Claire Thompson

Claire Thompson
Species:	Human
Place of origin:	Earth
Foster children:	George Thompson
Partner:	Alex Thompson
First appearance:	Night Terrors
Appearances:	PROSE: Night Terrors
Main actor:	Emma Cunniffe

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Claire Thompson (PROSE: My Special Book) was the partner of Alex in the 21st century. They had a child, George, who wasn't all that he seemed, as he was actually a Tenza — a cuckoo-like alien — who had nested with Alex and Claire many years before, unbeknownst to them.

Biography

When Claire was young, she owned a collection of peg dolls and a dolls house. (PROSE: My Special Book)

By 2002, Alex and Claire tried to conceive a child, but they found that Claire couldn't have children, despite trying treatments like IVF. On Christmas Eve, they attended a party, and Claire wasn't pregnant at the time. However, in 2003, a newly-hatched Tenza came to Earth, assimilating itself into the "nest" of Alex and Claire, made possible by the Tenza's natural perception filter and psychic field, and the Tenza was "born" around 11 January (TV: Night Terrors) or on 11 February. (PROSE: Night Terrors) The Tenza was named George by his new parents. (TV: Night Terrors, PROSE: Night Terrors)

As a family, Alex, Claire and George lived in a flat in the Rowbarton Estate, (PROSE: Night Terrors) and by the time George was five, they used the lift in the estate, but they ceased using it sometime later as it kept breaking down. (PROSE: My Special Book) Over the next few years, George developed phobias of many things in his life, and Alex believed he had pantophobia. (TV: Night Terrors) When George was seven and a quarter, Claire gave George a "special book" and some pencils, so George could write about things he had thought of and seen. He initially wrote about things he liked, but then wrote much more about what scared him, although he kept this a secret. George often made Alex and Claire cry, and this began to make George think he was going to be taken away. One night, George had a nightmare about his mother's old peg dolls trying to suffocate him, and when he awoke his screaming woke up Alex and Claire, who had work to go to shortly. (PROSE: My Special Book) Claire was later photographed eating ice cream with George. (TV: Night Terrors) George and Claire developed, what George called a "special thing", where anything that scared George would be put in his cupboard. (TV: Night Terrors, PROSE: My Special Book)

By 2011, Claire seemingly worked a night shift in a medical profession. Some time after George's birthday, Alex told Claire that George needed to see a doctor, and she went to work, telling Alex she would call someone. After the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory arrived in the estate following George's psychic message to the Doctor's psychic paper, Amy and other residents of the estate were transformed into peg dolls after being sent into George's cupboard, the Doctor deduced that George was actually a Tenza and that his fears were being amplified by his alien biology, and Alex convinced his son that he loved him, helping George overcome his fears, Claire returned home in the morning, taken aback by George being "sorted". (TV: Night Terrors)

Behind the scenes

• According to The Brilliant Book 2012, Claire's name was scripted Thompson. However, there is no indication of any last name in Night Terrors as originally transmitted, with the Thompsons' name only being clarified in the short story My Special Book.
• My Special Book also revealed that George had a grandmother, but it was not specificied to which side of the family she belonged.