They sped after the little girl in the moped.
"Merry!" Clara yelled, reaching out for her.
Before Merry could grab her hand, she was dragged into the pyramid and the door slammed shut.
"Brakes! Brakes!" Clara screamed.
They landed roughly, throwing Elise from the moped.
"Okay, time to let go," the Doctor told Clara.
"I can't."
"Clara, you have to."
"Why?"
"Because it really hurts."
"Sorry."
The Doctor got off the moped and Clara followed. Elise stood up as the Doctor soniced the entrance. "Oh, that's interesting. A frequency modulated acoustic lock. The key changes ten million zillion squillion times a second," he said.
"Can you open it?" Clara asked.
"Technically, no. In reality, also no, but still, let's give it a stab." The Doctor rushed at the door and started to sonic it.
Elise pulled out her own sonic screwdriver (newly updated) and set to work helping the Doctor.
"How can they just stand there and watch?" Clara asked.
"Because this is sacred ground."
"And she's a child."
"And he's a god. Well, he is to them, anyway."
They heard Merry scream.
"Merry! Merry, hold on!" Clara yelled, "We'll be there soon. Doctor?"
"Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, hello."
"Hello what?"
"The sonic's locked on to the acoustic tumblers."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning we get to do this." He looked at Elise, who nodded.
The door started rising.
"Hello there. I'm the Doctor, this is my daughter Elise, and you've met Clara. She was supposed to be having a nice day out. Still, it's early yet." The Doctor stopped sonicing the door and it dropped a little. "Are you coming, then?"
Merry shook her head.
"Did I mention that the door is majorly heavy?"
"Leave. You'll wake him," she told him.
"Really quite extraordinarily heavy." The Doctor collapsed to his knees. "Elise, get inside."
"What? No."
"Now!"
Elise stopped sonicing and ran inside.
"Clara?"
Clara ran inside.
The Chorister was still singing.
"Merry, we need to leave," Clara told her.
"No! Go away."
"Not without you."
"You said I wouldn't get it wrong and then I got it wrong. And now this has happened. Look what happened!"
"You didn't get it wrong."
"How do you know? You don't know anything. You have to go! Go now, or he'll eat us all."
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The Littlest Timelord: The Fall of the Eleventh
Fanfiction[Third in the "Littlest Timelord" series] Elise Smith is now a teenaged Timelord. In addition to losing the Ponds, the fields of Trenzalore are calling. But first they have to figure out exactly who Clara Oswald is. #9 in claraoswald - September 20...
