CHAPTER 5

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THE MOMENT HAS COME

Rose looked at the three shocked Time Lords with an incredulous expression on her face as she said, "Will you three quit staring at me and get a move on already? Those Daleks aren't playing around. Go! Go!"

Rose then proceeded to destroy several more Daleks with her gun while the Doctor stared at her in absolute disbelief. He couldn't believe that she was really there. Then he realized by looking at her gun when this must be for her and his hearts slumped.

"You've just started looking for me with the Dimension Cannon haven't you?" He said almost to himself.

Rose looked at him in shock after overhearing him as she said, "Doctor? Is that you?"

"Hello, Rose. You've finally found me but it's the wrong me," the Doctor said sadly.

"No. You can't have changed again. You can't," Rose said as she started to become upset.

"You know her?" Clara asked in a voice that the Doctor could swear had a twinge of jealousy in it even though he knew that she didn't think of him that way.

"She's Rose Tyler . . . an old traveling companion of mine," the Doctor said and instantly regretted his choice of words when Rose looked at him with hurt eyes.

Clara continued to look at her in disbelief. If the Doctor didn't meet her until he left Gallifrey, then how did she wind up in her dream centuries ago back when she was still just a kid. Who was this woman?!

"I thought that I was so much more than that to you. I guess I was wrong," Rose said to the Doctor as she continued to destroy Daleks with her gun.

The Doctor's eyes teared up as he said, "Rose, I . . ."

"No, just say it, Doctor. It's been so long since I've last seen you that you don't have any feelings for me anymore. Maybe you never did in the first place," Rose said as she continued to fight the Daleks even through her tears.

"Can we please stop the soap opera and concentrate on stopping the massive army of Daleks that wants to kill us? Or maybe you actually want to die, Doctor? It doesn't really matter to me either way, but it would devastate Clara," the Master said in an annoyed voice as he used his laser screwdriver to attack the Daleks.

Rose looked at Clara with undisguised jealousy in her eyes as she said, "Clara, eh? So who are you? His wife?"

"Not yet," the Master muttered with a smirk as he destroyed several more Daleks with an enormous look of satisfaction on his face.

"I'm not anything. We're just friends. That's all we ever were. I'm Clara Oswald," Clara said as she looked at her expectantly.

"You act like I should know you or something. I've never seen you before in my life," Rose said in an angry voice.

"Rose, stop it. Clara is not your enemy. The Daleks are," The Doctor said as he chastised her.

Rose's eyes softened as she saw the upset look on Clara's face which she misinterpreted as being because of her words instead of because of Clara's dream. The Doctor smiled proud of her as she immediately overcame her initial jealousy of her when she saw how she was affecting her.

"I'm sorry, Clara. I guess I should have expected him to move on. I mean it wasn't like he was going to wait for me forever was it?" Rose said in a heartbroken voice.

"I'm not his wife. I'm not even his girlfriend," Clara said as she continued to stare at Rose.

"Why are you giving me the look of death like that then?" Rose asked as she continued to attack the now noticeably decreasing army of Daleks who continued to come after her and the Doctor.

"I feel like I've seen you somewhere before. You don't know me?" Clara asked.

The Doctor looked at Clara in surprise and concern as Rose said, "No, I've never met you before. Sorry. You must be thinking about someone else."

"You've never met me either?" the Master asked curiously causing both the Doctor and Clara to look at him with surprise now.

Rose looked at him with a frown as she said, "No, I haven't. I know I'd remember meeting you."

"Why is that? Because I'm so incredibly handsome?" the Master asked as he stood side by side with the Doctor and Rose as they all destroyed several Daleks together in a unified front.

"No, because you're so incredibly creepy and weird," Rose said.

The Master frowned more at her apparent complete lack of recognition of him than at her insult as the Doctor laughed and said, "That's my Rose!"

Rose smiled at him with renewed hope in her eyes as she said, "Really?"

"You'll always be my Rose," the Doctor said meaning it.

Clara's hearts started to ache in that moment even though she knew that she had no claim to him whatsoever. All of this was just too much for her. Another woman had the Doctor all tied up in knots over her, she just happened to look just like the woman from her dream centuries ago, and on top of that she had absolutely no way of fighting the Daleks whatsoever. She felt completely useless while the other three used their sonic screwdriver, laser screwdriver, and planet-sized gun to fight back with respectively.

"Maybe I should start calling myself Useless Girl and just get it over with," Clara said in a depressed tone.

"Clara, are you okay?" the Doctor asked sensing her distress.

"I'm just fine, Doctor. I'm peachy," Clara said with a fake smile on her face.

"EXTERMINATE THE BAD WOLF FIRST. SHE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ONE HERE," One of the Daleks ordered.

