'School reunion' has been left out because Mickey was still in huff with Rose and never called her about strange events at a local school. Sarah-Jane still investigated and K-9 disposed of the Krillatane.

The Doctor knew this was going to mean trouble wherever they went next. He decided to lighten their mood and promised to take them both to a concert in 1989 Sheffield and neither of the sisters were that impressed when they landed in 1889 Scotland. Having met Queen Victoria, whom Rose had bet the Doctor a tenner she could get the Monarch to say she was not amused, they escaped back to the Tardis to debate the finer points of being knighted then banished from the realm.

"Now we're in trouble," Rose laughed as the Doctor said The Queen's family may have been infected by a werewolf bite. "I don't mean by that bite either, we might have been declared as enemies of the state."

"Mmm, good point Rose, we'll have to be extra careful," the Doctor grinned.

"You're always getting us into trouble Doctor, it's no different this time," Emily told him. "What's gonna happen? She'll have forgotten all about it by the time she gets back to London."

"Well you'd better hope so Emm," Rose told her. "I don't fancy being a fugitive when the Doctor takes me home. You said one trip to the future and one to the past."

"Oh," the Doctor said, disappointed his newest companion had got tired already and couldn't wait to get home. "I thought you'd want to stay a bit longer. What about you Emily?"

"Me? Whatever, I'm off for a rest, that werewolf gave me the creeps. You didn't see it change."

"If you've seen one werewolf, you've seen them all," the Doctor grinned, nudging Rose with his elbow as he perched on the edge of the worn-out seat.

"Hey, you still owe me that tenner, pay up Doctor," Rose grinned as Emily left.

"I don't carry any money on me Rose, in case you never noticed."

"Then I want an IOU note, you can pay by taking me somewhere else then."

"Fine, wherever you want."

"I always wanted to go to Paris, Emm went, mum couldn't afford to send me when my class went."

"Sorry to hear that Rose, next stop Paris, what year?"

"I get to choose?"

"Well yeah or do you want to see when we land?"

"Can I get some sleep first?"

"Sure, I'll just hover around somewhere until the two of you wake up. Walk you to your room?"

"Nah, best not, Emm said something about the last time."

"Really? What about?" he asked, getting up and putting the ship into his version of a holding pattern, around a nebula and letting the Tardis refuel from the energy.

"She saw you walk me to my room the Tardis picked out for me and you giving me a hug."

"Oh come on, it was just a hug, so what? She was jealous of you?"

"Well yeah, probably but I said you were just making me feel welcome. You were, weren't you?"

"Of course, that's all it was."

He was lying and he knew it, it had felt good and Emily hadn't hugged him like that, well maybe once or twice when they'd got out of trouble but not since he'd changed. In fact, she had been very distant, even when getting chased by a werewolf. Hugging Rose had been the best feeling since he'd come out of his regeneration healing coma, which he'd not had for a while and only because he'd absorb every last bit of the energy Emily had let loose. He'd had to make certain nothing, not a single trace had remained.

Rose eyed him, thinking he looked like he was hiding something. She got up and went to stand in the doorway.

"Night then Doctor, if it's really night here."

"I will try to keep to your own time as much as possible Rose, can't have your mum getting worried over you as well, can we now?"

"Doctor, can I tell you something?"

She turned back and walked towards him. He just nodded and folded his arms.

"When Emily was away, we had a rotten time but I didn't blame you, it was her choice to go with you. I just wanted you to know that."

"Thanks Rose, that means a lot to me. Let me walk you to your room?"

"Did you give Emm that treatment?" she asked as he gestured to the doorway.

"She never gave me a chance. I know she's still not so sure about me, even now. We'll all have a nice day out in Paris tomorrow, no werewolves."

"Promise?"

They arrived at Rose's room door, walking silently past Emily's room.

"Here we are then, safe and sound."

Rose smiled. "Where did ya think I'd get to?"

"Just making sure. You could give me a hug, if you wanted?"

"Yeah, that'd be nice. Night then."

She reached up to put his arms around his neck, the Doctor putting his around her back. He was feeling more and more at home with her as she pressed into him and stood for a few moments. He supposed she just missed having a father to give her hugs, or a boyfriend, she'd not been that bothered about leaving Mickey the idiot, Emily had been more bothered the first time he'd asked her to go travelling with him.

