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In Cumbria, 1207, a monk with light skin, brown eyes and curly hair with a stubble named Paul pounded on a large door of a Monastery's abbey with his right fist. He then turned around in frustration and pushed back his cowl with both of his hands. He turned back around towards the door and pounded on it with his right fist again before the window of a small hatch on the left side of the door slid open as another monk appeared in the small door and looked through it.
"Wake the Abbott, the bells of Saint John are ringing," Paul told the monk.
A while in the monastery's courtyard, Paul was standing there with his arms crossed when the Abbot, an elderly man with light skin, blue eyes and white hair that had slightly receded away from his forehead and wearing the uniform of a monk, came out and joined Paul.
"We must go to them," the Abbot told Paul.
A while later, the Abbot and Paul walked down the hall with Paul carrying a torch in his right hand.
"They call him the Mad Monk and her the Mad Nun, don't they?" Paul asked the Abbot, "And they don't call their child anything at all, right?"
"They shouldn't," the Abbot stated, "He's definitely not a monk and she's' neither a nun as well."
They then entered a room where another monk sat at a table with a nun across from him and another monk behind the monk but appeared to be a few inches shorter than the monk and behind them sat a painting on an easel.
"I'm sorry to intrude," the Abbot apologised to them, "The bells of Saint John are ringing."
The monk and nun both stood up next to the Abbot as the other monk walked towards them before both monks removed their hoods with their hands, while the nun did the same with her veil to reveal that they were the Doctor, Rose and Sydney. The Time Lord had dabs of paint on the sleeves of his habit.
"We're going to need horses," the Doctor told the Abbot.
"Like he said, we'll need three horses for us," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"And make sure they're fast ones too," Sydney added, agreeing with his parents.
The Doctor, Rose and Sydney all walked away to a smaller room to the back revealing the painting. It was of Clara Oswald, dressed as the Doctor and Rose had last seen her and Sydney had met her, as a Victorian governess. Along the bottom of the painting are the words 'Run you clever pair, and remember.' Paul walked closer towards the painting as he looked at it.
"Is that her?" Paul asked the Abbot as he stepped forward and looked back at him.
"The woman twice dead, and her final message," the Abbot confirmed "They have withdrawn to this place of peace and solitude that they might divine her meaning with their son. If they truly are mad, then this is their madness."
At a house in 2013, Clara Oswald, who had mid-length hair and was dressed in a red coloured silence and noise dye dress, black tights, black boots and a necklace as she paced the floor as she held a phone over her right ear and held sheets of paper in her left hand as she waited on a phone for someone to pick up the other line. A preteen girl with light dark skin, curly brown hair and eyes named Angie, wearing a colourful jumper was sitting at the kitchen table and using a laptop.
"Angie? Is the internet working?" Clara asked Angie as she walked towards her in the kitchen, "I'm trying to phone the helpline, they won't answer."
"It's working for me," Angie answered.
"Can I use it when you're finished?" Clara asked her.
"More than one person can use the internet at a time, Clara," Angie told her.
"You doing your homework?" Clara asked her as she approached and leaned next to the right side of her.
"Shut up, you're not my mum," Angie told her.
"And I'm not trying to be, okay?" Clara assured her when a bald man with dark skin and brown eyes, wearing a white dress shirt, grey suit jacket and trousers named George Maitland entered the kitchen patting his pockets, looking for his car keys with a preeteen toy with light dark skin, curly brown hair and eyes, wearing a jacket with a plaid shirt underneath named Artie.
"Right," Maitland muttered to himself as he continued to search for his keys before he turned around and saw Artie holding the keys up in his right hand, "Yes!" He then took the keys from him and turned around towards Clara, "Angie's probably fine on her own. You could probably have the night off."
"I'm Okay," Clara told him as she removed the phone from her right ear, "I'll be upstairs trying to figure out my computer."
"Anyway, the adverts are in," Maitland stated as he put on a black coloured jacket over his suit jacket, "So hopefully we'll find someone."
"I'm here as long as you need me," Clara told him.
"Good," Maitland replied as Artie was looking at the back of a book as held it in his hands as his father began to head towards the door, "Right, come on, Artie, time to go."
Clara then took the book Artie was holding to reveal that it was called 'Summer Falls' and was written by Amelia Williams, who was none other than the Doctor and Rose's former companion, Amy Pond.
"What chapter are you on?" Clara asked him.
"Ten," Artie answered.
"Eleven is the best," Clara gasped as she handed the book back to him, "You'll cry your eyes out."
"Artie!" Maitland called out to his son before Artie followed his father.
"Oh, come on! just answer," Clara muttered to herself as she placed the phone over her left ear, "Just pick it up. Pick it up. Pick it up." She then left the kitchen, "Pick it up. Pick it up."
Clara soon walked up the steps to her room of the house. As she entered her room, Clara spun around the post in her loft room before she sat at her desk and reached tentatively at an open netbook on her desk. She tapped a few keys on it with her right hand's index finger before she moved the cursor towards the Wi-Fi icon. At the top of the Wi-Fi selection was the connection labelled 'Maitland Family' and underneath it were symbols that appeared to be scripts from an East Asian language.
