The Doctor, Rose, Mickey and I stepped out of The TARDIS and into a disuesed room full of junk, a spaceship, with a window staring out at the stars.

"It's a spaceship! Brilliant, I got a spaceship on my first go!" Mickey grinned.

"Looks kind of abandoned... Anyone on board?" Rose asked.

"Nah, nothing here. Well! Nothing dangerous. Well! Not that dangerous. You know what, I'll just have a quick scan... in case there's anything dangerous." He said, walking over to a control panel and tapping some buttons

"So, what's the date? How far we gone?" I asked.

"About three thousand years into your future, give or take." He said before pulling a switch, the lighting turning on and the roof opening to show a spectacular view of the stars. "Fifty-first century. Diagmar Cluster, you're a long way from home, Mickey! Two and a half galaxies!"

"Mickey Smith, meet the universe. See anything you like?" Rose asked as they looked out the window.

"That's beautiful." I whispered as The Doctor slipped his hand inside mine.

"It's so realistic!" He exclaimed.

"Dear me, had some cowboys in here! Got a ton of repair work going on." The Doctor muttered, looking over at a screen with a diagram of the ship on it. "Now that's odd, look at that. All the warp engines are going... full capacity! There's enough power running through this ship to punch a hole in the universe... and we're not moving. So where's all that power going?"

"Where'd all the crew go?" I asked as The Doctor leant forward, tweaking one of the controls.

"Good question, no life readings on board."

"Well, we're in deep space; they didn't just nip out for a quick fag." Rose said sarcastically.

"Nope, checked all the smoking pods." The Doctor looked round and sniffed. "Can you smell that?"

"Yeah, someone's cooking." I muttered.

"Sunday roast, definitely!" Mickey said before The Doctor pressed another button, opening up a door to reveal a wall with a lit fireplace in, the other side looking like centuries ago.

"Well, there's something you don't see in your average spaceship. Eighteenth century! French! Nice mantel." The Doctor said, walking over and leaning down, pointing the sonic at the mantel piece. "Not a hologram. Not even a reproduction, this actually is an eighteenth century French fireplace. Double-sided, there's another room through there."

"There can't be, that's the outer hull of the ship, look." Rose said, looking out of the window and into space.

"Hello!" The Doctor said. I looked back round and crouched down next to him to me met by a little girl with long blonde hair in a nighty.

"Hello..."

"What's your name?"

"Reinette.

"Reinette, that's a lovely name." I said to her, smiling. "Can you tell me where you are at the moment, Reinette?"

"In my bedroom."

"And where's your bedroom? Where do you live, Reinette?" The Doctor asked.

"Paris, of course!"

"Paris, right!" I said, digging him in the ribs.

"Monsieur, Mademoiselle what are you doing in my fireplace?"

"Oh, it's just a routine... fire check." I said, waving my hand.

"Can you tell me what year it is?" The Doctor asked.

"Of course I can! Seventeen hundred and twenty seven."

"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, Mademoiselle." Me and The Doctor stood up, smiling.

"You said this was the fifty-first century." Mickey said in confusion.

"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 spatio-temporal hyperlink."

"What's that?"

"No idea. Just made it up. Didn't wanna say 'magic door'."

"And on the other side of the 'magic door' is France in 1727?" I asked.

"Well, she was speaking French. Right period French, too." The Doctor said as he took of his coat, throwing it into the corner of the room.

"She was speaking English, I heard her!"

"That's the TARDIS - translates for ya." Rose explained.

"Even French?"

"Yep."

"Gotcha!" The Doctor shouted, holding onto the fireplace as the wall turned and he dissapeared.

"Doctor!" Rose shouted. Moments later, he reappeared again with a drone wearing a mask. He turned round, grabbing a fire extinguisher and freezing the man.

"Excellent, ice gun!" Mickey said as he chucked it to Rose.

"Fire extinguisher." He corrected.

"Where did that thing come from?" I asked, nodding at the drone.

"Here."

"So why is it dressed like that?" Mickey asked, looking at it's clothing.

"Field trip to France, some kind of basic camouflage protocol - nice needlework! Shame about the face." He pulled of the mask to reveal a glass dome on top of the neck with gold mechanical cogs whirring round.

"Oh, you are beautiful!" I whispered.

