The Vampires of Venice (Part 2)
The Doctor and Rory were sitting in a gondola as Guido, dressed in Rory's clothes, guided it along.
"She'll be fine," the Doctor told Rory, who was looking tense.
"You can promise me that, can you?" Rory snapped, too worried about Amy and 'Fang-boy,' as he'd called the man in his mind, to be civil.
"Yeah," the Doctor nodded, "'Cos Evy's in there with her and she'll keep her safe..." he laughed, "She's kept me plenty safe, and that is no easy feat."
~8~
Amy and Evy snuck along the corridors and down the stairs of the school, dressed in white gowns. Amy was holding a lamp while Evy had her sonic out and ready. They were trying to keep their eye out for the room Isabella mentioned as they made their way down to let the Doctor and Rory in.
There was a moan and a cry of pain and Amy rushed off after it, leaving Evy little choice but to follow…but they couldn't find anyone.
"Amy," Evy whispered, "We need to let them in," she took Amy's arm and tugged her back to the stairs.
~8~
"We're here," Guido whispered to the boys, pushing the gondola to the side of the canal.
The Doctor stepped out and pulled a torch off the wall before opening the gate with a creak and heading off, Rory rushing after him.
"Right," the Doctor glanced back at Rory a moment, continuing to walk, "Ok, I'll go first. If anything happens to me, go back..."
"What happened?" Rory asked suddenly, "Between you and Amy? You said she tried to kiss you…"
The Doctor turned to look at him, stopping before a wooden door, "NOW? You want to do this NOW?" he turned and moved up a small set of steps to the door.
"I have a right to know," Rory shrugged, following the Doctor through the door, "I'm getting married in 430 years."
~8~
Amy and Evy entered the courtyard, Amy going right for the grate, working on pushing the lock out as Evy looked around the perimeter to make sure there wasn't anyone about to attack. She flashed her sonic, just to be safe, when it beeped as it passed over a chest. She frowned and moved over to it, kneeling down, the light from her sonic revealing a skeletal hand. There was a muffled shriek and the sound of the lamp falling.
Evy dropped her sonic, making sure it rolled to the chest before turning around to see Francesco holding Amy as Carlo grabbed her arm and pulled them out of the courtyard.
~8~
The Doctor and Rory were walking down a narrow passage, the only light coming from the flames of the torch.
"She was frightened," the Doctor was trying to explain why Amy had tried to kiss him, "Evy was frightened so I was frightened, but we survived, and the relief of it..." he trailed, "And so she tried to kissed me."
"And you kissed her back?" Rory asked.
"No!" the Doctor turned, pointing a finger at Rory, suddenly very serious, "I love Evy and only Evy. I would NEVER betray her like that. Amy kissed me and I pushed her away."
"Really?" Rory frowned, hopeful that that was how it happened. By the Doctor's reaction, it was.
"Rory..." he sighed, "Rory, she tried to kiss me because I was there. It would have been you," he tapped him on the chest, "It SHOULD have been you."
"Yeah," he nodded.
"Exactly," the Doctor smiled, "That's why we brought you here," there was a strong gust of wind as the torch blew out, "Can we go and see the vampires now, please?"
~8~
Amy gasped as Francesco forced her down a set of stairs, Evy calmly being led by Carlo into an underground chamber bathed in green light.
"Control yourself child!" Carlo snapped back at Amy.
"Get your hands off me!" Amy shouted as she saw the Signora and a few other girls waiting for them.
"Psychic paper," the Signora sneered at them, "Did you really think that would work on me?" Carlo and Francesco forced Evy and Amy to the center of the room where the Signora circled them, "Where are you from? Did you fall through the chasm?"
Evy's eyes narrowed at that bit of information.
"Mother this is pointless," Francesco said, "Let's just start the process."
"Hold your tongue, Francesco!" the Signora ordered, "I need to know what these girls are doing in a world of savages with psychic paper," two girls brought forward the wooden chair with straps on it, "Who are you with? I scarcely believe your idiot brother and cousin sent you," another girl set a hook onto an eye socket above the chair, "What are you doing in MY school?" and another girl brought in an IV bag, placing it on the hook.
"Ok, I'll tell you," Amy began, "I'm from Ofsted."
The Signora laughed, "Put her in the chair. Tie up the other one!"
Francesco pushed Amy down into the chair as the girls fastened the straps over her wrists. Evy struggled as Carlo pulled her back and handcuffed her to the wall with shackles.