Back in Cumbria, 1207, the Doctor, Rose and Sydney all dismounted from their horses as they heard a telephone ringing nearby and walked with Paul as another monk stayed with the horses as another monk, who also had light skin, but had black hair that had begun to recede from his head with a beard and blue eyes was waiting with a torch in his right hand outside a stone doorway into an underground cavern as Paul took it from him.
A while later inside the cave, Paul led the way with the torch with the Doctor, Rose and Sydney following. The ringing of a telephone continued as they made their way down the cave. At the end of the tunnel was the TARDIS, its light shining like a beacon as all three Gallifreyans realised that was the source of the ringing.
"That is not supposed to happen," the Doctor told Paul.
"You're right, love," Rose said, agreeing with him, "Although there have been a few occasions of it happening. Like when you met Nancy in 1941 during the London Blitz and when we were dealing with gas masked zombies before we met Jack and while I was still chameleon-arched."
"From what you two've told me in my seventy years of life, you're right, Mum and Dad," Sydney muttered, agreeing with his parents.
The four of them then ran up to the TARDIS before the Doctor opened the panel that held its outside phone and grabbed it with his right hand.
"Hello?" The Doctor said, answering the phone.
"Ah, hello!" Clara replied from her room in the Maitland house in 2013 as she was on the phone with the Doctor and had the phone over her left ear, "I can't find the internet."
"Sorry?" The Doctor said with confusion in his voice.
"It's gone," Clara explained from the phone, "The internet."
"Can't find it anywhere," Clara added, "Where is it?"
"The internet?" The Doctor said with confusion in his voice.
"Yes, the internet," Clara confirmed.
"Why don't I have the internet?" Clara asked him.
"It's 1207," the Doctor said with disbelief in his voice as he walked away from the TARDIS with the phone still over his left ear.
"I've got half past 3:00," Clara told the Time Lord as she sat up in her chair, "Am I phoning a different time zone?"
"Yeah, you really sort of are," the Doctor answered.
"Will it show up on the bill?" Clara asked him.
"Oh, I dread to think," the Doctor answered as he paced the room, tangling the cord around, "Listen, where did you get this number?"
"The woman in the shop wrote it down," Clara answered, "It's a helpline, isn't it? She said it was the best helpline out there. In the universe, she said."
"What woman?" The Doctor asked her with confusion in his voice, "Who was she?"
"I don't know," Clara answered as the Doctor looked at Paul, Rose and Sydney and shook his head, "The woman in the shop."
"So why isn't there internet?" Clara asked him, "Shouldn't it just sort of... be there?"
"Look, listen, I'm not actually... this isn't…" The Doctor began to say as he continued to pace around the room before stopping in front of the TARDIS, "You have clicked on the Wi-Fi button, haven't you?"
"Hang on. Um…" Clara began to say as she looked at her netbook, "Wi-Fi…"
Back in 1207, the Doctor removed the phone from his ear for a second before placing it back over his left ear.
"Click on the Wi-Fi, you'll see a list of names," the Doctor told Clara.
"You see one you recognise…" The Doctor began to ask her from the phone in 2013 as she clicked on the Wi-Fi and the Maitlands' connection.
"It's asking me for a password," Clara told him when Angie suddenly appeared in the doorway as she came upstairs.
"Is it OK if I go and see Nina?" Angie asked her, "You can call her mum."
"Sure," Clara answered, "Um, what's the password for the internet?"
"Rycpar123," Angie answered before she headed back downstairs.
"How am I supposed to remember that?" Clara asked her as she walked towards the top of the stairs, causing Angie to stop and sighed as she turned back around towards her.
"Is it an evil spirit?" Paul asked the Doctor.
"I don't think so," Rose assured him, "The Doctor said 'internet' and that's something that won't be invented till the 1980s and wasn't made public till 1993."
"Mum's right, whoever Dad's talking to is from the distant future," Sydney said, agreeing with his mother.
"It's a woman," the Doctor told the monk before he crossed himself.
Back in 2013, Clara sat back down at the desk.
"Hang on. Just a mo," Clara said as she sat back down at her desk and began typing each letter of the password and spoke as she did so, "Run you clever pair and remember…."
As Clara said that, the Doctor widened his eyes in shock at what he just heard.
"One…" Clara went on as she clicked '1' on her netbook's keyboard.
The Doctor suddenly remembered when he had heard the phrase before with Rose as he suddenly remembered when Oswin sacrificed herself at the Dalek Asylum.
"Two…" Clara went on as she clicked the '2' button on her netbook's keyboard.
The Doctor suddenly remembered when he, Rose and Sydney heard the phase when Clara passed away in 1892 on Christmas Day after they defeated the Great Intelligence and his snowmen with Vastra and the Paternoster Gang.
"Three…" Clara began to say as the Doctor walked away from the TARDIS.
"What did you say?!" The Doctor asked her.
As the Doctor said that, Clara accidentally clicked the '4' button on her netbook's keyboard instead of the '3' button.
"Don't shout!" Clara told him as she removed the phone from her left ear before she placed it back over her left ear, "Now you made me type it wrong. It's thrown me out again. What do I do, how do I get back in?" She then reopened the Wi-FI selection tab and clicked on the option with the symbols that appeared to be scripts from an East Asian language, "It's just a, um, a thing to remember the password, 'run you clever pair and remember.' Oh, hang on." She then put the phone down as walked away from her netbook.
