I Don't Know Who I Am

by TimeLordPrime

Clara Oswald was left feeling weak and confused after jumping into the Doctor's timestream on Trenzalore in The Name of the Doctor. Now as she tries to recover from that horrifying experience she starts to hear a voice calling out to her. A voice that seems to be coming from a fob watch that she's never seen before. Clara Oswald is about to learn who she truly is at last. ONGOING!

6. Day The Moment Has Been Preparing For

CHAPTER 6

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This chapter takes place in the aftermath of The Day of the Doctor.

THE DAY THE MOMENT HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR

Soon after their encounter with Rose, the Doctor, Clara, and the Master soon found themselves caught up in an incredible adventure where they finally had the chance to undo the Doctor's greatest regret. Clara had actually convinced the Doctor and two of his past selves that they met along the way to rewrite history and save Gallifrey. Even the Master had helped because although he had his differences with the Time Lords it had still devastated him to learn that Gallifrey was gone and his people had been destroyed.

The three Time Lords working together with the other Doctors managed to actually pull it off and hid Gallifrey in another universe. Even they didn't know where it was though, and now they would have to find it and bring the Time Lords back home even if it took centuries.

Afterwards, they had all gathered together back at the Curator's gallery where they stared in fascination at the strange 3D painting called Gallifrey Falls as the two past Doctors prepared to say goodbye. None of them had the slightest clue that things were about to change for them forever.

"I don't care what Alura thinks about him, you can't trust him especially around her. Watch over her and keep her safe," The Tenth Doctor said to the Eleventh.

"I will. Don't worry, Sandshoes. I've even enlisted Martha and Tish Jones to help me. I ran into them again, and they're both friends of Clara. Isn't that so cool?" the Eleventh Doctor said.

The Tenth Doctor smiled with relief as he said, "Oh, well my future is definitely in safe hands then. I know I can depend on Martha to do things right. Good old Martha. I wish I could have seen her again. Are she and Tish alright then?"

"Yeah, they're doing just fine. It turns out that we didn't quite ruin their lives after all. Tish has Clara's daughter taking care of her right now as a matter of fact until we come back. I think they've actually been convinced by the way he reacted to Merry more than anything that he actually had changed. I told you about Merry, right? Martha even got married to Mickey. I suppose that's good, isn't it?" the Eleventh Doctor said with a huge grin.

"Of course it's good. So Martha and Mickey. Good for them. I'm glad for both of them," the Tenth Doctor said happily.

Clara meanwhile was watching the War Doctor who still looked sad despite the good news that they had received that day.

"What's wrong? I would have thought that you'd be happy. Gallifrey is safe, and the Time War is over," Clara said as she walked over to him.

"I know and I am happy about that, dear Alura. I just realized that when I go back to my own time that I'll no longer remember any of this. I won't remember meeting you again, saving Gallifrey, or the Bad Wolf Girl who helped me. I would have liked to have known who she was based on. She must be someone from my future because I would have remembered meeting someone like her," the War Doctor said.

"Bad Wolf Girl?" Clara asked in disbelief.

The Tenth Doctor's ears perked up as he said, "Did you say Bad Wolf?"

Both the Tenth and the Eleventh Doctors made it across the room to the War Doctor's side so fast that they made everyone else look like they were moving in slow motion and then the Tenth Doctor said, "Was this girl a pretty blonde with almond colored eyes?"

The War Doctor nodded as he said, "So we do get to meet her. She must be something very special to us because the Moment obviously took her form for a reason."

"The Moment took Rose's form? Why didn't you tell us this?" the Tenth Doctor asked in disbelief.

"She didn't want me to. She didn't want the two of you to know that I hadn't made the decision to use her yet. I don't know why you're making such a big fuss out of this. It's not like she was really the person that you knew anyway," the War Doctor said in a perplexed voice.

"They miss her, Doctor. She was very special to them, and then they lost her," Clara explained.

"I doubt that she was as special as you," the War Doctor said causing Clara to blush and the other two Doctors to turn bright red and look away in embarrassment.

"Oh, I cannot believe this. Someone shoot me now," the Master grumbled under his breath.

