Chapter 5
The Doctor scurried over to Clara and checked her over, her arm had a rather gruesome scar down the side but apart from that, she looked fine. The Doctor shook her a bit and she soon woke.
"Are you all right?" he asked her, hurriedly.
Clara nodded,
"Yeah, just… tired," she said, though this wasn't quite the truth… but she didn't want to worry him.
"Well, you can tell me just what happened when we get back to the village," and, as Clara started to drop off again, The Doctor scooped her up in his arms and carriedher back to the town.
The next thing Clara knew was The Doctor's face looking down on her. He smiled at her. They were in their room in Verity's inn. Clara looked down at her bandaged arm.
"So," urged The Doctor. "What happened then?"
Sighing, Clara told The Doctor everything.
The Doctor listened intently and, occasionally, muttered something like,
"Oh?" or: "Really?" with a fascinated tone in his voice.
"That explains everything then," The Doctor nodded, biting his lip, "Um… Maybe you should just get some rest, darling," he suggested to Clara.
Clara nodded and instantaneously fell asleep.
The Doctor pulled a blanket over her and went over to his own mattress to ponder over what they had both seen that day. Coming up with a plan to rid the dragons would be hard to piece together from the few bits of information that he had so far. He eventually decided to pay a visit to Jessica and Tobias, so he woke Clara and then they set off to their friends' house.
They arrived ten minutes later and knocked on the door. Tobias came to the door and he looked genuinely happy to see them.
"We were getting worried about you!" he smiled, "Jessie!" He shouted inside, "The Doctor and Clara are here!" and he waved them inside. "Take a seat," he offered and they all sat down on the bench. "So, what did you find?" he asked.
"Not a lot, in reality," The Doctor sighed. "Only that there are more dragons than we first thought and they like to eat people…"
"And falling from mountains is a bad idea," Clara added, eyeing her arm.
"Not much then?" asked Jessica.
The Doctor shook his head.
"No idea of how to get rid of the dragons then?" Tobias asked.
"Well…" The Doctor started, "My space/time machine is bigger on the inside so… we could, I suppose, lure the dragons into it…"
While The Doctor was explaining this, Clara made herself content by picking at the bandage wrapped around her arm, finding strange satisfaction in this.
"So here's the plan," The Doctor said "We get the dragons' attention and lure them into the TARDIS,"
"The what?" asked Tobias
"The TARDIS is my time machine, I've told you that. As I was saying, we lure them into the TARDIS and Clara and I fly them, probably with great difficulty without getting eaten, to their home world. Dragons are actually aliens you know. They usually spend their time in outer space, feeding on the sunlight, but every once in a while, a dragon finds its way to a nearby planet. That's how your little village became infested with them."
"That's all very interesting, but how do we lure the dragons into your TARDIS anyway?" asked Jessica.
"Well, someone could catch their attention," The Doctor suggested.
"And who would that be?"
The Doctor looked towards Clara.
Clara looked up at him,
"What?" she asked, innocently.