Chapter 2: The First Face part 2
Come with Me
"I'm sorry!" he said to the girl who was lying in his arms.
"It's okay…" she whispered. "It all had to happen…"
"I wish I could do something for you, Clara."
"Holding my hand is enough…" Clara closed her eyes. The Doctor took her hand and kissed her forehead. "Will you go back… to that little girl?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because…" she opened her eyes. "That little girl is waiting for you to come back…" the Doctor kissed her hand. "Clara Oswald…" she whispered.
"What?"
"Clara Oswin Oswald… my name… my full name…"
"Nice name." he squeezed her hand. Clara's skin was hot and she was sweating. "I wish I could have helped!"
"It's okay… It wasn't your fault… It's just a snakebite… which is fatal to me…" she closed her eyes. "Run…" the Doctor looked at her. "Run you clever boy…" she opened her eyes. "And remember…" she closed her eyes for good.
"Clara? Clara!" but she didn't open her eyes anymore. "Clara…" he kissed her forehead and took her to the cemetery where they buried her. Standing in front of her grave he realized how familiar it is to him. Everything what happened now… the voices. They were all familiar to him. And then he realized something…
Finally he went back to that little girl. He put a rag on his mouth and stepped out of the house.
"Clarity!" he shouted and ran to the house. "Clarity, I worked out what the voices could be!" he tried to open the door with his screwdriver. His screwdriver didn't work very well but he managed to open the door. As soon as he stepped inside the house someone hit him and fell on the ground…
When he started to wake up he felt dizzy. He opened his eyes slowly and saw a woman.
"White male, mid-20s, breaking and entering. Send me some back-up, I've got him restrained." the woman looked at the Doctor. "Oi, you! Sit still."
"Cricket bat. I'm getting cricket bat."
"You were breaking and entering." the Doctor suddenly jumped up but fell back. He only realized now that his hand was handcuffed to the radiator.
"Well, that's much better. Brand-new me, whack on the head. Just what it needed."
"Do you want to shut up now? I've got back-up on the way!"
"Hang on, no, wait… you're a policewoman."
"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"
"But what are you doing here? Where's Clarity?" the woman was surprised.
"Clarity Oswald?"
"Yeah. Little sassy girl. Where is she? I promised her five minutes but the engines were phasing. I suppose I must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to her?"
"Clarity Oswald hasn't lived here in a long time."
"How long?"
"Six months."
"No, no, no!" he leaned his back to the radiator. "I can't be six months late! I said five minutes. I promised." the woman turned away and went inside a room. "What happened to her? What happened to Clarity Oswald?" he asked but immediately shut up when he heard the same voices.
~Run you clever boy and remember me…~ the Doctor sighed and when the woman came back he spoke up.
"I need to speak to whoever lives in this house now."
"I live here."
"But you're the police."
"Yes, and this is where I live. You got a problem with that?!"
"Didn't you hear weird noises?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Those voices are the fragments of the future. Last time I was here I heard it, but didn't know what was it. Now I think I know what could it mean. But you have to let me go to find Clarity because the voices are connected to her." he said. Suddenly the roof was breaking down. The woman went to the Doctor. A dalek was flying in front of them. "Okay… you called for backup, right?" she nodded. "Call them back."
"You're lucky, I didn't call for them."
"What?"
"It's a pretend radio."
"You're a policewoman."
"I'm a nanny!" she took off her hat.
"Open it!" she did as he told her. When he was uncuffed they ran down. The Doctor closed the door. "Nanny?" he looked at her.
"Yes!"
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?"
"You broke into my house! It was this or a French maid!" they ran to the TARDIS. The Doctor was trying to get inside. "What's going on? Tell me! Tell me or I will kill you!"
"An alien is in your house which is actually a dalek. And do not forget about the fragments of the future which are echoes inside your house. Any questions?"
"Yes."
"Me too." he tried to open the door but he couldn't. "No, no, don't do that, not now! It's still rebuilding, not letting us in!" the woman saw the dalek coming out of the house.
"Come on." she grabbed his arm and tried to pull him away from the TARDIS. But Doctor realized something.