"Always jealous, Koschei," An old man with a cane who looked very familiar to the Master said as he walked into the room.

The Doctors all looked at him in disbelief because he looked like an older version of their fourth self. They stared at him in silence while Clara just stood there with her jaw hanging open as she said, "Doctor?"

The old man looked at her with bright shining eyes and a warm loving smile that covered his entire face as he said, "Hello, Clara. I'm the Curator."

"Oh, get off it. You're the Doctor and you know it," the Master scoffed.

The Curator smiled enigmatically but said nothing.

He walked over to the painting instead and said, "I can see that you've all been admiring this. That's a very special painting you know. It was donated to the gallery by someone who loved it just as much as you do. Do you know what it's called?"

"Yes, either Gallifrey Falls or No More. I can't help but think that Captain Grumpy named it. It sounds as depressing as he is," the Eleventh Doctor joked.

The War Doctor scowled at him while the Curator did his best to conceal a knowing smile.

Clara noticed this immediately and she walked over to the Curator and took his hand as she said, "It has two very different possible names, but no one seems to know which one is the right one. Do you know what it's really called?"

The Curator smiled at her while the rest of the men in the room gave him death glares as he said, "Yes, of course I do, my dear. Everyone's gotten it completely wrong all of this time. It's actually called Gallifrey Falls No More.

The Doctors all brightened up now as the Eleventh Doctor said, "Then that means I did it. I saved Gallifrey. That has to be it. So I have to go looking for it next then, right? Is that what I'm supposed to do?"

"No, Doctor. You don't have to worry about finding them. What you have to worry about is them finding you," A very familiar voice said.

They all turned to see a woman who looked like Rose but who wore torn futuristic looking clothing that they knew wasn't Rose's style at all. She watched them with a warm smile on her face as she waved at them.

The Master looked at her in complete surprise as he instantly recognized the woman who had freed him from the Time Lock. He idly wondered if she had done that yet or not. He decided to remain largely silent around her until he knew for sure so that he didn't accidently undo his own past somehow.

"That's her. That's the Moment's interface. She's the one who helped me. Thank you so much for that, my dear. You kept me from making a very terrible mistake," the War Doctor said in a grateful voice.

"I'm always there for you when you need me, Doctor," the Moment said.

"Rose?" the Tenth Doctor asked with an extremely sad look in his eyes.

The Moment seemed to vanish and then instantly reappeared next to him with a sympathetic look on her face as she said, "Yes and no, Doctor. I'm not the real Rose. She's on Pete's World right now with the Metacrisis. I am a part of her however. When she was the Bad Wolf, she left me behind to help you."

"Help me with what?" the Eleventh Doctor asked as the Moment put a comforting arm around the Tenth Doctor.

"Many things, Doctor. I've helped you and your two friends much more than you know, and I'm going to continue to do so now that the Time Lords are searching for you," the Moment said as she gave the Tenth Doctor a tender kiss on the cheek.

"Don't do that," the Tenth Doctor said as he gently moved her arm away from his shoulders.

"Don't do what?" the Moment asked confused.

"Don't pretend to be her. It isn't right," the Tenth Doctor said upset.

"I'm not trying to do anything but comfort you. I don't like seeing you upset, Doctor. She's happy now you know. She foresaw that happening when she was the Bad Wolf. She foresaw everything that was to come in the future for you too, and she saw that you would have such a hard road ahead of you once she left. She wants you to be happy too, Doctor. That's why I'm here. She made me and based my personality on her own then she left me here to keep you safe and to make sure that you had a happy life too. Basically she wanted me to take care of you, and that's exactly what I've been doing. Helping you to rewrite your greatest mistake was only the latest example of that," the Moment said.

"Listen, I don't know what game that you're playing here, but pretending to be her is not going to win you any points with me. In fact, it's only going to make me even angrier. You have no right to pretend to be her. None whatsoever," the Eleventh Doctor said in a furious voice.

The Tenth Doctor almost smiled as he said, "I guess you haven't forgotten everything after all."

"Some things I'll never forget. I don't want to. No matter how much they hurt me," the Eleventh Doctor responded with immense sadness in his eyes.

