The Story of Danny and Clara

Chapter 2 (Set after Robot of Sherwood)

Clara was feeling absolutely terrible, her nose was all stuffy and she had already managed to go through about 3 boxes of handkerchiefs. She also appeared to be suffering from jetlag from her last TARDIS trip (that was new, maybe she couldn't do both after all). After realising that she would be too ill to go in Clara decided to ring the school and tell them that.

Clara decided to go straight back to sleep in order to try and get herself to feel better. Several hours later she was awoken by the sound of a doorbell ringing. At first Clara wondered who it could be, then she opened the door… she should've known it'd be Danny.

"Hi Clara"

"Hi Danny, what are you doing here?"

"I heard you weren't feeling well so I decided to pop in and check you were alright".

"Thank you" said Clara then jokingly added "looks like you can't last a day without me can you?"

"Of course I can't, you're an amazing woman" said Danny

Clara smiled at the compliment from Danny and it was also good to know that they were on the same page in their relationship… even if it did come across as more of a joke.

Danny handed over some flowers, chocolates and another six boxes of handkerchiefs to Clara and said "Oh and before I forget these are for you".

"Aww that's so sweet of you, thanks Danny".

"Well I better get going" he trailed off…

"Unless you want me to stay" he thought to himself.

However, Clara must've noticed his hesitation to leave and maybe she had the ability to read Danny's mind because before he even had the chance to leave she said "Well I'd rather you stayed".

Then Clara opened the door properly to let him in and after that Danny spent half the day looking after her. He did know that she was a strong independent woman who could handle herself but he really wanted to help her, he liked looking after Clara and spending time with her and he wanted to do all this as much as he possibly could.

Danny set up the sofa for Clara so she could lie down and plonked himself on the seat right next to her. Clara couldn't seem to get comfortable though and turned to face Danny instead, even resting her head on him.

"Danny"

"Yes Clara"

"I've just thought of something funny"

"Which is?"

"We're hiding our relationship from the kids at school when we haven't even been on a date yet. Today you're looking after me like we're husband and wife, it's just I'm surprised they haven't added two and two together, pun intended".

They both laughed and when they stopped, there was a mini void of silence. However, the following question seemed to burst out of Danny's mouth like water from a tap.

"Clara what exactly would you think if we were husband and wife?"

"Bold offer Mr Pink but I…"

Unless Clara was very much mistaken she could now hear a noise that sounded like the TARDIS materialising normally she'd be happy to hear this but not today. She had already told the Doctor that she was too sick to go anywhere and now she was going to have to rush to get Danny out of the house even though she really wanted him to stay.

"What's that noise?" asked Danny.

"Maybe it's a motorbike or something" said Clara "I'll go and investigate, in the meantime I think I need some tea, can you make me some?"

Danny didn't understand what was going on, he now felt like he'd put his foot in it when he mentioned the husband and wife thing and was now mentally kicking himself. But then as he went to make her a cup, he did realise that she hadn't actually finished her sentence and besides it wasn't like he was asking her properly. If he was asking properly it'd be different.

Clara checked that Danny was busy in the kitchen then walked all the way down the hall. Cold or no cold she would know that noise anywhere, sure enough by the time she entered her bedroom there was the TARDIS before her very eyes. Clara was now feeling extremely infuriated to say the least and this was only about to get worse.

"Clara, is that you, blimey you look terrible" said the Doctor.

"Yes, of course it's me and you need to get the hell out of here" replied Clara.

"That's not very nice".

"I specifically told you not to come today because I'm unwell and you've ignored what I said… again, you never listen" Clara exclaimed.

"How am I supposed to keep track of everything you say, besides I thought you were faking it"

"I never fake an illness just listen to my voice".

"Can't say I notice the difference".

"For a so called Doctor your bedside manner is terrible, now get out of my house".

"Clara, your tea is ready" yelled Danny.

"Who's that?" asked the Doctor.

"Be there in a bit Danny" responded Clara.

"Danny?" asked The Doctor.

"I'm not telling you, but seeing as you won't leave you need to stay here, understood?"

The Doctor rolled his eyes and eventually nodded.

Clara walked back towards the living room to have her tea. The Doctor did what Clara said for a few minutes but he rapidly became bored and ended up doing the opposite of what she said. He decided to sneak down the corridor, during this he heard Clara and whoever this Danny was giggling insanely together, god only knows what they were finding so funny. He also happened to notice that the two of them were in extremely close proximity to one another.

Crash

Turns out The Doctor hadn't been as careful as he was trying to be and had tripped over and broken (in his opinion) a rather ugly looking vase of Clara's. Now he had made so much noise he was bound to be found out. He then began to curse at a rather high volume. Lucky for him Clara was still trying to distract Danny from what was going on.

"Sorry Danny, you're going to have to leave" said Clara.

"Why?"

"It's complicated"

"Try me"

"I don't think you'd understand"

"Oh" said Danny a little crestfallen.

"I don't mean it like that, it's just" ...

Danny could see Clara was now rather agitated (he'd never seen her like this before and was feeling a little concerned). However, he decided to drop it, nothing good could come out of causing an argument with a sick person neither would forcing a secret out when she clearly didn't want to tell it yet. He also reckoned further down the line that Clara would tell him all about it anyway and it would've been worth the wait.

Clara still didn't want to be rude to Danny and decided that after all he'd done for her the least she could do was walk him to the door.

"Are you sure you'll be okay?" asked Danny one last time.

"Of course I will, thanks for checking up on me".

"See you soon then"

"Bye"

Clara smiled to herself as she shut the door.

"What are you smiling for?" asked the Doctor.

"None of your business" said Clara.

"This Danny would he be your boyfriend?"

Clara tried not to answer this because he'd only tease her about it. But she may as well have said "yes" because the smile she had plastered across her face gave it away.

"Anyway, can you help me tidy up this broken glass?" asked Clara trying to immediately change the subject.

"Sure but only this once" responded the Doctor.