"Dress shopping! Really, I've never understood why girls like going shopping for dresses so much!" The Doctor whined, as he and Clara walked into a large shopping centre, lots of busy people walking in an out of little shops, little children walking around wiht their parents, some whining at them to buy them an ice cream from the near by ice cream parlour.

"Your my boyfriend, who else would I take to show off some new clothes?" Asked Clara. "Besides, I think there will be a few items that you might like" A small, slightly embarrassed smile came up on the Doctor's lips, while Clara cheekily looked at him.

It had been several weeks since they had escaped from the Dalek ship, bowling it to rubble as the safely materialised away inside the TARDIS. Ever since, the couple had been spending as much time as possible together, the abduction only bringing them closer together. There days together had slowly turned into something that was more like three days, while Clara was still returned to the Maitland's house at the end of the day, making it seem like the Doctor and Clara had only spent a few hours together.

It had been hard for both of them, after coming out from what had been a week in hell. They had begun sleeping together for their own comfort, and the comfort of the other, as a lot of nights they would be plagued by nightmares concerning their partners life coming to an end. The night wrapped in each others arms had most certainly helped, limiting the amount of nightmares that they had on the night that they both came to despite where they were away from each other.

As they slowly walked through the shopping centre, the Doctor eyed several things, and with his child like curiosity of everything, would go on explaining it to Clara, who couldn't help but smile at her boyfriends fascination.

"Sales aren't the best for it, but I think it's a pretty good home console! I mean, I've always loved Nintendo, great video game company, and the Wii U does have a great line up of games, especially some of the ones that are coming up in the future" They had just walked past a video game store, which was covered in sales posters, while a sleek, black console stood on a stand in a window, with its game pad standing proudly next to it.

"I've never really had much interest for video games" Clara said absent mildly. The Doctor turned and looked at her like she was insane, or had some weird diseases.

"You don't like video games?" The Doctor spluttered, as they ascended an elevator. "But you like dress shopping? You, Clara Oswald are certainly an enigma to me" He said, shaking his head, and looking around the shopping centre. "Which one of these dress shops are we going to, there seems to be billions upon billions" Clara looked around in interest, looking at each of the dress shops, and what dresses they had in the windows.

"Ooo, I like that dress" She pointed towards a shops, where a beautiful red dress stood in the window, an excited smile on her face. She looked up at the Doctor, who shrugged slightly.

"Well, I suppose that it would look very nice on you" He said. Clara giggled, and pulled him along into the shop.

The entire place seemed to be an entire palace of dresses. Woman were scattered around the shop, looking at the dresses with interest. Clara strode up to a shelf, and began shuffling through several dresses, looking at some with interest, and other wiht slight disgust. The Doctor awkwardly stood behind Clara, looking around the shop, twiddling with his bow tie. After a few moments of standing idle behind Clara, a shop assistant came up to the Doctor.

"Can I help you sir?" She asked, clearly puzzled at why a man who was wearing a bow tie was in a ladies dress shop. The Doctor smiled at her politely.

"Oh, no, I'm just here with my girlfriend" He gestured to Clara, who was still looking at dresses. The shop assistant, let out a sound of realisation, before turning back to the Doctor, who wasn't done talking, continuing his usual long rant.

"Dress shopping, that's what she's doing. I mean, I suppose it's ok, I do get to see her try out a whole bunch of dresses, but I've never been dress shopping with a girl before" He said thoughtfully, while the shop assistant simply stared at him, while politely smiling, before turning and walking off to help some other people.

"What do you think of this one?" Asked Clara, holding up a strapless black dress. The Doctor smiled, raising his nearly non existent eyebrows.

"Well, I actually think that one would look really nice on you" He said, which caused Clara to smile happily at him. "So, now that you've found a dress, are we going?" Asked the Doctor hopefully. Clara simply gave him an amused glance, one eyebrow raised.

"No Doctor, I've got to try this on, and I'm not just buying this dress, I'm going to buy others too" Clara looked at her boyfriend with an amused glance, while the Time Lord's hopeful smile fell from his face.

"More? Really? But we could be doing something so much more fun right now!" He pouted at Clara, while she just shook her head at him in amusement.

"What are you suggesting Doctor?" She asked, raising her eyebrows, still smirking.

"You know what I'm suggesting" Replied the Doctor, for once not blubbering relentlessly at one of Clara's sexual jokes. This act caused Clara's smirk to be replaced by a surprised smile.

"Well, Doctor you've certainly changed, haven't you" Clara kissed him on the cheek, before grabbing his hand and pulling him further into the shop.

For the next few hours, the Doctor was dragged around while Clara looked at dresses at other kinds of clothing. The only time he wasn't being his impatient self was when he actually got to see the dress on her, and when they would walk from shop to shop, the Time Lord buzzing in excitement at he glanced through the shop windows.

As they walked along, the two passed a shop that was full of beautiful, white wedding dresses. While Clara commented on how she liked one of the dresses, the Doctor zoned out a bit, staring at the wedding dresses.

He imagined Clara in one, looking more beautiful than ever, (Which he was pretty sure was pretty sure was impossible, considering how beautiful she already was) accompanied by her father, whom the Doctor had only met a few times. He pictured himself, standing at the alter, a huge grin on his face while the love of his life walked towards him, the Time Lord dressed in his best bow tie especially for the event.

