CHAPTER 11

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THE POWER OF ALURA

"Let her . . . go," Clara said to Rassilon as she struggled to regain full control of herself in time to help save Romana.

"You can save her, Alura. You can save all of them. All you have to do is go with me of your own free will, and I'll spare them all," Rassilon said as he continued to torment Romana with his gauntlet.

"No, don't!" Romana shouted as she looked at Clara with pleading eyes.

Clara was feeling stronger now, and she realized that whatever Cobb gave her was beginning to wear off. She had to stall for time just a little bit longer until it did. Then she could finally unleash her true power.

"What about the Earth? Would you spare it too?" Clara asked.

"What do I care about the humans? I tolerated their presence before, and I can do so again. Is that what you want in exchange for your freedom, Alura? If I promise to leave the Earth and your cousin and friends alone, will you come with me then?" Rassilon asked as the Doctor shook his head no to her and the Master silently begged her with his eyes to stay with them.

Clara smiled as she could feel her strength returning and her mind clearing and said, "Possibly. What else can you put up on the table to offer me, Rassy?"

Rassilon' face became filled with anger as he shouted, "You will show me the proper respect! I am the founder of the Time Lords, and I will not be mocked especially by one who is about to become my future servant!"

"Am I, Sir Yells A Lot? Am I really?" Clara said with a smirk as she now felt almost normal once more.

The Doctor looked at her with a huge smile on his face as he knew that Clara was alright again. Despite being immensely worried about her in that moment, he was enjoying watching her taunt Rassilon so much at that moment. This was a prime example of just why he had always loved Clara so much.

Despite seeming to be normal most of the time, she was just as mad as he was.

"Enough, Lady Alura! I will only deal with your impertinence for so long! I will only ask one more time, and then I will take you with me by force. Come with me willingly, and I'll spare everyone's lives. If you continue to resist, then you will cause the complete and total destruction of everyone and everything that you hold dear!" Rassilon threatened.

Clara's face darkened and her eyes seemed to almost glow with power now as she said, "You were going to do that anyway though no matter what I did. You can't fool me, Rassilon. I see into your black hearts, and I know you for who you truly are. You still want to destroy everything and ascend to a higher level just as you did before. You need me to help you accomplish that, and you'll say and do anything to get me to go along with you."

The other Time Lords behind Rassilon backed away from Clara's penetrating gaze with undisguised fear now. It was as if she could see right through them as well and knew their every secret no matter how well hidden. It visibly unnerved all of them except for Rassilon.

"Enough. Now I will force you to come whether you want to or not," Rassilon said.

"Really? Why haven't you done it already then? Could it be because you're afraid of me? You really don't know what I can do after all. No one does," Clara said in a mocking tone as she realized now that she was completely back to normal at last.

"I'm not afraid of anyone," Rassilon protested.

"Oh, I think you are, Rantssilon, and you should be. Do you know why? It's because even I'm afraid of what I'll do when I finally use my full power for the first time," Clara said as she moved closer to him with an ominous look on her face.

"Clara?" the Doctor said in a worried voice.

Clara didn't look at him though. She continued to stare right through Rassilon like a predator eyeing its prey and began to smile an evil grin. Even Rassilon couldn't help but become just a little bit unnerved by her now and began to back away from her.

The Doctor watched her in horror as she seemed to change into someone else right in front of him. This wasn't his kind, loving Clara anymore. This was someone who was her complete opposite, and she scared him more than Rassilon did in that moment.

He didn't want to lose Clara again. He had already lost her far too much for one lifetime.

Rassilon now stopped attacking Romana and let her fall to the floor with a thud as she lay there in a nearly unconscious state. He pointed his gauntlet at Clara now instead but didn't attempt to use it on her just yet.

The Master meanwhile immediately went to Romana's side and moved her out of the way as he looked at her with worry on his face. If Clara wasn't acting so strange at that moment, the Doctor would have questioned that look. He could care less about it at the time though. All that mattered to him was Clara.

"What's wrong with her? She's not acting anything like my Clara," Jenny asked with the same fear in her voice that the Doctor was now feeling in his hearts.

"I don't know, Jen. I think she'll be alright though. She has to be alright. I mean Clara's not really evil. I know she's not," the Doctor said as he did his best to comfort his daughter.

The Moment put a comforting arm around both father and daughter but said nothing. She knew that she couldn't say anything or she might influence what happened next. She could feel that they were now reaching a major turning point here. Clara's entire future and maybe the future of everyone else was about to be decided by what she did here in the next few minutes.

