CHAPTER 10

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A NOT SO HAPPY REUNION

"Clara, are you sure about this? You know that there will be more people coming after you. You're going to be attacked sooner or later if you stay in any one place for too long," the Doctor said after Clara told him that she wanted to spend some time with her mother and father instead of traveling with him and the Master.

She had waited to tell her two oldest friends this after Martha, Mickey, and Tish went back home and while the Moment was playing video games with Merry in the next room so that she would have as few protests about it as possible. She knew that none of them would like her decision, and she didn't want to deal with all of them at once. None of them understood. She couldn't just leave now though especially after her mother had just been returned to her.

"This is insane, Alura. We just went through a massive battle to get you back, and now you want us just to leave you here all alone?" the Master asked in disbelief.

"I want to get to know her again and to make sure that she's alright after what the Daleks did to her. It won't be for that long. I just want a few days with her. Surely when everyone hears about what happened during that last fight, no one will want to come after me again anytime soon. That should at least buy me a few days of peace, shouldn't it?" Clara said.

"No, it won't. I'm sorry but you have to stay with us now. It isn't safe for you to stay on Earth anymore," the Master said.

"So I'm just supposed to stop being Clara? Is that it? Am I supposed to just give up my life on Earth and never see my parents or my friends ever again? No, I won't do it. I won't give up being Clara. I won't," Clara said obstinately.

"Clara, I hate to say it but the Master's right. You're not safe on Earth anymore. You'll just be attacked again. You have to give up your life here. I don't want you to, Clara. I want you to stay here if that's what you want. You know that. It's not going to be a choice anymore though. I'm sorry," the Doctor said as he put a comforting arm around her.

"No. I'm staying here and I'm going to spend some nice, normal days with my family," Clara said stubbornly.

"She's in denial," the Doctor said to the Master.

"Obviously. It's going to take another attack to open her eyes, and by then it'll be too late," the Master said ominously.

The Doctor nodded with a worried look on his face, and then he tried to smile at Clara warmly as he tried a new approach.

"How about the Master and I just stay here with you during that time? That would be alright, wouldn't it? We promise to stay out of the way as much as possible and just to be here ready to act in case something happens. How about that?" the Doctor asked hopefully.

Clara smiled as she said, "Alright. I'll compromise. You two can stay with me at my home and go with me when I visit my parents. Happy?"

"Not really. I'd only be happy if I had you safe with me in the Vortex where no one could find you, but this will do I guess," the Doctor said with all honesty.

Clara could see the worry on his face and in his eyes and was moved by it as she said, "It'll be okay. You'll see. No one will bother me for a while after the beating that the Daleks and the others just got. Thank you for worrying about me though, Chin Boy. I really appreciate it."

Then acting on the spur of the moment, she gave him a tender kiss on the lips. The Doctor looked at her in shock as she pulled away while smiling at him. Her smile covered up her own insecurities about what she had just done, but she had to do it. After everything that had just happened, she had finally been inspired to show the Doctor exactly how she really felt about him. Now all that she could do was wait and see how he reacted.

"Clara, I . . ." the Doctor said in a scared voice.

He wanted to tell her how he felt, but he was so afraid that he was misinterpreting her kiss. What if she didn't feel the same way?

"Oh, for the love of . . . ! He loves you, Alura! He's loved you since we were children!" the Master finally shouted in aggravation.

The Doctor glared at him and then looked at Clara in fear as he waited to see what her reaction would be. She began to smile with undisguised joy, and then she wrapped her arms around him and gave him a deep, passionate kiss that literally took his breath away.

"I love you too. I always have. I was just too afraid to tell you," Clara finally said as she pulled away from him.

"So was I," the Doctor admitted.

Then the two of them began to laugh as they held each other. They both started to kiss again as the Doctor initiated the kiss this time. It was obvious from the look of pure joy on Clara's face that she had never been happier in her life. The Master despite his feelings for her couldn't help but smile as he watched them together.

"I am so proud of you right now," the Moment said as she suddenly appeared next to the Master.

"I just want her to be happy. I realize that's all that matters now especially after almost losing her," the Master said with a shudder.

