Lost In Remnants

That's The Way To Do It

The Doctor:

Oh, this was pointless.

Every day I walked this city. Every day I went around every street and alley, and there was nothing. No spark, no will, no... No Ponds. There wasn't much of a point without them, or Lizzy.

My travels took me through another alley, snow crunching under my feet as Ellie walked alongside me, the two of us linked arms in the traditional style for a man escorting a woman, though right now was neutral, but no words were spoken to one another. They were there to stop me walking into the Thames and never come back up, in their words.

We just passed a bar girl staring at a snowman, but she noticed us when no one else ever did and called out as we kept walking. "Did you siblings make this snowman?"

"We are not siblings," that was a contested statement, because biologically you kinda still were my sister, slash sibling, "and no."

"Well, who did?" She asked, making me stop and look back at her, dressed in dark red that suited her naturally tan skin, large brown eyes that seemed to know what you were thinking, even if they didn't because only one person was capable of that and I managed to keep them out these days. "Because it wasn't there a second ago. It just appeared, from nowhere."

My attention turned to the snowman, and even Ellie seemed interested. They liked the snow, or at least that's what it looked like when they brought home mason jars of it. Weird as the snow they had when they lived on Starmyst would have been exactly the same, just maybe a little less full of coal smoke. "Maybe it's snow that fell before. Maybe it remembers how to make snowmen."

"What, snow that can remember? That's silly."

The whole universe was silly, your face was silly, when you really thought about it. "What's wrong with silly?"

She smirked at the pair of us, Ellie wearing sunglasses in Victorian style in order to get out of wearing the blue dye or contacts. "Nothing. Still talking to you two, ain't I?"

"What is your name, Miss?" Ellody asked her, tilting their head to the side. "Have we met before?"

"Clara. And no, I don't believe we have, Miss?"

Nope, we were not doing this. Not now, not ever, we knew how it would end. "Nice name. Clara. You should definitely keep it. Goodbye!"

Only she followed us around the corner as we went to meet Strax who would drop us back at the park. Ellie didn't like that, they didn't trust him driving the carriage. "Oi! Where are you going? I thought we was just getting acquainted."

Once, yeah, maybe. Not any more. "Those were the days."

Before we got inside, them taking off their glasses again in the low light as Strax started to drive. Where Vastra could talk to us through a speaker system. "How refreshing to see you taking an interest again. Even you, Ellody." They definitely didn't get on with them. "Was she nice?"

Literally said a few dozen words and then just left, not like I'd done something incredible. "We just spoke to her."

"And made your usual impact, no doubt. Ellody themself attracts attention on a daily basis, we are always asked permission for her hand after we gave the cover story that she is Jenny's orphaned cousin."

"My hands belong to me."

Okay, we needed to definitely work on Ellie and their knowledge of figures of speech. "They want to marry you." Now they pulled a face of disgust. Yeah, Ellie really wasn't interested in men in the slightest. "No, no impact at all. Those days are over."