"I need to think. Come on, you can do this!" Clara paced outside the TARDIS, trying to will her brain to think. Her thoughts tried organizing themselves, but scattered at the sight of emotional thoughts; concerns. Is the Doctor alright? She assumed the answer was no, which killed her on the inside. Clara looked to the blue box, standing there in the now midday sun. "You could help, you know!"

"I don't take well to commands. Especially by you, Clara Oswald." Clara almost jumped at these words as she turned on the spot. Standing in front of her was… her. A very cross looking version of herself. "Before you speak, yes, I've done this before. No, I don't feel differently towards you."

"The Doctor's in trouble. Please, just help me to help him!" Desperation was in her voice, because she wanted nothing more than to have the Doctor safe… and with her.

"Why should I help you? Even if it is to aid the Doctor, why to help you?" The "TARDIS" Clara showed no emotion as she spoke, but kept eyeing the real Clara with an intense eye.

"Because he's the Doctor. You're his big blue box! I would think if you were someone's box you'd try to the best of your ability to help!" Clara didn't even give the slightest bit of attention to the fact her statement would have made no sense to any eavesdroppers, but the TARDIS understood as the TARDIS Clara heaved a sigh.

"Before you left last night, the Doctor left you a message on my recordings. Go inside to watch it." As the words were said aloud, the doors again opened to the TARDIS. Clara ran inside and to the console, to a screen on the controls. As soon as she reached it, it started playing:

"Hello? I hope this old thing is working, after all these years…" the Doctor cleared his throat. "What was I-? Oh yeah!" He looked up and smiled. "Clara. You probably can see I'm very nervous right now, but this is important. Vampires are real. And they actually live in this castle. I've fought them before, but that was somewhere else, they just mentioned the castle. I have no idea what they'll be like in their home.. place." He paused to straighten his bow tie and pop his back. "I must warn you, though. Don't leave me alone." His face grew gravely serious, nothing like Clara had ever seen on that fun-loving childish face before. "If they capture me and… turn me, bad things will happen." He blinked some and heaved a sigh. "It's something with Timelords to where vampire venom… rewrites the mind and soul and turns the time lord evil. Literally against all living things in the universe, but sides with vampires, because they're dead, technically. At all costs, don't leave m-"

"Doctor?" Clara's own voice came from the recording. It was faint in the recording. The doctor turned to the hallway, then back to the screen and jumped back.

"Clara!" The Doctor looked quite scared as his face grew slightly pale. "Wha… Nevermind." He started to examine the screen, then stated, "You're in the middle hallway, go in the last door on the left, then first on the right." After this he gave a short nod.

"Thanks?" Clara said, then a little disconnecting sound was heard.

"Sure, it makes a sound when it disconnects… Really need to work on that." He cleared his throat again. "Where was I? Oh yeah. At all costs, don't leave me alone here. But, since you are watching this, it means either I am regenerating, or you left me alone in the castle. I know these vampires have heard of me and maybe even be searching for me, so there is no doubt it's happened." Clara could tell the fear in his voice. "Before you ask, no, I won't remember you. I won't remember anything except for how to kill and how to hate. But, there is a cure. I studied some old time lord cases while I was at the academy. In a book I've left on the console, it tells someone how to make the potion, cure, elixir, whatever you want to call it, that reverses the process. It re-rewrites time lord DNA and replaces the memories back. It also has a few side affects of which I can't remember at the moment, but are in the book. Pay close attention to them, because they aren't just maybes in this case. All of them happen." He paused again, thinking. "You'll need a sonic. In my coat on the little walkway thing is my regular sonic screwdriver. Use it only when you need to, because, in case you didn't notice, it makes a very loud noise when being used." The Doctor thought again. "That should be about it. Oh! Don't worry about the different planets with the ingredients. I've written down very specific coordinates for each one, so just type them in and go. And remember, Clara Oswald, that I-"

The video cut off there. Clara's face fell as she pondered what the Doctor was going to say next. It could be anything… anything in the universe. But what was it?

