Chapter 9

Catching up

Disclaimer: I do not own the Doctor, Clara, Jack, or River I would love to but sadly I don't. Only the plot line is mine.

I'm feeling generous this week so I'm giving you two chapters today, that and well I feel like chapter 8 is nice but I feel like it's a little bit of a letdown. Anyways onto chapter 9, ENJOY! :)

River and Clara were collecting the dishes and loading them into the TARDIS dishwasher while Jack and the Doctor were off wondering around the TARDIS doing whatever.

"So have you had any more memories?" River asked.

"Not really I had another dream last night but it was about the Doctor and I fighting The Great Intelligence as snowmen and he had already told me about this a few days ago so it wasn't anything really useful. I really want to remember more about Jack. He said we traveled together for 5 months and I helped him with Torchwood missions."

River put her hand on Clara's shoulder, "I'm sure you'll remember more in due time it's only been a little over a week, right?"

"Yea."

River finished loading the dishwasher, "Let's go find the boys shall we? You know you can't leave the Doctor alone for long he always finds himself in some kind of trouble."

Clara laughed as they headed down the corridor.

- DW -

The Doctor was sitting under the console in his hammock tweaking things on the TARDIS.

"I figured I'd find you down here," Jack said coming down the stairs.

"There's always something to fix or improve, and I enjoy doing it to pass time."

"You always have," Jack said in a half laugh.

"So what have you been up to since the last time I saw you? I haven't seen you since…well you know."

"Since Dr. Donna, you mean, that wasn't your fault Doctor, and you saved her in the end."

The Doctor scoffs and kicks his boot on the floor, "Yea but she doesn't remember any of it, the most important woman in creation, and she can't remember it ever…"

Jack watches the Doctor, knowing saying anymore won't help, "Where's River when you need her," he thought to himself.

Trying to change the subject Jack asks, "So Clara, I know she went into your time stream to save you from the Great Intelligence and she was split into over a million echoes, and I met one of her echoes, but how did you meet her?"

The Doctor smiled, "I met her in the Dalek Asylum, she saved Amy, Rory, and me. I tried to save her too but the Daleks had turned her into a Dalek and she didn't know. She thought she was human. That was the first time I met one of her echoes, however at the time I didn't know she was an echo."

"Wow," Jack whispered out, "So you've met her echoes then."

"Yea a few times, I met her again in Victorian London. We fought the Great Intelligence together. They took form in snowmen that time. In the end the ice governess that the Great Intelligence had created grabbed her and they fell to their death."

The Doctor looked up with much sadness in his eyes to meet Jack's equal sad eyes.

"How did you meet Clara, Jack?"

Jack explained how he met Clara while on Earth and how she traveled with him for 5 months as they did missions for Torchwood and planned how to save River from the Library.

After Jack finishes his story the Doctor chuckles, "She's always been very persuasive, right from the beginning."

"Yes, she's very persuasive," Jack chuckles.

"Oi! I don't want to know about that!" The Doctor exclaims.

Jack just looks at him and smirks, "I didn't say anything, but yes she is very persuasive in many ways."

"STOP, please I don't want to hear this, and Jack if you hurt her you will die and not come back to life this time." The Doctor says.

Jack puts his hands up, "Trust me I have no intention…"

River walks down the stairs with Clara, "What are you boys up to down here?"

The Doctor throws a glare in Jack's direction before looking back to River and smiling, "Nothing, just talking about old times."

River knows he's lying she can see it in his eyes but she'll get it out of him later, and if he won't tell her well she has her ways.

"I just wanted to come down to say goodnight," Clara chimed in. "It's been a VERY long day, and I'm exhausted."

"I promise tomorrow I'll take us to a beach and we can just relax for a day, how does that sound?"

"Perfect!" Both women say together.

The Doctor claps his hands together and races past River and Clara up the stairs.

"I'm pretty tired myself, mind if I walk with you on my way to my room?" Jack asks Clara.

Clara smiles, "Not at all."

Jack gives her his arm as they walk up the stairs and down the corridors towards their room.

- DW -

River finds the Doctor in the TARDIS library reading.

"Doctor."

He looks up at her and by her look he knows he has forgotten something. He swallows the knot in his throat.

"River."

"Have you forgotten what we were supposed to go back and get?"

The Doctor jumps up. "Oh, yes, come on lets go get them."

He grabs her hand and they race back to the console room.

"Alright River lets go back and grab your diary and sonic screwdriver."

He starts entering the coordinates and flipping switches on the console. River goes behind him quietly flipping switches and twisting knobs correcting the Doctor's mistakes.

The Doctor throws at fake glare at River, "Stop messing with my TARDIS."

"I wouldn't dream of messing with your TARDIS, sweetie," River purrs.

"We're here. Let's go get your things."

They head out of the TARDIS, into the room where the Doctor had left River's diary and screwdriver. He walked over to the balcony but it wasn't there.

"Is this the room you left it in Doctor?"

"Yes, I left it right here," he pointed to the balcony.

River glared at the Doctor, "Well where is it? It's not here now." River began to get angry, "This is why you shouldn't have left them here!"

"I know, I know I'm sorry," He pleaded with River. "We'll find them I promise. I should be able to pick up the signal from the screwdriver."

The Doctor grabbed River's hand and ran back into the TARDIS.

This is my first fanfiction and I would love any reviews good and bad. I want to know what you think! I'm writing this for fun but mostly to hear what people think.