So here is the end of Tooth and Claw. Enjoy!


Harper's POV

I started to come to and heard Rose yell, "One… two… three… pull!"

"Man, talk about a headache." I said sitting up and put a hand on the back of my head, it came back bloody so I was pretty sure the stupid monks knocked me out by hitting me in the back of the head.

"Harper a little help here," Rose said sounds a little mad, but when I looked up I knew why. There in front of us was a man turning into a werewolf, although he was in a cage, it would not last long.

"Right, okay everyone. On the count of three. One… two… three… pull" Finally the chain came loose from the wall and the Doctor and Sir Robert busted through the door.

"Where have you been?" Rose asked the Doctor, while Sir Robert and I tried to get everyone out.

"Oh, that's beautiful!" The Doctor said and I rolled my eyes at him grabbing a hold of his arm and pulling.

"Get out!" Sir Robert said to everyone.

He finally snapped out of it and started to help, "Out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out."

He locked the door with the sonic running back to Rose and I.

The men were all getting ready to kill the werewolf, get the guns ready, as the Doctor was taking the shackles off Rose's and my wrist. "It could be any form of light modulated species triggered by specific wavelengths. Did it say what it wanted?"

"The Queen, the Crown, the Throne… you name it," Rose said.

'You okay?' The Doctor asked me as he was taking off my shackles, 'I called but you didn't answer.'

'The stupid monks got the better of me and knocked me out. I had just come too when you and Sir Robert come in.'

I heard the Doctor let out a growl in my mind and his face-hardened.

Before I could say anything else we heard what sounded like the door had been knock down. The Doctor, being he stupid self, went to have a look.

'Doctor?' I said trying to stop him. He rounded the corner and Rose and I waited for him. Not a minute late he came running back grabbing Rose's and mine hands pulling us behind the line of men with the guns.

The Steward yelled, "fire" as the werewolf came into the room. "Fire," he yelled again.

Rose and I jumped every time the guns went off and I grabbed a hold of the Doctors hand for comfort.

Once the shooting had stopped and the werewolf had retreated the Doctor said, "All right, you men, we should retreat upstairs, come with me."

"I'll not retreat," the steward said. "The battle's done. There's no creature on God's Earth that could survive such a assault."

"Please sir. Just come with us. Live to fight again," I begged him even though I knew it would do no good.

"Quite child," he scolded me. "You sir, need to learn how to control you woman." He pointed to the Doctor.

I once again heard the Doctor let out a growl in my mind before he said, "She doesn't need controlling." He pulled me behind him and said, "Now I'm telling you, come upstairs!"

The Steward had walked towards where the werewolf went and turned saying, "And I'm telling you, sir, that I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall." He looked down the hallway and come back to us with a confident look about his self. "Must've crawled away to die…"

The wolf's arm came out of the ceiling, grabbing the steward and pulling him up. We heard his screams. I looked down and closed my eyes to the horrifying picture.

"There's nothing we can do," the Doctor push Rose out of the room and grabbed my hand as we ran.

The wolf's growls, the gun shoots, and screams made us run faster.

Once we got to the main entertain Sir Robert started yelling, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"Sir Robert," Queen Victoria came down the stair quickly. "What's happening? I heard such terrible noises."

Rose and I watched the Doctor ran to the front door as Sir Robert said, "Your Majesty, we've got to get out, but what of Father Angelo? Is he still here?"

She hesitated then said, "Captain Reynolds disposed of him." I raised an eyebrow not believing her.

The Doctor ran back in saying, "the front door's no good, it's been boarded shut. Pardon me, Your Majesty, you'll have to leg it out of a window."

She raised her head and walked towards the front. Sir Robert cut the Queen off saying, "excuse my manners, Your Majesty, but I shall go first, the better to assist her Majesty's egress."

"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh," the Queen said.

"Oh how sweet, now hurry it up," I said getting impatient.

Sir Robert opened the window but when he did the monks outside started shooting at him, making all of us duck down.