"Let me give you a choice now, Lord Rassilon. Either abdicate and give the Presidency back to Romana or I'll just have to see how powerful that I really am and use you as my first test subject," Clara said in a cold emotionless voice.

"Clara, don't," the Doctor said in a terrified voice as his hearts broke while watching her.

Rassilon now shook in fear and he said in a quivering voice, "Stay back. You won't stop me now. Not when I'm so close to total victory. I'll destroy you first!"

"Do it then, Rassy. Go ahead and do it if you can," Clara said with mocking laughter.

That was when Rassilon started to use his gauntlet on her only to find that he couldn't. Every time he started to he suddenly stopped. It was just as if . . . someone was controlling his mind.

"What have you done to me?" Rassilon asked in full terror now.

"Why, I don't know what you mean, Rassy. Care to explain?" Clara asked as she laughed at him again with a smirk on her face.

"You've gotten into my mind somehow. You're controlling it," Rassilon accused her.

"Am I? I don't have mind control abilities though. Or do I? You don't know though, do you?" Clara asked with a huge malevolent grin.

Rassilon began to whimper in fear as he tried to use the gauntlet over and over again and something stopped him from doing it each and every time. The other Time Lords now began to run from Clara as she advanced toward Rassilon with a cold stare.

"No! Leave me alone!" Rassilon pleaded.

Clara laughed at him as she placed her hand on his forehead even as she ripped the gauntlet off of his hand and tossed it across the room. The Doctor's hearts were racing so fast now that he was afraid that he was about to die and if Clara did anything to Rassilon in the next minute he just might.

"Sleep," Clara said as her face returned back to normal and her eyes filled with kindness once more.

Rassilon immediately fell to the ground unconscious, and Clara turned toward the other Time Lords who were fleeing back into the tear that had been opened up with a sorrowful expression on her face. The Doctor could see that his Clara was back again now as she looked at them leave with sadness.

The tear now sealed behind them as the Time Lords fled leaving Rassilon lying there all alone on the floor.

"Jenny, go put Rassilon and Cobb in the cupboard," the Doctor said.

Jenny looked at him in surprise as she said with a smile, "Well, I guess that's one place to keep them. Too bad we can't just leave them there, huh?"

The Doctor smiled back at his daughter as he kissed her forehead and said, "It's pretty tempting but no. I don't think Clara wants them stuck in her cupboard forever. She probably has much better uses for it like for storing nice shiny new fezzes."

Jenny immediately tied Rassilon and Cobb up while she still could and put him and the still unconscious Cobb in a nearby cupboard. A fond memory of Rory doing much the same thing once sprang to the Doctor's mind which both made him smile and feel incredibly sad at the exact same time.

"Clara, are you alright?" the Doctor asked as he finally approached her now that the danger seemed to have passed.

"What. Was. That?" the Master asked her in concern.

"I wasn't really going to hurt anyone unless I had to. I was just bluffing and they all fell for it because none of them could read my mind. Not even you two knew what I was going to do, and that's just the way that I wanted it," Clara said as she shook with emotion.

"So that was all just acting?!" the Doctor asked in disbelief.

"Yes, Chin Boy. Despite what you might think, I'm not a homicidal psychopath. Not yet anyway. After a few more years of traveling with you two boys though, who knows what might become of me?" Clara said as she gave him a warm smile.

"Are you sure that you're okay, Clara?" Jenny asked with concern.

Clara wrapped her arms around her and kissed her cheek as she said, "I'm fine, Jennifer. Really. I remember you now by the way. My echo was so sorry that she had to die and leave you alone again after you had already been by yourself for so long before you met her. She really didn't want to do that, Jenny. She loved you so much."

Jenny struggled to hold back her tears as she said, "Thank you for telling me that. I loved her too just like I know that I'll love you."

"I already love you, Jen. You're so sweet how could I not love you?" Clara reassured her as she gave her a quick hug.

"Where did all of that malevolence come from though? I mean where did you ever learn how to do all of that? Those grand sweeping gestures, that vicious look in your eyes, and that chilling voice! That was really impressive. It was . . . wonderful," the Master said in a voice that told Clara that he had liked her that way.

Clara shuddered inwardly at that thought as she said, "I learned it all from watching you two when you're going all Dark Side on everyone. I thought I did a pretty good impression of both of you especially you, Mr. Oncoming Storm."

"I don't look that scary when I get angry, do I?" the Doctor asked in disbelief.

"Yes, definitely," Jenny said remembering how he had acted when he tried to reject her back on Messaline.