He reluctantly let go and Rose observed him.

"I'd better go get some sleep then."

"Yeah, don't let me stop you. No nightmares about werewolves eh?"

Rose smiled. "I'll shout for you, if I do."

"Yeah, any time Rose."

It wasn't werewolves that were going to give her nightmares as she tossed and turned on her pillow. The Doctor had decided to go to his own room for a few hours, the Tardis had been playing games and it was just opposite Rose's room, what was the ship up to? Suddenly, he heard a shriek and leapt up, slipped his trainers on and ran out of the door, to see Emily standing at her door.

"Was that Rose?" he asked.

"Well it wasn't me, what's wrong with her?"

"She's your sister. Stay there, I'll go."

Rose was as white as a sheet sitting up in bed and shivering. Emily followed him and stood in the doorway.

"Hey, what's wrong?" he asked, sitting on the edge of the bed, Rose blinking at the light from the corridor.

"I had this nightmare, there were these silver things, like metal men and they were all flying past me."

He knew Rose couldn't possibly have any knowledge of the Cybermen.

"It's ok, it was just a nightmare, it's fine. There are no silver men here, are there Emily?"

Emily yawned, he seemed to have things under control.

"No, no metal men. If you've quite finished, I'm off back to bed."

"Sorry Emm, I didn't mean to wake you," Rose apologised, realising the Doctor was still sitting there, his hand on her knee and running his thumb over her leg gently.

She wished she could remember the rest of it, she could have sworn there was something else there but it was already fading fast.

"Do you remember anything else?" he asked as Rose tried to lay back on the pillows, forcing him to move his hand, reluctantly.

Rose shook her head. "No, it's all going now but I think I was holding onto some kind of lever and something bumped into it and I let go."

"Well, you're safe now, whatever it was. Do you want me to stay with you for a while?"

"Nah, I'll be fine, thanks for coming to the rescue."

"No probs Rose, any time. Go back to sleep, we have a day in Paris tomorrow, remember?"

The next morning, Rose had forgotten all about her nightmare, well except for the Doctor being there but she knew she shouldn't go making a habit of it. Getting into her jeans and a t-shirt, she found the Doctor eating pancakes and eggs, an odd combination she thought but they did smell rather good. Emily joined them then they all went to prepare to land in Paris but got a shock when they landed on what looked like an abandoned spaceship.

"Trust you to get it wrong again," Emily groaned.

"Well it must have something to do with Paris, Doctor?" Rose asked him, the Doctor scratching his head and looking around.

He found some levers, Emily thinking that was just typical, him and his levers but Rose looked a bit alarmed.

"Doctor, I had a nightmare about levers."

"Ah, so you did but I somehow don't think they were the levers on a spaceship. Ah, that's better!" he proclaimed, the lights going on.

"Hey, Doctor, come and see this fireplace," Emily called out to him.

Rose had stepped over and was looking out into space through a window.

"This is amazing Doctor, thanks."

He stepped up to the window, forgetting the fireplace.

"You're a long way from home again Rose. What's that smell?"

"Smells like when mum burns Sunday dinner," Emily laughed, kneeling down to peer through the fireplace. "Hello," she called out, surprised to see a young girl doing the same on the other side, considering they were in space.

"Hello, who are you?" the girl asked.

Rose and the Doctor wondered who she was talking to and joined her, Rose leaning on the Doctor's shoulder to take a look.

"Oh, hello there," the Doctor joined in, looking at the puzzled girl. "We're just doing a quick fire check. Where are you?"

"In my bedroom," the girl laughed.

"Yes but where is your bedroom?"

"Paris of course!" the girl exclaimed.

"Paris, you were right Rose. What year is it?"

The girl laughed. "Seventeen hundred and fifty seven."

"Ah, good year, August is rubbish, stay indoors. Hope you enjoy the rest of the fire."

"Hang on, what's your name?" Rose asked her as the Doctor got up, Rose almost losing her balance.

"Reinette."

"Aw, that's a lovely name. See ya then."

"Goodbye Mademoiselle," the girl replied.

"That was Paris?" Rose asked innocently.

