SEQUEL TO "DYING EMBERS"
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Life returns... Life prevails... Everything has changed. And in the mysterious world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn... and it most certainly can't lead to anything good. (FULL SUMMARY INSIDE!!!)
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Continued from Deep Breath ― IV __________
"Are we going to talk about earlier at all?" Lucas asked, watching as Jupiter tidied up the desk, straightening things out.
"There's nothing to talk about." She replied, not looking at Lucas as she went and put a book back on one of the shelves.
"Do you really believe that?" Lucas questioned her. "Or are you just trying to make yourself believe your own words?"
Jupiter turned back to look at him, opening her mouth to reply just before the door to the study opened, Clara and Sky poking their heads in and effectively silencing Jupiter from saying anything else.
Clara raised an eyebrow at two of them. "Are we interrupting?"
"Not at all." Jupiter quickly assured as she and Lucas turned to them. "What's up?"
"Thought maybe we should go talk to Vastra." Sky told them.
Jupiter nodded. "Good idea." She said as she and Lucas followed them out of the room.
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Vastra looked up when there was a knock at the door of her conservatory, seeing Jupiter, Lucas, Clara and Sky all back in their regular clothes. "Please come in." She told them.
Clara and Jupiter entered the room along with Lucas and Sky. "We're not interrupting?" Clara asked.
"I should be glad of your company." Vastra shook her head, gesturing for them to sit. "What can I do for you?"
"Well..." Clara began as they did. "Until the TARDIS comes back, none of us being quite sure of when exactly that will be, we're stuck here. Got any vacancies?"
"You would be very welcome to join our little household, all of you." Vastra gave them a smile. "But I have it on the highest authority that the Time Lords will be returning for you very soon."
"Whose authority?" Lucas asked, frowning slightly.
"Well, the people that know them best in all the universe."
"And these people would be...?"
Vastra smirked. "Mister Lucas Harper, Miss Clara Oswald, and the Twins of Time: Skyler and Jupiter Pond. All of whom perhaps have, by instinct, already dressed to leave."
"Can't help but hope while we exercise our patience." Clara shrugged half-heartedly. "Still not sure who the Doctor and the Glorious are anymore."
Vastra held up a finger, hearing the sound wheezing, then smiled. "It would seem, my dear, you are very wrong about that. Give them hell. They'll always need it."
"I don't think we ever stop." Jupiter smirked as she, Clara, Lucas and Sky all got to their feet.