"I reckon the monky-boys want us to stay inside," the Doctor said after looking out the window.

"Do they know who I am?" The Queen asked slightly offended.

"Yeah," I said as I moved forward to grab a hold of the back of the Doctor's jacket to pull him away from the window.

"That's why they want you," Rose told the Queen. "The wolf's lined you up for a biting."

"Now, stop this talk. There can't be an actual wolf," but just as she said that the wolf let out a howl. We all turned to the sound. The Doctor grabbed my hand and pulled me closer to him self. Rose looked at us sadly before turning away.

We ran and looked at the door leading to the cellar, only to see the wolf breaking the door down.

"What do we do?" Rose asked.

"We… run," the said.

"It that it?" Rose asked a little irritated.

"You got any silver bullets?" The Doctor asked her.

"Not on me, no!"

"Where are the Winchester brothers when you need them?"

"Who?" The Doctor turned to me. "Oh never mind. One of these days I am going to get you to watch TV with me."

He just shook his head and said, "Well there we are then, we run. Your Majesty, as a doctor, I recommend a vigorous jog." He showed her by jogging in place. "Good for the health. Come on." He grabbed the Queen's hand and we all started to run up the stairs.


The Doctor's POV

I could hear the wolf right behind us. I stopped as the others kept running, "come on."

I saw the wolf's shadow when I felt a hand slip into mine. I turned and saw Harper start to pull me with her. I followed immediately. We were running down a hallway when I saw the Captain come around the corner pointing his gun at the wolf.

I pulled Harper to the right of the Captain, as he shoot the wolf, and pulled her around the corner; both of us breathing heavily.

"I'll take this position and hold it." He was rearming his gun. "You keep moving. Your Majesty, I went to look for the property and it was taken. The chest was empty."

"I have it. It's safe," Queen Victoria said.

"Then remove yourself, ma'am. Doctor, you stand as Her Majesty's protector. And you Sir Robert, you're a traitor to the Crown."

"Bullets can't stop it," I said with urgency.

"They'll buy you time. Now RUN!" He went back around the corner gun at the ready.

We all ran into the library, but Rose stopped and looked at the Captain.

Harper called, "Rose," and I looked up at her when she said this pulling her into the room.

Rose, Harper, Sir Robert, and I made quick work of barricading the door. Once we finished I said, "Wait a minute. Shush, shush. Wait, wait, shush." We all listened as the wolf howled.

"It stopped," Harper sounded skeptical.

Learning forward putting my ear against the door listening, I could hear the wolf outside the door but it left. "It's gone," I said turning to the others.

"Listen," Rose said as we heard the wolf walking.

"It this the only door?" I whispered to Sir Robert.

"Yes. NO!" He said and we both ran to barricade the other door.

We listened for a bit and then heard nothing. It was like the wolf just stopped. "I don't understand, what's stopping it?" Rose asked.

"Something inside this room," I started to walk around to try and figure it out. "What is it? Why can't it get in?"

Rose let out a heavy breath and said, "I'll tell you what, though."

"What?" I asked turning towards her.

"Werewolf."

"I know!" I got excited and came over to her and Harper giving them both a hug. "You all right?" I asked Rose.

"I'm okay, yeah," she answered and I turned to Harper, "You about you?" I took her hands in my own.

"I'm… fine" she struggled to find the word to say. 'Harper?' I asked her in my mind.

'It's just a headache. Nothing that is to bad.' I put my fingers on her temples and started to massage her head. She gave out a sigh that let me know I was helping. I heard Rose huff and turn away from us looking around the room. I gave her a look but thought nothing of it.

"I'm sorry ma'am. It's all my fault," Sir Robert said. "I should have sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong. I thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?"

"Yes," Harper said, not moving as I was still massaging her head.

"Well, they were bald, athletic; your wife's away. I just thought you were happy."

