Clara groaned a little as her alarm went off. They had to be up at 6 to make sure they were ready to wake the teens up at 7 and despite the fact she got up at half 5 every morning every day for work she was absolutely not ready for the day ahead. They were going rafting this morning, something Clara was actually looking forward to, but the lack of sleep and slight headache from all the tension of the previous day. She picked up her phone off the side, unplugging it and dropping a text to Adrian.

You awake? X
Sadly yes, early start?
Need to shower and then wake the rabble up before breakfast. Early starts all week…
Well I got jumped on by an 8 year old at half 5, I understand your problem. How you feeling this morning?
Shattered, and dreading stepping out of this ? x
Definitely shattered, but I'll live. Just get up, be positive, go show him you can handle this like the calm and collected teacher you normally are. Have a wonderful day, don't get too damp. X

Clara rolled her eyes at his last comment and forced herself out of bed. She showered and quickly dried her hair off, throwing on her clothes and made it out of the room with a minute to spare. Danny was waiting, leaning against the room opposite.

"What's that look for?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Nothing," Danny responded after a rather too significant pause, "I was just debating with myself whether you'd make it out on time. Come on, we need to get over to the cabin," he told her, walking off. She threw her hair up as they walked over.

"Getting up and respectably dressed in next to no time is my speciality I'll have you know," she jogged down the stairs before they left their building.

"Really? I thought that was map reading?" Clara rolled her eyes but didn't respond, remembering Adrian's words.

"Ready for a morning trying not to be pulled in to the water by a group of teenagers?" She asked, heading across to the cabin.

"You sound like you've done this before," he pointed out.

"Year 7s go to PGL every year, was my turn last year and it was somewhat dramatic. I managed to stay dry, not everyone can say the same." They reached the cabin just as she finished. "Ready?" He nodded. Clara knocked on the door, waited a few seconds and then went in.

"Right you lot, time to get up," Danny announced as they walked in. Clara went in further to the girls section and gently hit both the bunk beds to wake them up. They both looked around as all 8 teenagers eventually sat up, rubbing eyes.

"Is it really time already?" Toby moaned to which Danny and Clara shared a little grin.

"Certainly is. You've all got an hour to get up and dressed. We'll see you in the dining room – if you're not there, you'll miss breakfast. See you later," Clara just about managed to dodgy a pillow thrown at her by Courtney. "Nice try, up you get," she chucked it back at her bed and left.

"Surprised you didn't give her what for," Danny commented as she shut the door behind them.

"That's not the best way to deal with Courtney, she just rebels," Clara informed him.

"Maybe I should try that," he grinned. She rolled her eyes, walking off to the staff meeting.

Clara purposefully sat away from him in the meeting and started chatting to some of the other leaders instead before it began. Once Frankie jogged in they all took their seats and listened in. She instructed them on where each group was going and what activities they were doing although they were all pretty much aware. Clara was listening, but her gaze was drawn to the window as she retreated a little in to her own thoughts. It was only when Danny walked over to her and tapped her shoulder that she moved.

"What was that for?" She complained, standing up.

"Well talking wasn't working; you were in a world of your own. Nice daydream?" He asked, starting to move away towards the door. Clara stood up, suddenly and for no apparent reason realising he'd changed in to shorts – she had no idea when that had happened. They suited him… not that she cared. "Clara?"

"Not really," she replied vaguely, "but I am hungry so I don't know about you but I'm going to eat," she told him and wandered off to the dining room.

As soon as breakfast was over they got together and headed out to the lake. Clara walked at the front leaving Danny to man the back of the group, their plan to keep apart as much as possible going well.

"So we need teams for this?" Karlie asked, jogging up to Clara. "Can we pick our own?"

"Goodness no I'm not that stupid; we'll sort you out in a minute. Teams of 4, you'll have one of us. The instructors will be looking on but otherwise we're on our own. Our aim is to build a raft to go across the lake, not as easy as it sounds I can assure you. You'll need to work together as a team, that is incredibly important today. Right, here we are… "she stopped and turned around, looking to Danny to sort out the teams.

