Clara had told Danny that she would stay with him, even if she wasn't so sure about it herself. Could she really go back to a normal life after meeting the Doctor and travelling with him for so long? She would worry that later... she had at least a day or two to come up with a final decision. The Doctor or Danny?

Some of the teachers, including herself, were waiting for the parents to arrive. The horrid, dreaded parents evening. Clara instantly recognised the first two people to walk in.

"Who are they?" Adrian asked.

"Courtney Woods' mum and dad." I replied.

"Can someone else do the first?" Adrian hoped.

"No problem. I can cope with anything tonight." Danny assured.

Whilst Danny was talking to Courtney's parents he noticed the Doctor looking through the door, motioning for Clara to come and help him. Danny really hated him right now, but he was the only one who could stop the Skovox Blitzer. Danny let out a loud 'Ahem', getting the attention of Clara. He motioned his head towards the door and Clara looked at the Doctor with a slight glare. The Doctor then quickly walked away from the door heading outside.

"Excuse me, I think the caretaker wants me." Danny said.

"I think the caretaker wants me too. Sorry." Clara said to Mrs Christopholou as she stood up and headed towards the door, followed by Danny. Before the two made it outside Danny said,

"Clara. You need to choose sooner or later."

"And I told you, that I would stay with you!" she replied, still not convinced with herself.

"But you aren't one hundred percent on the answer. A part of you still wants to travel with the Doctor." he explained. A part of her wanted to be with Danny. A part of her wanted to travel with the Doctor... but there was also a part of her which wanted to be 'with' the Doctor. Especially after that kiss which constantly replayed itself in her head.

"I'm 99.99 percent sure that I want to be with you." she replied. Mainly lying to herself.

"There's still a 0.01 percent remaining..."

"Which is VERY small." she assured. It was more like 30 percent wanting to be with Danny and 70 percent wanting to be with the Doctor... Clara quickly changed that percentage to 10 percent wanting to be with Danny and 90 percent wanting to be with the Doctor. But she was angry at the Doctor for kissing her whilst she was with Danny.

They soon made their way outside, "What's happening?" Clara asked the Doctor. The important thing was keeping the school safe, she could forget about everything that has happened in order to save everyone.

"The vortex is opening." the Doctor replied.

"You said Thursday night!" Danny exclaimed.

"PE. Shut up. Clara, it'll scan the area. If it gets to parents evening, it'll kill them all." the Doctor explained.

"We've got to evacuate!" Danny stated.

"Shut up, PE!"

Clara groaned, "Quickly. What do I do?"

"It'll be here any second. Get to the hall." the Doctor said as he handed her his sonic screwdriver, "Give it some squirts of helicon energy, setting number forty one. No more than three seconds each, random pulses. Distract it, then you lead it away from the hall, give me two minutes."

"Then what?" she asked as she observed the screwdriver.

"Just run straight to the Tardis." the Doctor replied. He didn't mean it when he said 'Now leave before I let you deal with this Skovox Blitzer on your own'. He would never have let it hurt anyone. Especially Clara.

"You said that your gadget wouldn't be ready for another twenty four hours!" Danny said.

"Yes, well I've revised that down to two minutes! Clara, go."

Clara quickly left, not wanting to hear what Danny and the Doctor were going to say to each other, "On my way." she said as she went back into the school.

Danny glared at the Doctor, "You know she chose me right? Not you."

"Do we really need to do this now? If you haven't noticed, there is a deadly machine which is about to destroy the human race!"

"Just wanted to let you know." Danny added.

The Doctor sighed, "I knew she would choose you, PE. You don't need to tell me!"

"How could you possibly know?"

"Trust me. I'm the Doctor, just accept it." he replied as he turned and headed back towards the caretaker's storeroom, "Leave us alone whilst we take care of this, PE!" he called.

He quickly got the device ready in order to stop the Skovox Blitzer. However, Clara had gotten here a little bit too early.

"Destroy! Destroy!" the Skovox Blitzer exclaimed.

"Doctor, now! It's got to be now!" Clara called.

"Twenty seconds!" the Doctor assured.

"Doctor!" Clara said as she quickly dodged the weapon's fire and headed over to the Doctor.

"Destroy. Destroy." Clara helped the Doctor put on his 'backpack'.

"Am I green?" he asked.

"You're green!" Clara announced as the Skovox Blitzer approached.

The Doctor spoke into a microphone in order to communicate, "Stop! Skovox Blitzer!" Clara only just realised how much she actually admired the Doctor's cleverness.

"Awaiting orders." the Skovox Blitzer awaited.

"Superior Skovox Artificer. Analyse stop analyse stop." the Doctor tried to stop the Skovox Blitzer from destroying humanity.

"Superior recognised. Orders orders."

"Why's it listening to you?" Clara finally asked.

"It thinks I'm its general." he told her, "Commence shutdown protocal. No conflict. Conclusion?" he waited for the answer.

"Problem solution..." the Skovox Blitzer started.