"Oh, yes you do, Doctor. It was lucky for me that you didn't do it that often in the incarnation that I traveled with because it was very unnerving at times," Romana said as she got up off the floor.

"Are you alright?" the Master asked her with concern.

"I'm fine. At least I am physically. Mentally though . . ." Romana said before trailing off without finishing her sentence.

"You don't know whether you're Romana or Tish anymore do you?" Clara asked in a sympathetic voice.

At the mention of the name Tish, the Master immediately became visibly guilty and looked away from all of them. Romana didn't look too happy herself as she refused to look at him.

"I feel like both of them and neither of them at the same time. It's like I'm some weird mixture of them now. How did you ever deal with this?" Romana asked Clara.

"I picked Clara and stuck with her. I like her better than Alura," Clara said with no hesitation whatsoever.

"What was so wrong with Alura?" the Doctor said as he finally asked a question that both he and the Master had been dying to know from the start.

"There was nothing wrong with her per se. It was just that she never really did anything. She was too afraid of everything to actually allow herself to live, Doctor. She was too afraid to even tell you that she loved you. I like Clara better. Clara just says what she thinks and tells it like it is. She also lets you have it when you're out of line. I'm really starting to lose it alright hanging around you so much, Chinny. I'm talking about myself in the third person now," Clara said with a grimace.

"As long as you don't become the female version of the Master again, I don't care how crazy you act. In fact, I kind of like it when you act a bit mad," the Doctor said with a grin.

"You would," the Master said with a snort.

"Come to think of it my Clara was a bit mad too. I guess she must have gotten that from you," Jenny said as she teased Clara.

"Oh, hush up, Chin Girl," Clara said.

"Chin Girl? I don't have a huge chin!" Jenny protested.

"No, but you come from him so that makes you Chin Girl in my book," Clara said as she teased her new friend back.

"Shut up," Jenny said as she smiled at her and felt better than she had in a long time now that she had Clara back in her life (sort of anyway) once again.

"Maybe you're right, Clara. I should stay with Tish. I actually liked being her which was why I was resisting the urge to open the watch so much. I also love my family and they won't know how to react if I'm suddenly calling myself Romana. Poor Martha's already scared enough about my changing as it is thanks to a certain person turning completely psychotic when they opened their watch," the newly renamed Tish said as she glared at the Master.

"Why would you care how they react? I don't understand you and Alura and your need to keep a human identity anyway. Why do you want to be human when they're all so inferior to us?" the Master said.

"Yes, you showed how you felt about humans by the way that you treated my parents!" Tish shouted with a furious look on her face which immediately silenced him.

The Doctor noticed with surprise that he actually looked ashamed. He wondered why the Master would suddenly care about what he did to the Joneses just because Romana said something about it. Normally the Master showed no form of remorse whatsoever for any of his victims. What was so different about this time?

"So you really controlled his mind? Or was that just Rassilon convincing himself of that through your clever bit of mental suggestion?" Tish asked Clara with a grin as she tried to change the subject.

"No, that was really her. She was showing a power that she's never displayed before. Probably because she's been too afraid to try it because of the possible consequences," the Moment said as she finally spoke after remaining silent for so long.

"What are you talking about? What consequences?" the Doctor asked as both he and the Master looked at Clara with concern.

"It's nothing. Nothing happened, Doctor. I'm fine," Clara said dismissively.

"Yes, this time you are. I wouldn't recommend ever using that particular power again though, Clara," the Moment said.

"Don't worry. After that experience, I won't," Clara said as she tried not to show the fear that she was feeling just thinking about what almost happened.

"Clara?" the Doctor asked in a questioning voice as he stared at her intently.

"Alright, fine! I can control people's minds but for some reason when I tried it just now my personality almost became just like Rassilon's. I had to fight to regain my own identity," Clara admitted.

"I knew it. I knew you weren't being honest. We became too close for you to fool me," Jenny said as she became worried about Clara all over again.

"You lied! You said it was all just an act," the Doctor said in an upset voice.

"I didn't want to upset you. I really am okay now though, and I'll never do it again. So there's nothing to worry about, okay?" Clara insisted.

"I warned you not to do it the first time. I told you there was a chance that by linking your mind with someone else's in order to control them that some of their personality might bleed over into yours. You're just luck y that it was only temporary," the Moment said as she chastised her.

"Alright, alright. Enough already, 'Mum'!" Clara said sarcastically.

"You need to listen to her," Jenny said which made Clara put her arm around her and smile reassuringly at her.

Jenny sighed still not convinced that she was getting the message.

