Okay, here's this one. Maybe I should start posting these on Fridays, or as soon as I finish? Mind you, the quicker posted, the more-sucky it's going to be due to not being proof read. Eventually I'll start going back over the first few chapters and fix them up. Right now, I'm thinking about what the series after the next will be. What? It's a surprise. I've been plannin' em all.
Running through the hallway, we were by a staircase, looking for the Queen.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty!" Robert cried out in relief, as the Queen had been watching us warily from atop the staircase.
"Sir Robert? What's happening?" Victoria came down the stairs with the commander from before. "I heard such terrible noises."
"Your Majesty, we've got to get out. But what of Father Angelo? Is he still here?" Robert asked, not seeing the Father with her.
"Captain reynolds Disposed of him." She answered.
"The front door's no good, it's been boarded shut. Pardon me, Your Majesty. You'll have to leg it out a window." The Doctor interrupted and we went to enter the drawing room. We approached a window, and Robert stepped up before the Queen.
"Excuse my manners, Ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist her Majesty's egress." He quickly then stepped in front of the window.
"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh." Victoria praised.
"Yeah, any chance you could hurry up?" The Doctor rushed, back to his london accent. I flinched, but didn't chastise him. Hopefully no one would notice and they wouldn't find it a fault. Robert opened the window only for the monks posted outside to begin to fire. I quickly reach over and shut the window.
"I reckon they want us to stay put." I mused.
"Do they know who I am?" The Queen cried in outrage.
"Yeah, that's why they want you. The wolf's lined you up for a... a biting." Rose replied honestly.
"Stop this talk. There can't be an actual wolf." Victoria dismissed the subject quickly. Right after her words, came the howl of a werewolf hungry for blood. We ran back into the corridor, in a hurry to get to safety.
"What do we do?" Rose asked.
"We run." The Doctor replied almost with a duh.
"That it?" I responded sarcastically.
"You got any silver bullets?" He questioned.
"No, not exactly at ease with a gun."
"There we are then, we run." The Doctor quickly turned to the queen with a grin. "Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a
vigorous jog. Good for the health. Come on!" We followed suit, racing up a staircase. Suddenly I heard the Werewolf broke into the area below us. "Come on! Come on!" The Doctor yelled.
It was catching up, I realized in horror as we tried our best to get ahead. I could suddenly feel it's hot breath on my neck, it's claws grasping feebly at me and the officer as we ran and turned. It was almost upon me and Reynolds, as it reached for the man.
"No!" I yelled, and tried to block the beast from the officer. The moment it's claws touched me, everything went white for a moment with a loud howl of pain came from the wolf. The light was soft, and didn't hurt as I heard a familiar song from ages ago whisper to me. But then as quickly as everything exploded in a cascading flash of light, it went dark.
Bum-bum-bum-bum. Bum-bum-bum-bum.
Finally, I woke up to double vision and The Doctor above me, his face in panic. I shook my head and smiled sleepily.
"Thank god, she's okay!" Rose cried in relief. I turned to find her besides me.
"Hey..." I mumbled softly. "Wha' happened?"
"It- It doesn't matter, are you alright? How's your head?" The Doctor asked.
"Fine. Just fine- is the man alright?" I wondered, sitting up. He was across the room, alive and well.
"Thank you, miss. You saved my life. Although how, It was quite… strange." He bowed in gratitude and I gave him a small smile. To be honest I was still dizzy beyond belief. The Doctor gave me a nod before running over to the doors and helping Robert and the Officer barricade them.
"Wait a minute. Shush, shush, wait a minute." The Doctor halted, pressing his ear to the door. A lonely howl echoed throughout the building. "It's stopped. It's gone."
"Listen." Rose whispered besides him. I stood up carefully, then looked around despite my headache. They were in a library! Books! Yes- perhaps there was something there. Quickly I turned and looked at the books, and began to take them down of the shelves, anything having to do with wolves, monasteries, or anything else that would help.
"Books." I mused, flipping through a few.
"It that the only door?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes. No!" Robert recovered quickly as they all rushed behind me to block the other. We could still hear the Werewolf outside in the halls, pacing anxiously.
"I don't understand. What's stopping it?" Rose.
"Something inside this room. What is it? Why can't it get in?" The Doctor asked. I then found a strange book, and started to flip through it. Finally, I smiled in victory. I needed to read this, quickly. The noises of their conversation faded away.
Okay, so the monks raise the werewolf. This book said there had been a meteor. Okay, no it goes from host to host and now it's in another host. Bites the queen to transfer. It can't get in. There are books here about wolves and these things. And it's here in this room, in this house it can't get in. Wait- the Queen! Her husband, had kept coming here, hadn't he? She said he had a friendship with the man who used to live here. Okay next question- why was the Queen here?