"No!" Amy struggled, "Get your hands off me!"
"Oh, make sport of me, will you?" the Signora glared, "Tease me as if I were your dog? Well, this dog has a bite, girl," Francesco held Amy's hair to the side as the Signora showed her fangs.
Amy screamed as the Signora leaned in to bite her…only to be thrown back into the wall behind her as soon as her teeth broke the skin.
~8~
The Doctor was looking around the courtyard with a rather large ultraviolet light for any sign of Amy or Evy as soon as he and Rory were out of the well entrance. He'd called out to Evy in his mind but she had only told him to find her sonic. And, knowing she wouldn't have him waste his time on something like that if it weren't important, he got to work.
Rory was walking along with him, just talking about what would happen if Amy didn't come back for the wedding, "If we cancel now, we lose the deposit on the village hall, the salsa band…"
"Found it!" the Doctor exclaimed, picking up Evy's sonic as it rested in front of an old wooden chest. He pushed the lid open to reveal skeletal remains.
"What happened to them?"
"They've had all the moisture taken out of them."
~8~
"Mother!" Francesco shouted, rushing to his mother's side. He helped her to her feet as the Signora glared at the dazed Amy sitting on the chair.
She strode forward, "How did you do that?"
"She didn't," Evy replied.
They looked up and over at her, the Signora's eyes widening at the sight of blood dripping down from Evy's nose before glaring at her, "Her first."
The girls got to work, unstrapping Amy and moving her to the side of the room where they laid her down, the small bit of toxin from the bite leaving her in something of a stupor as Carlo went and got Evy into the chair.
~8~
"That's what vampires do, right?" Rory asked as they stared at the bodies, "They drink your blood and replace it with their own."
"Yeah, except they haven't just had their blood taken, but all the water in their bodies," the Doctor sighed.
"Why did they die? Why aren't they like the girls in the school?"
"Maybe not everyone survives the process…"
Rory stormed off, not at all pleased with that bit of information. He spun around and pointed at the Doctor, "You know what's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks. It's that you make them want to impress you. You make it so they don't want to let you down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around."
"Oh don't I?" he stood and walked over to him, "Amy's not the first person to travel with me Rory, she's not the first who's ever…" he trailed, taking a breath, "I know exactly how dangerous it is. I've nearly lost Evy a few times because she wanted to protect me like all my companions do. And I try, I really do, I try my hardest to protect her, to protect all my companions as well. I know..."
"Who are you?" a number of girls appeared from the archways, all speaking in unison.
The Doctor grabbed the ultraviolet light from his pocket and held it up, "We should run. Run!" he pushed Rory away from the courtyard, the girls chasing after them.
~8~
"This is how it works," the Signora sneered at Evy, not at all pleased with having been thrown into the wall, but excited enough by the prospect of having such a unique power in her possession, "First, we drink you until you're dry. Then...we fill you with our blood. It rages through you like a fire, changing you, until one morning you awake and your humanity is a dream...now faded."
"Or you die," Francesco added with a dark chuckle, "That can happen."
"And if we survive?" Evy asked.
"Then there are 10,000 husbands waiting for you in the water," the Signora told her.
Evy nodded, "Well, then there are two important things you should know."
"And what's that?"
"I'm taken," Evy smiled as the Signora started to laugh, "And your right hip is bigger than your left," and with that, she reached out and kicked the Signora as hard as she could in the woman's right hip.
The Signora stumbled back, stunned, as an electric hum filled the room. She flipped back part of her clothing to reveal a device clipped to her dress. Her image flickered to show an insectoid creature with a fish head.
Evy's eyes widened, "Sister of the Water!"
The Signora's human appearance flickered back as she looked at Evy with shock before a set of footsteps sounded above therm. They turned and ran out of the room leaving Evy and a recovered Amy alone.
"Amy!" Evy shouted.
Amy pushed herself up and ran over to the chair, working on Evy's right strap as Isabella appeared and moved to work on the left one. They ran out of the room as soon as Evy was free, Isabella leading them, only to run into the corridor where the Doctor and Rory were facing the Signora and a number of girls.
"Rory!" Amy shouted.
"Amy!" he called, relieved.
The Doctor looked over at Evy, staring in her eyes as she replayed the events that had just transpired to him.
"Quickly, through here!" Isabella called, turning to lead them out, the Doctor, Evy, Amy, and Rory running after her, followed by the girls.