Before she realized what she was doing, Clara immediately put her arms around him and gave him a tender kiss on the lips. She had only meant to comfort him and nothing more, but it still shocked both of them.

Clara immediately pulled away from him in embarrassment as she said, "I, uh, I just wanted to, uh . . ."

"I know. You just wanted to calm me down because I was upset. That's all, right? Thank you, Clara," the Eleventh Doctor said.

He hadn't wanted Clara to be any more embarrassed than she already obviously was so he had simply finished her sentence for her. He already knew that he could never be loved by anyone as wonderful as her so it never even entered his mind why she was really embarrassed.

"Yes, that's all it was," Clara said sadly.

It was obvious that he didn't see her as anything but a friend, but she couldn't help how she felt about him. It still hurt her when he rejected her though even though she knew that he didn't realize that was what he was doing.

The Master meanwhile just felt like punching the Doctor out, all of them, for being such massive idiots.

The Moment looked at Clara sadly and became determined to get them together just as Rose had wanted her to do as she said, "I never meant to upset you, Doctor. I was just telling you the truth about myself."

"You told me that you were the interface for the Moment," the War Doctor said.

"That's right. Why did you tell Granddad one thing and me another one for? That sounds like lying to me," the Eleventh Doctor said suspiciously.

"Will you stop calling me Granddad! You're older than I am," the War Doctor complained.

"I'm young and handsome though and much cooler too," the Eleventh Doctor said smugly.

"You're much more humble as well," the Moment said teasing him.

Eleven and Ten both looked at her in surprise as that sounded just like something that Rose would have said. They were both starting to believe her about who she was just a little bit more now.

"Why don't you go ahead and tell them the whole story about yourself, my dear? I really should leave and continue to take care of the gallery anyway. I have so much still left to do even as old as I am," the Curator said.

Then before he could leave, he turned to the Eleventh Doctor and said, "To answer your earlier question, I'll tell you what I'd do if I were you. I'd search for Gallifrey until I found it, but I'd also be ready for all of the trouble that will bring. There were good as well as bad things about the Time Lords after all. Sometimes we can sugarcoat how things really were in the past in our minds you know especially when we've lost something. That's what I'd do anyway if I were you. Of course I might have already been you or you might have already been me. Who knows?"

"I know, you bloody . . ." the Master said before trailing off when Clara glared at him.

Clara then grabbed the Curator's hand before he could go and whispered, "Goodbye, Doctor."

The Curator smiled at her and gave her a kiss on the cheek before slowly walking away.

As soon as the Curator had left, the Master sneered as he said, "Well, I don't know who he thought that he was fooling. I know the Doctor when I see him."

"Button it, Koschei, before I teleport you into the sun," the Moment said as she momentarily glowed with the power of the Vortex making the Master cringe and the Doctors grin.

Clara began to wonder with sudden dread just how much like Rose that this woman really was.

As soon as the Curator got out of earshot of the others, the old man said, "You can come out now, dear."

A Clara much older than the one that he had just left suddenly emerged from hiding to smile at him and gave him a tender kiss on the lips as she said, "I'm glad that part's over with. It made me squirm seeing just how uncomfortable that we used to be around one another. I wanted to slap the both of younger us. I'm so glad that we eventually got over that, aren't you?"

"Oh, definitely, my dear. I don't know how I could ever been so blind for so long as to not see that you loved me as much as I love you. I think it was just that after losing Rose that I felt as if I could never be that lucky again," the Curator admitted as he kissed Clara.

"What was your excuse before that when we were children?" the older Clara asked.

"I was always a bit slow," the Curator said.

Clara laughed and kissed him again without commenting as the two of them walked by Kate Stewart who smiled at them as she passed them. She was keeping more secrets about the Doctor's future than he would ever know in order to preserve his timeline for him. She knew that her father would want it that way.

Back in the gallery the War Doctor began to feel extremely weak, and he knew that his time in his current body was coming to an end.

The Moment seemed to sense this as well as she said, "I think you should go now. You shouldn't be here when it happens."

