ive got a lot to pine

"Well then, I suppose you'll just have to remind me of what I've forgotten." Clara smiles and he feels a sense of foreboding, as if he's remembering in the wrong direction like with Ashildr. "Tell me about your other companions?"The Doctor's hands freeze on the trinket he'd been absently working on. He supposes it would be unClara of her to just drop it. "What do you want to know?" He answers, tone carefully neutral.Clara either doesn't notice or doesn't care, because she tacks on, "Who was right before me?""There was Amy Pond," He plans to just say that, hoping to shut down this conversation before Clara's curiosity makes him relive things he does not want to relive, but the next name pushes out of his mouth like it always did before. "And Rory Williams."You never could have one without the other. Ghost words echo out of his memory. Together. Or not at all."(He always rips out the last page of the book, so it doesn't have to end. He doesn't like endings.)ORThe Doctor finally finds the little girl waiting in the garden and tells her how the story ends.