"YOU!" Gabrielle screamed and took a quick tug at the dagger. Marie had let herself go weak after the announcement, but Gabrielle looked livid. Especially at the dark haired girl, who just shrugged and walked back into the crowds. Everyone had seen it, it was just her who had come up and admitted what she saw.
"I thought as much. It was you who killed that man earlier wasn't it?" The Doctor said quickly. Gabrielle remained quiet.
"Of course it was. I do understand why you did it but you must have thought you had committed a perfect murder, but then the gatecrashers arrive, AKA myself and Rose. You didn't count on that happening." The Doctor said, but this time Gabrielle spoke.
"It was her fault," Gabrielle screamed and pointed the dagger at Marie. Marie moved backed and worked her way round the circle until she had reached Charlie, "She was becoming to close to that man, jeopardising the entire mission."
"What was the mission, I don't think we ever found out, did we Rose?" The Doctor said and turned to Rose. She loved it when he revealed everything at the last moment. Very Frostesque as she put it.
"We were initially meant to observe the entire situation, but I got a command from headquarters, ordering the destruction of the King and Queen. Only to observe the effects of the revolution." Gabrielle said and the Doctor looked livid. Rose knew how touchy he was on people meddling in time deliberately.
"You could have changed the entire course of the future! Do you have no regard for that?" The Doctor said calmly, which surprised Rose as how livid he looked.
"I was just following orders, and anyone who got in the way I was to dispose of." Gabrielle said and looked over to Jeanne, who had been moved to the side of the circle and treated.
"Then why not dispose of myself and Rose?" The Doctor said.
"What do you mean?" Gabrielle said, still holding the dagger tightly in her hand.
"We got in the way. We messed up your plans big time." The Doctor said, calmly and Rose was impressed at how he was handling this.
"The girl I could have disposed of. However, I could not dispose of you, and besides, you would protect the girl with your life, or lives as I should say." Gabrielle said and it was time to turn the tables. She registered the looked on the Doctor's face. Priceless.
"Timelord. I had to keep you alive to learn more about you, I know of your history. Selfish Doctor number one, taking your Granddaughter away from her life while you were on the run, and then taking her teachers with you just to stop them from blabbing. I know all about your companions, your enemies, how the Daleks destroyed your people and still survived and then, in fact, how you happened to travelling with Jack Harkness." Gabrielle said and this time looked at Charlie.
"How do you know all of this? You had no time to look it up!" Charlie said quickly.
"Oh, but I did. I found out most of it in the few precious minutes I had after stabbing that bitch. I know all about the real Jack Harkness!" Gabrielle said and gave out a small laugh.
"How did you find out about me?" The Doctor said.
"Easy. Time Agency. They know all about you." Gabrielle said, brushing the question off quickly.
"No, they do not. Jack Harkness said the Time Agency thought the Daleks were a myth. They thought the entire Time War was a myth and never happened. They would have thought I was a myth also, so how did they find out so much about me?" The Doctor said quickly.
"I do not know. I just got given the information. Everything you need to know happened the other side of this communicator." Gabrielle said and gave a little wave of her communicator.
Rose had stopped listening after Gabrielle had recited the Doctor's story. She was thinking about the secret mission. By the way they were talking about it before, it sounded top secret, but the mission to kill the King and Queen seemed, well, pathetic.
"Your mission was not to kill the King and Queen." Rose said quickly.
"Yes it was Rose." Charlie said quickly.
"No, you made it out to be one huge secret. Everyone at some point will try to kill the King and Queen, and it wasn't very secret. She knows!" Rose said quickly and pointed at Gabrielle
"Okay, so I lied." Gabrielle said quickly and smiled but stopped, and started to look worried. She was suddenly breathing very heavily and fidgeting about.
"What's that black thing on her neck?" Marie asked quickly. No-one had noticed it earlier, but upon closer inspection it looked like a tiny black dart.
Gabrielle had suddenly gone very still, and fell over, without moving.
"Poisoned darts." The Doctor said quickly.
"Who would have poison darts in Paris in the 18th century?" Rose asked quickly, disbelieving.
"I don't know and honestly I do not care. Case is closed, mystery more or less solved, and I think it's time we leave." The Doctor said quickly.
"This time, let's just go to the beach or something, as we always find trouble." Rose said quickly but looked at Charlie and Marie. The Doctor could see what she was thinking.
"Alright then, I know what you are going to ask. Do you two want to come with us?" The Doctor said to Marie and Charlie.
"Shall we?" Charlie said to Marie.
"Why not? We're likely just to get questioned back at the Agency and I fancy a trip without them lot hanging over my shoulders." Marie said.
Rose smiled. Two new companions. She missed Jack, and to some extent Adam, so it would be nice to have some humans on board.
"Where are we off to next?" Rose asked.
"I'll take us for a holiday first, maybe an uninhabited planet." The Doctor said.
"Last time you took me somewhere like that we ended up in prison." Rose said.
"Meh. You make your own luck." The Doctor said.