"Conclusion?" the Doctor asked once again.

"Final input code missing. Emergency terminate. Initiate self-destruct in nine eight." the eyes of this robot then turned from blue to red.

"The input code. I forgot the final input code!" the Doctor started to worry as he inputted some code into a keypad.

"Seven six five..." it continued to count down.

"Do it now!" Clara exclaimed as she backed away a bit.

"I need time. Distract it Clara!"

"Me?!" she asked in confusion.

"Three. Two. One."

"Oi, Skovox! Over here!" Danny exclaimed from behind the robot. Danny pressed the button on the side of the watch, causing him to become visible before quickly flipping over the Blitzer in order to distract it.

"Artificer! Artificer!" the Doctor found the final code, "Stop. Confirm stop override final input code."

"Code accepted. Abort self-destruct. Orders accepted... Stop stop stop." the Skovox Blitzer finally shut down as the Doctor let out a breath of relief.

Clara hugged Danny quickly, "Oh, my god you were amazing!"

"I was behind you every step of the way. Had to make sure you were safe." Danny replied. Danny then glared at the Doctor. The Doctor returned the glare.

"Hey! Mr Smith!" a voice echoed. Courtney Woods was here?

"Yes, disruptive influence?" the Doctor joked.

"Can I go into space now?" she asked.

"You can't take her into space!" Danny exclaimed.

"My Tardis. My rules." the Doctor replied.

"Doctor I don't think you should." Clara also said.

"MY Tardis. MY rules." he said once again as Courtney made her way into the TARDIS. The Doctor started to push the Skovox Blitzer into the TARDIS, "Going to dispose of this creature into space."

Clara then remembered what the Doctor had said, 'Once I have dealt with the Skovox Blitzer, I'm leaving. With or without you'. There was a lump in her throat as she saw the Doctor finally get the Skovox Blitzer through the TARDIS doors. The Doctor then looked at Clara as if he was waiting to see if she would join him or not. He waited for ten seconds before closing the TARDIS doors.

Clara wanted to call out 'Don't go'. But she was too late. The TARDIS started to dematerialise.

[In the TARDIS in space]

"Farewell, Skovox Blitzer!" the Doctor called out into space, "Have a nice war." he then looked at the girl next to him, "So, Courtney Woods, impressed yet?"

"Actually, I'm feeling a bit ill." she admitted.

"Ah, it can be a bit overwhelming. But look." he pointed into space, "The Olveron Cluster. A million stars, a hundred million inhabited planets." Courtney started to gag as she ran inside. Sounds of an unfortunate occurrence filled the console room.

"Ah, yes..." the Doctor whispered, "There has been a spillage." he closed the doors and went to tend to the problem with Courtney.

[Danny's flat]

Clara and Danny were sitting on the sofa watching TV. Clara couldn't keep her mind off of the Doctor.

"Clara..." Danny started. Clara looked at him in confusion, "You miss the Doctor and he's only been gone for an hour."

"I don't miss him." she replied. Lies of course.

"And you lying to me again, Clara."

"Why does that even matter? I'm with you aren't I?"

"But you want to be with the Doctor more. I can tell just by looking at you, Clara."

Clara finally let out a loud sigh before standing up, "Just give me a minute." she told him as she went into the kitchen. She pulled out her mobile phone and speed-dialled the Doctor.

[In the TARDIS]

The Doctor had just dropped Courtney off. He had promised her another journey if she wanted one though. He then sent the TARDIS back into space. The sound of a phone ringing filled his ears.

There's only one person who it could be. He let out a sigh as he headed towards the TARDIS doors, he reached out and opened the phone door. He pulled the phone inside and put it to his ear, "How may I help you, Clara?" he asked, trying to sound as cheerful as possible.

"Where are you?!" she asked with worry and anger mixed together.

"Oh just floating through space. Trying to come up with something to do. Just looking into space is quite boring, isn't it? I might have to go and find some books that the Tardis has hidden from me! She can be a right cow sometimes." the TARDIS made an annoyed sound, "No offence, darling!" he called to Sexy.

"Doctor, shut up. Why did you leave without saying goodbye?"

"Well it was clear that you had made your choice." he replied.

"What do you mean clear? I haven't made my choice!"

"Danny told me that you chose him." he started, "I knew you would. You want a normal life and I COMPLETELY understand."

"I told Danny that I would like to stay with him. I never made an official choice." she whisper-yelled, making sure Danny didn't hear this conversation.

"I told you that your deadline was straight after I killed the Skovox Blitzer. I waited for you to come into the TARDIS with me, and Courtney, but you stayed with Danny. And I respect that." he said as he leaned on the console. The TARDIS silently judged him. The Doctor knew that the TARDIS was judging him causing him to glare at the console.

"I didn't realise that you were going to leave then and there..." Clara replied.

"Look. We'll have one more trip. And THEN you can decide who you choose. Okay?"

Clara looked down before whispering, "Okay."