Sir Robert sat down at the dining table and started to tell the sad story his father had been addicted to, to put it bluntly, "The story goes back three hundred years. Every full moon, the howling rings through the valley. The next morning, livestock is found ripped apart and…devoured."
Captain Reynolds leaned back in his chair, the perfect picture of ease, "Tales like this just disguise the work of thieves. Steal a sheep and blame a wolf, simple as that." Queen Victoria looked mildly irritated at the interruption.
"But sometimes a child goes missing. Once in a generation. A boy will vanish from his homestead." Sir Robert continued, a frown growing on his face.
The Doctor tried to pay attention to the story, but struggled as Kayla and Rose continued to not show up.
In the barn, Kayla and Rose, the latter somewhat reluctantly, stood up.
"Don't, child." Lady Isobel pleaded, but they both ignored her.
Kayla and Rose made their way towards the man, trying their best not to let the chains rattle, but they did anyways. When the chains wouldn't let them move any further, Rose and Kayla knelt in front of the cage.
"Who are you?" Rose asked softly, kindly.
Behind the girls, the Steward, having been quiet throughout the entire affair, called out in a whisper, "Don't enrage him."
Kayla, all business as usual, spoke with less kindness than Rose in her voice, but it was equally as quiet, "What species are you? What plant of origin are you from?" At how cold she was, the Steward and the others quaked at the rage that was sure to happen, but it never did.
Instead, the man smirked at Kayla, "Ohhh...intelligence..." he hissed out, not even bothering to answer her question because he knew full well that she could do nothing but threaten, it was all bark but no bite with her.
"Where were you born?" Kayla barked out the question, it was hardly a whisper, but it was quiet enough that the Monks didn't hear her. To the prisoners though, it sounded far too loud and they instantly turned their heads to look at the door, but it never opened.
"This body...ten miles away...a weakling, heartsick boy. Stolen away at night by the brethren from my cultivation. I carved out his soul and sat in his heart." The man shook his head at Kayla in fake wonder.
"You didn't answer the question." Kayla hissed at the man. Forgetting the chains, she lunged forwards a bit but the rattling stopped her.
The man never blinked at the show before him, in fact, he had never blinked ever since he had opened his eyes, it was like he had forgotten how to close his eyes, so he just kept them open. And for once, he replied to Kayla's question, "Oh but I did."
Despite how worried he was, the Doctor had gotten into the story well enough, and as time passed, he started to forget about Kayla and Rose, they probably weren't in trouble, "Are there descriptions of the creature?" the Doctor asked, his Scottish accent still strong.
Sir Robert, pleased that the other were listening, nodded, "Oh yes, Doctor. Drawings and woodcarvings. And it's not merely a wolf. It's more than that. This is a man who becomes an animal."
The Doctor leaned forwards, slightly excited, slightly not, "A werewolf?"
Kayla was still grilling the man, completely ignoring Rose's and the others discomfort at the hard tone in her voice, "You're body's human but what are you really? What creature would be so heartless to hide inside a mere child?"
"So far from home." The man, a host of some sort, whispered.
"What? Is hiding in children a tradition from your planet? Would you like to go home?" Kayla raised an eyebrow at the Host, who smirked at her.
"Why would I leave this place? A world of industry, of workforce and warfare. I could turn it to such purpose." The Host titled his head at her in a questioning manner.
Kayla sighed, she felt like she wasn't getting anywhere with the thing, though he had answered her question, maybe he would answer her next one too, "In case you didn't know, you're not in charge…oh that's clever." The brunet stared evenly at the creature.
Rose, who was barely following the conversation, which was better than the household staff, who were all horribly confused and scared, "What?" Rose whispered to Kayla.
Kayla, smirking ever-so-slightly, turned to speak to the blond in a hushed tone, "He's going to go after Queen Victoria." A question rising in her mind, she turned back to the Host to hiss, "But how? How would you become in charge?"
"With one bite, I would pass into her blood. And then it begins. The Empire of the Wolf! So many questions..." He lunged forwards suddenly, making the prisoners, Rose, and Kayla jump, but only the prisoners and Rose gasped. The Host raised one barely crooked finger and pointed it at Rose and Kayla, "Look! Inside your eyes! You've both seen it too!"
"Seen what?" Rose asked sharply.
The Host, getting more and more excited, seemed to rock back and forth in his cage, look like some alien creature, which he was, "The Wolf! There is something of the Wolf about you!"
Kayla, recognizing what the Host was talking about, shivered deeply at the mere memory of what Rose had looked like when she had looked into the TARDIS.
Feeling the shiver like she had done it herself, Rose glanced over at the brunet and was shocked to see that she looked terrified. She was pale, though that might have just been the moon light.
"Where?" Rose was even more shocked when she heard the tremor of fear in Kayla's voice, "Where did you learn about that."
Not bothering to answer the question, the Host continued to rock back and forth while the moon continued to climb steadily in the sky, "You burnt like the sun, but all I require is the moon."
Sir Robert was still telling the story to the enamored Doctor, Captain Reynolds, and Queen Victoria, "My father didn't treat it as a story. He said it was fact. He even claimed to have communed with the beast - to have learned its purpose." Not even bothering to listen to the story, Father Angelo looked out the window and watched the moon rise steadily, "I should've listened." Sir Robert continued, sounding very regretful about his miss.
The Doctor, who had shivered just a bit for some odd reason, picked up on something being wrong,and leaned forwards ever so slightly and listened to the hushed voice of Sir Robert, "His work was hindered - he made enemies. There's a Monastery in the Glen of Saint Catherine. The Brethren opposed my father's investigations."
Not picking up on the trouble, Queen Victoria said in her ever regal manner, "Perhaps they thought his work ungodly."
Sir Robert shook his head, "That's what I thought. But now I wonder...what if they had a different reason for wanting the story kept quiet?"
The Doctor was having a hard time paying attention to Sir Robert. It wasn't that whatever he was saying wasn't interesting, it was far from that, it was just that Father Angelo was so interesting. First the pistol shaped bulge in his pocket, which was still there, but now he was staring at the moon and muttering in Latin! As the Doctor made his ears listening to the man, he could barely make out 'Lupus…' but the rest was a mystery to him.