"I'll tell you what though, ma'am. I bet you're not amused now," Rose said turning back to look at the Queen.

The Queen looked livid, "Do you think this funny?"

"No ma'am, I'm sorry," Rose said quietly.

"What exactly, I pray, tell me? Someone please, what exactly is that creature?"

"You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's more of a lupine wavelength haemovariform," I told her.

"And should I trust you, sir? You who change your voice so easily? What happened to your accent?"

My hands dropped down and both Harper and I looked at each other and then to the Queen. "Oh, right, sorry…"

"I'll not have it!" The Queen interrupted me. "No, sir. Not you, not that thing, none of it. This is not my world."

Harper stepped forward and I was about to pull her back when she started talking, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being so forward. But this is your world. You are here now, and there is a werewolf here now. You can keep denying it, but it will still be true. So stop wasting time and energy and help us figure away out of the mess."

The Queen looked shocked, but did not say anything else on the matter.


Harper's POV

We had only been in the library for a few minutes, but I felt like it was hours. The Doctor had walked to one of the door and said, "Mistletoe." He looked up and asked, "Sir Robert, did your father put that there?"

"I don't know, I suppose."

"It's on the other door too," I said after looked at the door.

"But a carving wouldn't be enough. I wonder…" He stood up and got closer to the door.

'Please tell me you not…' but I was too late. The Doctor licked the door. 'You are so weird.' I told the Doctor.

He ignored me and said "Viscum album, the oil of the mistletoe. It's been worked into the wood like a varnish. How clever was your dad? I love him! Powerful stuff, mistletoe, bursting with lectins and viscotoxins."

"And the wolf's allergic to it?" Rose asked.

"Or it thinks it is. The monky-monk-monks need a way of controlling the wolf. Maybe they trained it to react against certain things."

'You know mistletoe is good for other things too!' I thought. I saw a light blush on the Doctor's face before he shot back thinking, 'stop it!'

"Nevertheless, that creature won't give up, Doctor, and we still don't possess an actual weapon," Sir Robert said sounding hopeless.

"Oh, your father got all the brains, didn't he?" The Doctor asked rudely.

"Being rude again," Rose said and I just shook my head saying, "No, he meant that one."

The Doctor walked over to the bookshelves, "You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world." He turned around and put his glasses.

'Being a little dramatic there Doctor.'

'Oh, you love it.'

"This room is the best arsenal we could have. Arm yourself." He threw a book at Rose and one to me.

We were all looking through book after book trying to find something. The Doctor and I were looking through one book together and found it. "Ohh, look what your old dad found," the Doctor said.

"Something fell to Earth," I finished.

"A spaceship?" Rose asked coming up to us.

"Shooting star." Sir Robert began to read, " 'in the year of our Lord 1540, under the reign of Kind James V, and almighty fire did burn in the pit.' That's the Glen of Saint Catherine, just by the monastery."

"But that's over three hundred years ago," Rose said. "What's it been waiting for?"

"Maybe just a single cell survived," I said.

The Doctor picked up where I left off, "adapting slowly down the generations. It survived through the humans, host after host after host."

Sir Robert then asked, "But why does it want the throne?"

"That's what it wants it said so. The Empire of the wolf," Rose said.

The Doctor got a far away look on his face as he was imaging the worst. "Imagine it… the Victorian Age accelerated. Starships and missiles fueled by coal and driven by steam, leaving history devastated in its wake."

"Sir Robert, if I am to die here…" the Queen started to say, but Sir Robert cut her off.

"Don't say that, Your Majesty."

"I would destroy myself rather than let that creature infect me, but that's no matter. I ask only that you find some place of safekeeping for something far older and more precious than my self."

"Hardly the time to worry about your valuables," the Doctor said.

"It depends on how valuable it is to you," I told him.

"Thank you for your opinion, but you wife is right. There is nothing more valuable the this." She pulled out the largest diamond I had ever seen.

"Oh, Your Majesty," Sir Robert said.

