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"Now what do we do?" Rose asked, turning to Alyssa.

"We stay here until the Doctor comes back", Alyssa replied. They didn't have to wait long for the fireplace to swing back around revealing the Time Lord in question and a creepy looking figure dressed in what appeared to be clothes based on the era Reinette was in. The Doctor ran over to the wall, grabbed a gun-like object and sprayed its contents all over the figure. It convulsed on the spot before freezing completely.

"Excellent! Ice gun!" Mickey said, appreciatively.

"Fire extinguisher", the Doctor corrected, throwing the fire extinguisher to Rose, who catches it.

"Where did that thing come from?" she asked.

"Here" the Doctor replied.

"But it looked likes it belongs in the 18th century", Alyssa remarked, eyeing the figure without getting too close.

"That's because it's a disguise", the Doctor explained.

"Rather creepy if you ask me", the red head stated.

The Doctor pulled off the robot's wig to reveal a plastic egg shaped head containing ornate clockwork mechanism "Oh, you are beautiful!" he exclaimed, he glanced at Alyssa "though it got nothing on you, love".

"Nice save", Rose muttered.

"You know, it would be an act of vandalism to disassemble you" the Doctor got out his sonic "But that won't stop me" Before he could however, the robot teleported away "Short range teleport. Can't have got far. Could still be on board".

"What is it?" Rose asked.

"Don't go looking for it!" the Doctor said sternly "I'm going to check on Reinette. Do you want to come?" he asked Alyssa.

She shook her head "I'm going to stay here with Rose and Mickey", she replied.

"Alright", the Doctor said "Just…stay here". The trio watched him disappear with the fireplace. Rose glanced down at the fire extinguisher in her hands.

"Rose we're supposed to stay here", Alyssa said, knowing that she was planning to go find their mystery friend. Rose just looked at her "No, we're not looking for it" the read head insisted and the blonde didn't say anything, she just kept looking at her "ugh fine!" Rose smiled.

Mickey glanced between the two them, confused "what just happened?"

"We're going to be looking for the creepily dressed robot", Alyssa replied "better grab another fire extinguisher". Mickey took one from the wall and the trio took off.

~...~

"Are you ok?" Rose asked Alyssa as they walked, Mickey doing Indiana Jones style drop-and-roll in front of them.

"No, something doesn't feel right", Alyssa replied "I'm sensing people with us".

Rose looked around sharply but didn't see anyone "Can you sense ghosts?" she questioned.

"No", Alyssa answered "at least I don't think so". Suddenly Mickey let out a squeak, gaining their attention.

"There's an eye in there", he said "a real eye". He and the two females watched the eye retreat back into the wall.

"Can you hear that?" Rose asked, her ears picking up a faint heartbeat.

"Yeah, I can", Alyssa replied. Rose went over to a small circular cover in a bulkhead and tried to pry it off but it was too hot. "Let me", Alyssa said and Rose moved away to allow her to open it with her new powers, revealing a human heart.

"Oh my god", Rose gagged "that's a human heart".

Was this what I was sensing? Human parts inside the walls? Alyssa thought, disgusted. "Really wish I was sensing ghosts", she muttered, closing the cover. She, Rose and Mickey then left the eye and heart behind.

"Maybe it wasn't a real heart", the black man said hopefully.

"Of course it was a real heart", Rose said.

"Is this normal for you? Is this an average day?" Mickey asked looking around.

"I'm afraid Mickey there aren't any average days when you start travelling with the Doctor", Alyssa told him. They stop by a window with a view into a luxurious 18th century room.

"It's France again. We can see France", Mickey stated.

"I think we're looking through a mirror", Rose remarked.

"That's exactly what it is", Alyssa confirmed.

"Blimey, look at this guy. Who does he think he is?" Mickey asked when three men entered, one more fancily dressed than the other two.

"The King of France", the Doctor replied at the same time as Alyssa.

"Oh, here's trouble. What have you been up to?" Rose asked turning to him.

"Oh, this and that. Became the imaginary friend of a future French aristocrat…", the Doctor replied "picked a fight with a clockwork man…" a horse made a noise around the corner "Oh, and met a horse" she said when Arthur whinnied from around the corner.

"What's a horse doing on a spaceship?" Mickey questioned eyeing it as it came into view.

"Mickey, what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective", the Doctor said.

"Mickey makes a good point Doctor", Alyssa said "its highly unusual to see a horse on a spaceship. So is this", she nodded to the window.

"This isn't the window I've found. They're all over the place on this ship", the Doctor said "gateways into history. But not just any old history…" and older version of Reinette entered the room "hers. Time windows deliberately arranged along the life of one particular woman. A spaceship from the 51st stalking a woman from the eighteenth. Why?"

"Who is she?" Rose asked.

"Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known to her friends as Reinette. One of the most accomplished women who ever lived", the Doctor answered.

"So has she got plans of being the Queen, then?" Rose questioned.