"That's what I thought." Sir Robert suddenly replied to Queen Victoria, is hushed voice getting more intense, "But now I wonder...what if they had a different reason for wanting the story kept quiet?" The man glanced around the room and leaned in even more, "What if they turned from God and worshipped the wolf?"
It all fell into place in the Doctor's mind, and he, barely wanting to believe the words coming out of his mouth, stated, "And what if they were with us right now?"
The doors of the barn were thrown open to allow the moonlight to flood in. Like a giant wave, it cascaded over everything, especially the Host's cage. Like the thing had said before, he needed moonlight, he lived for it, and that was shown by the blissful smile that spread across his face. He pressed his face against the bars of the cage and closed his eyes, "Moonlight..." he hissed out.
At the disturbing display, the prisoners shifted around uncomfortably, definitely out of their comfort zone.
The Host was still in its trance. He stiffly shed his cloak, and despite the freezing wind that blew through the cellar, he didn't shiver. Instead, he grasped the bars of the cage.
Kayla and Rose, though slightly scared, took charge of the situation. While Rose calmed the staff down, Kayla struggled to go through her pockets and cursed violently when she found nothing to pick a lock.
"Come on! With me! Pull!" Rose cried out, and Kayla, seeing no other option, joined her, but no one else did. Instead the staff and Lady Isobel stared at the cage in horror, terrified of the growling sounds that were emitting from it, "I said pull! Stop your whining and listen to me! All of you! And that means you, your Ladyship! Now come on - pull!"
Kayla blinked at Rose, "Uh Rose, you might want to tone it down." She suggested softly, and then giggled when Rose stuck her tongue out at her.
Soon though, all the prisoners were pulling at the chain, trying the hardest to get it out of the wall.
Father Angelo, Kayla's pistol no long in his possession but in a certain Time Lord's, was still chanting while the room fell apart behind him.
"What is the meaning of this?" Queen Victoria cried out, her voice demanding attention in a way that only a queen's could.
Captain Reynolds, taking the more practical approach, pointed his gun at Sir Robert's head, "Explain yourself, Sir Robert!" he ordered.
"What's happening—" Queen Victoria started, but Sir Robert cut her off,
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, they've got my wife." At Sir Robert's words, Reynolds lowered his gun, confused about who was a threat.
More than just merely concerned, the Doctor yelled at Father Angelo, his Scottish accent long forgotten, "Kayla! Where's Kayla? Where is she?!" Despite how loud the Doctor was, the Father continued to speak, so the Time Lord, still holding Kayla's pistol, turned with a crazed look in his eyes, "Sir Robert - come on!" They both ran from the room, leaving Captain Reynolds to point his gun at Father Angelo.
Despite how loud a transformation to a werewolf was, it was slower than Kayla expected. By the time that they had anything to fear, the chain was a lot loser and nearing its removal. Pausing just for a small second, Kayla glanced over her shoulder to see the skin of the Host bulging horribly, giving him every right to scream as loud as he was. Turning away from the sickening sight, she called out to the others, "On three! One…two…three...PULL!"
As one, the prisoners tugged with all their might, the loud growls egging them on.
"Again! One…two…three…NOW!"
Captain Reynolds glared at Father Angelo, his gun pointed directly at the crazed Father's head, "Tell me, sir. I demand to know your intention!"
"Lupus deus est. Lupus deus est. Lu—" Father Angelo continued, not even bothered by the large gun pointed at him.
"What is it that you want?" Captain Reynolds called out.
Finally, Father Angelo stopped his chanting, making the room deathly quiet. He turned slowly to face Captain Reynolds and spoke two words that made Queen Victoria gasp, "The throne."
With his growl hanging in the air, he attacked! In one movement, he wrenched Captain Reynolds's gun aside and hit the man. Behind them, Queen Victoria's eyes widened.
The Doctor and Sir Robert ran down a corridor, both heading to save their…lover, or whatever he and Kayla were.
The transformation finished way too quickly for the prisoner's liking. While they were still struggling with the chain, the werewolf growled long and low and flexed his claws, every bit of a nightmare in action.
"One, two, three, PULL!" Kayla screamed out, and thankfully, terror from the beast behind them giving them strength, the chain pulled out…and the men arrived.
"Where the hell have you been?" Rose yelled at him.
Despite the situation they were in, the Doctor thought it was a great idea to stop and stare at the werewolf like it was an amazing thing, which it could be considered that if it wasn't trying to kill everyone, "Oh, that's beautiful!" the Doctor muttered, watching as the werewolf grasped the bars firmly.
Realizing that the Doctor would be of no help, Sir Robert hissed to his terrified wife, "Get out!"
The household staffed plus Kayla and Rose clambered for the stairs just as the wolf broke the now bended bars and threw the cage off to a corner. The Doctor finally came to his senses and turned back to the frantic staff.
"Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out!" the Doctor cried, waving his arms in a chicken like way as he ushered them away from the freed wolf.
Kayla groaned and pushed Rose up the stairs. When the blond turned back to argue, Kayla gave her a glare that made her scurry away. With a sigh, she turned back to the Doctor and kissed him deeply, nearly forgetting their horrible situation.
The Doctor was the one to pull back, though it wasn't by choice. He could have spent the whole night in the cellar just kissing Kayla, but when the werewolf, who was already standing up, threw the top of his cage at the couple, the Time Lord figured it was best to move on. Making a run for it, they ran up the stairs and slammed the door. Kayla leaned against a wall, gasping for breath while the Doctor quickly locked the door and pulled her with him. Behind them, the wolf, tall and pale like the moon, raised his head and howled out one long, clear note.
Though the Queen could have run away, she decided to stay in the dining room with Father Angelo. No awkward seconds passed between the two. Instead they faced each other from across the table, "I take it, sir, that you halted my train to bring me here?" Queen Victoria asked.
Father Angelo titled his head and smirked at the Queen, "We have waited so long for one of your journeys to coincide with the moon."
"Then you have waited in vain. After six attempts on my life..." With shaking hands, she drew out a small gun from her handbag and pointed it at the crazed Father, her hands still shaking despite her attempts to stop them, "... I am hardly unprepared." She continued.
Like before, Angelo didn't seemed upset by the gun pointed at his head. In fact, he was quite the opposite. He was smiling, the nerve, "Oh, I don't think so, woman."
This time, it was the Queen who smirked, "The correct form of address is 'Your Majesty.'" Wanting that to be the last thing Father Angelo heard, she pulled the trigger.