"Yes and she was speaking the right period French too. Let's go have a look around this place then. Coming Emily?"

Emily snapped out of her daze. "What? Oh yeah, why not? Are we likely to get to see more of Paris then?" she asked as she trudged after him.

"Quite possibly but I wonder why we could see that particular bedroom? Come on you two."

After doing a quick check of the rest of the ship, finding nothing much of interest, well not to Rose and Emily, they were back where they started.

"That fireplace, it has to be some kind of portal, a time window. Let's get a better look then. You two, no wandering off."

"Huh, don't you trust us?" Emily asked, feeling insulted.

The Doctor tapped the fireplace in several locations and finding the connection, the fireplace began to turn and he disappeared. He returned five minutes later – with company in the shape of a clockwork droid and reaching for a fire extinguisher, froze it.

"What's that thing?" Rose asked, Emily debating if she meant the droid or the extinguisher.

"Must be one of the maintenance droids, dressed up to blend in. Let's see what makes this thing tick then."

Rose was looking around, seeing just a mess of wires.

"Well they're not doing a very good job of repairing the ship," she observed, touching a bunch of wires.

"Tell me what you are doing here?" the Doctor was asking the droid.

"We do not have the parts," it replied to one of his questions.

Emily laughed. "Typical."

Suddenly, the droid vanished with a swift movement of its arm.

"Where did it go?" Rose asked.

"To find its friends?" the Doctor suggested. "There has to be a few of them. Right, I'm going back to ask Reinette a few more questions, you two be careful."

"Doctor, she'll be better if me or Emm talk to her."

"Maybe. Who wants to come?"

Emily shook her head and went to pick up the fire extinguisher.

"Be careful then, they don't freeze for long and stay out of trouble."

"Me? Stay out of trouble?" Emily laughed.

Pulling Rose with him, he tapped the fireplace and they both vanished.

"Are we in the right room?" Rose asked, looking around.

"We must be, a few years must have passed, they are time portals Rose, keep up eh?"

"Doctor, I never said, thanks for being there with me last night."

"Think nothing of it Rose, I can't imagine where you got the idea of metal men from though."

He knew full well but wasn't going to scare her with tales of the Cybermen but where had she got the idea from? It was still bugging him when he realised Rose was watching him and she touched his jacket lapels.

"Do you remember, back on New Earth? When Cassandra took control of me?"

"Yes, 'erm why?" he asked nervously.

"Some of it came back to me, I think I might have snogged you. Did I?"

"Like you said, you were possessed. It's fine Rose, really."

"You knew it wasn't me then?"

"Of course, she was jumping from Emily into you when I rumbled her little game."

"How do ya know?"

"Come on Rose, you were both acting out of character. I would have known if it was you who had kissed me but it wasn't you."

"No, worse luck, trust me not to be in control. I wonder where Reinette is, this doesn't look like a nursery."

"You're changing the subject Rose. Is that why you didn't want me to stay with you last night? You were worried I'd bring up the subject?"

"Yeah, I somehow thought you knew I was startin' to remember."

"You thought I'd be mad at you for some reason?"

"Well you did say one trip to the future, one to the past and that was it."

"I didn't exactly mean it though, when we were walking to that estate in Scotland, you caught me off guard, so to speak. I said you could stay as long as you wanted. I was just pointing out that you'd had one trip to the future and that we were then in the past. You're still here."

"I thought after that little demonstration, you'd changed you mind?"

"No, of course not," he replied, crossing to the harp in the centre of the room and plucking the strings.

"It's not one of those shop bells you know?" Rose laughed when he looked around, expecting someone to appear.

He grinned back and crossed to the fireplace where Rose was still standing.

"Seems there's no-one at home then."

"We should be getting back to Emm. Just one thing though, the kiss?"

"You want to know how it was?" he smiled.

"Well yeah, it's not like I'm ever gonna get another chance and I'm so annoyed it wasn't really me."

"Could have been worse."

"What?"

"I mean it could have been your sister, she doesn't seem to like me any more. How embarrassing would that have been?"

Rose giggled as he turned back to the fireplace. Suddenly he turned to face her.

"Care to find out?" he asked.

"Find out what?"

He leaned forward, slipping an arm around her then moved close.

"What it was like for me?"

