Who: Clara Oswald and Helena Wells What: Avoiding of dreams on both ends When: 2 April 2015, night Where: Random club Warnings: Innuendo. Dream related issues. Status: Thread | Complete
Clara had been doing her best to avoid her family since the disaster that was waking up from the night terrors at John's. One simple reaction, no matter how quickly resolved, and she had shut down because it was the only way to get by. It was the only thing she could do, but that meant avoiding. Because if she said too much, or just said the wrong word, they'd know and then what? No. It was better this way. Keep away from them until she had this figured out, until she knew for certain... maybe then she could avoid what seemed to be inevitable.
It was easier to avoid during the day. She had her job, though if she was getting short with students more this past week or not, she couldn't know for certain. Not really. She felt angrier. God, she was angry about so much. Which was something she couldn't let herself feel. Subconsciously, she knew this. Oswin knew this. Clara just wanted these dreams to end. But she also didn't want to dream. It left her in a state of not knowing what to do, of staying up reading to avoid. But when she was reading, she could hear the screams of the Daleks, as if they were outside her flat, trying to get in. As if she were back in her delusion of normal life and not of being a Dalek herself...
Which was why on a Thursday night, Clara found herself at a club. Perhaps not the most responsible decisions for her to make when she still had one more day of classes before Spring Break, but the screaming was getting louder, the feeling of being lost ever more deeper... it wasn't responsible but it might be the one thing that was keeping her going at this point. So dressed in a red dress (really, it seemed to be a thing with her lately), the brunette had gone to another club and was currently dancing with... she didn't know. She didn't even know if she was dancing with a man or a woman. She didn't care though. All Clara wanted in that moment was to forget and lose herself in movement and music.