"Seal the house!" they heard the Signora call from behind them.
"They're not vampires!" Amy shouted as they ran. Evy took her sonic back from the Doctor and soniced the door ahead of them.
"They're not?" Rory called.
"We saw them, we saw her. They're not vampires. They're aliens!"
"Sister of the Water," the Doctor nodded, "Yeah."
"Come on, move!" Evy shouted as they ran through the door.
Francesco caught up to them with a lit torch, the Doctor spun and flashed his ultraviolet light causing him to lean away.
"Keep moving!" he called up to them, "Come on, guys."
Isabella pushed open a door, ushering everyone forward and down a set of canal steps into the daylight where Guido was waiting with his gondola.
"Quickly," she rushed them, "Get out. Quick!" she turned to follow, only to be stopped by the sunlight. She put her hands up to block her eyes, in pain.
"Isabella!" Evy shouted, looking back.
"Come on, run!" the Doctor shouted, running back to help her.
"I can't!" she called as hands reached out and dragged her back inside.
"No!" the Doctor yelled, running to the door. He tried to push it open but it shut anyway. He pounded on it, only to be electrified.
"Doctor!" Evy tensed in shared pain before rushing up the stairs as he staggered back. She caught him as he slumped to the ground, holding him to her as she breathed a sigh of relief, the Link assuring her he was alive.
Rory and Amy ran up to check on him as well.
"Is he dead?" Amy swallowed hard.
"No, he's breathing," Rory said.
"He'll be fine," Evy nodded, glancing down at Guido who looked to the ground, knowing he'd never see his daughter again.
~8~
The Signora walked into the main room of the school to see the Doctor sitting on her throne.
"Long way from Saturnyne, aren't you...Sister of the Water?" he asked.
"No, let me guess," she smirked at him, "The owner of the psychic paper. Then I take it you're a refugee, like me?"
"I'll make you a deal. An answer for an answer. You're using a Perception Filter. It doesn't change your features, but manipulates the brainwaves of the person looking at you. But seeing one of you for the first time in, say, a mirror, the brain doesn't know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank...hence no reflection."
"Your question?"
"Why can we see your big teeth?" he smiled.
She laughed, "Self-preservation overrides the mirage. The subconscious perceives the threat and tries to alert the conscious brain."
"I told you so," another voice called.
The Signora's eyes widened in shock as the blonde girl who had thrown her into the wall stepped into the room from behind a curtain.
"Yes you did," the Doctor nodded, smiling as Evy walked over to the throne and stood beside it. She moved to put her hand on his shoulder but he snatched it and tugged her down onto his lap, winding his arms around her.
Evy laughed at the sudden move for only a moment before turning to the Signora, "Where's Isabella?"
She smirked, shaking her head, "My turn. Where are you from?" clearly the girl had to be an alien as well, to be able to use the power she'd seen before.
"Gallifrey," the Doctor answered.
"You should be in a museum. Or in a mausoleum."
"Why are you here?" Evy asked.
"We ran from the Silence. Why are you here?"
"Wedding present," the Doctor replied quickly, his interest peaked, "The Silence?"
"There were cracks. Some were tiny...some were as big as the sky. Through some we saw worlds and people and through others we saw silence...and the end of all things. We fled to an ocean like ours and the crack snapped shut behind us...and Saturnyne was lost."
"So Earth is to become Saturnyne Mark II?" he raised an eyebrow.
"And you can help me," she smiled at the two of them, "We can build a new society here, as others have. What do you say?"
"Hmm," he stood, Evy standing as a result, but he stepped away and turned her to sit on the throne in his place. He faced the Signora again, whispering, "Where's Isabella?"
"Isabella?" the Signora frowned.
'She doesn't even know her name?' Evy shook her head in disbelief and disgust, 'She didn't even care enough to know her name?'
"The girl who saved my Link," the Doctor told her, glaring just a bit.
"Oh, deserters must be executed," she waved off the question, "Any general will tell you that. I need an answer, Doctor. A partnership. Any which way you choose."
"I don't think that's such a good idea, do you?" he stepped back, "I'm a Time Lord. You're a big fish. Think of the children."
"And besides," Evy added, standing and joining him, "He's taken."
The Signora glared at them before shouting, "Carlo!" he ran into the room as she turned back to them, "You're right. We're nothing alike. I will bend the heavens to save my race, while YOU philosophize."
"This ends today Signora."
