Amy was really feeling the thrill of the chase. They were investigating a really interesting snow, which appeared to have a low-level telepathic field. Snow that could remember. Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax were also in the case, being the lizard woman the one who had called the Doctor in the first place. Amy always liked to see them, and their adventures with the Great Detective were in between her favourites. The Doctor was thrilled to face an opponent so clever and capable of so many things, and she was happy to see him so excited.

However, they couldn't understand how Doctor Simeon was going to accomplish his goal of wiping the human kind from Earth with just snow. Their answer came from an unexpected source.

The Doctor tracked a significant amount of telepathic snow just outside a bar, so they headed there to see what happened. They were passing by a creepy-looking snowman when a girl came out of the bar. Amy thought she looked very familiar, even if she couldn't remember why. The Doctor didn't seem to notice anything strange about her, so he continued his way; but the girl asked if they had built the snowman, given she had just been there and she hadn't seen any.

Amy faintly felt like she knew the brunette standing before her, but she couldn't understand why. It was her first time in Victorian London, it was impossible for them to have met before. Then why did she look so familiar?

The Doctor walked back to where they were standing and scanned the snowman with his screwdriver. Amy came back from her thoughts and asked the girl's name.

"Clara. Who are you?" There was something so captivating about her smirk and her eyes.

"I'm Amy." She was trapped in those brown eyes, and it took her a while to notice that she had forgotten to introduce the Doctor. "Oh, and this is the -" She was interrupted by snowmen growing spontaneously from the ground. Every second that passed brought more snowmen around them. The Doctor turned around suddenly and held Clara from her shoulders, shaking her slightly.

"Clara you said your name was, right?" She nodded, fear in her eyes. "This is important. You're thinking about the snowmen. You have to stop it. Picture them melting, now!"

Clara closed her eyes, and you could tell that she was trying really hard to do as the Doctor said. Suddenly, a wave of freezing-cold water got the three soaking wet. The Doctor looked relieved that the snowmen had melted, and Clara just looked like she was very cold. Amy noticed that Clara had a very revealing dark red dress and no coat, and even though she was enjoying the view, she took off her coat and wrapped it around the shorter girl.

"You okay?" Amy asked. Clara nodded. After she recovered from the shock, she looked ready to start asking questions.

"What was that? And who are you?" She asked, but the Doctor told her to forget about it. He took Amy's hand and aimed to walk away. Amy told him to stop, but he went on about all the important things they had to do.

Before she knew it they were climbing the stairs to the TARDIS. The Doctor told her that she should get some sleep while he ran some tests on the snow. She was very puzzled by how he had run back to the TARDIS after finding the other girl. And why did she felt so familiar?

A noise she had never heard before in the TARDIS stopped her right before she got into one of the corridors.

"Was that a knock on the door?" She asked the Doctor.

"It was nothing. Go to bed, Pond."

She was tired and it didn't take long for her to fall asleep. She dreamt the same thing she had been dreaming about for weeks. She saw this girl called Oswin, and she was amazing and they were going to see the universe together. But she always died at the end. In all those dreams, the girl didn't have a face; Amy never got to see her, until she met Clara. When she dreamt about Oswin that night, she looked just like Clara.

How could she be her? And why did she always die? Maybe it was a warning, an advice from the universe to her that she had to protect Clara. She had to find her again.

When she woke up, she made herself a cup of tea and joined the Doctor at the console room.

"Any new discoveries on the snow?" She said after sitting next to him. He closed the book he had been reading.

"Not really. Slept well?" The Doctor asked, putting his arm around Amy's shoulders.

"Yeah, great. Except for this dream I keep having." She lowered her head to the Doctor's shoulder and tried to describe her dream as best as she could. Every word she said deepened the frown on his face. Finally, she told him about what had been different the night before.

"I never see the girl's face, but last night…it was Clara. I don't know why, but it feels like it's trying to tell me something." Amy knew that what she was saying sounded unbelievable, but she really wanted to find Clara again and just make sure she was okay. For some reason, the Doctor had been being very nice to her, but this time he looked worried. He just said that it would be better to take care of that after finishing with their investigation, and ran off to call Madame Vastra.

Amy could only hear what the Doctor was saying, but apparently someone had been at Paternoster Row asking for him. Whoever that was had an important lead for them, and Strax knew where to start investigating.

She inquired after the news, but the Doctor didn't tell her about the mysterious person. In fact, he didn't say anything about someone looking for him, and Amy couldn't help but wonder why he hid it from her.

He took his coat and stepped out of the TARDIS, already rambling about the snow.


The visit to Doctor Simeon's office had been very helpful. They discovered that he was planning to use the frozen form of a governess who fell into a pond to give human form to his talking snow.

The Doctor decided to take a look at the pond by himself, so they headed to the address they had found in Simeon's files.

"Do you really believe that an ice monster in the shape of a governess is trapped inside a frozen pond?" Amy asked as they walked into the TARDIS.

"I don't know. I can't wait to find out." He smiled before pushing the last button.

At the house, the Doctor scanned the frozen pond with his screwdriver. Amy stood in front of him at the other edge of the pond, facing the house. Suddenly, one of the curtains moved and a figure appeared behind the window. It was Clara.

