Summary: Short poem/story set after the events of The Mummy on the Orient Express episode in Season 8. These are Clara's thoughts during the last scene. Note: This is a Whouffaldi story, but fairly innocent & sweet, & more or less canon to the show itself.
Rated PG, with one swear word. Disclaimer: The BBC owns everything.
(A/N at the end.)
Clara and the Mummy
One moment.
One look and I knew.
I knew exactly what I wanted.
No doubts at all.
It's actually kind of funny now, looking back on it.
All it took, all it *really* took to give me a wake-up call was a mummy.
On the Orient Express train.
In space.
Yes, I know...
I know how weird that sounds.
But that's just it.
That's my life.
A life I wouldn't trade for anything.
A life I know now I will never willingly give up.
They'll have to drag me away.
Because I won't leave him.
Because he needs me.
Because I need him in my life.
Because...today was the day I finally woke up.
Today is the day I fell in love with the wrong man.
So...I told him.
I spoke the words right out loud.
And I *know* he heard me.
It's a shame he didn't look up when I did.
It's also a shame he doesn't believe me.
But that's my fault, really.
But that's not the worst part.
The worst part is...I lied to a really good man who thought I was speaking to him.
But it wasn't.
*I* wasn't.
I now know, at this moment, whom it is that I truly love.
Have always loved, in some way or another.
And that daft old man has no idea.
But that's OK.
Because, when I tell him I'm staying, that I'm not going anywhere...
Well, I'll let my eyes do all the talking.
That usually works better anyway.
Just keep it light and don't scare him off.
Right...here I go.
And...just like that...he's actually smiling.
Like a proper, ear-to-ear, happy smile.
It's the most wonderful smile I have ever seen on this new/old face of his.
And it's beautiful sight to behold.
And I put it there.
Bless that damn mummy.
A/N: This scene will always be one of my all-time favorites in Season 8. Peter's Doctorly smile when Jenna's Clara told him she was staying...well, it was literally so beautiful that I choked up and cried a little bit. (True story, bro.) It was immensly satisfying to see how happy he was, how happy it made him to know she was sticking by him for a longer period of time. The moment definitely tugged at the heart-strings. It was so eandearingly sweet that I'll never ever forget that smile or the one she gave him as she said, "Now shut up and give me some planets!" LOLs. :o)