As Clara came down the stairs to the first floor of the house to answer the door, she heard someone knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell.
"Hello, yes!" Clara said over the knocking, "I hear you! Yep! Uh-huh!" She then opened the door and saw the Doctor, Rose and Sydney standing there, still in their habits with the Time Lord standing in front of the door, while Rose and Sydney stood on both sides of him, "Hello?"
"Clara," all three Gallifreyans panted as they stared at her, "Clara Oswald?"
"Hello," Clara greeted them as she stared at the three Gallifreyans with a confused expression on her face.
"Clara Oswin Oswald!" The Doctor said as he continued to stare at her.
"Just Clara Oswald," Clara told him, "What was that middle one?"
"Isn't that your middle name?" Rose asked her with confusion in her voice.
"No," Clara answered, "I don't have one."
"Do you remember us?" The Doctor asked her.
"No," Clara answered, "Should I? Who are the three of you?"
"The Doctor," the Time Lord introduced himself as he entered the house with Rose and Sydney following him, "No? The Doctor?" He then looked at himself in a mirror on the wall.
"Doctor who?" Clara asked him.
"No, just the Doctor," the Doctor answered.
"I'm his wife, Rose Smith," Rose answered.
"Okay, then, Doctor Smith," Clara muttered, thinking that they shared the same surname.
"Just the Doctor," Rose corrected her, "He prefers to be called 'The Doctor.'"
"And I'm their son, Sydney Rory Smith," the young Gallifreyan boy said, introducing himself to Clara.
"Wait, you're their son?" Clara said with disbelief in her voice as she stared at him, "But… you don't look old enough. I mean, no offence, but you look like you're 15 and they look like they're in their late-twenties and mid-thirties."
"Long story," Sydney told her, "Different ageing process than humans."
"Actually, sorry, could you just ask me that again?" The Doctor requested.
"Could I what?" Clara asked him.
"Could you just ask me that question again?" The Doctor answered.
"Doctor who?" Clara asked him.
"Okay, just once more," the Doctor requested.
"Doctor who?" Clara asked the Time Lord.
"Oh, yeah," the Doctor muttered as he stepped back outside and did a little dance, "Ooh… Do you know, I never realised how much I enjoy hearing that said out loud. Thank you."
"And I've always loved hearing those words said to my husband," Rose told her as she followed him out of the house.
"And this is my first time hearing those words said to my father," Sydney told Clara as he followed his parents back outside, "Thank you for being the first person I hear those words from."
"Okay," Clara muttered as she closed the door back up.
"Hey! No! Clara!" The Doctor called out to Clara as he began pounding on the door again, "Please!" She then began to walk back up the stairs, but stopped as the Doctor called to her with his voice being muffled, "Clara, we need to talk to you! Listen! Please!"
"Like he said, we really need to speak with you, Clara!" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"And it's really important!" Sydney added, agreeing with his parents.
About ten or so minutes later, Clara was sitting halfway up the front stairs as the Doctor, Rose and Sydney were still outside of the front door.
"Please!" The Doctor continued to plead with Clara from outside the house's front door, "We just need to speak to you."
Having enough of this, Clara suddenly stood back up and walked down the stairs and walked over to the intercom and switched it on before the Doctor's face appeared on the screen with Rose and Sydney being on both sides of him as they smiled and waved at her with their right hands.
"Why are you three still here?" Clara asked them, "Why are you three here at all?"
"Oi, you phoned us," the Doctor stated, "You were looking for the internet."
"That was you?" Clara asked him, "But I never spoke with your wife or son in that call."
"Course it was me," the Doctor confirmed.
"And me and Sid were just on the side listening to the Doctor when you were making that call," Rose explained.
"Mum's right, we were doing just that," Sydney said, agreeing with his mother.
"How did you three get here so fast?" Clara asked them.
"We just happened to be in the neighbourhood," the Doctor answered from the intercom before he, Rose and Sydney all moved out of the way to show her the TARDIS, "On our mobile phone."
"It's a lot to take in, but that's how we got here," Rose added.
"Mum and Dad are right, that's exactly how we got here," Sydney said, agreeing with his parents.
"When you say 'mobile phone,' why do you point at that blue box?" Clara asked the Doctor.
"Because it's a surprisingly accurate description," the Doctor answered as he appeared back on the intercom's screen.
"Okay, we're finished now," Clara muttered as she switched off the intercom with her right hand's index finger.
"Oi, no! Look…" The Doctor began to say from outside the house.
"Listen to us, Clara!" Rose said, agreeing with her husband from outside.
"Like they said, listen to what we have to say," Sydney said, agreeing with his parents.
Clara suddenly heard the sound of a door closing and looked upstairs as a floorboard creaked, "Angie? Angie, are you upstairs? Angie, are you still here?" She then heard another floorboard creak as she walked over to the base of the stairs and looked up as a young girl with light skin, black hair and brown eyes, dressed in old-fashioned clothes slowly walked down the stairs before stopping part way down, "Hello."
"Hello," the girl replied.
"Are you a friend of Angie's?" Clara asked her.
"I'm a friend of Angie's," the girl told her.
"What were you doing upstairs?" Clara asked her.
"I was upstairs," the girl stated.
