Love is blind
Once the fireplace had finished turning, the Doctor found himself standing in a dark and shadowy bedroom, where a young Reinette was asleep.
The ticking of a clock could be heard as the Doctor wandered towards the window. A Paris skyline could be seen, it is snowing. The Paris skyline looked truly beautiful, as it snowed. It looked like scenery from out of a snow globe, people bought as gifts.
The Doctor heard the neighing of a horse. The Doctor turned around sensing Reinette was no longer asleep. Reinette's eyes snap open to see the silhouette of the Doctor at the window. She sat up, just as the Doctor turned around to face her.
"It's okay! Don't scream! It's me, it's the fireplace man. Look." He slowly walked towards her bed so as not to startle her anymore so then he already had. He took out his sonic screwdriver and lit a candle near her bed, so that she could see him, and hopefully be less afraid of his presence in her bedroom in the middle of the night.
"We were talking, just a moment ago. I was in your fireplace. Remember?" Reinette frowned "but Monsieur that was weeks ago, perhaps even months." The Doctor frowned and scratched behind his ear, and replied "really? Oh, now that is rather quite unexpected."
He turned and walked back over to the fire place and tapped his fist against the wooden panel. He frowned "hmm, must be a loose connection, you need to get a man in to look at that." Reinette asked "Monsieur who are you? And why are you in my bedroom?" The Doctor didn't reply. His attention had been captured by the clock on the mantle He took his glasses out and put them on, before looking at the clock closer.
The Clock was broken; the glass had been cracked, and no longer ticked. But if the clock in question no longer ticked, then what exactly was ticking then? The Doctor's mouth opened then closed then opened once more. There was a slight look of fear upon his handsome face, as the sound of ticking became more prominent once more.
Reinette looked sceptical as she asked "you're scared of a broken clock?" The Doctor shifted, he was clearly tense as he replied. "Just a bit scared, yeah, just a little tiny bit, cause you see, if this clock's broken, and it's the only clock in the room" he trailed off as he walked towards the window to check behind the curtain.
The Doctor slowly walked towards Reinette, his voice slow and quite. "Cause you see that's not a clock. You can tell by the resonance. Too big, Six feet, I'd say, Size of a man." He walked towards the bed, thinking out aloud as he went.
"Now, let's think. If you were a thing that ticks and you were hiding in someone's bedroom, first thing you do; break the clock. No one notices the sound of one clock ticking, but two?" He paused in thought before finishing. "You might start to wonder if you're really alone."
Reinette began to look around, she was clearly afraid. The Doctor slowly walked the rest of the way towards her. He crouched down and told her "Stay on the bed, right in the middle. Don't put your hands or feet over the edge. And whatever you do, don't make a sound."
Reinette shivered in fear as the Doctor lifted the bottom of her blanket and looked under the bed, taking the sonic screwdriver out of his pocket in the process, and switching it on. He shined the blue light under the bed. His eyes widened as he was thrown backwards from the bed, after someone or something smacked him.
Reinette gasped, her eyes wide in fear as she watched the Doctor being thrown backwards. The Doctor remained crouching as he spotted a pair of feet on the other side of the bed. He looked up at Reinette with wide eyes and told her quietly and slowly. "Reinette, I need you to stay still and remain quite. Whatever you do, do not look around."
A figure was standing on other side of the bed, wearing a creepy looking clown like mask, and the typical aristocratic French fashion. It was leering down at Reinette, who looked terrified. The Doctor said "stay still Reinette and don't look around. Stay exactly where you are in less I tell you to do other wise."
The Doctor then looked up, eyeing the unknown creature in front of him. He continued to glance at the creature then a Reinette, before looking dismayed. He bent down and grasped Reinette's head between his hands, staring intently into her eyes with a disturbed expression before looking back at the figure.
He spat at the figure in shock and disgust "you've been scanning her, but for what? What could you possibly want from an innocent little girl? What it is that she has that you want?" He asked incredulously as he looked into her eyes one more time. "What could you possibly want from this little girl; that you would travel across two galaxies and hundreds of years, and for what, to scan a child's brain?"
He shook his head and finished "what could be so important that you have risked blowing a hole in the entire universe? What is it about this one little girl; that would have you willing to cause such catastrophic chaos?"
Reinette asked "it wants me? I don't understand." She looked at the figure without even flinching. The Doctor had to admire her for that. Most would have been completely and utterly disturbed, by the clown like mask especially.
She asked the figure "you want me? But why?" the figure replied "Not yet. You are incomplete." The Doctor frowned and asked "what by Rassilon do you mean she is incomplete?"
The figure refused to answer, causing the Doctor to become irritated and raise his sonic screwdriver, pointing it at the figure and spitting out between clenched teeth. "If you can answer and speak to her, then you can show me the same courtesy. Or are you just plain rude and ignorant?" The Doctor bristled as he was yet again ignored by the figure.
He switched on the sonic screwdriver and aimed it at the figure and demanded "tell me, what do you want with this child; that you would risk punching a hole in the universe with the vast and dangerous amounts of power you've been using?"
The figured advanced upon the Doctor, unleashing a sharp and deadly weapon resembling a spike edged knife. Said weapon was held up close to the Doctor's face. The Doctor quickly dodged the weapon as the figure continued to follow him, its movement's jerky. Reinette called out "oh. Please be careful Monsieur."
The Doctor replied as the Clockwork man continued to pursue him "don't worry Reinette, this is just a nightmare." He jumped back as the Clockwork man lunged at him. It missed the Doctor, and the weapon it was threatening the Doctor with ended up embedded in the wood of the fire place. Reinette watched on in horror.
The Doctor quipped as he turned the fire place "even monsters that hide under your bed have nightmares, don't you monster?" the Doctor asked the Clockwork man. Reinette asked him "what do monsters have nightmares about?" The Doctor called out as he disappeared behind the fire place, taking the Clockwork man with him "me ha."
Reinette smiled as the Doctor disappeared with the Clockwork man, still trying to dislodge the weapon from out of the wood work of the fire place.