AN: I'm going to hold to strong to, "The Girl In The Fireplace," but make my own little changes. I hope you like them!
{The Girl In The Fireplace}
"We're under attack. There are creatures-I don't even think they are human." said King Louis. "We can't stop them."
"The clock is broken. He is coming." said Reinette.
"Did you hear what I said?" asked the King.
Reinette looked at her lover, "Listen to me. There is a man coming to Versailles. He has watched over me my whole life, and he will not desert me tonight."
"What are you talking about? What man?" he asked.
Reinette took King Louis's hands into her own. "The only man-save you-I have ever loved."
{3,000 Years Later}
The Doctor, Rose and Mickey step of the TARIDS and found themselves on a spaceship. The Doctor and Rose quickly notice something wasn't quite right, but Mickey on the other hand wasn't paying attention of the surroundings. He was happy he got a spaceship on his first go around.
"I saw the end of the world." whispered Rose in the Doctor's ear.
"Then we had chips." he said with a smile.
"That was our first date. You still owe me chips." said Rose nudging him in the side.
"We're on a spaceship and you're talking about chips!" said Mickey not believing what he was hearing.
"I want chips." said Rose.
The Time Lord leaned forward and whispered, "I'll take you to the best place for chips in the universe. This time I'll pay. Right now let's look around this spaceship!" He grabbed Rose's hand they walked around the area.
"Looks kind of abandon. Is anyone on board?" asked Rose.
The Doctor walked over to the screen memory base put on his glasses, "Good question," pulled out his sonic screwdriver and ran over it, "No life readings on board, but nothing dangerous. Know what I'll do a quick scan. In case there is anything dangerous," and ran his screwdriver around the room.
The Doctor removed his glasses and stuck them inside his pocket along with his screwdriver. They walked around the ship.
"Dear me, we've got some cowboys up in here a lot of repair work." said the Doctor looking at all the damage. "This damage is massive!"
"Where are the crew?" asked Rose looking at the damage on the wall of the ship.
"Good question. No life readings on board." said the Doctor.
She looked around in thought. "Well we're in deep space. They can't just nip out of a fag."
"Nope. Checked all the smoking pods." said the Doctor.
He took Rose's hand and they examined the room more carefully. They looked at each other when they saw very out of date fireplace. They knelt down in front of it to get a good look.
"Monsieur, Madame what are you doing in my fireplace?"
"Oh…that… just a routine-"
"fire check." said Rose finishing the Doctor's answer. "What is your name?"
"Reinette."
"Can you tell what year it is?" asked the Doctor.
"Of course I can. It's Seventeen hundred and twenty-seven" answered the young girl.
"Right. Lovely. One of my favorites. August is rubbish though."
"Better stay indoors." said Rose. "Goodnight Reinette."
"Goodnight Madame, Monsieur," and she left the fireplace.
The Doctor and Rose stood up both in thought, wondering why a ship held a 18 century fireplace. The snapped out of the thoughts by Mickey.
"I thought you said this was the 51st century." said Mickey.
"I did, and it seems that this place has a lot of energy that could bust a hole in the universe."
"It needs a power source." whispered Rose looking over at the fireplace. "I think we just found our hyberlink."
"What?" asked Mickey.
"A temporal hyperlink. I just didn't want to say "Magic Door," said the Doctor. He winked at Rose knowing she was sharing his thoughts.
"You're starting sound like him." said Mickey.
Rose raised a brow at her ex-boyfriend even though he thought they were still couple. She looked over at the Doctor and saw him holding in his laughter. She nudged him in the side not to laugh.
"Well, go on. I know you want to go and good luck at the, "Magic Door," said Rose. She jerked her head towards the fireplace. "I'll be fine."
The Doctor smiled like it was Christmas day. She knew him far too well, and since their union last night it was even that much stronger. Oh how he loved that woman. He ran over the fireplace and searched the side for a switch.
"Ha gotch'a!" said the Doctor and fireplace turned leaving Rose and Mickey alone on the spaceship.