The Doctor, Rose and I all walked closer to the Queen. "It that the Koh-I-Noor?" Rose asked.

"Oh, yes. The greatest diamond in the world," the Doctor said.

"Given to me as the spoils of war," the Queen told us. "Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns this must surely die."

"Well, that's true of anything if you wait long enough. Can I?" The Doctor motioned to the diamond and took it gently from the Queen.

"Oh, it's beautiful," I said looking at it in the Doctor's hand, but scared to get to close.

"How much is it worth?" Rose asked.

"They say… the wages of the entire planet for a whole week," the doctor said.

"Good job my mum's not here," Rose laughed. "She's be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing."

"She'd win," the Doctor and I said at the same time.

"Where is the wolf? I don't trust this silence," Sir Robert said.

"Why do you travel with it?" The Doctor ignored Sir Robert's comment.

"My annual pilgrimage. I'm taking it to Hellier and Carew, the Royal Jewelers at Hazelhead. The stone needs re-cutting."

"Oh," Rose looked shocked, "but it's perfect."

"My late husband never thought so."

"Now, there's a fact. Prince Albert kept on having the Koh-I-Noor cut down. It used to be…"

"Forty percent bigger than that," I cut the Doctor off cause him to pout a little bit. 'Too slow, Doc.' "But he was never happy."

"Kept on cutting and cutting," this time the Doctor cut me off. 'Two can play at this game.'

'It's on like Donkey Kong.' I saw the Doctor gave a half smile at this.

"He always said the shine was not quite right, but he died with it still unfinished," Queen Victoria said a little sadly.

"Unfinished. Oh, yes." The Doctor tossed the diamond back to the Queen. "There's a lot of unfinished business in this house. His father's research, your husband, ma'am. He came here and he sought the perfect diamond. Hold on, oh. Hold on. All these separate things." He kept running his hands through his hair.

"They're not separate at all, they're connected. Oh, my head, my head! What if this house… it's a trap fro you. It that right, ma'am," he asked the Queen.

"Obviously," she answered.

"At least, that's what the wolf intended, but what if there's a trap inside a trap?"

"Explain yourself, Doctor," the Queen demanded.

"What if his father and your husband weren't just telling each other stories? They dared to imagine all this was true, and they planned against it."

"Laying the real trap. Not for you, ma'am, but for the wolf," I said.

We all looked up when dust fell in front of the Doctor face and we heard clicking noises and the Doctor said, "that wolf there."

When the glass started to break we moved, "Out, out, out, out!"

The wolf crashed down to the floor as we were tearing down the barricade. We finally made it out the door and as the Doctor pulled them shut, the wolf opened them again.

"We've got to get to the observatory," the Doctor yelled as we ran down the hallway.

Rose and I were bringing up the rear when she stopped and looked at the wolf screaming. I pulled her behind me and waited for the wolf to attack. Thankfully right as it was about to it get splash with some type of water. The wolf quickly turned and left.

"Good shot!" The Doctor said taking my hand and giving it a squeeze. He and I went to the end of the hallway to make sure the wolf was gone for the moment.

"It was mistletoe," I heard Flora say. Then Sir Robert walked you to his wife, "Isobel." He gave her a kiss and said, "Now get back downstairs."

"Keep yourself safe," Lady Isobel said and they kissed once more. "Girls come with me." She and the maid all quietly went back downstairs to the kitchens.

We ran back down to Sir Robert and the Queen, "Come on." The Doctor said looking down the two hallways.

"The observatory's this way," Sir Robert said as the Doctor led the way. I stayed in the back help the Queen and could hear the wolf once more.


We finally made it to the observatory and the Doctor opened the doors saying, "no mistletoe in this room."

"Your father wanted the wolf to get inside," I said.

"I just need time! Is there any way of barricading this?" The Doctor asked.

"Do your work and I'll defend it," Sir Robert said not coming into the room.

