A/N: Happy New Year!
Vivian V
Clara Oswald burst into the Tardis talking at high speed, "Doctor, I so need you-." She skids to a halt, blushes and turns around once she realized that both The Doctor and Vivian didn't have any cloths on.
To Vivian's annoyance, The Doctor threw his hands up and childishly yelled, "Clara!"
Clara looked at the ground and asked with her hand raised in a 'stop' motion, "No, stop, stop, don't move. Don't do anything."
"Why? What is it? What's wrong?" The Doctor asked in complete bewilderment. Vivian sighed as she realized that he had no idea that what he was doing would be seen as highly inappropriate.
"You're naked."
The Doctor had the nerve to smile, "Yes, I am naked. I wondered if you'd notice."
Vivian heard Clara give an exasperated sigh, "Doctor, why are you naked?"
"Because I'm going to church." The Doctor said a tone that applied that it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Vivian sighed, took one of the small hologram projectors and walked over to Clara, "Here. Put this in your ear. You can keep your cloths on, but to others it will seem as if you are naked. The device taps into the TARDIS cortex. It will be very hard to detect."
Clara takes it and puts it into her ear. She blinks and both Vivian and The Doctor have cloths on.
"Better?" Vivian asked Clara.
"Oh, that was quick." Clara remarked.
"It's a hologram," Vivian said, "A very high tech hologram. It scans your body and covers your body with the desired outcome. For this instance, to other people, you are naked. There are also other settings that allow you change what you are wearing, clothing wise."
"So everyone else sees that you're naked but us two?" Clara asked.
"Everybody's naked underneath." The Doctor stated.
Clara made a face, "Urgh, don't say things like that. It's Christmas." Clara took off her hologram deise from her ear and put it into her pocket, "I'll put it back on later, my family will notice it in my ear. Come and meet my family."
Vivian sighed, "Do I have too?"
Clara glared at Vivian, "Yes. Both you and The Doctor. Now come on!
Vivian stood uncomfortably inside Clara's small flat. Before going into the flat she had smartly turned off her hologram device and was properly clothed to the rest of the world. The Doctor, however, had apparently forgotten that to everyone else he appeared naked. She stood behind The Doctor and Clara.
Clara cleared her throat, "Hello, so, er, here he is. Behind me is Vivian, one of my friends."
"Hello, the Oswalds. Hello! Merry Christmas. Hello, hello." The Doctor enthusiastically said handshaking Linda and Dad, air kisses for Gran, who is the only one to look directly at him. Linda and Dad can't seem to make eye contact. Vivian had to hold in her snort.
"Hello, handsome. Anyone for Twister?" He asked, smiling widely.
"So, this is the Doctor. My boyfriend. Isn't anyone going to say hello?" Clara asked. Vivian almost groaned. Clara forgot that The Doctor had the hologram device and looked naked.
Clara's Gran was smiling seductively at The Doctor, "Hello." She said, and finished her wine glass.
"Excuse me a moment." The Doctor pulled Clara to the side, "Listen, I've got an idea to break the ice. Why don't I project my clothes hologram onto their visual cortexes too? The TARDIS has more than enough range."
Clara closed her eyes for a second, "So, to be clear, no one except me can see your clothes? What about Vivian?"
"Yes, and I'm starting to think it may be causing tension. Vivian smartly took her device off before she left the TARDIS."
"Are we playing Twister now?" Clara's Gran called. At that Vivian couldn't hold back a laugh, but put her hand over her mouth to stifle the giggles.
Clara glared at The Doctor and started pushing him to the kitchen, "Get in the kitchen." Vivian followed.
"Eh? Sorry." He asked, confused.
Clara gave The Doctor a push and got him fully into the kitchen. Vivian followed, "Sorry. He's Swedish." Clara burst out.
The door was now closed and Vivian had started openly laughing at The Doctor's predicament, "Is it always this entertaining, Clara?" Vivian asked, leaning up against the wall.
"Not always." Clara responded, "Doctor, please."
He looks at the anaemic fowl in the over, "Oh, that's never going to work, is it?"
Clara frowned, "What's wrong? Do you think it's not done yet?"
"I think a decent vet would give it an even chance."
