When We Travel Book 2 | Whouffaldi

Chapter 25: Do Something Clever

The Doctor's POV

"No! No! Absolutely not!" Ashildr exclaimed as she exited the TARDIS.

"Ashildr-" Clara started.

Ashildr turned around to look at us, "No! I am not related to you in any way! For one thing: I only have one heart!"

I sighed, "You can still potentially have only one heart, Ashildr. Considering that Clara has one heart."

"Nope." she stated, "I am not your daughter. And you are not my parents."

"I could do a scan-" I began.

"No! You don't need to!" Ashildr said, "Because even if we were related. I would just pretend like we weren't. I honestly do not want to be related to you guys in any way."

Clara just groaned before grabbing Ashildr's arm and pulling her into the TARDIS, "In." she said.

"You're not my parents. You can't tell me what to do."

"I beg to differ." Clara replied.

"Stay still." I said as I pushed some buttons on the console, "Or your DNA could seriously be messed up."

"I told you... I don't want to know the results!" Ashildr assured.

"Tough." Clara folded her arms as the TARDIS scanned. A few seconds later and the scan was done. I looked at the results to make sure that Ashildr was our child, "Well?" Clara asked.

I nodded, "Yes. That is Sirius."

"S-Sirius?" Clara questioned, "Are you sure?" I nodded once more.

"No. I'm. Not." Ashildr tried to assure us.

"The TARDIS is never wrong." I said, "The results are one hundred percent correct."

"And like I said before. I don't care."

One Day Later

Clara had been in complete shock after finding out that Ashildr was Sirius. Jack had taken Bill and Ashildr on an adventure in Clara's TARDIS.

"Dad?" Oswin called out as she entered the console room.

"Downstairs!" I exclaimed. I was underneath the console adding a few random bits here and there to pass the time... I instantly stopped when I realised that I was doing something to 'pass the time'... I'm a Time Lord! Why am I 'passing the time'?! I came out from under the console to be greeted by Oswin, "What's up?" I stood up.

Oswin asked, "Where's mum? Haven't seen her all day. Did she go with Jack?"

I shook my head, "No. No she didn't."

"WOOOO!"

"Ollie! What are you doing here?" I questioned.

"Honestly? I don't know! I'm just hopping around time doing absolutely nothing!" he shouted as he ran up the stairs. Oswin and I followed him. The three of us then exited the TARDIS and back into the flat.

I then asked, "Ollie... are you drun-"

"CORRECTION! I am SPACE DRUNK!"

"I-It's not space drunk... you have just been to bars which just so happen to be in space." I stated.

"Shhh..." he whispered, "The Bogons are coming to get us."

"Bogons?" Oswin questioned.

I assured, "No need to be alarmed... Bogons are just made up. I think your mother said something about them many years ago."

"Right..." she paused, "Now back to my question. Have you seen mum anywhere?"

I shook my head, "No. Have you tried calling her o-or texting her?" Oswin nodded in response, "Right. No answer."

Clara's POV

"Right. I'm getting real sick and tired of this." At this point I wasn't scared or worried... I was angry and frustrated.

"You are defective! You are being sent to the Dalek Asylum!" Dalek Supreme exclaimed.

I let out a sigh, "I'm so gonna kill River... Right no point in even trying to get this open. Just do what I normally do... Sit and wait." an idea then popped into my head... Rather than just wait it out... perhaps I could find River and end this all. I shook my head trying to forget about that the thought. The Dalek machinery was what made me think like that. Wait... did that Dalek just say that I was being sent to the Dalek Asylum?!

The Doctor's POV

"Here's a suggestion! Why don't you just kill Clara instead?!" Missy questioned River.

I raised my eyebrow at her, "Wh-What?"

"I mean..." Missy began, "She keeps going through all this hassle by 'kidnapping' her over and over again... so why doesn't she just end it."

"You aren't serious..." I said.

"I'm joking, dear!" she assured.

"Why kill her?" River asked, "It would just make my dear husband hate me."

"Well..." I muttered.

"Surely you must be bored of the human, Doctor! How many years have you spent with her? A companion doesn't usually last this long."

"Honestly. I kind of have a new companion now. Her name is Bill. We only really have an adventure once every couple of weeks." I explained, "But enough of that! Let's just... get this over with. Tell me where Clara is blah blah blah. You will end up telling me anyway so you might aswell tell me now."

Ashildr questioned, "Why am I here by the way?"

"Because you are technically our oldest daughter so you should be the mature enough to actually contribute in helping find Clara."

She just rolled her eyes, "I'm not her daughter."

"Yes you are, Ashildr! And the good news is: you're related to your favourite Time Lady - Missy!" Missy exclaimed.

"Gods, you're breeding like rabbits, aren't you?" River sighed.

"River. I don't know how. But I will stop you from existing."

"Oh?" River began, "How could you possibly do that, sweetie?"

Missy added, "I'll do it. Haven't exactly killed anyone lately. It's getting rather boring." A flash of light then almost blinded us.

"Oswin? Wh- How did you get here and why are you here?"

"Jack gave me a vortex manipulator." she said, "And I wanna help to find mum too!"

Ashildr groaned, "You're way too young to even fly a TARDIS... there's no way that you'll be able to save someone from a Dalek."

"I can fly better than you." she replied.

"Oh, look! Siblings first fight!" Missy exclaimed, "And don't say that you aren't related, dear!" she spoke to Ashildr, "Or I will set fire to you."

"That's very reassuring." Ashildr responded.

River interrupted, "Can you have your family issues at some other time? If you care about Clara so much - why don't you just ask that broken Dalek."

"You mean Rusty?" I asked. She nodded.

"Fine! Come on!" Missy disappeared. Followed by Ashildr and Oswin. I stood there... just looking River in the eye.

"Ya know." she said, "It's starting to show." She pointed to the side of my head.

I pecked her on the lips, "It's fine." I assured her. I felt the metal push through the side of my head, "I will make sure that they don't find the Doctor's wife: Clara. I like to have a little fun now and then."

"Sounds perfect, sweetie." River replied, "Now. Go and do something clever."