Following the Doctor's orders, Clara picked up the book laying on the controls with a cover reading Vampric Timelords and How They Affect the Universe. There was an name at the bottom, but it was unreadable. The cover of the book was dusty and the pages felt old as Clara turned to the first page. Realizing she didn't have the time, nor the patience, to look through all the pages, she flipped to the Table of Contents and browsed the chapter titles. Finally, she found what she was looking for. "What to do when you've got a vampric time lord on your hands and the cure, page 1987. Clara flipped the book open and fingered through a few pages until the start of the chapter. She began reading:

So what happens if you cross an unfortunate vampric time lord? In this chapter, I will be revealing the cure for the poor lad or lady, what planet to find each ingredient on, and what possible side affects are as the cure brings him or her "back to his senses," we'll say.

How to make the cure:

Ingrediants:

1. 5 Bluefrostingberg berries, from the planet Barcelona.

2. 4 cups of Green sugar Crystals, found on Olopia.

3. Pure Spakro water, from the planet Spakro

4. 7 spotted yolks of Neoplite chicken, found on Neoplitious.

5. 60 specks of Gastrolusive dust, from the planet Gastroluville

6. A piece of someone the time lord/lady cares deeply about.

Instructions:

Crush the Bluefrostingberg berries and the green sugar crystals (not in the same container!). Pour the Pure Spakro water into a brass cauldron (found on the planet Hudolphs) and set fire beneath it. Wait for the water to come to a boil, then add the bluefrostingberg berries (crushed finely, should have a lot of juice) and stir. Once undistinguishable from one another, add the Green sugar crystals (also crushed, into a fine powder-like substance) and stir again. The mixture should begin to make "goopy" bubbles, so don't freak out. Once a few bubble pop, put in three of the spotted yolks, stirring constantly until a big bubble pops (should almost come out of the caldron). Once that bubble has popped, add the other four yolks. By now, the contents of your cauldron should look a deep purple and should have a smooth surface, almost reflective. Now, add thirty of the specs of Gastrolusive dust to the mixture, and set the other thirty aside. In the cauldron, mix the combination until the color changes to a bright green. After this, add something from someone the person cares about (i.e a piece of hair, a toe nail, an eyelash, etc etc) and stir, going clockwise six times and counter clockwise one time for seven times (49 stirs in total: 42 clockwise and 7 counterclockwise). Finally, add the remainder thirty specs of Gastrolusive dust and stir. The potion should turn an intensely dark red, the color of the blood of the person who gave the hair or toenail to the potion.

A main reason this potion turns such a color is because, for vampric time lords, the only thing they will intake is blood. So, in order to feed this cure to them, you must disguise it as if it were actually blood. For this to work as well, it can only be fed to the vampire when the sun is not present in the time. If there is any sun during the process, it could kill them completely (when time lords are vampric, all regeneration is stopped, so they couldn't regenerate anyways).

Side Effects:

With everything, there are side effects. Here are only the major ones associated with this cure:

Vomiting of blood

Feeling of death

Coughing regeneration energy

PSS (Paranoid stabbing syndrome)

Bleeding from point of attack from vampire

Mood swings

Suicidal thoughts

Impulsiveness

and many more.

Clara read through the few pages multiple times, now beginning to feel nervous. How was she supposed to follow the exact instructions that were listed in this book? She had never really messed with cooking before, though she used to help her mum making soufflés before… Clara didn't like to think about that day. Too many tears were shed that day at the cemetery.

"Okay, so… planets." Clara saw the coordinates scrawled in the margin of the page. "So, I need to go to Barcelona first!" She carried the book with her as she moved to the place where she put coordinates in. Before she started typing, she remembered being there just hours earlier. She'd give anything to have now said yes to one of the Doctor's suggestions… Berlin Wall sounded superb right now.

Quickly, she typed the coordinates for Barcelona. But then what do I do? She thought to herself. She then cleared her throat. "Okay. I need to go somewhere so I can help the Doctor. Will you take me there?" Clara was very nervous of the response she'd get, but to her amazement, buttons started being pressed and levers pulled, until the TARDIS gave a satisfying jerk, dematerializing and heading for Barcelona.