Okay so this is written under request from Chloe. I have absolutely no idea how long the fic will end up being, how long it will take me to write (uni work must come first ) and how good it will be, but it's here…

7.30am. It was possible that Clara Oswald was being a little keen on her first day as a fully qualified teacher, but better to be early than late right? Even if she was the first one to arrive... So as it stood she was sat in her car, reading over her notes for the 13th time for her lessons that day. This was not something she was going to mess up. Not this time.

8.00am. On the dot, she spotted another car arrive in the car park. She quickly recognised the occupant as Rachel Mason, the headmistress of the school. Clara had taken a like to her already – she knew exactly what the school needed. It was going somewhere! A school with a vision, exactly the place she wanted to be. The passenger appeared to be the deputy head, Eddie Lawson, however Clara was more than a little confused at how cosy they were getting… possibly the time to look away from her rear view and get out of the car - best not to be getting involved with anything she didn't need to, today was not the day for getting involved in anything other than her job.

"Miss Oswald! Quite keen aren't we?" Eddie spoke first, Clara smiled awkwardly.

"Didn't want to get caught in traffic on my first day, I've never driven the route in rush hour before. I didn't really mean to be this early though…" she started, but began to wonder if she was a little too early, too keen.

"I like a bit of enthusiasm. Welcome to your first day! Eddie give the poor girl a hand, show her to the classroom?" Rachel obviously noticed the struggle with the enormous number of bags and boxes. Thank goodness every day wouldn't be a first day.

Once Clara and Eddie had everything between them, she followed him through what seemed to be an endless number of corridors to reach her classroom.

"I'll leave you to make it look like home. The staffroom is just down on the right when you're done." Eddie smiled and left, leaving Clara to admire the room which would become her second or maybe third home for quite a while to come. It was really quite beautiful, clearly painted over the summer a beautiful shade of blue. The shelves, apart from textbooks, were essentially empty, leaving Clara free reign to spread her various learning tools around the room to make it look a little more exciting, or at least that was the hope. It's hard to get kids interested in history these days, that's what they all told her, but she was determined that wouldn't beat her. History was fascinating, there's so much to it, so many different things! A few miserable teenagers weren't going to beat her.

8.20am. A knock on the door woke Clara from her daydream while sat at her desk. Looking up she noticed a young woman, couldn't be much older than herself stood at the door. She smiled and signalled for her to come in.

"Hi, sorry should I be somewhere?" Clara wasn't sure if she sounded worried, nervous or both. The other woman simply smiled at her, almost laughing but in a friendly sort of way.

"No you're fine. I like what you've done with the room…" the woman's voice faded off, before she seemed to shake a thought off and return to her sentence "sorry, hi. I'm Davina, resident welcomer of sorts I suppose. At least I like to think so. I'm a TA so I expect you'll see more of me than you want to. Nice to meet you. Clara isn't it?" Good start, someone speaking to her. That was something Clara was pleased about. But something didn't seem right none the less.

"Yeah. Hi it's nice to meet you. Sorry, um, I don't mean to be nosey, I guess it's in my nature a bit but I'm not trying to be it's just, I mean, are you okay?" there was a nervous silence at this point, and Clara couldn't decide if she'd offended the woman or not. The silence went on a little longer than was overly comfortable at this point, before a new voice cut in.

"Her ex was the old history teacher. Don't worry, she'll get over it I'm sure."

"SHUT IT STEPH! It's none of your business you hear me?!"

Okay things were getting a little awkward now; maybe Clara was too soon to be pleased about this situation. The older blonde walked on, leaving just her and Davina in the room again.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to stir anything up. Things end badly? Oh gosh sorry I'm being nosey again aren't I?" The smile returned to Davina's face at this.

"Honestly you're fine, it's nice to have someone in the room who is unlikely to cheat on me! So. Fancy a coffee?"

8.50am. The school bell. Now the nerves were kicking in. Davina had spent the previous 20 minutes giving her tips on various things around the school, but if she was honest it had simply increased the nerves. Of course she was only trying to help, but there seemed to be a lot to remember in all this. Whatever her thoughts, she had a tutor group to introduce herself too now. Thankfully they'd given her year 7s.

"Morning class. We're all in the same boat here today, all new. So let's help each other out shall we? I'm going to sit you in alphabetical order to start with, just so I can learn your names a bit easier okay? So I'll call you in and once you're sat down, introduce yourself to your neighbour." So far, so good.

As the class filed in, a small amount of nerves reduced. The register was done, the kids were talking and she could sort herself out before talking them through the notices and announcements. Everyone was happy.

9.00am. Notices out of the way, logbooks given out, Clara allowed the class to get to know each other. It made sense to her – the first day was the most important. Most of them didn't know each other, and having sat them in alphabetical order, even those that did were mostly separated. At least, they were meant to be. Suddenly she spotted one of the girls had moved Melody… she couldn't remember her surname, but she remembered her folder – this one was trouble. She'd moved next to her friend, Amelia her name was. Amelia Pond. They were an interesting match, even now she could tell that. Amelia looked almost embarrassed when she'd noticed Clara looking at them, she clearly didn't want to be in trouble and as these thoughts were running through her head, she could see Amelia trying to get Melody to move back before Clara had a chance to tell anyone off. She didn't particularly want to tell them off either, but she couldn't ignore it – that would send out the wrong message.

Real life was hard work sometimes, but she wasn't running away today.

"Melody, move back to your seat now please. I know you want to sit next to your friend but there'll be plenty of time for that later." Was she just being hopeful?

"What if I don't want to?" Yes. Yes she was. Clara glanced up at the clock, 10 minutes before the bell went. Just 10 minutes before she could get down to the bit she loved most.

"Then I'll have to send you to the cooler and I assure you, I really don't want to do that." Not as smooth a start as she'd hoped for, that was for sure.

"Maybe you won't have to." Melody stood up, was it that easy? Clara started to step back, relief beginning to wash over her although she hoped it wasn't showing too much.

And then it was gone. Melody grabbed her bag and ran for the door, heading down the corridor. Clara just caught Amelia's head hitting the table as she ran out of the room. Melody was quick, very quick, and she wasn't exactly wearing the best shoes for running after an 11 year old girl in and before long, Melody got away. 'Damn those corridors!' she thought as she leant back against the wall. This was going to be far from easy, and she'd barely even started.

"Problem newbie?" Clara looked up, recognising the woman in front of her from the staffroom. ICT if she remembered correctly. Miss Noble or something? Yeah. Noble. Never caught a first name, but to be honest she slightly terrified Clara, especially right now.

"Yes. No. Um… yeah. Student ran out of class I don't know where she's gone. I'm sorry she never really gave me a chance and I didn't really think about being dressed for running today." Was an attempt at humour right? Probably not, but it was a little late to worry about that now. "I need to go and find her. I don't think she'll leave the grounds."

"Hey you want a hand? There's a TA watching my class for a few minutes anyway. See if we can grab her before the big bosses find out." Maybe she wasn't as scary as she first looked then.

"Oh I don't want to cover anything up… just don't want Melody getting herself in too much trouble." Miss Noble simply laughed, and told Clara to look outside.

So she did.

Review if you wish I already know it's rubbish :P