The War Doctor looked at her in surprise as she said, "Don't worry about what's coming, Doctor. It'll all be alright in the end. Oh, and you will get that kiss. It'll take you a while though. You and I both were always a bit thick especially when it came to revealing how we really felt to someone. Good bye, Doctor."

Then she gave him a quick but surprisingly tender kiss on the lips that completely surprised him as she winked and said, "Think of it as a preview of coming attractions."

With an embarrassed and yet oddly self-satisfied look on his face, The War Doctor immediately said his goodbyes to the others who he noticed looked at him with undisguised jealousy and then paused before Clara and gave her a kiss on the cheek which she returned. Then he surprised her by suddenly embracing her and holding her tightly for a moment.

"I'm sorry. It's just that I know that I won't get to see you again for a long time," the War Doctor said apologetically.

"That's alright. I understand," Clara said.

The Moment shook her head. Clara still didn't get it and not even her kiss with the War Doctor seemed to make her jealous as she had intended. She would have to try harder.

"Blimey, Clara. You're almost as thick as the Doctor," the Moment said to herself.

"Tell me about it," the Master said having overheard her.

The War Doctor quickly left knowing that his regeneration was near. Then it was time for the Tenth Doctor to say his goodbyes as he and the Eleventh exchanged a few words about Trenzalore and how he didn't want to go there. Before he could leave though, the Moment got in-between him and the TARDIS.

"You won't remember this in a minute, but I wanted to tell you something. Rose was happy, and she had a good life. Don't ever regret leaving her there. Not for a moment," the Moment said.

The Tenth Doctor smiled and said, "Thank you."

Then the Moment surprised herself by suddenly hugging him tightly. When she pulled away, she said quickly to cover it up, "That was from Rose. Good bye, Doctor."

The Doctor smiled at her and then returned her hug as he whispered, "I think you're more Rose Tyler than you think. Good bye."

The Moment had to fight the urge to kiss him and not just because she wanted to make Clara jealous. She couldn't do that though. Rose wanted her to bring the Doctor and Clara together not fall in love with him herself.

She suddenly grabbed Ten and gave him a longer kiss than she gave the War Doctor and one filled with much more passion. Then she suddenly stopped herself before she went too far and said, "That was from Rose too."

The Tenth Doctor grinned from ear to ear as he smiled smugly. His smile quickly turned to sadness though as he entered the TARDIS. Then he left and the Moment felt a sudden sadness of her own for some reason. She wasn't Rose and yet it still hurt her deeply to see that particular Doctor leave her.

She was so caught up in her own emotions that she never saw just how angry that Clara looked at her for a moment. For a brief second, Clara had given her a look filled with pure fury.

The Moment managed to quickly collect herself as she said to the three remaining Time Lords with her, "Come on. It's time to tell all of you the truth about me at last. Let's get into your TARDIS."

The Eleventh Doctor hesitated. She looked and acted like Rose, but he still wasn't sure about her yet. He wasn't sure if he should let her in his TARDIS or not.

The Moment sensed this as she said, "If you still don't trust me, just look into my mind, Doctor. Look into my mind and see how I really feel about you."

"I wouldn't do that. It's a trap," the Master warned.

"Oh, so that's the thanks that I get for saving you, Koschei?" the Moment said.

The Master looked at her in triumph as he said, "So it was you! You're the one who freed me!"

"That's right. Not that I'm getting any gratitude for it. If the other two didn't need your help, I'd send you back there too," the Moment said.

"You still can if you'd like," the Doctor said causing the Moment to laugh.

"Doctor, stop it. No one's sending Koschei anywhere," Clara said as she gave the Moment a firm look of defiance.

"I was joking, Clara," the Moment reassured her.

"I wasn't," the Doctor said causing the Master to visibly shake with anger at him.

"So, Doctor, do you want a look around my mind or will you just take me at my word and let me on the TARDIS?" the Moment asked.

The Doctor hesitated as he looked in her eyes and studied them.

Suddenly he clutched his chest and fell to the floor. He just lay there unmoving with a look of agony on his face. The Moment and Clara both looked at him in horror as they screamed his name.