The Steward handed out guns to all the men in household staff, "Arms...and your strife...ready everyone?" When the men gave him a nod, he turned to look at Lady Isobel, "Take the girls. Get them out through the kitchen."
Not doing what the Steward had ordered her just yet, Lady Isobel approached her husband, "I can't leave you. What will you do?" she asked him, an unhidden spark of worry in her gaze.
"I must defend her Majesty. Now, don't think of me - just go." At her husband's words, Lady Isobel nodded and then, much to the man's surprised, she kissed him. But as soon as he realized just what was happening, she was gone, gathering her maids with a cry of,
"All of you at my side, come on!" She pulled them through the kitchens.
Kayla, having insisted that Rose be relieved of the handcuffs first, tried not to smack the Doctor for talking so quickly about things that Kayla just didn't care about, "It could be any form of light modulated species triggered by specific wavelengths - did it say what it wanted?"
Rolling her eyes, the brunet answered, "What all crazy things want, power." Nodding at the wisdom at that, the Doctor gingerly removed the handcuffs and sadly looked down at her red wrists.
Ending the sweet moment before it could start, a thumping noise sounded from the cellars and the couple looked around, confused. Being brave, or stupid, the Doctor crept around the corner to see that his worse fears had been answered. The wolf had managed to knock down the door and was standing over it. A symbolic moment happened as the Doctor and the Wolf stared at each other for a few minutes before the werewolf ended the pause by growling. Seeing the danger, the Doctor ran back into the room and grabbed Kayla's hand and dragged her behind the line of men with guns where Rose stood, waiting.
"Fire!" the Steward ordered as the wolf rounded the corner. Despite all the bullets that hit the animal, it only stumbled a few steps back, "Fire!" Rose flinched at the noise as the men fired again.
Lady Isobel and her maids ran through the many doors to the kitchen. Still in charge, Isobel crossed the room and tried the door, but it didn't open, "It won't open - they've sealed us in."
Flora, looking around the room cried out in horror, "Oh, my Lady - look!" Following the hysteric maid's gaze, Lady Isobel was met with the horrible sight of the Monks, having surrounded the house, pointed their guns at the defenseless building, "They'll never let us out. They mean for us to die!" Flora continued.
"Don't say that, Flora!" Lady Isobel ordered, trying not believe what the maid had said herself.
By the time that the room was filled with smoke from the firing squad, the wolf had disappeared, probably dead due to all the bullets that had been shot…at least, that's what all the men except for the Doctor, Kayla, and Rose thought, "All right, you men, we should retreat upstairs, come with me." The Doctor said decidedly, trying to take charge.
The Steward, however, shook his head, "I'll not retreat. The battle's done. There's no creature on God's Earth that could survive such an assault."
Having seen enough death, Kayla glared at the man so hard that he squirmed and the Doctor placed a hand on her shoulder, "You ARE coming upstairs right now or I swear I will drag you up stairs myself, and yes, that is me telling you to do something."
"And I'm telling you, ma'am, that I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall." Content with that, he strode across the room to look around the corner, checking to see if the wolf was still there. Behind him, the Doctor and Kayla watched him intently, a mixture of anger and confusion in their gaze, and despite how tough she had acted, Kayla slipped her hand into the Doctor's.
Smirking even more than when he had left, the Steward stalked back to the others, saying, "Must've crawled away to die—" A large paw swooped down and lifted the Steward clean through the ceiling. Soon, the sound of him being devoured reached the group's ears.
"There's nothing we can do!" The Doctor cried out. Without waiting for anyone but Rose, he ran with Kayla away from the room, well aware of a lot of the firing squad standing frozen behind them, and even more aware of the wolf devouring them wholeheartedly.
Lady Isobel and the maids listened to the commotion with fear in their eyes.
"Did they kill it?" Flora finally whispered, but no one answered her question due to the fact that they truly did not know.
Hearing something that no one else heard, Lady Isobel drew back into the corner of the room, the others followed her. Soon, she had them all wrapped within her protective arms as they crouched down, their eyes on the doorway. Only a few seconds passed before the werewolf appeared in the doorway, but all he did was sniff and then walk on. Shocked, Isobel looked around the empty room, wondering what could have made the wolf move on.
In the study, Queen Victoria opened a safe and removed her precious wooden box. Quickly, she stashed it away in her handbag.
Sir Robert, Rose, the Doctor, and Kayla hurried into a room. Due to the Time Lord, the door was slammed shut and locked with his sonic.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Sir Robert cried, hopping that she was somewhere near.
Queen Victoria, hearing the cry, came down the stairs, her eyes wide with fear, "Sir Robert! What's happening?"
Drawing Kayla with him, the Doctor ran off, leaving Rose soured face at the ideas where her mind had gone to.
Unaware of the Doctor and Kayla leaving, Queen Victoria continued, "I heard such terrible noises."
"Your Majesty - we've got to get out. But what of Father Angelo? Is he still here?" worriedly, he glanced around at the room, as if he expected the man to jump out from behind a curtain.
Queen Victoria gave him a small smile, as if something about what had happened to the crazed Father amused her, "Captain Reynolds disposed of him." She answered shortly.
Slightly breathless, the Doctor returned with Kayla, "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." He gestured through a door, and the Queen obliged, her head held high the entire time. Sir Robert, Kayla, and the Doctor followed her and found themselves in a small room.
"Excuse my manners, Ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist Her Majesty's egress." Sir Robert said formally, obviously laying it thick on the Queen.
"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh." Queen Victoria replied.
Sighing in annoyance, Kayla glanced over at the Doctor, who looked just as annoyed as Kayla, "Yeah, any chance you could hurry up?" He asked bluntly.
Doing what the Time Lord said, Sir Robert climbed out onto the window sill but had to immediately dodge out of the way from the bullets that the Monks shot at him. The Doctor, having not expected that, stared at the window in shock. But Kayla just sighed and scratched the back of her neck.
"Well, sorry to tell you this your Majesty, but they aren't letting you leave." Kayla stated calmly to the Queen once Sir Robert had gotten back into the room.
Outraged at the idea, the Queen lifted her head haughtily, "Do they know who I am?" She question, as if that would make them suddenly bow down to her.