"I know you, don't I?" Clara said as she recognised the girl from somewhere, but couldn't figure out where from.
"You know me," the girl stated, "Don't you?"
Clara gasped in shock as she now recognised where she recognised her from as she was the girl from the cover of 'Summer Falls,' the book Artie was reading. Clara backed away as the girl's head slowly spun around to reveal a concave dish, which resembled the bowl of a spoon. Across the dish ran digital information as Clara could only stare at it as it began beeping electronically.
"Right! don't be a monk!" The Doctor said as he, Rose and Sydney entered the TARDIS and began removing pieces of his habit off, "Monks are not cool!"
"Absolutely, no more habits!" Rose said, agreeing with her husband as she began removing her own nun habit as well, "Nuns aren't exactly the height of fashion either!"
"You two said it, Mum and Dad!" Sydney stated, agreeing with them as he removed his habit as well, "Lets not pretend to be monks or nuns anymore, yeah? They're ever so strict."
The three of them then went to the area under the console and opened three sections and as the Doctor began throwing pieces of clothing over his shoulders with Rose doing the same before he found his fez and placed it over his head.
"Ah!" The Doctor exclaimed before Sydney looked at his father.
"Mum was right, she knew that I would see you with a fez one day, Dad," Sydney said with a smile on his face.
"And still sexy with it as always," Rose stated with a flirtatious smile on her face as she looked at him.
"As I've always been, love," the Doctor flirted back at her.
"Mum, Dad, can you two please not flirt while we're changing into 21st century clothes?" Sydney requested his parents.
"Alright, alright, no flirting," Rose said, chuckling as she looked at them, "But I must say, the fez has always suited you, Doctor."
"Well, I've always had a knack for pulling off unusual headgear," the Doctor stated as he grinned and adjusted the fez over his head, "And you, Rose, you could make a potato sack look stylish."
"Just… get changed, you two," Sydney ordered his parents as he rolled his eyes, but slightly smiled, "And no more talk about monks, nuns, or fezzes!"
"Deal!" The Doctor and Rose both said in unison, their laughter echoing around the console room.
The Doctor, Rose and Sydney all continued searching for their clothes as the Doctor threw his fez behind him before he found and held his old tweed jacket and a purple coloured frock coat, while Rose found her pinstriped jacket along with one that was dark blue with thin red pinstripes that bore a striking resemblance to the one that the Doctor's previous incarnation wore on occasion and held them up with both of her hands as Sydney found his blue t-shirt and plaid shirt and held them up with both of his hands as well. He dropped his tweed jacket as Rose placed her jacket around the back of her right shoulder with Sydney doing the same with his plaid shirt.
The Doctor soon had his grey trousers, pinstripe dress shirt and bracers on and began putting on his frock coat. Rose, on the other hand, had her brown trousers with blue thin pinstripes on along with her red converse shoes and brown jacket with thin blue pinstripes and was buttoned up along with her watch over her right wrist. She held a feminine light brown overcoat and put it over her jacket as Sydney stood nearby. He had his jumper on with his plaid shirt and blue t-shirt underneath along with jeans and Reeboks on. The Doctor then buttoned up his shirt's top button before he quickly headed towards his clothes panel around the console and took out a small wooden box with both of his hands and opened it to reveal a bowtie.
The Doctor soon exited the TARDIS with his bow tie on and rubbed his hands as Rose and Sydney followed him out and hurried over to the front door with Sydney closing the TARDIS' door behind him with his right hand.
"Ha! Clara!" All three Gallifreyans said, happily as he ran over towards the door to the Maitland's house with Rose and Sydney following him.
"Clara?" The Doctor called out to Clara as he knocked on the door before he moved over to the intercom.
"Hello?" They heard Clara say from the intercom.
"See, look, it's me," the Doctor said, happily as he tapped on both of his cheeks with his hands before he spun around, "De-monked. Sensible clothes."
"Agreed, Dad!" Sydney said, grinning as he adjusted his own clothes, "De-monked and back to normal. Well, as normal as we get, anyway!"
"And I'm de-nunned!" Rose added with a laugh as she smoothed down her own clothes, "Feels good to be back in regular attire!"
"Um, can we come in now?" The Doctor asked Clara as he turned back around towards the door.
"I don't understand," Clara said over the intercom.
"Could you just open the door?" The Doctor explained.
"I don't know…" Clara began to say from the intercom.
"Of course you can," the Doctor told her as he tapped on the intercom with his right hand's index finger.
"…where I am," Clara went on over the intercom, causing all three Gallifreyans to exchange a glance before they stared at the intercom, knowing that something had happened to her as she began breathing heavily, "I don't know where I am! Where am I? Please tell me where I am. I don't know where I am!"
Rose then pulled her sonic screwdriver out from her jacket's inside pocket with her right hand and extended it before she aimed and used it on the front door, unlocking the door before she closed her screwdriver and placed it back inside her jacket's pocket as the Doctor approached the door before opening it and entered the house with Rose and Sydney following him into the house.
"I don't know where I am!" They heard Clara say as they entered the house and saw that she was lying unconscious on the floor at the base of the stairs.
"Clara!" The Doctor said as he, Rose and Sydney kneeled beside Clara as he pulled his sonic screwdriver out of his jacket with his right hand and placed his left hand under the back of her head as he scanned her with his screwdriver, "Clara?"
