i’ll wander home

gwendolynnby:

Wetting a finger in his mouth, he sticks it in the air.  “Denmark,” he tells her with a note of surprise.

“Denmark,” she repeats almost like a question, closing the doors as she goes to join him.  “Why Denmark?”

“Why not?”  Though he keeps walking, he falls silent as if in thought.  “I met Hans Christian Anderson once.  Inspired one of his stories.”

Clara almost snorts.  “I’m sure you did.”

“But I don’t think we’ll run into him; this feels much closer to your time than his.”

They walk side by side in the sand, and though Clara tends to walk fast – a habit developed by being short in a world full of people taller than her – she can tell that he’s keeping pace with her, not leaving her behind.  It’s a nice time of year, with only an intermittent breeze blowing past them.

Something catches her attention up ahead.  At first it’s just a tall structure in the distance, but as it takes shape she realizes it’s a lighthouse.  And just as she’s gotten used to knowing when the Tardis lands, Clara thinks that maybe she’s getting the hang of understanding why she sends them where she does, because something about this lighthouse strikes her.  Like it’s important.

(ao3)

Clara and the Doctor investigate a lighthouse that’s rumoured to be haunted.

for @whouffaldi-that-is-all​, I’m so sorry it took me over a year to finish this.  I hope you’re still around on tumblr.