Changes and Discoveries (HEAVY REWRITING)

by Landing

11/OC - with the man Daniel had been travelling with gone after saving humanity from the Master, he must deal with the loss of his friend despite him being a man wearing a bow tie. How will he deal with this change along with not being the only companion in the TARDIS? What will the cracks through time do to affect Daniel? Second in To Own His Hearts.

6. Vampires of Venice

Changes and Discoveries: Vampires of Venice

Disclaimer: see The Eleventh Hour

~DW~

"That's a terrible plan." Daniel frowned at the Doctor.

"No, it isn't."

"Yes it is."

"Can we not pantomime this please?" Amy called from the jump seat.

She had told the Doctor everything, from the wedding tomorrow… well today if she thought about it to the reason why she had run away. She had expected the Doctor to be mad at her, for thinking that she could split up him and Daniel, but he just laughed and hugged her, telling her a quick story about Martha Jones and her attraction to the Doctor after he had lost Rose, which was his way of telling her that it had happened before and like Daniel had said, it was bound to happen again.

Right now, the trio were trying to figure out a way to get Rory away from his stag party. The Doctor's plan was to practically kidnap the poor man by materialising the TARDIS on him and quickly flying away while Daniel wanted to take a more subtle approach to the situation. Daniel plan was to pull Rory to the side either before or after the man's stag party and invite him into the TARDIS.

"But pantomime's are good," the Doctor looked at her. "Gets the crowd involved!"

"While the situation at hand is a bit pantomime-esque," Daniel cut in, knowing the Doctor was bound the start chanting 'Oh, no your not!' at any point. "We aren't going to kidnap the man!"

"I don't think Rory would be very happy with that." Amy agreed with Daniel, having remembered the man telling his mates that he wanted nothing too over the top, and most defiantly being kidnapped by two men he hadn't seen in the last 2 years would either give him a heart attack or he might attack them.

"See, the fiancée knows!" Daniel smiled at Amy in thanks. "Maybe we should just wait."

The Doctor sighed, knowing the Daniel wasn't going to budge from his idea, so they waited. But the Doctor grinned, an idea coming to him as he quickly piloted the TARDIS, Daniel yelling at him to stop as he chased the Doctor out of the doors…

~DW~

…And that's how the Doctor and Daniel ended up inside a large pop out cake… again. They first turned up to another stag do not in Letchworth but in Crydon of all places! The poor bloke had been beyond angry when the Doctor jumped out, Daniel and Amy had to drag the Doctor away before the man could chase them away.

It was a bit of a squeeze for both of them, but the Doctor was practically pressed against one wall and Daniel the other. The stripper was stood outside, wearing Daniel's oversized woolly jumper, as they had stolen the only thing keeping the bikini-clad woman warm.

"Out! Out! Out!" they heard men shouting.

Daniel nodded to the Doctor, who nodded back, as Daniel quickly sprung up from the cake, facing the doors before looking around a moment before spotting the shocked Rory. The men instantly fell quiet, clearly having expected a woman to pop out. "Rory!" Daniel cheered. "Thank god it's the right cake," the Doctor wiggled up beside him, Rory's eyes widened at the duo. "Last time we'd ended up in the wrong cake at the wrong stag do because this dunce," the Doctor gave a small wave. "Got the coordinates wrong."

"Okay, let's not tell them everything," the Doctor cut in. "There's lovely girl outside in a oversized woolly jumper, could someone let her in, buy her something to eat. Lucy, lovely girl, diabetic," he looked at Rory. "Now, then, Rory, we need to talk about your fiancée, she ran away with us," everyone in the room gasped, Daniel slowly turned to look at the Doctor with a dumbfounded look on his face. "But then she decided that she wanted you along for the ride! So that's nice," someone dropped their glass as they all stared at him, he then noticed the look on Daniel's face. "Did it all go wrong?"

"Yes… yes it did."

~DW~

The Doctor was sat in a hanging harness under the TARDIS console, welding, while Daniel stood before the monitor, looking at the readings. Amy paced nervously as she looked at Rory, waiting for his reaction to all this. She had smacked the Doctor's arm quite hard when Daniel told her about his stupid confession.

"Oh! The life out there, it dazzles," the Doctor was saying. "I mean, it blinds you to the things that are important. I've seen it devour relationships and plans…" Rory looked down nervously as the TARDIS experiences a small explosion. "Oh! It's meant to do that."

"No it's bloody not," Daniel turned to look down at him through the glass floor. "And please stop talking."

The Doctor rolled his eyes and got back to work. "Because for one person to have seen all that, to taste the glory and then go back, it will tear you apart."

"So that's why we're taking you somewhere. Together." Daniel cut in, knowing the Doctor was bound to make this worse.

"Like on a date?" Rory frowned, finding his voice for the first time since stepping inside the TARDIS.

"Exactly like a date, anywhere you want, any time you want," Daniel continued, the Doctor walking up the steps to join them. "No matter what, it's up to you, you could go to the Moulin Rouge in 1890! Opening day at Walt Disney World! It's our wedding present to you, both of you," the Doctor walked up behind Daniel, hugging him from behind. "You'll need this, let me tell you that."

Rory just stared at them, stunned. "It's a lot to take in, isn't it?" the Doctor stepped away from Daniel, kissing him on the cheek quickly, before heading up a set of stairs. "Tiny box, huge room inside. What's that about? Let me explain."

"It's another dimension." Rory stated.

"It's basically another dimen…" the Doctor began at the same time, stopping and heading down the stairs. "What?"

"After Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories," Rory shrugged. "FTL travel, parallel universes…"

Daniel laughed. "Oh, you're a clever man Rory Williams." Rory smiled slightly.

