A/N: Hey guys, Ezio here. Thank you for all your reviews. Here's the second chapter of Who's Life. There's a note at the bottom of the chapter explaining the background of the story. I would have uploaded this sooner but I wasn't very confident with it.
Matt and David's House, December 18th 2013
Matt woke up earlier than he usually would have due to the over excited voice of his older brother. David began slapping Matt multiple times to get him to wake up which worked eventually.
"What?" Matt asked groggily.
"Guess what I found parked in our driveway?" David asked eagerly. When Matt gave no answer, David happily informed him anyway. "An early Christmas Present from Uncle Jon!"
Matt's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this and sat up in his bed abruptly, ignoring the head rush.
"You don't mean?"
"Oh yes."
"The actual?"
"Oh yes."
"He gave us his TARDIS?" Matt asked excitedly.
David quickly shook his head and Matt's face dropped.
"He gave us Bessie." David said plainly.
Matt groaned and lay back down in his bed. David quickly slapped him over the head once more.
"Of course he gave us his TARDIS!" he exclaimed happily.
He and Matt then proceeded to jump on Matt's bed, dancing and singing with joy. The noise woke their mother Ann who reprimanded them for acting like children. Matt quickly got ready for school and met his brother outside. And there, waiting for them was the vehicle in question. The TARDIS. The Third Doctor's TARDIS to be specific. A blue spacious RV with the words Police Public Call written above the windshield. It also had a fully operational telephone beside the petrol slot. The Hartnells currently owned five of these machines, each with a unique interior design. The variant given to David had a mostly white interior which he planned to change.
"I'm thinking of having the inside changed to coral," David said to Matt.
"Coral isn't cool," Matt answered.
David ignored him and went inside the vehicle. There was a 'common area' that could easily house at least six people with space for other things.
"Matt, go and ask Pond and Rory if they want a ride!" David called.
Matt entered the TARDIS with Amy and Rory.
"Already done," Matt said as he sat down on the leather couch. Rory and Amy looked around the TARDIS, both impressed.
David sat down in the driver's seat, very thankful that he got his license a month ago.
"Is everyone ready?" He called back to the common room. The passengers yelled affirmatively and David started the engines. "Alright then. Allons-y!" he cried as they drove off.
On the way to school, Amy saw a familiar face walking alone.
"Hey Ten it's Clara. Give her a lift," Amy called over to David. David obliged and Matt pulled a face.
"Who? The Impossible Girl?" Matt asked.
"Yes the girl who wears the tight skirts you adore," Amy teased as Matt blushed.
"You what?" David asked in amusement.
"Never mind that, if you want to give her lift then by all means give her one," Matt said before releasing an over exaggerated sigh.
David opened the driver's window of the TARDIS and called out to Clara.
"Clara Oswald!" David greeted.
"Doctor?"
"You seem like you could use a lift, hop in the TARDIS," David offered.
Clara thanked him and stepped inside. She then met up with Amy, Rory and Matt in the common room.
"Clara! It's been so long," Amy said as she hugged her friend. Rory did the same after Amy was done. Clara giggled to herself when Matt didn't get up.
"What?" Matt asked, a little irritated.
"Well aren't you going show how you missed me too Chin-Boy?" she teased.
"O-of course not, because I didn't," Matt flushed before recognising her remark. "Chin-Boy?"
Everyone on the TARDIS began laughing while Matt crossed his arms and pouted.
"So where have you been this past month Clara?" David asked out of curiosity.
Even the dullest of men could see that Clara was made uncomfortable by that question as she tried to explain her absences.
"I've just been feeling a little ill, that's all. All better now as you can see," she said finally.
David decided to leave the questions there for the time being.
They arrived at school soon after and went to their form classes.
"Clara seems distant," Matt observed from within his form room. The girl wasn't acting her usual self and seemed more reserved while other girls at her table chatted away.
"You care?" Rory asked in mild amusement.
"Just observing," Matt stated coolly.
