Hey everyone! If there is an 'everyone.' Sorry this has been so long in coming, I've had a lot of stuff going on and haven't been able to work on it as much as I would like. Anyway, here is the latest chapter for you, once again from Clara's POV, but the next one will be a switchover and someone else's POV. I already have an idea as to who it is, but if any of you has any suggestions or a POV you would like to see, feel free to review and let me know and I'll do my best to include it.

No warnings for this chapter other than angst because this chapter directly involves the end of 'Face the Raven.' If the chapter title wasn't already a give away. ;)

Hope you guys enjoy and please don't forget to review and let me know what you think! I have no clue how to make that button more attractive to you guys, but maybe...fish fingers and custard for everyone who reviews!

- Raven

She doesn't know what lead her to do it, only that she had done it and there was no going back. She knew the risks, how impossible it was, but she was the Impossible Girl, so if she couldn't do it, who could? Well, He could. The Doctor, of course. And he was trying, in how own way. But it wouldn't work. Not in time. She had no choice.

She ignores the voice that tells her that while she is the impossible girl it doesn't mean she's indestructible. She also ignores the one that says the she isn't the Doctor, and that quite possibly, she's in over her head. She forgives Rigsy for his lack of faith in her and plunges on with the plan, because isn't that what He does?

If she had learned anything in her travels it was how to be like Him. How to be confident even as the world is ending. How to smile to hide the lies. How to laugh to forget the pain. How to dance through the stars and sing with the universe. How to be invincible. How to be human.

She's human now, she thinks. As she stares at the young girl before her who doesn't even know her name. She's most definitely human and not Him, and why did she ever think she could be Him? But she smiles. And she laughs inside at the irony, and continues on. Because that's what she does. That's what He does.

But never like this!

She is scared. Scared as she watches the man she fought so hard to become suddenly turn into something else. Something cold and fierce and entirely ruthless. She watches him in his rage and pain and fear, and she realizes that she almost can imagine this man wiping out his entire race.

Stop it!

Never like this!

He turns to her, and she stares deep into those eyes, and she knows he's afraid too. Afraid to lose her. Afraid to lose himself. She makes him promise. She doesn't want to see him like this, if it is the last time she will. She doesn't want to look back on their time and watch it end with him as the villain. She doesn't want him to become the villain.

But they're both so afraid. Afraid to fail. But she doesn't blame him, even when he turns to the girl with no name and warns her to run. Running is something they both know too well. She forgives him for that, for the threats and for the running. She forgives him for being gruff and not understanding that maybe this was the point all along.

She was born to save the Doctor, after all. She's saved Rigsy, at least. Why not him too? Why not one last time?

Because if it means saving him from himself, then that's what she'll do. She'll ensure that even with her death, he will never lose himself like that.

He will run. Of course he will run. But he'll be clever. And he will remember her.

She walks through the door and sees the shadow, and she promises herself that she will be brave. She will be like him, in this. Even in this. It's impossible, to face death bravely, but she will. She has to. For his sake, and for hers.

The bird screams. Or is it her? She isn't sure, but she can see Him, and she smiles again. One last time as the raven approaches.

Run you clever boy. And remember.

Nevermore.