A/N - Please comment and tell me where you found the story, and the next few chapters will be just moments of their relationship, before I re-engage in a story line. So comment with your idea, and I'm open to ideas of relationship moments.
The Doctor stood nervously outside the Maitland's house, trying to take control of his nerves. Friday night had finally come around (For Clara at least, time having no restraints on the Doctor) and the Time Lord was nervous as hell.
The Doctor had picked out the best restaurant in the universe (It had won several awards in the few years of its existence), booked a table, and even modified his outfit to be just a bit more on the 'fancy' side.
He had added a bow tie that he had come to wear on special occasions, and the addition of a fancier coat made all the difference in the Doctor's opinion.
The cold wind blew against the Doctor, passing through his clothes, making the Time Lord feel the cold. Shivering slightly, and deciding that he should probably of knocked on the door a while ago, and knocked.
The door was opened by Clara, as expected by the Doctor. The Doctor stared at her, eyes wide, drinking in that fact that she was there, that it was all happening, but above all, how gorgeous she looked. She was wearing a black silk dress wiht spaghetti straps, and bits of lace on the bottom, the dress being somehow simple, yet complex. Her brown hair cascaded down just past her shoulders, and her high heels raising her a little higher than she usually stood.
"Clara!" The Doctor said, enthusiastically hugging her. Clara hugged back with as much enthusiasm, smirking when they broke apart.
"What?" The Doctor asked, looking at her satisfied smirk quizzically.
"Like this dress, do you Doctor?" She asked, putting her own seductive twist on the words. "Do you have a thing for silk?" She asked. The Doctor gaped at her, opening and closing his mouth a few times, getting the meaning behind her words.
"No! Well, maybe yes, I mean..." He exclaimed, trying to dig himself out of the hole he had buried himself into, only digging deeper. Clara just laughed. Joy literally seemed to course through the Time Lord's vein as she laughed, the Doctor wishing her could capture this moment, however simple.
"Never mind. You know you funny you look when your awkward, by the way" She said.
"I wasn't trying to be funny, but I must say..." The Doctor struggled for a second, debating wether to just tell her she looked beautiful, or use a science pun.
"Are you made out of Beryllium, Gold, Titanium, Florine and Aluminium, because you really look beautiful" He said, quite obviously looking very pleased with himself. Clara on the other hand looked touched, yet slightly puzzled at his way of conveying his thoughts.
"You really think I look beautiful?" She asked in a slightly shy manner, a way the Doctor had never seen her act before. The Doctor beamed.
"Of course! You looked absolutely beautiful, and all the synonyms for beautiful would be appropriate too, except you can spell beautiful in the atomic symbols for those elements. Well, actually, you can't, if you spelt it like that it would be B-E-A-U-T-I-F-A-L, so not how you really spell it, but close enough" He rambled on, hopefully explaining it the Clara. She just shook her head in an amused fashion.
"That's really sweet" She said. "But, where are we going?" She asked, her face giving away her excitement, as well as the way she was jumping about. The Doctor grinned.
"That, Miss Oswald, is a surprise" He said, before grabbing her hand, the pair running into the TARDIS, closing the doors behind them.
"So, do you think this will become a snog box now?" Clara asked, leaning on the console, while the Doctor dashed about, preparing the time machine for the journey.
The Doctor stopped what her was doing, and looked at Clara, smiling.
"Well, I guess that depends on if this date goes well, and if we have other dates, and if they all go well, so, potentially yes" He said. The two of them stood staring at each other for a moment that seemed to last a millennium, before the Doctor regained himself, set the TARDIS into motion, sending it though time and space.
"Will I like it?" Asked Clara enthusiastically. The Doctor looked at her as if she was insane.
"Clara. I wouldn't be taking you here if you wouldn't" He replied, just as the TARDIS landed. Clara eagerly looked at the doors. "Ready?" The Doctor asked, putting out his hand in a gesture for her to take it. Clara grinned, grabbed his hand, and then pulled him forward, the two of them barreling out the doors.
When the two of them emerged from the TARDIS, Clara froze in her eager sprint forward, staring in wonder and amazement at the place where the two of the, had arrived.
