In reply to LoveToRead2016 review. Thanks. My exams when as well as I could hope that they would. Just waiting for the results to see if I did do as well as I thought.
And to the guest review. I am glad that I was missed :)
Anyway, on with the story now me thinks.
14th - 16th February
It could have been an awful day for Clara if she didn't have her secret silver fox. She always hated Valentine's day. It was just so commercialised for her liking. The day was truthfully about how much money you could spend on each other rather than love. Maybe she was just bitter because of her bad string of relationships.
"Will you please sit at your own desk?" She heard Jack moan before she entered the room.
"Why should I?" Amy retorted back.
Clara smiled when she saw Amy sitting on Rory's lap as he worked, her arm locked around his neck.
"Because we don't all need to see it."
"Well not everyday is Valentine's day."
"That's true." Clara muttered when she reached her seat.
"Someone is a bit bitter about the celebration." Donna noted.
"I just think that it is too much about money now." She paused. "And I have never had a good Valentine's day. Either my boyfriend was being a dick or my girlfriend ignored me for the whole day and then said that she didn't realised."
"Girlfriend?" Jack turned his attention to her.
Clara shrugged. "Put me off girls really."
She couldn't help but smile when he did. The working environment that they had was nice. Everyone got along with everyone and there was a bit of batter that went on. Not when the Doctor was in the room. He is against battering.
"That's bad." Amy said as she finally left Rory alone. "Valentine's day is the only reason we are together. He plucked up the courage to ask me out."
"I am sure you will be on the pull tonight Jack. Trying to woo some lonely hearts." Rose said without looking up from her computer or losing the speed she was typing at.
He snorted. "Obviously."
Clara was too busy smiling to herself to see River looking over at her.
"So are you doing anything tonight?"
She just shrugged at her. "Don't know. Maybe."
If anything, she was glad for the distraction. She was about three quarters of her way through her article and starting to lose inspiration in what to write. She picked up her mug and noticed that it was empty. Clara sighed. It had been her fourth coffee that morning. She really needed to get out the habit of using coffee as a way to fuel her body rather than sleep.
"Clara Oswald?" The man said.
Everyone turned and looked at him. It was very rare that someone else came into the office and if they did, it was the delivery man bring stationary products for them. It was always the same man and it wasn't him.
"I got a delivery for Clara Oswald."
"Yeah me." Clara said raising her hand slightly.
He smiled at her before getting her delivery. "You're a very lucky girl." He said as he placed the flowers on her desk.
He left as quickly as he came and everyone was just looking at them.
"Someone's got an admirer." Amy teased her.
"They must have left a note." Donna said.
Clara could still feel everyone's eyes on her as she found and read the note.
Thought these would make your day. This is only the beginning. I will see you tonight. D.
She smiled to herself.
Everyone started to ask her who they were from but she lied to them and said that she didn't know. She just couldn't wait to see where he was going to take her.
"I know a guy who knows one of the managers." He said as they entered the lift.
"Really? So a friend of a friend?"
The Doctor nodded. "Could see it like that. He owes me a favour anyway. That's how we got a table at such late notice."
"Doctor, I would love to know where we are going before you take me out. I really feel under dressed."
He turned and looked at her. "I think you look great."
She smiled but knew what he was trying to do. He was trying to make her feel better. He had mentioned that he had overheard what she had said that morning about never having a good Valentine's day and he had made it his mission to make it one to remember. She had already told him that he had done enough but she couldn't lie and say she wasn't enjoying the attention.
The waiter showed them to their table and the Doctor pulled out her seat for her. She looked out over London as he sat down.
"He must be a great friend. A window seat in the Shard. It must be hard to get one."
"Yeah, he owes me."
They spent most of the night there. Wine flowed throughout the night and Clara realised what she had missed. The Doctor may not have been someone that she would have thought that she would end up with but this relationship wasn't like her other relationships. This actually felt like it could last.
Clara started to untangle herself from him and went to get up but was stopped when his arms circled around her hips.
"Where you going?" He said, half asleep. He placed a kiss on her lower back.
She laughed as she tried to release herself. "I have an article that I need to finish."
"Not today."
"Yes today. It is already midday. It won't take me long if I quickly do it now."
"No, get back into bed."
"I will bring my laptop back." She said as he started to pull her back.
"No." Was all he said before he kissed her.
In the end they had got up but after they got what they needed, they got back under the covers. Clara had managed to retrieve her laptop and finished the article while the Doctor feed her. She looked over at him after she had finished.
"Do you like what you see?"
She laughed before closing the lid of her laptop and placing it on the floor away from the bed. "I doubt that we would have been together this long if I didn't like what I saw."
He joined her in laughing as she tucked herself into his shoulder, resting her head next to his.
"I just realised. I never thanked you for the flowers."
"Well when they die, I will just have to buy you some more."
"This is what you have waited for isn't it? Someone who will give you the attention you need but also someone to give it back to."
He turned to her. "Never thought about it like that before. Maybe."
He kissed her and rolled her onto her back.
Clara rushed in and placed down her things.
"Wild weekend?"
She groaned slightly at the sound of the cheery voice. Maybe drinking wine for two nights on the trot wasn't the best idea.
"Could say that."
"Spill."
"Amy I need to get on." She said as she turned on her laptop just to curse when it appeared to be out of charge.
"He must have been good."
Clara sighed. "He took me the Shard for dinner and then we went back to mine and spend most of Sunday in bed."
"Clara, you're late." The Doctor said as he entered the room.
She turned to look at him and understood what he was doing. The look he gave her showed that he didn't want to do it but he didn't want to wake her this morning.
"Sorry I must have slept through my alarm or not set it."
He just huffed before turning his attention to the rest of the room.
"I should have woken you. I am sorry for this morning." He said.
"Don't worry. I know why you did it." She said as she made her coffee. "We will tell them, eventually."
He smiled and put down his mug before wrapping his arms around her. "I know but I think you are enjoying it. The secrecy of it."
She sighed. "I never thought I would be someone who would enjoy creeping around but I am. And I have only just admitted it to myself."
The Doctor let her go. "Better get back to work. Don't want you slacking now."
"Yes sir." She said, giving him a mock salute.
They both chuckled to themselves as he left her.