"No, wait, hang on, wait, wait, wait. The shed." he ran to the shed. "I destroyed that shed last time I was here, smashed it to pieces."
"So there's a new one. Let's go."
"But the new one's got old. It's ten years old at least." he sniffed and tasted it. "17 years. I'm not six months late, I'm 17 years late.
"It's coming."
"You said six months. Why did you say six months?"
"We've got to go."
"This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?"
"Why did you say five minutes?!" she shouted. The Doctor stood there in shock.
"What?"
"Come on."
"What?"
"Come on!"
"What?!" she grabbed his hand and ran away from the dalek. When they felt safe the Doctor questioned her. "You're Clarity."
"You're late."
"Clarity Oswald, you're the little girl."
"I'm Clarity and you're late."
"What happened?"
"17 years."
"You hit me with a cricket bat."
"17 years."
"A cricket bat!"
"17 years and four psychiatrists."
"Four?"
"I kept biting them."
"Why?"
"They said you weren't real." when they looked up at the sky they saw an army of daleks. "Okay, what's happening?"
"Invasion, attack, destroying the Earth… who knows."
"My mom?" the Doctor looked at Clarity.
"What?"
"My mom is there!" she pointed at her mom who was running away from a dalek. Clarity ran to her and dragged her out of it. The Doctor followed her. "Are you okay, mom?"
"Yes, but what was it?"
"An alien that doesn't know mercy." the Doctor said.
"What are those clothes Clara? Angie and Artie won the deal again?"
"No, I just wanted to put it on…" when she saw her mother's expression she sighed. "Yes, they made me."
"And who is he Clara?"
"Who's Clara? You were Clarity." the Doctor said. He only realized now that Clara from the Victorian London and Clarity are the same. The impossible girl…
"Yeah, now I'm Clara."
"Clarity Oswald… that was a great name."
"Bit fairy tale."
"I know you, don't I? I've seen you somewhere before."
"Not me. Brand-new face..." he opened his mouth. "First time on. Who do you look after?"
"After 2 children till they don't need me."
"You were a little girl five minutes ago."
"You're worse than my mom."
"I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's mother." he looked at Clara's mom. "And that is not how I'm introducing myself."
"Okay but what about those robot things?"
"Daleks."
"Daleks, right. Whatever."
"I don't know what they have planned. Where are we?"
"In London."
"Is there a nuclear power station?"
"No, why would it be?"
"Don't know. Do you need a reason?"
"Well I don't even know… Yes!" she raised her voices. "Use your snogging box."
"My what?"
"You have a time machine, chin boy. Or at least that's what you told me."
"And you believed me."
"17 years passed since then. Why should I believe you?"
"Because if you don't the world will break apart. I got it." he pointed his screwdriver to a dalek but the screwdriver blow up. He threw it away. "No! No! No! I can't believe it! The sonic screwdriver is useless."
"Well, that was a really clever idea. Do you have any more brilliant ones?"
"No. At least not yet."
"Great. The planet will blow up and what do we got? A broke down snogging box, a useless whatever and a chin boy who got torn clothes."
"Oi! What is wrong with my chin?"
"Careful dear! You'll put someone's eye out." the Doctor touched his chin. This reminded him of Oswin. "So, plan? You have to have a plan or we're dead."
"I'm sorry but I don't have."
"People always have plans."
"They do but I don't."
"You have one. You just have to figure it out. Does your chin prevent you from thinking?"
"Seriously, when you were a little girl you weren't like that."
"And you didn't have that big chin. Or I didn't see it this close." Clara stepped closer to him. "You have green eyes. Why didn't I notice it? You're thinking that you should blow them up?"
"Why do you think that?"
"You're eyes told me. Those pretty, green eyes."
"Good point, Clara. Do you have a weapon?"
"Why would I have one?"
"Because we'll be dead in under 20 minutes."
"Then it's time to think. Do they have a weak point?"
"If I would have a weapon, I could destroy them but I have nothing."
"You'll figure something out, Sherlock."
"Sherlock?"
"Just figure something out. Quickly!"
"Okay, fine." he picked up his screwdriver. "Maybe I can do something about it."
"What is that thing anyway?"