"I think that scared all of us," the Moment said.

"Unfortunately it didn't scare Alura enough," the Master said with a sigh filled with worry about her.

"Just let her enjoy herself as much as she can, Koschei. She's never going to be completely safe no matter where she is not even in the Vortex," the Moment said with a sigh.

"True but there's no need to be so reckless about her own safety," the Master said in annoyance.

Luckily for him, Clara was so absorbed in her kiss with the Doctor that she wasn't even paying attention to this conversation. If she had been, she would have definitely given him a piece of her mind. She would never give being Clara Oswald up. She would rather die first.

The next few days passed with no occurrences as Clara got to know her mother again at the same time as she deepened her relationship with the Doctor who she now openly called her boyfriend to her parents. Clara realized to her delight that despite everything that had happened to her mother that she was still the same as she had always been. The only difference between Ellie then and now was that she was now very anxious all of the time. She seemed to be constantly on edge about something, but she would never say what.

Finally Clara confronted her about this and Ellie said, "I think that the Doctor is right, Clara. You should leave. You need to go as far away from here as possible before the Daleks or someone else comes after you again. I keep looking for them to return at any minute now, and I'm so worried about you because of that. I want you to be safe."

"I don't want to leave you," Clara said stubbornly.

"It wouldn't be forever. You could always come back later. You do have a time machine after all," Ellie said.

Then she smiled and laughed as she said, "I can't believe this. It's just like some bizarre dream. I wake up after dying to find out that I'm some kind of zombie, my daughter's an alien, and she travels in a blue box through time and space."

Clara smiled at her as she said, "It does sound like some kind of joke doesn't it? I'm so glad that it's not though. I'm so happy that you're back and with me again. That's why I don't want to leave. I went for years without you, and I missed you every single day. Every single day my heart ached at least once a day if not more when I thought about you not being there anymore. I don't want to do that anymore now that I finally have you back again."

"Clara, if I understand things correctly, we're both going to live for centuries since you're an alien and I'm being kept alive by Dalek technology. I think we'll have plenty of time to see each other. Right now I need you to be safe," Ellie said.

"I'm not going just yet. I just need to make sure," Clara said.

"Make sure of what?" Ellie asked.

"I need to make sure that you're alright and that you're really here to stay. I don't want to leave and then come back to find out that you were only back for a little while, and I missed out on it. I don't want to take that chance," Clara said.

"Clara, I'm fine. I'm not going anywhere. I'll be right here when you get back," Ellie reassured her.

"I used to think that you weren't going anywhere before either but I was wrong," Clara said.

Ellie hugged her as she said, "I'm alright. I promise."

Clara shook her head and said, "I have to make sure."

Ellie finally realized now just how traumatized that Clara had been by her death. She realized that even now that she still hadn't fully gotten over it yet.

She understood that. She really did because of the terrible way in which she was taken away from her. She still didn't want that trauma to get her killed though.

Unfortunately, someone was coming who would soon make that fear into a reality.

Hours later when Clara, the Doctor, and the Master returned to her home for the night, an old man with white hair and a beard who looked somehow familiar to the Doctor suddenly appeared next to Clara out of nowhere taking her completely by surprise. Before Clara even had time to react, the old man injected her with some kind of needle which immediately made her start feeling like she had been drugged.

Clara had to fight to keep from automatically falling unconscious as the Doctor and the Master immediately rushed to help her. The old man caught Clara just before she almost fell over and pointed a gun at both Time Lords as he smirked at them.

"You're both already too late I'm afraid. The Oracle is mine now, and I will use her to finally right the wrong that was committed on Messaline. With the Oracle's help, I'll go back in time and rewrite history so that the humans completely eradicated the Hath as they should have instead of being taken down the wrong path by the Doctor. My people shouldn't have to share anything. My planet should have belonged to my species first and foremost," The old man practically ranted.

"General Cobb," the Doctor said as he finally remembered just who this man was.

"Who?" the Master asked.

