Sorry for the delay, but here you go!

Disclaimer: Quotes and aliens taken from Vampires of Venice and credit goes to the original writers! Anything you don't recognize from the ep is mine.

Enjoy!


-Chapter 9-

Rose and Amy walked in the console room to find the Doctor under the console yet again. Except this time, Rose noticed he was on a little swing.

"Easier than crawling around, then?" Rose asked, startling him and causing him to hit his head and make something spark.

"Ow! It's meant to do that." he said as the TARDIS sparked in his face again. "And hello! Yes much better. Now I have a swing!" he said grinning up at Rose through the glass floor, who was smiling shaking her head. She knew it definitely wasn't supposed to spark like that.

Rose looked back up and noticed there was another man, standing around and holding the rail like if he let go he would fall. "Oh, you must be Rory! I'm Rose Tyler." she said and shook his hand. He looked so familiar...she couldn't seem to place his face though.

Rory looked incredibly confused, and a bit nervous about the sparks coming from below the console. "Oh, yeah I'm Rory Williams. Uh, Wait a second...I saw you today. Just a few hours ago at the hospital. You were there and you asked me about weird stuff that had been happening...and the Doctor."

Rose's eye brows shot up and she smiled as she remembered. "Oh my god! You're that Rory! Hi! Oh I had forgotten about that. It was, well over a year ago for me I suppose. You were so nice."

"Yeah you were...but wait how could it be a year ago for you?" Rory asked, his eye brows pulling together. Amy hid a smile.

"Oh time travel, you'll get used to it. And sorry for freaking you out by just disappearing right in front of you like that."

"Oh, that was nothing. At least you found the Doctor though."

"Yeah I did. And now you have Amy again too."

"You told me to hold on to her...guess I should have listened..."

Rose bit her lip. "Well, we're all here in the TARDIS now."

"Oh, great." he said and Rose felt bad for him, it was difficult to take in a blue box that's bigger on the inside and still try and look calm in front of your fiancée.

Amy was completely confused about that weird conversation between Rose and Rory, and the Doctor was even more confused than her. Not that he would admit that in front of a new companion. No, he would just ask Rose about it later. That way he still looked like he knew everything, which he almost always did anyway.

"So! We can go anywhere you want, but with one condition, it has to be amazing. Think of it as a wedding present, because frankly, it's this or arcade tokens." the Doctor said, coming back up and joining them around the console. Then he noticed Rory's expression too. He grinned, he secretly loved this bit. Maybe more than the whole 'Doctor who?' question people always asked. "Yes it's a lot to take in I'd imagine. Little blue box with endless amounts of space inside, let me explain."

"It's another dimension." Rory said now slightly more relaxed.

"It's basically another dimen-...what?" he said, stopping when he realized that Rory was right. That never happened with humans. Never.

Rose raised her eye brows. That was certainly new; she didn't know that people said anything but, 'it's bigger on the inside'. Well that's what she had done. Rory was obviously a bit clever so he would definitely fit, she thought with a smile.

"Well, after prisoner zero, I've read up on all the latest scientific theories, FTL travel, parallel universes." he said and the Doctor didn't look impressed.

"I like the bit when someone says, 'It's bigger on the inside'. I always look forward to that." he said, not smiling anymore.

"Rude." Rose accused, tying not to lay=ugh at the Doctors pout.

"Really? Well, I knew I was a bit rude this time around, too." he amended.

"That's brilliant Rory, really. He's just being a child because he didn't get to sound all important and smart." Rose said and Rory smirked. He had thought that before about the Doctor, but the fact that someone actually said it was...well to be honest hilarious. Obviously Rose wasn't blindly in love with him like Amy seemed to be…

"So this trip, I'm tired of running down corridors, what do you think, Rory?" Amy asked, speaking for the first time. Rory turned to her and couldn't help but smile. He was marrying this woman soon.

"How about somewhere...more romantic?" the Doctor said as he flipped a lever, setting the TARDIS in motion and causing it to jerk and Rory to lose his balance.

"Oh yeah, watch out for that, he's not the smoothest driver." Rose added and the Doctor mocked offense. He was a bit miffed about the child comment, though. Hopefully she didn't think of him as a child, he was much older than her for one and he definitely did not think of her as a child. Far, far, from it.


When the TARDIS landed, the Doctor jumped out first. He took a deep breath and opened his arms out. "Smell that sea air! Venice! Venezia! Impossible city! Preposterous city! Founded by refugees from Attila the Hun."

"Oh, I remember him, he smelt terrible. Grumpy too." Rose said and Rory looked confused again. "Long story."

"Oh but you gotta love Venice! And so many people did. Byron, Napoleon..." The Doctor trailed off.

"Casanova..." Rose added almost dreamily. "You never took us to see him, we have to do that."