"Lot of things you think are beautiful lately eh? New Earth, the Werewolf, K9." The Doctor grinned, nudging me in the side.

"Shutup." I muttered as he turned his attention back to the drone.

"No really, you are, you're gorgeous! Look at that! Space age clockwork, I love it! I've got chills! Listen, seriously, I mean this from the heart - and, by the way, count those -" He crossed over both sides of his chest. "It would be a crime, it would be an act of vandalism to disassemble you." He held up his sonic at the drone. "But that won't stop me." The drone powered back up and teleported away. "Short range teleport, can't have got far. Could still be on board -"

"What is it?" Rose asked.

"Don't go looking for it!" The Doctor said.

"Where're you going?"

"Back in a sec." He said, turning back round of the fireplace. I waited a few moments before he returned again. He stepped off the fireplace and grinned at me before his face dropped. "Where's Rose and Mickey?" I looked round, they were gone!

"They were here!"

"Every time, every time, it's rule one - Don't wander off! I tell them, I do, rule one! There could be anything on this ship!" He sighed as we headed off down a corridor to be faced with a white horse. The Doctor rolled his eyes as I grinned and mounted the horse.

"Come on, you can give me a lift." I grinned. The Doctor smirked and took the lead on the horse, walking us through the corridors before we eventually found Rose and Mickey looking through a window.

"Blimey, look at this guy. Who does he think he is?"

"King of France." The Doctor said as we stopped behind them.

"Oh, here's trouble. What you been up to?" Rose asked, not looking around.

"Oh, this and that. Became the imaginary friend of a future French aristocrat... picked a fight with a clockwork man... Oh, and we met a horse." Rose and Mickey span round to look at us. Rose looked at me disgusted whilst Mickey just laughed.

"What's a horse doing on a spaceship?" Mickey asked.

"Mickey, what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective." The Doctor said.

"See these?" The Doctor pointed at the window. "They're all over the place. On every deck. Gateways to history. But not just any old history..." He pointed at a woman entering the room on the other side of the window. !Hers. Time window... deliberately arranged along the life of one particular woman. A spaceship from the fifty-first century stalking a woman from the eighteenth. Why?"

"Who is she?" I asked.

"Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known to her friends as Reinette. One of the most accomplished women who ever lived."

"So has she got plans of being the Queen, then?"

"No, he's already got a Queen. She's got plans of being his mistress."

"Oh, I get it. Camilla." Rose laughed.

"I think this is the night they met. The night of the Yew Tree ball. In no time at flat, she'll get herself established as his official mistress, with her own rooms at the palace... even her own title - Madame de Pompadour."

"Queen must have loved her..."

"Oh, she did. They get on very well."

"The King's wife and the King's girlfriend? "

"France. It's a different planet."

"How long have you been standing there?" Reinette asked, turning round and looking at the drone in the corner of the room. "Show yourself!" It turned round and started to advance towards her. The Doctor grabbed the ice gun from Mickey and pushed open the window and into Reinette's world with Rose and Mickey following.

"Little help off the horse?" I shouted. By the time I got off the horse, Rose and Mickey were running through again and off into the spaceship.

"Sorry, gotta go find it!" Mickey shouted back to me. And then eventually The Doctor appeared again, pulling my hand through and into Reinette's world and off again.

...

"And still have begged for moooore... I could've spread my wings and done a thou-" The Doctor staggered into the room where Mickey and Rose were being held whilst I supported him on my shoulder. "Have you met the French?"

"My... GOD, they know how to party." I laughed.

"Oh, look at what the cat dragged in. The Oncoming Storm." Rose spat.

"Oh, you sound just like your mother."

"What've you been doing? Where've you been?" She snapped.

"Well... among other things, I think he invented the banana daiquiri a few centuries early." I said.

"Do you know, they've never even seen a banana before!" The Doctor gasped. "Always take a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are GOOD." He looked at the drones. "Oh ho ho ho ho, brilliant. It's you!"

"You're our favourite, you are, you are the best!" I laughed.