"I keep telling you lot that I'm not the Bad Wolf anymore. That only happened once a long time ago. Are you thick or what?" Rose said in disdain.

"Bad Wolf? Did you say Bad Wolf?" Clara said as her eyes widened even more than they already were.

"Oi! Don't you start with that too!" Rose said.

"Clara, what is it? Did one of your echoes meet her before?" the Doctor asked.

"Not as far as I know. Are you sure that she didn't have echoes too, Doctor?" Clara said.

"Not as far as I know. Why?" the Doctor asked.

"She's the woman that I saw in my dream, Doctor. The one I just told Martha and Tish about. She was the one who told me to go to the Omega Arsenal. It was her! I know it was because the woman in my dream said that one of her names was the Bad Wolf, and her eyes glowed golden when she said it," Clara said.

The Doctor looked at her in shock as he said, "Are you sure? You really saw her back then?"

"Yes, Doctor. It was her," Clara said.

"Do you want to hear something even stranger?" the Master asked.

"I'm honestly not sure," The Doctor said almost dreading to hear what he had to say.

"She's the one who freed me from the Time Lock," the Master said.

"What are you three going on about? I didn't do any of those things," Rose said upset.

"Maybe you did and you don't remember doing them," the Doctor said.

"You mean when I was Bad Wolf? I remember some of that now but not all of it," Rose said looking disturbed.

"Possibly. It doesn't matter now, Rose. That's already over with, and I'm sure that whatever you did it was to help me. I'm still not sure where freeing the Master fits into that though," the Doctor said.

"Maybe she suddenly developed some good taste while she was in her heightened state of awareness," the Master said.

"Believe me. You're definitely not my type, mate," Rose said with a scrunched up nose while she winked at the Doctor.

Clara couldn't help but smile at that. She could see now why the Doctor liked her. She was growing to like her herself even though she might just be the competition for the Doctor's hearts.

Then again since the Doctor didn't care about her in that way why shouldn't she want him to be happy with who he did love? She was determined not to be selfish and stand in his way. She just wanted him to be happy . . . even if it wasn't with her.

"It looks like we've almost got them all, Doctor. That'll teach them to escape from the Void, yeah?" Rose said with excitement.

"They came from the Void? They're the ones that we imprisoned together?" the Doctor asked in surprise.

"That's right. They came to Pete's World first after somehow breaking out of the Void there and started attacking everywhere until I lured them over here to our old universe by telling them who I was. I'm very popular among the Skaro set for some reason. I was so hoping that I'd run into you again once I got over here if I brought a ton of Daleks with me since you always come to stop them, and I'm glad that I was right. Do you know how long I've been looking for you, Doctor? How many worlds that I've been searching for you in? Now I'm finally here at last. I made it, Doctor. I don't even care that you have an enormous chin now. I made it, "Rose said with joy.

She wrapped her arms around the Doctor and hugged him tightly while Clara looked away. She wanted him to be happy. She really did but she couldn't bear to watch this.

The Master didn't watch them either as he finished off the last of the Daleks. He was too busy keeping an eye on Clara anyway. He was beginning to have renewed hope that the Doctor might finally be out of the picture, and he would have her all to himself. Maybe he would have a chance to tell her how he felt about her after all without the Doctor around to stand in his way.

"Rose, I'm sorry but you can't stay with me," the Doctor said in a solemn voice.

"Why? I searched for so long. Why can't I stay?" Rose said in tears.

"This isn't the me that you're supposed to find. You're supposed to meet Matchstick Man not me," the Doctor explained to her in a gentle voice.

"Matchstick Man? I love that and it's so true too that one. So you're from a time after me then? I spent the rest of my life with the other you?" Rose asked hopefully.

The Doctor hesitated only for a second before he said, "Yes, of course you did. You finally got your Doctor, Rose."

Rose smiled from ear to ear at first and then she became sad as she asked, "So I'm gone now?"

"Yes. I haven't seen you in a long time," the Doctor said sadly.

"I'm sorry. I bet we had fun though while it lasted, yeah?" Rose said smiling fondly at him.

"Yes, we did. We certainly did," the Doctor said thinking of the time that he spent with her before Canary Wharf.

Clara couldn't help but be moved by the look of loss on his face. She knew without having to even be told that there was something that he wasn't telling Rose. He wouldn't be that upset if there wasn't. In that moment she lost all traces of jealously left inside of her and felt nothing but sympathy for the Doctor instead. She felt so, so bad for him in that moment because she could practically see his hearts breaking in front of her.

Rose could see it too as she hugged him and said, "It's okay, Doctor. It's okay."

"Yes, it will be okay. It's time for you to go back, Rose. You can't remember what happened here though. I have to remove it from your mind. I'm sorry but I can't take the chance of the other me finding out anything about the future that he shouldn't," the Doctor said.