"I like the bit when someone says, 'it's bigger on the inside!'" the Doctor huffed, pouting slightly. "I always look forward to that."

"So, this date," Amy quickly cut in, sharing an amused look with Daniel. "I'm kind of done with running down corridors," she walked over to Rory and hooked her arm through his. "What do you think, Rory?"

"How about somewhere… romantic?" Daniel asked, pulling a leaver on the console.

~DW~

Daniel stepped out of the TARDIS with a wide grin, which quickly faded, as he looked out onto a busy market place. This was not where he had planned on landing; in fact it was far from where he had hoped to be.

"Did you do something?" Daniel accused the Doctor, who had stepped out.

"Did what?" the Doctor frowned, before looking around the area. "Venice!"

"Well that can't be right," Daniel frowned to himself, turning to look at the box. "I was aiming for America not Italy."

"Venice!" the Doctor repeated, throwing his arms out, hearing Amy and Rory stepping out of the TARDIS. "Venezia! La Serenissima! Impossible city. Preposterous city!" Amy and Rory looked around, amazed. "Founded by refugees running from Attila the Hun. It was just a collection of little wooden huts in the marsh, but became one of the most powerful cities in the world. Constantly being invaded, constantly flooding...constantly...just beautiful!" Daniel turned away from the box, offering Amy and Rory a smile. "Oh, you gotta love Venice. And so many people did. Byron, Napoleon, Casanova. Oh, that reminds me…" he checked his watch. "1580. That's alright. Casanova doesn't get born for 145 years," he glanced to Daniel. "Don't want to run into him. I owe him a chicken."

"You owe Casanova a chicken?" Rory frowned.

"It's a long story," Daniel cut in, knowing that the Doctor would go on for hours ranting about Casanova, he should know he got the first earful. "He had a bet."

Before the Doctor could explain, a man dressed in black stepped out before them. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Papers, if you please. Proof of residency, current bill of medical inspection."

The Doctor held up the psychic paper. "There you go, fella," the man took it. "All to your satisfaction, I think you'll find."

The man bowed deeply at Daniel. "I am so sorry, your Highness," Daniel frowned, giving the Doctor a confused look. "I didn't realise."

"No worries," Daniel waved it off, the Doctor quickly took the psychic paper back. "You were just doing your job," the man finally stopped bowing. "Sorry, what exactly is your job?"

"Checking for aliens," Daniel almost laughed. "Visitors from foreign lands what might bring the plague with them." The man explained.

"Oh, that's nice, see where you bring me?" Amy slapped the Doctor's arm, accusing him of somehow messing up the coordinates. "The plague!"

"Don't worry, Viscountess," he bowed to her and Amy sighed in relief. "No, we're under quarantine here, no one comes in, no one goes out, and all because of the grace and wisdom of our patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri!" he pointed to the crest on the box he was carrying.

"I though the plague died out years ago." Daniel frowned, looking at the Doctor for confirmation, the man nodding.

"Not out there. No, Signora Calvierri has seen it with her own eyes. Streets are piled high with bodies, she said."

"Did she, now?" the Doctor hummed.

The Doctor and Daniel looked at each other, both of them getting the feeling something else was going on.

Rory took the psychic paper as the man walked off to question someone else while Daniel, Amy and the Doctor walked on. "According to this, I'm your eunuch!" Rory yelled.

"Oh, yeah, I'll explain later." Amy told him, falling back so she could walk by his side.

Daniel looked at the Doctor. "So, any ideas what we're missing?" he asked.

"Not sure yet," the Doctor looked around, the pair walking hand in hand. "Everything is normal, no building discrepancies or any major changes to say otherwise."

"But he said the plague was still out there. I may have failed history but I know the plague was long gone by at least the 15th century."

"It died out in 1348."

"So what… this Signora woman is spreading lies throughout all of Italy," Daniel mused. "But word must have gotten through to Italy, like through Raven or something?"

"Raven or something?" the Doctor repeated, amused.

"Shut up," Daniel nudged him, laughing. "But you get what I'm trying to say though, right?"

"Yeah, maybe we should visit this Signora."

They continued on until they reached a canal where many other people were gathered to watch something. They found a place to watch as a procession of girls all dressed in white dresses and veils walked past.

A black man ran up to the progression. "What do you want?" They heard a woman demand.

"Where's my Isabella?" the man cried as he lifted the girls' veils.

"What are you doing? Get away from there!"

He kept searching. "Isabella! Isabella!" he cheered, finding a girl who looked like him, clearly the two were related. "It's me!"

The girl back away from him and before he could drag her away, another girl stepped forward and hissed at him, two fangs in her mouth that had Daniel gasping in surprise. The man fell to the ground.

"Girls, come along!" the woman called.

The girls turned and continued their procession when a young man but his boot onto the man's chest, holding him to the floor. "She's gone." He smirked and walked away with a swirl of his cloak.

"Isabella!" two guards lifted the man from the floor. "It's me!" he struggled against them.

The Doctor and Daniel shared a look, before hurrying after the man, leaving Amy and Rory behind.

~DW~

The Doctor leapt onto the bottom step of the stairway the father had been walking, Daniel quickly making his way down the stairs. "Who were those girls?" he called to the man.

The father stopped and looked at them. "I though everyone knew about the Calvierri school."

"Our first day here," he stepped down as Daniel joined him. "Parents do all of sorts of things to get their children into good schools. They move house, they change religion," he lowered his voice into a whisper. "So why are you trying to get her out?"

"Something happened in there… something magical, something evil. My own daughter didn't recognise me. And the girl who pushed me away, her face… like an animal."

