The Doctor stared up at the central column of the TARDIS, his hands resting on the controls of the time machine.
A month had passed since the Doctor and Clara had gotten engaged, the two of them spending the majority of their time together, either inside the depths of the TARDIS or on some exotic planet. After about a week after their romantic dinner, Clara had suggested that the two of them actually move in together. The Time Lord had been extremely hesitant at first, for Clara's idea of them living together didn't involve them living inside the TARDIS, rather them buying a house upon earth.
Despite loving Clara with both of his hearts, the Time Lord didn't particularly want to jump at the chance to stop living inside the realm of his oldest companion. Though as the days passed, he had come to realise that if he truly wanted the relationship to last, for the love of his life to be safe from all threat, that would only work if they were living upon the safety of planet earth.
So the two had started their search for houses. They had started looking at small units, as between them the only money that they actually had was Clara's income from her time working for the Maitland's, a job that she had now quit to start a career as an English teacher, having already gained a post at a school. So due to their low funds, they had found a small yet lovey apartment, and had bought it only a week after discovering it.
The console room of the TARDIS had been filled with all sorts of furntiure that the couple had found inside the infinite number of rooms in the time machine and decided that they would go rather lovely with their new apartment. The clutter of pieces of furniture scattered around the place made it exceptionally hard to walk around the console, yet the Doctor and Clara had both managed to do it.
Clara came in from the hallway, getting the last of her things from a cupboard in the Doctor's room. She settled it down on the floor, and slowly made her way over to her fiancée, who was still staring at the console unit.
"You know that we'll still have trips in the TARDIS" Said Clara, leaning down next to the Doctor. He took a deep breath and stood up, nodding slightly as he looked around the place that he had called home for over a millennium.
"I know, it's just I've always lived here, it's been my home for over a thousand years. Now it's all going to change" a slight smile played on his lips, memories of everything that had ever happened inside the TARDIS flooding back to him. Clara wrapped her arms around him in a comforting manner.
"Thank you for doing this" She whispered softly. The Doctor embraced her, his long arms wrapping around Clara's small body. "I know it's hard for you, but thank you" They both pulled back at the same time, and the Doctor placed his hands lovingly on Clara's cheeks.
"It's fine Clara. A long as I'm with you, I'll be happy" The smile that had been teasing Clara by playing on her fiancées lips bloomed, which caused her face to illuminate in return.
The Doctor suddenly pulled his hands away, clapping them together, a large smile still on his face.
"Right! Here we go, off to start a new adventure! The Doctor and Clara Oswald!" He picked up Clara and spun her carefully around, trying not to knock over the furniture and boxes. The two laughed joyfully as they spun around, the Time Lord eventually putting her back down on the ground.
The Doctor let go of Clara, taking a deep breath, staring at the lever that would send them spiralling through time and space towards their new home.
"It's not the end" Clara said soothingly. The Doctor nodded slowly, smiling at her.
"I know. It's just the last time that I'll be in her while I'm living here" He said, laughing nervously. He rested his hand on the lever, Clara supportingly putting her hand on top of the Doctor's.
"Geronimo" The Time Lord whispered, and pulled down the lever, sending the time machine into motion.
The TARDIS materialised inside an empty room, the floor being carpeted and the walls freshly painted, light streaming through the windows. The blue box faded in and out of existence, until it finally settled in existence, settling into a solid.
"Right-i-o! This is nice!" The Doctor exclaimed happily, as he poked his head out of the TARDIS. He looked around the small yet nicely furnished apartment. Clara strode in behind him, examining the walls. "It's kinda small, but to anyone from the outside, I live inside a police box, so really, I shouldn't be talking" Clara looked at him with an amused smirk.
"It's become more of a snog box in the last few months, you know that right?" Replied Clara. The Doctor shrugged, tilting his head to the side, considering how right his fiancée was.
"Well, I'd say it's still a TARDIS, but if you want to call it something along those lines, then I'd say it's more of a shag box. Or a sex box. Whichever you prefer" Clara smiled at how different the Doctor was to when she had first met him. He had been somewhat like a small child when they met (In some aspects he still was) yet over the period of time in which they had grown from friends into lovers, he had grown into something a lot more.
"What do you think the story should be for us having a police box in our lounge room?" Asked Clara, folding her arms and staring at the TARDIS. The Doctor poked his head back around from around a corner that he had just walked around.
"Well, we could tell everyone that I saw it once and thought it was a great piece of modern art, so I bought it and bada-bing! Here it is" He said proudly, looking at the TARDIS fondly as if every piece of his story was true. Clara looked at him, obviously amused.
"You said that like it was true" She laughed. The Doctor smiled as his ears indulged on the sound of her laughter.
"I love you" Said the Doctor. Clara smiled at her fiancée, before walking up to him and kissing him softly on his lips, a kiss that the Doctor eagerly responded to.
"I love you too" They stared at each other with loving expressions on their faces for a moment. Breaking up their loving glances was the Doctor, who excitedly clapped his hands together.
