Allon-sy Impossible Girl

Rose doesn't want to travel with the Doctor after he regenerates, so he takes to going around alone until he meets one of Clara's echo's in a bar one night. She becomes his companion and they go on the adventures together, but it seems there may be more to Clara Oswald then even she realises.

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Chapter 1

The Doctor wandered through the streets of London late at night, looking around at all the people recovering from the Sycorax attack two days ago. Christmas. The Christmas he lost Rose, because she didn't want him after he regenerated. He was too different, and personally he didn't blame her. To her it would have been only a few hours but to him it had been years. A century of just wondering around. He was lonely. He still missed Rose, he was sure that he had been falling in love with her. He hadn't found anyone to travel with him. No one who made him so happy. He wasn't sure what made him come back to this night. it was a bit random.

He didn't really know where he was going, but he found himself standing outside a bar. Figuring he had nowhere else to be he went in. It was very busy but he managed to get a spare bar stool. After a while, a girl came over to serve him. It took a while and as he waited a thing on the television the Doctors eye. It was a report on how a scientist had tested the stuff falling from the sky and confirmed that it was anything but snow.

"Nutters, the lot of them" the bar girl commented, setting the drink down in front of him and noticing him watching the news.

"Who?" He asked her, picking up his drink.

"Them who fired those missiles, I mean those alien things were leaving, they didn't have to kill them" she said as she began to clean some glasses.

"I agree" the Doctor nodded in approval "Harriet Jones had no right to do that"

"That was her?" the girl asked her eyes widening. The Doctor's brow furrowed. He was sure that those big brown doe eyes of her flashed gold for a minute there. "I thought she was half decant"

This girl was familiar. Achingly familiar. She was pretty, the Doctor observed, with long brown hair that was curled at the ends and long eyelashes. She was short and slim and the nose was funny in a cute way. Everything about her screamed familiar at him but he couldn't quite place her.

"Sorry have we met before?" the Doctor asked after a few moments "Only you seem kind of familiar."

The bar girl stared at him for a few moments before shaking her head with a cute smile saying "Nope, I'd remember a handsome face like yours"

"Right" the Doctor said looking down at his drink.

"You all right?" she asked with what seemed like genuine concern.

"Yeah" he said with a slight laugh "I'm all right"

"Really, cuz I've been bar tending since I was a teenager and I know when a guy isn't alright" she said. The Doctor smiled slightly.

He sighed heavily "I changed, and my friend… well she didn't want to travel with me anymore"

"I'm sorry" she said "If it helps, I think she's mad running away from a guy like you"

"Thank you" he said, downing the rest of his drink. She wandered off to serve a few costumers nearby leaving him alone again.

He tried to figure out where he'd seen her before. he cast his mind back, but the only thing he seemed to find was this odd sensation that came with looking at her. it was almost like... guilt. Guilt and gratitude.

She came back a few hours later, wiping down the bar and looked at him in mild surprise. "You still here?"

"Well, I got nowhere to be" he said "Can I get another one?" he nudged the empty glass towards her. She raised her eyebrows and refilled it.

"So, where exactly did you and your friend travel?" she asked "What sort of places did you see, what sort of people did you meet?"

He watched her eyes shine at the thought. "I take it you've never travelled, but would like to" he deducted from her enthusiasm.

"No," she sighed "All I ever wanted to do was travel, but you don't get anywhere on a barmaids salary" she gestured around her at the shabby pub.

"Don't you want more?" he enquired "How old are you, 20?"

"24" she corrected with a slight blush. "And course I want more, I just have no way of getting it. I was going to go and see it all, after university, but then… well I had to cancel."

The Doctor studied her. She was charming, witty and beautiful. She made him smile. He still missed Rose, and he didn't want this girl to replace her but still…

"You could come with me" he offered. He wasn't entirely sure what made him say it, but it would be nice to have someone to ask questions and he was now highly curious to discover what was so familiar about this girl.

"Really?" She looked like she wanted to believe him but couldn't bring herself to. "You'd take a girl who you only just met?"

"Of course, how do you think this works?" he grinned and she grinned back before laughing.

"What?"

"Does this really work?"

"Yes, shouldn't it?"

"So you just crook your finger and girls run away with you to god knows where. I don't even know who you are. You could be anyone." she said. Deep down she knew that wasn't true, this man didn't need any kind of explanation for her.

"I'm the Doctor"

"Doctor Who?"

"Just the Doctor" he said "And you are?"

"The Impossible Girl" the bar girl said with a cheeky smile.

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