"I'm just trying to look out for you. I'm trying to make sure that certain timelines don't come into existence that shouldn't," the Moment said as she looked away from Clara.

"What are you talking about?" Clara asked suddenly afraid of her answer.

The Moment hesitated before saying, "I didn't want to say this before, but I'm not just here to protect you, Clara. I'm also here . . . to protect the universe from you."

"What? Are you saying that Clara could become a threat to the universe?" the Doctor asked in a disbelieving voice.

"If she stays just as she is right now, no. The Bad Wolf saw certain timelines though where Clara might become corrupted by using her powers and then . . . well, let's just say that it wasn't pretty and leave it at that," the Moment said.

Clara became very frightened now as she said in a shaky voice, "I definitely won't use my powers anymore then."

Jenny immediately took her hand in hers in a silent gesture of support. Clara smiled gratefully at her for a brief moment as she started to realize just how good a friend that Jenny was to the people that she cared for.

"It's okay, Clara. I won't let that happen to you. I promise," the Doctor said as he put his arms around her.

"No, I promise, Doctor. I'm not using my powers again on purpose no matter what. I don't ever want what almost happened to me to become permanent. I've never been more scared in my life," Clara finally admitted to him.

Clara never ceased to amaze him with how good that she was at keeping her emotions from him. He wished that she would stop that and let him in more. She should know by now that he would never hurt her so there was no cause to keep him shut out like that.

Clara sensed his thoughts and immediately said, "I'm sorry. I'll do better. It's hard to undo a lifetime's worth of habits though."

"Don't feel bad, Dad. I was friends with the other Clara for years, and she never completely opened up to me either. I think it's just the way that she is," Jenny said.

"I'll try to work on being more open to both of you then, okay sweetie?" Clara said as she kissed Jenny's forehead.

The Doctor smiled at Clara just before the two of them kissed while Jenny watched them with a pleased look on her face in the background. She couldn't think of a better person for her father to wind up with, and she definitely approved of them being together. It was going to be pretty strange to think of her as her mother though if they got married. She was more like her bossy overbearing older sister than anything else she thought to herself with a grin.

The Master meanwhile started to worry about Clara as he knew that she would keep being tempted to use her powers if other people like Rassilon and Cobb continued to come after her. He made a decision right then and there.

"Clara, you're going to travel with us from now on, and I don't want to hear any more excuses. You can't stay here on Earth anymore no matter how much you want to. I'm sorry but that's the way that it has to be," the Master said.

"Okay," Clara said without trying to fight him.

"Okay?" the Master said surprised at her lack of an argument.

"I'll go with you and stay away from Earth as much as possible until hopefully this all blows over. I'm only doing this because I already decided to do it in order to keep the Earth from being attacked anymore though and not because you ordered me to do it. Got it? In fact, if you ever try to order me about like that again, I'll just have to introduce you to the back of my hand. Got it?" Clara said with an unsettling smile on her face.

The Master half smiled and half shook with fear as he said, "I'm sorry. I would never try to order you about normally, Clara. I'm just worried about you."

"I know and that plus the fact that you're one of my boys is the reason that I haven't already laid you out cold on the floor by now," Clara said with a much warmer smile now.

"You're one of her boys?" Tish asked the Master with an amused look on her face.

"She just means that I'm one of her two best friends from the old days," the Master said as his face turned red.

"It sounds more like she meant that she gives you the marching orders instead of the other way around," Tish said with a playful smile.

"That's exactly what it means, Tish," Clara said as the Master turned even redder with embarrassment.

"Well, well. The mighty Master reduced to being ordered about. I never thought I'd see the day, but I do love it though now that I have," Tish said as she laughed.

"What do we do with Rassilon and Cobb?" Jenny asked.

"I'll have to put Rassilon under the Chameleon Arch because he's too dangerous to leave as he is, and then I'll give him and Cobb to UNIT. They'll know what to do with them. Or maybe I'll give him to Jack. I haven't seen him in ages," the Doctor mused.

"Jack? Who's Jack?" Jenny asked.

The Doctor suddenly turned pale as thoughts of Jack hitting on Jenny passed through his mind as he said, "He's no one. He's no one that you should know about anyway. I'll just go see Jack some other time. By myself."

The Moment started laughing her head off in the background while Jenny continued to look confused.

"I get the feeling that you dad just made his first attempt at keeping you away from boys," Clara said with a chuckle.

"Oh, is he cute?" Jenny asked with an interested expression.

