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SOMEWHERE, SOMEWHEN
Clara had been by herself in her Tardis for about one month now. After six months of traveling with Ashildr, the girl had grown a little tired and went to get a vacation - without a return date.
Life had been easy. Adventures here and there, saving some people, handling some bad guys, but Clara couldn’t help but miss a little the Doctor and his shenanigans.
But at the moment, nothing really mattered. Clara was stuck inside some sort of containment room, a silver squared box, with no apparent exit. She had screamed her guts out asking for help but none had come. It was cold and the girl curled herself up into a ball trying to keep herself warm.
Hours had passed probably when the walls started to shift around Clara. They were moving towards the center and the place was getting seriously smaller.
She started to scream again, banging on the metal walls and trying to stop them from moving but nothing would work. Clara was desperate and extremely pissed her clothes would get wrinkled by some stupid walls when suddenly she lost her ground.
The floor beneath Clara’s feet disappeared and she instinctively closed her eyes and screamed only to fall right into someone’s arms. But not just anyone’s arms… Missy’s arms.
“Happy to see me, poppet?”
A quirked eyebrow and a smirk were all it took for Clara to feel a shiver down her spine as she awkwardly jumped from the woman’s arms.
“Missy?! What are you doing here? How did you even find me? How-”
“Shh, poppet. Questions later. Time to move.”
“What-”
Clara didn’t have time to continue speaking or thinking as Missy pulled her by the hand and guided her through the cold corridors. The metal walls were similar to the ones in her containment room, the white lights were bright and Clara was having a hard time keeping up with the time lady. She felt weak and cold and completely overwhelmed by the woman’s sudden appearance.
“Missy, wait. Stop.”
Clara stopped running to catch her breath and Missy quickly turned around to face the girl.
“Clara we can’t stop now, we are almost there. Come on, poppet, let’s go.”
She pulled Clara again so the girl would move, but she got nothing.
“No! I’m not moving until I get some explanations! What are you doing here? Where are you taking me?!” - Clara was out of patience, her voice getting more high-pitched after every sentence.
Missy rolled her eyes and huffed. She stepped closer to Clara, getting into her personal space. She tried to move away but the woman’s piercing blue eyes just made her stand still and not move an inch away.
“I’m here to save you Clara and I’m taking us back to your Tardis so we can get the hell away from here. Sounds good to you, poppet?”
Another quirked eyebrow and all Clara managed to do was to swallow and nod her head as Missy took her hand again and started walking.
They walked for some long silent minutes until they stopped once more, but this time it was Missy who did it.
Clara looked behind them, an endless corridor with no windows and no doors, just the silver metal walls along the entire way. She looked at Missy again and the woman seemed to be trying to listen to something. Ahead of them, there were two possible paths to take: one going left and one going right.
“What are you-”
“Hush, poppet.”
Missy quickly cut her off in a whisper and Clara rolled her eyes in response. She sneaked closer behind the time lady, trying to hear whatever she was hearing.
“Getting closer, aren’t we, Miss Oswald?” - Missy asked as she looked behind with a quirked brow.
Clara rolled her eyes once more and shook her head at the fullish comment.
“Still the same Missy…”
The woman gave a small laugh and went back to trying to focus on hearing again, but she wasn’t very pleased with what she heard coming from the right side. Missy stepped back and held tighter to Clara’s hand as she slowly started to move to the left side.
“We’re taking left.”
“What? What happened? What did you hear?”
Missy started to pick up her pace and Clara did the same as she looked back and started to freak out a bit. The woman didn’t care to respond and Clara spoke again, a little louder this time.
“Missy! What did you hear?!”
“Do not scream! Are you out of your sanity?!” - Missy half whispered, half screamed as they walked and were met with another choice to make. Three paths this time and Clara couldn’t be more confused.
“Okay, what is happening?!”
“Hush!”
Missy cut her off again and slowly walked closer to the corner, trying to hear something again, but this time, not even Clara had trouble hearing it. It sounded like something rolling down the corridor, a machine or a robot perhaps, and a way too familiar sound for Clara’s taste. Missy certainly knew what it was.
The woman started backing away and her eyes were wide, focusing on the three paths.
“Missy, is that-”
“Shh!”
“But is that a Da-”
“Clara! Shh!”
She hushed the girl once more and stopped moving at the same time the approaching sound stopped.
They stood still for what it seemed like forever, and when Clara was ready to speak up, the sound returned louder and the object finally appeared at the corner. It turned around to face the two women and the robotic soundlike words came like a bullet to their ears.
“Exterminate! Exterminate!”
Missy laughed like a maniac and Clara stood still in horror looking at the woman and the alien.
“Daleks! Of course! Is this what your horrid mind’s gonna put us up to Clara?!”
“What?!”
Missy quickly pulled a very confused Clara and started running away from the alien.
“Exterminate! Exterminate!”
“Is this still resentment from that time I almost let the Doctor kill you inside one of those?”
Missy screamed at Clara as they ran along the corridors, the girl starting to cry as the noises kept following them.
“Exterminate! Exterminate!”
“No, I can’t believe this is happening to me again!”
“Clara, stop it.”
Missy screamed at the panicking girl as she tried to guide them out of the place.
“I’m stuck with a Dalek again. I can’t-”
“Clara! Snap out of it!”
Missy screamed one more time as she turned around a corner and pushed open the first door that appeared in front of them, pulling the girl in.
“Missy! What is happening?!”
The time lady closed the door behind them and pushed Clara against the door. She pressed her body against the girl’s and covered her mouth with her hand.
“Shh.”
Clara’s brown eyes were wide in shock as she stared at the Mistress’ blue ones. They could still hear the Dalek uttering the word “Exterminate!”, and the Skaro creature seemed to be getting closer to them, as the sound began to get higher every second.
“Seems like this adventure is gonna end in a bad note for us.”
Missy whispered and Clara started to shift in the woman’s hold, still not managing to do much with Missy’s body pressed firmly against hers.
“Let me end this one for you, poppet. It was nice catching up, let’s do this again, huh?”
The Dalek was almost behind the door, the loud noises numbing their ears when Missy finally pulled her hand away from Clara’s lips, giving the girl the opportunity to finally properly breathe.
“What the-”
And before she could finish the words, Missy leaned in to seal their lips in a kiss. Clara shut her eyes closed and before she felt red stained lips on hers she woke up in her bed alone.
She sat straight up right away in a puddle of her own sweat. Her breathing was erratic and Clara’s head was spinning as she woke up from her dream.
“-fuck.”