"Yeah well I know what you mean. She keeps on saying that there's nothing wrong. Does a rubbish job at hiding it," Rory said as their form teacher entered the room.
The day went by pretty fast, with Matt continuing to observe Clara's behaviour. Despite what he felt for people, he always felt a nagging feeling to help them with their problems. That feeling was more prominent with this girl. Matt gave up at the end of school.
"Matt it's time to go," David said.
"I'll meet you at the TARDIS, I just need to review something with my Physics teacher," Matt explained.
David nodded and gave his brother fifteen minutes. Matt jogged to the Science Block and took a shortcut through the English corridor. He then heard the faint crying of a girl around the corner. He walked around to see the Impossible Girl herself, sitting down on the steps leading to the door, cheeks stained with tears and eyes red. Clara noticed Matt and quickly wiped her face.
"What's up Chin?" she attempted to say steadily but failed in doing so.
Matt thought back on her recent behaviour. She was absent for some time, on her return she acted distant and very much unlike herself and she retreated to private places to cry. He could have been wrong but her behaviour mirrored his own quite a lot when he was in a dark place. Matt sat next to Clara on the steps.
"If you don't mind my asking, has a relative or someone close to you died recently?" he asked, trying to sound as gentle as possible despite the bluntness of his question.
Clara flinched in surprise.
"How did you-."
"The signs were all there," Matt explained.
Clara sighed as tears began to fall from her eyes once again.
"My mum. She died in a car accident about a month ago. I couldn't bring myself to come into school and be pitied and I couldn't leave my dad alone," she explained. "I had gotten into a fight with her the day before and said horrible, horrible things. And now she's gone. I miss her so much," Clara said as Matt embraced her sadly.
He felt nothing but sorrow for the girl and could relate to her situation very much.
"My father died six years ago," Matt said as Clara continued to cry. She lifted her head up and looked at Matt. "In the war against the Daleks. They say he was caught in the explosion that took out half of Gallifrey and Skaro. No body. Nothing. And I hated him for leaving us. I also said horrible things before he left. And he died." Matt said solemnly.
"I'm sorry," Clara said softly.
"Nobody can know what happens next. Nobody can know if their time with someone will be their last. You may have said things that you regret but know with certainty that your mother knew that you didn't really feel that way. And know that she wouldn't want you to bottle all of your feelings up," Matt said.
Clara nodded and gave Matt a genuine smile that made him feel warm inside.
"Doctor?" she called as they both stood up. Matt turned to her to show her that she had his attention. "Please don't tell anyone yet. I'm not ready for sympathy just yet."
Matt sighed to himself.
"You're impossible," he said under his breath. "Very well. Come out with it when you're ready," Matt said with a smile.
"Thank you," she said before standing on her tiptoes and kissing him on the cheek.
She walked off leaving Matt with a goofy smile he didn't know he was wearing. Matt quickly realised that his fifteen minutes were up and that David probably drove off with the TARDIS.
"Damn," he swore as he went to catch up with Clara. "Clara! We might as well walk home together," he called.
And they did, becoming close friends in the process.
Despite Matt forgetting completely about his meeting with his Physics teacher.
A/N: Alright so Gallifrey and Skaro are both in England. The two cities most technologically advanced cities to be more precise. They are constantly at war with each other and no one from the outside intervenes. Skaro's Elite Troop are called the Daleks as you can guess and Gallifrey's the Time Lords. There was a war that broke out ten years before the start of the story and ended six years before when a rogue Time Lord soldier set off one of Gallifrey's most dangerous weapons The Moment (Wonder Who?). The blast wiped out half of Gallifrey and most of Skaro, forcing the two cities to form a truce to avoid more death. It is not known who set off The Moment and he is wanted by both cities. David, Matt and Christopher's father was supposedly killed in the blast leaving them with only their mother. The Hartnell family under the lead of William dedicates themselves to rebuilding Gallifrey and maintaining the truce with Skaro. This fic will mirror a lot of events in the show and I'm sad to say that some major characters may die. Some, not a lot. Anyway thanks for reading and please leave a review.