Allons-y Impossible Girl
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Chapter 2
The Doctor walked around the back of the pub to where he'd parked the TARDIS. The bar girl followed him with an apprehensive look on her face. It was very late, her shift had finished around midnight and she didn't have a jacket for some reason. She wore a tight black v-neck t-shirt and ripped black skinny jeans with red chucks on her feet and she looked like any other bar girl.
"What?" he asked as she looked around suspiciously.
"Well, you aren't going to murder me or something are you?" she asked sceptically as he put the key in the lock "What's that?"
"This is my time machine!" he said, pushing the door open. The girl stayed where she was, smirking at him with raised eyebrows.
"No way am I getting in there with you?" she said.
"Why not?" the Doctor asked bewildered.
"Because it's tiny!" she said. "What is it, some kind of snogbox?"
"Oi, she is not a snogbox" he said angrily and the girl started to laugh. The look on his face was too much for her. Slowly, the Doctor started to smile at the delightful sound of her laughter. "Just…" he stepped away from the door "Go inside. Go inside and I promise your life will never be the same again."
Maybe it was that strange, earnest look on his face, or just the way he said it, but she moved forwards and gently pushed on the door. Apprehensively she stepped into the console room and the lights flickered on. She froze.
It was…
Impossible!
She back up out of the door with wide eyes. The Doctor grinned as she did the traditional circuit of the TARDIS, checking it was normal sized and had four walls and all that. Then she came back to the front and stuck her head in again, just to check she hadn't imagined it.
"Its…" she looked at the Doctor in astonishment "Bigger on the inside!"
"Yep!" he grinned at her and she grinned back. He led the way into the TARDIS and said "It's called a TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimension In Space."
"It's a time machine!" she practically shouted. He nodded.
"Where…" she was so stunned she couldn't speak. "Where did you get one of these?"
"I borrowed it" the Doctor said "Ran away in her to see the stars"
"Its… I… This is just…. Wow!" she spun around trying to look at everything at once. The Doctor laughed at her. "So this is your ship?" she asked, leaning on the console.
"Yes"
"And it can go anywhere?" she asked, her face hopeful.
"In all of time and space" he promised with a smile. "I can take you to every star in the universe, every moment in history"
"Its... incredible!" she breathed.
He grinned at her from across the console. Then he frowned slightly. "So, Impossible Girl, do you have a name?"
"I do" she said.
When she didn't say anything he added, "Well, what is it?"
"What's your name?" the girl asked "Doctor… that can't just be it"
"Well it is. Now please?" he said, his face twisting in a strange smile.
She didn't say anything at first, then sighed and said "Clara. Clara Oswald. People call me Oswin though."
"Clara." The Doctor tried it out on his tongue. It was pretty, and suited her perfectly. "Oswin." It was nice, but didn't seem quite right.
"Yeah. Long story really, I've not been Clara in years." She said and something flickered across her eyes. It was gone a moment later though.
"Well, any objections to being Clara again?" he asked.
She sighed. It usually bugged her when people wanted to call her Clara, but somehow she didn't feel the usual stab when this Doctor said her real name. She smiled and shook her head. "You really want to take me with you?" she asked hopefully, biting her lip. Even though she knew she should, she didn't have any trouble believing this man when he told her it was a time machine.
"Of course" the Doctor grinned "It's not much fun travelling alone. I've seen a lot of it already, and the best part is showing someone else it all"
"Alright then, I'm in!" she grinned. He jumped up and grinned.
"Really? You don't worry about your family or nothing like that?" he asked, feeling he better cover that now before he got too excited. Clara snorted.
"I don't do family. The pub will live without me and my other part time job is hardly demanding Anyway, didn't you say this was a time machine?" she raised an eyebrow and he grinned again. It was amazing, how after so many miserable years without Rose this girl could make him smile so much in one night. He wasn't letting her replace her, but still...
"Alright then, off we go!" the wheezing sound started up and the centre column of the console began to move up and down. "Allons-y! Oo, I like that, I should say that more often!"
Clara laughed, he flipped the switches and took off into the time vortex with his new companion.
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