AN:

I noticed that all of the companions of the Doctor had a theme song to go with them, even the Doctor has quite a few so I picked Tsuki no Densetsu to be Stella's song.

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Stella's room had changed with her regeneration, it now sported an art nouveau theme in varying shades of the rainbow, but still had touches of space in it in the form of bronze, gold, copper, and silver lights in the shapes of stars, suns, and moons hanging around from the ceiling. The ceiling was also covered in draping colorful gauzy fabrics accented by twinkling fairy lights throughout them.

Her bed was four poster made out of hardwood vines that entwined together to form her bed. All of her furniture had the same design as her bed, the hardwood standing out against the colorful carpet that covered the floor. She had beautiful paintings, lamps, and Knick Knacks, all of them art nouveau inspired. On her nightstand was a stain glass bowl full of lollipops surrounded by bracelets made from the wrappers, a few of them in progress.

Stella was pacing beside her bed with her small Celtic harp in hand, playing out her emotions. She thought Amy was her friend, how could she do this to her and the Doctor? After she had comforted her in the forest, after all they had been through. Her hearts hurt at the thought of it causing her music to take a sad and dark tune with flashes of sharp anger.

She had changed into a pair of fall colored print flare pants, an off the shoulder burnt orange crochet string halter crop top, a pair of brown sandals, a long sleeved blue, grey, orange, and black patterned thick knit ankle length long sleeved jacket with brown faux fur lining with a hood. Her hair was up in a high messy ponytail with a quaff on top to give it some character and a fist sized blue flower on the right side of her ponytail.

"Stella." The Doctor said softly as he opened the door. "Can I come in?"

"Sure." Stella sighed plopping down on the edge of her bed, her tune changing from her own song to Pan's Lullaby trying to calm herself down.

The Doctor walked over setting down next to her listening to her play as she vocalized along with the music. Her eyes were closed as she relaxed letting the music wash over her and the Doctor watched her with a soft smile. It flowed over him feeling him with such peace, the kind only his starlight could create for him.

On the ceiling and along the walls small lights like lightening bugs flowed around, seemingly dancing with the music in all the colors of a pastel rainbow casting the light about the room. She slowly came to a stop letting the melody hang in the air. Neither of them spoke for a moment before Stella allowed the Doctor to take the harp from her hands setting it aside then took her hands in his.

"That was beautiful." The Doctor smiled gently, but then frowned slightly as Stella's eyes remained downcast and angry. "Stella I never meant for that to happen, Amy was just reacting to all the danger she had been in and I tried to stop her, but…" The Doctor stuttered, but Stella placed a hand to his lips before moving it to cup the side of his face. "Starlight…."

"I know, I'm not mad at you are Amy…no, that's a lie, I am mad as Amy, furious in fact, but I'm mostly hurt, really badly hurt." Stella said as he reached up holding her hand to his cheek.

"She's been through a lot, she wasn't thinking." The Doctor shook his head then cupped her face with his free hand.

"That's no excuse." Stella frowned sourly.

"I know, I know, but don't worry, I'm going to fix it." The Doctor grinned excitedly.

"How?" Stella asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I have a plan." The Doctor replied booping her nose with a smile that Stella couldn't help, but to return. "Want to come?"

"Of course." Stella replied as they stood up.

Stella moved to go to the door, but the Doctor stopped her causing her to look up at him questioningly. Before she could ask what was wrong the Doctor leaned down softly kissing her lips with a passionate hunger, his arms slipping around her waist pulling her body flush against his. Stella's hand came up his chest resting between his hearts, the other playing with the hair at the nape of his neck as the kiss intensified with the parting of their mouths. Slowly they pulled apart sharing smaller kissed until they finally stopped resting their foreheads against each other starring happily into each other's eyes.

"Much better." The Doctor smiled as Stella hummed in agreement. They shared one last peck before the Doctor pulled her out of the room, down the hall, and out of the TARDIS not even bothering to stop to tell Amy they were leaving.

-0-

Rory was on the phone, trying to make himself heard above the noise of his stag party. All the participants are wearing red t-shirts with Rory's Stag on the back and a picture of Rory and Amy inside a heart on the front including Rory himself.

"Hey! It's me. Hello. How are you?" Rory called out into Amy's answering phone. "The reason for this call is because I haven't told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal, and even if we weren't getting married tomorrow, I'd ask you to marry me anyway. Yes, I would, because you are smashing." Rory's attention was then taken by a giant pink cake as it was wheeled in to the tune 'The Stripper'. "Oh. Oh. Oh, blimey….I've…I've, er got to go. I'll see you tomorrow."

His companions pushed Rory forward toward the cake as everyone chanted.

"Out. Out. Out." Suddenly the Doctor burst out of the fake cake and everything went quiet as the Doctor moved around until he was facing Rory who was shaking his head in silent horror.

"Rory! That's a relief. I thought I'd burst out of the wrong cake, again." The Doctor said as Stella walked in with a young woman wrapped in a blanket. "That reminds me, there's a girl standing outside in a bikini. Could someone let her in and give her a jumper? Lucy? Lovely girl. Diabetic." He said in a sotto voice but then spotted Stela with Lucy. "Never mind, Stella's got her."

"Now then, Rory." Stella walked over to Rory clapping her hands on his shoulders as she smiled up at him, but still managed to look angry despite the smile. "We need to talk about your fiancée. She tried to kiss my fiancé; needless to say I'm not a happy camper."

"Tell you what, though. You're a lucky man. She's a great kisser." The Doctor grinned and someone dropped his beer glass which shattered on the floor. "Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine."

"Exactly how good of a kisser was she?" Stella turned on her heel facing the Doctor, her arms crossed and eyebrow raised. The Doctor's eyes went wide as he slowly descended back into the cake while Stella glared at him.

-0-

The Doctor was hanging underneath the console platform, doing some welding nervously glancing over to Stella sitting in one of the captain's chairs cross-legged playing the Doctor's old recorder, The Allemande flowing from the instrument.

Stella had been giving him the icy silent treatment since his stupid comment at the stag party and his mind was going into over drive to fix it. Rory was looking around the Tardis in silent awe flinching a few times when it sparked as Amy paced watching him with a nervous frown, knowing that he knew about what she had tried with the Doctor.

"Oh, the life out there, it dazzles." The Doctor spoke up breaking the awkward silence. "I mean, it blinds you to the things that are important. I've seen it devour relationships and plans." The Doctor glanced over to Stella who refused to look at him as she went on playing. Suddenly the console sparked behind Rory making him jump. "It's meant to do that." The Doctor assured him. "Because for one person to have seen all that, to taste the glory and then go back, it will tear you apart. So, I'm sending you somewhere, together."

"Whoa. What, like a date?" Amy questioned moving over to the railing

"Anywhere you want. Any time you want. One condition. It has to be amazing." The Doctor sprung out from under the Tardis and up past the console to the stairs. "The Moulin Rouge in 1890. The first Olympic Games. Think of it as a wedding present, because it's either this or tokens." The Doctor looked down to Rory. "It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge room inside. What's that about? Let me explain."

"It's another dimension." Rory said.

"It's basically another dimension." The Doctor said then realized what Rory had said. "What?"

"After what happened with Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories. FTL travel, parallel universes." Rory shrugged as the Doctor walked up to him, clearly invading the nurses personal space.

"I like the bit when someone says it's bigger on the inside." The Doctor said with a serious look, slightly intimidating. "I always look forward to that."

"So, this date." Amy came up to them, breaking the staring contest. "I'm kind of done with running down corridors. What do you think, Rory?"

"How about somewhere romantic?" The Doctor winked at Stella who ignored him as she tucked away the recorder into her jacket and pulled on her rose colored glasses.