"I'm sorry ma'am. It's all my fault. I should have sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong. I thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?" Robert apologized.
"Well, they were bald, athletic. Your wife's away, I just thought you were happy." The Doctor joked, and I shot him a look. Eww- and seriously?
"I'll tell you what though Ma'am, I bet you're not amused now." Rose tried a go at it again.
"Do you think this is funny?" The Queen asked.
"No, I don't Ma'am. But the thing is- I've got a question." I cut in, and tossed the book to the Doctor who caught it. "I understand a lot of things at the moment- but Why are you here in the first place? Why this place here?"
"Why should I tell? Should I trust you, or you sir?" She asked turning to the Doctor. "You who change your voice so easily?
What happened to your accent?" The Queen wasn't very amused. No, not amused at all. The Doctor looked up from the book and closed it, placing it down on a table next to him.
"Oh right, sorry, that's-" He tried back with his accent, but was cut off.
"I'll not have it. No, sir. Not you or your girl who glows. Not a thing, none of it. This is not my world." Girl who glows? Was she talking about me? Did I glow? I gave a pointed look to the Doctor, wanting to know exactly what happened in the hallways earlier. Quickly, the Doctor turned and went to examine the doors once more. A carving of mistletoe was there.
"Mistletoe. Sir Robert, did your father put that there?" The Doctor asked.
"I don't know, but I'll show you that." He replied, pointing above both him and Rose's head. Mistletoe was hanging above them, and the Doctor reached down and gave Rose a soft, small kiss.
"Tradition." He mumbled before turning back to the door, Rose watched him in shock. I smiled, wishing that they would actually do more couple-thingys together. Then, the Doctor did something stupid and completely against the mood of what he had just done. He licked the wood. WHY?!
"Viscum album, the oil of the mistletoe. It's been worked into the wood like a varnish. How clever was your dad? I love him. Powerful stuff, mistletoe. Bursting with lectins and viscotoxins." He rambled.
"Did you really have to lick it?" I questioned him.
"And the Wolf's allergic?" Rose asked.
"Yes, i did. Better taste. And Rose, it thinks it is. The monkey monk monks need a way of controlling the wolf, maybe they trained it to react against certain things." The Time Lord replied.
"Nevertheless, that creature won't give up Doctor, and we still don't possess an actual weapon." Robert was panicking.
"Oh, your father got all the brains didn't he?" Rose was about to say something, but I cut her off.
"No, no he's right. This room here, its protected by his father placing mistletoe here. And the monks came here, this
estate. why? Did he know this would happen? This room, with all these books, look here." I said, reaching over to the book I gave the doctor, and showed everyone.
"Your dad found this, something that fell to Earth." I explained.
"A spaceship?" Rose asked.
"A shooting star, I think. It reads, 'In the year of our Lord 1540, under the reign of King James the Fifth, an almighty fire
did burn in the pit. That's the Glen of Saint Catherine just by the monastery.'" The Doctor read for us.
"But that's over a hundred years ago. What's it waiting for?" I smiled at the Doctor, giving him the spotlight. He grinned proudly at me, turning eagerly to the book.
"Maybe just a single cell survived. Adapting slowly down the generations, it survived through humans, host after host after host." The Doctor mused.
"But why does it want the throne?" Robert questioned.
"That's what it wants. It said so. The, the Empire of the Wolf." Rose answered him, remembering the cellar.
"Sir Robert, if I am to die here-" The Queen spoke, but was cut off.
"Don't say that, Your Majesty." Robert dismissed.
"I would destroy myself rather than let that creature infect me. But that's no matter. I ask only that you find some place of safekeeping something far older and more precious than myself." Victoria scoffed.
"Hardly the time to worry about your valuables." The Doctor scolded.
"Thank you for your opinion, but there is nothing more valuable than this." Then she pulled out a large white stone cutted down so many times. We all gaped at it, the stone too large and impossible to be true. Right? Right?
"Is that the Koh-I-Noor?" Rose asked.
"Oh yes. The greatest diamond in the world." A Diamond, the greatest of all earth.
"Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns it must surely die." I snorted at the Queen. Superstition, nothing but myths. But then again… werewolves…
"Wee, that's true of anything if you own it long enough. Can I…?" He gestured to the diamond, holding his hand out for the stone. After a pause the Queen handed it to him and me and Rose came up besides him to examine it. "That is so beautiful." He murmured.
