A simple trip to an alien planet goes awry and suddenly the Doctor and Clara are running for their lives. Out of options, he's forced to do the only thing that can save them: Become human and lie low until they're safe. But without his second heart, he has no secrets, no reasons to hide his emotions, and Clara realizes that things are going to be more complicated than she thought.

"In another life," he whispers into my hair, words spilling over my temple and brushing my eyelids shut, "in another universe, with an alternate reality and a different you and a different me, we would have been together." - ElevenxAmy AU