"Did you agree on a specific time?" The doctor requested as they walked throught the TARDIS doors. The Gallifreyan symbols on the cielings started spinning and the lights got ever so slightly stronger once his hands reached the console. "Um, she doesn't exactly know that I'm coming", Clara replied as she looked down at her boots.

"You didn't even call her?" He asked and leaned against the console. "Well, it's been four years since I last saw her! She could have gotten a new phone with new number, or a different address. How was I supposed to reach her?" "How are you planning on finding her?" "Walk into the Woolpack and look for a Dingle. Shouldn't take too long." She explained. "If I can't find any of 'em there, then I'll knock on the Dingle's house."

"Right then! Emmerdale, 19. July 2013, 11.23 AM. Off we go!"

The TARDIS wheezed and groaned until they heard one final, low bang and knew they had landed. Clara walked towards the doors, the four years she had spent with Debbie in Emmerdale came rushing through her mind, which was then followed by the next four years she had spent in prison.

"You've always been there for me, but you can't be any more and I have to accept that", The words she had used four years ago, rang in Clara's head, clear as bells. "But I will be again", She heard Debbie answer.

"You said before that I don't belong in prison, but I will soon. I'm going to have to make myself belong, or I am not going to get through this"

"I know, but when it's over-" "When it's over, I'll be changed, Debbie, and so will you! Your life will have moved on", She had interrupted.

"I'll wait", Debbie had vowed with a shaky voice and tears threatening to fall. "You can't. Otherwise you may have just been locked up in here with me!" Clara had explained. "I wish I was", her lover had admitted.

"Clara, is something wrong?" The doctor asked. He must've noticed her hesitation. "Nothing. It's just- What if she, for once, did as I told her to, and moved on?" She mumbled. "If she never listened to you, why on earth would she listen to you about that?" He wondered.

"Because she knew I was right", Clara whispered, a single tear streaming down her face.

The brunette heard footsteps coming towards her from behind. She felt his hands being placed reassuringly on her shoulders. "It'll be fine", He told her and she opened the TARDIS doors.


Though it had been four years, the local pub still sounded the same. She looked at all the spots, but when she didn't spot any Dingles or anybody who would most likely talk to her, she turned towards the bar to tak to Diane, but instead she saw "Chas?", "Jasmine?" She responded, equally confused.

"Uh, It's Clara, now", She corrected. ""Hm, why?" Chas wondered, but Clara just raised her eyebrows and it was a good enough explanation.

"You're looking for Debbie, aren't you?" Chas guessed with a friendly smile. She and Chas hadn't exactly been close, but they had this sort of understanding. "Yeah", Clara admitted. "She lives in the same place as ever", "Thank you, Chas!"


The door opened and revealed the tall brunette with her sharp nose and so very beautiful green eyes. She didn't do anything, nor did she say anything, but just the sight of her made Clara's shoulders a thousand times lighter. Debbie just stood there in awe.

"We could always give 'hello' a try", She said. The memory of those words released Debbie from her trance and suddenly she felt her arms around her in a tight embrace and Clara wished she would never let go.

"Hello", she whispered in her ear.

"I think I'll just leave you two alone", the doctor suggested. Clara had completely forgotten about him when she saw Debbie, and she had especially forgotten how awkward he got around couples.

"Who's that?" Debbie asked Clara as she saw the Time Lord standing there in his purple tweed jacket and bowtie. His floppy brown hair hanging a bit in front of his eyes.

"Oh, this is my friend, the doctor", Clara answered. "Doctor who?" The doctor suddenly giggled, but pulled himself together enough to help his now frowning companion out. "Uh, doctor John Smith", he answered "I just really love it when people ask that question!" The doctor added. Clara nodded to tell Debbie that, yes, he loved that question and also she nodded a bit in agreement, because she had come to love it as well. "He helped me find you", She explained.

"Hi", The doctor said awkwardly.


"So, what did you do when you got out?" Debbie asked. They sat on the grass, all three of them together, but Debbie and Clara remembered that exact spot very well. Just where they sat, was where Clara had kissed her. Some metres away from their future "snogging shed". She remembered how she had lied after that kiss. Said it ment nothing. That she was just getting her back, well she'd always been a good liar if the lie came without guilt.

"Changed my name before I was going to travel, like I always talked about, remember? I stayed with the Maitlands a week before I left, but then their mother died and I just couldn't run out on them, so I stayed as a nanny. I'm still their nanny, but I'm looking for a flat and job as a teacher", She told.

"Completely given up on the journalist-thing, I see", Debbie added with a smirk. Clara scuffed her shoulder and mumbled "funny", but couldn't help but smile.

"Now, Clara, don't you think we should tell Debbie here the truth?" The doctor asked. Debbie looked at him confused, but Clara just smiled. "What truth?" Debbie asked, still quite confused due to none of them giving her any answers, "Jas?"

"Well, me and the doctor kind of told a little white lie when you first met him. You see, he's not called John Smith, it's just the doctor. His name is seriously the doctor, and the rest, well, I think you should see it for yourself because you would literally not believe me if I told you."

The doctor got on his feet and headed towards where he had parked. Clara gave Debbie a kiss on the cheek before saying excitedly "Come on!" And dragged her to her feet.

They reached the blue box and Debbie looked questioningly at Clara, but the short brunette dragged her inside with a smirk on her face. "No way!" Debbie exclaimed "Yes!" Clara answered, still overly excited. "This is the TARDIS", The doctor told her, "It's a spaceship and a time machine! Best ship in the universe and built by my people. The Time Lords!"

"It's smaller on the outside!" Debbie said and the doctor looked at Clara with an insane amount of disappointment and blame. "I would say that was a first, but-"


The doctor flew them to a market on some alien planet with a way too complicated name for Clara to understand. All kinds of aliens were swirling around the place and it reminded Clara about her first trip with the doctor to the festival of offerings on the asteroid Tiaanamat, by Akhaten, except they were not in danger and did not have to save all the people in the area from a horrid death.

"I got Sarah back", Debbie told as they sat by some café, whilst the doctor busied himself by exploring the shops. Looking at funny fruits, insects and animals or basically anything that fascinated him. Clara and Debbie drinking something that reminded them a bit about a cappuccino, but there was just something a bit more alien about it, some kind of taste neither of them had words for. "I knew you could do it", Clara responded.

"Nothing changed, Jas. At least not for me, but you seem to be quite happy with the doctor", Debbie said, staring into those chocolate eyes that she had missed so much. "What? We're not- ehm- Nothing changed for me either. I mean, everything changed, except that. Except this!"

She had leaned towards Debbie as she said the last sentence. "Come on, lover", Debbie whispered just before their lips met.

"I said 'forever', didn't I?" Jasmine whispered back as an answer when their lips broke apart. "Forever"