So, finally we start with some action in this chapter, hope you like it!

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The Doctor and John had been working for an hour, twenty-four minutes and thirty-two seconds when Rose came barreling into the TARDIS urgently.

He looked lazily up from the circuits he was busy fiddling with as he watched her run up to where John was rewiring several parts of the console that had burned up.

"John, you won't believe who they have living here!", she said urgently.

He just stared at her, blinked once, blinked twice – Oh, he'd completely forgotten about him, but how did she know him?

"Wait, how do you know him?", he asked perplexed before John could answer her.

"You knew?!", she shrieked, "He's a dangerous criminal!", she seemed furious.

"No, he's not – not anymore", he added lamely.

"Who-", began John only to get interrupted by Rose.

"John told me about him, he told me about that year that never was!"

"Are you talking about who I'm thinking you're talking about?", asked John, looking a bit worried.

"But things have changed!", he argued, ignoring John.

She relaxed a bit, "How?", she asked.

He turned to John, who by now was looking very worried, "He – the drumming – you remember the drumming right? The one he said to be hearing?", he began and they both nodded.

"Well – it turned out to be true – yes, yes I know it sounds ridiculous", he added when he saw their incredulous faces, "But I heard them – and he had been hearing since he was eight."

"And he got rid of it?", asked Rose.

"Yes – not exactly – you see it was much more complicated than-"

"Doctor", they both interrupted him.

"Short version – yes", he finished.

"So it was a TARDIS what I saw there outside", said John, "You gave him a TARDIS coral."

"He has changed", he stated, "Ask Jack, even he gets along with him nowadays!"

They stood a moment looking at him, looking vaguely convinced of what he was saying.

He was already thinking of what else you could say to convince them further when Amy came walking into the TARDIS.

"Mickey and Martha are here, we're holding breakfast for everybody, including you Mr. Bowties-are-cool", she said as she pointed at him.

"Let's go then", said John as he began setting away the wires he was working with.

"I'm almost finished here", said the Doctor as he fiddled a bit more with the circuits he was handling, accidently setting off some sparks flying from them.

"No, no, no", he said urgently as he tried to stop the reaction.

"Do I want to know?", asked John uneasily.

"Everything's fine, no worries", he tried to assure them as he got his sonic out and began sonicing everything, "I'll be there for breakfast in a few, Amy", he assured her.

"We'll be going then", said Rose as she practically dragged John out of their TARDIS.

Amy stood still watching him for a few moments as he tried to fix some of the damage he'd done.

"I'll be fine Amy, go have some breakfast with everybody", he waved at the kitchen's direction with a free hand.

"You won't stay here hiding then?"

He frowned at her, "I'm not hiding, what makes you think I'm hiding?"

"Running like that out of the house?", she suggested.

He resisted the urge to roll his eyes at her, "Amy Pond, I assure you that I'm not hiding."

"You sure?", she folded her arms at him.

"Yes, sure", he said and went back to his work.

"Fine, just remember to come get something to eat", she said and walked away.

It took him little more than half an hour to repair properly the circuits that he'd accidently fried and get to the kitchen.

"Finished!", he announced happily as he stepped and saw John and Rose sitting at the table with everyone else, "It should be almost ready for flight now."

"Morning Doctor", Martha greeted and Mickey gave him a nod.

"Good Morning", he greeted them and took a bite from a bread loaf with butter and made a face.

"The dust bin is over there", directed Rory as he pointed at said item.

He hastily ran to it and spit out what he'd eaten and threw away the rest of the loaf.

"Please tell me we have some fish fingers and custard", he pleaded to Amy.

"You're not having that as breakfast Raggedy Man", patronized Amy playfully as she pulled out a chair for him.

The Doctor pouted as he sat down on the chair and Amy gave him some bananas for breakfast.

"And I thought he was weird before", muttered Jackie.

"Mom!", whispered Rose back in a high tone.

"What?"

"Please tell me you don't like pears now", said John.