"Right-i-o! So, I should of read a manual, I've never had to move before, but I think I get the general idea of the whole concept" The Doctor stretched out his arms as if he was preparing for some huge event, something that Clara watched with amusement.
"You don't need a manual" She smiled, while planing a kiss on the tip of her fiancées nose. She turned around and opened up the TARDIS doors, the blue light illuminating a small patch of carpet, turning it a light shape of blue.
"How on earth are we going to get all the furniture out the door? It's tiny!" Exclaimed Clara, trying to figure out how they were going to manage to take all of their furniture into their new apartment. A huge smile appeared on the Doctor's face so fast that Clara raised her eyebrows.
"Well, their is a way that we can do this" He ran inside the TARDIS excitedly, as if he'd been waiting years to tell Clara how they could move their furniture. The Doctor excitedly pulled out his sonic screwdriver, holding it up in the air as if Clara had never seen it before.
"You going to take them apart then reassemble them with the sonic?" She asked, amused, whereas the Doctor was not. He disappointedly put his arm down, and his child like excitement was replaced with an annoyed and hurt expression, as if Clara had just insulted him.
"No, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to shrink them!" He said in an excited tone, his child like excitement reappearing on his face. Clara looked from the sonic to a couch that was behind her fiancée, wondering how on earth he was going to shrink it.
"How on earth are you going to shrink them?" Asked Clara, shaking her head dejectedly. If possible, an even bigger smile formed upon the Time Lord's lips.
"Well, it's quite simple really. It took me a while but I finally got it. I adjusted some of the sonic's settings so it uses a miniaturisation ray" He began fiddling with the setting of the sonic, the green light blinking, going on and off, over and over again. The Doctor pointed the sonic screwdriver at the couch that stood next to him. "Which is then supported by a temporal compression field"
The Doctor activated the sonic, and right in front of both of their eyes, their couch shrunk to a miniature scale. With the smile of a small child, the Doctor bent down and picked up the couch, showing it to an astounded Clara.
"You really shrunk our couch" She carefully took the tiny couch in her hand, the miniaturised piece of furniture settling nicely into the palm of her hand. "You can make it big again, right?" Asked Clara worriedly, inspecting every detail of their miniature couch.
"It's only a temporal compression field, it'll wear off in an hour, so we might want to be careful of that" The Doctor added in a worried tone, which earns him a stern look from Clara.
"Well, if it's only temporary, then we'd better get moving then" Clara said in a optimistic tone, before wandering out of the TARDIS, the Doctor behind her.
It took them hours, but the two had finally set up their bedroom, making it one of the only rooms in the entire apartment to be properly set up, despite the only things in there being their bed and a bedside table. They had spent hours miniaturising things and waiting for the compression field to wear off so that they would return to their regular size.
The Doctor was in bed, sitting up with a pillow acting as comfort between his back and the hard headboard. He was absently flicking through the TARDIS manual, reading words that his eyes had gazed over hundreds of times.
Clara walked into the room, clad in red pyjamas, her brown hair hanging freely down her back, a glimpse of a smile of her lips. She hopped into the bed, snuggling down next to her fiancée, her eyes skimming over some of the words in the TARDIS manual.
"Are you reading the TARDIS manual?" Asked Clara in a slightly amused tone. The Doctor sighed, closing the pages and putting it down on the bedside table. He put the pillow back down in its rightful place, laying down next to Clara.
"I know it's right there in the lounge, but it feels like it's on the other side of the galaxy" Despite laying down, he could break his habit of using his hands to express part of his emotion with each words. "It's been my home for over a millennium, and now..." He just stopped talking, and put his arms down. Clara wrapped her arms around the Doctor chest comfortingly.
"I know I said this already, but thank you for doing this" Clara lent up on her elbow, looking down at her fiancée who was staring up at her. "Ever since I was a little girl, I always wanted to be a teacher and come home every day to a loving husband in a cozy house, maybe even with kids" She fantasised, which caused the Doctor to smile lightly.
"I think I'll end up liking this. A life away from it all, could take some getting used to, but it's a life with you. Besides, I can do all sorts of things, like getting a job. U.N.I.T will hopefully be more than happy to take me" The edges of the Doctor's lips curled up, forming a smile larger than the previous one.
"Of course they'll have you. Your the best of the best" Clara kissed the Doctor on the lips, her hand on his cheek. Before it could escalate to anything, she stopped him with a smug grin.
"I think after moving, we need a good nights rest" The Doctor's excited grin slowly faded into somewhat of an annoyed grimace. Clara laughed lightly, before laying down upon the soft sheets.
The Doctor wrapped his arms around Clara, who curled up to him without any hesitation. And within minutes, the extremely exhausted couple fell into a deep, peaceful sleep.
A/N - Here we go, they finally moved in together! I seriously had doubts about me being upload today, while I was writing the last bit I took a break to go see Rogue One, which is an amazing movie just so you all know. Thanks for all the continued support, please review, favourite and follow!
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