"Yeah, that's why they want ya. The wolf's lined you up for a...a biting." Rose called from the doorway, having decided to see why she had heard gunshots.
The Queen shook her head, not wanting to believe the blond, "Now, stop this talk. There can't be an actual wolf."
No sooner had the words left her mouth when a loud, long howl rang through the house. Spinning around, the group, including the frightened Queen, dashed to the stairs, Kayla and the Doctor leading the group. Turning down a hallway, they could clearly see the wolf battering on the door.
"What do we do?" Rose asked quickly. Despite their horrible predicament, she seemed much too excited and happy about their sure deaths, something which did not please Queen Victoria.
Kayla gave Rose a slightly breathless smile, "What we always do…run."
For some reason, probably because there was a WOLF about to kill them, Rose did not like Kayla and the Doctor's "plan." Half shouting, Rose cried out, "Is that it?!"
Shrugging, Kayla asked simply, "Well do you have any silver bullets?"
"Not on me, no!" Rose shouted, making Kayla just raise her eyebrows.
The Doctor, having listened to the whole exchange, stepped into the discussion, "There we are then, we run. Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigorous jog." Just to make sure that she knew what to do, he jogged, or ran, in place, "Good for the health. Come on!"
Knowing that Kayla wouldn't mind, he grabbed the Queen's hand and led her from the room. The group ran up the stairs as quickly as they could, but they were apparently too slow because they heard the door breaking down and the wolf bounding up behind them.
"Come on! Come on!" the Doctor shouted to the other, trying to get them to run faster.
Having finally reached the top of the long staircase, they ran down a corridor, the sound of the wolf's paws egging them on. Despite how quick they were, the wolf was about to pounce when Captain Reynolds, who had long since left the group, reappeared holding a gun. He shoot, causing the wolf to reel backwards down the corridor. Ducking behind the corner, the Captain glanced at the others, who were all panting and using the wall to support themselves.
"I'll take this position and hold it. You keep moving, for God's sake! Your Majesty - I went to look for the property, it was taken. The chest was empty." He gave the Queen a worried, secret filled look.
Knowing exactly what he was talking about, the Queen nodded, "I have it. It's safe."
Releasing a breath he hadn't known he was holding, the Captain ordered, "Then remove yourself, Ma'am. Doctor, you stand as Her Majesty's Protector. And you, Sir Robert - you're a traitor to the crown." Letting that sink into the tired group, he coked his gun.
Realizing what he was going to do at the same time, the Doctor and Kayla both stated softly, "Bullets can't stop it."
"They'll buy you time. Now, run!" He gave the two a look that made it clear he knew what was going to happen to him.
While he positioned himself at the end of the corridor, Queen Victoria and Sir Robert both started to run, and finally, the Doctor and Rose did. But Kayla waited for only a few seconds, than she ran too. Pausing at the doorway to what appeared to be the library, Kayla turned back to see the final stand of Captain Reynolds. Wincing in pain, she hurried in and buried her face into the Doctor's willing shoulder, having not seen Reynolds but a different Captain, one named Jack.
Despite claiming she was fine, Kayla Hark did not seem in the least bit to be fine, but when Sir Robert had needed more than Rose's help to barricade the doors, she had all but pushed the Doctor over since it was obvious that Queen Victoria wouldn't be helping.
Being a Time Lord, the Doctor heard the wolf first, "Wait a minute, shh, shh, wait a minute..." the wolf howled out, breaking the silence that had fallen, "It's stopped." He quickly drew a chair over and stood on it, his ear pressed uncomfortably tight against the door, but he didn't care. Instead, he focused on the sound of the wolf sniffing the door, and then growling. Waiting for it to start to break down the door, the Doctor was shocked to hear it pad softly away.
Still on the chair, the Doctor announced to the group, "It's gone."
Right when he had said that, footsteps started up from around the outside of the room.
"Shh…" Kayla hissed out, no color at all in her face.
The Doctor, seeing that Kayla stilled needed him, quietly climbed down from the chair and went over to her. Like a child, she reached out to him, her arms outstretched. Sitting down next to her, Kayla wrapped her arms around the Doctor's neck. The Time Lord was just getting comfortable when…"Is this the only door?" he asked suddenly, a horrible thought coming to him.
"Yes. No!" Sir Robert and Rose dashed to the other door and barricaded it shut.
Queen Victoria, shaking violently, sat down on a chair near the Doctor and Kayla's sofa, and studied them openly, but if the couple didn't like that, they didn't show it.
The sounds that the werewolf made only continued, making the minutes that passed by tense and worried filled. And then, like a light dimming out, they stopped and the wolf padded away.
"What's stopping it?" Kayla wondered aloud to the Time Lord comforting her.
The Doctor shrugged weakly, "Something inside this room." The Doctor told her, just as confused as she was.
Sitting down in one of the chairs barricading his door, Sir Robert placed his head in his hands.
The Doctor, still confused, asked to the room at large, "What is it? Why can't it get in?" Mimicking his shrug from earlier, Kayla and the Doctor stood up and grinned at the Time Lord.
"I don't know, I'll tell you what, though..." She grinned even more when the Doctor asked,
"What?"
Understanding what Kayla was getting at, Rose grinned just as broadly as Kayla, "Werewolf...!" They cried out in unison.
Starting to smile just like the other two, the Doctor exclaimed, "I know!" Half laughing, the Doctor threw his arms around Kayla, and the brunet did the same with the Time Lord, "You all right?" he asked her kindly, and she nodded, "And you?" He asked Rose.
Rose nodded, a slightly forced smile replacing the one she was wearing earlier, "I'm okay, yeah!" Kayla winced at how…fake the blond sounded.
Queen Victoria, having watched the whole exchange, stared at the three, wide eyed. Before she could say anything about their horrible reaction to their situation, Sir Robert said meekly from behind them, "I'm sorry, Ma'am. It's all my fault. I should've 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?"
Though the question wasn't meant for him, the Doctor still said, "Well, they were bald, athletic...your wife's away, I just thought you were happy."
Sighing at how rude the Doctor was, Kayla punched his shoulder lightly as Rose said to the Queen, "I'll tell you what though, Ma'am, I bet you're not amused now."
Beyond angry, the Queen spat out, "Do you think this is funny?" Holding herself like the queen she was, Victoria stepped forwards, and despite being shorter than Rose, somehow she made Rose feel like she was looking up at her and now down.