Amy's eyes widened. She hadn't been expecting to find her there; she was a barmaid -as far as she knew-, it was impossible for her to be at a house like that. Clara looked surprised too, but she smiled when she saw the redheaded girl standing outside. After waving at Amy, she gestured for them to enter the house. Amy surrounded the pond and aimed for the house. The Doctor noticed this and followed her with his eyes. He barely spotted Clara before she disappeared behind the curtains.

He took Amy's hand and pulled her to a side.

"Amy we can't do this right now, we have worse things to worry about!"

"But it's her again, Doctor! It's Clara! Can't you see she might be in danger? Those snowmen yesterday caught her into their telepathic field and now she has a frozen monster in her pond, there's no way this is a coincidence. It's like in my dream, Doctor, I have to protect her or she's going to die!"

Their discussion was interrupted by screams coming from the house. Amy ignored the Doctor completely and ran to the door, kicking it open. She tried to follow the voices, climbed up some stairs and opened a door, finding Clara and two kids trapped between a wall and the ice governess. She took a chair that was next to her, but never got to break it against the monster because the Doctor suddenly appeared behind her, pointing with his screwdriver at the ice, which broke in a million pieces.

"Hello again!" Amy said at the brunette standing across the room, still trying to catch her breath.

"Oh, thank you. That was amazing!" Clara said after checking the children were okay.

"New setting. Antifreeze." The Doctor answered while putting away his sonic. He fixed his bow tie, with that proud smirk of being the hero again. Amy rolled her eyes.

"Actually, I meant Amy. You were great with your little shiny stick but she came to help us with nothing to protect herself." The Doctor looked very upset by Clara's statement. Both Clara and Amy laughed and the shorter girl winked at the redhead.

The Doctor looked outside a window. The snowmen were appearing in the garden out of nowhere. The room felt colder, and all of the sudden the ice governess regained her form and they had to run downstairs.


After a very confusing scene, they were all together in a room from which they could observe the snowmen. The Doctor asked Clara some questions about the pond and walked around the room, thinking of a plan. Suddenly he headed for the door.

"Amy, with me. The rest of you lot, stay here."

Amy followed the Doctor, who pointed his sonic at the invisible wall holding the ice governess as soon as he was out of the room. Amy felt someone else behind her, so she turned and found Clara standing mere inches from her.

"Oi! The Doctor told you to stay in there." Amy tried really hard to stay serious and hide that deep inside she wanted Clara to stay with them. At least until she was sure she was safe.

"Oh, really? I didn't listen." The Scottish girl almost couldn't resist the smirk on her face.

"You do that a lot, don't you?"

"That's why you like me." Clara said matter-of-factly. Amy tried to ignore how she had stepped closer as she spoke.

"Who says I like you?" She answered with a laugh that tried to sound cool, but was more on the nervous side.

Clara threw her hands around Amy's neck and kissed her full on the lips. Amy was so shocked she couldn't move, but after a few seconds she found herself wanting to kiss her back. Unfortunately, when she finally managed to regain control of her body, Clara broke the kiss.

"I think you just did." Her smirk was still there and it made Amy want to kiss her again.

"You kissed me!" It was all she could say.

"And you blushed." The tension between them was so irresistible that Amy felt like she was being pushed down to the other girl's lips.

The Doctor, as usual, had to step in.

"Oi! Would you two stop that! I'm busy here!"

Amy took Clara's hand and walked to the Doctor. He did something with the sonic and trapped them inside the force field with the ice governess.

They ran up the house, and at some point the Doctor took an umbrella. Amy guessed his plan straight away, but didn't know why he wanted to test Clara, given he had been so strange around her before. And she couldn't know about their magic cloud, could she?

They got out of the house through a window, but Clara got stuck because of her dress. Amy tried to help her, and fell to the ground with Clara on top of her.

"We'll have to take those clothes off you." She said with just a tiny little hint of flirting. Clara giggled.

"I bet you would love that." She stood up and helped Amy. The Doctor gave Clara the umbrella and started with his test. It took her less than thirty seconds to figure it out, and Amy couldn't help but feel a hint of pride.

They rushed up the taller-on-the-inside staircase, the ice governess following them. Once they reached the top, the Doctor closed the gap in the cloud to keep her trapped.

"Do you actually live up here on a cloud, in a box?" Clara asked. Amy took her hand and whispered.

"You just wait." The Doctor opened the doors and went inside. Amy let go of Clara's hand and went in behind him.

"Wait? For what?" Clara followed the redhead through the doors. The Doctor turned on the lights just as she stepped in.

Amy looked at her as her eyes widened in surprise, her lips parted. Clara was amazed by their ship, and it made her happy. The Doctor explained a little bit about the TARDIS, not able to hide that Clara's reaction amused him as much as it amused Amy.

"But it's…Look at it, it's…" She rushed outside, presumably to run around the TARDIS. She entered the ship again.

