A/N- A shorter filler chapter this time... Hope you still enjoy it though :)
Her head was still throbbing, yet she was in less pain than the previous flashback at the Maitland's. She soon felt a hand caress her forehead. "Hello my Impossible Girl." She heard. That voice... A voice she heard so many times yet started to appreciate more after what happened in Trenzalore. The caring voice that guided her to her madman with a box when she was so so lost in the time stream.
"Chin boy." She breathed a laugh as Clara's eyes opened only slightly, to view the young-looking time lord next to her bed. "You stayed." She continued to speak with a smile on her face. The Doctor soon offered her a weak smile. He was always near her. Keeping her company. And most important of all... Keeping her safe. "I kept my word, Clara." The time lord said sweetly, he grinned "Even if I did have to slip out for a few minutes. Didn't want you to wake up alone again." The Doctor let his hand slip in hers. "How long this time?" She chuckled slightly. "Around an hour. Not much." He said as he smiled too.
Her smile soon faded as she remembered. "The children." She croaked. "They're fine..." The Doctor smoothed his companion's soft hand. "Went to pop in to check that they're ok. They're sleeping in the Library."
But she couldn't hear what he was saying.
The children...
Images flashing in her mind...
Laying on a hard wooden table.
Taking her last breaths.
Latimer house
The children...
"The children... They're afraid." She could hear them sob their heart out just a few steps away from her slowly decaying body. "Hold them." She had pleaded.
"It's not really my area..." The father had confessed yet again, as always, whilst holding her cold, feeble hand in his.
"It is now..." She had breathed with the last speck of energy she had for that moment, the last she could spare for them. The last moments of energy... she needed them for her Doctor.
Clara groaned heavily as she pulled back her hand from the Doctor's grasp and pressed both against her head once again.
"No... No... Not the ice governess again!" She mumbled. "It's fine Clara." The Doctor tried holding her, calming her, but he too was so worried about her. For the first time since he met the real Clara Oswald, the Doctor felt helpless. He had felt so helpless in front of Oswin during the confession of the terrible truth, during Clara-Elle Oswald's, during Clara Oswin Oswald's death, and at the face of so many deaths of his companions, even other echoes.
Did he need to bargain with the Universe once again so he could relieve Clara of her suffering?
"I can't keep doing this Doctor. It hurts!" The Doctor got even more concerned, but his mind slipped into automatic mode, helping her the only way he could and has been doing throughout her trauma after Trenzalore.
"Clara, look at me. Look at me." She turned to do so with her large, confused beaded eyes and he slipped his fingers under her hands on her temples. But her palms were tightly pressed against her head. "Hey, hey. It's going to be fine, Clara." The Doctor tried to calm her as he was able to slip his fingertips under her hands, slowly, but surely. "It's going to be fine." He breathed desperately. Clara shook her head. She was in panic mode again, eyes wide open in fear. Her breathes were by the time desperate gasps for air, feeling herself claustrophobic, the memory of her Victorian echo tightening itself around her, leaving her breathless.
The Doctor could barely bring himself to do such a thing to his Clara again. But it was necessary to bring out his companion out of that pain. "Goodnight, my Impossible Girl." His voice nearly broke. The Gallifreyan could see her unfocused eyes clear, surrendering once again to sleep. Clara immediately fell into oblivion, as her weak body relaxed in his arms, sleeping, the way she had spent the most of the last few days.
And it unnerved the Doctor.
He had to help her, before she slips away with her echoes.
A/N- i am soooo evil XD will update asap. Till then take care :) (Feedback for my evilness XD (and also the story/ chapter in general) appreciated :) )