"He's left you again Rose." said Mickey.
"Oh shut up Mickey. He'll be back. I trust the Doctor with my life." snapped Rose knowing her husband would never leave her.
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"Hello Reinette!" said the Doctor happily.
"Monsieur how did you get into my room?" asked the small girl.
The Doctor scratched behind his ear. "Oh, just another fire check."
"Are you here about my broken clock?" asked Reinette looking up at it.
The Doctor frowned slightly. "Why are you afraid of a clock?
"They give me nightmares." she told him.
He stepped forward and got down on his knees to look under the bed. He jumped back slightly when he saw something under the bed. The Doctor moved back onto his knees looking over her shoulder.
"Don't turn around Reinette." he told her gently.
"What is Monsieur?" asked the girl who sat on her bed.
"You've been scanning her brain." said the Doctor. "Why are you scanning a young child's brain?"
"She is incomplete." said the robot dressed in 18 century attire.
"It's just a nightmare. Everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares." said the Doctor.
Reinette turned around and gasped at what she saw. She turned back to the Doctor. He gently stroked her forehead trying sooth her fear away.
"It's all right. I want let them harm you. Remember it's only nightmare." he whispered gently and he looked to the thing behind the girl. "Even things from under the bed have nightmares," and he ran to the fireplace after the creatures were gone.
"Who are the monsters afraid of?" she asked.
The Doctor pulled the leaver of the fireplace. He said with a smile. "Me!" and the fireplace turned around going back into the ship.
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Rose slowly back away when she saw robot thing with a gray wig and wore a clown like mask. She had noticed it had teleported from its last location onto the ship.
The Doctor stepped away from the fireplace and quickly grabbed a item from a nearby shelf. He pressed button and ice like substance came out of freezing it.
"Brilliant! An ice gun!" said Mickey.
The Doctor said, "A fire extinguisher," and he threw it to Mickey. He turned to the frozen masked figured and knocked off the wig and mask. He slipped on his glasses. "You are beautiful! You are gorgeous!" He said looking at the clear head that contained a clock-like brain. "I would hate to dismantle you."
Rose stepped forward and got a good looked at the clock. She gently touched it as she looked at carefully. "A lot of work went into this. I mean look at it's tiny parts making it move."
"This is what's giving Reinette nightmares. The clock on her mantle was broken." Rose's brow frowned. "It's been scanning her brain."
"But why scan a little girl's brain Doctor?" asked Rose ignoring Mickey all together.
"Good question."
"Well, go find out." said Rose.
The Doctor gently ran his thumb over her cheek and gave her a gentle kiss silencing telling her he'd be back soon. "Be careful." He told Rose before he vanished by a turn of the fireplace.
Rose grabbed a extinguisher gun from the rack. "Well, come on let's take a look around." She told Mickey. She rolled her eyes, "Oh please you think I stand around and do nothing while the Doctor does everything. Oh get over yourself Mickey!" She turned and walked away from the man.
"Wait for me!" yelled Mickey, ran after Rose not wanting to be alone.
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The Doctor stepped off the harp just as an older Reinette entered the bedroom. He was stunned at what he saw. He apparently was later in her life then he thought.
"I thought it customary for one to have an imaginary friend in one's childhood. I must congratulate on your persistence."
"Reinette, my have you grown." said the Doctor.
"And you do not appear you have aged a single a day. That is tremendously impolite of you." She told the Time Lord.
"I'm much older then I appear I can assure you."
Reinette stepped closer to the Doctor. "You seem like flesh and blood, but reason tells me you can not be real."
"Oh, you never want to listen to reason." He told her.
She smiled and stepped closer. "Then that is good to know," and she leaned in closer to him.
The Doctor gently grabbed her arms and pulled her back at arms length. "I'm a married man Reinette, and will betray her even with a kiss from a very lovely woman as yourself."
"She's the woman I saw in the fireplace with you when I was I little?"
"Yes, and her name is Rose."
