"I love her but I'm afraid that I'll miss out if I settle. I want to experience everything... and everyone. That makes me sound so selfish, doesn't it?" Amy dumped her feelings out on the alien stranger sitting beside her as they ate.
"Sounds like you're a child afraid of growing up." The old man smiled.
"I sound like a idiot." Amy rolled her eyes.
The old man patted her on the shoulder affectionately and stood up to leave Amy alone to think. Amy hated being left alone to think. There were too many unwanted thoughts in her head that she'd rather not deal with.
The girls said their thank yous and Amy took tiger selfies with the Tiger People before walking back into the Tardis. "That was so cool" Clara gushed with excitement as Amy tried to figure out the console's controls to get them back home.
"Here we go" Amy spun around as the Tardis took off back home. She walked up to Clara and held her tight. "You know I love you, right?" Amy leaned in and kissed her.
"Quite right to" Clara smiled back flirtatiously. They opened up the Tardis doors to find themselves back in their flat. "Ok, well it's about 11pm. I have to get up early for work in the morning so.."
"So we're going to have to make this quick" Amy joked as she put her hands around Clara's waist.
"Stop" Clara laughed.
"Fine" Amy rolled her eyes. "You owe me one" She joked as she went into the bathroom and closed the door behind her. Clara heard Amy turn on the shower as she went into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of orange juice from the refrigerator and a glass from the cupboard.
"Clara?" A child's voice made Clara spin around quickly and drop her glass.
"Oh, god!" Clara looked terrified at the realization that little Tiger Lili was standing in her living room.
"I'm sorry.." Lili looked at the ground. "I just wanted to know where you lived. Is this where you live? It makes more sense. I thought you lived in that strange box. I didn't mean to scare you."
"Lili.." Clara walked up to her slowly and calmly so as not to frighten the child. "We have to get you back home but... I'm not very good at flying the Tardis so why don't you just sit down and wait for a minute till Amy gets out of the shower. Um..." Clara rummaged through her pantry. "Jammie Dodger?" She offered the child a biscuit and tip toed to the bathroom door and knocked to get Amy's attention.
"Yeah?" Amy replied.
"Umm... Not to worry you but we have a bit of an emergency here." Clara tried not to sound nearly as worried as she was.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Amy yelled over the sound of the shower running as she got in a towel to peak out the door. "Oh, god! Oh no!" Amy freaked when she saw the tiger child eating in her living room. "You kidnapped an alien child!"
"Me? I didn't do this!" Clara threw up her hands in frustration.
"You let her follow you!" Amy pointed her finger at Clara. "Children love you. They cling to you with their little sticky kid fingers. They all have sticky fingers; tiger kid or human kid. They're all sneaky little..." Amy is cut off.
"She can hear you" Clara put her hands on her hips "And I happen to like children" She added.
"Good, she's sleeping with you tonight" Amy walked out of the bathroom and down the hall to her room. "I'm far too tired to fly the Tardis anymore tonight. We'll figure this mess out in the morning." Amy closed the bedroom door behind her. Amy tried to sleep but dreams of beautiful killer mermaids kept her tossing and turning.
Clara gave Lili her bed and slept in the couch for the night. When she woke up Lili's cat-like eyes were staring her right in the face making her jump back. "I was waiting for you to wake up" Lili whispered sweetly. "Sorry, for scaring you." She smiled and sat down beside Clara on the couch. "Do you think your friend is angry at me?"
"Oh, I don't know." Clara shrugged. "But I wouldn't be too worried about it."
Just then Amy came in all sleepy eyed in her pajamas "Oh yeah... you're still here" She sighed through a yawn. "Coffee first, then back to neverland to return our little stowaway." Amy shuffled to the kitchen and began to fiddle with the coffee machine.
"See... she is angry at me" Lili whispered to Clara looking rather glum.
"I should make you walk the plank for that! I'll have no stowaways on my ship!" Amy yelled from the kitchen. "We need to install a plank on the Tardis, Clara. Remind me later."
"She's just joking" Clara smiled noticing Lili's scared eyes. "Amy, you're scaring her!" Clara yelled back at Amy.
"Good!" Amy poked her head out from the kitchen to look at them in the livingroom. "I'm watching you" Amy whispered as she shot Lili a look. After breakfast they got back in the Tardis. Amy flipped the switches on the console. "Back to Neverland!" Amy yelled as they flew off. But something like a strong metallic crunch hit the Tardis and sent it flying out of control.
"Not good!" Clara held onto Lili with one hand and the console railing with the other. The Tardis came to a stop and all the lights went out save for the soft blue lights illuminating the floor.
"No! come on!" Amy slapped the console and hurt her own hand. "Ugh!" She groaned in frustration. "Wait here while I figure out when and when we are and maybe we can find a way to get this thing moving again."
Amy opened the door to find herself behind a stage curtain. There was loud jazz music playing and the smell of cigarettes and alcohol was pungent. She moved the curtain to find that she was standing behind a band of musicians. "Ok!" She closed the door behind her. "I'm 85% sure we're in the 1920's. Looks like a speakeasy. I'd love to join the party if I wasn't babysitting a little tiger alien." She shot Lili a look.