"Can you help him? You have some kind of powers or something. I know you do because you invaded my dreams and you put me and my mother to sleep once. I remember that happening now. Please do something," Clara said in alarm.

"I'll do my best. I'd never let him die if I could help it. I care about him too," the Moment said as she started to visibly become upset.

The Master just rolled his eyes. He couldn't believe that both women were so crazy over the Doctor. He wasn't going to say anything snarky though because he could see that Clara was extremely upset. He put a comforting arm around her instead, and she instantly grabbed his hand tightly. He could tell that she was completely terrified, and this immediately made him feel guilty about his earlier thoughts. He wouldn't want Clara to go through this much pain for anything.

The Moment glowed briefly with power as she touched the Doctor's chest. Then her look of concern instantly morphed into one of anger, and she slapped the Doctor in the face as hard as she could!

"Why did you do that?" Clara asked in shock.

"He's faking! There's nothing wrong with him. It was a bloody test to see what I'd do and if he could trust me or not!" the Moment raged.

"What?!" Clara said in anger as she saw it was true when the Doctor immediately yelled in pain and got up rubbing his face.

The Doctor felt terrible as he saw the pain and anger on Clara's face and said, "I'm so sorry to have worried you like that, Clara. It seemed like a good idea in my head at the time."

"Really?" Clara said with absolute anger.

Then she slapped the other side of his face that the Moment hadn't slapped as hard as she could. The Doctor screamed again as Clara stormed away from him in a complete rage.

"That seemed like a good idea at the time too," Clara said.

"I'm sorry," the Doctor said in such a sad voice that Clara and the Moment turned to look at him for a moment with a softened expression on their faces.

"Don't fall for his act, Clara. He just callously put you through a living nightmare without even caring how it would affect you. He doesn't deserve you," the Master said.

"I just wanted to see if the Moment could be trusted. I wasn't thinking. I'm sorry, Clara. I would never hurt you on purpose," the Doctor said.

Clara hesitated and then she immediately went back to him and said, "If you ever do anything like that again, it's over between us."

"I won't. I'm sorry," the Doctor said as he immediately put his arms around her and hugged her.

When she could feel him shaking with terror, she knew that he was telling the truth and immediately forgave him. The Moment smiled at the two of them as they held each other. She was honestly happy for both of them and didn't feel a moment of jealousy which surprised her.

The Master however just sighed and began to wonder if he should stop traveling with the other two. He was sure that he was never going to have Clara in his life as anything but a friend now. Then again he would rather have her in his life as a friend then not to have her in it at all.

"So does anyone care what I have to say or what?" the Moment asked with a grin.

"Alright, alright. Let's all go into the TARDIS then," the Doctor said as he finally pulled away from Clara.

Only the Moment seemed to notice that he only let her go very slowly and reluctantly.

"Yes, you can both hold each other in privacy in there," the Moment joked.

The Doctor and Clara both turned bright red as everyone entered the TARDIS. The Doctor wouldn't even look at anyone as he quickly put in some coordinates, and the TARDIS dematerialized.

"Now that everyone's properly embarrassed, I'll tell you a story. It's my story. Like I said earlier, I was created by Rose when she was the Bad Wolf. She made me out of the consciousness of the Moment by tweaking it to fit her personality and appearance. Then she made me able to exist independently of the weapon itself if I wanted to by giving me a body made out of Vortex energy. I took advantage of this quite a bit once you three were born. I've been watching the three of you all of your lives in secret without allowing you to see me," the Moment said.

"Why though?" the Doctor asked.

"Rose wanted me to. That's why. She wanted me to protect you and Clara from a terrible threat that she saw coming your way soon after you find Gallifrey again," the Moment said.

"Why help us save it at all if we're going to be endangered as a result of it?" the Master asked.

"Rose wanted me to help the Doctor undo the one thing that he regretted the most. It was her final gift to him. Can you honestly say that you wouldn't save Gallifrey no matter what happened as a result of it?" the Moment asked.

The Master was silent as the Moment said, "I thought so. There will be consequences to saving the Time Lords though especially for Clara. They're going to sense you now, Clara, and they're going to come for you."