"How much is it worth?" Rose wondered as I examined the jewel, trying to find a pattern in it's cut. It was intriguing, and possibly when I got back I'd look that up too- patterns and algorithms of the like.
"They say the wages of the entire planet for a whole week." He replied, putting on a pair of specs.
"Do you even need those?" I gave him a suspicious look.
"No, they just make me look smarter."
"Far way to go with that, then."
"Doctor, you were right. Nine's back again." Rose teased and I pouted.
"Where is the wolf? I don't trust this silence." Robert stated behind us in unease, shifting nervously.
"Why do you travel with it?" The Doctor asked my question from before. Perhaps the Queen would listen to him. Then again, the monarch a female only listening to men. Note; Don't come back to places where females are lower in society than men… or what ever other genders there are then.
"My annual pilgrimage. I'm taking it to Helier and Carew, the Royal Jewellers at Hazlehead. The stone needs recutting."
"Oh, but it's perfect!" Rose scoffed.
"My late husband never thought so."
"Now there's a fact. Prince Albert kept on having the Koh-I-Noor cut down. It used to be forty percent bigger than this. But he was never happy. Kept on cutting and cutting." Cutting, why?
"Traveling out here into the country and making friends with your father here, Robert, the place of a trap where this room was that was protected from the werewolf, every time to go cut the diamond. The Koh-I-noor, what does that have to do with a man with a telescope that isn't a telescope?" I wondered aloud. The Doctor tossed the Queen the diamond and
kissed my forehead with a grin, rubbing my back.
"Oh, I like you, Isabella-Ambrose Jamie Tyler-Smith. All these separate things, unfinished business, you've connected them. I'm thick, Oh my head. But you, you got it, my girl. All these things fit. This place, it's a trap for you. Is that right, ma'am?" The Doctor rambled, turning to Victoria.
"Obviously." She scoffed, unsure.
"At least, that's what the wolf intended. But, what if there's a trap inside the trap?" He mused.
"Explain yourself, Doctor." The Queen ordered stiffly.
"What if Robert's father and prince Albert weren't just story swapping. They thought this was all real, and planned against this. It's not a trap you you, ma'am. It's a trap in a trap for the werewolf." I explained. Then plaster dust began to fall from the ceiling, and looking up we saw the wolf on a glass roof trying to enter.
"That wolf there." The Doctor pointed towards it as the grass cracked. We all ran to the doors and began to unpile the furniture and ran out. The Doctor shut the mistletoe doors behind us.
"Your Majesty!" Robert yelled in worry, rushing the Queen.
"Just get to the Observatory!" The Time Lord ordered. We started to run again towards the room, about to turn when I heard the sounds of pursuit. Rose screamed, but when I turned around Flora was there with Isobel and everyone else. They held a large pot as
the wolf ran in pain, steaming in hot water. "Good shot." The Doctor praised.
"It was mistletoe." Flora answered with labored breaths.
"Isobel!" Robert cried in relief, giving his lady a kiss, having thought she had been lost to him. "Now get back downstairs." He ordered and all the girls left as we continued onto our destination up a staircase. We ran into the observatory quickly, and the Doctor shut the door leaving the Officer out there.
"Where's Reynolds?" I asked, but he ignored me.
"Your Majesty, the diamond." He requested.
"For what purpose?" She asked, holding it close to her.
"The purpose it was designed for." He answered and Victoria handed him the Koh-I-Noor. "Rose, Isabella." He called us over to the telescope as he held the precious gemstone. "Lift it. come on."
"Is this the right time for stargazing?" Rose scoffed as we did as he said.
"No, but it is time to put some moonlight on the situation." I replied quietly, glancing at the Doctor. Reynolds was dead, after I saved him. The Officer, he was dead now. I added him to my list, growing from cassandra to those men downstairs, and now him. Were they my fault? They weighed down on me now, though. Lives lived that would never go on, futures disappeared and lost into the darkness.
"You said this thing doesn't work." Rose told the Doctor.
"It doesn't work as a telescope because that's not what it is. It's a light chamber. It magnifies the light rays like a weapon. We've just got to power it up."
"It won't work. There's no electricity." Rose replied and I smiled as we got into place and then the clouds parted, moonlight streaming into the room. "Moonlight. But the wolf needs moonlight. It's made by moonlight."
"You're seventy percent water but you can still drown. Come on! Come on!" Then a bright reflection of concentrated light came from the telescope and hit the ground as the werewolf broke in, and went after Queen Victoria. She screamed as the Doctor slid the diamond over to where the light beam hit the floor. It refracted the light upwards, catching the werewolf in it's beam and lifting it up off the floor. We watched in horror and awe as it turned back into the young man, hanging as if crucified in mid air.