Daniel stepped forward, putting an arm around the man's shoulder. "I think it's time we met this Signora Calvierri."

"We?" the man frowned, looking at Daniel.

"Yes, we," Daniel smiled at him. "The Doctor and Daniel, at your service."

"Guido." He introduced himself.

~DW~

Guido approached the guards of the Calvierri school, while Daniel and the Doctor stood off to the side, waiting to move.

"You have my daughter!" Guido yelled at them. "Isabella!"

You're not coming in, stop there!" one of the guards threatened, "We've told you..."

With the guards distracted Daniel and the Doctor quickly sneaked along the side, Guido watching them in the corner of his eye. "You have my daughter. Isabella! I demand you let me see my daughter."

The Doctor pulled out the sonic and flashed the gate, opening it.

"Isabella! It's me! It's your father."

"I'll arrest you..." the guard stepped towards him.

"Isabella!" he watched as the Doctor and Daniel snuck inside and made it through a doorway before turning to leave.

They made their way down some stone steps into a chamber. "I still think we should have waited for Amy and Rory." Daniel whispered, looking around the chamber.

"They'll be fine," the Doctor waved it off. "This is a date for them, remember, as long as they're away from us, they'll be fine."

Daniel could only hope he was right, but nodded away, walking into the center of the chamber, squinting through the darkness at linked corridor. The Doctor stepped over to one of the walls, looking at Daniel through the reflection. "Hello, handsome." He called to Daniel.

He laughed and turned to say something but his eyes widened. "Doctor!" he called and he ran over to the Doctor as a group of girls dressed in white were stood behind him.

"Who are you?" the girls asked.

The Doctor spun round to face them, then back at the mirror and then back at them again. Daniel caught a quick glance into the mirror and could only himself and the Doctor… no girls were visible.

"How are you doing that?" Daniel frowned.

"We… are… loving it!" the Doctor grinned at them, missing Daniel shaking his head. "You're like Houdini, only five scary girls, only he was shorter. Will be shorter. I'm rambling."

"I'll ask you again, signors," the girls all spoke at once. "Who are you?"

"Why don't you check this out?" the Doctor held out his wallet.

The girls just titled their heads and Daniel to it from the Doctor. "Why did you need a library card?" Daniel asked, showing the Doctor the ID card with his first incarnation on it.

He took it from Daniel, examining it. "Of course, it's with…" he realised.

"Rory."

"He's…"

"With Amy," Daniel sighed. "Told you we should have waited for them."

"I need the spare," he took Daniel's hand, as they looked at the girls again. "Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight and can't be seen in it…" he looked at Daniel. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"But that's impossible." Daniel breathed, looking at the mirror and back at the girls.

"But the city. Why shut down the city? Unless…"

"Leave now or we shall call for the steward… if you are lucky." The girls warned them.

"Ooh!" they started to back away as the girls hissed and bared their fangs, advancing. He moved Daniel to run ahead of him, they ran back to the doorway and stairs. He stopped and spun to face the girls. "Tell me the whole plan," they just kept advancing, "One day that might work…"

"It really won't." Daniel cut in.

"Listen, we'd love to stay here."

"Speak for yourself."

"This whole thing… I'm thrilled. Oh, this is Christmas!"

Daniel grabbed the back of his jacket and pulled him up the stairs and out into the streets, the girls hissing at them.

They ran across the canal when they almost crashed into Amy.

"Doctor!" she yelled. "Daniel!"

"We just met some vampires!" the Doctor told her, grinning.

"We just saw a vampire!" Amy spoke and then they both started talking at once, voices overlapping.

"And creepy girls and everything." He nodded.

"Vampires!" Amy cheered and they jumped up and down excitedly when Rory ran up.

"We think we just saw a vampire." Rory breathed.

"Yeah, yeah, we know," the Doctor nodded, "Amy was just telling us."

"Yeah!" Amy grinned, "The Doctor and Daniel actually went to their house."

"Oh…" Rory nodded, "Right. Well..."

"Ok, so..." the Doctor slapped Rory's cheeks lightly. "First, we need to get back in there."

"What?" Both Rory and Daniel exclaimed.

"How do we do that?" Amy asked.

"Back in where?" Rory frowned.

"Come and meet our new friend." the Doctor hoped his arm through Daniel's and they walked off.

~DW~

They sat in Guido's house later that night with a map of Venice laid out on a table. The Doctor and Amy were looking over it as Daniel looked out of a window, Rory sat in the back on some barrels.

"As you saw, there's no clear way in," Guido remarked, "The house of Calvierri is like a fortress. But there's a tunnel underneath it with a ladder and shaft that leads up into the house. I tried to get in once myself, but I hit a trapdoor."

"You need someone on the inside." Amy said.

"No." Both the Doctor and Daniel said, looking at her.

"You don't even know what I was going to say!"

"We pretend you're an applicant for the school to get you inside and tonight you come down and open the trapdoor to let us in." the Doctor stated.

"Oh. So you know what I was going to say!"

"Are you insane?" Rory frowned at her.

"We don't have another option."

"They said no, Amy. Listen to them."

"There is another option," Guido pointed in Rory direction. "I work at the Arsenale. We build warships for the navy."

The Doctor sniffed the barrels. "Gunpowder," he put a hand on Rory's shoulder. "Most people just nick stationery from where they work," Rory slid off the barrel slowly and back away into a hanging dead rabbit. "Look, I have a thing about guns and huge quantities of explosive."

"Then what do you suggest, then?" Guido frowned at him. "We wait until they turn her into an animal?" he turned away and poked the fire.