"We'll tear down the House of Calvierri, stone by stone," the Doctor threatened.
Carlo reached out to grab Evy's arm but she pulled away, speaking words she'd once said to a rather arrogant boy in 1913, "You lay a hand on me again and you will find yourself missing an arm."
Carlo quickly pulled away.
The Doctor and Evy moved down the steps and walked across the room, stopping by the door to look back at the Signora, "And you know why?" the Doctor asked her, glaring fully, "You didn't know Isabella's name."
He turned, opening the door and slamming it shut behind them.
~8~
Back in Guido's house the Doctor examined the bite marks on Amy's neck, flashing the sonic over it, healing them, "You're fine. Open wide," he slipped a candy in her mouth and turned to pace around the room, "I need to think. Come on brain, think, think. Think!" he sat down at the end of the table, Amy on one side, Rory and Guido on the other, and Evy across from him, though she was sitting cross-legged on the table, "Think!"
"If they're fish people, it explains why they hate the sun," Amy tried to talk around the candy.
The Doctor reached out and put his hand over her mouth, "Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush."
"It's the school thing I don't understand," Rory began.
But the Doctor put his other hand over Rory's mouth as well, "Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush."
"I say we take the fight to them," Guido stated.
"Ah ah ah!" the Doctor looked over at him.
"What?"
"Ah!" the Doctor motioned for Rory to move.
Rory placed his hand over Guildo's mouth.
"Her planet dies, so they flee through a crack in space and time, and end up here, then she closes off the city and, one by one, changes people into creatures like her to start a new gene pool," he muttered to himself quickly, "Got it. Then what? They come from the sea, they can't survive forever on land, so what's she going to do?"
"Turn the land into sea?" Evy suggested.
Rory pulled the Doctor's hand off his mouth, "Why don't you tell her to hush?"
The Doctor put his hand back on Rory's mouth, "Two very good reasons. One, she's my Link. And two, I value my life."
"She'd have to alter the environment in order to turn the land to sea though..." Evy continued.
The Doctor nodded, "She said, 'I shall bend the heavens to save my race,'" he moved his hands from Amy and Rory's mouths to their heads, making them nod, "Bend the heavens...bend...the heavens..."
He looked up at Evy suddenly as they realized what the Signora was going to do and how, "She's going to sink Venice," she breathed.
"She's...she's going to sink Venice?" Guido repeated, skeptically.
"So she can repopulate it with the converted girls."
"You can't repopulate somewhere with just women," Rory argued, "You need...blokes."
"She's got blokes," Amy said suddenly.
"Where?" the Doctor looked at her.
"In the canal," Amy looked over at Evy, remembering what the Signora had said as the toxins wore off, "She said, 'There are 10,000 husbands waiting in the water.'"
"Right!" Evy shouted.
"Only the male offspring survived the journey here," the Doctor shook his head in thought, "She's got 10,000 children swimming in the canals, waiting for mum to make them some compatible girlfriends. Ew. I mean, I've been around a bit, but, really, that's...that's...ew…" there was a sudden clattering of noise on the floor above them and they all looked up, "The people upstairs are very noisy."
"There aren't any people upstairs," Guido said as Evy mouthed it along with him.
"I knew you were going to say that," he groaned, "Evy too…did anyone else know he was going to say that?" the wood creaked as if someone were walking across the floor.
"Is it the vampires?" Rory asked.
"Like we said, they're not vampires. Fish from space."
There was a loud thump and glass broke as the converted girls appeared in the windows and from the stairs. They all jumped to their feet the Doctor pulling out his ultraviolet light.
"Aren't we on the second floor?" Rory shouted.
The girls at the window broke through more of the glass as the Doctor flashed his light to keep them back. Evy pulled out her sonic, flashing them, revealing the insectoid-fish headed aliens like the Signora.
"What's happened to them?" Guido gasped.
"They're gone," Evy relied sadly, "Fully converted."
"Blimey, fish from space have never been so..." the Doctor trailed.
"You want to finish that statement?" Evy cut in, switching off the screwdriver, giving him a look as she saw where his thoughts were heading.
"Ok!" he shouted, cutting himself off, "Move. Come on."
They ran down stairs, Amy and Rory first, followed by Evy and the Doctor, and then Guido.
"Give me the lamp!" Guido shouted as the Doctor handed it over so he could keep the girls back.
They flew out the front door, "Go, go, go, guys!" the Doctor shouted from behind Amy and Rory.