Before she could answer he brushed her lips slightly and Rose began to melt as he tried again, this time Rose responding. They were interrupted by a 'hmm' from the doorway.

"Fireplace man? Rose? What are you doing here and more importantly, it is rude to kiss in another person's bedroom."

Rose thought she'd never been to any parties on their estate then.

"Ah, well, Reinette," the doctor spluttered, having been caught red-handed. "Goodness how you've grown. We've been away for rather a long time, seemingly. You remember us then?"

Reinette lifted her dress and walked towards them, glancing at Rose.

"How could I forget either of you?"

"Well, two strange people, kissing in your bedroom?" the Doctor grinned, Rose looking slightly red, tongue-tied and that 'just snogged back' look on her face.

"Strangers? Well I have only seen Rose once but you've been visiting me since I was seven years old. Still neither of you have changed at all, how tremendously impolite of you."

"Yeah, it's been a while, not sure how long."

"Doctor, you had some questions for her?" Rose reminded him as she regained her senses.

"Ah, yes, almost forgot about that."

Reinette turned as her mother called her.

"Then I must answer your questions another time. Since I caught the two of you kissing, I expect you are together?"

Rose looked at the Doctor. "Don't ask me, that was entirely him."

"I was just demonstrating," he half protested.

"So, this is something new? I still cannot believe you are both here but you seem real yet reason tells me you both cannot possibly appear as you did all those years ago, in my fireplace."

"Ah, well, you never want to listen to reason, eh Rose?"

Reinette's footman appeared behind her.

"Mademoiselle Poisson, your mother grows impatient."

"A moment. I have also some questions but they will have to wait. Until next time and if you get tired of him Rose, I would be happy to take your place."

With that, she giggled and picking up the hem of her dress, ran for the doorway.

"Did he just say Poisson?"

"Yeah, I think so, why?"

"Rose, don't you know who she is?"

Rose shook her head, history had never been her strong point.

"You just met Madame De Pompadour!" he grinned, grabbing her hand and tapping the fireplace. "I think if she'd not just caught us, she would have snogged me herself."

"And you thought Emily would have been bad enough," Rose managed to say as they went back to where they had left her.

"I would have been bad enough at what?" Emily huffed, still holding the fire extinguisher.

"Nothing, you stayed out of trouble then?" the Doctor asked, rather surprised and wondering if she had actually heard Rose's last remark or if she'd been watching them kiss through the fireplace.

If she had, she would have been demanding he took her home by now.

"Right, you two, I'm off to see if there are any more time windows around here, stay together."

With that, he left, Rose going to get another fire extinguisher. "Come on then, he said stay together."

"Shouldn't we wait here for him?"

"Nah, he'll be ages, he never said to stay here, did he?"

"Why are you grinning like that Rose?"

"Like what?"

"You look like, well, oh never mind."

They set off, Rose leading the way and Emily not so sure they should be doing this. After getting a feeling they were being watched, she turned and saw what looked like a real eye on a long metal flexible shaft.

"Now that is creepy," Emily remarked.

"Hey, look at this," Rose called. She gingerly pulled a small opening and looked inside.

"Is that a heart?" Emily asked, pulling a face.

"Yeah, what is this place?"

Meanwhile, the Doctor had found a door leading to a garden, well after he turned a corner and found a horse. Wondering if it had come from the door he went through, he found himself watching Reinette walking with another woman. He observed from behind a large plant pot, watching her walk away then he ducked as she turned around.

He didn't want her to think he was spying on her, she'd already said she was more than willing to take Rose's place. What had come over him though, initiating that kiss back there with Rose? It had been one thing she had been possessed by Cassandra but another to let her think he was mad with her for it. He wasn't and he had needed to put the record straight but he'd set himself up for something now. Did he want to get out of it though?

He went back inside, hoping the horse had stayed outside but it had followed him, nudging him when he stopped and saw the two sisters were gone.

"Every time, I tell them to wait and what do they do?" Then he remembered, he'd only told them to stay together. He supposed he'd left that one open to interpretation. He caught up with them staring through a window at an elaborate room, just as Reinette entered.

"Who does she think she is?" Emily huffed to Rose, unaware the Doctor had joined them.

"The uncrowned Queen of France?" the Doctor offered.