"Karlie, Toby, Pierce and Amy with Clara, the rest of you with me – we'll go to the other side of the lake. See you all in a bit when we beat you," Danny smirked and walked off with his team.

"No chance!" They all shouted back at him and immediately ran off to their equipment. Clara let them plan without much input, watching them work it all out. She was quite surprised at how well they worked together to create what looked to be a quite sturdy raft.

"Clara they've already started building?" Karlie pointed out as she looked around, immediately shocking the others in to looking right. "Shouldn't we get going as well otherwise they'll just beat us!" Toby jumped up.

"Eh! No, finish working that out, you are doing well. Yes they've started building fast but they haven't planned like you have – that can only lead to disaster. Toby get back here quick your drawing skills are required," she smiled as they all returned and carried on watching them.

Across the lake, Danny was getting very involved with the building, and his team were grabbing materials from all over to put together. He glanced up to see Clara crouching down by her group who were still sat on the floor staring at a bit of paper. She was set back a little, just watching on, letting them do the work. He had to smile at just how different they seemed to work, it explained so much, but this was probably the first time he'd seen Clara without her angry face on – this must be what she looked like normally. It was much nicer, much much nicer…

"Danny! Are you gonna tie that rope or not?" Courtney shouted at him which bought him back to reality. "What were you looking at?" she asked and followed where his gaze had been. "Oooo do you looove her?"

"2 minutes ago we hated each other, now we're in love? I thought Clara told me you were good at observation. Let's get on with building a raft eh?" he responded, dismissing her comments and tying the rope around the wood for stability. "How we getting on then?" Danny stood up and looked at the whole thing.

"Getting there, we need to position the barrels now," Ben told him. "Can you help?" He asked and Danny nodded, walking over with him.

Back on Clara's side they had started building, and thanks to the plan it was coming on fast. She'd not had to do much at all, despite asking plenty of times. Karlie and Toby were working together on the frame with the other two helping out with the other aspects of the raft.

Both teams finished off their rafts at almost similar times once Danny's team had rebuilt theirs after it all but collapsed. Clara had laughed along with the rest of her group before half sarcastically reminding them to carry on with their own work and not find happiness in their opponents' misfortune. The four of them nodded, still smiling and continued putting the final touches in place.

Now it was time to get in the water and so both groups carefully pushed their rafts down to the lake. They both sat floating and one member of each team held them in place.
"Right then one at a time to get on and make sure we balance out well otherwise it'll topple before we've even started, and we don't want that," Danny told their team as they all started to climb on to the frame. While they were organising themselves he looked up to see Clara climb on their team's raft and the 4 teens cheered, starting to paddle across the lake. After about 30 seconds, Courtney threw something at him and he realised everyone else was on. Carefully, he made his way on to the raft and they soon started moving.

The group made it almost half way across the lake when they were met by the others. Danny rolled his eyes as each team started calling to each other.
"Yours looks well wobby!" Karlie shouted to Courtney.
"Yeah, well you took forever to build yours!" She replied.
"At least it didn't fall apart," Toby responded.
"We just changed our minds!" Ben called to his twin and went to stand up without thinking to which Danny automatically responded.

"Ben! Down!" he reached forward but immediately lost his own balance and despite his best efforts, failed to stay out of the lake. He reached out as he fell, going to grab on to the other raft but accidentally grabbing Clara's arm who, as a result, was pulled in after him.

The teens laughed and cheered, but Danny was quick to notice Clara choking on the water she'd clearly managed to inhale on falling. He grabbed her quick, getting her head above water and allowing her to cough for a moment. Her breathing was struggling and Danny knew she needed to get to shore.
"Alright you lot, keep paddling back away from me and get yourselves to shore." As soon as he finished talking he started swimming back to sure on his back, holding Clara up. The instructors had appeared with the life ring but he dismissed it, swimming back with her and pulling her up where she quickly moved to her knees and coughed up the water, immediately her breathing returning to normal. She stood up, giving the instructors a reassuring look before walking round to the teens, wringing out her hair.

"Are you okay Clara?" Amy asked, looking concerned.

