. I could actually feel the link between us being severed, Danny. It was just like what happened to the other two echoes that vanished. I can always feel the presence of all of my echoes in the back of my mind even when I'm not talking to them and for that to suddenly be gone is . . . Well, it's jarring is what it is. It feels like someone just stole a part of my soul away. It's just suddenly gone somehow and I don't know how or why. I tried teleporting here to her time just as soon as I could in order to try and keep whatever's going on from happening to her too but I must have just missed her. I'm so glad I stayed around to keep looking for clues though or poor Abigail would have been pulverized," Clara said as she held the little girl to her tightly.
"So we're just taking her with us to our time then? Won't that be extremely confusing for her?" Danny asked.
"Maybe but she's completely alone in this time so it'll be a lot better for her than letting her wind up in some orphanage won't it?" Clara said.
Then she instantly winced as she added, "Sorry. No offense meant."
Danny gave her a reassuring smile as he said, "None taken. I wasn't saying that you shouldn't take her. It's just that she's going to have a lot of adjusting to do to our time. Maybe we should prepare her for it first."
Clara nodded and said, "Yeah, you're right. I'm so used to having strange new experiences on a daily basis that I've forgotten how much it can freak out other people. Thanks for making me remember that. Come on, Abigail. Let's go sit down somewhere. I need to have a little talk with you first so you know what to expect, okay?"
"Alright," Abigail said as she clung to Clara's hand like a lifeline with a frightened look on her face.
"It's going to be okay," Clara whispered in her ear as she started to stroke her hair and slowly led her down the street.
As Clara kept an eye out for someplace private to sit and talk to Abigail where she wouldn't be instantly overheard and thought of as a complete nutter, she said to Danny, "It seems I've become a little too much like the Doctor in some ways. I'll have to remember to keep an eye out for that from now on. Then again I did spend nine hundred years with him on Trenzalore so he's bound to have rubbed off on me just a little bit."
"I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that part," Danny admitted with a frown.
"Oh, don't let it bother you so much. I'm very youthful for an older woman," Clara said with a mischievous smile.
"You don't act like it had any effect on you at all which is more than a bit odd," Danny agreed with just a hint of worry in his eyes.
Clara smiled as she said, "Well, that's probably because I always have Bad Wolf Girl looking out for me. You see all of that time on Trenzalore feels almost like it happened to somebody else instead of me. In my mind I still feel like I'm in my twenties instead of my hundreds and it's just like nothing's really changed for me at all. I'll bet you a freshly baked soufflé that Rose had something to do with that as some sort of a consolation prize for not being able to save me from becoming trapped there along with the Doctor. She wanted me to have as normal a life as possible and didn't want that standing in the way. It sounds just like her to me."
"Are the two of you talking about a story, Aunt Clara?" Abigail asked in confusion.
Clara grinned as she said, "Yeah, it's just a story, Abigail. Don't worry about it."
She hated to start lying to the girl already but she was already going to be confused enough as it was when she took her to the future. She didn't need to add to it even more with the weirdness that was her daily existence.
Finally they found a bench far away from both prying eyes and ears and started to tell her about what lay ahead for her in the future. Even as they did so, Danny couldn't help but remember that he had once met a possible future daughter of his and Clara's named Ellie who had told him that she had an older sister.
Was this her? Had he just met his future daughter for the first time here today?
Even as Danny struggled to make sense out of what was going on, neither he nor Clara had any idea that they were both being closely watched at that very moment. Only it wasn't from a point originating anywhere on Earth . . . or even in the same universe for that matter.
Somewhere in Hyperspace.
The live video feed of Clara and Danny that the current inhabitants of the starship Cygnus were watching paused at that moment as a mechanical voice said, "This version of Clara Oswald hardly seems to be the monster that you would have us believe that she is, Prosecutor. Indeed she seems to show nothing but love and concern for the child in her custody even though she isn't truly hers. So far your case against her is extremely weak and practically non-existent."
"How very observant of you to notice the gaping holes in my illustrious colleague's so-called case against Miss Oswald, Your Honors. You could practically drive a truck through most of them in fact. Sorry. That last remark might have been just a bit in bad taste after that scene with the girl," A woman's voice said with an amused chuckle.
"More than a bit! It seems that the Defense is just as reckless as Miss Oswald herself is towards the safety of those around her, Your Honors. But then we already know exactly how far it's possible for Clara Oswald to descend, don't we? The defendant has already proven to be ample evidence for that," The prosecutor said.
A spotlight now shown on yet another version of Clara who sat chained to a chair in the center of the room as she said in a voice filled with immeasurable pain and regret, "Please don't do anything to anyone else because of what I did. That's no one's fault but my own. Just because I did such horrible things doesn't mean that other versions of me would too. It's not fair to condemn them for my crimes. They've done nothing wrong!"
