The group came upon an arch that over looked the canal, the Doctor, Reese, and Amy leaned up against the railing. They watched as a group of girls in white dresses across the canal started walking out of a large building.
Then, a man ran up, catching Reese's eye, flipping the veils of of almost every girl.
"Where's my Isabella?" Was his first question.
"Isabella?" He called, still looking under the veils.
Reese squinted her eyes at the man, trying to remember his name. He seemed familiar.
"Isabella?" He got to one girl and stopped as he flipped up her veil. "It's me!" He said to her. The girl looked confused, like she had no idea who he was.
Before the man could do anything else, another girl came up to him and pushed him down, bearing her teeth. Reese saw large tips sticking out of her mouth and shivered. Amy can not go into that school. She told herself.
A hand rapped around her forearm and pulled her to the right. "What the?" Reese looked and saw the Doctor pulling her away from Amy and Rory.
They walked down a cobblestone road until they were behind the man from before.
"Who were those girls?" The Doctor asked as he momentarily walked up a few steps of a staircase behind him. The man turned around surprised to see the Doctor, and even more surprised to see Reese standing there with her arms crossed.
"I thought everyone knew about the Calvierri school." He looked to Reese, as if mentally asking her how she was not yet in the school.
"Our first day here. It's okay. Parents do all sorts of things to get their children into good school. They move house, they change religion." The Doctor stepped up closer to the man. "So why are you trying to get her out?"
"Something happens in there. Something magical, something evil."
Yeah, because aliens are totally magical. Reese said inside her head. She missed the glance the Doctor shot her.
"My own daughter didn't recognize me." The man continued, "And the girl who pushed me away, her face, like an animal."
The Doctor turned to looked at Reese. "I think it's time we met this Signora Calvierri." He rapped his arm around the man's shoulders and lead them down the path once more, tugging on Reese's arm.
They walked back to the school and the man, or Guido as that's what his name was, walked towards the front gate and started yelling at the guards to let him in.
"You have my daughter, Isabella!" He yelled.
One of the guards held their hand out. "No, you're not coming in, just stop there."
This gave the Doctor and Reese enough time to sneak to the side of the building where they couldn't be seen by either of the guards. They made it to a second gate and the Doctor used the sonic to unlock it. The duo slipped through and into the school just as Guido stopped yelling and walked off.
They found a descending staircase and the Doctor looked to Reese. "What do you think?"
Reese shrugged. "Good as ever, I suppose." She smiled as she bounced down the stairs before the Doctor could do anything else.
The staircase lead to a round room that many different types of corridors lead to. A mirror sat on the wall and the Doctor immediately smiled into it, adjusting his bow-tie. "Hello, handsome." He told his reflection.
Reese smiled and shook her head at him. She turned back around and jumped back as she saw the girls from earlier, but this time dressed in white nightgowns. The Doctor was still checking himself out in the mirror, so Reese had to hit his should to grab his attention.
"Ow! What..." He trailed off when he, too, saw the scary pale girls.
"Who are you?" The girls asked in unison.
The Doctor looked back and forth between the girls and the mirror, getting more and more excited each time he did it. "How are you doing that? I'm loving it."
Reese internally sighed at his childishness, but choose not to say anything.
"You're like Houdini." The Doctor continued. "Only five slightly scary girls, and he was shorter, will be shorter. I'm rambling."
"I'll ask you again signor, signorina, who are you?" The girls said again.
"Why don't you check this out?" The Doctor asked, reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out something similar to the psychic paper.
The girls just looked at it, not saying anything.
"Library card." Reese said, cowering under one girl's gaze as she squinted at Reese, studying her.
"Of course." The Doctor said, flipping the card back to look at it himself. "It's with..." He mimed having a big nose. Rory. "He's... I need a spare." He put the card back into his jacket and turned his attention towards the girls.
"Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight, and can't be seen in..." He looked back at the mirror. The Doctor looked to Reese out of the corner of his eye and saw she was already backing towards the stairs.
"Aha! Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" He asked Reese, turning around once more and looking at the girls.
"Probably...not." Reese trailed as the girls started to bare their sharp teeth.
"But the city. Why shut down the city? Unless..." The Doctor trailed.
"Leave now signor, or we will call the Steward." They all smiled a creepy smile that made Reese shiver. "If you're lucky."
They bared their teeth again and advanced on the Doctor and Reese.
"Time to go." Reese whispered.
The Doctor nodded and grabbed Reese's hand and pulled her the rest of the way towards the stairs. Before they started walking up, the Doctor turned back around.
"Tell me the whole plan!"
The girls just stopped, confused.
"One day that will work." He said.
Reese rolled her eyes. "No, it won't! Come on!" She grabbed his suit jacket and pulled him back up the stairs before the girls could do anything to stop them.
The duo ran back to where they last saw Amy and Rory, but ran right into Amy, literally.
"Doctor! We just saw a vampire!" Amy exclaimed, motioning to Rory, who was catching up.
"We just met some vampires!" Reese joined in excitedly, even knowing full well hat they weren't vampires.
They all started talking at once, save Rory who was still making his way over to them.
"And creepy girls and everything!" The Doctor said.
"Vampires." Amy bit out before she grabbed the Doctor's and Reese's arms and started to jump up and down.