I walked over to him and the Doctor with a sad look on my face, but the Doctor choose to ignore Sir Robert and said, "If we could bind them shut with rope or something."

"I said I'd fine your time, Sir." I put my hand on the Doctor's arm to get him to pay attention to Sir Robert. "Now get inside."

"Good man," the Doctor said and Sir Robert shut the doors staying on the outside. "Your Majesty, the diamond.

"For what purpose?" Queen Victoria asked.

"The purpose it was designed for." She handed him the diamond and we ran over to the telescope, "Rose, Harper. Lift it. Come on!" We started to move a giant wheel, which was incredibly heavy.

We were all struggling when Rose said, "It this the right time for stargazing?"

"Yes… it… is…" I said with much difficulty.

We could hear the growls from the wolf and the screams from Sir Robert. Tears started streaming down my face, but I kept moving the wheel.

'Focus on me Harper,' I heard the Doctor tell me. I looked up and he was looking right at me with worry in his eyes. 'I will get you out of this!'

'I know, I trust you.'

We were still working when Rose said, "I thought you said this thing doesn't work."

"It doesn't work as a telescope because that's not what it is," the Doctor explained.

I added, "It's a light chamber. It magnifies the light like a weapon."

"Yeah, now we've just got to power it up," the Doctor finished.

"With what? There's no electricity." The Doctor gave Rose a look and it hit her, "Moonlight. But the wolf needs moonlight. It's made of moonlight."

"You two are 70% water. You can still drown. Come on." We were having a hard time with the wheel; it was getting harder to lift. "Come on," the Doctor said again.

Everything that happened next all happened almost at once. The light chamber became fully charged, the wolf busted the door down, and the Doctor slide the diamond into the light that came out of the light chamber.

A beam of light shot out of the diamond hitting the wolf square in the chest cause the wolf to turn into something that looked almost human. "Make it brighter," it said. "Let me go."

The Doctor did as it asked and soon it was over.

I looked at the Queen and could see her looking at something on her arm. It was obvious the Doctor noticed too because he asked, "You Majesty, did it bite you?"

"No, it's… it's a cut, that's all."

"If that thing bit you…" the Doctor started to say but the Queen cut him off, "it was a splinter of wood when the door came apart. It's nothing."

The Doctor had walked over to her and said, "Let me see."

But the Queen jerked her arm back and said, "it is nothing."


The Doctor's POV

It was morning by the time we had everything sorted out. We first made sure Lady Isobel and the maids were okay. The Queen was the one to tell her of the sacrifice her husband made. Harper started to cry as the Queen talked. I slipped my arm around her waist, she learned into me, and I rested my chin on her head; both of us seeking comfort in each other.

Next we looked to see if any of the monks were left, but thankfully they had all left leaving us with one less thing to worry about.

Rose then felt the need to tell the Queen that Harper was not a Lady and we were in fact not married. I am still not sure why she needed to do that; it was the only story we told that the Queen still believed.

As the morning came, the Queen wanted to reward us for our service. So here we were kneeling in front of the Queen.

"By the power invested in me by the church and the state, I dub thee Sir Doctor of TARDIS. By the power invested in me by the church and the state I dub thee Lady Harper of TARDIS. By the power invested in me by the church and the state, I dub thee Dame Rose of the Powell Estate. You may stand."

Harper, Rose and I all stood grinning widely. "Many thanks, ma'am," I said.

"Thank you Your Majesty," Harper said with a small curtsy.

"Thanks, they're never going to believe this back home," Rose said excitedly.

"Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the great beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life," I told her. "He's protecting you even now, ma'am, from beyond the grave."

"Indeed," she said but looked very unhappy. "Then you may think on this also, that I am not amused."

"Yes!" Rose cheered, while Harper sang in my head, 'I told you so, I told you so.'

"Not remotely amused. And henceforth, I banish you."

Rose and I stopped and look at her in shock while Harper gave a heavy sigh.

"I'm sorry?" I asked her, just making sure I had heard her right.

