(I did put this in the story description but this is just an added warning. This chapter is going talk somewhat about what happened in The Name of The Doctor so if you haven't seen it yet and don't want spoilers then you shouldn't read this chapter. Anyway… On with the story!)
"How could she be post library Clara?!" The Doctor asked angrily as he threw the TARIDS into flight.
"Okay you need to calm down." Clara said as she crossed her arms across her chest and sat down in the jump seat. "How is that what you're most focused on?"
"What do you mean how?" The Doctor asked angrily as he pulled several of the levers simultaneously.
"I mean you jumped into your own time stream to save me!" Clara replied. "That didn't bother you as much as the fact that your wife that you've known died was dead?" She asked with disbelief, feeling a bit ignored.
"No Clara, that's not the problem." The Doctor replied angrily.
Clara placed her hand gently on his shoulder. "Then what's the problem?" She asked him gently.
That was just enough for him to snap. He angrily grabbed onto Clara's wrist. "You will never… understand… what I went through at Trenzalore." He said angrily before letting go of her wrist and running out of the console room.
"Doctor!" Clara cried as she ran after him.
When she caught up with him he was sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall, his face buried in his hands.
"Hey." She said gently as she sat down next to him. "I'm sorry… I shouldn't have…"
The Doctor shook his head. "You didn't do anything wrong Clara." He said quietly.
They sat in silence for about fifteen minutes before The Doctor spoke again.
"She didn't know… Who Jessica is…" He said quietly.
Clara looked up at him, her eyes wide in shock. "How could she…"
"Not know who our daughter is!" The Doctor finished angrily. "She's dead… And she has no idea who Jessica even is! I asked her if Jessica was safe and she looked at me like I was crazy and told me she hadn't met any companions named Jessica." He angrily stood up and headed down the hallway.
"Doctor!" Clara called after him as she once again attempted to follow him. She had been running after him for nearly an hour before she found him in a storage room. "Doctor… You can't just run from this forever…" She said, clearly out of breath.
"Clara… If River didn't have Jessica before the Library… She has to somehow get downloaded from the data core." The Doctor mused as he shuffled through boxes.
After twenty minutes of aimless searching Clara finally called out. "What are we even looking for?" She asked, sounding frustrated.
"Something." The Doctor replied as he opened up yet another box and began going through its contents.
"Wow, that is so specific. It should take no time at all to find that." Clara replied sarcastically.
"I need something to download River's consciousness onto." The Doctor said after a few minutes.
"You want to download your wife?" Clara replied, unsure of how exactly one goes around downloading people.
"She's uploaded to CAL, the Library's data core. I saved her there after she sacrificed herself to save me." The Doctor explained quickly.
"And when exactly was this?" Clara asked, putting her hands on her hips.
The Doctor looked up at the ceiling as he thought. "Honestly it has been a long time… But it was the first time I met River." He said as if that were a perfectly normal thing to say.
Clara looked over at him, her face showing a mixture of emotions, the primary one being shock. "Doctor…"
"Just look for anything that we could download River onto." He cut her off.
They searched for hours before the Doctor sat down and buried his face in his hands.
"We just haven't figured it out yet." Clara said gently. "We will though. I promise."
The Doctor shook his head. "I just… How do I download her?"
"Why do you have to figure this out now?" Clara asked him cautiously.
"What do you mean?" He asked as he watched her as she sat down next to him.
Clara shrugged. "Well you usually let things happen in their own time Doctor… You've never been trying to actively to solve a problem like this…"
The Doctor looked down at his feet. "I lost all of them Clara. The day her parents died was the last time I had seen River before this week…"
"Wait her parents are dead too?" Clara asked suspiciously.
The Doctor nodded solemnly. "Technically I didn't watch them die… But they were sent back in time to a place too complicated for me to visit… At this point in your earth time they've died of old age."
"How is Jessica even…" Clara began to ask before the Doctor stood up with newfound vigor.
"That is what I'm talking about! She is a mystery, more of a mystery than you've been!" The Doctor exclaimed. "And she's my daughter."
"I'll try to take that as a compliment." Clara smirked.
They began to look around again, still not coming up with much.
"Doctor is this jam?" Clara asked as she held up a jar filled with a gel-like red substance.
He looked around the shelf he was behind to see what she was holding. "No that's unicorn blood." He replied without batting an eye.
Clara nearly dropped the container as she tried to put it back. "Why do you even have all of this stuff?"
"Because it might be important." The Doctor replied. "The TARDIS tends to get rid of things that I'm never going to use again, or occasionally things she dislikes, but anything she knows I need will still be around."
"What if you didn't keep what you need for this?" Clara asked, realizing that that had probably sounded worse than it was intended to.
"I keep everything." The Doctor replied. "Let's take a break for lunch."
The Doctor had landed the TARDIS in 51st Century London once again, this time in front of a pizzeria.
"Doctor stop trying to have run-ins with your wife." Clara teased him once she had figured out where they had landed.
The Doctor mimicked her as he nagged her before opening the door and getting them a table.