"Not yet," The prosecutor said.
"And probably not ever, Your Honors. The defendant is right. Galactic law specifies that alternate versions of the same person cannot be punished for crimes that they have not themselves committed. They are judged to be innocent of those crimes because they are not legally the same person despite being almost identical in all ways to one another. Only the actual accused can be condemned. We cannot condemn someone for something that they might do in the future just because they're another version of a known murderer," The defense attorney said.
"We're not even from the same universe. Please. Just leave her and all of the others alone," The other Clara pleaded in tears.
"The Defense claims that the version of Clara Oswald in question is in no obvious danger of becoming like the defendant and yet I will present to you evidence of one of her echoes that will clearly show you otherwise," The prosecutor said.
"Indeed?" One of the two spherical mechanical judges present said with keen interest as they both floated above the room.
"Oh, yes, Your Honors. I have evidence that one of Miss Oswald's echoes was also a murderer and killed several people in a now aborted timeline that never existed. Another version of Clara Oswald was not an echo at all but her dark side given form. She is a notorious woman known only as the Matriarch who almost caused the entire universe to be destroyed due to her meddling with the Web of Time. Our current defendant, the 'Psycho Clara' as many of us have taken to calling her, is hardly an aberration. I present to you that she is the rule rather than the exception. All versions of Clara Oswald everywhere are extremely dangerous to everyone in their path," The prosecutor said.
"This is completely insane, Your Honors, and you can really believe me when I say that I know insane when I hear it. The echo he's speaking of only killed after she was turned into a vampire while saving the Doctor's life. She is as blameless for her actions as the defendant is because neither one was in their right mind when those acts were committed. A vampire's bloodlust is a well-known corrupter of even the strongest of wills. As for the Matriarch, she has since been made into a Guardian of Time by the Grace themselves. Do we need a more glowing recommendation of exactly how much that particular version of Clara is not and never was truly evil at all? The prosecutor is as full of himself as he always was, Your Honors, with his so-called 'evidence' against both my client and this other completely innocent Miss Oswald. I suggest that you stop abducting her echoes immediately and return them all home before any more damage is done to the timestream," The defense attorney said.
"Unfortunately while we both might currently agree with your statements, we cannot do so at the present moment. We must gather together as many versions of Clara Oswald as we can from throughout time and space in order to access the truthfulness of the prosecution's statements for ourselves. This is for their own good as much as it is to help his case," One of the judges said.
"I protest this action, Your Honors. It is unlawful harassment of an innocent woman and her other selves. Plus if you continue to do this, you'll draw some very unwanted attention to yourselves," The defense attorney said.
Then she leaned toward the two judges conspiratorially as she said with a smirk, "And trust me when you I say that you really, really don't want to do that."
"We are aware of her connection to the professional rule breakers known as the Doctor and the Bad Wolf. We will not allow that information to intimidate or prejudice us in any way despite the death sentence that still lies over the Doctor's head. The fact that we never carried out his execution still haunts both of us to this very day. It is our only true failure," One of the judges said.
"And I suppose destroying that entire galaxy for not agreeing with your judgment wasn't? And they call me mad," The defense attorney said in a low voice.
"What was that?" One of the judges asked.
"Nothing, Your Honors. Absolutely nothing. Yes, the Doctor is a well-known criminal and I would gladly go along with any attempt by you to try and execute him, but Miss Oswald is entirely innocent I assure you. She's just yet another in a long, long line of innocent young Earth girls who have all been completely taken in by this fake 'good guy' image that he maintains. I think it's all a big ego thing if you ask me. He just loves having them all worship him and tell him how brilliant he is," The defense attorney said with a snort of derision.
"This may be so. We will find out the truth for ourselves in due time. Until then, we will continue to use the time scoop that our learned prosecutor has so graciously proved to us to remove the various echoes of Miss Oswald from throughout time and space and bring them to us. Once we have as many of them as we can safely obtain, then we will probe all of their minds at once in a detailed and thorough investigation as we attempt to ascertain the truth of the prosecution's claims for ourselves. No one will be allowed to interfere with or question the activities of the Megara until we do so. To do otherwise is punishable by death by Galactic law. Is this understood?" One of the two spherical Megara judges said in a harsh mechanical tone as it floated above the defense attorney's head.
"Perfectly, Your Honors. Believe me. Even I'm not that crazy," The defense attorney said with a small chuckle.
"Why do you continue to persist with these remarks about your sanity? They have no relevance on your case whatsoever," The other lighter voiced Megara said in confusion.
"Oh, it's just a private little in-joke between me and your learned court prosecutor over there, Your Honors. Think nothing of it. I'll certainly stop if you wish me to though. I would never do anything to offend either one of you of course," The defense attorney said with a smug smile.
