Chapter 4

"I need you to stay away from the TARDIS today" Ashildr called out to Clara who was sitting on the pilot chair staring at her phone.

"Why?" Clara wondered looking up at her immortal friend.

"I just need to do some stuff" Ashildr shrugged making Clara frown.

"That totally doesn't sound suspicious at all" Clara said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. She pocketed her phone and stood up. They'd both agreed to not question each other about what they were doing so she knew she shouldn't push it, she didn't want to risk getting into a fight with Ashildr.

"Just stay away, you can come back when I text you" Ashildr decided.

"Fine" Clara sighed. She exited her TARDIS leaving Ashildr behind. She was very curious as to why Ashildr didn't want to have Clara there but today she should just listen to Ashildr and stay away.

It had been a few days since that accident with the wet girl and Bill happened and since then Ashildr and Clara had not moved their TARDIS. Ashildr wanted to stay there and Clara was not disobeying, she liked staying in this time and place a little longer.

After the text Clara had sent a few days ago she got a short reply from Bill saying that she was ok and safe after that she hadn't heard any more from the girl.

She walked down the path towards the main building of the university. There already were a lot of students making their way to their first classes and lectures. She secretly hoped to see Bill but instead, a gray Scottish haired man pushed past her followed by a bald guy. It was the Doctor and his friend again.

"We're going to be late" The bald man complained nervously. The Doctor just sighed not interested.

"A teacher can never be late, the others are just early"

Clara decided to follow the pair, if she was lucky she could attend one of the Doctor's lectures without getting in trouble.

"Do you even know what today's lecture is going to be about?" the man asked the Doctor. The Doctor sighed again as if his friend was annoying him a little.

"I'll just make up something, I always do." the Timelord explained.

"You can't keep doing that"

"Why not, everyone always enjoys it when I do that" The Doctor and his friend entered a room, Clara quickly followed them. They entered a huge lecture room, most of the seats were already filled with students waiting for the Doctor show up. Clara found herself a seat in the corner of the room she was getting quite excited that she was here to witness one of the Doctor's lectures.
She had really missed her best friend and even though he didn't remember her it was good to see he had moved on from what had once been their life. She was sure the Doctor still traveled through Time and space but at least he made new friends and was actually doing something domestic like having a normal human job.

The lecture quickly started, she didn't know how the Doctor managed to do it but he started off the lecture by talking about physics but that quickly changed into talking about music.
Does the Doctor still play his guitar? As on cue, the Doctor pulled out his guitar, getting a loud gasp from the students around the room. Nobody was expecting for him to actually pull out a guitar,

The Doctor continued talking about music, giving examples with his guitar and telling them how everything was still connected to physics.

Clara felt her phone buzz in her pocket. She silently got it out and noticed she got a text from no one other than Bill. She quickly opened the text.

'I didn't know you also went to the Doctor's lectures'

Clara's eyes shot up and scanned the room, she quickly found Bill who was sitting at the other side of the room grinning at her, Clara immediately felt a smile grow on her face. She quickly typed in an answer to Bill.

'I didn't know you also came here, I thought you only served chips?'

Clara looked up again and noticed that Bill was now looking at her phone, possibly looking at her text. it wasn't long before Clara received a reply.

'yeah but the Doctor's lectures are something nobody should miss out on, I mean... he's playing his guitar right now'

Clara smirked at this, the Doctor was indeed playing on his guitar and it didn't surprise her one bit.

'You're right, the Doctor is a special bean' Clara looked up at the Doctor, he definitely was a special bean but she wouldn't have him otherwise.

'yeah, he's very special indeed' Bill seemed to agree with her.

'Do you want to hang out once the lecture has ended?' Clara dared to ask, she didn't have anything better to do anyway as Ashildr had kicked her out of the TARDIS for today.

'I gotta serve chips after the lecture and I have to go to my tutor later today' Clara's smile sunk a little, Bill already was busy today.

'Going to lectures, serving chips, having a tutor. Seems like you have a busy life' Clara decided to reply not showing how disappointed she actually was.

'Yes it can be very busy, I will be free in the evening though. I know a great pub that you might like?' Clara's smile immediately fully returned to her face, was Bill suggesting having dinner together? She definitely wanted to go to a pub with Bill.

"Sure! :)' Clara looked at Bill discovering she also had a grin on her face and was busy typing away on her phone.

'Be ready at 6, I'll text the details later today'Clara read the text and pocketed her phone. Clara felt like she enjoyed the last 15 minutes of the lecture even more after what had just happened. Once the lecture was over the Doctor and his bald friend were the first ones to leave the room, seemingly to be in a hurry. Clara wanted to see if she could meet up with Bill for a second but Bill also left the room quickly just like many other students, everyone seemed to be in a hurry.

Nevertheless, Clara took her time, she waited until the crowd had vanished a bit before she exited the room. She kept thinking about tonight, she shouldn't go to the pub dressed like this. She had just thrown on some clothes this morning and if she wanted to impress Bill she should get changed... the only problem was: she was not allowed in the TARDIS.

Ashildr wouldn't mind it if Clara quickly used the TARDIS only to change right? She made her way back towards her TARDIS, when she neared the Time machine she heard a couple of voices, they were all very familiar to her. She ducked behind some bushes and she carefully looked at the TARDIS and froze. In front of the TARDIS stood Ashildr with a Timelord, the Timelord who had been hunting for Clara so he could return her back to her own timestream... trap street.

Had Ashildr kicked Clara out of the TARDIS so she could meet with the Timelord and give Clara up?