She then rocked to her feet and strolled past the Doctor flicking the switch that landed them before continuing onto the doors not even looking back. The Doctor let out a tired sigh while Amy glanced over to him and Rory before looking down at the ground.

-0-

The Tardis landed in the middle of the busy area in plain open sight of everyone and was promptly ignored. Stella came out of the Tardis and leaned on the opposite door arms crossed, the Doctor came bursting out of the Tardis after her followed by Amy and Rory who looked around in amazement.

"Venice." The Doctor spread out his arms trying to get her excited. "Venezia. La Serenissima. Impossible city. Preposterous city. Founded by refugees running from Attila the Hun. It was just a collection of little wooden huts in the middle of the marsh, but became one of the most powerful cities in the world." The Doctor rambled on as they walked through the crowd. "Constantly being invaded, constantly flooding, constantly just beautiful." A woman gave him a flirty look which he quickly passed by before Stella noticed. "Ah, you got to love Venice. So many people did. Byron, Napoleon, Casanova. Ooo, that reminds me." The Doctor checked his watch. "1580. That's all right. Casanova doesn't get born for a hundred and forty five years. Don't want to run into him. I owe him a chicken."

"You owe Casanova a chicken?" Rory looked to him.

"We had a bet." The Doctor said before they were stopped by an official.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Papers, if you please." The man said. "Proof of residency, current bill of medical inspection."

"There you go, fellow. All to your satisfaction, I think you'll find." The Doctor said holding up his psychic paper.

"I am so sorry your Holiness. I didn't realize." The inspector said quickly.

"No worries." The Doctor blessed him as Stella walked up to them, but keeping a painfully obvious distance between herself and the Doctor. "You were just doing your job."

"Sorry, what exactly is your job?" Stella asked cocking her head to the side.

"Checking for aliens Countess." The inspector said with a small bow to Stella who raised her eyebrow a bit. "Visitors from foreign lands what might bring the plague with them."

"Oh, that's nice. See where you bring me? The plague." Amy smacked the Doctor on the arm.

"Don't worry, Viscountess. No, we're under quarantine here. No one comes in, no one goes out, and all because of the grace and wisdom of our patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri." The inspector said with a wide smile as Amy held herself up a little more regally.

"How interesting." The Doctor said thoughtfully. "I heard the plague died out years ago."

"Not out there. No, Signora Calvierri has seen it with her own eyes. Streets are piled high with bodies, she said." The inspector told them.

"Did she now." The Doctor mused.

"How horrible." Stella mumbled as Rory took the psychic paper from the Inspector, who moved on to his next target, the Doctor and Stella walking on into the city.

"Er, according to this, I am your eunuch." Rory looked from the psychic paper to Amy who was about to go through the gate as well.

"Oh yeah. I'll explain later." Amy said quickly before rushing after the Doctor and Stella.

-0-

The iron gates of a large estate swung open with a loud creak allowing girls in white dresses with white parasols and heavy veils on their heads to walk out two by two.

"Veils down, girls." A woman in black at the head of them ordered and was obeyed, the veils lowering over their faces.

"The Calvierri girls." A girl who was close to them said in a sotto voice as they watched the procession from across the canal, a man quickly rushing up to the girls.

"What do you want?" The woman tried to stop him.

"Where's my Isabella?" The man demanded.

"What are you doing? Get away from there." The woman ordered, but the man shoved past her to the girls removing their veils, many of them hissing, until he found his daughter.

"Isabella? Isabella, it's me." The man said, but she showed no recognition, wincing in the light of the bright sun. One of the girls knocked the man down barring her needle like teeth at him with an animalistic growl.

"Girls, come along." The woman said and they all lowered their veils once again moving on. The man made to get up, but was stopped by a young man who held him down with his foot.

"She's gone." He sneered before moving on as well with a flourish of his cape.

"Isabella! It's me!" The man called out as two guards grabbed him pulling him up and away from the girls. "Isabella!"

"What was that about?" Amy asked looking back to where the Doctor and Stella should have been standing. "I hate it when they do that."

-0-

The Doctor and Stella came upon the man as he made his way through a narrow street, his steps heavy with anger and sadness. The Doctor slipped across the path to some stairs just behind the man before he spoke.

"Who are those girls?" The Doctor asked gaining his attention as Stella leaned against the wall opposite the Doctor.

"I thought everyone knew about the Calvierri school." The man eyed them.

"Our first day here." Stella shrugged as she tilted her head to the side. "It's okay."

"Parents do all sorts of things to get their children into good schools." The Doctor mused as he stepped down from the stairs walking over to Guido along with Stella. "They move house, they change religion."

A man passed by, the three of them going silent until he was out of ear shot.

"So why are you trying to get her out?" Stella rocked on her heels, her hands behind her back.

"Something happens in there. Something magical, something evil." The man said bitterly. "My own daughter didn't recognize me." Then his eyes filled with fear. "And the girl who pushed me away, her face, like an animal."

"I think it's time we met this Signora Calvierri." The Doctor commented slinging his arm around Guido's shoulders while Stella looped her arms through Guido's free arm humming in agreement.

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La Signora was on her knees before her Steward in a stone courtyard, drinking deeply from a golden goblet, her face one of rapture as she drank.

"Mother?" Francesco called out as he came down to her from the stairs.

"Mummy's hydrating, Francesco." Rosanna said taking another goblet.

"And we never interrupt Mummy when she's hydrating." Francesco said as she drained the second goblet of liquid then sat down on the ground, Francesco laying on her lap. "We were accosted again. A man made a grab for one of the girls. The longer we wait, the greater the risk of discovery. I mean, we've already converted more than enough. Surely it's time to introduce them to my brothers?"

"I shall decide when we have enough." Rosanna replied.

"If it's more you want, let me take the girls into the city tonight. We could…"Francesco started, but Rosanna cut him off.

"We follow the plan. Let them hammer on our door. Beg to be taken." Rosanna grinned while Francesco frowned, throwing a small tantrum as he snapped to his feet and Carlo came up helping Rosanna up.

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Amy and Rory walked around Venice as Rory tried to sort through everything. Amy had left with a strange man and woman, made out with the woman's man, and not only that, she had done it all on the night before their wedding.

"And what have you been doing?" Rory asked her tensely.

"Well, running, and fighting. I've been scared. More scared than I thought was…" Amy turned to him, clearly trying to put on a show, but Rory was not buying it.

"Did you miss me?" Rory cut her off.

"I knew I'd be coming back." Amy hedged as he punched him playfully in the shoulder.

"He was right." Rory scoffed as he started to stomp off. "It blots out everything else."

"Rory, this is our date." Amy took his hands in hers stopping him, her voice pleading. "Let's not do this. Not now."

"Huh." Rory gave in, the amazement of the situation dawned on him. "We are in Venice and it is 1580."

"I know." Amy grinned pulling him along, both of them laughing as Francesco watched them leave from a stairway.

"Flowers, signor?" A young girl offered him, but he shook his head and she wondered off to find more customers.

Francesco glanced from Rory and Amy then followed the flower girl around the corner, where she had paused to look over her flowers. Upon seeing Francesco she smiled offering a flower again thinking he had changed his mind as he placed his hand over hers still holding the flowers, she was wrong. Rory was about to take a photograph of Amy making a funny face in front of a building when they heard the terrified scream of the young flower girl.

"What was that?" Rory questioned as they ran back in time to see Francesco with blood on his sharp teeth and the girl with two holes in her neck. Francesco hissed, raising his cloak to cover his face as he swooped out of the alley pass the couple and a few others who had come to see what the scream was about. Rory instantly knelt down checking on the girl and letting out a sigh of relief.

"She'll be okay." Rory said as he looked up to find Amy starting to edge away as she looked after Francesco's departing form. "Where are you? Amy, come back!"

