The twelfth hour

Bombshell

I would like to dedicate this chapter to Hosburgh who is super supportive and a great person all around. I hope you all like it!
Clara's POV
It was way past late when the doorbell rang.
"I swear to god if you bloody kids don't leave me alone...!" I yelled as I walked briskly to the door, swinging it open I saw not the neighbourhood children but the crumpled form of the Doctor.

"Clara you have to listen to me", he said feebly trying and failing to stand up, his accent seemed to be getting stronger, he was also slurring slightly which did not help to try to understand him. "I don't have much time, missy is coming but it's not just her she is no issue trust me, it's the Daleks, we need...to run."

As he finally stood leaning against the door frame for support, I saw why it had taken so long for him to find me. His suit was torn and bloodstained, his features looked dark and weak, there was a tremble to him the second he moved.  What the hell had he been through? I there decided that I would ask questions later right now he needed to lay down, some days I wish he wasn't alien for what he really needed now was a hospital. To shocked to speak I all but carried him inside and sat him down. He looked even worse in the light, I could see he was breathing very heavily as if he had been running, exhaustion had made his already sharp features appear more gaunt. I could see him swaying even though he was sitting down.

"Doctor what do you mean we don't have time?"

"Clara they are following me I am holding a cloaking device in the Tardis but I still can't do that for long." His words shook at the same time a chill went through him. "I came to bring you with me they will be looking for you and anyone else I used to know, they all know what to do but I am most worried about you currently." A second chill went through him his entire frame shaking.

"Doctor I'm not sure it's even safe to move you!" He looked down at the sofa appearing shocked. I also looked down to see a pool of blood soaking into it.

"Doctor where is the blood coming from?!" He shook his head and promised to clean it up as soon as he could. "I don't care about the bloody sofa I care about you!" I pulled his jacket off thank god it was only his shoulder, I sighed, only then seeing his wrists, both quite deeply cut, blood gushing out from them, I gasped.

"I'm fine," he exclaimed pulling he coat back on before struggling to his feet again. Grabbing my hand to pull me along after him, I resisted and tried to pull him back down. Right then whatever colour was left in his face drained, he shut his eyes and turned his head away from me slightly, before stumbling out the door and pulling us into the Tardis. He pulled a lever on the Tardis before swaying again and placing his hand to his forehead. The Tardis took off to where I have no clue, right before he collapsed to the ground the Tardis made a worried noise in the back of my head before we were both somehow suddenly in the med-bay.

"I don't know what to do" I hissed at it, covering his wrists trying the best I could to stop the bleeding there, things began flying about the room. I heard a woman's voice begin to speak to me.

"I swear to whatever god it is you believe in that if you tell the doctor about this I will personally keep you out of me for good and not in a nice way!" I looked up and there stood a very attractive blonde girl, I could have sworn I had seen her somewhere but the only thing that came to mind was BAD WOLF. What it meant I had no idea, but I had no time to worry about it then. The woman sent me out and soon I heard her go to work fixing the doctor. Not even 15 minutes later, all of the things that had been floating about in the med-bay dropped and I knew that the Tardis had left. I ran back down and burst into the bay. Where the doctor was laying peacefully. Still white as a sheet with what I expected to be cold towel over his eyes and in the same clothing yet it was no longer ripped. At least he was finally resting.

"I'm not asleep if you are trying to be quiet, which you are no good at." He said making me jump. "I woke up right after you came back in." He reached up with his good arm and pulled the towel off, both wrists wrapped tightly. He then tried to sit up, which he failed to do with a gasp.

"How bad is it?"

"It's fine all of it, the Tardis is being stubborn she making seem much worse than it is." He lied before inhaling deeply or at least tried to before it came out as racking coughs, was his accent normally this strong or was this just a side effect of him looking and probably feeling like hell?

"My sofa doesn't agree with that." I deadpanned.

"That one was an accident I wasn't supposed to get away where missy found a real gun I don't know." He gave me the half smile he does.

"Alright, you are going to tell me what that bi—,"

"Language"

" fine you are going to tell me what she did to you and I will decide whether she gets to live or not because I know that you will never hurt her, but I will. That's final." I was done with her torturing him physically and psychologically, she's done enough. I don't care who she was before now. He gave me a panicked look.

"No, no Clara you can't you don't understand."

"I don't understand what, doctor the fact that she is killing you, the fact that you are letting her do this. What, what do I not understand?"

"I love her."

" You what..." well that could have been a better reaction, way to go Clara.

"I love her." His voice cracked. "I know I shouldn't. By omega, I sound like a young school girl. I've known her for most of my life it killed me when she died the first time. Now she's been threatened again. It wasn't her fault anyway, she and I both agreed to do it to get the Daleks to trust her we needed the inside woman I let her do this, she was trying to stop the Dalek following me. I was shocked to silence. " although I have a very high fever so who knows I may delirious." I went over and placed a hand on his forehead. He probably could have burned me with the temperature he was at. I took the towel still in his hands. It was just as warm. I rinsed it out in the sink then dampened it with colder water, I placed it back on his forehead just as he began to doze off, he sighed momentarily feeling peace from then pain everywhere else. He then fell asleep. I was still there thinking, I mean it does explain why he won't hurt her, but I mean after all she does to him, now there was nothing I could do. Soon I began to drift off in the chair next to him.
Well, this is the first chapter I hoped you liked it as always with love just so you know I have most of this written I am just waiting to publish.
-A
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