The Doctor shrugged as he chewed on his banana.

John made a face, "Just like the carrot juice, then."

"Carrot juice?", asked Martha.

"Used to hate it, then I regenerated and got new taste buds", explained the Doctor and took another bite from his banana.

The phone began ringing, "I'll get it", said Rory as he stood up and went to answer it.

"So ya' married River", said Jackie nonchalantly causing him to start choking on his banana.

"Calm down Sweetie", said River with a grin, causing a light flush to be added to his choking face.

"Breath Raggedy Man", Said Amy as she tried to suppress a fit of giggles.

"Ponds!", he gasped, "You told them!"

"Of course we did, took you too much time last time to tell them", she motioned at the Smith-Jones, causing his blush to grow even deeper.

"So how did you meet?", asked Jackie to River.

"Oh, we met at different places"

"And times", added Amy.

"I'm a time traveler, just like him", explained River.

"Doctor", called Rory from the phone in the living room.

He excused himself quickly and went to answer the phone, eager to get away from the awkward situation.

As he stepped into the living room he saw the Master sitting in front of the window, gazing absentmindedly at the snow while he held his mug of coffee and Rory handing him the phone.

"It's Clara, I don't understand her, it seems urgent", he said as he gave him the phone.

"Hello, Clara?", he asked.

"DOCTOR!", she yelled and he jerked away from the phone.

"Calm down, Clara", he tried to calm her.

"The city! The Droids, Doctor, the Droids!", she rambled.

"What city, what do you mean droids, Clara?", he asked hastily, sensing the urgency in her words.

"THERE ARE DROIDS ARE IN THE CITY!", she screamed.

"What?!", he yelled, causing some of the others in the kitchen to look at him worriedly, "Where are you Clara?", he asked urgently.

"Two blocks away from home!", she yelled.

"I'm on my way, hold on Clara!"

"Quickly!", she yelled and he hung up.

"Sorry, got to dash!", he yelled as he ran through the kitchen, through the backyard and into his TARDIS.

Hurriedly he set in the coordinates for near Clara's house, running around the console as fast as he could in hopes of getting there in time for whatever droids she might have encountered.

The TARDIS had barely given her final jolt when she landed when he stormed out, not even caring to shut the doors behind him.

He looked around alarmingly while he got his sense of direction straight, finally choosing a direction and set off running towards it.

"Here I come Clara", he muttered as he ran as fast as he could.

It wasn't nearly as difficult as he would have thought to find her, he just had to follow the noise of small explosions. After he picked up the noise and right direction he ran even faster in hopes of getting there before the police or UNIT heard of what was happening.

As soon as he arrived at the street the noise was coming from he had to stop first to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

Androids.

Several androids roaming the street, shooting all the cars and shops with their laser guns, walking out of a circle of light.

Terribly familiar androids.

He'd only once ever before seen this type of androids.

"But that's impossible", he whispered.

"Doctor!", he turned and saw Clara out a backstreet towards him, "Don't just stand there! They'll shoot you!"

And that's when it hit him, not one of the lasers, but the realization.

'This was a ploy to get my attention', he thought.

"No, wait, Clara!", he called out to her when she tried to drag him away and began explaining, "If they wanted to hurt us they would have already done so!", that caused her to stop abruptly, "Look at them", he pointed at the androids, shooting uncoordinatedly at the shops and cars, "They're uncoordinated, they were only send here to attract me – to lure me to them", he said excitedly.

Anybody that went through all this trouble to get his attention deserved to get some of it, even it meant stepping into a trap. Though Clara didn't seem even remotely excited at the prospect.

"You mean like a trap?", she asked worriedly, catching up with his thoughts.

"Yes!", he said gleefully and got his sonic screwdriver out.

"Doctor, what are doing?!", she yelled as he dashed off in direction of the circle of light, "DOCTOR!", she cried out loudly as he ducked behind one of the androids as he eluded a shot from another one.