"I don't know where I am," they heard Clara say in a panicked tone as she breathed heavily, "I don't know where I am! I don't understand. I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am. I don't understand."
The Doctor, Rose and Sydney all looked up and saw the girl standing on the stairs and stood up and that Clara was inside the girl's dish and that she was looking around, lost as they realised that her voice was now disembodied.
"I don't know where I am!" Clara said with confusion in her voice before she began panting, "Where am I? I don't know where I am." The Doctor then aimed and activated his sonic screwdriver on the robot, "I don't know where I am."
As the Doctor used his screwdriver on the girl, its visage of the girl disappeared to show the most basic of a humanoid shape in robotic form before he lowered his screwdriver.
"A walking base station," the Doctor realised, "Walking Wi-Fi base station. Hoovering up data, hoovering up people!" He then closed his sonic screwdriver and placed it back inside his jacket's inside pocket.
"You know, with that round head, it sort of looks like a… spoonhead," Rose said as she looked at the robot's shape, specifically its dish-like head.
"Spoonhead, huh?" Sydney repeated with a small smile as he looked at his mother before looking back at the robot, "I can see it. Good one, Mum!"
"Enough with the spoonheads," the Doctor ordered them as he ran up the stairs, his tone serious, "We need to focus. Clara's in danger. Stay here and watch over Clara"
"Right, Doctor," Rose said, agreeing with her husband as kneeled beside Clara again.
"Got it, Dad," Sydney added, agreeing with them as he kneeled beside Clara again as well, "Watch over Clara while you're upstairs."
As the Doctor reached the top of the stairs, he entered Clara's room with his sonic screwdriver back out in his right hand and had it activated as he spun and found the notebook and ran out of the room with it as he headed back downstairs.
A few minutes later in the front hall, the Doctor kneeled beside Clara, his fingers flying over the keyboard, trying to hack into the Spoonhead to free Clara as Rose and Sydney were standing on both sides of him.
"Oh, no, you don't!" The Doctor muttered to himself, "Oh, no, you don't."
"Come on, Theta," Rose muttered to herself as the Doctor continued to type away.
"I'm sure Dad'll succeed, Mum," Sydney assured her as his father continued to type away.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no," the Doctor muttered to himself as he continued to type on the Netbook's keys, "Not this time, Clara. I promise you."
The Doctor then felt for Clara's pulse around her neck with his right hand's index and middle fingers. There was a whirring sound from the Spoonhead as a beam of light shot from the dish and into Clara. She took in a deep breath and coughed as she rolled over.
"Okay," the Doctor assured Clara as he gently stroked her hair with his hands and lifted her head a bit, "It's Okay, it's Okay. You're fine, you're back. Yes, you are." He then kissed her head as he smiled, "Oh, yes, you are."
"Good job, love," Rose said, relief washing over her as she saw Clara stir.
"You did it, Dad," Sydney added, agreeing with his mother with a smile on his face, "You brought her back."
A few hours later in Clara's room, it was night as Clara was asleep in her bed. The Doctor took a pitcher of water and poured a glass before setting it on the bedside table. He then found another vase. Rose approached the bed stand with a cup in her right hand and some hand-picked flowers in her left hand and set that on the bed stand and put the flowers inside the cup.
"Ha," the Doctor muttered to himself as he remembered something else and returned with a package of Jammy Dodgers and peeled off the Jammy Dodgers' wrapper and inhaled their delicious scent, "Mmm." He then placed them on a plate and grabbed one of them with his right hand and took a bite of one of the Jammy Dodgers, savouring the taste, "Mmm." He then put the half-eaten cookie back on the plate.
Rose then spotted a book on the shelf beside the bed, titled '101 Places To See,' and pointed it out to the Doctor with her right hand's index finger. He then approached the shelf and grabbed it with his left hand before he flipped through the book. At the front, in a child's handwriting, it read 'Property of Clara Oswald, Age 9.' The age was crossed out as another year followed. The ages missing were 16 and 23.
Opposite the page was a pressed faded red coloured leaf. The Doctor took the leaf out by the stem and twirled it and sniffed it and before he licked it, causing Rose to giggle softly for a second. He and Rose both exchanged a glance and seemed puzzled by what the leaf told them. He put the leaf back in the book and closed it before he put the book back on the shelf. He paused it for a moment and leaned against the headboard before leaving the room with Rose following him.
As both Gallifreyans left the room with their footsteps receding, Clara suddenly woke slowly and reopened her eyes and saw the cookies on her table. She then sat up in bed with a puzzled expression on her face as to how she got there. Clara then placed her right hand over the right side of her head and heard the house's front door closing and a dog barking outside.
Outside the Maitlands' house, the Doctor was sitting in a folding chair outside the TARDIS in the Maitlands' driveway with Sydney sitting in another. The Doctor had Clara's netbook and was working on the Spoonhead. Sydney and Rose on the other hand were sitting on similar chairs to the Doctor with the young Gallifreyan boy having a history book written in Gallifreyan in his hands with Rose sting next to him as she was teaching him some history of their people. Clara opened her window and leaned out the window and saw the three Gallifreyans.
"Hello?" Clara said as she looked at the three Gallifreyans.