The Doctor frowned and checked his watch. "Nope, 1580, Casanova won't be born for 145 years. Don't want to run into him, owe him a chicken. Also, why do you want to meet him? He's a complete ladies man, a player, slept with hundreds of people, and not all of them women." the Doctor said, now a bit nervous that Rose wanted to meet him for more than just random curiosity. He wasn't a fan of Casanova. Well actually he hadn't minded Casanova, they had got along well enough, even reminded him of Jack a bit. But he definitely didn't like him if Rose wanted to meet him.

"Yeah, but he's...well he's Casanova." Rose said grinning and this time he caught the glint in her eyes and realized she was just teasing him.

"You are cruel, Rose Tyler." he said and she just grinned at him, poking her tongue out in a way that really was completely evil, but he loved that smile. Which was the whole reason it was evil in the first place.

"You owe Casanova a chicken?" Rory asked, breaking the Doctor's focus on Rose's smile.

"Longer story. We had a bet." the Doctor said as a man dressed in black came up to them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Papers if you please. Proof of residency, current bill of medical inspection." he said loudly.

"There you go, fella." the Doctor said, holding out the psychic paper. "All to your satisfaction I think."

The official bowed and looked nervous. "I am so sorry your holiness, I didn't realize."

"Oh no worries, you were just doing your job. Sorry, what is your job exactly?"

"Checking for aliens, visitors from forging lands what might bring the plague with them." the official answered.

"Oh that's nice, see where you bring us, the plague!" Amy said, hitting his arm.

"Don't worry Viscountess, no were under strict quarantine here. All thanks to our patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri." he explained and Amy rolled her eyes at the Viscountess title.

"How interesting. I thought the plague died out years ago?" the Doctor asked in a tone that plainly said he knew he was right.

"Not out there, Signora Calvierri has seen it with her own eyes. Streets piled high with bodies, she says."

"Did she now?" the Doctor asked. Rory took the psychic paper and frowned.

"According to this I'm your eunuch!" he said.

"Oh yeah we'll explain later." Amy said, following the Doctor as he suddenly ran off.

Rose put a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, the Doctor is...well I guess you can tell. But he'll warm up to you soon enough."

Rory looked confused. "We're in 1580 Venice and my fiancée just ran off with...her Raggedy Doctor..."

"Her what?"

"What she called him when he showed up at her door when she was eight."

"Oh. But really we should probably catch up, he has a tendency to...attract trouble."

"Right. Remembering that." Rory agreed and they ran to catch up with the Doctor and Amy. And Rose couldn't help but notice the slight tension in the air around the Doctor and Rory. Hopefully that didn't last too long; she was starting to like him.


Rose and Rory did finally find Amy walking along a corridor, but the Doctor was no where around.

"He could have waited five minutes..." Rose mumbled to herself. "Did he say where he was running off to?" she asked Amy.

"Does he ever? We saw this weird group of girls though, they were all dressed the same and walked in a straight line. It wasn't just that though, this man couldn't even talk to one of the girls, and he was forced to stay away. Gave me a bad feeling."

"And he calls me the danger magnet." Rose mumbled.

"So...what have you been doing?" Rory asked.

"Well...running...and fighting. I've been scared. More scared than I thought was-" Amy started but Rory cut her off.

"Did you miss me?" he asked.

Rose suddenly realized she should not be around for this conversation, so she stayed back several feet to give them some privacy. Once the Doctor realized he was alone, he would come running. Hopefully he realized that soon.

"I...I knew I would be coming back."

"He was right...it covers up everything else." Rory said, suddenly realizing that his fiancée had forgotten about him.

"Rory, this is out date. Let's not do this now."

He looked up at the sky and saw a bird flying above them.. "Ha, were in Venice and its 1580!"

"I know!" she said and they walked hand in hand down the narrow street.


Rose was almost thankful for the scream that followed shortly. She had walked off on her own, not being able to really stick around just following Amy and Rory.

This place was really beautiful, but as she trailed her hand along a wall, a woman's scream broke her train of thought and pierced through the air. Rose ran towards it and found a man holding a girl against a wall. And he had...fangs. Real, proper, big, fangs.

"Hey!" Rose shouted, and feeling slightly stupid as she had no idea what to say next. "Leave her alone." that worked.

He turned to her and...hissed? Did he just hiss at her? Whatever noise that was, it showed off his truly massive fangs.

Rose picked up a stick and threw it at him, hoping it would leave the girl and chase after her instead. That plan worked.

"What's going on?" she heard Rory shout as the vampire thing started after her and she bolted down the alley.

"Get the girl!" she shouted, hoping he would hear as she ran as fast as she could.