"I'll be there three, four hours tops." Amy insisted.

"No, no, no, no, no, no," the Doctor sighed. "It can't keep happening like this. This is how they go," he sat back on a bed against the wall, his head in his hands before sitting back, "But we have to know. We go together. Say you're my daughter."

"What?" Rory shook his head. "Don't listen to him!"

"Your daughter," Amy laughed. "You look about nine."

"Brother, then." The Doctor suggested.

"Daniel!" Rory turned to look at Daniel. "Tell them to stop!"

Daniel sighed, looking away from Rory. "I don't think I can." He told him.

"Too weird," Amy shook her head, oblivious to Daniel and Rory. "Fiancé."

"I am not having him run around telling people he's your fiancé." Rory frowned.

"No, no, you're right."

"Thank you."

"I mean, they've already seen the Doctor and Daniel," she turned to him. "You should do it."

"Me?"

"Yeah! You can be my fiancé." she kissed his cheek.

Daniel smiled at the interaction and walked over to the Doctor, sitting beside him.

"This whole thing is mental!" Rory exclaimed, though he was smiling slightly. "They're vampires, for god's sake."

"We hope." The Doctor corrected.

"So, if they're not vampires…" Daniel frowned.

"Makes you wonder what could be so bad it doesn't actually mind us thinking it's a vampire?"

~DW~

The Doctor, Rory and Daniel sat in Guido's gondola as the man, now dressed in Rory's clothes, guided them along the canal towards the school. "She'll be fine." Daniel assured Rory, sensing the man's concern.

"You can promise me that, can you?" he snapped at Daniel, before sighing. "Sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you."

Daniel just smiled and shook his head. "You have every right to snap, your fiancé is in danger of vampires. So really, I don't mind."

"But how can you be so sure?"

Rory glanced over at the Doctor, who was pretending to not be listening, before looking at Daniel. There was something different about Daniel compared to the Doctor, not that he could point out why, since it was the second time they had met.

"The Doctor has had many companions like Amy in the past. While I don't know much about them, they've all come across through stories as these brave, capable women who have saved the Doctor either from something or from himself on multiple occasions. The Doctor wouldn't send Amy out there if he didn't believe her to be able to keep herself safe."

"But what happened to all these companions?"

"They all left, living lives on Earth," Daniel nodded. "They're always doing something for modern Earth, keeping it safe if the Doctor's not around or if they can control the threat themselves. They keep proving to the world that they can do the Doctor's job just as good as he could… so trust me when I say she'll be fine."

Rory smiled, still fearful for Amy but he had to trust her and the Doctor's decision.

The Doctor reached behind him, placing a hand on Daniel's arm, smiling. Daniel just reached up to pat his hand. The gondola stopped.

"We're here." Guido told them.

The Doctor grabbed a lit torch off the wall as he stepped out, opening the creaking gate as Rory and Daniel followed.

"Right. Ok, I'll go first," the Doctor said. "If anything happens to me, go back…"

"Like hell I will." Daniel cut in.

"Did something happen?" Rory suddenly asked. "Between you and Amy? Is that why she ran away with you?"

They stopped just outside a wooden door. "NOW?! You want to do this NOW?!" The Doctor exclaimed, stepping through the door.

"I have a right to know," Rory followed them. "I'm getting married in 430 years."

They continued through a narrow passage, the only light coming from the Doctor's torch. "Amy explained to us," Daniel began. "That when she met us, back in Leadworth, that the whole Prisoner Zero experience opened her eyes to a whole other world outside of Leadworth, even Earth," he hesitated, remembering that Amy had confirmed his theory as to why she ran away, but he knew Rory deserved to know the truth. "But when you travel with the Doctor, you end up falling in love with something whether it be the adventures, the species… or the Doctor himself."

"So she fell in love with the Doctor." Rory realised.

"At one point it was," Daniel corrected him. "Maybe in the back of her mind she had fallen in love with the Doctor, but after our adventure to Starship UK she realised that her feelings weren't returned and never could be returned."

"I find that hard to believe." He scoffed, knowing how many people in Leadworth had fallen for Amy over the years.

"You best believe it Rory, because the Doctor can promise you that he doesn't have any feelings for her other then friendship."

"It's true," the Doctor spoke for the first time since Daniel had been talking. "Amy is my friend, nothing more nothing less," he stopped to look at Rory over his shoulder. "I'm already with someone."

"Who?" Rory frowned.

"Me," Daniel waved, laughing slightly as he laced his hand with the Doctor's free hand. "The Doctor and I are together, Amy knew this and moved on, thinking about you," Rory looked between them, surprised. "She kept telling us she had something planned for today, I think she was going to tell us sooner then later."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I think if it hadn't been for River Song and the Angels, then maybe she would have told us that very day."

Before Rory could question them even further a strong gust of wind blew down the corridor, blowing out the torch. "Can we go and see the vampires now, please?" the Doctor whispered.

~DW~

The Doctor pushed open the grate of the well open and climbed out, using Rory as a ladder. "Push," he whispered, scrambling out before reaching in and helping Rory out, the pair helping Daniel out as well. "Come on. There we are." he kissed Daniel on the cheek before looking around.

"Amy!" Daniel quietly called out, squinting in the dark. "Where's Amy? I can't see a thing."

"Just as well I brought this, then." Rory pulled out a small pencil torch, shining it around the area.

Only for the Doctor to pull out a large, long torch from under his jacket. "Ultraviolet," he told the amused Daniel and the frowning Rory. "Portable sunlight."

"Yours is bigger than mine."

"Let's not go there." The Doctor said, walking off in one direction.