"Hello!" All three Gallifreyans replied as they looked up at her and stood up from the chairs they were sitting on.
"Are you all right?" The Doctor asked her as he placed the netbook on the ground as Sydney did the same with his Gallifreyan history book.
"I'm in bed," Clara told them.
"Yes," the Doctor confirmed.
"Indeed, you are," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Good to see you're resting, Clara," Sydney said, giving her a friendly smile, "We'll be here if you need anything."
"I don't remember going," Clara told them.
"No," the Doctor confirmed.
"What did I miss?" Clara asked them.
"Oh! Quite a lot, actually. Uh…" He then reached into his jacket's inside pocket with his right hand and pulled out a small notebook, "Angie called. She's going to stay over at Nina's. Apparently that's all completely fine and you shouldn't worry like you always do, for Rassilon's sake, get off her back." He then flipped the notebook's page, "Also, your dad phoned. Mainly about the government. He seems very cross with them, we've got several pages on that. He then turned pages, "I said we'd look into it. I fixed that rattling noise in the washing machine, Rose here indexed the kitchen cupboards, we optimised the photosynthesis in the main flowerbed and I assembled the quadricycle."
"Assembled the what?" Clara asked him with confusion in her voice, causing Rose and Sydney to chuckle.
"I found a disassembled quadricycle in the garage," the Doctor explained.
"I don't think you did," Clara told him.
"I invented the quadricycle!" The Doctor muttered in an awed-whisper sounding tone.
"What happened to me?" Clara asked them.
"Don't you remember?" The Doctor asked her as he stepped forward a bit.
"Like he said, do you remember where you were, Clara?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"I was scared. Really scared," Clara answered, "Didn't know where I was."
"Do you know now?" The Doctor asked her.
"Yes," Clara answered.
"You've been through a lot, Clara," Rose told her with a soft smile on her face, "Rest is the best thing for you now."
"Yeah, Clara," Sydney said, agreeing with his mother, "We'll be right here, keeping watch. Goodnight."
"Well, then, you should go to sleep," the Doctor urged Clara, "Because you're safe now, we promise. Goodnight, Clara."
"Like they said, Goodnight, Clara," Rose said, agreeing with them.
The Doctor then turned on his heels and headed back towards his chair by the TARDIS with Rose and Sydney doing the same as Clara closed her window as the Time Lord , Time Lady and young Gallifreyan boy sat back down on their chairs with the Doctor picking Clara's netbook back up with Sydney doing the same with his Gallifreyan history book when Clara suddenly opened the window again and stuck her head out as the Doctor continued his work with the Spoonhead, while Rose continued teaching Sydney the history of their people.
"Are you three guarding me?" Clara asked them.
"Well, yes," the Doctor confirmed as he, Rose and Sydney looked back up at her as they stopped what they were doing, "Yes, we are."
"Indeed, we are, Clara," Rose said, giving her a reassuring smile.
"Always, Clara," Sydney added with a smile on his face, "You're safe with us."
"Are you three seriously going to sit down there all night?" Clara asked them with surprise in her voice as she smiled.
"Yeah, we promise. we won't budge from this spot," the Doctor answered as he sat back and crossed his legs.
"Well, then., I'll have to come to the three of you," Clara told them as she closed the window again.
"Eh?" All three Gallifreyans muttered with surprise in their voices as the Doctor and Sydney stood back up before they all stepped away from the chairs.
A few moments later, Clara exited the house with a chair hooked over her right arm and two cups of tea in her left hand and two more under her left armpit as the Doctor was now holding a wrench in his right hand, while Sydney had his Gallifreyan history book on the ground as the Doctor was working on something.
"I like your house," the Doctor told her.
"As do I," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Me too," Sydney muttered, agreeing with his parents.
"It isn't mine. I'm a friend of the family," Clara corrected them as she set the chair down across from the Doctor and Sydney's chairs.
"You look after the kids," the Doctor realised, "Oh yes. You're a governess, aren't you?" He then tapped his forehead with the wrench, "Just like…"
"Just like what?" Clara asked him as she handed the Doctor one of the cups as he took it with his left hand and handed the other two cups to Rose and Sydney, who took them with their right hand before she sat backwards on her chair.
"Just like…" The Doctor began to answer before he took a sip of his tea and set the wrench down, "I thought you probably would be."
"It's a long story," Rose told her as she took a sip of her tea as well.
"Indeed, a very long story," Sydney said, agreeing with his mother as he also took a sip of his tea.
"Are you three going to explain what happened to me?" Clara asked them.
"There's something in the Wi-Fi," the Doctor explained as he sat down back on his chair with Rose and Sydney doing the same with theirs.
"Okay," Clara muttered to herself.
"This whole world is swimming in Wi-Fi. We're living in a Wi-Fi soup. Suppose something got inside it," the Doctor went on, "Suppose there was something living in the Wi-Fi, harvesting human minds, extracting them. Imagine that. Human souls trapped like flies in the World Wide Web. stuck forever, crying out for help."
"That's right," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "It's a bit hard to believe, but that's what we're dealing with."
"And we're here to help, Clara," Sydney added, "We won't let you get stuck in that Wi-Fi soup."
