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The Doctor's limbs flailed around angrily as he stared up at the gentleman before him. Clara's husband was old, not nearly as old as the Doctor, but old enough for anyone to notice the age difference between himself and Clara. The Doctor did not understand many things about the situation placed in front of him; the questions he could ask were infinite. How did Clara end up with someone like him? How did he end up with someone as wonderful as Clara? How did he manage to get a temporary poison? As the Doctor struggled to put the right words together, he suppressed the overwhelming need to punch Clara's husband in the jaw.
"Are you angry, Doctor? Angry I found your little… blue box?" he paused slyly. With a manipulative look, he stared into the Doctor's eyes. "Are you angry that I stopped you from violating my wife? Or are you simply angry that I found a way into your 'snog box'" he mocked, glancing at Clara.
"How did you get in here?" the Doctor questioned, "The TARDIS never lets anyone in without my authority"!
"Funny" Clara's husband paused, "What jealousy can do; I feel it, you feel it, even your machine feels it".
"She's the TARDIS, not just a machine- and she doesn't let someone in simply because she's jealous."
The Doctor looks around, knowing he may have encountered a mistake. This man was insulting the TARDIS, which never lead to anything good. However, she was not doing anything to kick him out, and she let him in originally. Could she have been jealous? She had never done anything like this before, especially something that would have put him in danger. Unless someone the Doctor had invented into the TARDIS wanted him inside, he was sure he could not have gotten in.
"Clara" the Doctor whispered, his eyes venturing to the women beside him on the bed, half naked.
"Doctor…" Clara responded, almost trembling.
"Now, this is wonderful" Clara's husband smirked, "but I have a wife to take back".
Grabbing Clara by the wrist, he forced her out of the bed and through the doors of the bedroom. Still almost completely naked, she writhed constantly trying to escape from his grip. His strong nature was apparent as he continued to grasp harder, refusing to let her go. The Doctor ran from the room, trying to follow them as fast as he could, but it seemed as if the man had disappeared with Clara completely.
Running towards the control center, the Doctor searched around every corner to make sure Clara's husband had not taken any unsuspecting turns. Not finding anything out of the ordinary, he jumped onto the control center of the TARDIS, and started begging.
"TARDIS, you sexy thing you, I know you're upset" the Doctor stuttered, "but Clara is here, and in trouble. We have to save her" he pleaded.
With tears in his eyes, he slowly walked away from the console. He became frustrated and hopeless while looking around for any sign of Clara and her miserable husband. Trying to make sure they had not gone back into their home, the Doctor reached for the TARDIS door, ready to pass through and search for Clara on the outside. However, when the Doctor tried to open the door, he found that it was already locked shut.
"I know you're jealous, but I need-" he paused, knowing that the TARDIS would never purposely lock him inside. A message reading, "Lockdown initiated" was flashing on the control panel. Clara and her husband were still somewhere inside the infinite ship, and it was up to him to find them.
Running through the hallways of the TARDIS, the Doctor peeped into every room he passed, hoping to catch a glance of his impossible girl or simply hear her voice echo through the walls. Running past various rooms, he screamed Clara's name. Desperation and bleakness were apparent in his beckoning as he passed the library. He thought about how much Clara would have loved that room. Layers upon layers of books were stacked tall on the various floors that made up the library. It was truly breath taking, and he was sure Clara would feel the same, even though he knew she would clearly see the Doctor really just wanted to show off.
The Doctor smirked thinking about Clara's sassiness as he continued to venture further and further into the TARDIS. He ran around every corner he could find, pressed every button until it seemed like he would never stop looking for his impossible girl. As soon as he reached the door to his enormous swimming pool however, he knew that something was wrong. He glimpsed inside of the entrance to the swimming pool, and immediately found what he was looking for. Clara was struggling to stay above water as her husband, clearly manipulating her inability to swim, watched her drown.
"You monster!" the Doctor cried.
"Me? Your TARDIS was the one who let me in!" refuted Clara's husband, now clearly wanting to infuriate the Doctor.
Clearly rolling his eyes, the Doctor sighed at the TARDIS and then his mind raced back to Clara. Rushing to the pool, the Doctor dove in; clothes attached, and pulled Clara to the side. Clearly out of breath, Clara sank at the edge of the pool.
"You really should not have done that" Clara's husband chuckled, as he pulled a gun out of his coat pocket.
"What are you going to do with that? Shoot us? The TARDIS would never let you!"
"Oh really?" he questioned, somewhat powerfully. "Your little blue friend already let me inside".
"The TARDIS would never have let you in! She practically helped save Clara!" he screamed, hoping to scare his opponent into dropping the gun.
Clara's husband cackled, "She let me in for some reason. One moment I was outside of your door, begging to come into your tiny blue 'snog box', and the next I was on the inside, searching for you two" he replied, only raising the gun higher.
"You're lying!" The Doctor responded; holding Clara's head in his lap, trying to make her comfortable as she strolled back into consciousness.
"I'm not-" he paused, "In fact, it seemed like 'the TARDIS', or whatever you call it, wanted me to come inside. It wanted me to find you while you were in the middle of making love to my wife. It wanted me to stop you- and hurt the both of you. It was on my side" he smirked, obviously trying to make the Doctor uncomfortable.
The Doctor was becoming disgusted. The TARDIS would never want any harm to come to the Doctor or his friends. She was more than just a machine, she truly wanted his safety. There was no way that this man could have gotten in without her help, though. The Doctor knew this, and had no idea what it meant. Thinking about possible ways to stop this man from trying to kill both Clara and himself, he looked at the TARDIS. If she was truly on Clara's husband's side, she would not have guided him to the swimming pool. Although assuming the TARDIS would transport this man somewhere far away was a long shot, it was the only option he had.
Breathing in deeply, the Doctor smiled. "That may be true, but if the TARDIS was really on your side, she would not do this…" the Doctor winked at the TARDIS, and the gentleman standing before them ostensibly vanished into thin air. Clara, now slowly recovering from almost drowning, shook her head.
"I don't understand, Doctor" she announced.
"What don't you understand, Clara?" the Doctor asked, almost appearing out of breath.
"Why did the TARDIS let him in if she knew he wanted to hurt you?"
"Someone wanted him inside the TARDIS. Someone I allowed in here" the Doctor frowned, "I just do not know who that person is".
AN: I understand this is extraordinarily late, and I am sincerely very sorry. A lot of serious issues have been coming up periodically in my life, and I have not had much time to work on this. I have gotten a few chapters ahead, so the longest you'll have to wait for new chapters after this will be a week. Again, so sorry for the absence.