"I rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you are exiled from the Empire, never to return. I don't know what you are, the three of you, or where you're from, but I know that you consort with stars and magic, and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death," Harper grabbed a hold of my hand as the Queen talked and I held on to her just a tight.

"And I will not allow it. You will leave these shores, and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good and how much longer you may survive this terrible life. Now leave my world, and never return."


We managed to get a ride back to the TARDIS on the back of a cart with hay. "Cheers, Dougal!" I called when we got off the cart.

"Thanks!" Harper yelled and waved receiving a wave back.

"The funny thing is Queen Victoria did actually suffer a mutation of the blood! It's historical record."

"She was haemophiliac. They used to call it the Royal disease," Harper said once again taking my line.

I rolled my eyes at her as she smirked at me, but when she was about to go on I quickly said, "But it's always been a mystery because she didn't inherit it. Her mum didn't have it. Her dad didn't have it. It came from nowhere."

"What, and you're saying that's wolf bite?" Rose asked.

"Well, maybe haemophilia is just a Victorian euphemism."

Harper laughed and asked, "For werewolf?"

"Could be."

"Queen Victoria's a werewolf?" This time Rose asked the question.

"Could be, and her children had the Royal disease. Maybe she gave them a quick nip," I said.

"So the Royal family are werewolves?" Rose asked trying to wrap her mind around it.

"Well, maybe not yet. A single wolf cell could take… a hundred years to mature… might be ready by… oooh…"

"Early 21st century," Harper said cutting me off again. 'You take way to long to say anything.'

"No, that's just ridiculous," Rose said. "Mind you, Princess Anne."

"I'll say no more."

'Finally!' Harper thought, 'oh stop it!' I thought back. She smiled up at me and said, "And if you think about it, they're very private."

"They plan everything in advance," Rose agreed.

"Oh, they could schedule themselves around the moon. We'd never know," Harper and Rose kept going back and forth causing me to laugh at them.

"And they like hunting. They love blood sports.

"They're werewolves!" They cried together. We started to howl and laughing as I took the TARDIS back into space.


Harper's POV

Once back in the TARDIS I went to change out of the dress. It was pretty and fun to dress up for a bit, but it was terribly uncomfortable.

I had just finish get back dressed when there was a knock on my door, "Come in."

I looked over and saw the Doctor walk in shutting the door behind him.

"Rose decided to go to bed, but I wanted to check on you. That had to be one hard hit to knock you out completely."

I had somewhat forgotten about that and reached up to the back of my head, but I felt nothing. "I guess it's all better."

"Here let me look," he moved my hair out of the way but agreed with me, "It is better. I guess having the Vortex in you is not such a bad thing."

He pulled me in for a hug quite suddenly. "I thought I had lost you."

I wrapped my arms around him and pulled back just enough to see his face, "I'm not as fragile as you think Doctor."

He gave me a half smile and said, "True, oh and by the way I think I won."

I gave him a look that said 'as if'. "Not a chance, Doc. If anything I let you win."

"If you think so, my dear, then I will let you believe that."

"You are am impossible man, you know it." I said and then gave an involuntary yawn.

"And you are a brilliant woman. Now I think its time for sleep. Good night, Harper."

"Good night, Doctor." He kissed me on the forehead before pulling away and walking out the door.

I went to sleep that night thinking of three things. One it was more fun than it should have been to be the Doctor's wife, two I flirted with the Doctor and he flirted back, and lastly I did not want him to only kiss me on the forehead.


The Doctor's POV

As I walked away from Harper's room my mind was trying to process the days events. But three things were foremost in my mind. One, acting like I was married to Harper was fun and I wanted to do it more often. Two, I liked flirting with Harper and having her flirt back. Third, I really want to kiss her and not just on the forehead.


Aren't Harper and the Doctor just the cutiest! What did you think? Thank you for reading and please leave reviews. Have a Happy New Year my dear Whovians!