"Oh, he's much more than cute, and he'll hit on anything that moves. He never hit on me though after we got to know one another. We were more like siblings. I mean he and Rose were," the Moment said as she winced at the mental gaff.

"It's okay to think of yourself as Rose," Clara said reassuringly.

"No, it's not because I'm not really her. I'm really going to have to stop doing that somehow," the Moment insisted.

"Right then. We'll take both our prisoners to Kate at UNIT. Good old UNIT where no one flirts with you from the moment that you arrive there. Not usually anyway. That sounds much better doesn't it?" the Doctor said nervously as he started toward the cupboard.

"Not to me it doesn't. Now I really want to meet this Jack. Maybe he and I were meant to be together," Jenny said teasing him.

"No, absolutely not! In my first official act as your father, I forbid it," the Doctor said flustered as Clara and the Moment laughed at him.

"Hmm. What's his last name?" Jenny asked the Moment curiously.

"Harkness," the Moment replied with a mischievous smile while the Doctor glared at her.

"I like it. Mrs. Jenny Harkness," Jenny said as her father started to gasp for air like a fish in the background.

"Just . . . shut up," the Doctor said as he started to turn red with embarrassment now.

All three women started laughing at him now and so did Tish who thought that the whole thing was amusing. She really loved being back with the Doctor and this new family of his that he had established. She was so glad that Clara, who was now her cousin and her best friend at the same time, was the one that the Doctor had chosen to be with.

The Doctor chose to ignore them as he continued towards the cupboard now. He soon opened the door and hissed in anger at what he found there.

"What is it?" Clara asked in alarm.

"Cobb's gone. He must have had some kind of teleportation device on him that I didn't find," the Doctor said as he mentally kicked himself.

"We should leave as quickly as possible then because he never gives up once he sets his mind on something. Believe me on that," Jenny said.

"That's great. So I've still got Cobb and who knows who else hunting me down while the Time Lords are officially back and liable to pop up again to bother me at any time. This just keeps getting better and better," Clara said with a sigh.

"We need to take Rassilon to UNIT, collect Merry, and say our good byes now while we still can, Clara. I'm afraid that from now on that your life on Earth has come to an end. It might not be that way forever though," the Doctor said with an encouraging look on his face.

"Yes, hopefully not," Clara said sadly.

"I'm sorry," the Doctor said as he gave her a tender kiss.

"So am I. I never meant to do this to you. I honestly didn't know," Jenny apologized.

"I know, sweetie. It's alright. There was no way for you to have known," Clara said.

"It's time to go now I'm afraid. What about you, Romana? Are you going with us?" the Doctor asked Tish.

Tish hesitated as she briefly looked between Clara and the Master. Then she shook her head no.

"No, I want to stay here and explain things to Martha and the rest of my family. I also don't want to be taken away from home for who knows how long either," Tish said.

"Yeah, that could definitely happen believe me, and then your family will think that you're dead. You don't want to go through all of that grief," the Moment said.

"Oh, give it a rest," the Doctor said with a moan.

"Twelve months, Doctor," the Moment said.

The Doctor groaned and sighed as he took Rassilon into the TARDIS to use the Arch on him.

"Twelve months? Really?" Tish asked.

"Yep," the Moment said.

"I'm surprised that it wasn't twelve years knowing the Doctor. I bet he did that to a companion before too," Tish said.

"I certainly wouldn't put it past him. He really has no idea how to pilot that TARDIS whatsoever," Clara said.

"I know. I once got onto him about it, and he actually tore a page out of the manual because he disagreed with what it said. Can you believe that?" Tish said.

"With his driving? Yes, I definitely can. I bet he never read more than a few pages of the manual in his life," Clara said.

"Do you remember his driving test?" the Master said as he started to laugh.

"Oh, yeah! I've never seen so many people run so fast in their lives!" Clara said as she burst out laughing.

"Oh, I want to hear. Tell me what happened," Jenny said eagerly.

As the others all started to talk about it, the Doctor smiled at them from the doorway to the TARDIS. Even if they were mercilessly making fun of his obviously superior driving skills, he still was enjoying every moment of having them all around.

He loved having a family (and whatever the Master was to him) again.

Next: Clara says her good byes and leaves for a new life of traveling through time and space full-time with the Doctor, the Master, and Jenny. Where will she end up on her first trip and who or what will she run across there? It seems that an old enemy of the Doctor's isn't as dead as he thought after all. Tish meanwhile decides to stay on Earth and tell her family the truth about herself when she's interrupted by the return of the Time Lords. What do they want now and how might it affect Tish forever?