"If we cancel now, we lose the deposit on the village hall, the salsa band," Rory was muttering to himself, having taken Daniel's talk about Amy falling in love with the adventure as a sign of their wedding being cancelled but he jumped slightly when he heard Daniel let out a small yell, seeing that Daniel had opened a chest near a wall with a skeleton inside. "What happen to them?"

"They've had all the moisture taken out of them." The Doctor informed, examining the skeleton.

"That's what vampires do, right?" Rory walked over to them. "They drink your blood and replace it with their own."

"Yeah, except they haven't just had their blood taken, but all the water in their bodies."

"Why did they die?" Daniel asked, although he had an idea, "Why aren't they like the girls in the school?"

"Maybe not everyone survives the process." The Doctor sighed.

Rory walked away in frustration then stopped, pointing at the Doctor. "You know what's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks, it's that you want them to impress you," he accused him. "Has Daniel had to prove himself to you? Is this what you've done to Amy? Do you have any idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around?"

"Who are you?" the girls asked as one, appearing in an archway of their own.

The Doctor held the ultraviolet light up to them as they got closer. "We should run. Run!" he pushed Daniel forward, who grabbed Rory and they ran from the courtyard.

They continued to run down one of the corridors until they came to a halt before three people, a woman and two men. "Cab for Amy Pond?" the Doctor called out.

Daniel spun around, moving Rory between him and the Doctor as the girls approached from the other end of the corridor, blocking them.

"This rescue plan, not exactly watertight, is it?" the woman asked.

The Doctor brandished the light to hold back the girls. "Ha-ha!" they all flinched back.

Amy, followed by Isabella, ran into the corridor from an intersecting hall. "Rory!" Amy said, relieved.

"Amy!" Rory quickly hugged her.

"Quickly, through here!" Isabella shouted, running back the way they came followed by the group, the girls following.

"They're not vampires!" Amy told them as they ran.

"What?" the Doctor flashed the sonic at a door, opening it for them to run through, before shutting it.

"I saw them, I saw her. they're not vampires. They're aliens!"

"Classic!" the Doctor chuckled.

"That's good news?! What is wrong with you people?!" Rory shook his head.

"You have no idea." Daniel laughed.

The Doctor urged them down the passage. "Come on, move!" they ran off, the Doctor brandished the ultraviolet light as a weapon as the man with the cloak and the girls caught up with them. "Keep moving! Come on, guys." They ran on, the girls now following on their own.

Isabella opened a door and ushered them out, down the stairs to the canal where Guido was waiting.

"Quickly!" she yelled at them. "Get out. Quick!" she went to follow but stopped in the sunlight, putting her hands to block her eyes.

"Oh," the Doctor ran to help her. "Come on, run!"

"I can't!"

They watched as Isabella was dragged back inside, the girls closing the doors. The Doctor pounded on the door and fell to the floor once the door was electrified. Rory, Amy and Daniel ran to his side to check on him.

"Is he dead?" Amy asked.

"No," Daniel answered, knowing what he would do if he was dead or dying. "He's breathing."

Daniel put a hand to the Doctor cheek, rubbing his thumb against it while Amy looked over at Guido, who looked down at the ground, knowing he'd never see his daughter again.

~DW~

The Signora walked into her throne room only to find the Doctor sat on her throne, one leg crossed over the other. While Daniel hadn't joined him, he was stood outside waiting for the Doctor to leave. He had about 10 minutes before Daniel came storming in.

"Long way from Saturnyne, aren't you?" the Doctor asked. "Sister of the Water?"

She eyed him. "No, let me guess. The owner of the psychic paper. Then I take it you're a refugee, like me?"

"I'll make you a deal," he cut in. "An answer for an answer," Rosanna nodded. "You're using a perception filter. It doesn't change your features, but manipulates the brainwaves of the person looking at you. But seeing one of you for the first time in, say, a mirror, the brain doesn't know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank...hence no reflection."

"Your question?"

"Why can we see your big teeth?"

The Signora laughed. "Self-preservation over-rides the mirage. The subconscious perceives the threat and tries to alert the conscious brain."

"Where's Isabella?"

"My turn. Where are you from?"

"Gallifrey."

"You should be in a museum. Or in a mausoleum."

"Why are you here?"

"We ran from the Silence. Why are you here?"

"Wedding present," he shrugged. "The Silence?"

"There were cracks. Some were tiny...some were as big as the sky. Through some we saw worlds and people and through others we saw silence...and the end of all things. We fled to an ocean like ours and the crack snapped shut behind us...and Saturnyne was lost."

"So Earth is to become Saturnyne Mark II?"

"And you can help me. We can build a new society here, as others have. What do you say?"

"I'm taken," he grinned at her before walking over to her, whispering. "Where's Isabella?"

"Isabella?" she frowned.

"The girl who saved us."

"Oh, deserters must be executed. Any general will tell you that. I need an answer, Doctor. A partnership. Any which way you choose."

"I don't think that's such a good idea, do you?" he almost laughed, ready to mock her slightly. "I'm a Time Lord. You're a big fish. Think of the children."

"Carlo!" she shouted and the man ran in, "You're right," she told him. "We're nothing alike. I will bend the heavens to save my race, while YOU philosophize."

"This ends today," he told her. "We will tear down the house of Calvierri, stone by stone," Carlo moved to grab him but he smacked his hand away. "Take your hands off me, Carlo," he threatened, he turned and walked to the door, stopping for a moment. "And you know why this will end? You didn't know Isabella's name."

And with that, he turned and walked out.

"Open the gates!" Carlo called from the window as he strode past the guards and out to the paths along the canal where Daniel stood waiting.

