It was a cool evening in Paris. Reinette's butler, Freud, had just put on a fire in the fireplace of her room to keep her warm. She was just about to turn in when she heard murmuring coming from the fire. She scooted closer to hear better when she saw a face appear behind the flames. It was no human face though. It had a long beak like mouth and was scaly and yellow. She could see a little bit of a tan and yellow body behind it. It looked like a dragon from the fairytales her mother told her. Her eyes grew wide.

The dragon smiled and said, "hello." She yelped at this and backed away. "Oh no, no! Sorry! Please don't scream, I didn't mean to frighten you!" the dragon said frowning a bit.

"But...you're a dragon...aren't you going to try and eat me?" she asked fearful.

The dragon's eyebrows rose. "What? No! Don't be silly! I don't like to eat people, they don't taste good. And I don't steal princesses either. I'm not that kind of reptile!" he said the last bit with a smile. Renette giggled a bit. "So might I know your name?" he asked.

"Reinette." she responded.

"Reinette! That's a lovely name!" he said, "Renette, can you tell me where we are, and what year it is?"

"Of course! We're in Paris. It's the year of our Lord 1727." she said.

"Ah yes, Paris 1727, thank you. Lovely year by the way, August is rubbish though. Stay indoors then." he said.

"I don't mean to be rude, but what are you doing in my fireplace?" she asked. Why was there a dragon in her fireplace?

The dragon's smile faded. "Ah, yes...well," he said. "I'm a bit cold right now and decided to stop at warm fireplace for a rest. Bit cold for me though, I'll let you enjoy it instead. Have a nice night! Oh and don't tell anyone I was here, ok? I don't want people to start worrying about dragons in their fireplaces. Good night!"

"Ok, Good night." Reinette responded. The dragon's face disappeared from the fire, and she went to bed dreaming of that strange dragon in her fireplace.

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The Doctor got up from his position in front of the fireplace. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to go on this mission in his natural form. Thank goodness it was a child on the the other side and not an adult. That situation would have gotten confusing fast. Also thank goodness she was from a time period where they still believed in mythical creatures or he would have been in another tight spot.

"You said this was the 51st century." Mickey said.

"I also said this ship was generating enough power to punch a hole in the Universe. I think we just found the hole. Must be a spaceship with a temporal hyperlink." the doctor replied.

"What's that?" Mickey asked.

"No idea. Just made it up. Didn't want to say magic door." he replied again.

"So on the other side of that "magic door" is 18th century France?" Rose asked.

"Yep, she was even speaking the correct slang too." he confirmed.

"She was speaking English, I heard her." Mickey said confuse.

"That's the TARDIS. It gets in your head and translates languages for you." Rose explained.

"Even French?" Mickey asked.

The Doctor wasn't paying attention. He was looking for a switch on the fireplace. Why have a magic door if you can't pass through? And more importantly, why have a magic door at all if you don't want what's on the other side? "Gotcha!" he said finding it. He lifted it as the wall began to rotate. He had to squeeze a bit close to the fireplace to get through, but he managed.

The room was dark, obviously. He had been speaking to the girl at night. He peered out the the window to see it was snowing. He heard a small yelp and turned to see the girl was awake in her bed. "No, no! It's ok, see? It's just me. It's just the dragon from your fireplace remember?" he said lighting a candle with his sonic. She couldn't see the small device until it was out of sight though. "We were just talking." he said.

"Monsieur, that was weeks ago. That was months. " Renette said.

The Doctor frowned and walked over to the fireplace. "Hmmm." he said tapping it, "Loose connection. You need to get a man in."

"What are you doing here?" she asked, "Who are you?"

He was about to answer when he noticed something. The clock was broken. "Ok that's scary." he said.

Reinette was baffled by this. "You're scared of a broken clock?" she said smiling at the thought. A dragon that's afraid of a clock!