Amy ran after Francesco as fast as she could, but lost him when an alleyway opened straight onto the canal. She looked out over the water as she was unknowingly watched from underneath the water herself before she turned away going back to Rory.

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"You have my daughter." Guido charged up to the gates of the school, the guards keeping him back as he yelled. "Isabella!"

"No, you're not coming in. Just stop there. Look, we've told you." The guards ordered, but the distraction enabled the Doctor and Stella to sneak past and round to the water gat where he soniced their way in.

"You have my daughter. Isabella! I demand you let me see my daughter." Guido called out.

"Go away." A guard shoved him back.

"Isabella, it's me. It's your father." Guido did not give up.

"We will arrest you." A guard threatened.

"Isabella!" Guido called out one last time.

"Give it up, will you. Move off." The Guard said and Guido reluctantly did so praying that the Doctor and Stella's plan worked.

-0-

The Doctor and Stella went quietly down a stone staircase to an area with a vaulted roof. They glanced around themselves, the Doctor taking note of the ornate mirror on one wall opposite three wood doors.

"Hello, handsome." The Doctor walked up to the mirror checking his teeth in the reflection. Stella shook her head with an amused smile as she walked up to the Doctor adjusting his bow for him, she could never stay angry at him for long. "And hello beautiful." Stella hummed in acknowledgement, her hands resting on his chest, the Doctor reaching up covering them with his own, holding them over his hearts. The Doctor furrowed his brows taking note of how she was staring at their hands, not meeting his gaze. "You know I love you, right? That what I said before, I didn't mean it at all, not like that, I just ramble sometimes and…"

"I know." Stella cut him off, but was still frowning a bit. "Was she really that good?"

"Nothing compared to you." The Doctor said releasing one of her hand tucking a finger under her chin and tilting her head up. The Doctor ducked his head, both of them pausing centimeters from each other's lips and eyes sliding to the side where they spotted five girls in white robes behind them who had no reflections.

"Who are you?" The asked in unison, the Doctor and Stella facing them wide eyed.

"How are you doing that? I am loving it. You're like Houdini." The Doctor said wit an excited grin.

"Only five slightly scary girls." Stella pointed out.

"And he was shorter." The Doctor commented.

"Will be shorter." Stella corrected.

"We're rambling." The Doctor slipped his hand into Stella's entwining their fingers.

"I'll ask you again, signor, signora. Who are you?" The five girls asked.

"Why don't you check this out?" The Doctor held out an ID card with a photograph of his first face on it. The girls stared at it blankly, and not getting the reaction he thought he would the Doctor looked at it.

"Library card. Of course, it's with…" The Doctor mimed a large nose.

"Rory." Stella said.

"He's…." The Doctor groaned.

"With Amy." Stella nodded.

"I need a spare." The Doctor sighed.

"Yes you do." Stella nodded as she started to pull the Doctor back.

"Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight and can't be seen. Ha. Am I thinking what I think I'm thinking?" The Doctor became excited again at the prospect.

"But the city. Why shut down the city?" Stella questioned. "Unless…"

"Leave now, signor and signora, or we shall call for the Steward, if you are lucky." The girls grinned as they bared their needle like teeth and started to advance on the Doctor and Stella, hissing. The couple ran out of the room to the stairs, the girls following.

"Tell me the whole plan." The Doctor said as he paused before the stairs, but received no answer. "One day that will work."

"No it won't." Stella shook her head.

"Listen, I would love to stay here. This whole thing. I'm thrilled. Oh, this is Christmas." The Doctor ran back up the stairs pulling Stella along with him leaving the creepy girls behind.

-0-

Night was beginning to fall, the torches lit to light the streets of the city, as the Doctor and Stella ran through the crowds of Venice in search of their companions. They ran straight into Amy meeting her in the same place the Doctor and Stella had left her and Rory.

"Doctor! Stella!" Amy called out to them.

"We just met some vampires." The Doctor cheered as he and Amy gripped each other's arms.

"We just saw a vampire." Amy said at the same time and the started to talk over each other.

"And creepy girls and everything." The Doctor said at the same time.

"Vampires." Amy cheered and they started to jump up and down just as Rory ran up to them.

"We think we just saw a vampire." Rory told them, out of breath.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know." The Doctor nodded with a large grin.

"Amy was just telling us." Stella stepped between the Doctor and Amy wrapping his arms around her as she pressed her back to his chest, Amy wisely backing up to stand next to Rory, not missing the icy look Stella shot her.

"Yeah, yeah." Amy nodded, a little more sedate now. "The Doctor and Stella actually went to their house."

"Oh….Right….Well…." Rory nodded, looking a little put out.

"Okay. So, first we need to get back in there somehow." The Doctor informed them as he laid his chin on top of Stella's head.

"What?" Rory yelped.

"How do we do that?" Amy asked in excitment.

"Back in where?" Rory questioned, but was still being ignored.

"Come and meet our new friend." The Doctor said taking Stella's hand and leading them down the street. The Doctor sped up a bit putting some space between them. "Stella, you can't keep just shutting Amy out."

"I have no idea what you're talking about or who for that matter." Stella said tensely.

"Stella…" The Doctor sighed.

"Well obviously she doesn't feel too bad about what she did; she hasn't even tried to apologize." Stella bit out.

"I'm sure she's just waiting for the right time." The Doctor tried to calm down her anger, but a scoff was all he got in return before she tugged him on clearly not wanting to talk about it anymore.

-0-

After introductions were over Guido spread out a vellum map of Venice on the table. They were all crowded around it as Guido showed them what he knew of the building so far. The Doctor had noticed that Stella kept herself between himself and Amy at all times, Amy had notice this as well, but neither brought it up verbally.

"As you saw, there's no clear way in. The House of Calvierri is like a fortress." Guido pointed out to them. "But there's a tunnel underneath it, with a ladder and shaft that leads up into the house." Guido ran his finger along the pathway. "I tried to get in once myself, but I hit a trapdoor."

"You need someone on the inside." Amy commented easily.

"No." The Doctor said right away, not looking up from the map.

"You don't even know what I was going to say." Amy defended herself.

"Er, that we pretend you're an applicant for the school to get you inside." The Doctor said glancing between her and the map.

"And tonight you come down and open the trapdoor to let us in." Stella rolled her eyes.

"Oh. So you do know what I was going to say." Amy's face fell.

"Are you insane?" Rory snapped.

"We don't have another option." Amy argued.

"He said no, Amy. Listen to him." Rory said.

"There is another option." Guido pointed to the collection of barrels behind Rory. "I work at the Arsenale." The Doctor took a sniff of the barrels that Rory happened to be sitting on. "We build the warships for the navy."

"Gunpowder." The Doctor said and Rory slowly edged away from it into some dead rabbits hanging from the ceiling near the fireplace. "Most people just nick stationery from where they work. Look, I have a thing about guns and huge quantities of explosive."

"What do you suggest, then?" Guido snapped slamming his fists on the table before turning angrily to the fire, poking at it with a metal shovel. "We wait until they turn her into an animal?"

"I'll be there three, four hours, tops." Amy said as she sat on the table crossing her legs, the Doctor smiling at her courage while Rory rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It can't keep happening like this." The Doctor collapsed onto a small bed pulling Stella down next to him where she nuzzled into his side, his arm wrapped lovingly around her. "This is how they go. But we have to know." The Doctor gave in with a tired sigh, his cheek resting against Stella's head. "We go together, say you're my daughter."

"What? Don't listen to him." Rory said quickly rushing over to her. "Send in Stella, she's probably trained for this sort of thing."

"Your daughter? You look about nine." Amy scoffed.

"Brother, then." The Doctor replied.

"Too weird. Fiancé." Amy said causing Stella to snap to her feet before the Doctor could stop her taking a challenging step toward Amy.