That's when Rory caught up, out of breath. "We think we just saw a vampire."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Amy was just telling me."
"Yeah, the Doctor and Reese actually went to their house." Amy said.
Reese didn't miss the put-out look on Rory's face, but didn't saw anything.
"Right. Well..." Rory trailed.
"Okay, so first we need to get back in there somehow." The Doctor said, slapping Rory's cheeks.
"What? Back in where?"
"How do we do that?" Amy asked over Rory.
"Come and meet our new friend." The Doctor said, referring to Guido, and walked into the direction of his house.
"Do you actually have a plan?" Reese asked, coming into step with the Doctor, letting the couple behind them have time with themselves.
"Oh, Reese." The Doctor smiled. "You know I make it up as I go."
"Just making sure." Reese smiled.
When the group made it to Guido's house, he let them in.
"Do you have a map of the town?" The Doctor asked immediately. Guido nodded and walked into another room to get it.
Meanwhile, Reese yawned and sat down at the table, putting her head in her arms.
"When was the last time you slept?" The Doctor asked, concerned as he came over to her.
"I have honestly no idea." And she wasn't lying, this whole jumping through time thing, even though she had only done it twice, was exhausting.
The Doctor furrowed his eyebrows, but smiled as Guido walked back into the room with the map.
"As you saw, there is no clear way in. The House of Calvierri is like a fortress." Guido said, dropping the map onto the table next to Reese. The Doctor was bent over her head so her could see it clearly, Amy next to him, and Rory sitting on some barrels by the fire.
"But there is a tunnel." Guido continued. "Underneath it, with a ladder and a shaft that leads up into the house." He pointed at what he was talking about on the map. "I tried to get in once myself, but I hit a trapdoor."
"You need someone on the inside." Amy said.
"No." Reese and the Doctor said at the same time. Reese's head was still on the table, so her response was muffled.
"You don't even know what I was going to say." Amy defended.
"That we pretend you're an applicant for the school to get you inside," Reese started.
"Then tonight you come down and open the trap door and let us in." The Doctor finished, looking up at her.
"Oh, well that's not fair because Reese knows everything." Amy said, defeated.
"Are you insane?" Rory piped up from the barrels.
"We don't have another option."
"He said no, Amy." Reese said, lifting her head to look at her. "And so do I."
"Yeah listen to them." Rory said.
"There is another option." Guido spoke up. He pointed over to Rory. "I work at the Arsenale, we build the warships for the navy."
This made the Doctor walk over and sniff the barrels. "Gunpowder." Rory went ridged and wide-eyed. "Most people just nick stationary from where they work." The Doctor continued, he walked over the Guido. "Look, I have a thing about guns and huge quantities of explosive."
Rory slowly slid off the barrels as the Doctor continued to talk.
"What do you suggest then? We wait until they turn her into an animal?" Guido picked up a stick and stroked the fire that was currently burning in his fireplace.
Amy crossed her legs, looking smug. "I'll be there three, four hours tops."
"Amy, no, you can't go in there without knowing what to expect, let me go. I'll know what to do." Reese said, standing up and stretching.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, not you." The Doctor said, catching Reese off guard.
"Oh, so Amy is okay going into a situation she has no idea about? I do, let me go!" Reese said. She knew she sounded whiny, but she knew what happened and would much rather let her get hurt than Amy.
"No, but you're..." The Doctor trailed, then groaned, frustrated. "It can't keep happening like this. This is how they go." He sat down on a bed and rubbed his forehead. "But I have to know. We go together. Not you." He pointed to Reese, who slumped in frustration. "Say you're my daughter."
Reese snorted against her better judgement.
"What?" Rory said. "Don't listen to him!" He walked over to Amy.
"Your daughter?" Amy asked. "You looked about nine." Again, Reese snorted.
"What's so funny?" The Doctor asked.
"She has a point." Reese replied.
The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Brother, then."
"Too weird, fiance." Reese groaned internally.
"Uh, I'm not having him run around telling people he's your fiance!" Rory said.
"No, no. You're right."
"Thank you." Reese smiled at his slight awkwardness.
"I mean," Amy started, "they've already seen the Doctor. You should do it."
"Me?"
"Yeah! You can be my brother." Reese banged her head against the table, to hard apparently because she pulled back, rubbing her head. Looking up, she found everyone looking at her in confusion.
She smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, continue."
The Doctor shook his head at her, causing Reese to stick her tongue out at him.
"Why is him being your brother weird, but with me, okay?" Rory asked.
"Actually, I-"
"Don't," Reese cut Guido off, "you'll just make it worse."
"But I thought she was his fiance." Guido said, pointing at the Doctor.
"And you made it worse."
"Yeah, that's not helping." The Doctor chimed in.
"Uh, this whole thing is mental. They're vampires, for God's sake!"
"Oh, it get's better," Reese smiled, just as the Doctor said, "We hope."
"So if they're not vampires..." Amy trailed, looking from the Doctor to Reese.
"Makes you wonder what would be do bad it doesn't actually mind us thinking it's a vampire." The Doctor said.
What's this? A new chapter? On the same day? Wow, I am an over achiever. Just kidding, this is mostly to make up for all the weeks I've missed. But, I hoped you like this chapter! Thanks for reading!
