Again, I don't own Doctor Who. Different this time. We are going from George's point of view. Not the Doctor's
It was 7 P.M., when George Maitland arrived home from work. When he had come in during a break earlier in the day, Clara had somehow fallen asleep after putting a Soufflé in the oven, and Clara's boyfriend had arrived, like he had for the past few Wednesdays. While he thought the boyfriend might a bit out of his element in caring for the kids while Clara was sleeping, if Clara trusted him, he would trust the boyfriend as well. It didn't hurt that the kids seemed to know him, and liked him a lot, especially Artie.
However, the moment he entered the home from the garage, he noticed something was wrong. Usually when he got home, there was some level of activity. Clara would be cooking, and the kids would usually be doing homework or squabbling down near Clara, as she tended help them through a problem if they got stuck on something.
On this particular Wednesday evening though, there was almost no noise. And no lights either for that matter.
"Kids, what's going on?" George asked in a loud, but uncertain sounding voice.
After some clamor from upstairs, Artie spoke up, his voice cracking. "Can you come up to Clara's Room please, something has happened."
He immediately started for the stairs, and within 20 seconds, was to the door to Clara's room. He wasn't quite sure what to expect.
When he opened the door he was equally confused and scared. Next to Clara's bed sat a large blue police box, like those around when he was a kid, with the doors open. And yet, there seemed to somehow more space after the doors with this one, including some bizarre machinery he had never seen before. Sitting on Clara's bed was Artie, with tear streaks down his face.
"Artie, what is going on?" George asked with a very worried voice.
"Come inside with me please, it will be easier to explain there." Artie responded, voice still cracking, and now walking into the Blue Box. Following Artie, George was soon in what appeared to be a hospital room. In the room was Clara's Boyfriend, Angie, a woman dressed in Victorian-era clothing, another person in Victorian clothes with a veil, likely a woman. Most curiously of all, a being in some form of blue armor. While the features looked vaguely human, it was also much shorter than human, and coloured similarly to a potato. And on the bed next to them, Clara lay unresponsive.
Clara's Boyfriend stood up and walked towards George "I'm the Doctor, and I need to explain what is going on."
Roughly an Hour later.
To say that George was stunned was the understatement of the century. Though he was concerned, and occasionally angry about the amount of risk that the Doctor put Clara and the kids in at times, he was proud of all of them. He was proud of his nanny Clara for her keeping her head on straight, and the kids for being smart enough to figure out the charade.
He was not so proud of the kids for using this as leverage to get a trip out of the Doctor under threat of disclosing his activities to Mr. Maitland, or tricking the Doctor so they could get to the movies.
George also had a healthy respect for the Doctor. When the chips are down, he always put Clara (and one time) the kids first. And meeting Vastra, Jenny, and Strax opened up his view of the universe, and help him cool down when he had gotten irate at the Doctor, though the only time that occurred was when he found out the kids had been in trouble once.
"So, what will happen to Clara now?" George asked.
"We do not know" Vastra stated. "This is literally the first time that this has ever happened."
"My people, before their extinction, had laws and rules on the disposal of bodies to prevent a temporal anomaly like this from happening." the Doctor explained. "However, for whatever reason, in the future, the instructions on how to dispose of my body were not carried out."
The Doctor, while holding Clara's hand, continued "I despise the fact that Clara has been so badly damaged on my behalf. I wish I-"
"Stop there, Doctor!" George interrupted, "Clara made the choice of her own volition to go in there and save you. And not only that, you went in to save her after she had made that choice. You succeeded too. Her heart is beating, and her brain is doing something. Don't beat yourself up for something you were powerless to stop."
"Mr. Maitland, may I ask a favor of you." Doctor responded
"Certainly, what is it?"
"Can you call Clara's father, and have him come here personally? I feel I owe him an explanation."
George responded "Certainly." George pulled the phone from his pocket, and called Dave Oswald.
"Yes, Dave, something has happened to Clara. It's a rather complicated issue, and you should come down here as soon as possible."
This one was a bit difficult. Characterizing a character who has been almost entirely off-screen doesn't give any guides where to go. However, I did make the assumption he is a hard worker, who will work late to support Artie, Angie, and Clara on one income. Hence him being at home at 7. In addition, I also assumed him to be a rather calm and logical character, because of being able to hold everyone together after the loss of his wife. I can see him getting a ticked at the Doctor for the Cyberman fiasco, but at the same time glad the Doctor made sure the Doctor got the kids free first, then dealt with Mr. Clever. Also, I will make a point of him grounding the two of them for blackmailing the Doctor and Clara. I think he would also realize what Clara did was her choice, and stop the Doctor from bashing himself.
As for the timeline, it works like this. Doing research, it seems many schools in the area let out around 1530 on Wednesdays. I assume the kids got home within 5 minutes. Then, they start to work, which is when Clara reads the letter. Doctor appears shortly thereafter, and gets tricked. They are out by 4. The Clara wakes up, they go off. Movie lasts 2 hours. They start home and get intercepted by the Doctor. Talk lasts a few minutes. He gets home at 7.
This is the Chapter I feel the least confident about. I may end up partially rewritten based on feedback, so please review. Next up, Dave, and Clara will wake up. All of this would have happened this chapter, but the thing would have been ~2000 words, which is much longer than the others.