"Consider it a formal request as of now. If you violate it again, you will be immediately executed without warning," The deeper voiced Megara warned.
"Understood, Your Honors. I think that our esteemed prosecutor gets the message as well. Don't you, Valeyard?" The defense said with a chuckle.
"Oh, it's become very clear to me. I'm just not quite the master of theatrics that my esteemed adversary there is so I don't show off anywhere near as much as she does," The Valeyard said with a frown.
"Oh, I don't know. You're always been nothing but a remarkable show-off in my opinion," The defense attorney said.
"You will also desist in your personal attacks on one another. This is a warning to both of you. Is that understood?" The deeper voiced Megara warned.
"You're obviously right of course, Your Honors. If you can't say something nice, then say nothing at all, right?" Missy said with an evil smile.
"Well said. Now we will continue with the use of the time scoop once more. We will use it to grab even more echoes for use as witnesses in the current investigation against Clara Oswald until it has been determined if the Valeyard's case has any merit to it or not. We will also continue to watch Miss Oswald to see if she either condemns or exonerates herself with her actions," The lighter voiced Megara said.
"If I may make a suggestion, Your Honors, I think that there is one person that should definitely be brought here that is not an echo of Miss Oswald's. She would be essential in learning as much as we can about her true character," The Valeyard said.
"Objection, Your Honors. She's not even connected to Miss Oswald in any way except for the obvious of course. She would be no help whatsoever in this instance," Missy said.
"Who would know her better though?" The Valeyard asked with an evil grin.
"We agree with the Valeyard. She will be questioned as well to see what valuable insights that she might give as to Clara Oswald's true nature. You will use the time scoop to bring her to us at once, Valeyard," The deeper voice Megara said.
"Gladly and once you have all of the evidence before you, Your Honors, you won't be able to deny the inescapable conclusion of my case against her any longer. Then you will both agree with me that Clara Oswald in all of her forms should be retroactively wiped from the entire Web of Time!" The Valeyard said with a sinister smile as he went to leave the courtroom.
Missy couldn't help but wonder what he was up to by including the next witness in this farce of a trial. Perhaps it was a trap for the man himself though. She couldn't think of any better way to gain his attention after all and the Valeyard always liked to go in for grand theatrics of the highest order despite what he claimed.
Perhaps she should give this universe's Clara a bit of a helping hand because for once she definitely didn't want another version of the Doctor around when she was carrying out one of her plans. The less that he knew about this whole thing the better in her opinion.
And she definitely didn't want her own universe's Doctor showing up either. Not that he was likely to at the moment. He had plenty of problems of his own after all.
She turned her back on the Megara now and quickly closed her eyes as she gave this universe's Clara a quick mental message. She only hoped that by helping her that she was putting a huge spanner in whatever the Valeyard's plans were.
Clara meanwhile had just been about to take herself, Danny, and Abigail back to her own time when she suddenly received the mother of all headaches. Then moments later she heard a muffled voice shout a quick telepathic warning in her mind along with a complete set of coordinates.
"What is it? What just happened?" Danny asked with concern as Clara clutched her head in pain.
"Someone's telling me exactly where the next disappearance is going to be. They've even given me coordinates. I have to go right away while there's still time to stop it. Maybe I'll even find out what's going on while I'm at it. Here. I'll send you both back to our time, Danny," Clara said as she opened a small portal with a wave of her glowing hand.
"Hey, I'm getting pretty good at this now. I actually did it on the first try. Just walk right through it and it'll close right behind you. It'll take you straight back to my grandmother's house. See you later, Mr. Pink," Clara said with a warm smile as she started to glow all over with a silver aura of Vortex energy.
"Wait a minute. Clara, this could be a trap," Danny warned.
"Aunt Clara, please don't go. I won't know anyone over there if you do," Abigail said in a frightened voice.
"You'll be fine, Abigail. I promise. Danny and my grandmother will both take good care of you until I get back and so will my sister, Cydonia. She looks just like me and your mum so you'll feel right at home. Oh, and I know it's possibly a trap, Danny, but I still have to try anyway. If I can just save one of them it'll be worth the risk. I've lost too many of my echoes already especially lately. I won't let another go easily. Not if I can help it. Now go before the portal closes up," Clara ordered.
Danny sighed and then gave her a quick salute as he said, "Right, boss."
"Well, I'm certainly glad that we got that straight, Mr. Pink. I am the boss and I've just given you your marching orders, Soldier Boy. Go to it then," Clara said as she quickly vanished in a burst of energy.
Abigail briefly laughed for the first time since Danny had met her then as she said, "She sounded just like my mum then. She gives me orders like that too."
"It seems to run in the family," Danny said with a warm smile as he took her by the hand and led her straight into Clara's portal
"And where do you think you're going?" A voice said from behind them just before they could step inside of it.
