"Clara what do you mean you knew him? Was it?"
"When I was Queen. He was my prime minister. Doctor, what if he went through-" He was wasn't he, she wasn't just making this up or confusing him with another man. It had to be him, she... she seemed to need it to be
The Doctor did what he did best, he denied a fact which he knew could be true and he started to circle his controls. "No. It's not possible. You shouldn't even remember those lives."
Clara was looking at him in disbelief. Didn't he know by now, didn't the doctor always know? "I would always remember you… just like I remember him"
He stopped pacing, it dawned on him; wouldn't he know which monarch she was. "Which Queen?" The Doctor just couldn't place her.
"Victoria."
That, that was a bit of a surprise, "Thank you for banishing me." He was trying to get humor out of it and maybe to stop the conversation.
"Doctor," Clara pointed to the door almost like the person she just saw was right there, standing on the other side. "That was hers- my first prime minister. My mentor… My..." Through the door, she pointed through the door very unaware if the man was looking at the odd box.
He was circling around the controls, making it seem like he was busy. Trying to see if his life long companion still had power. "Clara, it's not possible. This is another universe, it has to be. He can't be the same man, he can resemble but he can not be. It's just not possible."
"We travel the universe, in time, in a police box! It's not the most ridiculous thing. And I do know it was him…" she looked to her shoes " He has the same eyes." she was certain, She was certain it was the same man. Even the man questioned her, he remembered. Why would that gun drop? Why would it drop only to raise when the Doctor came along? She could settle on at least he remembered something. That he had to be the same man.
"Tell me Clara, was Victoria's Lord Melbourne a killer? Cause that man certainly was! He can not be that man." The Doctor was also pleading, he knew neither of them would listen to himself. "Even I understand the impact Lord Melbourne had on Queen Victoria and Clara, that's not the same man." The doctor was fighting a losing battle.
Her shoulder dropped, "Doctor," she sighed. "I just need to know." She was done fighting the topic, whether it was the same man. She just needed some type of closure.
It was Clara, he couldn't take it any further. "We need to see if we can get out of here first. If we can't, then we need to find away and that could take…oh..." All he did was grin while a lever was being pulled down. "I don't know, a long while."
It was the only way she would be able to see him again. She nodded "deal" And she knew the Doctor and the Doctor was always too curious.