Having not expected the Queen to react like that, Rose whispered out, "No, Ma'am, I'm sorry."
Still enraged, Queen Victoria continued, "What, exactly, I pray someone please - what exactly is that creature?"
Scratching his head awkwardly, the Doctor muttered, "You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's a more of a lupine wavelength haemovariform."
Knowing that no one could understand that, Kayla supplied, "Werwolf."
"And should I trust you, sir? You who change your voice so easily? What happened to your accent?" Queen Victoria hissed out, completely ignoring Kayla's statement.
The Doctor let out a groan when he realized his blunder. He had, due to all the chaos, dropped his Scottish accent completely, "Oh...right, sorry—"
Cutting him off before he could finish his sure to be awkward apology, Queen Victoria spat out,"I'll not have it. No, sir - not you...not that thing...none of it. This is not my world." In complete denial, the Queen turned away from the others and sat regally down onto a chair.
Lady Isobel stood in the kitchen, looking out at the moon, which was high in the sky, and the Monks. Despite that no of the people trapped in the house were trying to escape, they still had their guns poised to shoot and…this is what made Isobel wonder, garlands of mistletoe were looped around their necks in a sort of necklace.
Turning away from the window, Lady Isobel thought aloud, "Mistletoe...they're all garlanded in mistletoe and the wolf doesn't attack them. Who brought this into the kitchen?" She glanced around the room, speaking about the mistletoe that had arrived in the kitchen.
"It must've been the Brethren." Flora supplied, also glancing around the room.
Starting to realize what the mistletoe would do, Lady Isobel ordered, "Gather it up. Quickly. Every last scrap!" Quickly, the maids gathered up the scraps on the floor, "Quick, now." Just as fast as before, the maids threw their scraps onto the kitchen table, not knowing what Isobel had planned out, but none the less, they trust her.
Starting to come to the same conclusion as Lady Isobel, the Doctor and Kayla studied the woodwork of the library, especially the carving of mistletoe on the door, that, that they studied.
"Sir Robert, did your father put that there?" Kayla asked the shaken man.
Sir Robert, who had been sitting listlessly in a chair, glanced over at the brunet, "I don't know, I suppose..."
Thinking aloud, the Doctor studied the door even more, an idea forming in his hand, "On the other door, too...a carving wouldn't be enough…I wonder..." Before Kayla could stop him, the Doctor licked the wood, making the brunet grimace, "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!"
To Rose and Kayla, the Doctor stated, "Powerful stuff, mistletoe. Bursting with lectins and viscotoxins."
"So the wolfs allergic to it." Kayla said.
The Doctor shook his head, "Well, it thinks it is. The monkey monk monks need a way of controlling the wolf, maybe they trained it to react against certain things."
Starting to listen to the conversation Sir Robert said, "Nevertheless, that creature won't give up, Doctor, and we still don't possess an actual weapon."
The Doctor nearly laughed at what Sir Robert had said, "Oh, your father got all the brains, didn't he?"
Kayla shook her head, "Doctor, don't be so rude." She muttered to the Time Lord.
"Good. I meant that one." The Doctor told her, not even bothering to keep his voice low. Ignoring her protests, something about being guests, the Doctor strode across the room to the book shelves, "You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world." Knowing that he looked very cool to the others, he snapped his glasses into place. Of course, one glass was all it took for Kayla to burst into laughter, and even Rose giggled just a bit.
Rolling his eyes, the Doctor continued, "This room's the greatest arsenal we could have." Pulling some books off the shelf, and, slightly annoyed, he threw the books to Kayla and Rose just a bit more roughly than he had intended, "Arm yourself." He ordered.
The maids had never been more shocked. Lady Isobel, who had always ordered and, on the rare occasion, helped out, was working as hard, maybe twice, as the others. Her knife went down quicker on the mistletoe than the others, and her back often turned to throw in her chopped goods into a pot filled with boiling water.
"No sound of the wolf, my Lady. Perhaps it's gone." Flora said hopefully.
Lady Isobel, however nearly laughed at young, naïve, Flora, "Perhaps it's toying with us. But my husband's up there. And if there's any chance he's still alive, then by God, I'll assist him." Seeing the wisdom in that statement, Flora nodded.
Though Rose and Kayla had laughed at the Doctor trying to appear cool, they flipped through the books just as frantically as Sir Robert and the Time Lord were. The only person not helping was Queen Victoria, who was still sitting in her chair. Since the Doctor was calling the shots, he was standing on a ladder, throwing books to those who were done. Seeing that Sir Robert was done with his book, the Doctor threw another one at him.
Rose muttered under her breath, "Biology, zoology...there might be something on wolves in here..." She stopped talking after that and continued her feverish flipping.
Seeing that Kayla was done with her book, the Doctor tossed her another one while he asked Sir Robert, "Hold on, what about this?"
Flipping through a book, Sir Robert answered, "... some form of explosive..." He muttered absent mindedly.
"Hmm, that's the sort of thing. Ooh..."the Doctor stated. An odd look on his face, the Time Lord jumped down from the ladder and placed a large book on the table, "Look what your old dad found. Something fell to Earth." Starting to grin, he flipped it open.
The others crowed around the table and looked down at the open page. On it, there was an illustration of a rock falling to Earth from the sky.
"A spaceship?" Rose asked.
"No, it's a shooting star." Kayla argued, and then, just to prove her case, Kayla read, "'In the year of our Lord, 1540, under the reign of King James the Fifth, an almighty fire did burn in the pit.'"
Leaning down Sir Robert said, "That's the Glen of Saint Catherine just by the Monastery." He pointed at a small building in the elaborate picture.
"But that's over three hundred years ago. What's it been waiting for?" Rose pointed out, making Kayla and the Doctor pause and think about that.
Finally, the Doctor answered, "Maybe just a single cell survived. Adapting slowly down the generations. It survived through the humans. Host after host after host." Though the Queen wasn't look at the picture like the others, the Doctor clearly saw her stiffen at that.
"But why does it want the throne?" Sir Robert questioned. To him, it made no sense. It was an animal, why did it want a throne? Did it need a better chair?
Kayla was the one that answered Robert's question, "Right now, whoever sits in the throne has the most power. Imagine a creature with so much knowledge in control." Kayla shook her head, as if she was denying the possibility of that even happening.