"What? Who is and why?" Clara asked alarmed.

"You know why," the Moment said.

Clara began to look very afraid as the Doctor asked, "What is it? What's wrong, Clara?"

"It's time to tell them, Clara. I've tried to help you suppress your abilities your whole life in order to keep you from being found out. I'm still doing it even now, but even I can only do so much. You've only got stronger since you've gotten older though so you're almost impossible to hide now," the Moment said.

"What are you talking about? Alura has no hidden abilities. I would have known about them if she did. They might have escaped the Doctor's limited senses but never mine," the Master said confidently.

"You have noticed them though, Koschei. Or have you never realized how you can never lie to her or how easily she sees right through you? Ask yourself how she always knows what you're thinking or why she was so confident that you had reformed. It isn't just because she knows you and the Doctor so well. It's because she knows. She can know exactly what both of you are thinking at all times when she wants to and get a general sense of it even when she doesn't," the Moment said.

"Clara, is what she's saying true? What is she talking about?" the Doctor asked.

"Please. I don't want to talk about this," Clara said to the Moment in an upset voice.

The Moment immediately embraced her as she said, "I know. I've kept your secret for so long that this seems wrong to me too like I'm betraying you somehow. We have to tell them though, Clara. They have to know so that they can keep you safe. Rose wanted me to keep both you and the Doctor safe."

"Clara?" the Doctor asked in a questioning voice.

The Moment let her go and Clara then took a deep, calming breath before she said, "I'm a powerful telepath. Actually from what I've read, I'm probably the most powerful telepath that's ever been born on Gallifrey. I can read the mind of anyone no matter how powerful their mental shields are. I don't read anyone's mind on purpose though. I always respect people's privacy. I usually shut my abilities down almost completely so that I only get surface readings where I can just get occasional stray random thoughts or general feelings from people at times. I've never intentionally read either of your minds I promise. I would never do that to you. It's much more than that though. I can also see the past and the future of a specific person, place, or thing when I want to, and I mean their specific future and not just all possible futures like normal Time Lords can. I never use it though because I don't want to. It's terrifying. I don't want to know the future."

The Doctor and the Master looked at her in complete shock as the Doctor said, "So you're a psychic. A psychic with incredible power. I've never heard of even a Time Lord being able to tell the exact future just the most likely one or we might get a slight glimpse into the future that comes at random or through dreams. I can see why you wouldn't want to use that. I don't think I would either."

"I would. Can you imagine the power that such a gift could bring you? You could take over the entire universe with it and change the future however you wanted it to be," the Master said with glee.

"Exactly and that's what someone will want to do with it. They will want to use Clara to enable them to achieve complete and total control over all of time and space. Who could stop them if they had someone who could predict every action of their enemies and who could read their every thought and know their every secret? If Clara was evil, she could have already taken over the entire universe by now. Our future enemy knows that," the Moment said.

"Who and how do they find out about her?" the Doctor asked.

"Obviously it's one of the Time Lords, you idiot," the Master said in disdain.

"Koschei," Clara said in anger.

"It's Rassilon, Doctor. Rassilon will detect Clara as soon as the Time Lords find their way back to this universe, and he'll head straight towards her. You'll never be able to hide her from him once he returns because her power has grown too strong," the Moment warned.

"If she's so powerful, why was she never detected before?" the Doctor asked curiously.

"I created a powerful psychic shield around her mind on the day that she was born that no one could break through in order to protect her. I established a mental link with her in order to do it that she never knew about that I used to appear in her dreams sometimes when I wanted to check up on her. Her power has only gotten stronger and stronger though over the years. Even hiding in human form wouldn't protect her now from being found out as long as she held onto her watch. So with the time coming for the Time Lords to return, I had to make a choice. Either I destroy her watch and make her human forever or I use her experience being exposed to your timestream to help me reawaken her mind and cause her to become a Time Lord again so that she has a fighting chance to save herself. If I picked the first one, I'd be letting Rose down because she wanted me to protect Clara so I went with the second choice," the Moment explained.

