Chapter SIX: The Power of the Blue Fairy
Clara and the two children ran to the schoolroom where Digby asked, "What do we do?"
"Frannie, Frannie, imagine her melting," Clara said.
"What?" Francesca asked.
"In your head. Melt her."
"I can't."
"I'm getting impatient!" The Ice Governess said, forcing the door open. "You have been very naughty!"
"What about that family? You said a family was here, the cloud family," Digby said.
"Well, he's not, is he?" Clara asked, frantically.
"Where are they? The Doctor and the Professor?"
"I don't know!"
"Doctor? Doctor? Doctor who?" A Punch puppet said, aiming a sonic screwdriver at the Ice Governess, making it shatter to the ground. The Doctor popped his head out from the puppet box, and said, still in Punch's voice, "That's the way to do it." Punch then kissed the Doctor and he said, "Oi. Ow."
The Professor and Belle stepped out from their hiding place, which was just behind a shelf, and went up with Clara and the children. "Hello again," the Professor said, hugging Clara tightly, who hugged back with a smile.
Francesca spoke up and asked."Where did she go? Will she come back?"
"No, don't worry. She's currently draining through your carpet. New setting. Anti-freeze. And you're very welcome, by the way," the Doctor said.
"I'm very grateful. I knew you guys would come," Clara said.
"No, you didn't, because I don't. Because this isn't the sort of thing I do any more. Next time you're in trouble, don't expect me to."
"Well, I would have come to help you," the Professor said. "I'll always protect you..."
As the Professor was talking, the Doctor had been distracted with his reflection in the mirror, which Clara had picked up on. "What is it? What's wrong?"
"Sorry, it's just. Didn't know I'd put it on," the Doctor said, as he straightened his bowtie, not noticing the ice growing on the windows. "Old habits..."
"It's cooler," Clara started to say.
"Yeah, it is, isn't it? It is very cool. Bow ties are cool."
"Uh, Doctor..." Belle started to say, "I really don't think that's what she meant..."
Everyone turned around as a bulge started to form in the middle of the carpet.
"She's coming back!" Digby exclaimed.
"What's she going to do? Is she going to punish me?" Francesca asked.
"Er, er, she's learnt not to melt. Of course, she's not really a governess, she's just a beast. She's going to eat you," the Doctor said.
"Way to reassure a child, dad..." the Professor said.
"Well, we should run then..." the Doctor said, leading everyone out the door and down the stairs, where they bumped into Captain Latimer.
Captain Latimer saw his children and started to say, "Children, what is the expla-" Then he saw the Doctor, the Professor and Belle. "Who the devil are you three? What are you all doing in my house?"
"It's okay. I am the father of your governess' gentleman friend. They've been upstairs kissing, and needed to take him home. With the help of my sister-in-law..." the Doctor said, gesturing to Belle.
At that moment, Alice ran past them, exclaiming, "Captain Latimer. In the garden, there's snowmen! And they're just growing out of nowhere, all by themselves. Look!" She went to the front door, to open it, and show everybody the growing snowmen, when she met Madame Vastra at the door with Jenny.
"Good evening," Madame Vastra started to say. "I'm a Lizard Woman from the Dawn of Time, and this is my wife." She gestured to Jenny.
The shock at seeing Madame Vastra made Alice scream and she ran into the house again, where she met Strax.
"This dwelling is under attack. Remain calm, human scum," Strax said.
Alice screamed again then fainted, which made the Doctor ask Captain latimer, "So, any questions?"
"Clara has a gentleman friend?" Captain Latimer responded in too much shock to comprehend the situation at this time.
"Vastra, what's happening?" The Doctor asked, coming down the stairs and meeting Madame Vastra, who did a quick scan.
"The snow is highly localised, and on this occasion not naturally occurring," Madame Vastra said.
"It's coming out of that cab parked by the gates," Jenny said.
"What Cab is this?" Belle asked.
"The one from the institute," Madame Vastra.
"Oh, him..." the Professor muttered.
"Sir, one pulver grenade would blow these snowmen to smithereens," Strax said.
"They're made of snow, Strax. They're already smithereens," the Doctor said to Strax, then turned to Clara, "See, Clara? Our friends again."
"Clara? Who's Clara?" Captain Latimer asked.
"Clara is the name of your govrness," the Professor started to explain, "And from my resources, a former barmaid..."
"That's the way to do it!" The Ice Governess exclaimed, as she walked slowly to them down the hall.
"Oh, and you're previous governess is now a living ice sculpture that has taken a fancy to Punch." The Professor stopped to have a think, then said again. "I think I know what to do..." He inputted some coördinates on his Vortex Manipulator and vanished in a flash, then reappeared with Mother Superior. "Um, Blue...Do you have anything that could stop that Ice Governess?"
Mother Superior nodded and took out her wand, and focused on creating a barrier with her magic, which shot out of her wand and trapped the Ice Governess upstairs. "That should be strong enough..." she said.
"What's wrong with your magic...?" The Doctor asked in a hush tone.
"Nothing..." the Professor said. "I just thought we should try fairy magic..."
Strax, who had searched around the ground floor, then spoke up. "Sir, this room. One observational window on the line of attack and one defendable entrance."
The Doctor agreed and ushered everybody into the room. "Right, everyone in there. Now. Move it." He then pointed to Alice's body. "Someone, carry her."
"I will," the Professor said, waving his hand and creating a blue magic cloud that poofed them to the next room.
"Nice to see you off your cloud and engaging again," Madame Vastra said, going over to the Doctor.
"I'm not engaging again, I'm under attack," the Doctor said.
"You missed this, didn't you?"
They were interrupted by the Ice Governess battering on the protection barrier. "Shut up."