"I'm not having you running around telling people he's your fiancé." Stella ground out causing Amy to shrink back. "Watch it Pond, you're already on thin ice."

"Sorry Stella." Amy mumbled as Stella shot her one more looked before settling back against the Doctor who let out a breath. The Doctor gave Stella an admonishing look which she ignored. "But Rory's right."

"Thank you." Rory said in relief.

"I mean, they've already seen the Doctor and Stella." Amy said then turned to Rory. "You should do it."

"Me?" Rory pointed to himself.

"Yeah." Amy smiled ruffling his hair. "You can be my brother."

"Why is him being your brother weird, but with me, it's okay?" Rory questioned in annoyance.

"Actually, I thought you were her fiancé." Guido pointed from the Doctor to Amy then to the Doctor and Stella. "And that you were siblings."

"Yeah, that's not helping." The Doctor took note of Stella's fists clenched hard.

"This whole thing is mental. They're vampires, for God's sake." Rory said in frustration.

"We hope." Stella said with a dark look.

"So if they're not vampires?" Amy questioned cautiously.

"Makes you wonder what could be so bad it doesn't actually mind us thinking it's a vampire." The Doctor replied bearing his teeth.

Later on Stella was sitting at the table in Guido's home where she was playing Tsuki no Densetsu on her recorder. The Doctor had commented that the song reminded him of her so she played it quite often.

Amy was changing in Isabella's room while Rory and Guido were swapping clothes elsewhere with the Doctor explaining the plan to a nervous Rory. Stella heard the door to Isabella's room open and close as Amy came out, hesitantly walking over to the table as Stella tucked away her instrument once her song was done.

"So what do you think?" Amy twirled around with a smile, but the frown on Stella's face caused hers to fall.

"It's fine." Stella said not even bothering to look before she started in on the plan, telling Amy everything she needed to know. Once she was done Stella stood to her feet making for the door. "Hope you got all that, I'm not repeating."

"Stella…I…" Amy ran up to her placing a hand on her shoulder that was quickly shrugged off, but Amy didn't give up. "I'm sorry, about kissing the Doctor, I really am, it was just with everything that happened and he was so amazing…I just lost my head I guess."

"That is no excuse." Stella turned back to Amy, arms crossed. The Doctor had told her to try and patch things up with Amy before he had left with the guys, Stella reluctantly agreeing. "You knew that we were together, that we were engaged."

"I know…I know…I'm sorry…" Amy said desperately, trying to find the words, but couldn't think of them. Stella eyed her for a moment taking note of the pleading look Amy was giving her and seeing true repentance let out a soft sigh let all of her anger go in one breath.

"I accept your apology." Stella said with a soft sigh.

"Really?!" Amy smiled and wrapped her in a hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you." Amy chanted causing Stella to smile. "So…are we ok?"

"We're ok." Stella assured her as they released one another, Stella's face going serious again. "Be warned though Pond, if you ever kiss him again or even attempt it I will leave you back in Leadworth faster than you can blink and we will not come back for you, got it?"

"Yes ma'am." Amy nodded her head rapidly, her eyes wide.

"Fantastic." Stella beamed looping her arm through Amy's before pulling her out of the house. "Now let's go see what the boys are up to and get this mission going."

-0-

Rory and Amy were standing before Rosanna who sat regally on her throne and Francesco who looked board out of his wits, dressed in appropriate period costume. Amy stood looking only slightly more confident then Rory who looked on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

"So, basically, both of our parents are dead from getting the plague." Rory stuttered out while worrying Guido's hat in his hands. "I'm a gondola…driver, so money's a bit tight, so having my sister go to your school for special people would be brilliant." Rory went on as Francesco straightened up eyeing Amy. "Cheers."

"Have we met?" Francesco asked looking to Amy.

"I've just got one of those faces." Rory said.

"I wasn't talking to you." Francesco said as he pointed to Rory and walked toward them.

"She's got the same face, which is because she's my sister." Rory explained weakly as Francesco cirled around them stopping next to Amy.

"Carlo, explain yourself. Why have you brought me this imbecile?" Rosanna demanded of her steward.

"Signora, they have references from His Majesty the King of Sweden." Carlo explained surprising Rosanna.

"What? Let me see." Rosanna ordered and Rory stepped forward with the psychic paper whilst Francesco circled Amy, his eyes roving her like a searchlight.

"Well, now I see what got my Steward so excited." Rosanna commented as she eyed the paper then looked to her son handing the paper back to Rory. "What say you, Francesco? Do you like her?"

"Oh, I do, Mother. I do." Francesco breathed out as he got closer to Amy.

"Then we would be delighted to accept her. Say goodbye to your sister." Rosanna said as Carlo hustled Rory away.

"Tell Uncle Doctor and Aunt Stella I'll see you all really soon, okay? I'll be fine." Amy called out after him not seeing Francesco baring his fangs behind her.

"Amy." Rory said one last time before the door was shut and Amy was left on her own.

When Carlo returned he led Amy through the house up a stone staircase, past a lot of pale young women, into a room with several beds under a large, ornately decorated dome.

"There are clothes on the bed. Get changed and wait here." Carlo ordered gesturing to the bed with a white gown on it.

"Blimey. This is private education, then?" Amy looked around as Carlo left with all but one of the girls. Amy walked over to the last girl sitting on her bed starring out into nothing. "Hey. Hello, I'm Amy. What's your name?

"Isabella." She answered just as the sound of the door shutting echoed up to them.

"Listen, we're going to get you out of here, but I need you to tell me what's going on." Amy told her as she sat on the bed. "What is this place? What are they doing?"

"They er, they come at night. They gather around my bed, and they take me to a room with this green light and a chair with straps, as if for a surgeon." Isabella said fearfully as she closed her eyes with the memory of the pain then snapped them back open as she looked to Amy.

"What happens in there?" Amy asked.

"I wake up here. And the sunlight burns my skin like candle wax." Isabella said with tears in her eyes as a bell tolled the hour.

-0-

Guido poled his gondola smoothly along the canal wearing Rory's stag party t-shirt and the doctor holding a torch to light their way, Rory next to him and Stella sitting across from him in the boat. All of them were worried for Amy, but none more than Rory.

"She'll be fine." The Doctor said trying to reassure him.

"You can promise me that, can you?" Rory snapped.

"Have faith Rory, Amy can more than handle herself." Stella said confidently.

"We're here." Guido said as he stopped the boat in front of a secret passage into the house. The three time travelers climbed out of the gondola and made their way into the mansion.

"Right. Okay, I'll go first. If anything happens to me, go back." The Doctor told them as they made their way up a small set of wooden stairs to a door.

"What happened, between you and Amy?" Rory asked suddenly. "You said she kissed you."

"Now? You want to do this now?" The Doctor asked in exasperation, glancing over to Stella. She reached out taking his hand in hers, reassuring him that she was not mad.

"I have a right to know. I'm getting married in four hundred and thirty years." Rory said as they went on as the Doctor opened the Door and they went into a dark corridor.

"She was frightened. Stella was frightened. I was frightened." The Doctor said, trying to explain. "But we survived, you know, and the relief of it, and so she kissed me."

"And you kissed her back." Rory spat out.

"No, I would never Rory." The Doctor said wrapping his arm around Stella. "Rory, she kissed me because I was there. It would have been you. It should have been you.

"Yeah, it should have been me." Rory said bitterly.

"Exactly. That's why we brought you here." Stella said before a strong wind blew out their torch.

"Can we go and see the vampires now, please?" The Doctor asked softly.

-0-

Amy was exploring the damp basement, not noticing the corpses all around her. She searched until she found the cover of the trapdoor to the tunnel, and pulled back the metal bolts. She started to leave, but walked straight into Carlo, dropping her candle.

