Love is blind
Mean while Rose and the Doctor were exploring the ship, whilst Mickey looked on in awe at the sight of the large fifty first century ship. A ship and on his first trip in the TARDIS, what were the odds?
Rose used her new keen eye sight and hearing to look around for anything suspicious. She would be ready for it if there was. The days where Rose Tyler was caught off guard constantly were well and truly over, no one would ever take her for a fool and a stupid simple ape ever again.
They continued to walk on for sometime, until Rose stopped in her tracks, causing the Doctor to nearly slam right into her. He frowned and asked "what on Earth is the matter with you Rose? Why did you stop all of a sudden?"
Rose replied dryly "tell me Doctor, it is usually considered normal for a seventeenth century fire place to be based inside of a fifty first century space ship, and an abandoned space ship at that?" The Doctor's frown deepened as he took in the sight of the fully lit eighteenth century fire place. No it was not normal, and Rose knew it as well. She just insisted upon being sarcastic.
He gave her a look and took out his glasses and put them on before taking his sonic screwdriver, in order to examine the fire place to see if it were genuine or a mere hologram. "Not a hologram" he commented to him self.
He continued to examine it closely while Rose and Mickey looked around. "Not even a reproduction, this actually is an eighteenth century French fireplace. Double-sided, there's another room through there" the Doctor revealed.
Rose bent down to get a closer look. She looked inside the actual fire place, whilst the Doctor was examining the finely carved detail on the varnished wood. Rose gasped and tapped the Doctor on the shoulder and said "Doctor. Look. There is a little girl looking out at us."
The Doctor looked to where Rose gestured and sure enough there was a little blond haired girl dressed in a night gown, looking out at Rose and the Doctor. The Doctor smiled gently at the little girl and said in his usual cheery fashion "hello" the little girl replied uncertainty "hello."
The Doctor asked "and what is your name?" she replied "Reinette." The Doctor smiled and nodded before asking gently and encouragingly. "Reinette, that's a lovely name. Can you tell me where you are at the moment, Reinette?" Reinette eyed him a little suspiciously as she replied "in my bedroom."
The Doctor added "And where's your bedroom? Where do you live, Reinette?" Reinette looked at him strangely as she replied "Paris, of course." The Doctor nodded "ah, of course Paris. Why didn't I think of that?" Reinette frowned slightly as she asked "Monsieur, what are you doing in my fireplace?"
The Doctor thought quickly not wanting to make Reinette anymore suspicious then she already was. "Oh, it's just a routine, fire check, nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about at all." He added "now can you tell me what year it is Reinette?" Reinette looked at him as if he had grown a second head. "Of course I can! Seventeen hundred and twenty seven" was her reply.
The Doctor nodded and grinned. "Right, lovely, one of my favourites. August is rubbish though. Stay indoors. Okay, that's all for now. Thanks for your help. Hope you enjoy the rest of the fire. Night, night!
"Goodnight Monsieur" Reinette replied before going out of view.
The Doctor stood, frowning thoughtfully as he removed his glasses and replaced them in the breast pocket of his jacket. "You said this was the fifty-first century." The Doctor replied "it is Mickey. This was not supposed to be here."
Rose added "oh honestly Mickey you heard what he said this ship is generating enough power to punch a hole in the universe. And that has the potential to cause a shit load of chaos." The Doctor nodded and added "I think we just found the hole, must be a spatio-temporal hyperlink."
Mickey he frowned "a what?" Rose laughed "There is no such thing. Don't be so gullible Mickey. He made it up. He just couldn't bring him self to say magical door." Mickey glared at her. He huffed when she didn't even bat a mere eye lid. The Doctor sighed and had to hide a grin. Rose could really be a bitch without realising it.
Mickey snarked "how would you know weather there is such a thing or not? You're not the expert he is." The Doctor cleared his throat and told Mickey "actually she is right and does know exactly what she is talking about. Her knowledge is almost compatible with my own."
Mickey paled while Rose shot him a dirty look before saying. "Well, at least we now know what all that power is being used for." She added "so they whoever they are, are using a shit load of power to open a sort of gateway between that fire place and Reinette's bedroom in the seventeenth century Paris."
The Doctor nodded "yep, that's about it." He sighed "I'm gonna go and have another look at that fire place. Don't go any where; we don't need you getting lost on this ship." Rose shot the Doctor a look, making him wince. Rose really was capable of making someone feel like they were going to shrivel up and die, from just a mere look from her intense blue eyes.
The Doctor leaned against the fire and exclaimed "Gotcha!" when the section of the wall began to rotate. Rose exclaimed startled "Doctor!"