After they had ordered a pizza, half cheese for Clara and half with everything on it for The Doctor, they sat quietly.
"I swear if River and Jessica walk in here you'll never be able to convince me this is a coincidence." Clara teased him. When he didn't respond she nudged his leg with her foot. "Hey." She grabbed his attention. "Jessica exists, right?" She pointed out. "That means we're going to figure this out."
"Yes, but how?" The Doctor asked crankily. "I can't just wait for us to figure this out whenever it's convenient…"
Clara rolled her eyes. "Honestly you're a child yourself. Are you sure you're ready to be a father?"
"OF COURSE I'M NOT!" He replied angrily, and a lot louder than he had intended to. "Sorry." He apologized sheepishly.
Clara sighed. There was no way she could convince The Doctor to just wait and see how things played out so she figured she might as well find out what he knows. "Well you keep saying you need to download River Song. I'm assuming that means she was uploaded?"
"Of course I uploaded her with the sonic screwdriver I gave her…" The Doctor trailed off. "So theoretically I could re-download her conscience onto the sonic…" He began connecting the dots.
The waiter had just arrived at their table when The Doctor shot up and out of his chair, knocking the pizza onto the floor. He mumbled something that sounded like a 'I'm sorry' and he quickly placed enough money for the pizza as well as a large tip for the waiter he had just assaulted before running out of the restaurant.
"Doctor!" Clara called anxiously after him. "Sorry about that." Clara said before quickly running after him.
She finally caught up with The Doctor in the TARDIS, barely getting the door closed behind her as he threw the ship into flight. "What are you doing?!" She asked him, clearly exasperated as she held tightly onto the railing.
"I need River's DNA." Doctor replied simply. "I'm going to go get it from one of her past regenerations."
"Wouldn't that cause some sort of paradox?" Clara asked him, clearly confused by his plan.
"Not as much of a paradox as if I got it from River post-library." The Doctor said, just above a murmur. "However, there's always the possibility of her killing me… again…"
"I'm sorry what?" Clara asked as she listened to him talk to himself.
"Of course we could always have you get it from a regeneration… that's the least likely way for a paradox to happen. I'd have to drop you off across the city though, wouldn't want to risk Mels running into the TARDIS." He continued on, causing Clara to give up on getting his attention.
Clara sat down in the jump seat and pulled out her mobile to check for any messages.
"Clara!" The Doctor said in surprise as he turned around. "This is important!"
"You weren't answering my questions." Clara replied, not looking up from her phone.
"Clara!" He whined again.
Clara rolled her eyes before putting her phone back into the pocket of her skirt and standing up. "Alright what is it?"
"I need you to go get some DNA from a younger regeneration of River." The Doctor replied as he continued to fly the TARDIS to his desired destination.
"Why can't you do it?" Clara asked.
"Well… She's sort of going to be a psychopath that wants me dead… But its fine she's not dangerous." He tried to explain.
"I'm sorry… She wants you dead but she's not dangerous?" Clara asked, eyebrows raised. "I'm not following you…"
"Well she won't later… It's a long story I'd rather not explain right now, but she won't be dangerous to you." The Doctor promised. "All you need to know is not to mention me, and you're going to high school with Amy, Rory, and Mels."
"Mels?" Clara asked, trying not to focus too much on the prospect of being in high school again.
"River… But her name is Melody… Mels… She's Amy and Rory's best friend." He said as he handed her a picture of Mels.
"Wait, isn't she their daughter?" Clara asked as she examined a picture of Mels from the time she had been aboard the TARDIS, just before her last regeneration.
"Yes." The Doctor replied, not thinking anything of it. "Go to the med bay and get some cotton swabs, gloves, and plastic bags." He instructed.
"Why?" Clara asked, clearly confused.
"To collect Mels DNA." The Doctor replied, as if it were obvious.
Clara rolled her eyes. "How am I supposed to do that?" She asked.
"With cotton swabs, gloves, and plastic bags… maybe a few vials wouldn't be such a bad idea…" He mumbled as he pulled a few levers on the TARDIS. "Alright we should get there in about ten minutes…"
"I'm still not sure what you want me to do…" Clara said with her hands on her hips.
The Doctor bit his lip awkwardly. "Basically… I need you to stalk my wife, before she was my wife, and get a substantial amount of DNA so that I can have her body reproduced so I can download her consciousness back into it." Clara looked at him, her facial expressions mixing between confused and appalled. "Clara… I'm begging you…" He said, suddenly feeling rather desperate.
Clara could sense the desperation in his voice. "Doctor…" She said gently as she moved so she was in front of him. She lifted up his chin so he was looking her in the eyes. "I'll do it." She promised him. "No matter what it takes, I'm going to help you save River."
The Doctor nodded, before blinking several times to expel the tears from his eyes. "Thank you." He whispered as he felt Clara's arms reach around him to give him a hug. "Thank you so much."
Author's Note: Sorry it's been so long, I had a huge change in plans that ended up with me moving earlier than I was expecting to. So I'm now moved, and writing again for the summer! Please review!