-0-

They finally came to the end of the tunnel and were under the trapdoor. Stella looked up as she stood under it then to the boys as she cupped her hands lacing her fingers together like a stirrup.

"Ok, who's first?" Stella asked causing Rory to chuckle and Stella to raise an eyebrow.

"Maybe we should boost you up first." Rory pointed out, but the Doctor was already running over to Stella.

"Me first." The Doctor said as Stella easily boosted him up and holding him there giving the Doctor time to open the door. "Push. Come on." Stella raised him higher until he was able to climb out, all with relative ease. "There we are, thank you love."

"Or not." Rory said in shock.

"You next Rory." Stella looked to the nurse.

"How…?" Rory started to ask.

"Cyborg." Stella shrugged.

"Right…" Rory hesitated before going for it. "…right…"

Stella gave Rory a boost out of the trapdoor with the Doctor pulling him up.

"My turn." Stella called up to the boys who leaned through the trapdoor allowing Stella to jump up grasping their hands as they pulled her up. "Thank you very much." Stella stood up looking around. "Amy? Where's Amy?"

"Amy?" The Doctor called out as well.

"I can't see a thing. Just as well I brought this, then." Rory produced a tiny penlight while the Doctor pulled out a small light sabre.

"Ultraviolet." The Doctor told Rory who was starring open mouthed. "Portable sunlight."

"Yours is bigger than mine." Rory said.

"Let's not go there boys." Stella shook her head causing both boys go red in the face.

"If we cancel now, we lose the deposit on the village hall." Rory bemoaned as the Doctor and Stella were looking around the large room. "The salsa band."

"Salsa band! I love a good salsa. Doctor after this, Salsa dancing." Stella did a smooth salsa step, the Doctor's eyes going straight to her rolling hips.

"Mucho caliente!" The Doctor commented.

"Gracias mi amor." Stella winked at him as she danced over to him.

"Oh…is this really the time…for…for…that…?" Rory stuttered out.

"I guess not." Stella sighed causing the Doctor to pout slightly. Stella smiled giving him a quick peck on the lips before moving onto a nearby chest, the Doctor opening it to reveal desiccated vampires. "Oh dear…"

"What happened to them?" Rory asked as the Doctor took a closer look with his portable sunlight.

"They've had all the moisture taken out of them." The Doctor told them grimly as he touched the wrist of the skeletal remains.

"That's what vampires do, right? They drink your blood and replace it with their own." Rory pointed out.

"Yeah, except these people haven't just had their blood taken, but all the water in their entire bodies." The Doctor explained.

"Why did they die? Why aren't they like the girls in the school?" Rory asked.

"Maybe not everyone survives the process." Stella said softly causing Rory to groan angrily as he moved away from them.

"You know what's dangerous about you two?" Rory snapped in annoyance. "It's not that you make people take risks, it's that you make them want to impress you. You make it so they don't want to let you down." Rory ranted on and Stella could see the guilt gathering in the Doctor's eyes, a similar feeling festering in her stomach. "You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around."

"Rory, to be fair, you barely know us; we've only met like two times, so shut up" Stella stood up straight with a tired sigh that turned into a slight yelp of surprise.

"Who are you?" Six girls had appeared without their notice, all of them dressed in white gowns. The Doctor waved his UV light at them forcing them back.

"We should run." The Doctor called out taking hold of Stella's hand as they started to run with Rory, the light keeping the girls at bay. "Run."

-0-

"Control yourself, child." Carlos ordered as he forced her down the stairs into a room where Rosanna, her son, and the girls were waiting for her.

"Take your hands off me!" Amy yelled struggling as the room was illuminated with green light, her eyes going wide in fear.

"Psychic paper, did you really think that would work on me?" Rosanna scoffed as she began the interrogation. "Where are you from? Did you fall through the Chasm?"

"Mother this is pointless. Let's just start the process and…" Francesco started impatiently.

"Hold your tongue, Francesco. I need to know what this girl is doing in a world of savages with psychic paper. Who are you with? You see, I scarcely believe your idiot brother sent you. What are you doing in my school?" Rosanna questioned as the chair was brought forward. Francesco took a metal hook hanging it from a ring above the chair, and drip bag was hung from that by one of the girls.

"Okay, I'll tell you. I'm from Ofsted." Amy replied.

"Put her in the chair." Rosanna laughed

"No! Take your hands off me!" Amy shouted as the vampires set up bags of blood and fastened Amy into the chair, Francesco holding her head in place so that her neck was exposed.

"Oh, make sport of me, will you? Tease me as if I were your dog? Well, this dog has a bite, girl." Rosanna bared her fangs approaching the now terrified Amy.

"Doctor!" Amy screamed in pain as Rosanna bit into her neck drinking deeply for a time and when she was done Amy was left in a weakened delirious state.

"Mother, where you drink from her, may we share? I'm so thirsty." Francesco bared his own fangs as he hovered over his mother's bite mark left in Amy's neck.

"Of course, darling." Rosanna said with a smile then started to give her monologue. "This is how it works. First, we drink you until you're dry. Then we fill you with our blood. It rages through you like a fire, changing you, until one morning you awake and your humanity is a dream now faded."

"Or you die. That can happen." Francesco commented offhandedly.

"And if I survive?" Amy asked weakly.

"Then there are ten thousand husbands waiting for you in the water." Rosanna answered.

"Yeah, sorry, I'm kind of engaged." Amy kicked out at Rosanna, damaging a device under her overskirt forcing her to briefly transform into a bony vampire fish lobster mutant.

"Oh! Rory, come on." The Doctor called out as they ran down the halls.

"Faster!" Stella urged them on causing Rosanna, Francesco and Carlo to ran out to stop them.

"Cab for Amy Pond?" The Doctor said with a nervous smile as Isabella came to free Amy from the chair.

"She bit me." Amy complained as fish girls blocked the Doctor Stella and Rory's retreat.

"This rescue plan. Not exactly watertight, is it?" Rosanna said before the Doctor brandished his UV light again.

"Ah ha!" The Doctor forced them back as Isabella and Amy ran in.

"Rory." Amy called out.

"Amy." Rory said in relief.

"Quickly, through here." Isabella led them away down another hall.

"Seal the house." Rosanna ordered as the girls and Francesco went after them.

"They're not vampires." Amy called out.

"What?" The Doctor called back.

"I saw them. I saw her. They're not vampires, they're aliens." Amy told them as the Doctor soniced the trapdoor hatch.

"Classic." The Doctor grinned as they started laughing.

"That's good news? What is wrong with you people?" Rory said in frustration, the banging on the trap door echoing down to them.

"Now we know what they are we can find a way to stop them." Stella explained as she grabbed Rory pulling him along.

"Come on, Rory. Move." The Doctor ordered as Francesco and the vampires caught up to them, but were held back by the UV light causing Francesco to send the girls ahead of him. "Keep moving. Come on, guys."

They came to the door forcing it open revealing daylight, and church bells ringing with the dawning sun while down in the canal Guido was still waiting impatiently with his gondola.

"Quickly, quickly. Get out. Quick. Quick." They all ran out at her urging, but Isabella recoiled as the sunlight touched her skin.

"Come on. Run." The Doctor ordered.

"I can't." Isabella flinched back.

"Yes you can!" Stella ran back to her pulling off her long sleeved thick knit fur lined hooded coat that reached down to her ankles and threw it around Isabella pushing her out right before the vampires could grab her, Stella on the other hand was pulled back before she could get away. "Doctor!"

"Stella!" The Doctor yelled as the vampires shut the heavy door leading to the tunnel before the Doctor could get to them. He slammed into the door touching the metal on it, and was electrocuted sending him tumbling down the stairs. Rory ran over to him quickly looking him over as Amy hovered nearby.