What she didn't say was that Rose wanted her to ensure that the Doctor and Clara became a couple because she wanted Clara to take care of the Doctor and make him happy in her place. She couldn't do that if she died as a human could she?

That was also why the Moment had appeared to Clara in her dreams and told her that she would find out who her true love was by going to the Omega Arsenal. She had set up that whole situation by using her power to make the guards come by there earlier than usual in order to force the Doctor into revealing his true feelings for Clara. She had hoped that by doing that that it would make her job to get them together in the future just a little bit easier.

It had worked but then the Doctor had botched it by making Clara think that he just thought of her as a friend. Clara never read his mind either even though she easily could have so she never knew any differently. Getting those two together seemed to be almost impossible because they were both so thick when it came to reading each other.

"Why did you help me? What did that have to do with your plan to protect Clara?" the Master asked the Moment out of curiosity.

"I freed you because when the chips were down you protected the Doctor. You defeated Rassilon and stopped him. You showed that you could be a good man when you really wanted to be. You also showed how much you cared about Clara on the day that you risked your entire future by lying to protect her from the guards. I brought you back to protect her, Koschei. She'll need both of the men who love her to keep not only her but the entire universe safe. I'm going to stay with you too to make sure of that. The four of us together should be able to handle the Time Lords when they do return. I hope," the Moment said.

"That's very reassuring," the Doctor said as he put a protective arm around Clara without realizing it.

"I'm not exactly helpless you know or have you forgotten how many times that I've saved your life?" Clara said as she pulled away from him in anger.

The hurt look on the Doctor's face immediately made her apologize as she said, "I'm sorry. I just don't want to be thought of as some defenseless wallflower that needs to be protected all the time. That's not who I am."

"I know that, Clara. You're one of the strongest, bravest people that I've ever known. I just can't help but want to protect you because I . . ." the Doctor said.

"I know," Clara said in a soft voice as she gave him a small kiss on the lips in gratitude.

The Moment smiled as she thought that maybe they were finally getting through to each other after all. Maybe she'd have those two together yet.

As the Master watched them and saw the happiness on Clara's face as she looked at the Doctor, he promised himself that he would keep Clara safe from Rassilon and allow her to have a happy future with the Doctor if that was what she really wanted. All he wanted was for her to be happy no matter who it was with, and Rassilon was not going to take that away from her. Not if he had anything to do about it.

Rassilon had ruined his life, but he wouldn't ruin Clara's. He would die before he would allow that to happen.

"So how long do we have until the Time Lords return?" the Doctor asked the Moment.

"I don't know. It shouldn't be long though until Rassilon finds a way to bring them back. It'll just be a couple of months at the most even if I keep you from going back to Trenzalore," the Moment said.

"You can prevent me from ever having to go there?" the Doctor asked in surprise.

"I'm going to try. I don't want you to die there either, Doctor. I have quite the job ahead of me. I have to save both you and Clara," the Moment said.

"You can do it. If I believe in anyone, I believe in you," the Doctor said.

"You believed in Rose but I'm not her, Doctor. I'm just an echo of her just like one of Clara's echoes. I'm not really her," the Moment said.

"I think you're wrong. I think you're more Rose Tyler than you want to admit," the Doctor said as he unconsciously echoed his previous self's words to her earlier that day.

"So where are we going next, Doctor? I'd like to continue to have normal trips with my two boys until and unless I know that Rassilon has returned. I don't want to live the rest of my life in fear just waiting for him to come back. He'll have won if I do that," Clara said.

"I completely agree. I say that we continue with our Wednesday visits just like usual. Next time I'm going to finally take you to one of my favorite places in the universe. Barcelona," the Doctor said grinning confidently.

"I've heard that one before," the Moment said grinning at him skeptically.

Next: Martha, Tish, and Merry return and this time Martha brings Mickey with her as they all meet the Moment. I wonder how that will go. Oh and the Doctor may or may not take Clara to Barcelona. I'm betting on not. Here's a hint about what happens in the next chapter. The Time Lords aren't the only ones who would want Clara if they found out about her powers, and someone has just found out about her very recently. Can you guess who? Plus Tish starts acting very oddly. What's that about?