"Mum?" Abigail asked in surprise.
"No, not quite but you're close, sweetie. You can call me your Aunt Matriarch. Auntie M for sure if you wish. Ooh, Auntie Em! I like that. It's very Wizard of Oz," The Matriarch, a future version of Clara's dark side given human form, said with an amused smile.
"Wouldn't you be the Wicked Witch instead?" Danny said as he gave her a wary stare.
"Oh, I see Clara's been talking about me to you, Soldier Boy. Didn't she tell you that I'm one of the good guys now though? The Grace said so. I've got their seal of approval and everything. Listen, Dan the Soldier Man, I don't have time to argue with you right now. We need to go help Clara right away because she's in way over her head right now. If we don't, all Claras everywhere are likely to be completely erased from history altogether. What a tragedy that would be! I'm far too lovable to have never existed and Clara's okay too I suppose," The Matriarch said with a chuckle.
"What are you going on about?" Danny asked in confusion.
"No time to explain now. We'll talk later. Right now we have a Clara to catch. Well, two of them really. Sort of. Must dash," The Matriarch said in a panicked voice as she snapped her fingers and she and Danny disappeared.
Abigail meanwhile appeared back in Clara's grandmother's house right in front of a very surprised Cydonia, who was Clara's Time Lady echo from Gallifrey and was currently living there. She had absolutely no idea what was going on but quickly comforted the extremely upset child anyway as soon as she saw her while she slowly told her the whole story.
By the time she finished, she couldn't help but wonder exactly what Clara had gotten herself into this time. That and who in the world Auntie Em was.
Meanwhile Clara herself had gone straight to the coordinates that the mysterious voice in her head had given to her only to find herself in another universe entirely. She was also in a completely empty room.
"Okay, very funny, whoever you are," Clara said out loud in an annoyed tone.
"Hello? Is someone there?" A voice suddenly said from the other room
Clara immediately froze as she heard footsteps rapidly heading towards her. What in the world was going on here? Whoever it was couldn't be another echo. She would have already felt their presence in her mind by now if it was.
So if it wasn't an echo, exactly who was it and what did they possibly have to do with her?
She immediately got her answer as soon as the door opened and a woman that looked exactly like her stood there staring at her.
"What?" The woman said in confusion.
"What?" Clara said in an equal amount of confusion.
Then both women seemed to realize exactly who the other was at once as Clara said with a smile, "You're . . ."
Now she knew exactly who this must be. She had had heard all about her from the Doctor when he had been stranded in another reality recently. It was a reality where the Doctor's life had actually been turned into a television show oddly enough.
Why couldn't she have her own television show? Surely her life was far more interesting.
"That's right. And you must be . . ." The woman said with a grin as she too remembered meeting the actual Doctor and recalled his telling her that in another world their show was actually real.
Then they both saw a glowing triangular object slowly coming towards them at once. Neither of them had the slightest clue what it was, but they both instinctively knew that it was dangerous.
"Nice to meet you, Jenna," Clara said.
"Nice to meet you too, Clara. Boy, it sounds weird to say that. I really wish that this was under much better circumstances. This is just like the show isn't it? Every time one of you shows up in this universe it's nothing but trouble isn't it?" Jenna Coleman said with a grin.
"Well, in my defense, I have absolutely nothing to do with this whatsoever. At least I don't think so anyway," Clara said with a sheepish grin.
"Sounds like something the Doctor would say. Uh, shouldn't we be running right now?" Jenna asked in alarm as the triangular object drew ever closer to them now.
"Why run when you can do this?" Clara said with a huge smile as she grabbed Jenna's hand and quickly began to teleport both of them away at once.
"You have super powers? Why can't my Clara have super powers?" Jenna said in a jealous tone as they swiftly disappeared.
Meanwhile back on the Cygnus, the Megara instantly became enraged as the deeper voiced Megara said, "Clara Oswald has now interfered in our official acquisition of witnesses. We have no choice but to charge her with interference in an ongoing investigation which is punishable by death. We will now use the time scoop to bring her here as well to stand trial for this charge . . . along with possible future ones."
"I'm glad that you're finally seeing sense now, Your Honors," The Valeyard said happily.
"Your Honors, she doesn't even know that a trial is going on," Missy protested.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse," The deeper voiced Megara said.
"Whoops! Watch out, Soufflé Girl. It looks like you're about to have more trouble than even you can handle," Missy said with a shrug.
Next: It's Clara and Jenna running for their lives from the time scoop as we began to learn more about what Missy and the Valeyard are really up to and what it has to do with Clara. Will Clara find out in time to save herself from being potentially completely erased from existence or will the Matriarch and Danny have to lend a helping hand?