"Is he dead?" Amy asked fearfully.

"No, he's breathing." Rory assured her just before they packed him off into the gondola where Guido and Isabella were waiting. They had to get out of there before the guards came for them if they were to have any chance of saving Stella.

-0-

This was not the first nor would this be the last time this had happened to her of that she was sure, in fact this was the fifth time so far or maybe sixth, in short Stella was being made to walk the plank again. She had to admit though it was much better than being burned at the stake or hung, those were the days.

"And so in memory of the children lost to the Silence, the enemy is delivered to the arms of those she trespassed against." Carlo finished reading from a long scroll.

"Do you expect me to drown or what? Because I'm telling you now, I can swim." Stella pointed out only for a guard to prod her with a long axe spear. "Ok, ok, I'm going." Stella rolled her eyes before she started to bounce on the end of the plank her hands pointed out in front of her. "She's planning a double-twisting interrupted forward-flying two-and-a-half with a combo tuck and pike, high degree of difficulty. Cannonball!" Stella jumped into the water with a shout and came back up with a laugh. "Nice, refreshing." Bubbles started to rise from the water. "Bit cold for a hot tub. Whoa! Something touched my leg!" Stella yelped. "They're all around me. They bite!" Stella was pulled down under the water. "Help!"

"Now leave us." Rosanna ordered when the water had gone still. Carlo clapped and the vampires and the guards went back inside the house as Rosanna kneeled by the water which started to bubble once again.

"Mother, change your form, or my brothers will think they are being fed twice today." Francesco cautioned her as the bubbles grew in canal in front of her.

"Not long now. It's not long." Rosanna smiled leaning over the water with a loving smile before getting up and going inside with Francesco.

Stella watched Rosanna from beneath the water, to far down for the Rosanna to see her. Around her Rosanna's children were being kept back thanks to a sonic pulse she was sending out from her hands. With a shake of her head she swam down the water ways having enough air in her lungs to allow her to remain under the water until she was close enough to Guido's home not wanting to be spotted by any of her goons. She took note that Rosanna's kids did not follow her, staying close to the house like the good little mommy's boys they were.

"Nice swim, good swim…" Stella swam to the bank then pulled herself up onto the sidewalk, people looking at her strangely, but a man was kind enough to give her a hand up.

"Are you alright?" He asked in concern.

"Yeah, just went for a bit of a dip. Pardon me." Stella quickly walked back to Guido's home where she found Amy, Rory, Isabella, and Guido, but no Doctor about to go inside.

"Hello all." Stella called out.

"Stella!" Amy and Rory ran over to her, Rory instantly checking over a bite in her shoulder as well as taking note of a couple on her legs.

"What happened to you? You're soaking and are those bite marks?" Amy asked wide eyed as her hand went to her own bite wound on her neck.

"Got caught, was made to walk the plank, and was almost fish food." Stella gave them the short version of her story. "Where's the Doctor?"

"He went back to confront Rosanna to get you. The Doctor was out of it for a bit, electrocuted and all. We tried to find a way in right away, but it was no use." Rory told her and explained that after they had gotten the Doctor into the Gondola and rowed away to safety he had come to asking for her.

The look in his eyes when they had told him what had happened had been scary enough to make them feel almost sorry for Rosanna and the others. The fire and ice of rage that burned was like nothing they had ever seen before.

"Well then I should probably go get him before he does something stupid, back in a bit." Stella ran as fast as she could back to Rosanna's house.

-0-

Rosanna entered her throne room alone to find the Doctor sitting on her throne. The Doctor spoke first as they eyed each other, sizing the enemy up as it was.

"Long way from Saturnyne, aren't you, Sister of the Water?" The Doctor commented as he tapped the arm rest of the throne.

"No, let me guess. The owner of the psychic paper." Rosanna smirked as she walked closer in a zig zagging pacing manner. "Then I take it you're both refugees, like me?"

"I'll make you a deal. An answer for an answer." The Doctor said, easing his way into finding Stella. He needed to know what he was dealing with lest they use her as a hostage. "You're using a perception filter. It doesn't change your features, but manipulates the brainwaves of the person looking at you. But seeing one of you for the first time in, say, a mirror, the brain doesn't know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank, hence no reflection."

"Your question?" Rosanna asked.

"Why can we see your big teeth?" The Doctor asked leaning back in the throne

"Self-preservation over rides the mirage. The subconscious perceives the threat and tries to alert the conscious brain." Rosanna replied as she paced closer.

"What did you do to Stella?" The Doctor questioned tensely.

"My turn." Rosanna replied with a happy smirk. "Where are you from?"

"Gallifrey." The Doctor answered.

"You should be in a museum or in a mausoleum." Rosanna commented as the Doctor scoffed.

"Why are you here?" The Doctor asked.

"We ran from the Silence." Rosanna answered gaining the Doctor's attention. "Why are you here?"

"Wedding present." The Doctor said. "The Silence?"

"There were cracks. Some were tiny. Some were as big as the sky." Rosanna's eyes became haunted with the memory, with her loss. "Through some we saw worlds and people, and through others we saw Silence and the end of all things. We fled to an ocean like ours, and the crack snapped shut behind us. Saturnyne was lost."

"So Earth is to become Saturnyne Mark Two." The Doctor summed up.

"And you can help me. We can build a new society here, as others have. What do you say?" Rosanna asked as the Doctor stood to his feet, but before he could answer Stella did it for him.

"He says no." Stella walked in as she cracked her knuckles, Rosanna's eyes going wide and her mouth opened to call out to the guards. "Don't bother calling the guards; they're incapacitated at the moment."

"Stella." The Doctor smiled in relief as she walked up to them, the Doctor's face becoming worried when he saw her wounds. "You're soaking and you're hurt."

"That's thanks to Rosanna here. She tried to feed me to her kids." Stella glared at the fish woman.

"You survived? How?" Rosanna demanded, worried for her children.

"I'm clever." Stella replied with a dark look. "Now I have a question, how do we reverse what you did to Isabella?"

"Isabella?" Rosanna echoed.

"The girl who saved our friend." Stella ground out.

"Now why would I tell you that even if there was a way?" Rosanna smirked as Stella's glare intensified. Rosanna looked from Stella to the Doctor, coming closer to him than necessary. "I need an answer, Doctor. A partnership." Rosanna eyed the Doctor up and down. "Any which way you choose."

"I don't think that's such a good idea, do you? I'm a Time Lord. You're a big fish. Think of the children." The Doctor said with a scoff as he wrapped his arm around Stella's waist holding her close. "Plus I don't believe my fiancé here would appreciate it."

"Two words, fish fry." Stella deadpanned.

"Carlo?" Rosanna called out as she backed away from them. "You're right. We're nothing alike. I will bend the heavens to save my race, while you philosophize."

"This ends today. We will tear down the House of Calvierri, stone by stone." The Doctor said as Carlo came up taking hold of them, but the Doctor jerked out of his grasp. "Take your hands off me, Carlo."

The Doctor glared at Carlo who had a shock of fear in his eyes. They started to walked out, but Stella came to a sudden stop looking back to Rosanna.

"And you know why?" Stella asked her. "You didn't know Isabella's name." Stella said with a dark look. "You didn't know Isabella's name and I doubt you know the names of the girls whose lives you tore apart."

"Open the gates." Carlo ordered as he escorted them the rest of the way out.

-0-

Rosanna came out into the courtyard taking the stairs down, the ame courtyard where she hydrated everyday.

"Attend. Attend." Rosanna called out as the girls, servants, and Fracesco came out into the courtyard at her command. "The storm is coming." Rosanna announced as she threw out her arms then briefly transformed into her real form causing Carlo to stagger back down the stairs in shocked horror. "Argh!"