"Knew you'd like it" Said the Doctor, a satisfactory grin etched upon his face.
The TARDIS has landed in a beautiful golden hall, a red carpet rolled out in front of them. Long glass shapes hung down from the ceiling, reflecting the beautiful and dazzling light that came from down the hallway, which led onto a balcony. Behind them, the hall led off to other corridors, and in front of them was a young lady standing at a polished gold desk, looking surprisingly calm, despite the fact of having a blue box appear in front of her, then people proceeding to step out.
"Hello" She said kindly to the Doctor and Clara, the latter who was just looking around in awe at the beauty of the place. "Reservation for the Doctor?" She asked. The Doctor nodded.
"Yep! Booked quite sometime a go" He said. The lady pulled out two menus from underneath the desk. The Doctor took them, smiling gratefully.
"Thank you..." He leaned in to read her name badge "Cristina! Thank you Cristina" He said, tugging on Clara's hand and pulling her down the corridor.
"How did you afford this?" She asked breathlessly. The Doctor shrugged.
"I'm a time traveling alien, money really shouldn't surprise you" He said in a rather matter-of-fact tone. "This, is the absolute best bit" He said, looking down at Clara, waiting eagerly to see her reaction. The two stepped outside onto the balcony, and as they did, Clara gasped in amazement.
The balcony was dead centre in the middle of a semi-circle of huge mountains. The entire semi-circle was covered in balconies, all over looking a vast valley, covered in greenery, that lay beyond the mountains. The sun was just setting, illuminating the mountains, making the magnificent sight somehow even better.
"Doctor!" Clara exclaimed. "It's amazing!" She said. The Doctor smiled in satisfaction. The Doctor slowly guided her to the table as she was still looking around in awe.
"Thank you Doctor, really, thank you" She said, taking a seat at the seat the Doctor had pulled out for her.
"What's the name of the planet?" She asked once they had sat down.
"Barcelona. Not the city, Barcelona, but the planet. Gets a bit confusing though, well, only if your from Earth or the planet Barcelona and you go visiting the other!" The Doctor said, emitting a small chuckle. Clara let out a small sigh, and then picked up the menu that had been placed in front of her.
"So, what kind of food do they have here?" She asked, her eyes scanning over the page, her eyebrows raising at a few of the strange names of the cuisine. "Abbaganna?" She asked, looking up at the Doctor with a quizzical look on her face.
"Oh Abbaganna, I haven't had that in ages, but actually, it's really nice. It's sort of similar to vegetables and some kind of meat" He said. Clara slowly nodded with interest.
"What would you recommend?" She asked. The Doctor gave the menu a quick scan through, comparing things to foods similar to ones on Earth, trying to provide Clara with the new experience of a new planet, alongside it's culture as well.
"Well, Quiadin is very nice, it's slightly similar to pasta in a way, but with a bit more kinda of, you know, bang!" He said enthusiastically, adding emphasis to the final word of the phrase, which resulted in several couples on surrounding balconies to stare at them. Clara was simply watching the Doctor, and amused smirk on her face.
"What?" Asked the Doctor, confused at her expression. Clara giggled.
"It's sort of funny when you go on rambling about space and time, you can just talk and talk and talk" She said. The Doctor put up a finger, as if to rebel back against the comment, but only opened his mouth a few times, tilting his head to the side in acknowledgement of the fact.
"But it's cute" Clara added, which caused the Doctor begrudging frown to tilt upwards at the corner. "Funny and cute at the same time, but I'm not so easy to get, Doctor" She said seductivly. It took the Doctor a few seconds to realised what she had meant, gasping slightly, then shutting his mouth, then gasping once more. Clara just giggled.
Breaking the Doctor's awkward frenzy, a waiter dressed in a black suit and bow tie came up to the table.
"Can I help you with anything?" He asked politely to the couple. The Doctor looked at Clara inquiringly.
"I'm ready to order if you are" She said. The Doctor smiled at her, and then looked up at the waiter.
"Yes, actually, we'll have" He looked around at Clara, who simply answered "I'll have some Quiadin please, if that's how you pronounce it" The Doctor chuckled.
"Two servings of Quiadin please, and nice bow tie by the way" Added the Doctor, showing off his own one by straightening it. The waiter looked a little confused by the out of place remark, but quickly regained his calm attitude.