He ran and as quickly as he could started scanning the circled portal with his sonic, ignoring the best he could Clara's worried yells as he tried to concentrate on the readings. Finishing with the scanning he immediately began closing the portal with his sonic, it might not have been the best way to close a portal and he would have to come back later to check again on it, but for now it'd do.

Eluding any stray shots as he ran through the uncoordinated androids he quickly was at Clara's side again.

"I'm fine Clara, really", he tried to calm her as she fussed and checked him over to make sure he was still in one piece.

"Are you sure?", she asked, more calmed now.

"Of course!", he assured her, "Now, come along Oswin!", he said cheerily and strode back towards the TARDIS.

"Wait, Doctor, where are we going?", she asked as she hurried after him.

"Got the coordinates from the place the androids were originating from", he explained as he ran down the street.

"You want to go to their trap?!", she yelled incredulously.

He turned to glance at her for a moment as he said, "Sounds dangerous, right?", he cracked a wide grin at her.

Clara looked ready to shout at him at the moment, probably over something that was bothering her, he had no idea what though so he took her hand and dragged her with him to the TARDIS.

"Doctor, you can't just walk into a trap!", she yelled as soon as he had the door open and was stepping in.

He rolled his eyes at her, "Of course you can Clara, whoever told you that you can't", he huffed and set in the coordinates from his sonic screwdriver into the TARDIS.

"Doctor!", she began as he walked over to the door and opened it.

"Here", he handed her the phone, "Call home, tell Martha and Mickey UNIT needs to cleanup where the androids are, tell them they should be careful", he directed her and ran back to the console to pilot the TARDIS.

As he ran around the console, trying to get the place and date right he heard Clara talking on the phone.

"Hello?", she began, "Rory give the phone to Martha or Mickey!", she said urgently.

"Mickey?", she said after a moment, "Two blocks away from my home there are over two dozen androids that need to be taken out", she paused for a moment, "No, we're fine, please give the phone to River", she pleaded.

"River, yes, yes, we're fine, but the Doctor is running right into a trap", another pause, "I know!", she exclaimed.

The TARDIS gave a jolt as she landed.

"Talk to her!", urged Clara as she held out the phone to him.

He quickly took hold of the phone and said cheerily to River, "Hi honey, I'll be home before you even notice!", he tossed the phone hurriedly back to Clara and began taking in his surroundings.

"DOCTOR!", he could hear her angry yell from the phone and winced, he wasn't going to get out of this one easily. Fortunately Clara took mercy on him and hung up the phone quickly before River could yell anything else.

"Thanks", he said and turned to look ahead of him.

They were in what looked to be a corridor of some spaceship, white and dull walls with some metal deep pressure doors and several turns to other corridors adorning the landscape.

"Which way?", asked Clara, not as excited as usual.

He spun around on his heels and finally stopped when he choose a direction, "This way", he led the way.

"So what are we looking for?', she asked, sounding a bit more excited this time.

"Anything out of place", he said.

After a few minutes of walking they finally found the main storage compartment.

Honestly he had expected something bad, but what they found almost shocked him – almost.

The whole storage compartment was filled androids, divided in groups facing portals, ready to open up and send them wherever at any moment. Only one signal and there would be dozens of android troops throughout the space. And worse of all, some of the portals were already coming to life, meaning that whoever was behind this knew they were aboard.

"What do we do?", asked Clara, her usual excitement for adventure completely returned by now.

He opened his mouth to answer her, a plan already forming in his brain, when they both heard clanking sounds caused by the footsteps of a middle aged mad with dark eyes and light hair, which came strolling into their view.

"My, my, my", he said as he went to stand in front of one of the opening up portals, "The Doctor and his companion, I had been expecting you."

"Look, you don't have to do this", he tried to reason, hopefully the man would listen and take the opportunity.

"No, it's true, I don't have to – but I terrible want to", he deadpanned.

"Why?", he questioned.

"Oh Doctor, that, you'd never know", he said as he inched closer to the portal.