"I met him centuries ago on a devastated planet where humans and the Hath were fighting over a terraforming device called the Source that could revitalize their world. I managed to convince them to stop the fight but at a terrible cost. I lost . . . Cobb killed my daughter while he was trying to shoot me. You already took Jenny from me, Cobb, but you won't take anyone else. Do you hear me? You won't take anyone else!" the Doctor said as he instantly flew into a cold rage at the huge wound that seeing Cobb had just opened up in his soul.

"So you're the Doctor? I've heard that your kind can change their appearance, but this is truly remarkable. It's so fitting that you're here today then to see my final triumph, Doctor. At last I'll fix the great wrong that you did to my people as I reclaim their rightful destiny for them, and there's nothing that you can do about it this time," Cobb said with a smirk on his face.

"Maybe not but I can," A muffled voice said behind the Doctor and the Master.

Both Time Lords tilted their heads slightly so that they could keep one eye on Cobb and one on this newest arrival.

Clara's newest uninvited guest was wearing armor from head to toe that completely hid their identity and even what species or gender that they were. They were also wearing two gauntlets that were currently glowing with energy that the Doctor's sonic screwdriver told him was a concentrated stun blast.

"You again! Must you continue to plague me until the end of time?!" Cobb said clearly recognizing the newest intruder.

The Doctor didn't recognize them at all, but yet there was something very familiar about them nonetheless. It was something that he couldn't quite put his finger on but it was there.

"Let her go, Cobb," The armored individual said in a commanding voice that the Doctor could clearly tell was female even if he couldn't make it out well enough to see if he could recognize it or not.

"She's mine to do with as I choose, and I choose to use her to undo all of the mistakes of my past including you," Cobb said in a voice filled with scorn.

"You're not doing anything. You've already done far too much already," the armored woman said as she shot twin stun blasts from her gauntlets at Cobb.

Cobb screamed in pain and then dropped to the floor unconscious. Just before he did though, he pointed his gun at Clara and pulled the trigger!

"No!" the Doctor and the Master both screamed at once.

To both Time Lords' surprise, nothing happened though. The gun never fired.

"I managed to create an actual state of temporal grace around me where guns won't work when I don't want them to. It's not a clever lie anymore," The woman in the armor said with a chuckle as she caught Clara before she fell over and joined Cobb on the floor.

"How did you know about that?" the Doctor asked.

He never even made a move to take Clara from the armored woman. Somehow he instinctively knew that he could trust her even if he didn't know why at the moment. Even the Master didn't seem to mind this strange woman being around Clara which was a first for him since the Master never trusted anyone.

"Oh, I know a lot about you, Doctor. I've been studying you for years now while I've been tracking you down with a Time Ring that I was lucky enough to find on the black market. Luckily for me the people selling it didn't know what they had, and I was able to quickly figure out how to use it to travel through time. I've been doing everything that I can to track you down all through time and space ever since then. I've come across dozens of your enemies and stolen not only their technology for my armor but also all of their data on you. I even met some of your friends and former companions and talked to them about you. I've done everything that I could to find you. I never came close though until I came across a girl named Clara. It turned out that she wasn't this Clara though. She was a copy of her. She never felt like a copy to me though. She was my best friend. Then she died one day saving you. You never noticed either of us at the time of course. You were too busy dying from something called Spectrox Toxaemia. I would have talked to you then, but I realized quickly that you weren't the right Doctor. You were from way before we first met although I did like that version of you a lot. He reminded me of myself in a way. Before my Clara died, I learned about your Clara from her however. It seems that my Clara found out about yours, who lived centuries before her, and had always wondered about what connection if any that she had with her. That was the first real lead to the proper you that I ever found so after the past you was safe and I buried my friend I went in search of this Clara. I'm so glad that I found her when I did too. I never want to see another Clara die in front of me ever again especially not this one," the armored woman said as she gently stroked Clara's hair with her gauntlet while Clara looked at her with a dazed expression on her face.

"I know exactly how you feel, but she's not just my friend. Not anymore," the Doctor said.

"I know. I read about the two of you together in those bits and pieces of historical records that you somehow didn't manage to erase about yourself. I know exactly how much that you love her, Dad," the armored woman said.

