When We Travel | Whouffaldi

The Question

Clara's POV

I pulled away slightly, the Doctor seemed to wince in pain as he removed one of his hands from around me. I gently grabbed his hand and observed it, it was covered in cuts and blood and small bruises.

I kissed his knuckles and asked, "What happened, Doctor?" He didn't reply, he was speechless. He just stared into my eyes, his were continuously filling with tears which caused mine to do the same. He removed his hand from grasp and let it drop to his side,

"Clara... I-" He paused, he was too overwhelmed to say anything.

I placed my hand on his cheek, "Two billion years is a long time I assume..." I said. He nodded slowly, "I know about the Tardis creating an upgraded voice interface of me... Ashildr told me about it... she is an absolute cow for doing that!"

"Y-Yeah... The Tardis wanted to make me happy again so she created a voice interface of you..." He said, quietly as he pull me towards him once again.

Suddenly, I felt a light strike from the inside of my stomach, the Doctor's eyes then widened in shock as he pulled away slightly, "Well..." I paused, "That's new..." I smiled as a tear came to my hand, the Doctor then placed his non-beaten hand on my stomach. I quickly captured his lips with mine briefly,

"Clara... I need to ask you something. Something VERY important," He whispered with tears still brimming in his eyes. I raised my eyebrow, he then sighed, "C-" He was cut off by a loud bang on the door.

"Erm... what was that?" I asked.

"The creature that I've been running from for two billion years..." He said. I stood up as did he. He grabbed my hand and say, "Run..." he paused, "If you can," He smiled.

We had ran/walked through many corridors, we then reached a big wooden door. The Doctor dragged me into the room, there was a big golden, orange wall. I turned around to see the 'creature' coming towards us... we were trapped.

"Er... Doctor." I said, he quickly walked towards the golden wall. There was a gap in the wall and he quickly walked through it, I followed. He raised his fist as if he was going to punch the wall, I quickly grabbed his wrist before he did, "What are you doing?!"

"Clara... I've been punching this wall for two billion years," The creature was getting closer to us, "I've almost broken through... please... I don't want that creature to touch you..." He said, he pulled his hand away from my grasp and punched the wall full force, he held in a groan of pain as the wall started to shatter. The creature was right behind us. Light then poured in from the cracked wall and the creature screamed then turned into dust.

The Doctor took my hand and pulled me through the wall. We both shut our eyes as blinding light started to surround us.

I opened my eyes as I felt something moving in my back pocket, I quickly took the confession dial out of my pocket. The building that we were just in was in the confession dial, "So... that's what was in your confession dial, huh?" I questioned.

"Yes... but there is something else too. But that's for another day," He replied, I held the confession dial out to him and he said, "No no. I said you were the only one I would ever give to you... keep it." I put it in my back pocket, "I'm surprised you kept it." He smiled.

"Why wouldn't I?" I smiled back. He suddenly looked over my shoulder and anger instantly filled his eyes, I then noticed that were standing on sand. I knew what planet we were on. I turned around and looked at the glowing buildings of Gallifrey. "Why are you angry at the people of Gallifrey, Doctor?" I asked as he stood next to me.