The Secrets of Sarah Smith

The Ball

a/n this chapter is for my best friend in the whole universe who helped come up with the setting of this adventure. Jelly tots :-) xxx

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Sarah cried against The TARDIS door with her knees drawn up to her chest and head resting on her knees for what to her felt like forever but was really half an hour. Clara sat beside her with her arm around Sarah trying to comfort her.

It pained The Doctor to see her like that more than it should considering he only met her a few hours ago but something about Sarah got to him. There was something he couldn't quite put his finger on, something not right. Something not... human. He needed to snap her out of the crying he couldn't take it anymore.

"Ok enough of that no crying in The TARDIS" The Doctor scolded

"Doctor! Have you forgotten were we have just been?" Clara shouted standing up and folding her arms over her chest she was angry with The Doctor for being so inconsiderate.

"No Crying. No being sick and no hanky panky those are the rules Clara" The Doctor shouted back pointing a long skeleton finger at her.

Clara took a deep breath in and was just about to unleash the fury of the impossible girl when Sarah spoke up.

"Its ok Clara he's right. I can defiantly promise the last one the other two I'll try" Sarah's voice sounded stronger than she felt and she even managed a small smile before standing up. "I'm just going to go clean myself up and then we can go exploring somewhere" She sounded cheerful almost, She wasn't. Far from it but she pretended too be.

"See Clara that's the right attitude, Go get changed both of you pre-revolutiony France" The Doctor instructed

Clara and Sarah headed back to the wardrobe room for the second time that day only this time The TARDIS didn't hide it from them and Sarah managed to lead them straight there. Purely by luck of course she thought.

The Doctor waited for them in the console room fiddling with bits under the console causing a few sparks that made him jump and call out in gallifreyan. He was just finishing rewiring the telepathic interface, not wanting a repeat of what happened to Sarah, when he heard heels clicking on the metal floor, Sliding himself out from under the console and standing up The Doctor was met with the most beautiful sight he'd seen.

Both Clara and Sarah wore long flowing floor length white dresses with short sleeves. Clara's was low cut and tight round her chest making her breasts sit more round and perkier, Which The Doctor noticed and spent longer than necessary looking at causing Clara to blush, Round her waist right under her chest was a TARDIS blue ribbon tied into a bow at the back. Her hair hung round her face framing it. Sarah's dress was almost the same except her chest was covered and the ribbon was pink, Sarah had curled her long hair and pinned back the sides. Both of them wore light make-up.

"You'll fit in nicely" The Doctor complemented

"You'll love this, Sarah show him your shoes" Clara laughed recovering quickly from her blush.

Sarah lifted her dress slightly to reveal a pair of pink converse. The Doctor chuckled and muttered something that sounded like "Sand-shoes"

"Come on then pre-revolutionary France we arrived while you were getting changed" The Doctor headed toward the door becking them to follow.

The stepped out onto a well kept lawn, It was starting to get dark. Right in front of them was a large palace of white stone with window after window on 3 different levels. a long porch held up by stone collums was lit by strings of tiny lanterns with candles inside them.