Prime Target

Chapter: four

It was the start of a brand new morning and the large populated city of Brighton, when Clara Oswald awoke to find herself lying in the queen sized canopy bed inside her new luxurious bedroom. As the young woman looked around for lavishly furnished environment, her face gained a satisfactory smile, as she found herself even more grateful for units' help.

Without a moment to spare, Clara jumped out of bed, yawned and flexed her arms feeling more than prepared to face the new day and what ever the future had to throw at her. Clara Oswald walked over to her mahogany colored dresser and began to grab for her hair brush, when the sudden need to check on the doctors' current conditions suddenly made her hand hesitate in midair.

The young woman took a deep breath and then took a moment to remind herself that this was no ordinary holiday, and that the current health status of her rest of the Time Lord should be her first priority.

Clara pulled her hand back and then calmly walked out of her bedroom closing the door softly behind her. The youthful human female quietly made her way down the carpeted staircase, drew the large hallway and then answered the living room only to find that it was completely empty. "Well, Blyme. I never figured you for the type to sleep in, Doctor." Clara muttered to herself with a smile, as she made her way over to the doctors' bedroom.

She slowly turn the knob, gently pushed open the door and was greeted with the sight of the Time Lord himself standing across from his bed desperately clinging on to his own dresser and trying to keep his balance, while he rummaged through its middle top drawer to find himself a pair of clean socks.

Clara let out a sigh and then announced urgently, as she hurried over and grabbed a hold of the doctors trembling frame in order to keep them from falling over, " c'mon, Doctor. It looks like you really need to sit down. Come on out to the living room with me."

The Time Lord nodded silently and allowed Clara to help him make the journey back to the living room sofa and then replied, " this might sound strange coming from me, Clara; but this's really beginning to frighten me." Clara shook her head and said gently, "now, Doctor.That doesn't sound strange it all. Your fear is completely understandable. A lack of fear coming from you is what I would find strange."

With that, Clara hurried back to the doctors' bedroom and then hurried back with his close and boots. Ignoring his look of embarrassment, she preceded to help him get dressed. Clara had just finished helping him put on his boots, and they both heard the ringing sound of the doorbell. Clara smiled at the Doctor and remarked enthusiastically, "Wow! I wasn't even aware that we had a doorbell. Let me get that. You just wait right here, Doctor"

Without waiting for reply, Clara got back to her feet, casually strolled to the front door, opened it and was a little surprised to find Kate Stewart standing out on her front porch accompanied by two armed units soldiers. Clara smiled and inquired in a voice that was full of cheerful optimism, " Good Morning, Mrs. Stewart what brings you here on this fine day?" Kate smiled back and replied cheerfully, "well, we wanted to stop by and see if you would allow was to take the Doctor To Unit HQ and do a full medical evaluation on him."

Clara was silent for a moment and then said seriously "I think that would be a marvelous idea. I think that the sooner we get to the bottom of what's wrong with him, the sooner we can figure out how to help him. Don't you agree, Mrs. Stewart?"

Kate nodded and replied brightly, " yes, Clara. I do fully agree with you. Now all we have to do is get the Doctor to agree." Clara giggled and remarked kind kindheartedly, " you won't have to worry about that time lord, Kate. I'm not going to give him a choice in the matter if you and your men will wait hear, I'll just go and fetch him from the living room." With that, Clara calmly closed the door and the members of unit did as they were told and waited for her out on the porch. A few moments later, the door reopened and Clara reappeared before them with the Galifreyan and questioned standing right next to her.

Units' head scientific officer smiled and remarked warmly, as she and the time lord made eye contact " top of the morning to you, Doctor. I really hope that you're feeling somewhat better today."

The Doctor cleared his throat and replied with a weak smile, "Good Morning Kate. To be perfectly honest, I don't really know how I'm feeling at the moment. There's just seems to be so much confusion in my mind right now." Clara then took a deep breath and announced seriously, " As I'm sure you can tell, the Doctor wants to get to the bottom of this just as badly as we do. I think he's just afraid to ask for help."

Kate shook her head and announced with a frown of concern, "Doctor, There's no reason for you to be afraid. Are more than happy to help you find out what the problem is. So if the two of you would like to follow us, our vans parked out in front."

Clara nodded in agreement, gently grabbed the Doctor by the arm and allowed the unit employees to lead the way out to the unit van gently closing the front door behind them. Kate then pulled out a device that was about the shape and size of a cell phone from her bottom left hand coat pocket, turned back to face the town house, pressed a button on the device, and the front door locked itself with an audible click.

Upon noticing the impressed smiles on the faces of the two time travelers, Kate smile back and replied proudly as she put the device back into her coat pocket, " it's the latest in residential security. We always thought it would come in handy one day. And don't worry, Clara. I make sure you get one of these as well." With that, the Doctor in Clara calmly followed Kate and the two armed soldiers to the large black colored van completely unaware that Dsira was still hiding alongside the two car garage looked on intently as the five of them got into the vehicle.