Chapter Seventeen
"Clara? Who's Clara?" Ten asked River.
"Clara is an old friend of yours, well, new friend. You haven't met her yet. Neither has your eleventh regeneration over there," replied River pointing to Eleven.
"How does she meet her, exactly?" asked Amy.
"Oh! I completely forgot you were here, Amy. I can't tell you about Clara, spoilers," replied River.
"River Song. How lovely to see you," said Clara.
"Wait, I'm very confused!" complained Rory.
"How so?" asked River.
"Where's Logan? Who's Clara? What just happened?"
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Logan the dragon was Miss Clara all along, just in a different form. Now, how does that work, exactly?" Eleven answered for River.
"That's right, sweetie," replied River.
"Now Clara, or Logan if that's what you prefer, how exactly did the whole dragon thing work?" Eleven said to Clara.
"Clara will do," she replied.
"All right, Clara," Eleven said with a smile.
"I can't tell you how I did that in a logical way. Let's just go with magic for now, Doctor," Clara explained. They all scoffed. Even Ace rolled her eyes.
"Please, Clara, you drive me insane sometimes," complained Ace.
"Wait, she hasn't told you?" Rory asked Ace.
"Of course she hasn't, Mister Pond. Everyone has secrets. Your daughter would know," she replied.
"Spoilers!" River spat.
"He'll forget everything anyway, Melody," Ace explained.
"Doesn't matter," she replied bitterly.
"All right, I assume we have this issue cleared up, I don't even know what the issue was in the first place. You can't have all the answers, you know!" shouted Ten.
"All right," replied Eleven.
"I need pretty boy over here to take us to earth now," Clara said. They all looked to Ten who was looking at Captain Jack.
"She means you Mister Fantastic Hair," Jack said to Ten. He laughed. No one else was laughing. Ten whirled around to Clara.
"Pretty?" he asked. She nodded.
"Again?" scoffed River, "I swear, Doctor, you are the dumbest genius in the whole of time and space."
"Well," replied Ten touching his ear.
"Can we go now?!" shouted Clara.
"Of course," replied Eleven, "Doctors, fly the TARDIS, everyone else, in! Come along, Pond."
Ten helped Rose to her feet, Sherlock and John stepped in behind them, then Ace and Clara, Nine, who was steaming mad, walked alongside Donna while Eleven, Amy and Rory trailed behind them with River and Captain Jack in tow. They closed the doors and took off. They dropped took Sherlock and John back to 221B. They walked inside the flat and Eleven sat down with Sherlock and John.
"I'm going to place my hands on your heads and make you forget everything that happened after you stepped inside that TARDIS, understand?" explained Eleven.
"Please, Doctor, I don't want to forget," pleaded John gripping Sherlock's hand, "Is there something we can do?"
"No, John. You have to forget," said Eleven sadly.
"Why?" asked Sherlock.
"This event could alter your timeline and that is very, colossally bad," explained Eleven.
"We could leave a note, we could forget everything but one thing," suggested John.
"No. You can't. You could remember. I'm sorry, I understand. I really do. But I'm sorry, you have to forget," said Eleven. John's posture slackened and he looked down at his shoes. Eleven stepped over to him and placed his hands on John's forehead and his memory of the day's occurrences were wiped. Eleven made John sleep, and moved on to Sherlock. They'd wake in an hour or two.
Eleven stepped away from the two sleeping men, whose hands were still tightly held together with the love they would never know again.
Next Ten took Captain Jack to Cardiff.
"Thank you, Doctor. For everything. I'll see you soon," said Jack. Ten placed his hands on his head and his memory was cleaned. Jack lifted his head confused.
"Doctor?" he asked, "What are you doing here?"
"See you soon, Jack," The Doctor replied. He stepped into the TARDIS and left. Ten dropped Nine off at his TARDIS and wiped his memory and left in his own TARDIS.
"Where do you want to go, Clara?" Ten asked her.
"America. Specifically Charlotte, North Carolina," said Ace.
"Okay, may I ask why?" he asked.
"Yes," replied Ace.
"Why?"
"That's where I dreamed of going when I was a little girl. I'd love to finally go," she replied.
"Works for me. Allon'sy!" he exclaimed. The TARDIS took off and landed. Ace and Clara thanked The Doctors for everything and they left. The TARDIS flew to Leadworth and dropped off Amy, Rory, River, and Eleven. Before they left, memories needed to be modified.
"I want to forget," Rose demanded. Ten sucked in a pain-filled breath. He looked down at her solemnly.
"Even us. You want to forget that?" he asked sadly.
"Doctor, you don't understand what I saw. It was horrible. I would take a thousand more years with you and not knowing over knowing about how little time we actually have," she replied.
"All right," he sighed. He placed his hands on her head and deleted all those precious memories and she fell into his arms, asleep. He laid her down on the bench next to the console.
"Your turn, Doctor," Eleven reminded him gravely.
"Right," he said. Eleven placed his hands on Ten's head.
Before deleting it, Ten looked into Eleven's eyes and said, "I don't wanna go."
Eleven deleted all that information from Amy and Rory's heads and let them sleep in their TARDIS. River and Eleven sat in the control room.
"I'm sorry," said River.
"For what?" asked Eleven.
"You know what I mean, sweetie. All that you saw, what you did," she replied.
"The worst was Sherlock and John," he said choking up.
"The universe is better off, sweetie. Don't fret. You'll forget all about it."
"What?"
"I love you, sweetie." River placed her hands on Eleven's head and cleared his memory. She kissed his head and left him there. She flew Ten's TARDIS back to London and disappeared.
THIS IS NOT THE END. THERE IS ONE MORE CHAPTER!