A/N: Chapter 2 yay! I realized if I want my version of the fiftieth to be out before the actual fiftieth I had better start writing. So I'll try to update at least once a day. This one only has a few chapters left and then the next in the sequel will be up!
Chapter Two: Waking Up
I wake up with your arms around me. I smile. I could spend the rest of my life like this. Then I remember we're in your bed. In your bed covered in nothing but your duvet. I cuddle closer to you and fall back asleep.
I guess it's a few hours before I wake again. I look up at you to see you're awake too and just… beaming.
"Hello." I say. You're messing with my hair again. It seems you love doing that now and that makes me giggle.
"Hello." You reply.
"Sleep well?" I ask.
"First time I've been able to sleep in weeks."
"Good."
"Did you sleep well?"
"Much better than I normally do."
"Good."
I giggle again. Same old Theta, always able to make me laugh.
"I hope I do have to go to the repair shop today." I say. I really don't want to move. I wasn't lying when I said I could lie like this forever.
"I hope you don't have to either." I lay my head on your chest and you continue. "Do you want to go somewhere?" I look up at you and smile. "Anywhere, anywhere at all, wherever you want to go. Distant planet, another time, distant planet and another time."
"Are you serious?"
"Of course I am! Why would I not be?" You smile. "So, what do you say?"
I wrap my arms around your neck. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" You wrap your arms tighter around me. I never thought I was going to leave this planet and now I can! And not just go traveling but traveling with my Theta! You pepper my face with kisses. "What was that for?"
"Nothing, I just haven't had anyone travel with me for awhile." Your smile is even wider now. "I never missed anyone else but you. It was always you whenever I was away. I don't know why but it was always you every single time. I've known you forever. I know every single aspect of your life, and you're still an enigma to me."
"Why would I be an enigma?"
"I don't know. Sometimes it feels like I know nothing about you, and sometimes it feels like I know too much."
"Sometimes I feel like I know things you've never told me. Other times I feel like I don't even know who I am, like I'm just another piece of a puzzle."
"Why would you feel like that? You know who you are," you caress my face, "my Clara. You are and always will be mine."
"Little bit possessive are we?" I joke.
"It's not a joke, Clara. I will never let anything harm you."
I didn't know you ever felt that way. "Why me though? There's an infinite number a people out there in the universe, so why me?"
You just look at me like the answer is the most obvious thing in the universe. "Well, why not? You're not just an enigma you're impossible. You're my Impossible Girl."
"I know why I'm an enigma but why am I impossible?"
"Because you're too good to be true, to good for me."
"Now that's where you're wrong."
"And why is that?"
"Because you're the one that's too good for me."
You just look at me. I know what you're probably thinking. Somewhere along the lines of "Now why would you think that?" or "You will always be the one that is too good for the other."
"Why?" you ask.
"You're clever and amazing and wonder and I'm just average at best." I look down. I'm nothing compared to you. "I work in the TARDIS repair shop, you go traveling around the universe helping people and saving them. What am I to you but someone you've known for a long time?"
"The woman I love."
I look up at you. What? Did I even just hear you right? I have to be hearing things. I mean, I know what we did last night but I thought that was just a fluke on your part. "You… you love me?"
"I've always loved you. From the moment you were born I knew you were going to mean something to me. After awhile I finally realized what that feeling was."
"Why did you never tell me?"
"Because," you sigh, "I was scared that you wouldn't love me. I mean I knew you loved me cause we're best friends but, you know what I mean. I was scared that you wouldn't love me like I loved you."
"And why did you think that?" I'm surprised. How long did it take you to realize that you loved me?
"Because I thought even then that you were too good for me."
"Well, what if I told you I love you too?"
"I'd be ecstatic."
I smile. "You might want to start being ecstatic now."
"Really?"
"Yep." I say, popping the p. "Actually, you should have started being ecstatic since oh I'd say the day I was born."
"How would you know what feelings were when you were born?"
I roll my eyes. "You never change do you?"
"Guess not."
I giggle. "Good. Never change, ok. If you ever change you won't be you anymore."
"What does it matter if I'm not me anymore?"
"Because you are special, the universe needs you to be who you are. I need you to be who you are." I look at you a serious look on my face. "Promise me you won't ever change. And promise me we'll be together forever."
"Cross my hearts." You kiss my forehead. "Now then," you grab my hand and pull me up and out of the bed, "how about an adventure?"
We put our clothes back on and race to the console room. Our adventure's starting and everything has just begun. We don't know what will happen or where we'll end up. As long as we're together, that's the only thing that matters.
If you asked me a few hundred years ago what I would want to do with my life I would tell you that I had no idea. No idea about what I was going to do or how I was even going to get my life started. Now I know. Theta is my life, so I want to spend the rest of my life with him.
We open the TARDIS doors to see the beautiful void of space. All the colors in the sky blending and sifting to create something so beautiful and magical, like a fairytale. My life is a fairytale where I'm the princess and my knight in shining armor saved me from my life of nothing, and then he became my life.
"Where are we?" I ask you.
"This," you take my hand in yours and gesture outside with the other, "this is the Eye of Orion."
"It's beautiful."
"Yea, it is." I look at you and see you're not looking at the stars, but at me. "I love you, Clara."
"I love you too, Theta, forever and always."
You pull me to you so I'm standing with your arms around me but I can still see the sky. We stay that way for awhile, just looking at the all the colors. Everything is as it should be. You and me, time and space, we'll never let anything happen to each other.
A/N: Macy Rose that Dark Shadows reference was for you! Anyone else catch it? If you did awesome. :P