"Of course, two servings of Quiadin, it'll only be a few minutes" He said, before walking back down the golden hall.
"A couple of minutes?" Clara asked, looking imploringly back down the hall as the waiter left. "Do they have pre-prepared meals?" She asked, looking at the Doctor.
"No, actually, they just have ovens that cook food incredibly fast, and these are some of the best cooks in the universe, no offence but a little bit better than Earth cooks, and defiantly better than my cooking, which, on the other hand is quite ok" He said modestly. Clara on the other hand was looking at him with a slight bit of anger and disappointment on her face. The Doctor registered this and tried to quickly cover up his mistake, rather than leaving it, or holding up the menu in front of his face for protection.
"I didn't mean that, I mean your cooking is amazing, absolutely amazing, especially those soufflés, they are just something special, they really are, but you, Clara Oswald, are an amazing chef. In fact, you could open a restaurant. You could call it 'Restaurant Oswald', it would be one of the best restaurants in the universe, people all over the universe would come to it" He rambled. He usually rambled, but at times when the stakes where if he didn't talk his way out of something he'd be killed by the wrath of Clara Oswald, his rambling problem only intensified.
Clara, on the other hand, was smirking, half amused and half mad at the Time Lord.
"It's impossible to stay made at you, you know that?" She remarked, glad that she couldn't stay made at the Doctor. The Doctor's usual goofy grin returned to his face.
"Why thank you, soufflé girl" He said.
"And thank you, chin boy" Clara replied. She then emitted a long sigh, and proceeded to stare at the mountains and wonderful vibrant forest, where an orchestra of wildlife lived. "It's so beautiful"
Taking it as a chance to complement the amazing person seated in front of him, the Doctor put in a remark to her sentence.
"Well, it is, defiantly, amazingly beautiful, but, I have seen things more beautiful than this" Clara let out a small chuckle, looking back at the Doctor, not understanding the meaning behind his words.
"Of course you have, you travelled th-" Her eyes widened in surprise as she realised what the Doctor had really meant, mainly due to him staring imploringly at her.
"Doctor!" She squealed. "Do you really mean that?" She asked, her voice shaking a little bit. The Doctor grinned.
"Of course I do, I mean it with both of my hearts. I might of told you it earlier, but you know, you didn't really get it before, and I could tell you that over and over again all day long" He said. Clara just blushed at the Doctor's such high complement to her.
"Well, chin boy, I think you look pretty handsome yourself" She replied.
"Well, I would look better with a fez on" Clara laughed at the Doctor's comment.
Breaking the adorable situation between the couple, the waiter appeared, with two plates with a strange substance on both. Clara's eyes widened in surprise and interest at the new cuisine.
"Here you are sir, madam, two dishes of Quiadin. Enjoy" He said, then with a slight bow, left the two alone.
"This looks... strange" Remarked Clara, turning the plate to get a good look at the dish. It looked like pasta, except instead of the usual neutral yellow pasta colour, they were all different coloured, a vibrant multicoloured array of edible pieces of string. Over the dish was a see through sauce, the same colour of tree sap, dripping down from the top of the pile of pasta like pieces, to the plate.
"It certainly it a strange dish, but a very delicious one!" The Doctor laughed, picking up a fork, entwining it on the Quiadin, pulling it out, a clump of the food on his piece of cutlery. He smiled at Clara, and gestured for her to try some.
Clara slowly picked up her fork, and got a small amount of the food on it, turning her fork looking suspiciously at it, as if it contained a lethal poison.
"Well eat it at the same time, ok?" Suggested the Doctor, Clara's answer in the form of a small, concerned nod. "One, two, three!" The Doctor put the entire fork in his mouth, the Quiadin disappearing into his mouth. Clara one the other hand, slowly opened her mouth, put the food in, and shut it slowly. Her eyes instantly widened in surprise at the amazing tastes that erupted in her mouth.
"Mmmmmm!" Clara said, her swallowing the fork full. "Doctor, this is amazing! It's like some combination of something sweet, yet savoury at the same time!" She said, instantly diving back for another fork full. The Doctor laughed.