The Doctor's eyes widened as the gears started turning in his mind, and he finally put all of the pieces together at last. Now he knew exactly why this woman had seemed so familiar to him and why he trusted her!

"Jenny!" the Doctor said with joy as the woman confirmed what he already knew by removing her helmet and smiling at him.

"She's the one who's supposed to have died?" the Master realized.

"Yes, Cobb shot her and she never regenerated," the Doctor said.

"I'm honestly not sure what happened, but the Source brought me back to life I think while it was terraforming everything on Messaline. All I know is that I suddenly woke up fully healed and feeling wonderful. It's definitely not regeneration anyway because I didn't change my appearance. I'm glad too. I don't mean to sound vain, but I kind of like the way that I look," Jenny said with a grin.

The Doctor looked at her in disbelief at first, and then he rushed forward and hugged her tightly as Jenny laughed with joy. Clara meanwhile looked at Jenny in her drugged state with suspicion as she struggled to regain her senses.

"You . . . better not . . . be cheating on me already . . . Chinny," Clara said with slurred speech.

"Clara, are you okay?" the Doctor asked as he took her from Jenny and gave her a tender kiss while he helped to prop her up with the Master's help.

"I'll . . . be fine . . . as soon as I can . . . walk by myself," Clara said with a frown.

"It'll wear off soon, Clara. Cobb didn't want to harm you. He wanted you in perfect condition for his own purposes," Jenny said reassuringly.

"Who . . . are you?" Clara asked with a confused look on her face.

"I'm Jenny. Jenny Noble. I'm the Doctor's daughter," Jenny said as she smiled at her.

"You've . . . been holding out . . . on me, Mr. Chin. You never said . . . you had any kids," Clara said as she tried to smile at the Doctor.

"He thought I was dead. I've been trying to find him for years," Jenny said.

"I'm . . . sorry. I'm glad . . . you found him though," Clara said with the best smile that she could manage in her current state.

Then she looked at her closely as she said, "Do I . . . know you?"

"You might remember her from the memories of your echoes, Clara. She was friends with one of them," the Doctor said.

"Jennifer?" Clara said as she seemed to almost remember Jenny.

"Hopefully she'll remember you soon, Jen," the Doctor said as Jenny became excited at her recognition of her.

"Oh, before I forget. I have a surprise for you, Dad. I came across a place called Logopolis on my travels into the past and got them to use this science that they invented called Block Transfer Computations that uses numbers to manipulate reality in order to open up something called a CVE which is a hole between universes. When I did that, I finally found some people who were even more lost than I was that I heard broadcasting a call for help throughout the universe. You'll never believe who they were!" Jenny said with a huge smile on her face.

The Doctor looked at her in alarm and was about to question her when he heard the sound of several explosions coming from nearby. The explosions continued to grow louder and louder by the moment while several screams started to come from outside.

That was when the Moment suddenly appeared out of nowhere and said to Jenny, "What have you done?!"

She silently cursed herself even as she did so. Even with all of her power, she never foresaw this. If she had, she never would have gone with Merry to visit Tish while Clara was at her mother's house. She thought that she would be able to foresee any dangers against Clara well ahead of time, but she never saw this happening.

She should have known that bringing Jenny back to life like she did would cause her to become an unpredictable element within the Web of Time whose actions that she couldn't anticipate. She wasn't about thinking that at the time though. All she was thinking about was saving the poor girl's life in gratitude for what she did for the Doctor.

"What? What's wrong? I just brought them back because I thought that it would make Dad happy," Jenny said.

"Brought who back?" the Doctor asked even though he was afraid that he already knew.

"You didn't! Tell me she didn't!" the Master shouted at the Moment.

"She did. She somehow found the Time Lords and brought them back to this universe. Worse than that she led them straight to this spot! Rassilon knows where Clara is now," The Moment said with alarm.

"No! Not . . . now. I can't . . . walk," Clara said in a frightened voice.

"I don't understand what all the fuss is about. You were so lonely and missed your people so much, Dad. I just brought them back to you as a present to you. I thought that you'd be happy," Jenny said in an upset voice.