For some reason that Kayla and Rose didn't know, the Doctor thought he should elaborate on what Kayla had said, "Imagine it...the Victorian Age accelerated...starships and missiles fueled by coal and driven by steam…leaving history devastated in its wake..."
Having heard enough from the crazy Doctor, Queen Victoria stood up from her chair and called out, "Sir Robert!" Of course, the man went to her.
"If I am to die here..." Victoria started.
Knowing it was rude; Sir Robert cut her off, "Don't say that, Your Majesty." He suggested rather than ordered.
Ignoring the interruption, Victoria continued, "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 myself." She opened her handbag.
Not knowing what the Queen was doing, the Doctor assumed that it had something to do with money and called over, "Hardly the time to worry about your valuables."
"Thank you for your opinion. But there is nothing more valuable than this." Queen Victoria drew from her bag the largest diamond that any of the people in the room had ever seen. Even Kayla, though it had long been outranked by others, knew what the stone was called.
"Is that the Koh-I-Noor?" Rose breathed out, completely amazed that the largest diamond in the world was just resting in the palm of the Queen's hand.
The Doctor stared at the stone in wonder, "Oh, yes...the greatest diamond in the world." The three shuffled in together for a closer look, in awe of the diamond.
Knowing the story well, Queen Victoria explained, "Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns it must surely die."
"Well, that's true of anything if you own it long enough. Can I...?" He held his hand out towards the Queen, and, for some reason, Victoria gave it to him. He pushed his glasses down his nose so he could see it better. Kayla shuffled a bit over so that she was shoulder to shoulder with the Doctor while Rose prodded the stone.
"It's beautiful." Kayla said simply, as if two simple words could describe the stone, which it could, to her.
Not even bothering to correct the brunet, though she really wanted to, Rose asked the Doctor, "How much is that worth?"
Studying the flawless stone in his hand, the Doctor muttered out, "They say...the wages of the entire planet for a whole week." He wrapped his free arm around Kayla's waist, drawing her in just a bit more so he could point out how beautiful the stone was.
"Good job my mum's not here. She'd be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing." Kayla laughed softly at the idea of Jackie Tyler fighting against a werewolf Somehow, that situation seemed possible.
"She'd win." The brunet told Rose and the Doctor, who both laughed.
Sir Robert, who had grown rather bored of the diamond, looked around the room, "Where is the wolf?" He turned and walked away from the rock, "I don't trust this silence." He told the room. Briefly, he wondered if a book would jump down automatically, but then he shook his head at his own stupidity.
Still in awe of the diamond, the Doctor asked, "Why do you travel with it?"
"My annual pilgrimage. I'm taking it to Helier and Carew. The Royal Jewellers at Hazelhead. The stone needs recutting." Rose shook her head at that.
"Oh, but it's perfect." She argued. Even Kayla agreed with her, which was shown by a nod of agreement.
Queen Victoria gave the three a small, tight smile, "My late husband never thought so."
The Doctor removed his glasses, knowing exactly what the Queen was talking about, "Now, there's a fact - Prince Albert kept on having the Koh-I-Noor cut down. It used to be forty percent bigger than this. But he was never happy. Kept on cutting and cutting."
Slightly shocked that the man knew about that, Queen Victoria continued the story, "He always said...the shine was not quite right. But he died with it still unfinished."
"The shine was not quite right…OH!" Kayla shouted out, making Rose jump.
The Doctor, however, realizing what Kayla was talking about, tossed the diamond back to the Queen, who caught it. Working out, the Doctor started to speak impossibly fast, "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, hold on - " He ruffled his hair violently, his eagerness rising as he worked it out, "all these separate things, they're not separate at all, they're connected! Oh, my head, my head! What if - this house, it's a trap for you - is that right, Ma'am?"
"Duh." Kayla answered before the Queen could.
"At least, that's what the wolf intended. But! What if there's a trap inside the trap?" the Doctor continued, taking Kayla's answer.
Seeing the confused looks on Rose's and Queen Victoria's faces, Kayla shook her head and told the Doctor, "You might want to explain to everyone what you're talking about."
"What if his father," the Doctor waved his hand at Sir Robert, who stiffened, "and Queen Vick's husband," the Queen made a face of obvious displeasure at the name, "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...but for the wolf."
Sir Robert was right not to trust the silence, because, just after the Doctor was done, the glass dome above the group, which was very beautiful, suddenly wasn't beautiful anymore because of the wolf walking across it, causing plaster to fall on the group. Due to that, they looked up to see the wolf growling, its gaze firmly on them.
"Oh, you mean that wolf right there?" Kayla asked, and the Doctor nodded weakly.
Despite how thin the host was, the werewolf apparently weighed a lot more, because the dome started to crack from its weight. Rose, Kayla, and the Doctor threw their books down and they ran, Queen Victoria following, to the door.
"Out! Out! Out!" the Doctor ordered.
Kayla, despite running, still had time to say, "Stop being so obvious!"
Behind them, the werewolf crashed through the glass, ruining the desk. While that was going on, the Doctor, Sir Robert, Rose, and Kayla quickly destroyed their barricade and ran out and into the corridor.
"Your Majesty!" Sir Robert called, and the Queen, who had been staring at the fast recovering wolf, ran out with the Doctor slamming the door after one last look.
The five ran down the corridor, the Doctor yelling as they went, "Gotta get to the observatory!" Careening around a corner, Rose turned back to look at the fast approaching wolf and paused, horrified by what she was seeing.
Kayla, seeing that Rose wasn't moving, backtracked to the blond and tried to move her, but Rose just screamed, since the wolf was right on the girls. Still trying to get her to move, Kayla gasped at the sudden flying pan of steaming water. Rose, thinking that it was just water, screamed again, but there was no need, because the wolf was bounding away from them and down the corridor that it had run up.
"Nice one!" Kayla shouted to Lady Isobel, who grinned.
Isobel, who looked disheveled and tired, gave Kayla a small smile, "It was mistletoe!"
The Doctor grabbed Kayla's arm, trying to control his emotions as he ran with her down the corridor and turned the corner, letting the others think that they were just looking to see that the wolf was leaving, but in reality, the Doctor was hugging the brunet tightly, shaking just a tiny bit. He had almost lost Kayla, crying was a small reaction to the worry, the hopelessness he had just felt.