"Told you it had a little more bang" He said, laughing at Clara's excited expression.
The rest of night disappeared very quickly, and ran incredibly smoothly. The Doctor and Clara both devoured their main menus, before a delicious dessert, with they ate equally as fast. They remained at the restaurant way after the sun set, and only left once they had been asked to leave by staff, the couple not realising they were the only two left their.
"Doctor, tonight was really amazing" Clara said for what felt like the billionth time, as they stepped out of the TARDIS, back on earth, hands intertwined, a happy smile on both of their faces.
"Well, I couldn't disagree" The Doctor said, happily looking at Clara. "But, Clara?" The Doctor asked almost seriously, a sudden though forming in his mind. "Does this mean that you and me, are like, you know, together, as in boy and girlfriend?" Asked the Doctor almost casually. Clara giggled, and lent against the Doctor's taller frame.
"Yeah, I think we are" She said almost instantly, causing a large smile to reappear on the Doctor's face.
"Cool! Um, yeah, cool! I've never actually had a girlfriend before. It'll be interesting, and fun, and well, ist overall great! If the things I've heard about girlfriends are right" He said thoughtfully, giving a small thumbs up to Clara with the hand that wasn't holding her's. Sadly for both of them, they reached the front door of the Maitland house, where Clara turned to face the Doctor.
"Well, I think just seeing each other on Wednesday isn't enough" She said, causing an enormous grin to erupt on the Doctor's face.
"Great! I really didn't want to only spent one day with you before dropping you off again. So, what days are good for you?" Asked the Doctor. "Any days good for me. You know, time travel and all" He said, making a small gesture to the TARDIS with his free hand, which he realised was stupid, as Clara was a regular passenger in the TARDIS. Clara smirked, obviously thinking the same thing.
"Well, I could do Saturday and Thursday as well as Wednesday, their my other free days. Would they work for you, you know, with time travel and all?" She asked sarcastically, her smirk still on her face. The Doctor on the other hand looked ready to bound off his feet, yet he usually looked like that.
"Excellent! So Saturdays and Thursdays as well, same time!" He replied in a very bubbly and excited voice. "Well, I guess this is goodbye for now" He said, a disappointing aura now erupting about him. Clara nodded sadly. Their was an awkward moment over silence, neither wanting to let go of their partners hand.
Now, being the Doctor, he wasn't expecting what would happen next. Of course, he realised it would happen, but never really actually thought about. Breaking the awkward silence, Clara leaned into the Doctor, standing up as tall as she possibly could, a pressed her lips against his.
The Doctor usually would wave his hands about frantically like the mad man he was, that had been his standard thing to do while kissing, at least in this regeneration. But this kiss was different. It wasn't just a kiss from his companion, but a kiss from the women that he was falling in love with at a very quick rate. So instead of waving his arms about, the Doctor put his arms around her waist, which seemed like the most natural place to put them, (And from where he had mostly seen a man's arms go in a kiss in a movie) and pulled her body toward his, her smaller petite shape moulding perfectly into his taller on. Clara slowly wrapped her arms around his neck, deepening the kiss, doing the most of the work in the kiss, as the Doctor was mainly inexperienced when it came to things like physical parts of a relationship.
After what seemed like forever, the two slowly broke apart, though reaming in each other's arms, their lips warm from the contact. Their faces both broke into large grins, just staring each other.
Although neither of them wanted to, their arms slowly slithered off their partners body. Clara stood on her toes, giving the Doctor another kiss, this time on the cheek.
"Goodnight Doctor" She said, turning around and unlocking the door before preceding to go inside the house, leaving the Doctor alone outside.
Still grinning, the Doctor literally jumped off the small porch, practically dancing into the TARDIS, spinning around in joy as he set a new destination for the time machine, sending it spiralling into the time vortex, as it carried a very elated time lord off through time.
Hello everyone! For my quick little authors note, check the start of the story which is in bold, like this. Anyway, I'm so happy as I have kept a consistent upload rate! My old account, well, lets just say the upload rate was terrible as hell. Anyway, hope you liked the chapter, t was my favourite to write, lots of cute little moment. Any who, please comment, fav and follow, as always, and I'll see you all next week!
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