Rose darted around a corner and into a tall gap in the wall. She saw the thing round the corner too, but it missed her. Then she heard a faint splash and saw Amy run past. She let go of the breath she had been holding and stepped out. Her heart was racing and she saw Amy look at her with wide eyes.

Amy saw Rose step out as she turned around. "You just made a...I don't even know what, chase you down a narrow street. And you're not dead." Rose grinned and burst out laughing, and Amy laughed with her. "I can see why he likes you!"

Rose stopped laughing long enough to speak properly. "What about you? You chased after that thing without knowing what it was!"

"Was that a…vampire?"

"Oh my god, we just saw a vampire!" Rose said, both girls were grinning like mad and started to laugh as Rory ran down to catch up with them.

"You are both completely mad." Rory said, panting slightly as he joined them and the girls just laughed harder, mostly from adrenalin. "The girl is ok by the way, and I am too." he said but they didn't hear him. "Of course." He mumbled. He was marrying an absolute mad woman…suppose he already knew that though. And he kind of loved it.


Amy and Rose were walking back laughing and talking excitedly, simply about the fact they just saw a vampire. And chased it. And saved a girl in the process.

Suddenly the Doctor ran up to them. "Rose!"

"Doctor!" both girls said.

"I just met some vampires!" the Doctor said at the same time Amy said "We just saw a vampire!"

"And creepy girls and everything!"

"Vampires!" Rose said possibly much too excited but she didn't care, she missed this.

"We think we just saw a vampire." Rory said catching up with them, and less excited.

"Yeah yeah they were just telling me." The Doctor said a bit dismissively.

"The Doctor actually went to their house!" Amy said.

"We saved an innocent girl from being mauled." Rose told the Doctor, grinning like mad.

"Yeah, and Rose threw a stick at it so it would chase her down a little passage way and it worked!" Amy said.

"Amy chased after it too, but we lost it in the water."

The Doctor was slightly less excited. "You threw a stick at a vampire with massive fangs that could literally bite your head off?"

"Yep." Rose said grinning.

He couldn't even be worried or protective when she looked so excited. So he just kissed her forehead and beamed at her. "You are brilliant, have I told you that?"

"Not recently." she said happily.

The Doctor noticed Rory's semi-lost expression and slapped his hand to Rory's cheek. "Ok so! We need a way back in there."

"What?" Rory exclaimed.

"How do we do that?" Amy asked.

"It's a castle, aren't they a bit hard to break into?" Rose asked.

"Break in where?" Rory asked.

"Ha, thought about that. Come and meet my new friend."

"Oh so you were off schmoozing the locals and meeting pretty vampire girls when we're out there risking our lives for the sake of innocent people?" Rose teased.

"I didn't even notice they were pretty. Barely noticed they were girls." the Doctor said, taking Rose's hand. He had missed her hand. He shouldn't have run off without making sure he was with him. He had realized when she didn't respond when he asked her a question that and she hadn't taken his hand. Yep, not leaving her behind again.

"Good answer." she said squeezing his hand like she could read his thoughts. Or possibly just his expression.

"Are they...?" Rory asked Amy quietly. He was slightly confused by their dynamic, and now they were holding hands like a couple.

Amy just patted his arm. "Trust me, wait a bit and you won't be asking that."


The Doctor brought them to Guido's home, the man he and Amy had seen chasing after the line of girls, and it was getting darker out. Guido brought out a large map, and The Doctor, Rose, and Amy sat at the table while Rory sat on a barrel.

"As you saw, there's no clear way in. It's like a fortress. But here's a tunnel underneath it, with a ladder that leads to the house. I tried to get in myself, but I hit a trap door." Guido explained, pointing at parts on the map.

"You need someone that can open the trap door from the inside without causing too much suspicion." Rose added, a plan already forming in her head and when she looked up, Amy nodded, thinking the same thing.

It only took the Doctor one look between the girls to know they were planning exactly what he didn't want them to be planning. "No."

"You don't even know what we were going to say!" Amy said.

"One of you pretends to be an applicant to the school to get you inside and tonight you come down and open the door."

"Ha, almost. Both of us. It's safer so you can't complain about that. With the two of us in there, we can help each other if one of us gets in trouble. And since we're the only girls anyway, it's the only solution." Rose said, crossing her arms.

Amy grinned. "Exactly what I was thinking."

"Are you both really that insane?" Rory asked.

"There are no other options. And don't even say you'll dress up as a girl, neither of you can pass as one." Amy said.

"There is another option, I work at the arsenal. We build warships for the navy." Guido said looking behind him at the barrels.

"Gunpowder. And a lot of it." Rose said just recognizing the smell. "That's enough to blow a very big sized hole in the fortress. A few of them, really. It could take the whole place down if you used it all."

Rory slid off the barrel carefully. "Thanks for the warning." He said sarcastically.