~DW~

The Doctor was examining the bites on Amy's neck with the sonic, having just informed them about his conversation with Signora. Daniel was stood at the end of the table, a thoughtful look on his face as he tried to make sense of everything.

"You're fine, open wide," he told Amy, popping a sweet into her mouth, before shouting frustration as he paced. "I need to think. Come on brain, think, think. Think!" he sat at the table with a huff. "Think!"

"If they're fish people, it explains why they hate the sun." Amy commented, speaking around the sweet.

He put his hand over her mouth. "Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush."

"It's the school thing I don't understand." Rory added.

He put his other hand over Rory's mouth. "Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush."

"I say we take the fight to them!" Guido called, slamming his hand on the table.

"Ah, ah, ah!" the Doctor looked at him.

"What?"

"Ah!" he nodded at Rory, who rolled his eyes and placed his hand over Guido's mouth, then he looked at Daniel. "What's up?"

"Her planet dies, so they flee through a crack in space and time, ending up here," Daniel began to pace, think aloud. "Then she closes off the city and, one by one, changes girls into creatures like her to start a whole new breed, it get that but what are we missing." He leant on the table, looking at the Doctor.

"They come from the sea, they can't survive forever on land, so what's she going to do?" The Doctor continued.

"Well, she'll have to make the city habitable."

"She said 'I shall bend the heavens to save my race'"

"Bend the heavens," Daniel frowned. "Bend… the heavens…"

"She's going to sink Venice." The Doctor breathed.

"She's," Guido pulled Rory's hand from his mouth. "She's going to sink Venice?"

"And repopulate it with the girls she's transformed." He nodded.

You can't repopulate somewhere with just women," Rory shook his head, "You need...blokes."

"She's got blokes." Amy told them.

"Where?" Daniel looked at her.

"In the canal. She said, 'There are 10,000 husbands waiting in the water.'"

"Only the male offspring survived the journey here." The Doctor nodded.

"So she's got 10,000 children swimming in the canals, waiting for Mummy to make them some girlfriends," Daniel snorted. "There desperate… then there's that desperate."

There was a loud clatter from the floor above, they all look up at the ceiling.

"The people upstairs are very noisy." The Doctor commented.

"There aren't any people upstairs." Guido told them, tensing.

"I knew you were going to say that. Did anyone else know he was going to say that?"

Wood creaked as if someone was walking across the floor, Rory following the creaking with his head. "Is it the vampires?" he asked.

"Like I said, they're not vampires," the Doctor corrected him. "Fish from space."

There was a thump and the sound of glass breaking as the converted girls entered the room, Daniel looked at the window so see some of the girls floating at them. The Doctor brandished the ultraviolet light as Guido crossed himself.

"Aren't we on the second floor?" Rory gaped.

The girls at the window break the glass and the Doctor used the light to keep them back. Using his free hand, he flashed the sonic at them, showing their true forms.

"What's happened to them?" Guido gasped.

"There's nothing left of them," the Doctor frowned. "They've been fully converted. Blimey," he eyed them, "Fish from space have never been so...buxom. Ok!" he switched off the sonic. "Move. Come on."

They ran down the stairs, Amy and Rory first, Daniel and the Doctor hurrying them down as Guido followed behind.

"Give me the lamp!" Guido grabbed it, flashing behind him to stop the girls from following the group as they ran outside.

"Go, go, go, guys!" the Doctor shouted as Amy and Rory ran out. "Keep moving, go, go, go!"

Guido stopped at the door, looking at the group before closing it, locking them out. "Stay away from the door!"

"No! Guido!" Daniel ran back to the door, pounding on it. "What are you doing?! We're not leaving you! What are you doing?!" he turned to the Doctor. "Do something!" the Doctor flashed the sonic on the door, yelling in frustration when it didn't work. "Guido!"

The Doctor gasped loudly when he realised what Guido was planning and pulled Daniel away from the house. They ran, getting thrown to the ground as the house exploded behind them.

They quickly got to their feet and looked back at the destroyed house as Amy and Rory ran over to them, they could hear people screaming in the distance.

"Rosanna's initiating the final phase." The Doctor realised.

"We need to stop her!" Daniel declared. "Come on!"

"No, no," the Doctor shook his head. "Get back to the TARDIS."

"Like hell I will! You can't stop her on your own."

"You need to get Amy and Rory to safety," the Doctor kissed Daniel quickly. "With all this chaos, they're bound to get lost."

Daniel hesitated, looking at the duo before sighing. "Be safe." He quickly ran off, pulling Amy.

"Thank you." Rory told him before running after them.

"Yeah… you're welcome." He ran off in the direction of the school.

~DW~

Daniel, Amy and Rory ran out on the opposite side of the canal from the school, looking out at the sky.

"Oh, my god!" Amy gasped. "What is going on?"

"The sky, it's like it's boiling." Rory said.

Daniel glanced over his shoulder, narrowing his eyes at Francesco who was watching them. "We need to leave. Now!" he pulled them ahead of them.

~DW~

The Doctor ran into the Calvierri throne room, walking straight to the chair, pulling off the back to reveal alien circuitry. The Doctor pulled out the sonic and started to try to short circuit it.

"You're too late," Rosanna called, entering the room, "Such determination...just to save one city. Hard to believe it's the same man that let an entire race turn to cinders and the woman who made it all possible. Now you can watch as my people take their new kingdom."

"The girls have gone, Rosanna," the Doctor told her.

"You're lying."

"Shouldn't I be dead?" he countered, the Signora walked away as she realised he was right. "Rosanna, please, help me," the Doctor called, "There are 200,000 people in this city."

"So save them." she spat, leaving.