"Then she is a very lucky woman to have you." She said and kissed his cheek.
She stepped back and the Doctor pulled the leaver and the fireplace turned leaving Reinette alone in the room.
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The Doctor looked around and sighed heavily. He knew Rose would wonder around the ship. It was what she did in order to help him. But it always had him worried every time she did. But he trusted her. Mickey not too much. He made his way through the ship when a white horse came up behind him and began to follow him.
"Go away I'm not your mother." the Doctor told the horse.
Rose smiled when she saw the Doctor walking up to her dressed in his tan coat. she could feel him in her mind that he was getting closer.
Mickey turned and saw the white horse standing behind the Doctor with his head resting on the Time Lord's shoulder. "What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
"Mickey what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective."
Rose told the Doctor about her finding an eye in a camera, and there was heart wired into the machinery. The Doctor told her it was doing what it was programmed to fix the ship, and he reminded them about no life forms being on board. Rose's eyes widened when she figured out they had used the crew to fix the ship.
The Doctor took Rose's hand, and they found several windows around the ship that were capturing parts of Reinette's life. The clock men had been keeping a close eye on the woman, but they didn't or couldn't understand why they were doing it.
Rose squeezed her husband's hand and nodded for him to go to the woman. She knew how important Reinette was to history. The Doctor nodded and left once again leaving his wife and Mickey on the spaceship.
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The Doctor walked up to Reinette, and she greeted him with smile. She looked around in search for Rose and he asked why he didn't bring her with him.
"This is something she can't do. I need to see why the clock men want with you." said the Doctor. "I'll have to look into your mind. It won't hurt. I promise," and he placed his fingers on her temples and rested his forehead against hers. "If there is anything you don't want me to see just place it behind a door."
"Fireplace man are in my mind." said Reinette.
"Oh dear Reinette, you've got some cowboys up in here."
"Oh, Doctor so lonely. So very lonely."
"When did you start calling me Doctor?"
"So lonely. Such a lonely childhood. You're still alone. How can you bare it?" She gasped at what else she saw. "But you're not lonely anymore. You're so passionate about your Rose. Such love that it burns your very soul."
He stepped back and lowered his hands, "How did you do that?"
"A door once opened maybe stepped in either direction. My lonely Doctor, you must dance with me."
"I can't." said the Doctor.
"Oh Doctor who, it's more then just secret. Isn't?"
"What did you see?" he asked a little bit more forcefully.
"That there comes time, Time Lord that every lonely boy must learn how to dance." She said, "Bring Rose with you," and she swept from the room.
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Rose found herself tied to a metal table. She turned her head and saw Mickey next to her. She mentally rolled her eyes. Listening to him saying that the Doctor had left them trying to make Rose see that's all he did was leave.
The Clock men stood over Rose and a knife zapped out of his hand, "You are compatible."
"Well, you might want to think about that. Really, really might. Because me and Mickey didn't come alone, and trust me you don't want to mess with our designated driver." said Rose trying to buy the Doctor time to get to her. "You see you don't want to anger him. He's known as the On Coming Storm for a reason."
"You are compatible." said the Clock man moving the knife closer to her throat.
Rose let out a scream when the blade touched the tender part of throat. The Doctor ran up to her making the knife spark and die out from working with a click of his sonic screwdriver. He pushed the clock man to the floor causing it to fall.
"Rose I'm sorry." said the Doctor grabbing a cloth from his suit breast pocket, and he pressed it against the cut. "It's not deep thank goodness. Hold still."
He dug through his bigger on the inside pockets and cleaned the cut. He grabbed some healing glue and placed butterfly strips over the cut. He placed the other items back into his pocket.
"I cut it rather close this time. I'm so sorry. So sorry," whispered the Doctor forgetting Mickey was even next to them, and he gently captured Rose lips with own. He pulled back, "Please forgive me."
The Doctor released Rose from the clamps and turned and did the same for Mickey. He took Rose's hand and they walked away from the clock men not noticing that the clock man the floor had repaired itself.
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