[It wasn't love, Clara wants to argue, but it would really be beside the point. It was certainly enough fondness that the loss of it stings.
She closes her eyes and tightens her fingers around the glass.]
Whether or not they want it.
[There's no anger in her voice, though, nor in her heart. The Doctor saved her from death, at the cost of unnatural life. Had she not offered Jim the same opportunity?]
I know what he's like, after he loses people. I don't want to become that.
Clara, I don't know you, I don't know what is in your heart, but I do know time.
( it's said after a pause, a few aborted thoughts at her response. you're not like him-- why would that happen?. that conversation had not gone well before and even though you're not the doctor are the words that would come out it isn't with that intention that she has.
clara is human, she has a kindness that is different to the doctor's, a different care. she is so different and all of it in good ways, ways that would make her a different person even with years. she didn't have to react how he did )
Yes, it will change you but you can choose how you let it. ( is that true? in a way, maybe. river had changed with time, had chosen some of it in trying to be a different person but she was also exaggerating it somewhat ) And you can choose to not be alone.
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She closes her eyes and tightens her fingers around the glass.]
Whether or not they want it.
[There's no anger in her voice, though, nor in her heart. The Doctor saved her from death, at the cost of unnatural life. Had she not offered Jim the same opportunity?]
I know what he's like, after he loses people. I don't want to become that.
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( it's said after a pause, a few aborted thoughts at her response. you're not like him-- why would that happen?. that conversation had not gone well before and even though you're not the doctor are the words that would come out it isn't with that intention that she has.
clara is human, she has a kindness that is different to the doctor's, a different care. she is so different and all of it in good ways, ways that would make her a different person even with years. she didn't have to react how he did )
Yes, it will change you but you can choose how you let it. ( is that true? in a way, maybe. river had changed with time, had chosen some of it in trying to be a different person but she was also exaggerating it somewhat ) And you can choose to not be alone.