"Clara!" The Doctor laughed happily as he skipped around the console of the TARDIS, the ship's engine humming happily beneath his feet. The Impossible Girl smiled, the door of the TARDIS shutting behind her as she jumped into the man's arms, he swung her around before setting her down. "Where to now?"
"Five years we've been traveling and you still ask me the same question." Clara said with a sigh, her amber eyes gaining an excited look as she said "Somewhere new! Somewhere, anywhere! Let the TARDIS decide."
The Doctor gave a hop, hand reaching out to pat the glass spire. "Did you hear that Sexy? You get to decide. So off you pop!"
The engines kicked up, the familiar groaning sound piercing the air behind them as the lights danced around the interior. He laughed, heat rising from the Time Rotor and The Eye of Harmony. The ship began to shake violently, causing Clara to slip off of her feet and hit the floor, the Doctor looked at the scanner but then it seemed as if among the chaos he stopped moving, green eyes wide as he took two sides of the scanner within his hand just in time to see what was dragging them away from their desired course.
"What's wrong?!" Clara yelled over the sound of the screeching engine as it tried to fight away the pull. "What's going on?!"
The Time Lord was thrown away from the console by a violent jerk, his feet slipped and suddenly he slammed into the railing, the metal breaking and causing him to fall to the floor below the real console, a snap echoing after him. Clara stood, eyes widening as she grabbed the broken fraction of the railing, the metal slicing the flesh of her pale hands, blood now running freely down her hands and onto the floor below.
Clara stood tall, eyes wide in horror as she saw the limp from the Doctor lying on the floor. A quick image ran through her head as she saw a man in a long coat with an even longer scarf hit the ground, hard. She blinked, the image clearing from her head just as the Doctor coughed, his breath coming in a raspy tone. "Doctor are you alright?!"
He gave a weak nod, allowing his head to collapse back onto the metal floor. Clara turned around, the TARDIS had stopped going but suddenly the lights overhead began to burst apart, glass raining down on the both of them. Clara screamed, the shards tearing into her arms and head. The Doctor tried to move but the bruised ribs he had received from that fall restricted his movement. Clara ran, arms and hands covering her bleeding face as she ran down the steps and below the console floor. She grabbed the Doctor's ankles, much to his protest that he was fine, and dragged him under away from the falling shards that seemed to keep raining down on them.
The Doctor managed to sit up, Clara sliding down next to him to help keep them both up. They were both bleeding, Clara had random cuts across her faces and arms but was overall fine while the Doctor had a few minor injuries along with a few tears in his clothing from the glass, there was a single bleeding injury across his right eyes but luckily it wasn't deep enough to cause any further injury.
"What's going on?" Clara breathed, she was shaking as the sounds of the breaking glass. "Why is the TARDIS doing this?"
The Time Lord shook his head before saying "Unbalanced Time Energy, it always happens when I regenerate but never to this extent. Even the scanner was acting wildly, I couldn't even see where we were headed."
"That's not good." She breathed, eyes wide as the glass finally stopped raining down on them as the TARDIS began to grow darker and more threatening, not to mention downright scary. "Should we go check outside?"
The Doctor nodded, a sudden pained expression tearing across his usually happy face. It was a few moments before he said "Yeah, just give me a minute, landed on my ribs."
"Are you even okay?" Clara asked timidly, eyes wide as she saw the Doctor place his shaking hand on his ribs. "You broke through metal and fell, that can't feel too well."
He shook his head. "No it doesn't but it'll be fine. It may be bruised but nothing too bad. Come on, we should try to find help. The TARDIS won't be going anywhere for a while as far as I can tell."
He forced himself to his feet, he swayed but eventually made his way to the stairwell. He quickly ran up the steps and to the door, Clara at his heels. He pushed open the doors and walked out but what happened when he did left Clara dumbfounded. Golden regeneration energy swirled around him as his wounds closed themselves, it fanned out before fading away.
The Doctor looked down at his hands, a smile growing on his face. "This is new."
Clara stepped out after him, the same thing happening to her, but no one told her about the pain that tore through her entire being as regeneration healed her. Was this how the Doctor felt when he regenerated? She blinked, all of it gone in an instant while the Doctor stared around at their dark and maze-like surroundings. She stepped up beside him, the doors of the TARDIS slamming shut behind her.
"Where are we?" Clara asked, glancing back at the TARDIS one last time.
He shook his head, glancing down at her before saying "No clue but the Time Energy is strong here...too strong for comfort in the least. Something is here that shouldn't be, as far as I know."
"That doesn't help us at all." She said curtly, stepping forward and touching her hand to the wall that separated them from what was ever on the other side. The material was cold, almost like a wall of completely black ice.
The Doctor stepped up beside her, running his fingers across the material but then a crashing and tearing sound pierced the air behind them. They whipped around just in time to see the TARDIS disappear behind another wall. The Doctor blinked, it took a moment to register what had just happened but when he did, the Time Lord ran to the wall and pounded his fists against it helplessly, trying to get back to his ship. "No. No!"
Clara shook her head and said with a sad sigh "Let it go, we need to find our way back to the ship. Come on, there's bound to be someone else here."
He nodded, shaking away his sad frown as he jumped up next to her as she started off. He followed, turn after turn after turn but to no avail every hall they came to looked the same. Clara was growing impatience as her panic began to set in, a thousand questions tearing through her mind. Where were they? Were they going in a circle? What if they never find the TARDIS? She shook them away but after taking a few long strides she realized, the Doctor wasn't behind her.
She whipped around just in time to see the Doctor disappear as a wall moved upwards, blocking the pair from each other. Clara ran towards it with a scream of one word. "No!"
The Impossible Girl bashed her fists against the wall in a frantic attempt to get the Doctor but to no avail. After a long time she stopped and laid her head against the cold material, tears streaking her face. But on the other side the Doctor never answered he only stared wide-eyed at a girl before him.
The girl laughed, she was dressed in a nightgown and brightly colored boots and a coat to match, her ginger hair hanging by her shoulder and in her face like a lake of liquid fire. He smiled, tears springing to his eyes. Amelia, his Amelia before he got everything wrong.
She laughed "Come on Raggedy Man! I have a surprise for you!"
Young Amelia ran and so did he.