He was going to take me to Vegas. I was surprised he still let me choose where I wanted to go. I always wanted to go to Vegas. A decent trip to Vegas and then back home perhaps. But I didn't want to go home.

But when we stepped put, that's not what I got. Suddenly I was soaked through from head to toe. My dress clung tight to my body. I wasn't really one for wearing dressed but the Doctor suggested it. And why not, it was Vegas.

This wasn't what I had imagined. If I thought that was bad, things started talking turns for the worse.

The sailors restrained us. The Doctor told them the truth on why we were really there. I sensed he usually lied.

One of the soldiers fished item after item out of the Doctor's pockets. Blimey, were they bigger on the inside? I wonder what else he has that's bigger on the inside. No, Clara stop. He's 1,000 year old alien. I don't know how that even works. Is that a Barbie doll? Did he seriously have that in there? And here I thought he could not be any weirder.

Water poured down from above. Then I was knocked down by what felt like a tidal wave. I couldn't get back up.

I felt like I was floating.

"Clara." I heard someone call. But I couldn't detect a hint of who it belonged to. All the colors around me seemed to drain.

Something tugged at me as darkness closed in.

I woke to the Doctor's voice.

This always happens. I get it right one time, then it goes all wonky.

The soldiers searched them.A soldier emptied his pockets. One of the items was a Barbie doll.

It was a gift from Rose Tyler, for helping her with her homework. He had visited her as a young child, before he had retired.

It reminded him of Rose. For some reason I had thought about her a lot lately. Perhaps when I told Clara she reminded me of someone I used to know, that probably sparked something.

Which reminded him , he had once left an everlasting rose on her bedside in her room on the TARDIS. He had placed it there after I left her with the Meta-Crisis in Pete's World.

He had no intention of moving it.

However he was ecstatic when he got the doll back. And it was back to serious buisness from there.

Oh, he was getting incrediably old and thick. He didn't notice the Ice Warrior standing behind him. The humans had found it in the ice. The Professor who had found it thought he had found a Mammoth.

"It's not a Mammoth." The Doctor wasn't frightened, it was more of a, we're in big trouble tone.

Suddenly the Ice Warrior was illuminated with electricity. Humans could be idiots sometimes.

They had to lock Skaldak up.

The Doctor tried to convince the Captain to inigotiate with the Ice Warrior but he thought that the Doctor, having encountered was too valuable to loose. He offered but the Doctor refused. Scaldak would smell that he was a soldier a mile off.

"And you Doctor?"

He didn't want to admit, even think the he was a soldier. Clara volunteered to talk to Scaldak.

She didn't even have to protest to get him to change her mind. One look with those Puppy dog eyes was all it took. He and was suprised that she was a quick learner.

She relayed the Doctor's words to Skaldak.

I was greatful in his confidence in my, even though if it weren't genuine. I never got a thanks, hey pal, great going, Mucho Gracious. Moi Bein...ok, I'm going to shut up now.

As I entered the room, my core body temp seemed to drop. I got a cold chill down my spine. I was frightened, despite the Ice Warrior being in chains. As I repeated the Doctor's words and Skaldak anwsered back, I had a horrible feeling. Cautiously I appreached Skaldek, lifted the hood of his shell. It was empty.

Now I was really truley frightened. I was close to the door but I couldn't move. Something froze me there. Then, faintly I could feel hands around me as I was pulled through the port hole. They weren't cold scaly hands of death, they were warm hands. The same ones that had pulled her out of the water.

My mother's words played in my head. I will always find hoped her mother was looking down on her, were ever she was.

The professor told me to sing when I was frightened.

I always went to Kareoke at Hen Night at the Pub. I always sang Hungry like the Wolf. This time I didn't feel like singing it.

On his rampage spirred by revenge Scaldak killed three crew members. Clara started at their mangled and torn bodies. I couldn't think straight. I had all gotten really real so fast. All of it seemed familiar. My head was spinning.

I was soon able to

Under Martain Code, he threatened to have Earth destroyed. The Doctor and I attempted to persuade Skaldak to show mercy.

I was able to convince Skaldack. Nigotiaton was the Doctor's way of doing things. And it was a great tacktic. There was no more need for any more violence. I had enough here. There was hope for Skaldak. He had hesitate when he had tried to kill me. He still had some compassion.

Skaldak was beamed aboard the Ice Warriors spaceship, though the missile launch system was still active.

I started singing, "Hungry like the Wolf."

We waited patiently. I heard the Doctor, muttering to himself about sacrificing ourselves if he had to.

I hoped and prayed to whatever higher powers that might be that he didn't have to.

I strugled with myself. I've been in this situation many times, but it struck me that I would actually do it.

To save the Earth.

The Submarine missles suddenly retracted.

I wanted to jump for joy. Showing mercy, Skaldak deactivefdthe missiles remotely. "This is what we do." I told the Doctor. We save the world

I hugged him. As long as I had him everything would be alright. But then I noticed they way he held his body awkwardly in my embrace. I quickly pulled back, butting my shielding back up that I hardly ever let down, yet it only seemed to happen when I was around him.

The submarine slowly began to resurface.

I asked the Doctor about what happened to the TARDIS.

"It had "relocated" automatically as part of the H.A.D.S. short for "Hostile Action Displacement System"

That's not really conviniant. What if we really need the TARDIS to escape?

He picked up the signal of the TARDIS's location on his spanner, he calls it sonic screwdriver, I still call it spanner.

The TARDIS had landed at the Pole.

I suppose that's good news. The North Pole was only about five minuets reach. Then he said,

"The South Pole."

"Ah." My face fell. Well I better get used to it. I have a feeling it's always going to be like this.