"She didn't do it on purpose. She didn't know," the Doctor said defending her.

"No, but she will soon if we don't get out of here," the Master said as he picked Clara up in his arms and rushed towards the TARDIS with her.

"What's going on?" Jenny asked in complete confusion as the explosions got even closer now.

Then before the Master could reach the TARDIS, a rip in time and space opened up in front of it and out came Rassilon and the High Council of the Time Lords. Rassilon smirked as soon as he saw the Master holding Clara.

"Lord Master and Lord Doctor! It's so good to see you both again. So very good! You, my dear, must be the Lady Alura that I've come so far to find. I require your services, my lady. I need you to help ensure that the Time Lords are the ultimate and undisputed rulers of this universe. There will be no more Time Wars with you on my side, Alura," Rassilon said.

"No. Leave . . . me alone," Clara said.

"You're mine now, Alura. There is no escape," Rassilon said.

"You'll have to go through me first," the Master said as he pointed his laser screwdriver at him.

"And me," the Doctor said as he stood next to the Master.

"You'll also have to go through me, Lord Rassilon. Remember me?" the Moment said as she began to glow with the power of the Vortex.

"Bad Wolf," Rassilon said like a curse.

"That's right. I made sure you were locked up in that Dark Tower once before, and I'll do it again," the Moment threatened.

"Not this time. This time I have all of Gallifrey on my side all working together toward a single purpose. We will claim the Oracle as ours and use her to erase the Daleks and anyone else who dares to oppose us completely from time and space forever. The Time War is finally over at last, and we are its victors," Rassilon said.

"That's what you think," Tish said as she suddenly burst into Clara's house.

As soon as she heard the explosions outside and saw the Time Lords marching through the city, she had finally remembered. She suddenly remembered everything including who she really was and what she had to do. That was when she had left Merry at her grandparents' house and raced to Clara's home as fast as possible.

Rassilon laughed as he said, "And who are you to try and stop me, human?"

"I am the rightful President of Gallifrey who you illegally deposed and tried to have killed in your little coup d'etat toward the end of the Time War, Rassilon, and I have come to reclaim what is rightfully mine," Tish said with fire in her eyes.

The Time Lords with Rassilon now looked at her with startled expressions on their faces as he said in disbelief, "It can't be you. I killed you."

"Oh, you tried but you didn't quite finish the job. I regenerated and then I hid myself from you by using the Chameleon Arch and made sure that I wouldn't remember who I was again until I could sense your presence. Now that I'm back, nothing's going to keep me from stopping you from leading the Time Lords into destruction again," Tish said.

"What's going on? Who is this?" Jenny asked in even more confusion.

The Doctor didn't answer her. Instead he pulled a silver fob watch out of one of his pockets and tossed it to Tish who smiled at him as she said, "Thank you, Doctor."

"No!" Rassilon shouted as he could finally detect the identity of the Time Lord in the watch.

"Oh, yes!" Tish said as she opened the watch and became bathed in light.

As soon as the light passed, she smiled in triumph while the High Council gasped in surprise and Rassilon cursed.

The newly transformed Tish said with a grin, "I am Lady President Romanadvoratrelundar. As one of the Earth's greatest writers might say, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I never died and I certainly never left the Presidency to Rassilon as my last wish as he claimed which makes everything that he did afterwards completely illegal. It seems that your little plan has been stopped right here."

"On the contrary, my dear. It only means that you've come back just in time to die for real. Good bye, Lady President," Rassilon said as he pointed his gauntlet at Romana and it began to glow with power.

As Romana screamed in agony, Clara struggled to regain her strength. She had to stop this! She couldn't let what she saw happening in the next five minutes come to pass. She just couldn't.

She had to stop Rassilon now before he killed all of her friends and kidnapped her or she would be his prisoner forever!

Next: It's the long awaited showdown between Clara and her friends and Rassilon. Will they be able to prevent the horrible future that Clara just foresaw from coming to pass or is Clara doomed to a life of eternal servitude at Rassilon's hands?