"No, Reinette becomes the king's mistress soon after the Yew Tree Ball", Alyssa explained.

"Oh, I get it. Camilla", Rose said. She and Mickey both laughed at that.

"I think this is the night they met. The night of the Yew Tree ball" the Doctor said after the king left "In no time at flat, she'll get herself established as his official mistress, with her own rooms at the palace. Even her own title. Madame de Pompadour".

"The Queen must have loved her", Rose commented as Reinette checked her reflection in the mirror/window.

"Oh, she did. They get on very well", the Doctor informed them.

"The King's wife and the King's girlfriend?" Mickey asked surprised.

"France. It's a different planet", the Doctor shrugged. He stiffened when he heard the tell-tale ticking of a clock. The Doctor snatched the fire extinguisher from Mickey and pushed the mirror around to step back into Reinette's world when she saw the clockwork robot in the room.

"Hello, Reinette. Hasn't time flown?" the Doctor said lightly.

"Fireplace man!" Reinette cried.

The Doctor smiled at her before spraying the robot with the fire extinguisher causing it to freeze up. He tossed the fire extinguisher to Mickey when he approached with Rose and Alyssa. The robot starts to click and whirr loudly.

"What's it doing?" Mickey asked.

"Switching back on. Melting the ice", the Doctor replied.

"And then what?" Mickey questioned.

"Then it kills everyone in the room", the Doctor replied. The clockwork robot's arm shot out to grab the Doctor by the throat but he jumped back "Focuses the mind, doesn't it? Who are you? Identify yourself" the clockwork robot woman cocked its head but didn't answer "Order it to answer me", the Doctor said to Reinette.

"Why should it listen to me?" Reinette asked.

"I don't know", the Doctor replied "but it did when you were a little girl. Let's see if you've still got it Reinette".

"Answer the Doctor's question. Answer any and all questions put to you", the woman instructed the robot. It lowered its arm and answered the Doctor's question.

"I am repair droid seven"

"What happened to the ship, then?" the Doctor asked "There was a lot of damage".

"Ion storm. Eighty two percent systems failure", the robot explained.

"That ship hasn't moved in over a year. What's taken you so long?" the Time Lord asked.

"We did not have the parts"

"Always comes down to that, doesn't it? The parts", Mickey said with a laugh.

"What's happened to the crew? Where are they?" the Doctor pressed.

"We did not have the parts", the robot repeated.

"Oh my god…", Alyssa breathed, her stomach rolling at what the robot was telling them. That along with the eye and heart they found…it was no denying it…the crew was used for parts in the ship. "They used the crew"

"It was just doing what it was programmed to. Repairing the ship any way it can, with whatever it could find" the Doctor added "No one told it the crew weren't on the menu" he turned to Rose "What did you say the flight deck smelt of?"

"Someone cooking…." Rose said quietly.

The Doctor turned back to the robot "But what are you doing here? You've opened up time windows. That takes colossal energy. Why come here? You could have gone to your repair yard. Instead you come to eighteenth century France? Why?" he demanded.

"One more part is required", the robot answered.

"Then why haven't you taken it?" the Doctor asked. The robot jerked its head towards Reinette.

"She is incomplete", the robot replied.

"What, so, that's the plan, then. Just keep opening up more and more time windows, scanning her brain, checking to see if she's 'done yet'?" the Doctor stated.

"Why her though?" Alyssa questioned "what does Reinette have that you need?"

"We are the same", the robot answered.

"We are not the same. We are in no sense the same!" Reinette protested.

"We are the same", the robot repeated. Reinette advanced, angry.

"Get out of here! Get out of here this instant!" she demanded and the robot teleports away.

"It's back on the ship. Rose, take Mickey and Arthur. Get after it. Follow it. Don't approach it, just watch what it does", the Doctor instructed.

"Arthur?" Rose asked raising her eyebrows questioningly.

"Good name for a horse", the Doctor replied.

"No, you're not keeping the horse", Rose said, exasperated.

"I let you keep Mickey", the Doctor retorted "Now go! Go! Go!" Mickey and Rose went back through to the ship.

"I'm going to go with them", Alyssa said "just to make sure they're safe".

The Doctor stopped her from going through after the others "please be careful", he said.

"I will", Alyssa promised, giving him a kiss "if anything happens I'll let you know", she tapped her temple meaning they'll stay in touch telepathically. The Doctor watched her disappear through the mirror, pushing back behind her.

"Can you sense the robot?" Mickey asked Alyssa as they walked, keeping their eyes open for it.

"No", Alyssa replied, shaking her head "but I could try". She closed her eyes and focused. Her eyes flew open a second later when she heard a shriek. Two droids had come up behind Rose and Mickey, jabbing them in the neck with needles, the pair slumping unconscious on floor. A third robot appeared behind and stuck Alyssa with a needle too.

"DOCTOR!" she managed to mentally scream before whatever was in the needle took effect and she was unconscious too.