"Keep moving, go, go, go!" Evy shouted as well.
"Stay away from the door!" Guido yelled at them before stepping back into the house, slamming the door shut, locking them out.
"No!" the Doctor ran back to the door, "Guido!"
"What're you doing?" Evy demanded as they began to pound on the door.
"We're not leaving you! What are you doing?"
Evy tried her sonic, but it didn't work, the wood around the lock was warped.
"Guido!" he shouted.
"Doctor!" Evy grabbed his arm, her sonic picking up something else, and pulled him away. They ran from the house just as it exploded, sending them to the ground. The Doctor jumped to his feet, helping Evy up as Amy and Rory ran back over. They could hear people shouting in the streets, "The final phase has been activated!" she shouted, looking up at the sky filling with storm clouds and lightning.
"We need to stop her!" Amy called, "Come on!"
"No, no," the Doctor yelled, stopping her, "Get back to the TARDIS."
"You can't stop her on your own."
"He's not alone," Evy stepped up, "I'm going."
"Then so am I."
"We don't discuss this!" the Doctor snapped, "I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it. Huh?"
"Why does she get to go and I have to stay?" Amy demanded angrily.
"Because I will never leave him," Evy told her.
"She is my Link," the Doctor added, "And if there's one person in the world I trust to have my back and help me do something it's her. Now go back to the TARDIS!"
Amy glared at him, hurt evident in her eyes, before she turned and stormed off.
"Thank you," Rory told him, running off after Amy.
"You're welcome," the Doctor smiled, taking Evy's hand.
There was more screaming and they took off, running all the way back to the school. There weren't any guards to stop them this time and they strode straight into the throne room. Evy ran over to the chair, pulling open the padding to reveal an alien circuitry behind it. She pulled out her sonic to scan it.
"You're too late," the Signora called, they looked over to see her standing behind them, "Such determination...just to save one city. Hard to believe it's the same man that let an entire race turn to cinders and ash. Now you can watch as my people take their new kingdom."
"The girls have gone," the Doctor told her.
"You're lying."
"Shouldn't we be dead?"
The Signora seemed to realize that and turned to walk off.
"Please, Signora, help us," Evy called after her, "200,000 people are going to die..."
"Then save them," she called over her shoulder before walking out of the room.
The Doctor looked over at Evy who shook her head. They had to find out what the chair was controlling before safely shutting it down. They ran out of the room to a balcony, looking down at the city below and up at the clouds. A bell tolled above them as they turned and ran back into the throne room, just as Amy and Rory entered from a side door.
"Get out!" the Doctor shouted as Evy ran to the throne, "We need to stabilize the storm."
"We're not leaving you," Rory stepped up.
"Right," he nodded his head, sarcastic, "So one minute it's, 'You make people a danger to themselves,' the next it's, 'We're not leaving you!' But if one of you gets squashed or blown up or eaten, who gets..."
The ground shook violently as they fell to the floor.
"What was that?" Rory asked.
"Oh just a slight earthquake," Evy replied from flashing the chair with her sonic as the Doctor picked himself up.
"An earthquake?" Amy frowned.
"If you manipulate the elements enough it can trigger earthquakes."
"But don't worry about them," the Doctor waved them off.
"No?" Rory frowned.
"No. Worry about the tidal waves caused by the earthquake."
"This is the control hub," Evy said, standing up, gesturing to the throne, "But the program's locked."
The Doctor nodded and turned to Roy and Amy, "We need you to tear out every single wire and circuit in the throne. Go crazy. Hit it with a stick, anything," he nodded and began heading for the door when Evy ran up to him, "No, you need to stay here."
"Are we tallying up life threatening situations again?" she raised an eyebrow.
"No it's just…we need it to shut down and reroute control to the secondary hub, the generator. They won't know how to do that, you can."
She sighed, "You owe me a dangerous situation."
"Next one," he kissed her quickly, "Promise!"
He turned and ran out as Evy turned back to see Rory and Amy tearing apart the chair and having a grand old time at it.
~8~
As soon as the humans had finished the chair, Evy managed to rewire and reprogram it, rerouting the control to the secondary hub. They ran out into the courtyard and looked up to see the Doctor climbing on top of the bell tower.
"There he is!" Rory shouted.
"Come on," Evy muttered, her eyes trained on him.
