A/N: Last chapter in this storyline now guys. First real attempt at a little story arc, I think it could have been better but overall I'm quite pleased with it haha. Anyway, have a read and let me know whether you liked it! :D
When River held her fingers up to shape a zero, the four of them burst into the room, River's gun poised to fire on the Dalek.
"CLARA?" Came the grating, robotic voice of the Dalek.
"Rusty?" She cried out in recognition, "How are you here?"
The other three stared at Clara as though she had just gone insane, greeting a Dalek like it was an old friend.
"Want to explain this one to us Clars?" Oswin asked, looking at her questioningly, more willing to give her the chance to explain because of her own history.
"Basically Rusty's a good Dalek who hates other Daleks and helps fight against them. Why are the Judoon hunting you?"
If they didn't know better they would have sworn that the Dalek sounded hurt, "BECAUSE I AM A DALEK."
"They're hunting you because they're racist?" River asked disbelievingly.
"Are we seriously talking about rhinos being racist towards salt shakers?" Ashildr snorted, pointing out the absurdity of the entire situation they had found themselves in.
Oswin giggled and leaned on Clara's shoulder, "You have a Dalek friend, an ex-Dalek sister and you briefly played a Dalek yourself...do you have a thing for Daleks here Clara? Because I think that's something we should all know about in case you ever bring a date home."
Clara slapped away her arm, "No I don't have a thing for Daleks you idiot. Why so curious? Anyone would think you have a thing for me!"
"Who says I don't?" Oswin winked at her, causing Clara to roll her eyes, "After all I'm incredibly sexy and we share the same face."
"You're incredibly creepy, go stare at a mirror! Anyway, what are we going to do now guys? I'm not handing Rusty over to the Judoon just because he's a Dalek."
"We'll kill him." River said matter of factly.
"What?! Do you not listen? I literally just said-"
Ashildr and Oswin cracked up as River glared at Clara and Rusty subtly rolled backwards to position himself behind Clara.
"I'm not stupid Clara, or deaf. We're not really going to kill him. The Judoon just need to think he's dead and then they'll leave."
Oswin coughed slightly and raised her hand between the two women who were still having a staring match to the great amusement of Ashildr who was still chortling away to herself.
"How exactly do you want us to fake Rusty's death without actually killing him?"
Ashildr snapped her fingers, "We'll take Jack's Dalek head."
"Jack has a Dalek head?" Oswin asked curiously.
"And more importantly, he's keeping it on my ship?" Clara growled.
Ashildr just stared at her, hand on hip, "I seem to recall us stealing it together, and it isn't like you gave him time to pack his bags before you kicked him off."
River laughed lightly, "She had a point, it's not even a full head either, just a few parts but it will be enough to convince the Judoon that we've killed your friend here."
If it was a possibility for a Dalek to look bewildered then Rusty would have done as he followed the four women out of his hiding spot back to their Tardis.
River and Ashildr led their little group with Rusty trundling along behind them.
Oswin and Clara walked behind him, saying they were guarding the rear, but really using it as an excuse for Clara to whine to Oswin about how it was her Tardis and for Oswin to make teasing jabs at Clara about her thing for Daleks.
When they arrived back they sent Ashildr in to grab the parts from Jack's room.
She soon came stumbling out with her arms full of metallic chunks of Dalek casing and pieces of circuit boards.
"You know if this works," Clara mused, "I may lift Jack's banishment."
Ashildr chuckled and bumped her hip against Clara's, "Good, come on then!"
They dropped Rusty off in an alley a little ways from the Tardis where he would be safe, throwing an old sheet over him so he wouldn't be noticed.
Cautiously they snook back to the outskirts of the little town square they had gone to where the cafe was located, their aim being to work out what had happened since they went off to find whatever the Judoon was looking for and all their plans had had to change.
"Well we did say distract them." Ashildr snorted as she saw what was happening from their vantage point on top of a garage.
Amy and Rory had apparently convinced Missy to help and she was parading up and down the centre of the square holding a handful of cocktail umbrellas for some reason they couldn't quite fathom.
UNIT and the Judoon had each taken up position on either side of the square and where watching whatever was going on between them with great confusion.
Guns were raised on both sides towards the middle where the three Tardis crew members where standing, but it was as though no one could quite work out whether they should start shooting or not.
Whilst Missy seemed to be quite content tap dancing her way up and down throwing tiny rainbow umbrellas in the air. Amy and Rory had decided to blast Bohemian Rhapsody through a bluetooth speaker somewhere nearby and had a full on karaoke session going on whilst standing on the nearest table, which was wobbling precariously.
"Come on, we should go down there before this descends into chaos." River said, tapping the others who were all watching whilst grinning widely.
"Ok, just wait a sec." Oswin quickly whipped out her phone and took a short video to play back and embarrass them at a later date, "Ok, I'm good let's go."
Clara laughed and stood up on the edge of the small roof they were on, carefully jumping down and then taking the Dalek parts that Ashildr passed down to her.
Once all four of them were on the ground they made their way over to the table Amy and Rory were on, River pulled her gun and casually shot the speaker they were using.
"Ok everyone listen up!" Ashildr yelled.
Clara rolled her eyes but stepped forward anyway, addressing the Judoon who seemed to be eyeing River suspiciously ever since she pulled out the gun.
"You lot came here looking for a war criminal right? A Dalek. We found it for you and now it's dead so you can leave."
The Judoon leader stepped forwards menacingly, "We require proof of this or-"
River nodded to Oswin, who had ended up with all the parts, she stepped forward and tipped them onto the ground in a pile at the leaders feet.
"This is all that is left of the one you were looking for. A lesson maybe, that if you were to ask for assistance instead of charging in, things would be a lot simpler for you." River fixed the Judoon with a look as though she was scolding it.
They all heard what sounded like a huff and then the Judoon platoon turned and stalked off without another word, one of them quickly gathering up the parts before they left.
Kate stepped forward quickly from where she had been stood with the rest of her men.
"Clara." She said simply, giving her a nod.
"Kate." She said in the same detached way. "I'm not giving you Missy."
Kate smiled despite herself, "I get that now, and I've seen what happened to the jail when we tried to contain you. I can't help but think it would go very badly if we tried to use force against you. And you did just all help us with our space rhino problem. Until the next time."
She held out her hand to Clara and waited for her reaction.
Without hesitation Clara grasped the offered hand and shook it, she had disliked being at odds with the other woman, whom she respected greatly.
"Until the next time then."
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