"Mummy, what's wrong with your perception filter?" Francesco questioned as he walked toward the stairs.

"The idiot child must have damaged it when she kicked me." Rosanna growled as another brief transformation took her over before she was able to fix it and stabilize her form. "Now, assemble the girls. I have a job for them."

-0-

The Doctor checked Amy's puncture wounds with his sonic screwdriver slowly sonicing them closed. He checked the readings with a flick of his wrist.

"You're fine, open wide." The Doctor assured her as he popped a humbug into her mouth.

Guido and Rory were back in their own clothes back and Stella had changed into a pair of dark green harem pants, a black lace scooped neck quarter length sleeved crop top, and a pair of black sandals, all of which she kept in her jacket pockets in case of emergency. She placed her still wet hair in a high braided bun decorated with dark green ivy that had large leaves and small white flowers.

"Now this should reverse what they did to you. Just need a sample of your original DNA, thanks dad…" Stella took out a patch placing it on Isabella's arm then pricked Guido's finger causing him to gasp slightly. She pressed his finger to the patch that turned from peach to red before she let go of his finger. "And when that turns peach again it will mean you have been restored to your normal self." Stella handed her a bright pink lollipop with purple flecks. She really hoped the patch worked. She had talked it over with the Doctor and this was the best they could come up with to help Isabella. "And this will make you feel better until then."

"Thank you, I didn't think I would make it out of there." Isabella said sincerely.

"No problem, no one should have to go through something like that." Stella smiled gently.

"Have…have you ever…?" Isabella struggled, her brows furrowed.

"I did once a long time ago, but that is not a story I like to share." Stella said softly.

"Do you ever heal from it?" Isabella asked.

"One day you will and you have your father to help you." Stella told her placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "You'll be fine, I promise just take it easy for a bit. Now we have important matters to attend to, right Doctor."

They all took seats around the table to discuss what was happening. Stella was on the Doctor's right with Guido next to her and Isabella next to him, her head resting on his shoulder as she dozed. Amy and Rory were across from them, all of them watching as the Doctor paced.

"Right. I need to think. Come on, brain. Think, think, think. Think." The Doctor chanted as he tried to put it all together plopping down on a seat at the head of the table.

"If they're fish people, it explains why they hate the sun." Amy commented while sucking on her candy.

"Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush." The Doctor covered her mouth.

"It's the school thing I don't understand." Rory said.

"Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush." The Doctor pointedly looked to Amy until she put her hand over Rory's mouth with a roll of her eyes.

"I say we take the fight to them." Guido said.

"Ah, ah, ah." The Doctor stopped him.

"What?" Guido asked as the Doctor looked to Stella who sighed before putting her hand over Guido's mouth with an apologetic look.

"Ah. Her planet dies, so they flee through a crack in space and time and end up here. Then she closes off the city and, one by one, starts changing the people into creatures like her to start a new gene pool. Got it." The Doctor rambled on. "But then what? They come from the sea. They can't survive forever on land, so what's she going to do?"

"Unless she's going to do something to the environment to make the city habitable." Stella said as the Doctor nodded in agreement.

"She said, I shall bend the heavens to save my race." The Doctor put his hands on top of Amy and Stella's heads moving them around as he spoke, both girls exchanging annoyed looks. "Bend the heavens. Bend the heavens."

"She's going to sink Venice." The Doctor and Stella said together in realization as they all removed their hands from each other's mouths.

"She's going to sink Venice?" Guido echoed in shock.

"And repopulate it with the girls she's transformed." The Doctor went on.

"You can't repopulate somewhere with just women. You need blokes." Rory pointed out as he picked up a wooden spoon

"She's got blokes." Stella said as she rubbed her face.

"Where?" The Doctor asked her.

"In the canal. She said to me there are ten thousand husbands waiting in the water." Amy added on in realization.

"Yeah, I had a bit of swim with them." Stella gestured to her bandaged bite wounds, one on her right arm, two on her left, and a few scattered along her legs. The Doctor had not been happy about it, ranting on and on so Stella didn't even have the chance to tell him how she had gotten them. "Only the male offspring survived the journey here apparently."

"She's got ten thousand children swimming around the canals, waiting for Mum to make them some compatible girlfriends." The Doctor surmised then pulled a grossed out face. "Urgh. I mean, I've been around a bit, but really that's, that's eugh." A loud thump and creak echoed from upstairs causing them all to look up. "The people upstairs are very noisy."

"There aren't any people upstairs." Guido said.

"Do you know, I knew you were going to say that." The Doctor said with a nervous smile. "Did anyone else know he was going to say that?"

"No, but it is our luck." Stella said as she stood up from the table.

"Is it the vampires?" Rory asked.

"Like I said, they're not vampires, fish from space." The Doctor corrected him holding up his UV light right before a window was shattered and the vampire fish gathered in the door ways and windows.

"Aren't we on the second floor?" Rory asked as Guido and Isabella performed the sign of the cross.

"Flying fish." Stella shrugged as the Doctor waved his UV light at them, then Stella used her sonic abilities to reveal their true appearance.

"What's happened to them? Is that what happened to you?" Guido looked to his daughter.

"There's nothing left of them. They've been fully converted." The Doctor said as the fish girls closed in.

"Will I…?" Isabella looked at them fearfully.

"We got to you before they were able to finish it and now it's been reversed." Stella gestured to her now peach colored patch, glad to see it had worked. "You won't end up like that."

"Blimey, fish from space have never been so buxom." The Doctor said then looked to Stella who had raised an eyebrow at him. "Uh…not that I'm looking, I only have eyes for your…."

Stella clamped her hand over his mouth, her face beat red.

"Stop talking, move, now." Stella ordered, the Doctor nodding quickly.

"Come on." Rory said as they made a run for it, Guido grabbing a small barrel of gunpowder pulling the stopper from it allowing it to spill out.

"Give me the lamp." Guido grabbed the portable sunlight from the Doctor forcing the fish girls back, the gunpowder still spilling from his barrel as they ran down the stairs.

"Go, go, go, guys. Keep moving." The Doctor urged them on, his hand firmly grasping Stella's as they ran, Amy, Rory and Isabella running ahead of them. "Go, go, go."

"Stay away from the door." Guido ordered them, closing the door behind them.

"Guido, what are you doing?" The Doctor questioned, then his eyes went wide when Guido threw the lamp on the ground lighting the trail of gunpowder that led all the way to his vast collection of barrels. He almost ran into the Doctor and Stella as he turned to spring away, grabbing them and pulling them along.

"Come on. Come on. Come on." The Doctor, Stella, and Guido ran away, very fast.

"We are Venetians!" Guido called out right before the explosion erupted throughout the building sending them all to the ground.

-0-

Rosanna walked purposefully into her throne room and straight up to her throne.

"Right. To begin, let's fill the sky with fire." Rosanna opened one of the ornaments on the arm of her throne and pressed a button. Instantly gas spewed from a tower on the corner of the house, creating a sudden violent thunderstorm. Rosanna went out to the balcony overlooking the coming chaos that began to consume the city. "Yes."

"In sight of the Lord, protect and keep us." A man called out as the people of Venice were sent into a panic many performing the sign of the cross. Guido, Stella, and the Doctor stood up brushing the debris off from the explosion, the others running up to them.

"Rosanna's initiating the final phase." Stella noted the angry sky.

"We need to stop her. Come on." Amy said right away, but the Doctor stopped her.

"No, no, no. Get back to the Tardis." The Doctor shook his head.

"You can't stop her on your own." Amy argued.

"We don't discuss this." The Doctor nearly yelled. "I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it. Huh?"

"Stella…" Amy tried, hoping she would back her up.