"Do you know why? 'Cause you're so THICK. You're Mister Thick Thick Thickity Thick Face from Thicktown, Thickania. And so's your dad." He turned to Rose. Do you know what they were scanning Reinette's brain for? Her milometer. They wanna know how old she is. Know why? 'Cause this ship is thirty-seven years old. And they think that when Reinette is thirty-seven, when she's 'complete', then her brain will be compatible. So, that's what you're missing, isn't it?" He stared at one of the drones mockingly. "Hmm? Command circuit. Your computer. Your ship needs a brain. And for some reason - God knows what - only the brain of Madame de Pompadour will do."

"The brain is compatible." One of the droids suddenly said.

"Compatible?" The Doctor asked, approaching it. "If you believe that, you probably believe this is a glass of wine." He pulled off the the mask on the droid and pouring the glass of 'wine' he was holding, causing the drone to power down. "Multigrain anti-oil. If it moves, it doesn't." The Doctor said, automatically sobering up. "Right, you two, that's enough lying about..." He pulled a switch and Rose and Mickey fell out of the bindings holding them onto the table. "Time we got the rest of the ship turned off."

"Are those things safe?" Mickey asked, getting up.

"Yep. Safe. Safe and thick. Way I like them. Okay, all the time windows are controlled from here. I need to close them all down." He felt his pockets. "Zeus plugs. Where are my Zeus plugs?"

"You had them a minute ago, you were using them as castanets."

"Why didn't they just open a time window to when she was thirty-seven?" Rose asked.

"With the amount of damage to these circuits, they'll be lucky to hit the right century. Trial and error after that." He pulled a lever, frowning. "The windows aren't closing. Why won't they close?"

"What's that?" I asked as a pinging sound filled the room.

"I don't know... incoming message?"

"From who?"

"Report from the field... one of them must still be out there with Reinette! That's why I can't close the windows, there's an override!" Suddenly, the drones burst back into life again before the pinging nosie appeared again. "Message from one of your little friends? Anything interesting?"

"She is complete. It begins." The droid said again before they all teleported away.

"One of them must've found the right time window, and now it's time to send in the troops. And this time they're bringing back her head."

...

"There'll be no way back, will there?" I asked as I sat on the floor whilst The Doctor tried to fix a audio link to the time window.

"How did you-"

"Doesn't take a genius, Doctor." I chuckled.

"Guess we'll never find out about your timeline eh?"

"Oh I think this was about it anyway." I whispered.

"No it wasn't. You are so important."

"You sound like Mels." I scoffed. "She always used to say to me, you're important, and one day someone will prove that to you, I know that." I smiled slightly as Rose and Mickey ran in.

"You found it, then?"

"They knew I was coming. They blocked it off. "

"I don't get it. How come they got in there?"

"They teleported - you saw them. As long as the ship and the ballroom are linked, their short-range teleports will do the trick."

"Well, we'll go in the TARDIS!"

"We can't use the TARDIS, we're part of events now."

"Well, can't we just smash through it?"

"Hyperplex this side, plate glass the other. We need a truck."

"We don't have a truck."

"I know we don't have a truck!"

"Well, we've gotta try something!"

"No, smash the glass, smash the time window, they'd be no way back." I stood up slowly, walking over and taking The Doctor's hand.

"You're important, and one day someone will prove that to you, I know that." I whispered, before hugging him.

"You did." He mumbled in my ear.

...

"How long did you wait?" The Doctor asked, squeezing me tightly.

"Five and a half hours!"

"Right, always wait five and a half hours." He grinned. "Where are Rose and Mickey?"

"In The TARDIS." I smiled. "What about Reinette?"

"She's got her whole timeline left. A bit like you." He grinned, running round to The TARDIS and pulling me by the arm. He stuck his tounge out and ran in. I went to go follow him when something caught my eye, in the shadows. I stopped and looked, a flash of blonde curls in the distance, I blinked, and it was gone. I shook my head and walked into The TARDIS.

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A/N - Omg thank you so much for the reviews/story alerts/story favourites! I want to apologise for such a slow update for the last chapter, I was really busy despite being on holiday! I will try to update more often guys I promise, reviews help me write! Next up is the Cybermen 2 parter, I'm so so so excited to post it because of stuff that happens! Also, I've decided instead of Love And Monsters (for obvious reasons) I've decided to replace that with Flo finding Sarah Jane again for Invasion of the Bane. Because of things that'll happen, she'll also turn up for some more Sarah Jane events as well as Torchwood after the end of Series 3.