"Yeah I'm all good, thanks love. Right you lot, good job this morning, I'm sure you're enjoying the drenching of your leaders but it's time to head back to your cabin now. You can change if you wish, and then you need to head to the dining hall for lunch at half 1. We'll see you in there," she informed them all and immediately turned around to lead them back. Once they could split she went back to the leader's building to which Danny quickly followed. Once they were out of earshot he caught up with her.

"Clara I'm sorry it wasn't intentional, I just reached out," he told her but she blanked him completely. "Clara!" he called as she sped up and he had to jog up the stairs to keep up with her. She quickly pulled out her keys but Danny grabbed her arm. "I just want to make sure you're okay!" He was quickly shrugged off as she unlocked and opened the door, heading in, but Danny stuck his foot in the way of the door closing Clara sighed and turned to him.

"I'm drenched, a little sort and fed up of your voice so please just go and change for goodness sake and stop harassing me!" She waited for him to remove his foot but he didn't. It was only now she noticed his white tshirt was somewhat see-through now thanks to the lake dip. He was surprisingly well built for a maths teacher, not that she really cared right now, he was just in the way.

"You were choking earlier, I just want to make sure you're not going to collapse the moment I shut the door. Evidently your breathing is no longer compromised so I'll leave you be. Just calm down, it was an accident. I'm sorry." He finally moved and Clara slammed the door. The moment she'd locked it she stripped off her wet clothes and grabbed her PJs to temporarily dress while she hung her clothes over the radiator. Thankfully she'd left her phone in the room and therefore saved it from a rather damp ending. She picked it up and dialled Adrian again, slightly beginning to wonder if he was fed up with her yet.

"Hey! You survived then?" he asked enthusiastically. Based on the background noise she guessed he was at the park with Niamh.

"Just about, Danny pulled me in to the bloody lake," she moaned, digging around for replacement clothes. "He fell in and damn well pulled me in with him! I'm soaked."

"Well you might want to change then?" Adrian suggested jokily, but Clara didn't really take it.

"Yeah shockingly I already thought of that thanks," Clara sighed, "sorry I'm just angry," she explained, throwing her replacement jeans and top on the bed before following them to sit down.

"No kidding. I just need to work something out… did he do this on purpose?" he asked.

"Not exactly, he lost balance on the raft and fell. I think he was trying to grab our frame but managed my arm instead," she explained, leaning against the head of the bed.

"Alright, new question, If it had been one of the campers would you be angry?" Clara didn't respond immediately. Adrian kept quiet too, just waiting for her argument to come back. Sure enough, after a rather long minute it came.

"No, but it's my job to care for them, he should be able to look after himself! I nearly drowned falling in there!" Clara coincidentally coughed as she told him this.

"But you're okay? Did the instructors have to help you out?" Adrian sounded concerned.

"Well no, Danny helped me out but-"

"Wait so he basically saved your life?" Adrian interrupted, incredibly confused now.

"Well yes, but-" Clara realised where he was going with this and was soon interrupted again.

"Did he apologise?" he asked, Clara reluctantly told him he had, "so why aren't you thanking him? I'm sorry love but I think I'm on his side here." He was right, of course he was, Danny had simply accidentally pulled her in and then continued by stopping her from actually drowning in the lake. She'd reacted harshly because it was him, and she'd only known the bloke for a couple of days. This was stupid, why did she hate this man so much? "Clara are you alright? I don't understand this you normally at least tolerate people. I've never known you to get this emotional about someone since… well… you know." He was speaking more truth than she could handle. "I have to go," she said quickly and hung up, vaguely hearing her name as she did.

Danny mirrored her as he sat on his own bed, head in his hands. He couldn't stop thinking about in his hands. He couldn't stop thinking about how angry she was, and how upset this made him. Clara Oswald was on his mind and she wouldn't leave. He couldn't forget how scared she looked for the split second she couldn't breathe in the water. He couldn't forget how angry she looked when they got back to the building. Why did he care so much? Why couldn't he let it go? She was just some woman he had to work with for a week and she was driving him insane.