"Isn't that basically Twitter?" Clara asked them with confusion in her voice as the Doctor began typing on the netbook again and pulled up the Wi-Fi selection before he, Rose and Sydney all looked up at her as they heard what she just commented, "What were those faces for?"
"A computer can hack another computer. A living, sentient computer…" the Doctor explained, "Maybe that could hack people, edit them, rewrite them."
"Why would you say that?" Clara asked him.
"Because a few hours ago, you knew nothing about the internet," the Doctor answered before he pointed at her with both of his index fingers, "And you just made a joke about Twitter."
"Oh," Clara muttered before she realised what he meant, "Oh! Oh, that's weird." He then crossed his left arm and placed his right fist near his chin before lowering his right fist, "I know all about computers now in my head. Where did that come from?"
"You were uploaded for a while. Wherever you were, you brought something extra back," the Doctor explained as he lowered his arms, "Which I very much doubt you're going to be allowed to keep."
"Yeah, I doubt that whoever is using the Wi-Fi as a weapon is going to allow you to keep your knowledge of the internet," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Definitely," Sydney stated, agreeing with his parents, "It's like you've been given a temporary download of internet knowledge. But I doubt it's meant to be permanent."
The Doctor then slowly turned his head and saw a figure standing across the street under a lamp before Rose and Sydney did the same and saw the figure as well. The three of them got up and stood beside the TARDIS, still staring at the figure and realised that it was a Spoonhead.
"You and us, inside that box now," the Doctor ordered Clara.
"I'm sorry?" Clara said with confusion in her voice.
"Look, just get inside," the Doctor urged her as he hurried over to her, causing her to stand up to get out of his way as he moved his chair as Rose and Sydney did the same with theirs as they hurried over to the TARDIS' door.
"Like my husband said, get inside the box, Clara," Rose ordered her.
"All four of us?" Clara said with confusion in her voice.
"Trust us," the Doctor urged her, "You'll understand once we're in there."
"I bet I will!" Clara remarked, sarcastically.
"Clara, please!" The Doctor muttered as he walked back over to her with Rose and Sydney.
"What is that box, anyway?" Clara asked them, "Why do you three have a box?"
"Clara!" All three Gallifreyans said at the same time.
"Is it like a snogging booth for you both?" Clara asked the Doctor and Rose.
"A what?" The Doctor and Rose said at the same time with surprise in their voices.
"Is that what you two do with your son?" Clara asked them, "You both bring a booth. There's such a thing as too keen." She then took a sip of her tea.
All three Gallifreyans then noticed the lights in different rooms in different houses around the neighbourhood come on and realised that too many at the exact same time had to be more than just a coincidence.
"Clara, look around you," the Doctor urged Clara before she looked around the street and saw what happened for herself.
"What's going on?" Clara asked them, "Is the Wi-Fi switching on the lights?"
"No, quite the opposite," Rose corrected her.
"Indeed, the people are switching on the lights," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife, "The Wi-Fi's switching on the people."
"And it's something we can't ignore," Sydney added as the Spoonhead turned its dish around.
"What is that thing?" Clara asked them.
"A walking base station," the Doctor answered, "You saw one earlier."
"Or 'Spoonheads' as we like to call them because of their dishes' shape," Rose added with a serious tone in her voice.
"I saw a little girl," Clara told them.
"That's not what it really looked like, Clara," Sydney told her, "It was a disguise to remain covert."
"And they must have taken an image from your subconscious, thrown it back at you. Ah!" The Doctor added, agreeing with his son before he smacked his forehead with both of his hands, "Active camouflage. They could be everywhere."
The four of them looked around with worried expressions on their faces before Clara spotted something going on behind the house.
"Doctor? Rose? Sydney?" Clara muttered as she tapped the Time Lord's left shoulder with her right hand, "Doctor, Rose Sydney." She then pulled the Doctor over with Rose and Sydney following them and saw that in the distance the lights of all over London were going off at a fast pace, "What's going on?" Every single light all over London had soon shut off, leaving the four of them looking at a darkened cityscape, "Our lights are on, everyone else's off. Why?"
"Some planes have Wi-Fi," the Doctor muttered to himself.
"Indeed, they do, especially commercial ones," Rose said, agreeing with him.
"Right you are, Mum," Sydney stated, agreeing with her.
"I'm sorry?" Clara asked them with confusion in her voice.
"We must be one hell of a target right now," the Doctor muttered to himself.
"Indeed, love," Rose said, agreeing with him.
"And it's not a position we want to be in," Sydney added in a serious tone.
They then heard the roaring of engines and looked up to the sky where they saw a plane heading straight for them as Sydney grabbed his Gallifreyan history book.
"You, us, box, now!" The Doctor ordered Clara as he grabbed her left hand with his right hand and pulled her into the TARDIS with Rose and Sydney following them.
As they entered the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rose hurried towards the console as Sydney placed his Gallifreyan history book in a safe spot in the console room, while Clara was pulled along in their wake with Sydney watching as Clara held onto the rail with her left hand to steady herself, while her teacup remained in her right hand.
"Yes, it's a spaceship! Yes, it's bigger on the inside!" The Doctor explained to her.
"Simply put, it's dimensional transcendentalism," Rose added as she gave Clara a reassuring smile, "The inside exists in a different dimension, which is why it's bigger."
"Exactly," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife, "But, we don't have time to talk about it!"
