Clara

I love you

Chapter 5

'Clara!' she heard him excitedly say.

"Shut up" she demanded through her phone.

  'Is that how we communicate now?' Danny joked.  She really needed him to shut up.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up. I need to talk to you." Clara nearly yelled through the phone. She was going to tell him all about the Doctor.

'All right. Well, I'll be there in a couple of minutes, so' 

"No, no, Not while you're in the room." she quickly interrupted her boyfriend.

'Oh, stupid me. The very idea.' Danny joked again.

"Shut up!"

'okay'

"Stay shut up" Clara was really nervous, she needed Danny to shut up.

'okay'  he answered again.

"things to say" she slowly said trying to get him to realize that she was being serious.

"not all of them good" Clara continued.

'Oh,  wouldn't it be better if I was actually here?' She heard Danny say. She wasn't sure if he was trying to change her into telling him in real life instead of through the phone.

"Oh Danny, everything is better when you're here, but maybe... maybe not this." She said looking at the post-it notes that she had sticked on her bookshelves.

"er. Okay, before all of that. Before all of the stuff that I did wrong" Clara continued. She took down the post-it note that said 'just say it'

"I love you"

'I love you' Danny answered lovingly.

"No, not like that. Not like it's automatic. Not like it's how you end the phone call, the sign off, the pat on the back"

'Clara' Danny interrupted her.

"Danny, I'll never say those words again. Not to anybody else ever. Those words, from me, are yours now" She continued ignoring Danny. She went silent for a moment, waiting for him to response. When she didn't get any she just assumed he was taking everything she said in.

"So, er. That's a thing" She awkwardly said. She still didn't get a response, she only heard the noise of cars through the phone.

"Okay, Danny? Er. there's more but that's kind of the headline. Okay... Danny, please speak to me, this is... this is killing me" Clara told him, she started to get really nervous now. Had she said something wrong?

"Danny, I love you... And you are the last person who's ever going to hear me say that" Clara said honestly through the phone. This time someone responded... just not the one she thought.

'Hello? Hello, is someone there?' A woman asked through the phone. Clara was dumbstruck, what did a random woman do with Danny's phone?

"Hello, yeah who's this?" Clara asked curiously.

'I just picked up the phone, I'm sorry. I found it' Clara frowned was Danny so angry at her that he'd dropped his phone or something?

"Oh, okay. Can you please just put me back on the phone to Danny? I was talking to Danny" Clara asked nicely, maybe Danny had just accidentally dropped his phone and was now waiting next to the woman to get his phone back?

'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry' the woman said with a heartbreaking voice.

"Okay, what are you sorry about? Could you please just pass the phone back to-

'He was crossing the road. I found the phone, it must have just got thrown. The car it just came out of nowhere. I'm so sorry'

Clara felt her heart drop, her feet automatically started running. She didn't even notice when she lost her phone along the way. She just ran out her apartment. The Eleventh Doctor must've sensed that something was wrong because he came running after her screaming her name.

She didn't hear him, or just ignored him she wasn't sure. The only thing on her mind right now was Danny Pink, her boyfriend. the Doctor must've been near, it had sounded like he was catching up on her.

She kept running through the streets. Then she heard people yelling and the sound of sirens. She knéw something was wrong and it had to do with Danny. She kept running not stopping until she ran around a corner passing the cars that had stopped because of what had happened. She was forced to stop just in front of tape the police had put all around the place not wanting strangers to wander anywhere near the accident. She felt the Doctor stop next to hear, he rested his hand on her shoulder trying to get her attention but she kept staring at the body she saw laying on the cold street.

It was Danny.

She felt like someone just ripped her heart out, she couldn't even cry. She just stared at him emotionless.  people from the ambulance were trying to get Danny's body back to life but all the attempts failed.

"That's her boyfriend!" she heard the Doctor say to an officer guarding the tape trying to calm everyone down.

"is this true miss?" the police officer asked Clara. She was forced to look away from the body. Her eyes shifted emotionless to the officer.

"yes."

Clara and the Doctor were allowed to pass the tape. As they walked to the body Clara's eyes went back to Danny's body. They were stopped by a policeman near. The Doctor explained the situation again while Clara just stared.

They were allowed to watch from a few metres away while the ambulance doctors that had come over did their jobs. After a few minutes they announced Danny was actually dead. They put danny's corpse on a long spine board. When they finally let Clara nearby Clara grabbed Danny's lifeless hand. As the ambulance people carried the board towards the ambulance Clara walked beside the body.

The Doctor was talking to a police officer nearby, god knows why. She didn't care.

She didn't care about anything anymore, because her love had just died. And she was left behind, to mourn him.