Ch. 08 – Disaster

"Don't you think I know that? And I regret it every single day, but I'm happy to see him happy now. And you, Linda bitch, don't you remember you're no angel either? I knew and Ellie also knew that you were fucking..." she pointed to Dave and Linda. "...while she was on the hospital on her final days. So shut the up fuck up about other people when you were more rotten than anyone here." Clara started crying and pushed her dad away, running to the restroom. River and I ran after her. I knew this wouldn't end well but I never thought it would end up so bad.

-Doctor-

River and I found Clara sitting on the toilet crying. I kneeled down beside her and held her hand, she didn't even look at me.

"I want to be alone John." I squeezed her hand and she finally looked at me, once again she was all eyes. I didn't know what to say so River said it for me.

"Clara, I'm so sorry for lashing out the truth like that, I wasn't thinking." She said and I muttered something.

"You never do." Clara rolled her eyes at me.

"It's not her fault John. I always knew it was wrong for dad to marry so fast after mom passed, but knowing that he didn't respect her on her final days hurts too much. Did you know about that?" I shook my head.

"No, the conversations we had when Ellie was sick didn't involve that kind of subject." Clara's expression softened a bit.

"He can't stand betrayal, and that is my fault for sure." Clara looked at River with a serious expression.

"I have no idea how you could cheat on him, but I'm glad you did because now he's mine." I blushed and River chuckled.

"John, you found a keeper." I nodded, oh I knew that. I had no idea how I got that lucky.

"Did my mom forgive him?" Clara blurted out and River looked deep into her eyes.

"She did, Clara. She was the best person I've ever known, she had a kind and beautiful heart, so she forgave him even when he didn't deserve to." Clara opened up her arms to River and they held each other tight. I didn't know what to do, so I stood up and waited outside the restroom. Dave was there.

"John, you're evil. Now I see what you do, you pretend to be all fragile and broken to make woman pity you and stay. Because that's the only reason I can see why Clara is dating you." I rolled my eyes.

"You seem like you don't know your daughter at all. She's a wonderful woman and yes, I have no idea why she's sticking up with me, but I love and I'm not going to give her up. I was broken till Clara came to my life and started to mend me, but right now you should be worried about how she's feeling, she's hurting beyond imagine." Before Dave could reply Clara and River exited the restroom and as soon as Clara's eyes laid on her father she held my hand and pulled me to her.

"Let's go home?" she asked and I nodded. Dave tried to touch Clara's shoulder but she back away. "I don't want to hear from you anymore, alright?" She said to her father and we went away. River followed us. The moment Clara walked inside the Taxi River held my hand and whispered in my ear.

"Take good care of her, and don't be upset because she decided to talk to me instead of you, she may be 28 but sometimes all a girl wants is a mother figure and tonight I was that to her." I nodded and mouthed a "thank you" to her before following Clara inside.

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Clara and I were already in bed when I tried to approach the subject of the disaster ball.

"Clara, how are you feeling?" she looked at me and rolled her eyes.

"I'm fine, but I don't want to talk about it okay?" I nodded.

"Okay, I was just worried. You know you can talk to me about everything, right?" she came to my arms and hid her face in my chest.

"I know, I'm just so tired. Everything about my life is fucked up, Dad and Linda, River, Danny…" I ran my fingers on her hair.

"There's me." She looked at him.

"You live in Glasgow and I live here, that's fucked up." I pecked her lips lightly.

"I love you, that's not fucked up at all." She finally gave me a light smile, we cuddled and ended up falling asleep.

-Clara-

I woke up early and saw John still sleeping beside me, he normally woke up earlier than me but I woke him up in the middle of the night for a making love session and it was great. I've never felt so loved.

I slowly got out of bed, put a robe on and went to the kitchen. I checked my phone and saw a text from Adrian, he was inviting John and me for lunch, I had to wait for John to wake up to decide, so I ignored his text for the time being. My thoughts flew to River, I felt so guilty for liking her so much already, she reminded me of my mom, but I knew I couldn't include her in my life for John's sake. She hurt him badly in the pass and I didn't have the right to put her back in his life. I didn't even want to think about my father and Linda at the moment.

I felt arms go around my waist and giggled, my John was there in all his naked glory hugging me tight.

"Come back to bed babe." He whispered in my ear and I could feel him hard on my lower back. I shivered and turned back in his arms kissing his lips passionately.

"We don't need to go back to bed for that." I winked and he picked me up putting me sitting on the table. He ran his big hands on my thighs when my phone vibrated. I stretched my arm to grab it and John sighed.

"I'm gonna throw that phone of yours out of the window if you keep answering it while we're making love." I giggled and looked at the text, it was Adrian's again.

"We're not making love, not yet anyway. So, my friend Adrian is inviting us for lunch today, what do you say?" he smirked.

"Only if I can have you for breakfast." I giggled and whispered in his ear.

"Oh yeah."

To be continued.

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