On the other side of the corridor, Lady Isobel and Sir Robert where having a similar touching reunion. A cry of, "Isobel!" came from Robert's lips as he wrapped his arms around his wife and kissed her deeply. Behind the two, Queen Victoria and Rose dropped their gazes, but if Sir Robert and Lady Isobel cared about the awkward situation they were making, they made no sign of it. To them, there was no one else but each other at that very moment.
So when Robert told his wife gently, "Get back downstairs." She nodded, wanting to always have that feeling.
"Keep yourself safe." She told him in return, and with a small nod, they kissed again.
"You go." Sir Robert whispered after another lengthy kiss.
Lady Isobel and the maids who had come with her, which was all of them, hurried past Sir Robert and to the kitchen. Pausing just a bit, Lady Isobel called to the maids, "Girls, come with me. Down the Back stairs, back to the kitchen. Quickly!" She turned to look back at her husband and despite knowing that his wife was going to be safe, Sir Robert couldn't help but wonder if he was going to ever see her again.
Having come back from around the corner, the Doctor called out, "Come on!" And they were off again.
"The observatory's this way!" Sir Robert called, getting to the front of the group to lead them up the central staircase and hurrying up it as fast they could. The werewolf, however, had already recovered and had already returned to the chase. Finally they arrived at the observatory, somehow the Doctor and Kayla in the lead.
Pausing just a tad bit to study the doors, the Doctor called out, "No mistletoe on these doors, your father wanted the wolf to get inside! Get inside I just need time! Is there any way of barricading this?!"
Knowing what had to be done, Sir Robert replied with, "Just do your work and I'll defend it."
"What about rope? Do we have any rope to bind the doors together?" Kayla asked, trying her hardest to ignore what Sir Robert had said. It was obvious suicide to try and defend the door, and Sir Robert seemed to know that.
"I said I'd find you time, sir and ma'am." Sir Robert said firmly, causing Rose and Queen Victoria to stare at him in horror, "Now get inside."
Kayla and the Doctor both stared at the man, pride in Kayla's gaze and she said simply, "Good man." The Doctor nodded at that, having been about to say the same thing to the honor filled man.
Trying but failing to smile, Sir Robert closed the door. After a slight pause, the Doctor hurried over to the Queen, "Your Majesty, the diamond." He requested.
Flabbergasted that the Doctor had recovered so quickly, the Queen barely managed to ask without a stutter, "For what purpose?"
"The purpose that it's meant for." Kayla told her, also walking over.
Meanwhile, Sir Robert locked the door carefully behind him with a heavy heart. Continuing to move, he armed himself with a sword from a display on the wall as he heard the werewolf howled as it bounded up the stairs.
Hearing the howls just as Sir Robert had, Queen Victoria hurriedly handed over the diamond in her bag. As soon as the Doctor had it, he and Kayla ran over to the mechanism for the telescope. With a quite a bit of difficulty that resulted with Rose coming over and helping the Time Lord and the brunet, the wheel turned enough for the cogs to shift and the telescope to rise.
Despite straining against the wheel, Rose bit out sarcastically, "Is this the right time for stargazing?"
"Yes, it is." The Doctor answered.
Outside the observatory, the werewolf had found Sir Robert, and was not impressed by him guarding the door. As it approached slowly, Sir Robert glared at the wolf, "I committed treason for you. And now my wife will remember me with honor!"
Despite how he violently he fought with his sword, Sir Robert only managed to get one slash into the wolf before he was devoured.
Rose, hearing the screams, looked terrified at the almost unearthly screams that Sir Robert was making. In front of her, Queen Victoria held up her crucifix with a shaking hand. Soon, the werewolf could be heard battering the door. The sound of the gears grinding nearly overrode it. However, the noise did override Queen Victoria's hushed prayer.
"You said this thing doesn't work!" Rose grunted out.
Kayla managed to glance over at Rose and explain, "It's a light chamber, so it doesn't work as a telescope. Like a weapon, it magnifies the light rays, which is why we need to power it up." The Doctor made a face at Kayla, he would have explained it with way more excitement.
"But there's no electricity!" Rose objective, but just got a grunt and a sigh from the Doctor and Kayla. Suddenly working it out, Rose cried out, "Moonlight! But it needs moonlight! It's made by moonlight!"
"You're seventy percent water but you can still drown. Come on!" the Doctor called back.
Finally, the Light Chamber started to align with the moon. Egging it on, the Doctor chanted out, "Come on!"
At long, tense last, it's properly aligned. Rose, the Doctor, and Kayla stepped away from the gears as the moonlight bounced off the prims. Just as the werewolf broke into the room, the light spewed forth from the end of the Light Chamber onto the floor far too far from the werewolf. Seeing it's chance, the werewolf advanced on the Queen, but Kayla, acting quickly, grabbed the diamond from the Doctor and dived across the floor and shoved the Koh-I-Noor into the beam of light. Reacting to the diamond, a glorious prismatic-beam of light hit the werewolf. He lifted off the floor and hung there, suspended in the wash of moonlight. As they looked on, the werewolf took human form.
In control of himself, the Host pleaded softly, "Make it brighter. Let me go."
Walking slowly, the Doctor went to the light chamber and flicked a switch. Closing his eyes at the howl of the Host, he felt Kayla slip her hand into his. Needing her strength, he squeezed her hand tightly as the creature disappeared and the light slowly turned off. Rose breathed a huge sigh of relief and the Doctor opened his eyes and glanced around the room. The Queen quickly caught his eye, not because he had been worried about her, but because she was staring at some wound intently on her wrist.
"Your Majesty? Did it bite you?" the Doctor asked sharply.
Queen Victoria quickly dropped her wrist and shook her head, "No, it's...it's a cut." She stuttered out.
"If that thing bit you…" Kayla began, not actually sure where her sentence was going to end.
"It was a splinter of wood when the door came apart." Queen Victoria dismissed.
Kayla shook her head, "Let us see, he's," she pointed at the Doctor, "is a Doctor." They stepped forwards towards the Queen but she jerked back automatically, cradling her injured hand to herself.
"It is nothing." She said sharply. Obviously not believing her, Kayla made a, 'mhm' noise and the Doctor just leveled the Queen with a gaze.