"Look, I have a thing about guns and huge quantities of explosives." the Doctor said. Meaning he hated them. Rose smiled slightly, but not enough that anyone asked why. That was another way that he had changed. At one time, he would burst in guns blazing. He had even tried to use guns before, back before she even knew about regeneration and she was standing next to her first Dalek, but she had stopped him.

"What do you suggest then? Wait until they turn her into an animal?" Guido said.

"We'll be there four hours tops." Amy said.

The Doctor looked at Rose. His Rose. Who he had just gotten back. Who had searched for him on her own for so long. He wanted to pull her close and keep her with him at all times, to keep her safe. This would be dangerous. Incredibly. They were bloody vampires, no pun intended. He couldn't bear the thought of her hurt...but something was happening to those girls. And she had that determined look in her eyes that told him there was no way he'd get anywhere on this. And she would have Amy...

Rose saw him battling with himself. He kept looking at her then Amy and back to her. She stood up and put her hand on his arm. "Doctor. I'll be fine, and I'm not defenseless. I promise I'll come back to you, all in one piece. And you'll be close by, all we have to do is open the hatch. That's it. And then your right there with us." she said softly.

He looked at her and sighed, rubbing his hand over his face. "It can't keep happening like this." he said and Rose saw him glance over at Amy too, before looking her in the eyes. "But I have to know...we'll go together. Say I'm your father."

Rose made a face at that. And Amy did too. "Our father? You look about nine for one, and the other...it's just Rose definitely isn't your daughter."

"Right, brother then."

"Again, too weird. Fiancée."

"Whoa, he's not walking around calling himself your fiancée." Rory said, standing straighter. Amy rolled her eyes. She wasn't even talking about her and the Doctor, she was talking about the Doctor and Rose.

"No, Rory's right." Rose said.

"Thank you." he said.

"They've already seen the Doctor, you should do it." Rose suggested, and it did make sense.

"Me?" Rory asked, a bit surprised.

"Yeah, you can be our brother." Amy said patting his head.

"Why's it weird for him to be your brother but for me it's fine?"

"Actually, I thought Amy was Doctor's fiancée, and you were Rose's." Guido said to Rory.

"That is not helping." Rose said. Now they had a jealous Rory, and the Doctor was probably confused as to why she'd be Rory's fiancée, given his expression.

"This whole plan is mental! They're VAMPIRES for god's sake!" Rory said.

"We hope." the Doctor added.

"So if they're not vampire...?" Amy asked.

"Makes you wonder what's so bad it wants us to think it's a vampire." the Doctor said.

"Oh now that's really not helping." Rose said. "Rory, I've been properly trained for this stuff, unlike the Doctor. And he gets by just fine. Most of the time."

"You did throw a stick at a murderous vampire." the Doctor argued.

"But did it save the girl? Yes. Point is, I know how to handle myself. And Amy's not bad either. She's not some innocent defenseless doll, and I'm guessing you know that."

"I'm not winning anyway am I?" Rory sighed, and Rose gave him a sympathetic smile.

"No, sorry. But don't worry, neither is the Doctor." she joked and the Doctor frowned.

"I'm offended by that." he said, pouting. Rose came over to him and looked him directly in the eyes.

"You and Rory can meet us both at the tunnel exit tonight then. Everything's settled." she said but he was over his worry. Mostly. He pulled Rose down so that she was on his lap. He honestly didn't care that Amy and Rory and Guido were all right there.

"She's mine by the way, Guido. Not Rory's" the Doctor said and Amy covered a grin with her hand.

"Oh so now you own me?" Rose teased but the look in his eyes caught her off guard and she was breathless, saying yes, he did. "Right." she mumbled and he smiled and kissed her much, much too briefly before carefully standing quickly, without causing her to lose balance.

"I'll see you tonight then." he said with fake happiness. If he kissed her like he wanted to, then they might not actually get anywhere and that wouldn't be good. At least that was what he was going to tell himself.

"It's really not that long, Doctor. And I'll be ready and waiting. So please try not to get distracted." she teased and he just smirked.

"Somehow, if I get distracted; it will be by you Miss Tyler. All your fault." He said and smirked at her.

"That's just...weird..." Rory whispered to Amy and she hit his arm.

"It's not, shut up. It's adorable and exactly right, and they both completely deserve it."

"Yeah...but that's the same man I met with prisoner zero...but it's not at the same time..."

"Yeah...I know what you mean." Amy said quietly. It was true. Just being around Rose made him different. He always stayed close to her when at all possible, and...he seemed like he was in love. He acted like he was...well human, for lack of a better word. She never thought she'd get to see the Doctor this...she didn't even know how to describe it properly. He was different, but still so much the Doctor at the same time.