~8~
The Doctor pulled open the sphere at the top of the tower, seeing a device spinning within it. He frowned, looking around, examining the device, but couldn't make heads or tails of it. He looked down to see Evy in the crowd and nearly slapped himself.
'Evy, look at this,' he called, focusing on the device.
~8~
Evy shut her eyes, seeing what he was seeing, 'The top gear,' she said, 'A toggle switch…right…now!'
~8~
He reached out and flipped the toggle off just as it came around to him, the storm immediately dissipating, a clear blue sky shining through the clouds.
~8~
Amy and Rory laughed, hugging each other as the crowd cheered.
~8~
The Doctor shut the sphere and waved down before he carefully…or Evy would kill him…made his way back down.
~8~
Evy and the Doctor found the Signora standing by a plank before the bubbling water of the canal, still looking like a human. Evy's kick to the Filter must have damaged it badly.
"Signora!" Evy shouted as they ran forward.
"One city to save an entire species," she muttered, "Was that so much to ask?"
The Doctor took Evy's hand as they slowly approached her, "We told you," he began gently, "You can't go back and change time. You mourn but you live. We know, Rosanna, we did it."
She turned her head, looking at them over her shoulder, "Tell me...can your consciences carry the weight of another dead race? Remember us. Dream of us," and she let herself fall into the water.
"No!" Evy shouted as she and the Doctor ran over to the edge of the water, but she was gone.
~8~
In the marketplace, the citizens were cleaning up after the storm as the group headed back to the TARDIS.
"Now, then, what about you two, eh?" the Doctor looked back at Amy and Rory, grinning, "Next stop Leadworth Register Office? Maybe I can give you away."
"It's fine," Rory said, not sounding as though it were fine at all, "Drop me back where you found me. I'll just say you've..."
"Stay…with us," Amy cut in, "Please. Just for a bit. I want you to stay."
"Me too," Evy smiled and nodded.
"Fine with me," the Doctor agreed, his arm around Evy.
"Yeah?" Rory looked around, seeing them nod, "Yes, I would like that."
"Nice one," Amy kissed him, "I will pop the kettle on…" she unlocked the TARDIS, "Hey, look at this. Got my spaceship, got my boys and my girl. My work here is done," she walked inside, closing the door behind her.
"We are not her boys," Rory scoffed.
"Well, I'm not," the Doctor gave him a meaningful glance.
Rory sighed, "I am…"
Evy laughed, opening the door for Rory, her smile fading as she realized something. She looked up at the Doctor who had noticed it as well.
"Listen to that," he muttered as they looked around.
"Silence," Evy frowned.
"Let's go," he said, holding the door open for Evy. They stepped into the TARDIS and took off.
~8~
Evy was sitting in the Doctor's harness under the console, working on it from below. He'd really done a number trying to 'fix' it earlier…especially since it didn't need fixing. Sometimes she thought that he just broke things simply to have her fix them…he did seem rather fond of watching her work.
She squinted, concentrating on soldering two wires together that had been blown apart by the blowtorch he'd been using, when she felt two arms encircle her waist from behind.
"You're not the only one who has a few tricks," the Doctor whispered in her ear before dropping a kiss onto her neck.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," she told him, trying to stay focused.
"Oh I think you do Miss I-Know-How-To-Distract-You," he smiled into her neck, "Two can play at that game…"
And then he proceeded to tickle her sides till she half fell out of the harness and collapsed on the ground in a wave of laughter. He continued tickling her till tears appeared in her eyes and he suddenly stopped, leaning over her, holding her arms down by her head.
He smiled at her softly, leaning down and kissing her deeply…distracting her quite effectively from the rest of her work.
A/N: Oh Doctor, you are very distracting aren't you? This will definitely come up again (cough, cough/wink, wink/nudge, nudge). I know there wasn't much resolution about the whole Amy-Doctor-kiss thing, at least for Amy, in this chapter. The Doctor and Evy don't particularly care, they were uncomfortable with it, but are over it as it truly meant nothing to the Doctor. Rory wasn't really there for it, but he's got the Doctor's promise of how little it meant to him for him to know nothing would have come of it anyway, not that he's happy Amy did it in the first place. But Amy...she's still got these lingering thoughts doesn't she? Oh well, that'll all change in the next two chapters :)
To answer a review, yes Evy will be with the Doctor in The Lodger :) I have quite a lot planned for that episode.
Next chapter...the Dream Lord seems to think Amy has it out for Evy. What will he do about it? Does Evy know who the Dream Lord is?