"Make it brighter. Let me go." He begged, and the Doctor adjusted the magnification on the eyepiece. The man turned back into a wolf shape, vanishing with a howl. I watched the moon in fascination, it's fullness bright upon the manor.
"Your Majesty? Did it bite you?" Turning, The Doctor was talking to the Queen warily who was examining her wrist.
"No, it's, it's a cut, that's all." Victoria replied, hiding her hand quickly. She was hiding the wound, almost fascinated of it. But before she had said she would rather of died.
"If that thing bit you-" He was cut off.
"It was a splinter of wood when the door came apart. It's nothing." She dismissed.
"Let me see."
"It is nothing."
~DW~
It was morning now, all gathered in the drawing room, Rose, the Doctor, and I knelt before the Queen. She held a sword, as we all grinned. I was being knighted! Knighted, me- us!
"By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee Sir Doctor of Tardis." She placed the sword on his shoulders, then turned to rose. "By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee Dame Rose of the Powell Estate." She did the same to Rose and finally turned to me."By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub the Isabella of Wolfe." I had chosen the title out of everything that happened today as a reminder. Of course, not even the Doctor or Rose had known what I had told the Queen as they glanced at me with shock."You may stand."
"Many thanks, Ma'am." The Doctor thanked.
"Thanks. They're never going to believe this back home." Rose whispered in excitement..
"Thank you, kind Ma'am, Queen Victoria." I spoke warmly.
"Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the great beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now, Ma'am, from beyond the grave." The Doctor nodded to the Koh-I-Noor.
"Indeed. Then you may think on this also. That I am not amused." Victoria stated and Rose fist-pumped.
"Yes!"
"Not remotely amused. And henceforth, I banish you."
"What? I'm sorry?" I asked in shock.
"I rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you are exiled from this empire, never to return. I don't know what you are, the two of you, or where you're from, but I know that you consort with stars and magic and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death, and I will not allow it. You will leave this shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good, and how much longer you will survive this terrible life. Now leave my world, and never return. "
~DW~
We hitched a ride with a man named Dougal on the road back to our home, and stopped when we got back near enough.
"Whoa!" Dougal cried, stopping the horses as we came off the cart. I gave the man a wave as he left.
"Cheers, Dougal!" The Doctor yelled after the retreating figure. We walking onwards, and Rose gave me a look.
"Why 'Wolfe'?" We stopped as I took a deep breath and looked to the ground.
"A reminder for all these deaths, everyone I couldn't save- we couldn't. Besides, I've seen your life, my new life, Doctor. It's filled with danger. An Aliases is best, Bella Wolfe." I replied, looking to the clouds.
"They weren't your fault." Rose insisted softly, but the Doctor only looked at me with a dark, unreadable expression. I shook my head and continued walking as they caught up.
"No, but the funny thing it, Queen Victoria did actually suffer from a mutation of the blood." The Doctor spoke up, grinning as the wind rushed past us.
"No, you're kidding!" I exclaimed.
"It's historical record! She was haemophiliac. They used to call it the Royal it's always been a mystery because she didn't inherit it. Her mum didn't have it, her dad didn't have it. It came from nowhere." The Time Lord explained.
"What, and you're saying that's a wolf bite?" Rose asked.
"Well, maybe haemophilia is just a Victorian euphemism." He replied.
"For werewolf?" Rose questioned.
"Could be." I answered mischievously.
"Queen Victoria's a werewolf?"
"Could be. And her children had the Royal disease." The Doctor stated.
"Maybe she gave them a quick nip, the Royal family- Werewolves." I mused.
"Well, maybe not yet. I mean, a single wolf cell could take a hundred years to mature. Might be ready by, oh, early 21st century?" He rambled.
"Nah, that's just ridiculous! Mind you, Princess Anne." Rose grinned her signature smile, her tongue poking out between her teeth.
"I'll say no more." The Doctor said mysteriously.
"And think of it, there so private. Plan everything ahead, could schedule themselves 'round the moon! We'd never knew. They like hunting." I continued as we entered the Tardis. "They love blood sports."
"Oh my god, they're werewolves!" Rose cried as the Tardis faded away from 1879 Scotland, to a new adventure for The Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Bella Wolfe.
Up next; Goodbye for tommarow and yesterday's hello-
Isabella and the Doctor go on a small trip while Rose visits her mum, and Isabella decides that it's time already, after a shocking reveal of information from her father.
Tell me what you think and Review, please!
-ChangeOfWings
