a bit shorter than usual again, i'll admit... but i'm going for better stopping points than length here at the moment

They finally caught up to the monster quite a bit later when it took a rest stop in someone's kitchen sink. Alice rang the doorbell. After a minute or so the door was answered by some little girl.

"Hi!" the girl said

Alice grinned at the little kid "hello sweetie!" she said "is your mom or dad home?"

"We're here to look at your sink" the Doctor added helpfully

"Hang on" the little girl disappeared and returned a few seconds later with her father.

"You don't look like plumbers" the father said doubtfully

"He's in training" Alice said before the Doctor could come up with another excuse "his boss is around the corner, this is his first time going solo."

"Then why are you here?"

"I'm his sister, he's dropping me off at a friend's house after this."

"Yeah…" the Doctor said, quite dumbfounded though

"Well," the man said "for an easy job as this, I won't complain that a professional isn't around. I'm Larry Charleston" he held out his hand.

"John Smith" the Doctor replied, shaking Mr. Charleston's hand.

Only a few minutes later, the Doctor was focused on "fixing" the broken sink, leaving Alice and the little girl sitting in the girl's living room, talking. The girl seemed to only be paying half attention though, for she was playing with her toys. "What's your name?" Alice asked her.

"Angel" she replied, not looking up "what about yours?"

"Alice"

There was a bit of silence before the little girl asked. "That man in there working on our sink, your brother, is he going to be able to fix it?"

Alice nodded

"It's been running for a few days" Angel went on "off and on. Sometimes it will stop randomly, and then start up again. Or we would turn it on, but it would never turn back off. You sure he can fix it?"

Alice nodded again.

"But sometimes… I think that there's something more to it than just a broken sink. I think there's something else there… waiting… for the right moment. A monster, in the depths of the water." The girl paused, and then looked at Alice. Alice was taken aback by the sudden force at which the girl looked at her with "that man, do you trust him?"

"Of course I do!" Alice said, even though this girl was starting to make her think otherwise. "He's my brother!"

"Is he? Is he really your brother?" the girl wouldn't take her eyes of her, and Alice got this odd feeling that the girl wasn't human. "He's too old, to powerful to be related to someone as young as you. Though there is something… magical, about you. Like you don't belong here…"

Alice said nothing, but didn't need to. The girl wouldn't stop talking "Take my advice Alice, and go back home. Save your home from evil that will only come if you stay with the Doctor. It's waiting… deep down, it's waiting patiently. Waiting for the right moment. It's like the monster in the water. But the water will wear you away, eat away at your soul… you've delivered yourself into its hands." The girl stopped then, and took a deep breath. She collapsed.

"Alice! Come see this! I think I got results!" the Doctor called from the kitchen.

"Coming" Alice said, standing up. She tore her eyes away from the little girl that lay on the ground and headed into the kitchen. "What is it?" she asked the Doctor. The Doctor wouldn't take his eyes off the water that was flowing from the faucet.

"Wait for it," he whispered. Alice watched the water, and as she watched the water began to take form. It slowly formed into a monster. The monster had a head of a snake, with a body more like a demon of sorts. It roared.

"There we are!" the Doctor said, quite happily "what are you then? Where are you from?" The monster only hissed as a response.

"What did you do to her?" Alice asked, even though she had no idea why she was doing so.

Both the monster and the Doctor turned to her, the Doctor confused and the monster slightly amused. "Who?" the Doctor asked her quietly.

"The little girl" Alice replied, and the monster cackled. "She kind of went crazy at the end of our conversation there" Alice explained "started talking about the monster in the depths of the water, waiting… She said that the water would wear you away, eat away at your soul…"

"No…" the Doctor whispered, as the monster let out another cackle.

"We will meet again!" it hissed, before dissolving.

"What was it?" Alice asked "what was it doing to her?"

"I can't honestly explain what it is… it's a water creature, able to use and manipulate the water around it. It basically is water itself, gaining complete control of all water. And the human body is what, like seventy percent water isn't it?"

The realization hit Alice like a tidal wave, pardon the watery pun, and she let out a small gasp. "Now you're getting it" the Doctor said, and the two of them ran out of the house to find the monster again.