Helloooo everyone! I am SO SORRY for not updating this week, so so so sorry. I had a bit of a struggle with this chapter. The Snowmen is (in my opinion) one of the most perfect episodes (hence it's one of my faves) making it a hell to rewrite and find a new plot. I really hope you'll like what I've made here because I really tried to make it good.

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Chapter 34

Footsteps were heard, climbing up the stairs. The door of the children's bedroom pushed open as a man's voice called:

"Clara?"

A tall man with a top hat and quite chinny appeared in the door frame. As he looked around the room, his eyes stopped on the shape of two children crying and holding each other tight in one corner. A girl and a boy, her younger brother.

The Doctor quickly walked up to them and knelt in front of them.

"Hey, hello, I'm the Doctor, I'm here to help, er…" he started, seeing the afraid look on their faces being replaced by hope. "Where's Clara? Your er… Governess - she's your governess, isn't she? What's your name?"

"I'm Francesca and this is Digby. You're the Doctor, you really are! Miss Montagu told us about you!"

"Miss Montagu… Yes, okay, where is she?"

"She took her away, she transformed into snow and flew away with her!" said Digby.

"What?"

"Our former governess, the one that died in the pond." explained the girl. "She came back, she was made of ice and took Miss Montagu with her!"

"Clara…" whispered the Doctor as he got up and walked out of the room, the children following him.

"You have to find her, Doctor! The ice lady will kill her!" pleaded Digby.

Alerted by the hullabaloo made by the three of them, Captain Latimer came out of his office, cross.

"Children, what is the meaning of this?" he started and as he looked up, his eyes meeting the Doctor, he exclaimed: "Who the devil are you? What are you doing in my house?"

"Ah! Er…" started the Doctor, nervous and trying to think of something to say. "It's alright I am your governess's gentleman friend and we were upstairs… er…. Kissing!" he said, his hands flapping nervously around.

"Where is she?" asked the father.

As Alice, the maid, had walked by to answer the door, they heard a loud scream of terror when she saw Vastra and Jenny on the door step. She ran back to Captain Latimer but Strax walked in just across her way, making her scream even more until she fainted, too scared.

Checking on her, the Doctor leant in and once he made sure she was okay, he straightened up and smiled.

"Any questions?"

"Where's Miss Montagu?" asked the father.

"Ah... Yes. Well, it appears that your former governess came back as an ice beast and kidnapped your actual governess. Which really starts to worry me as doubt very much they'll keep her alive very long…" he said, his voice fading, for an instant pain flowing back into his eyes, his hearts wrenching, almost cutting his breath.

"Doctor?"

Vastra's voice snapped him back to reality and he blinked a few times before smiling briefly and putting on his strategist look.

"Right. Whatever this is, it's all linked to the Intelligence, so to the Institute." he started. "The Intelligence wanted the ice lady to translate itself into something more human and more invincible than just smithereens. Now it has the ice lady and Clara as a living life form… A living body mutated as a powerful entity. Ice, that would never melt. Ice that would never break. Invincible…"

"What do we do?" asked Vastra, completely ignoring Captain Latimer that looked completely lost.

The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver from his pocket and flicked it opened.

"We get ourselves invited."

In the cold night of Christmas Eve, a swarm of snowflakes twirled in the air over Victorian London. It crossed the Thames and flew past an old building which walls were decorated with two statues of angels covering their eyes with their hands as if they were weeping.

It flew until entering by an opened window into Doctor Simeon's office.

Reforming itself, it took back the form of the ice governess still holding Clara tight. Though now, Clara was not fighting anymore: her body was lifeless, unconscious. A doll in the puppeteer's arms.

"Everything is going according to the plan. Tonight shall be the last night of humankind!" exclaimed the Intelligence.

Simeon walked up to the ice lady and took Clara to lay her down on a table, attaching her to it.

"I serve you in this, as in everything else." said Simeon. He turned towards the ice governess and held out a hand. The ice beast grew a long and extremely pointy bit of ice before giving it to Simeon.

As though this was some sort of sacrifice, he held up the ice spike with both of his hands, over Clara's body.

Suddenly, a whirring sound echoed, the papers on his desk started to fly around the room as they were lifted by a warm breeze. The sound becoming louder, Clara slowly moved her head before opening her eyes, blinking to try and clear her vision. Soon the tall and blue frame of the Tardis appeared behind Simeon's desk, the Doctor, Madam Vastra, Jenny and Strax stepping out of the box.

"Step away from that young boy, human scum! This office is now the property of the Sontaran Empire!" exclaimed Strax, aiming a massive Sontaran blaster at Doctor Simeon.

Simeon's lips curled with an atrocious smile and snowmen appeared, out of nowhere between him and the Doctor's gang.

"There's nothing you can do to stop it! Winter is coming!" he shouted as, once again, he rose the ice spike over a dizzy Clara.

A second later, he struck her.

Right in the middle of her chest. Right into her heart.

Her whole body arched under the pain, her eyes suddenly opening wide, and a silent scream escaping her lips.

If hers was silent, the Doctor's was not and it was as if a roar echoed against the wooden walls of the office. Or the thunder.

Clara turned her head towards him, her eyes meeting the Doctor's and suddenly all the snowmen in the room melted.

It was happening again, it was happening all over again. Why? Why?!

As Strax shot the ice lady, reducing her to broken bits of ice and Vastra and Jenny neutralized Simeon with their katanas, the Doctor rushed to Clara's side.

She was still alive, still breathing, but how long did she have?

"Hey…" he said, taking one of her hands in his, the other stroking her forehead. "Hey, it's alright, it's ok, you'll make it don't worry."

"Please… Save the world, Doctor…" she said, struggling to breath, her voice cracked with pain.

"If I do…" he started, fighting the tears coming up to his eyes. Not again. He had only just met her, but he could not bear it. "Will you come away with me?"

In answer, Clara slightly smiled and nodded, before closing her eyes, resting.

Straightening up, the Doctor untied her and took her in his arms, carrying her inside the Tardis. He then fetched all the ice bits on the ground and ordered Vastra, Jenny and Strax to come back inside the time machine before taking off, leaving Simeon with no more ice governess, no more living body and just his failed plan to think of.

Cursing out of rage, Simeon stormed out of his office.

This was not the end.

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