"A sonic screwdriver." he started to hit it and it worked. "Okay, so it still has a little power."
"And what are you going to do?"
"You'll see." he started to walk but then he stopped and looked at Clara. "Do I have pretty eyes?"
"Why? Didn't you know?"
"No. New body, getting hit by a cricket bat, dalek invasion and my friend died because of a snakebite. I don't know how I look. Definitely not ginger."
"Definitely not ginger. Just brown. Snakebite?"
"Yes. Don't mind it! Come on!" he grabbed her hand and ran to the hospital.
"Okay, why do we come to a hospital?"
"You said I'm in torn clothes."
"Yeah, very torn." they went upstairs where there were a lot of clothes. He was looking for that.
"I'm saving the world. I need a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show!" when he found the right clothes he took of his old ones. When he was naked Clara raised her eyebrows and checked him out. "Turn your back if it embarrasses you." Clara crossed her arms in front of her chess and just watched the naked Doctor.
"Don't worry about it! I'm good." after 10 minutes later he chose his clothes. White shirt, pale purple vest, dark purple jacket, black trousers, brown shoes and a bow tie. After that, they went up to the roof. The Doctor lifted his screwdriver and soniced one of the daleks to kill the other ones and blow up when it finished its job. "So that was your plan. Pretty good." the Doctor stepped next to her.
"Pretty good?"
"Yeah. You couldn't planned it out sooner, Sherlock?" the Doctor just smiled. "Anyway, I like these clothes. It suits you."
"Good. Ah!" he pulled out a key. It was glowing in a gold colour.
"What's that?"
"The key of the TARDIS. I can finally access to her."
"Hah?" he took her hand and ran back to the TARDIS. "You're leaving again?"
"Can you wait 5 minutes?"
"Last time you said that I had to wait 17 years."
"I'll be here for sure. Right here, so don't go anywhere!" he opened the door and went inside. The TARDIS disappeared like 17 years ago. Clara waited 5 minutes and when the box didn't return she went inside the house. She didn't give up because she knew that the Doctor will come back. He always comes back.
Clara was finishing her breakfast when she heard the sound of the TARDIS. She went outside and saw the blue box appear in front of her and the Doctor came out of it.
"So, it comes back, does it?"
"Of course it always come back I mean I always come back. Why?"
"What do you think?" the Doctor sighed.
"How long?"
"Just a day."
"Okay. So it wasn't 5 minutes."
"You kept the clothes."
"Well, I just saved the world, the whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge. Yeah, shoot me! I kept the clothes."
"Including the bow tie."
"Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool. Do you want to come with me?"
"To where?"
"Wherever you like."
"Wherever?"
"Wherever."
"When I was a little girl, you said there was a swimming pool and a library, and the swimming pool was in the library."
"Yeah. Not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So… coming?" Clara shrugged. The Doctor pushed the door. When Clara saw the inside of the TARDIS she was in a shock but stepped in. She looked around the TARDIS with a smile on her face. The Doctor stepped inside too and waited excitedly to hear what he always hears.
"It's smaller on the outside." she said. The Doctor was surprised.
"Okay, first time hearing that." Clara looked at him smiling. "Will you come away with me?"
"I have a job."
"You know, the thing about a time machine… You can run away all you like and still be home in time for tea, so what do you say? Anywhere. All of time and space, right outside those doors." Clara laughed.
"Does this work?"
"Eh?"
"Is this actually what you do?" she laughed. "Do you just crook your finger and people just jump in your snow box and fly away?"
"It is not a snog box!"
"I'll be the judge of that."
"Starting when?"
"Come back tomorrow. Ask meg again."
"Why?"
"Cos tomorrow, I might say yes." she went to the doors. "Some time after 7:00 okay for you?"
"It's a time machine. Any time's okay."
"See you then." before she could have leave the Doctor stopped her.
"Clara?"
"Aha?"
"When you were little, on your book there was a leaf… Why?"
"That wasn't a leaf… That was page one. Don't be late! If you do, I'll kill you! And you can explain the voices in my room too." she said smiling and left.
"Right then, Clara Oswald. Time to find out who you are…"