Chapter 1

Leaving Trenzalore

Jenny, Strax and Madame Vastra made their way back to the TARDIS following the Doctor and Clara, who lay in his arms, alive but unconscious. When they got in the Doctor carried Clara to her room and lay her down to rest and recover from being in his time stream before he returned to the console room and to Strax, Jenny and Madame Vastra. When he entered and joined them on the control room platform, Jenny ran to him and hugged him. He hugged her back.

"I'm glad you're alive, Doctor." She said kindly flashing him a smile as she released him.

"All thanks to Clara, Jenny. But it is good to be back." He replied and she moved away to hold Vastra's hand. The relationship between them stronger than ever.

"The boy is right, for once, sir. It is nice to have you back." Strax said casting a glance to Jenny and Vastra. Jenny didn't react this time, she couldn't be bothered.

"Thank you, Strax. Home, Vastra?" The Doctor asked then as he danced around the console flicking switches and pushing buttons as he went.

"Please, Doctor." Vastra agreed quietly.

Once they were in the vortex, Clara awoke and made her way to the console room. She found the Doctor sitting on the stairs and Jenny, Vastra and Strax in one corner talking quietly to each other. She sat beside him and leant her head on his shoulder. She looked down at his hands and saw he clutched a blue TARDIS shaped book in his hands, tightly.

"This was River's Diary. We never met in the right order on our time lines. We were going in different directions and only crossing paths once in a while. So we kept diaries to keep a record of our meetings." The Doctor said quietly to Clara.

"Sensible. Did you love her, your wife, River?" Clara asked.

"Yes. I did. Until you discovered my name in the library here in the TARDIS, she was the only one who knew it."

"She opened your tomb?"

"Yes. I just regret not spending more time with her. But because we never met in the right order, we couldn't reveal much to each other. I couldn't know of my future. Our adventures were her past and my future. The first time I met her, was the day she died in the the biggest library in the universe. I didn't know her and I know I broke her heart because of it. I didn't know who she was to me. Her memories then were my future ones..." He explained but spotted Clara's confused face. "It's complicated..." The Doctor was about to continue when the TARDIS roared and lost control as she was dragged off her set course to another part of the universe several pivotal moments into the Doctor's future. All within her were thrown off kilter.

"Doctor!" Clara and Jenny screamed. Jenny grabbing hold of Vastra.

"Sir!" Strax bellowed above the noise and the Doctor grabbed hold of Clara and made his way to the console.

"What's going on, old girl? Hey, where are we going?" Another jerk forward. "Come on Sexy that wasn't nice. SEXY!" The Doctor bellowed as the TARDIS roared once more and was pulled through the Vortex and landed with a shuddering thump on the place where the Doctor would meet his biggest adventure ever.