"Yeah, just a bit." he said not looking away from the clock, "Because if this one is broken, and it's the only one in the room, then what's that?" Reinettes smile faded as she realized she could still hear ticking. "Because, you see, that's not a clock. You can tell by the resonance. Too big. Six feet, I'd say. The size of a man." he said walking towards the middle of the room.

"What is it?" Reinette asked, frightened.

"Now, let's think. If you were a thing that ticked 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 said looking around the room before walking over towards the girl's bed,"You might start to wonder if you're really alone." He could hear the sound coming from directly below the bed. "Stay on the bed. Right in the middle. Don't put your hands or feet over the edge." he said before lowering himself until he was level with the floor and could see under the bed.

When he peered under, something grabbed his snout. He let out a muffled noise of surprise and pulled his head back, pulling the robot from under the bed as well. He tore the hand off his muzzle while the robot floundered, trying to get up. Reinette giggled as the robot jerked, but soon it managed to get back up again. It tried to move closer towards the girl but the Doctor gave a growl and it backed off slightly.

"Hold on a sec." the Doctor said placing his hands on either side of the girls head and looking her in the eyes. "You've been scanning her brain!" he said incredolusly, "What, you've crossed two galaxies and thousands of years just to scan a child's brain? What could there be in a little girl's mind worth blowing a hole in the universe?"

"I don't understand. It wants me? You want me?" she said fearfully.

The robot's face turned towards her. "Not yet. You are incomplete." it said.

"Incomplete? What's that mean, incomplete? You can answer her, you can answer me. What do you mean, incomplete?" the Doctor said angrily stepping forward. The robot's hand then interchanged itself with a knife like appendage. It lunged for him, but he dodged. He backed away towards the fireplace and the robot followed.

"Monsieur Dragon, be careful!" Reinette said worriedly.

"No worries. It's justt a nightmare, Reinette. Everyone has nightmares. Even monsters." he said as he backed up against the fireplace. The robot slashed at him again, getting itself stuck I the mantel.

"What do monsters have nightmares of?" Reinette aske.

The Doctor smiled as he found the switch. "Me! Ha!" he said triumphantly as he pulled it making the wall revolve back to the space ship.

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The older Reinette gave him a tight hug before running down to meet her mother. The doctor was still in shock. Only moments ago she was a little girl and now she was all grown up!

"Mademoiselle Poisson!" a servant said wandering into the room. He had an irritated look on his face but it melted into a look of fear when he saw the Doctor.

The Doctor gulped. "Um...hi?" he said. The servant screamed before fainting on the floor. The Doctor quickly scrambled for the switch on the fireplace, trying to get out before anyone else saw him.

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The Doctor could hear the screams through the time window. If he didn't do something right now, Madame de Pompadour would meet an untimely demise. The window was locked, the TARDIS couldn't leave the timeline, which left one option. The Doctor ran at the window and crashed through it into the ballroom, falling gracelessly to the marble floor(he really had to make some time to teach himself how to fly properly). He got up carefully and looked around him. Everyone was staring at him with a mix of shock and fear on their faces.

"D-DRAGON!" The king shouted in fear and the whole room erupted into screams.

The Doctor rolled his eye. This was starting to get annoying. It was fine when little Reinette called him a dragon, but this was getting a bit to much. "Oi!" he said, "Do know how offensive that is? I'm not some medieval monster! I am a Pterodactyl, thank you very much!" The response to that was even more screaming. The Doctor rolled his eyes again and sighed. Human could be very easily frightened. He ended up saving them anyways. The Doctor can't tell why he puts up with them sometimes but he keeps doing so anyways.

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To be continued...

Hey! Sorry this took awhile. I Hope you guys liked it. also sorry, if this one was a bit boring. yes, I did change the story so the the kissing scene is gone. Sorry, but as he is a dinosaur and she has not seen him in humanoid form, I figured it would be a bit creepy. Anyways, please tell me what you think!