"It's smaller on the outside!" The Doctor frowned, seeing his favourite part of inviting someone new in completely torn apart by the new girl. Amy just burst into laughter, because she knew how much he enjoyed the "it's bigger on the inside!" part. He had said "Go on, say it. Most people do.", but Clara clearly wasn't most people.

Clara asked some questions, including whether there was a kitchen, because she liked making soufflés. Amy's heart skipped a beat; in her dreams, she called Oswin "Soufflé Girl". It couldn't just be a coincidence.

She looked over at the Doctor, who looked as surprised as she was. But she hadn't mentioned the soufflés to him.

Clara turned to her, and startled her when she spoke.

"And you live here? With him?" Amy thought there was a hint of disappointment in her voice. She smiled.

"We travel together. We go anywhere we want, whenever we want to go. Sometimes we help people who need it, and sometimes we save the world."

Clara asked why they were showing her this. The Doctor tried to deny that he had wanted to, but she had figured out the umbrella thing was a test. Amy couldn't help but notice she was so smart and observing, and so unlike all the other women she had met in Victorian London. Well, so unlike anyone she had ever met. She would definitely love to travel with them.

The Doctor stepped closer to the girls.

"I never know why. I only know who." He offered her the TARDIS key as he finished his sentence. Amy could see the excitement in his eyes, and the tears gathering on hers. The Doctor ran back to the console, pressing buttons and leavers all around to take off. Clara turned to look at Amy, and suddenly her eyes widened in horror. She pushed Amy away from the door and got captured by the ice governess.

To Amy, it all happened really fast and in slow-motion at the same time. She saw Clara being dragged out of the TARDIS and over the edge of the clouds. She ran after her, but couldn't reach her in time.

She fell to her knees on the edge, looking down at the city. She couldn't move, she couldn't cry, she just stopped. Like everything around her, the entire universe had just paused.

The Doctor dragged his companion back into the TARDIS and immediately set the co-ordinates to fly down to the house. Amy was seated in one of the chairs of the console room, staring at the floor. She kept staring as Clara's body materialized inside the ship.


They had placed Clara on a table Strax was using as a pallet. She was alive for now, but it wouldn't last long. Amy stood next to the table, looking down at Clara's sleeping form. The Doctor went back into the TARDIS and stayed there.

Amy took Clara's hand, waiting for her to wake up. Suddenly, her eyes started to open very slowly. She saw Amy next to her and smiled.

"Amy." It was barely a whisper, but her eyes were completely focussed on her.

"Hey there." Amy smiled, her free hand caressing the other girls face. She was trying to hold back the tears, but it wasn't really working. Clara closed her eyes, but spoke again.

"You said you and the Doctor save worlds. Are you going to save this one?" You could tell she was struggling to speak, but she gathered strength and opened her eyes.

"If we do, will you come away with me?"

"Yes." Clara said with a sad smile. Amy tried to be as strong as Clara was proving to be, so she took a deep breath, kissed Clara's forehead and walked back into the TARDIS.

"Let's go, Doctor. We have a world to save." He moved around the console and prepared everything to take off. Right before pulling the last leaver he looked up at Amy. "For Clara." She said.


They had tricked Doctor Simeon to erase his memory, but the Intelligence was now in control of his body. He hit Amy as soon as the fight started, leaving her temporally out of combat.

She started to regain consciousness as the talking snow started to melt. It was raining.

The Doctor went to the window and proved that the rain was in fact tears. The tears of a whole family crying on Christmas Eve.

They flew back to the house, and in the small time the trip lasted none of them spoke. Amy felt the Doctor fearing the worst, and she had some very similar concerns of her own.

She stepped out of the TARDIS and rushed to Clara's side, taking her hand. She kneeled next to her.

"We did it, Clara. We saved the world." She couldn't hold the tears anymore, she had stayed strong long enough, but now there was nothing she could do to save her.

"Thank you." There were tears in Clara's eyes too, but closed them to stop the tears from falling. "Doctor." She called him. He stood next to Amy, a hand on her shoulder. "Keep Amy safe…and run. Run, you clever boy. And remember."


Amy and the Doctor were at Clara's funeral. After everyone else was gone, the redhead keeled in front of her tombstone. It clearly read Clara Oswin Oswald. Her eyes widened, and she called –shouting- the Doctor.

"But that's impossible!" The Doctor said after reading the words. "Soufflé Girl! It was her!"

"Doctor, how can you possibly know about the soufflés? I never told you that!" Amy stood up, and the Doctor took a step back.

"Amy, I'm sorry. It wasn't a dream, it was real. I made you forget because you couldn't take the pain. But that doesn't matter now because she's alive!" He switched from a sad expression to an excited one while saying that. Amy changed from a puzzled face to a one of pure hate.

"You what!?"

"I'm sorry! But we can find her!" Amy didn't give him time to walk away and gave him a hard slap, turning his cheek red. He was about to protest, but Amy hushed him.

"Not a word, Doctor. You deserved that. And I am furious, but we'll discuss this after I get Clara back. Now, let's go."

Amy gave one final look at the grave, making a silent promise to find her and protect her, no matter the cost.


A/N: hope you liked! Next chapter might take a while since I'm pretty busy with school D: but I'll try my best. Please review and tell me your thoughts!