The Doctor had occasionally considered proposing the Clara Oswald, the thought entering his mind as he thought about his beloved, which now that he though about it, was most of the time now. He had looked at rings once or twice while looking through markets on distant planets while on his own, and had even considered where, and how he would propose.

Yet part of him told him no. Some part of him told him it would end in disaster, as it always seemed to. He knew that she would die long before he would, separating them, an act that would surly emotionally cripple the Time Lord. Yet months ago, Martha and Mickey Smith had told him to cherish the moments the he had with Clara, to not let them slip away from him.

So the Doctor's more positive side continued to rule the decision of proposing to the person that he loved most in the entire universe.

"Doctor?" The voice of Clara brought him back to reality. He looked down at her, to find a worried look on her face, as she gazed up at him. "You just completely zoned out for a second" The Doctor smiled.

"I was just thinking about you" He reassured her, which set a smile back on her face. He kissed her softly on the head, still smiling at her.

"They bloody over price things, you know. It's ridiculous!" A loud voice interrupted the moment between the two lovers, a voice that the Doctor knew and hadn't heard in many centuries. He looked around quickly, scanning the shoppers for that face that he knew was so close, until he finally found the source of the voice.

Donna Temple-Noble was walked along past the shops, her husband Shaun Temple next to her, a little girl that couldn't of been any older that the age of two next to her.

"I know they are a bit over priced, by it's how people make a living" Shaun Temple said, trying to smooth his wife from her usual ranting rage about something. Donna sighed, considering her husbands reasoning.

"I know, I know - Yes Maddie? What is it sweetie?" Donna's tone changed abruptly, as she bent down to the level of the small child. The child was pointing towards a sweet shop some way off with a small finger.

"Pwease mummy?" Asked Maddie Temple-Noble. Donna looked up at her husband, who shrugged slightly, before turning back to her daughter.

"Sure, sweetie. Come on" Donna stood up, and the small family walked off towards the sweet shop.

"Doctor?" Asked the more familiar voice of Clara turned the Doctor's attention back to her. The Doctor was pulled out of his slight state of shock to find the worried look once again on Clara's face.

"That was..." His voice trailed of, as his ran his hand through his hair, the Time Lord feeling tears coming into the corners of his eyes. Clara grabbed his other hand, now both of his firmly inside hers.

"That woman who I was watching, her name was Donna Noble. She was a friend of mine, she used to travel inside the TARDIS" Clara smiled softly, glad to hear the rare mention of a past companion of her boyfriends.

"Then one day, we encountered Davros, and the Dalek's. They had the reality bomb, but we managed to destroy it. But Donna, she kind of turned part Time Lord, it's complicated really, but she couldn't retain the knowledge. I had to wipe her memory of me. Everything we ever did, even us ever meeting, is gone. And if she ever remembers, her mind will burn up" He chocked out, closing his eyes and looking at the ground.

Clara wrapped her arms around him, the Doctor hugging her tightly.

"What happened to Donna wasn't your fault" She said, reading the Doctor's thoughts, a gift she had come to possess. "She saved the universe, and if you hadn't of wiped her mind then she would of died" The Doctor looked up slowly, sniffing.

"Your right, but I can't help but missing her still. She was a really greta friend. Would always complain about something, but she was a very great friend" The Doctor nodded, more talking to himself that Clara, who smiled again.

Clara grabbed his hand, picking up all of the bags that she had in one hand, the Doctor carrying the others.

"I think that's enough dress shopping for one day" She said, which caused a small smile to appear on the Doctor's face, as the two walked towards the exit.

Hours later, the Doctor was in the TARDIS, leaning against the console, the thought of Donna and her departure from time and space travelling still in his mind.

The ancient Time Lord was now slightly reconsidering asking Clara to be his wife, considering what would happen to her if they were together. He tried not to think of her potentially dying, when the words of Martha Jones floated into his mind.

"Doctor, If you really really love her, then you need to tell her, because if you don't, you'll regret it forever"

The Doctor smiled to himself, slightly wondering how Martha had become so wise.

"Hello honey" Said a small voice, breaking the silence. The Doctor turned around to see Clara, standing behind him. At the site of her attire, the Doctor eyebrows went up, while a shy smirk appeared on his face.

Clara was dressed in only a blue bikini, the particular two piece showing off the parts of her body particularly well. The Doctor stared at her pale flesh, her brown hair beautifully cascading down her back. The bikini showed off Clara's 'features' in a way she knew that the Doctor couldn't resist.

"You didn't think I didn't buy anything for you, did you?" She asked, coming dangerously close to him. A smirk played on the Doctor's lips, before he pressed his lips eagerly against hers.

They stood there kissing for minutes, Clara jumping up and wrapping her legs around the Doctor's waist at some point, pulling herself as close to the Doctor as she could.

"I love you" Whispered the Doctor, breaking the kiss, while there mouths were still dangerously close to each others.

"I love you too" Clara whispered, before pressing her mouth back against the Doctor's, as he carried his girlfriend back through the TARDIS.

A/N - Hello everyone, this chapter was a tad bit shorter than my usual one, my usual being about 3,000 words I think, I haven't calculated the exact average, but I will someday. I hope though that you liked the little Donna comeback, and the friendly Martha and Mickey reminder! Also, thank you so much, we hit 10 reviews! Woohoo!

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