~DW~

Daniel, Amy and Rory made their way through the streets but were blocked by a wet Francesco. Rory picked up some candlesticks and held them up in the form of a cross.

"Amy, run!" Rory called to her, but the man swiped the candlesticks away and moved towards Amy.

"Oi! Fish face! " Daniel called. "Rory, get Amy and run!" Rory ran to Amy and pulled her away, Francesco moved to follow. "Hey! I'm not done with you! You're mothers got the face only a son could love!"

Francesco stopped in his advance on Amy, turning to glare at Daniel. "Did you say something about Mummy?"

Daniel just nodded, smirking. "Whatcha gonna do about it?"

Francesco pulled out his sword, the smirk instantly wiped from Daniel's face. Amy and Rory ran back to see Francesco advance on Daniel, the duo watched as Daniel backed away slowly. Amy and Rory prepared to run in and do something, watched in confusion as the sword stopped mid swing at Daniel.

Daniel, also confused, winced slightly as he felt a slight headache begin. He realised what he could do, he wasn't as defenceless as Francesco had thought. Francesco tried to swing again, but Daniel flicked his hand to the side causing him to over miss and almost lose his footing.

Francesco growled at him and swung faster this time, Daniel barely able to stop both attempt but knocked the blade away from him. Daniel winced as his head pounded, but he continued his attempts to defend himself.

"We need to do something." Amy whispered to Rory, the man nodding.

Rory grabbed a broom and quickly ran behind Francesco, smacking the man in the legs. He fell to his knees, turning to glare at Rory but was quickly punched in the jaw by Daniel. "You reek of fish." Daniel complained, shaking his hand.

Francesco recovered quickly, Daniel pulled Rory behind him as they backed into another courtyard. "I hate telekinesis." He glared at them, rubbing his jaw.

"Yeah, well I hate fish aliens." Daniel countered.

Francesco lunged at them again, Rory blocking his swing with the broom while Daniel knocked him back slightly. "How are you doing that?" Rory asked him.

"Not sure," Daniel admitted. "It's almost like a fight or flight sort of thing, only seems to happen when in danger."

Amy stood at the stairway behind them, watching the duo. It was like something out of a superhero movie, Daniel knocking him away with telekinesis and Rory swinging at him with the broom…

However the illusion ended when Rory tripped and fell backwards. Francesco smirked and leaped through the air, changing forms in midair, as Rory prepared for the alien to land on him… but it never happened. He rolled over to see Daniel, hands held out and on one knee, holding the alien in place, his concern grew when he saw the fine line of sweat on his brow and how his hands trembled, as if he was physically hold the alien in the air.

"Hey!" Amy called, reaching into her pocket. "Mummy's boy." She held up a compact mirror and reflected the sunlight at him, causing him to explode.

Daniel fell forwards onto his hands, dry heaving slightly before lying on his back, the feeling of nausea passing. "That was incredible," Amy ran down the stairs, helping Daniel sit up. "How did you do that?" she turned her attention to Rory, who had joined them. "And you, you did incredible."

She leant over to kiss him passionately, Rory pulled away grinning dopily before he looked down at Daniel. "Can you walk?" He asked him.

Daniel nodded, pushing himself up. He staggered slightly but got his bearings quickly. "We need to help the Doctor." He told them.

"I think we need to get you back to the TARDIS." Rory told him.

"I'll be fine," Daniel assured him. "We can worry about me later."

He walked off back in the direction of the school, Amy and Rory sharing a look before following.

~DW~

the Doctor ran to look out from the balcony onto the city below. The bell tolled and he headed inside.

~DW~

Daniel, Rory and Amy ran through the streets and sneaked through the gate, the guards distracted, and they ran into the throne room. "Get out!" the Doctor yelled as he entered through the main doors. "I need to stabilise the storm."

They watched as he ran to the throne.

"We're not leaving you." Rory told him.

"Right," the Doctor scoffed, walking towards them, "So one minute it's, 'You make people a danger to themselves,' the next it's, 'We're not leaving you!' But if one of you gets squashed or blown up or eaten, who gets..."

The ground shook, throwing them to the floor as some of the ceiling started to fall around them.

"What was that?" Rory looked up.

"Nothing," the Doctor said, standing. "Bit of an earthquake."

"An earthquake?" Amy shook her head.

"Manipulate the elements, it can trigger earthquakes," he shrugged, facing the chair. "But don't worry about them."

"Really?" Daniel frowned, feeling like the Doctor was going to add something stupid.

"No. Worry about the tidal waves caused by the earthquake."

"Rosanna's throne is the control hub but she's locked the program," he told them. "So you three need to tear out every single wire and circuit in it. Go crazy. Hit it with a stick, anything," he checked the wiring. "We need it to shut down and reroute the control to the secondary hub, which will also be the generator for the storm."

And with that he ran out of the room.

~DW~

The Doctor worked on the wires that connected the control in the throne room to the device that created the storms. He ran up closer the tolling bells, holding his hands over his ears.

~DW~

Daniel was sat on the floor, having been ordered by Rory to get some rest at least, watching Amy and Rory pull wires out of the throne, the throne sparking.

~DW~

The Doctor held the clapper on one of the bells. "Shut up!" the Doctor shouted, "Shut up," he sighed as it stilled. "That's better!"

He jumped down and tugged on one of the cables but it didn't budge. He then climbed up onto the rail, gripping the column as the rain poured down. He slipped, regaining his balance, and began to climb.

~DW~

Daniel, Amy and Rory ran into the courtyard looking up.

"There he is!" Rory pointed at the Doctor.

"I'm going to kill that man." Daniel muttered under his breath.