"Who are you?!", yelled Clara over the noise the opening portal made.

"You may call me Laurence", he told her and turned back to him, "There's no way you're going to stop these androids from leaving this spaceship, Doctor", he said loudly and stepped though the finally opened portal.

Possibilities ran through his mind as he desperately tried to form a plan to stop the damage from happening. Perhaps he couldn't stop the androids from leaving, but he sure could intercept them wherever they were going.

"Clara, we need to get to the control room", he explained rapidly and left the storage compartment.

"Which way?", she asked as he looked at both sides of the corridor.

"You go that way", he said and ran in the opposite direction.

Getting his sonic out and scanning everything as he ran down the corridor he began to finally understand how really huge the spaceship was.

"Come on, where are you", he muttered as he checked out another empty room.

After a few minutes and many empty or partially empty rooms he finally found an office room. Immediately setting to read through all the papers he could find.

"Scientist's names – nope", he threw the file behind him, "Spaceship crew members – nope", he threw this as well, "Telephone numbers – no", another file went flying, "Restaurant bills – no", another one, "Temporal and paradox calculations – nope", the file fell on the floor, "Delivery register – no", another file fell on the floor, "Another list of names – wait", he suddenly halted.

"I'm missing something", he realized, though he terribly wished he knew what.

"Think, think!", he admonished himself as he tapped his forehead and temples with his fingers.

Glancing at the files on the floor he finally remembered, "Temporal and paradox calculations", he breathed and picked up the file.

Scanning through it only proved further that 'Laurence' was a madman. 'What kind of name is Laurence anyway', he mused, 'Larry'd do much better', he decided with a grin.

Concentrating again on the file in his hands he read through the complex calculations describing some of Larry's plans.

Larry might have been a madman, but was a genius as well.

From what he gathered of the man's plans from his calculations Larry was about to create multiple paradoxes. The portal machines weren't just mere teleporting devices, they were simplistic time travel machines as well. Ancient simple one way time and space traveling devices – Ancient and simple for Time Lords at any rate. If the Master was here they would both laugh at their crude designs.

He sighed. No matter how crude or primitive they were, they were still fully functional and had already served their purpose.

He picked himself up from the floor he was sitting on to read the file and went back to his search of the control room.

Once he found the control room he was going to search for all the coordinates of the times and places those androids had been send to and if the complexity of the temporal and paradox calculations were anything to go by he was probably going to have to hack through it all.

Rounding another corner he found an open door and stepped in to find Clara already standing there in what was unmistakingly the control room.

He breathed a sigh of relief, "Brilliant, you found it", he said as he began searching for the main computer.

"What?", she asked perplexed.

"The control room, you found it", he walked by her as he went to sit in front of one of the computer screens.

'Weird', he mused, 'Didn't Clara have longer hair – and other clothes?'

He shrugged it off as he concentrated on hacking into the desired files.

"What are you looking for?", asked Clara behind him as she inched closer, almost hesitant.

"The coordinates of the androids", he muttered, concentrating on the screen.

"Shouldn't you be checking out the portal control room?"

"What? There's a portal control room?", he asked perplexed, no wonder he hadn't found what he was looking for here.

"Yes, at the upper level", she said matter-of-factly.

"Come along then, Clara", he motioned for her to lead him.

"How do you know my name?", she said, taken aback.

"Of course I know your, Clara Oswin, why wouldn't I know your name?", he frowned at her.

"Clara Oswald, my name is Clara Oswald", she corrected him.

He felt the blood leave his face – Oswald?

Shorter hair – much shorter hair, different clothes – obviously different clothes, his Clara didn't use loose, silvery catsuits with logos from some company. His mind kept screaming at him 'No', that was impossible. But there she was, staring at him with wide, curious eyes, his Impossible Girl. Clara Oswin Oswald.

Yup, some more action next time. I hope you like this chapter since it took me more time than I liked, trying to figure out how to do stuff.

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