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doctor what?

Clara Oswald, a young, short English teacher with shoulder length brunette hair in her mid twenties from Blackpool England who now lives in London was walking to her motorbike in the school's car park when she heard a strange sound coming from the janitor's building. Of course Clara let her curiosity get the best of her and she found herself opening the door to the building and walking in.

"Hello?" She called out, she got no answer, instead she found a blue box marked police on it, she walked up to it and knocked on the door a few times, the box made a sound and Clara decided to hide up against the side of the box.
"Who's there?" The man inside the box called out with a Scottish accent as he opened the door, Clara quietly made her way to the back of the box as the man looked around the corner to the spot Clara was previously. Clara continued this for a bit until she made it to the doors that were left open, she tried to peek in before she realised that he would catch up soon and started running back towards the door of the building.

"Hello" the man said, stepping in front of the doors, his bushy eyebrows furrowed together as he looked down at her, Clara stopped in her tracks and looked back to the box and scratched her head,
"Hello, sorry, umm, who are you?" Clara raised an eyebrow at the man, looking at his attractive features,
"Who are you?" He copied and raised his bushy eyebrow back at her,
"I'm Clara Oswald" She told him.
"Nice name"
"Who are you?" Clara crossed her arms over her chest,
"The Doctor"
"Doctor what?" She asked him, the Doctor's mouth dropped open a bit,
"What?"
"Most people ask 'Doctor who?' But it's okay" The Doctor shrugged.

"What is that box?" Clara looked back at the box, the Doctor walked over to the box and leaned against it,
"It's called the TARDIS, it can travel anywhere in time and space"
"What does TARDIS stand for?" Clara asked, walking back over to it.
"Again, most people don't ask that. It stands for Totally And Radically Driving In Space" The Doctor grinned,
"It doesn't actually does it?" She raised an eyebrow at him
"No it doesn't, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space" He said before clicking his fingers, the doors opened and he walked in, Clara followed behind him and looked around her,
"Go on, say it, most people do" He said before Clara ran out the door and walked around the box before running back in.

"It's smaller on the outside" Clara said,
"Okay, that is a first"
"Is this a spaceship?"
"Yes, like I said before, it can travel anywhere in time and space" He nodded his head.
"Are you an alien?" She asked him,
"Yes I am, is that okay?"
"Fine yea" She nodded her head as she continued to look around.
"Is there a kitchen?" She turned around to look at him,
"Also another first"
"Is it just you in here?" She asked him, he nodded his head sadly.

"Can you show me what space is like?" She looked at him
"Does that mean you want to travel with me?"
"Depends"
"Depends on what?"
"How dangerous it is" She grinned at him,
"It can be sometimes, not all the time"
"Then what're you waiting for?" She raised an eyebrow, he grinned before clicking his fingers, the doors closed shut,
"No, do-don't do that" Clara shook her head at him,
"Do what?"
"Smile, it doesn't look great when you do that" Clara told him, he nodded before running around the console, pressing buttons and flicking switches and levers. Clara held onto the railing as she looked around the TARDIS as it took off.

He pulled a lever down and looked at one of the screens on the console,
"We should be here"
"Should be?"
"I sometimes don't make it to the location I was trying to get to, I was once trying to get to London and ended up in Yorkshire" He told her,
"Is it safe?" She asked him,
"I suppose we'll find out" He grinned before putting on a pair of sunglasses and walking to the doors.
"What're the sunglasses for?" She chuckled, looking up at him,
"They're sonic"
"Sonic?"
"Yes, sonic, they do everything, except wood, because there's nothing electrical for them to interact with" he explained.

He poked his head out of the TARDIS doors, looking around and scanning the area,
"I thought you were showing me space?" Clara frowned at him,
"I am, and we are in space, on another spaceship by the looks of it" He said before exiting the TARDIS and walking away.
"How did you even get a time machine?" Clara asked, closing the door behind her as she followed him,
"Uhh, I bought it" He said unconvincingly,
"No you didn't"
"You're right, I didn't, I stole it"
"Knew it-wait, you stole it? So that means you're a thief?"
"If you like" He said before opening a door.

"If you're an alien, how come you've got a Scottish accent?"
"You'd be surprised by how many species have Scottish accents" He said before once again scanning the area.
"What planet are you from?" Clara asked him
"You ask a lot of questions" He said, changing the topic,
"I'm a curious person" She shrugged before running to catch up with the taller man.
"Don't walk so fast, I'm not very tall if you haven't noticed"
"I did notice, is that fro-" He said before stopping in his tracks, finally realising what ship they were on.

Clara finally caught up with him and looked up at him, he grabbed ahold of her hand before running back towards the TARDIS,
"Why're we running?"
"Those things, are daleks, and they don't like me very much" He told her before they started shooting at them,
"So, I never asked, but what do you do?" He asked Clara,
"Those things are trying to kill us, and you wanna have a chat?" Clara yelled up at the man,
"Well we can't chat after we've been horribly killed" He said, pulling Clara around a corner.

The two stopped, realising that they were at a dead end,
"What do we do?" She looked up at the Doctor who had finally taken off his sunglasses, he looked down at her before grinning,
"Something stupid" He said before placing a vortex manipulator on her wrist and entering some numbers.
"Run back to the TARDIS, if they get to you before you reach it, press this button, it'll take you home, if not, hide inside of the TARDIS. Go, now!" He said before letting go of her hand, she nodded before running back to the TARDIS.

Clara kept running, looking behind her occasionally to see where the daleks were, a few of them were following her, the others had trapped the Doctor. She found the TARDIS and banged on the door multiple times,
"C'mon, let me in please" She begged, the door eventually opened and she closed it behind her before running down the steps and down a corridor. She found the library and hid in between the shelves.