Rose nodded sadly as she said, "I understand. Go ahead. Before I go though, I just want to say one thing."

The Doctor smiled at having a paraphrased version of his ninth self's last line being thrown back at him. That was just so Rose.

Rose gave him a tender kiss and then said, "You were fantastic. You always were no matter what. Always remember that, Doctor."

Then Rose turned to Clara and said, "Make sure that he does."

Clara nodded as she said, "I will."

She had no idea why she was telling her that though.

Then the Doctor erased Rose's memory of this day and set her Dimension Cannon properly so that she could finally meet the Tenth Doctor on her very next trip back from Pete's World. Then he sent her back home.

"Doctor? Are you alright?" Clara asked as he started to break down in front of her.

"I'm never going to spend the rest of her life with her. A half human clone of me did instead. He was someone who could grow old with her when I couldn't. I thought it would be best that way," the Doctor explained.

Clara nodded with understanding as she said, "I thought that there was something that you weren't saying."

The Doctor looked at her in surprise as she said, "I always know, Doctor. I know both of my boys so well that I always know what they're really thinking at all times. Remember that if you ever try to put one over on me, Chin Boy."

"I wouldn't dare," the Doctor said as he rubbed the tears from his eyes.

"I'm sorry, Doctor. I'm so sorry," Clara said as she put her arms around him and held him tightly while he shook with emotion.

"It's alright. The whole thing just opened up some old wounds. That's all it is," the Doctor said as Clara continued to hold him and gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek while she gently rubbed his back in sympathy.

"I know. It'll be alright though, Doctor. I promise," Clara said.

I'll make it be alright. Clara promised herself as she did her best to mend the Doctor's broken hearts.

That was when Martha, Tish, and Merry reemerged from the TARDIS. They saw the Master standing there watching Clara hold the Doctor with a heartbroken look on his face, and Martha almost felt sorry for him.

Almost.

Martha knew in that moment that the Master finally understood once and for all that he was never ever going to have Clara hold him like that. She was never going to love him the way that she did the Doctor.

The Master never felt more hatred for the Doctor in his life than he did in that moment. Everything in him wanted to crush him into powder.

He couldn't though. He could never bring himself to attack him again because she loved him. He meant what he had said before despite what everyone else thought about him.

He would never do anything to hurt her.

Then something happened next that completely shocked the Master. He felt a small hand take his and realized that it was Merry. Merry held his hand and gave him a sympathetic look.

All traces of anger left the Master as he smiled at the child and gently rubbed the top of her head. From that day forward, Merry would always be special to him and he would do anything for her.

Martha and Tish both watched this in shock as they continuously stared at the Master like a hawk to make sure that he didn't attack Merry. It was an attack that would never come.

As the relationship between the Doctor and Clara grew even stronger and the Master finally realized that not all children were ciphers to him, Ellie Oswald and her young daughter were on their way back home in a near blind panic.

As soon as she got home, Ellie was just about to call her husband Dave and tell him all about the strange creatures that she had seen in the park when a blonde woman suddenly appeared in her home. She gasped in terror as she stood protectively in front of her daughter.

"It's alright. I'm not here to hurt you or your daughter. Go to sleep and don't worry about it, Ellie. Sleep," the blonde said to Ellie as she gently touched her forehead.

Ellie immediately passed out and the blonde caught her. She laid her down gently on the couch in her living room while young Clara watched her in fear.

The blonde smiled warmly at her as she said, "Don't worry. She'll be alright. She'll wake up with no memory of the Daleks and so will everyone else who saw them today. The world isn't supposed to know about Daleks yet after all so I've been pretty busy making sure of that."

"Are you going to put me to sleep too?" Clara asked.

"Yes, but not before suppressing your memories of what happened here today. Don't worry. You'll remember when you need to," the blonde said.

Little Clara looked at the woman strangely for a moment and then said, "I know you don't I? I had a dream about you once didn't I?"

The blonde smiled at her as she said, "Yes, dear, a very long time ago in another life. I've been watching over you for so long now. You and the Doctor. Sleep now, Clara. Sleep and forget that I was ever here."

"W-Who are you?" Clara asked just as the blonde touched her forehead and her world started to go black.

"I am the Moment and my time has finally come at last. Soon you will meet me again and so will the Doctor," the blonde said as she laid the now sleeping Clara down next to her mother.

"Sleep well, Clara," the Moment said as she disappeared without a trace.

Next: The Doctor and Clara live through the events of the Day of the Doctor only to find out that going off to search for Gallifrey isn't quite the end of that story. Exactly who is the Moment and what is her true connection to Rose Tyler? Furthermore why won't she go away now that her role in saving Gallifrey is over with? The Moment's story and the role that she played in the lives of the Doctor, Clara, and the Master will be revealed in the next chapter.