As the sun rose outside, everyone was gathered in Torchwood's Hall.
The Doctor, Rose, and Kayla stepped forwards and knelt in front of Queen Victoria. Nearby, the dressed in black Lady Isobel and the maids watched as the Queen said, "By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee: Sir Doctor of TARDIS." She tapped him lightly on each shoulder with her sword. Turning to Rose, she repeated the words from before, "By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub the: Dame Rose of the Powell Estate." Once again, she tapped each of the blond's shoulders.
Finally, she got to Kayla, "By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub the: Dame Kayla of the Time Agency." Both of the brunet's shoulders were tapped by the sword.
"You may stand." Queen Victoria told them, finally ending the ceremony. At her word, the Doctor, Rose, and Kayla rose to their feet.
The Doctor, naturally, spoke first, a giant smile on his face, "Many thanks, Ma'am." He said formally.
Rose, grinning like the Doctor, said less formally, "Thanks! They're never going to believe this back home." Flora smiled at Rose, proud of her friend.
Grinning just like the other two, Kayla said her thanks, "Thanks, if my father was here, he'd be proud."
"Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving a message from the great beyond; I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now Ma'am, even from beyond the grave." The Doctor told the Queen. He would have said that privately but there had never been any time, giving the Time Lord no choice but to tell the Queen something very personal very openly.
Queen Victoria gave the Doctor a tight glare, "Indeed. Then you may think on this, also: that I am not amused."
The Doctor groaned, Kayla laughed, and Rose jubilantly shouted out, "Yes!"
Not understanding Queen Victoria glared at the three, "Not remotely amused." Rose made an effort to wipe the smirk off her face, "And henceforth...I banish you." That sobered the three up.
"What?" Kayla asked, her mouth gaping open.
"I'm sorry..?" the Doctor also asked, not sure if he had heard the Queen right.
Sadly, he did. With a voice tight with anger Queen Victoria ranted out, "I rewarded you, Sir Doctor and Dame Kayla. And now you are exiled from this 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 and I will not allow it! You will leave this shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you managed to stray so far from all that is good. And how much longer you will survive this...terrible life." She stepped away from the three furiously, "Now leave my world. And never return." She commanded.
Dame Kayla, Dame Rose, and Sir Doctor did what all knighted people did when they had been banished, they hitched a ride on the back of a passing farmer's cart, having been walking, and rode all the way to the TARDIS. Very formal, they were.
The farmer called out, "Woah!" as the cart jerked to a stop.
The three jumped off the cart and with a hearty cry of, "Cheers, Dougal!" from the Doctor, the farmer drove off.
Walking to the TARDIS, the Doctor started to speak, "You know, the funny thing is, Queen Victoria did actually suffer a mutation of the blood! It's historical record haemophiliac. It used to be called the Royal Disease! 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!" Kayla started to laugh at the pure irony of that and the Doctor grinned just at the sound and not at what Kayla was laughing about.
Blinking in shock, Rose stuttered out, "What, and you're saying that's a wolf bite?"
"It could be, or it could not be." Kayla said coly.
Nodding at that, the Doctor elaborated a lot more for his answer to Rose, "Well, maybe Haemophilia is just a Victorian euphemism."
"For werewolf." Kayla added in just as coly as before.
"Could be!" the Doctor cried out.
Not believing what the Doctor and Kayla had figured out, Rose stated, "Queen Victoria's a werewolf?"
The Doctor nodded, "Could be! And, her children had the Royal Disease. Maybe she gave them a quick nip."
Rose shook her head, "So, the Royal Family are werewolves?"
Kayla answered that one, having worked out the math in the cart, "Not yet. A single wolf cell would take a hundred years or so to mature. It would be ready by the early 21st century or so." She finished, grinning at the gob smacked expression Rose was wearing.
"Nah! That's just ridiculous! Mind you…Princess Anne...!" Kayla started to laugh along with a few manly chuckles from the Doctor.
"I'll say no more." He told her, grinning broadly.
Rose, barely able to hold back her giggles, spoke her jumbled thoughts aloud, "And if you think about it…they're very private. They plan everything in advance. They - they could schedule themselves around the moon - we'd never know!"
As they reached the TARDIS and bundled in, Rose continued her thoughts, "They like hunting! They love blood sports!"
Laughing just as loudly as Kayla was, which was very loudly, the TARDIS started to dematerialize as Rose cried out before bursting into gay laughter, "Oh my God, they're werewolves!"
Night had already fallen when Lady Isobel, still dressed in all black, and Queen Victoria, also wearing black, walked slowly from the house.
"What will you do? Will you stay here?" Queen Victoria asked conversationally.
Tears that Lady Isobel were not ashamed of where on her cheeks. With a small shake of her head, Lady Isobel whispered out her answer, "I don't think I could. I'd sell it. Or I'd pull this place down."
Nodding at that, Queen Victoria glanced over at the sign on the wall announcing the name to all. With grim resolution coming into her eyes, the Queen looked back to Lady Isobel and told her the plan she had formed, "Although we may not speak of these events in public, they'll not be forgotten. I promise you that. Your husband's sacrifice...the ingenuity of his father...they will live on."
Despite how determined the Queen look, Lady Isobel still had to ask, "But how?"
Having expected the question, Queen Victoria answered readily, "I saw last night, that Great Britain has enemies beyond imagination, and we must defend our borders on all sides. I propose an institute to investigate these strange happenings and to fight them. I would call it 'Torchwood.' The Torchwood Institute. And if that Doctor and Kayla should return, they should beware - because Torchwood will be waiting."
Far away in present day time, Captain Jack Harkness was going through old files from the beginning of Torchwood, remembering something that the two women from the original Torchwood 3 had told him. Grinning widely when he found it, he grabbed the delicate document and looked through it. Slowly, his grin slid off as he read the purpose for all Torchwood. What the hell had the Doctor and Kayla done to piss off Queen Victoria?
Oh why was the phone ringing? Didn't that…that Idiot know that Flower was trying to sleep, and that the Thief and the Other Thief were…well…KISSING? Oh stupid Idiot interrupted them. Then again, they wouldn't be able to do anything since the Thief had to explain Bonding…whatever that was. Oh that stupid Idiot, what had…no will…oh stupid tenses! That Idiot. If I had a head, it would be shaking at him. Or was it will be?
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