Vivian held up a hand, "Wait, we came all this way to help Clara cook a turkey? A simple turkey?"
Clara glared at Vivian, "Cooking turkey isn't simple!" Clara turned back to The Doctor, "Well, use an app."
The Doctor stared at his companion, "An app?"
"On your screwdriver. App it."
"Most certainly not. It doesn't do turkey. Nothing does turkey. You'd need a time machine." As soon as he said that Clara let out a grin and The Doctor looked at Clara strangely, "What?"
"You can't keep using the Tardis like this." The Doctor said as they all piled back into the TARDIS.
"Like what?" Clara asked, carrying the turkey.
The Doctor glanced at her, "Missed birthdays, restaurant bookings. And please, just learn how to use iPlayer."
"Ooo, vortex cooking?" Clara asked as she laid the carcass in the workings below the console.
The Doctor shut the oven door, "Yep, exposure to the time winds. It'll either come up a treat, or just possibly lay some eggs."
"Really, Doctor." Vivian called from above.
"Information available." said Handles.
"What's that?" Clara asked.
"Oh, just a bit of a Cyberman. I was charging him." The Doctor scanned the Cybermen head "Apparently he's been adapting to the TARDIS and has all the information about the planet we need. He'll also get us to the church on time. Vivian named him Handles."
Vivian glared at The Doctor and crossed her arms, "I did no such thing. You were the one to name him."
"I have developed a fault." Handles said as The Doctor picked him up and carried him up to the console, Clara and Vivian following after him.
"The organics are all gone, but there's still a full set of data banks. Found it at the Maldovar market. Vivian, set the coordinates back to that planet." The Doctor commanded.
Vivian eyed The Doctor but did as he asked, setting the coordinates and helping The Doctor fly the TARDIS and they zoomed back to the snow planet.
The Doctor turned on the scanner to reveal the unknown snow planet.
"Planet identified from analysis of message." Handles spoke.
The Doctor rubbed his hands together, "Right, cool. Go on then. Okay, tell us, what is the planet? Go on."
"Processing official designation. Processing."
"Okay, in your own time, dear. Don't rush." The Doctor said, petting Handles head.
"So why haven't you just gone down there and had a look?" Clara asked.
"It's shielded." Vivian said, annoyed that even she didn't know what it was, "Even the Tardis can't break through it."
"Gallifrey." Handles spoke.
Both The Doctor and Vivian froze and tensed, "What did you say?" Vivian asked in a quiet tone.
"Gallifrey."
"What are you talking about? Gallifrey? What do you mean?" The Doctor asked.
"Confirmed. Planet designation, Gallifrey."
The Doctor grabbed Handles and took it to the scanner while Vivian seemed to be frozen in her spot.
The Doctor pointed to the screen, "You see that? Gallifrey is my home. I know it when I see it. That is not Gallifrey." The Doctor angrily said.
"Doctor, are you okay?" Clara asked as The Doctor moved to the TARDIS doors, opened them and stared down onto the planet below.
The Doctor slammed Handles down onto the TARDIS console. "It's not Gallifrey. Gallifrey is gone."
"Unless, unless you saved it. You thought you might have."
"Even if it survived, it's gone from this universe. That is not my home." The Doctor said and they went back to the console.
"It can't be." Vivian said. "Doctor, you said it yourself. Gallifrey is gone."
There is a big fog horn blast outside.
"What's that?" Vivian asked and they ran to the TARDIS doors. They looked out of the door again, at a big square (Borg-style) spaceship.
"Papal Mainframe. It's like a great big flying church. The first ship to arrive. They are the ones who shielded the planet. They can get us down there." Vivian said.
The Doctor bows to a large holographic face that just appeared.
"A friend of yours?" Clara asked.
"Tasha Lem, the Mother Superious." The hologram beckons to them.
"She's inviting us aboard." Vivian said.
"Why?" Clara asked.
"Because I asked her." The Doctor answered, "Swallow this."
"What is it?" Clara took the small black, squishy object from The Doctor.
"An edible version of our ear devices, your hologram projector. You can't go to church with your clothes on."
Vivian and The Doctor fly the TARDIS inside the mainframe.
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