"But as he looks down at Clara, and she looks back up at him and grins, he lets himself smile back."

It had been a surprise. That's an understatement, but it had been a surprise; like a bucket of ice had been dumped over his head. Engaged.

AU, post-Akhaten. "She had literally known him for all of one day when this happened. This... memory loss. And now she was stuck on an alien planet with an alien who had absolutely no idea who he was or how to get her back home. The worst part of it was that she had barely known him when he had all his memories, thus she had no idea where to start in order to get them back."

"The Doctor's got about seven seconds to locate the TARDIS self-destruct before a situation that's already gone to hell pulls him down with it. He'd rather a fiery death in the cold grip of space than what's about to descend on him, but he can't remember if the self-destruct is a button or a lever or that weird spinny-whirly bit."

Partially posting this so my friend can read it, partially posting it because I was curious as to how the one-night stand between Whalenstein and MM would go down and... yeah. Do I ship it? Noooo...

"She likes him. He's easily likable, if you can get around the accident-prone curse that seems to follow him and the occasionally idiotic statements that fall out of his mouth whenever he opens it. She doesn't care; she likes him, kind of in the way one might like a rather daft bird that can't comprehend the concept of a glass window." Wheatley/Curiosity if you're so disposed.