~DW~

The Doctor climbed to the top using the cable and reached the giant sphere at the pinnacle.

~DW~

"Come on!" Daniel mumbled.

~DW~

He opened the sphere to reveal the device that is creating the storm. He began to examine how to stop it.

~DW~

"Come on!" Rory and Amy breathed. "Come on!"

~DW~

He flicked a simple toggle switch and the rain immediately stopped, the clouds clearing as the birds began to sing.

~DW~

Daniel, Rory and Amy looked around before laughing and hugging each other.

~DW~

The Doctor closed the sphere and looked down at the street with a little wave.

"You did it!" Rory called up to him, his arm around Daniel's shoulder and Amy's waist.

~DW~

The Signora, still in her human form, walked on a small platform extending over the canal to the edge of the water, standing there in her white under dress when the Doctor ran out.

"Rosanna!" he shouted.

"One city to save an entire species," she muttered. "Was that so much to ask?"

He slowly approached her. "We told you, you can't go back and change time. You mourn but you live. I know, Rosanna, I did it."

She just turned to look at him, "Tell me, Doctor...can your conscience carry the weight of another dead race? Remember us. Dream of us."

And she fell into the water, which bubbled in the way a kettle would boil as the aliens attacked her. Their last meal.

"No..." the Doctor lunged forward. "No!"

But it was too late.

~DW~

The group walked through the marketplace, which was being cleaned up by the townsfolk, as they headed back to the TARDIS.

"Now, then, what about you two, eh?" the Doctor smiled, his hand in Daniel's. "Next stop Leadworth Register Office? Maybe I can give you away."

"I've always said I'd be a flower girl at someone's wedding," Daniel joked, thought there was some truth there. "Can I do that for you?"

"It's fine," Rory sighed. "Drop me back where you found me, I'll just say you've…"

"Stay with us!" Amy cut in, taking his hands. "Please. Just for a bit. I want you to stay."

Rory looked at the Doctor and Daniel, to see what they had to say. "Fine with us." Daniel smiled at him.

"Yeah?" Rory asked, the Doctor nodding his head. "Yes, I would like that."

"Nice one," Amy kissed Rory. "I will pop the kettle on," she unlocked the TARDIS door, stepping into the doorway, looking at Daniel. "Hey look at us, got our spaceship, got our boys," Daniel laughed. "My work here is done." She stepped inside, closing the door behind her.

Rory scoffed with a look at the Doctor, "We are not their boys."

"Come again?" Daniel smirked at the Doctor.

"Yeah, we are," the Doctor told Rory, kissing Daniel quickly.

Rory only sighed, nodding in agreement. "Yeah, we are." He stepped into the TARDIS.

Daniel and the Doctor shared a smile about to step into the TARDIS, when the Doctor stopped. "What is it?" Daniel asked, looking at him.

"Listen." The Doctor told him.

Daniel listened, frowning. The marketplace had been loud, full of people seconds ago… now there was nothing, not even the birds made any noise. "Silence," he mumbled. "Just silence."

The Doctor remembered the Signora's words, how she had seen silence through the cracks… it meant nothing good.

~DW~

Daniel stepped into the console room, tying a dressing gown around himself. He had been awoken to the TARDIS humming and then the door to his bedroom had opened, obviously the TARDIS wanted him to get out of his room.

"Do you ever sleep?" Daniel asked the Doctor, who was leaning against the console.

"I don't need sleep," the Doctor told him, offering him a smile. "But it's late, you need sleep."

"I think the TARDIS disagrees with you on that," he saw how the console room brightened slightly, as if telling him that the Doctor was lying. "When was the last time you ever slept?"

"I only ever take power naps, I've got a lot on my mind that I can't get to sleep easily," he said. "Plus I've been working on a way to track these cracks, so I can't stop."

"Then take a break," Daniel stepped up to his side. "The cracks are in space and time, they'll still be there if the Doctor goes to sleep."

"I don't even have a room." The Doctor tried again, but the TARDIS hummed loudly around them.

"Then sleep with me."

The Doctor choked on air. "W-what?!"

"Not like that!" Daniel blushed. "Sleep with me in my room, if you don't have a room then sleep in mine."

"But what about you?"

"I'll just sleep on a chair, maybe even the floor."

"No," the Doctor shook his head. "it's your bed, you sleep on the bed, I'll sleep on the floor."

"Why don't we just share the bed?" Daniel shrugged. "You get one half and I get the other."

The Doctor smiled slightly, the TARDIS hummed in encouragement. "One night." he stated.

"That's all I want." Daniel smiled, seeing that the Doctor was slowly coming around to the idea.

And with that, the couple walked out of the console room and into Daniel's bedroom. The door closing behind them, neither of them having to touch it.

A/N: Daniel finally addressed his abilities and Francesco has sort of labelled it, but there are more layers to it then just Telekinesis. We also see another side effect to his abilities, other then headaches, so that will come up again with Rory in the future.

This episode was a bit of a challenge, since most of the Amy/Rory scenes had to be changed or rewritten but mostly it trying to explain to Rory that while she had loved the Doctor, she's moved on.

A Note on Reviews:

Thank you, I'm glad you like the progress on the Phoenix plot. I was torn between it being similar to the Silence in series 5 but it becomes bigger in series 6 but with everything that I have planned for Daniel and the Phoenix plot, it had to begin to progress in this series. I can't make any promises if they will be alright, because I'm not a nice person!

Since Amy has made her choice with Rory, the next chapter will be called One Man's Dream…! I can't say much about it, other then it will be like Amy's Choice but different… does that make sense? Probably not. Find out next week!