"But... But…" Clara began to say as she moved around in shock at her surroundings with Sydney watching her with a chuckle, "But... But it's…"
"Shut up!" The Doctor ordered her as he rushed over to the controls on a side panel, "Please, short hops are difficult." He then rushed back over to console and on the opposite side of Rose.
"Bigger on the inside," Clara realised with shock in her voice, "Actually bigger."
"You know, despite growing up here, I was just as shocked when I became a toddler," Sydney admitted with a chuckle, remembering his own reaction decades prior, "It's one thing to know it intellectually, but another to actually see it."
The Doctor then threw a lever on the console forward with his left hand, causing the TARDIS to spark a little with a thud, while Clara exclaimed as the Doctor and Rose both jumped back a bit.
"Right, come on!" The Doctor ordered Clara as he, Rose and Sydney hurried for the ship's door.
"Are we going back out there?" Clara asked them.
"No, Clara," Rose answered, "We're not just going back out there."
"We've moved. It's a spaceship," the Doctor added, "We flew away."
"Exactly," Sydney said, agreeing with his parents, "We're not where we were before."
"Away from the plane?" Clara asked them.
"Not exactly," the Doctor and Rose both answered at the same time as he opened the door with his right hand before they screamed as he practically tumbles from the TARDIS into the body of the plane with Rose, Sydney and Clara following him.
"How did we get here?" Clara asked them as she leaned against the galley's wall.
"It's a ship! We told you!" The Doctor reminded her as he, Rose and Sydney all began heading for the plane's cockpit as they battled against its turbulence, "It's all very stretchy!"
"Exactly," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"And it's always full of surprises," Sydney added.
"Is this the plane?" Clara asked them as she followed the three Gallifreyans through the plane's passenger aisle, "The actual plane?" She then saw the passengers in their seats, "Are they all dead?"
"Asleep," the Doctor answered with a grunt, "Switched off by the Wi-Fi. Never mind them!"
Rose then pulled her sonic screwdriver back out from her jacket's inside pocket with her right hand and activated it as she used it on the cockpit's door. A bout of turbulence suddenly caused the Doctor to tumble and nearly fall onto an unconscious female flight attendant that was seated by the exit. He then stood back up and tumbled into the cockpit followed by Rose, Sydney and Clara.
As the Doctor entered the cockpit, he found himself between the unconscious pilot and co-pilot as Rose, Sydney and Clara stood behind him in the cramped area as the plane continued its trajectory towards the Maitlands' street as the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver from his jacket's inside jacket with his right hand before he and Rose used their sonic screwdrivers on the various panels in the plane's cockpit.
"What is going on? Is this real?" Clara asked them, "Please tell me what is happening!"
"I'm the Doctor," the Doctor introduced himself.
"I'm his wife, Rose Smith," Rose said, introducing herself to her.
"And I'm their son, Sydney Rory Smith," Sydney added, introducing himself to her as well.
"We're aliens from outer space," the Doctor went on, "Me and Rose are a thousand years old."
"And I'm seventy years old," Sydney added.
"We've got two hearts," the Doctor went on as he and Rose deactivated their screwdrivers, "And I can't fly a plane!"
"Nor can I," Rose said, agreeing with him.
"Me neither," Sydney added, "Especially with our species' lifespan."
"Can you?" The Doctor asked her.
"No," Clara answered.
"Oh, Fine," the Doctor muttered as he put his screwdriver on the cockpit's centre pedestal, "Well, let's do it together, Clara."
"Don't worry, Clara," Rose told Clara as she gave her a reassuring smile as she placed her screwdriver back inside her jacket's pocket, "We've faced worse situations than this. We can do it."
"Absolutely," Sydney said, agreeing with his mother, "We're a team. We've got this."
The Doctor then pulled back on the pilot's throttle with both of his hands, with Rose doing the same with the co-pilot's throttle as Clara held onto him and Sydney holding onto his mother as if to help them. The four of them screamed as the plane got closer and closer to the houses around the Maitlands' neighbourhood, only for the plane to skim over the house and barely clear them. The Doctor laughed in relief and excitement before Rose and Sydney joined in as Clara still clung to him as she was still holding her teacup in her right hand.
"Whoo!" The Doctor yelled, happily, "Oh!"
"Okay, let's not do that again," Rose muttered as she and the Doctor panted.
"Would a victory roll be too showy-offy?" The Doctor asked the pilot as he began to come around.
"What the hell's going on?" The Pilot asked him with confusion in his voice.
"Well, I'm blocking your Wi-Fi. So you're waking up for a start," the Doctor explained as he grabbed his sonic screwdriver from the cockpit's centre prdestal with his right hand as he activated and used it on a control in the cockpit above them before he patted the pilot on the left arm with his left hand before he put his screwdriver back inside his jacket's pocket, "Tell you what, do you want to drive?"
"And they say flying a spaceship is hard," Rose chuckled, "Like you were with the replica of the Titanic in 2008 when it nearly crashed into Buckingham Palace all those years ago."
Shocked, Clara just stood there as the co-pilot also woke up and as the two men discussed getting back on course, all three Gallifreyans left the cockpit before the Doctor reached back in and grabbed Clara by her collar, pulling her from the cockpit, causing her to gasp in shock.
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