"No Amy, you do as the Doctor says, go back to the Tardis now." Stella said sternly as the red head looked between them feeling betrayed, angry tears in her eyes before she turned storming off.

"Thank you." Rory said to them in relief before running off after Amy.

"You're welcome." The Doctor mumbled.

"Guido, you and Isabella need to get to safety as well, go quickly." Stella told them.

"Thank you Doctor, Stella, for saving our lives." Guido and Isabella hugged them each in turn.

"It's what we do, now go." Stella replied before they ran off.

"Come along Stella, time to go fishing." The Doctor said as they took hold of each other's hands and ran off to Rosanna's home.

-0-

Francesco opened the gates across from where Amy and Rory had paused looking to the sky in shock and horror. He eyed them for a moment as recognition flashed across his eyes and he started to take of his hat and cape.

"Oh my God, what is going on?" Amy asked as a rumbled of thunder and another crash of lightening streaked across the sky.

"The sky, it's like it's boiling." Rory said before Amy took off running again with Rory following as fast as he could, Francesco diving into the canal swimming after them.

-0-

The Doctor and Stella walked into the throne room and up to the throne itself opening the back of it revealing the high tech inner workings. The Doctor ran his sonic over it, but before they could get a reading they were interrupted.

"You're too late." Rosanna said as she walked into the room. "Such determination, just to save one city." Rosanna glided up to them, the Doctor staying on the steps so he towered over her. "Hard to believe it's the same man that let an entire race turn to cinders and ash." Rosanna grinned as she looked up at the sound of the storm. "Now you can watch as my people take their new kingdom."

"The girls have gone, Rosanna." The Doctor told her.

"You're lying." Rosanna's face fell.

"Shouldn't we be dead, hmm?" Stella pointed out.

"Rosanna, please, help us." The Doctor pleaded as she stormed out of the throne room. "There are two hundred thousand people in this city."

"So save them." Rosanna didn't even look back as she departed.

The Doctor and Stella raced outside onto the balcony looking at the raging storm spreading over the city. Down below it people were running scared as cracks of lightening and rolls of thunder echoed all around them with the wind bellowing hard. The Doctor looked up to the bell tower which had begun to ring then grabbed Stella's hand pulling her back inside.

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Amy and Rory ran through the pathways of the labyrinth like city when through an arch way came Francesco cutting them off. They backed away as he advanced then Rory picked up two candlesticks holding them out as a cross.

"Amy, run." Rory called out as he stood between the fish boy and Amy. Francesco knocked the candlesticks out of Rory's hands then turned towards Amy instead of pursuing Rory. "This way, you freak. No!" Rory called out trying to get away from his fiancé. "This way, you big, stupid, great SpongeBob." Rory struggled to think of something to say to get Francesco's attention. "The only thing I've seen uglier than you is your…Mum."

"Huh?" That got Francesco's attention. He froze then turned around angrily looking to Rory who went a bit pale in the face.

"No." Rory backed away as Francesco advanced.

"Did you just say something about Mummy?" He demanded as Rory looked around desperately for a weapon.

He picked up the only thing he could find, a broomstick and jabbed it towards Francesco who watched him unimpressed, then Rory waved it around in what was supposed to be some sort of fighting style. Francesco drew his very real sword and did the same with much more skill and a very uneven fight ensued.

"Careful. Careful." Rory did his best to black the blows. Okay, hit him." Amy called out and Rory jabbed him with the bristles causing no damage what-so-ever, then Amy decided to change tactics and ran through an archway. "This way, bring him this way. Rory!"

The broomstick got chopped in half, but Rory managed to entangle Francesco in some washing hanging from a line then jumped back as Francesco sliced through with his sword.

"Oh. Oh, you stink of fish." Rory wrinkled his nose as he backed away through an archway

"Well, I'm hardly going to smell of cheese and biscuits." Francesco snarled stalking after Rory to where Amy had run.

Rory then tripped back hitting his head hard on the cobblestone ground. Francesco transformed into his true self as he leapt on him intent to end the nurse's life. The fish boy pinned him to the ground and was about to take a chunk of him when Amy called out to them.

"Hey, Mummy's boy!" Amy used her compact mirror to direct sunlight onto Francesco, who instantly burned and exploded, covering Rory with fish ashes.

"Oh." Rory said in disgust as he stood up coughing up some of the ash and trying to dust it from his clothes.

"That was lucky." Amy said closing her compact before racing down the stairs to Rory as he came up them. "Why did you make the sign of the cross, you numpty?"

"Oh. Oh, right, I'm being reviewed now, am I?" Rory said in annoyance that soon dissipated after Amy gave him a passionate kiss.

"Mmm." Amy hummed as they parted. "Now we go help the Doctor and Stella."

"Righty-ho." Rory followed her in a slight daze.

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The rain was pourng hard now as Amy and Rory ran through the crowd toward Rosanna's house. They weaved through an onslaught of screaming terrified Venetians until they came to the front gates.

"Open the gate!" Carlo dragged out a bag filled with gold objects the guards obeying then abandoning their post when they saw that Carlo was making a run for it. Amy and Rory dashed past them through the gates into the house as Carlo tried to gather up his dropped objects.

"It's the Almighty. Look at the sky!" A man called out.

"Get out." Stella ordered upon seeing them running at the same time she and the Doctor came back in from the balcony. "We need to stabilize the storm."

"We're not leaving you." Rory said sternly making the Doctor come out from behind the throne walking over to them agitatedly followed by Stella.

"Right, so one minute it's all you make people a danger to themselves, and the next it's we're not leaving you. But if one of you gets squashed or blown up or eaten, who gets the…" The Doctor's rant was cut off as the house shook violently, knocking them off their feet, only the Doctor remaining on his feet.

"What was that?" Rory asked from where he lay.

"Nothing. Bit of an earthquake." The Doctor brushed him off as he helped Stella back to her feet.

"An earthquake?" Amy echoed in slight alarm as she sat up.

"Manipulate the elements, it can trigger earthquakes." The Doctor explained. "But don't worry about them."

"No?" Rory said in cautious relief as he and Amy stood up.

"No." Stella assured him with a sighing giggle causing them to relax a bit until she went on talking. "Worry about the tidal waves caused by the earthquake."

"Right, Rosanna's throne is the control hub but she's locked the program, so, tear out every single wire and circuit in the throne." The Doctor told them turning back to the throne. "Go crazy. Hit it with a stick, anything." The Doctor ran back up to the throne with the others following. "We need it to shut down and re-route control to the secondary hub, which I'm guessing will also be the generator."

"Be careful." Stella called out as the Doctor ran off blowing her a quick kiss before he left. With a sigh Stella looked to the chair then reared back her fist before sending it straight through is repeatedly, then she picked it up smashing it on the ground until it was in shambles while Amy and Rory watched wide eyed. "Well that's done…" Stella dusted off her hands then noticed the looks. "What? It's been very stressful lately." Stella started to run outside with the others following. "Now, let's go see how my fiancé is doing."

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The Doctor searched for the secondary hub following a thick wire up a set of stone stairs to the bell tower, where the bells were rocking and ringing. The Doctor yelled out in annoyance and pain clamping his hands over his ears as he went the rest of the way up and grabbed onto the clapper.

"Shut up. Shut up." The Doctor chanted until it finally went silent. "That's better." The Doctor started to climb up the outside to the big metal lightning conductor, with the help of the thick power cable. "Oh. Oh. Okay."

"There he is." Rory pointed up to where the Doctor was. "Come on."

"You can do it love." Stella said as the Doctor opened the brass ball to reveal clockwork.

"Come on." Rory and Amy chanted.

The Doctor found a tiny switch and stopped the mechanism. Instantly the rain ceased, the clouds vanished and birds started singing again as the people cheered and applauded.

"You did it!" Rory called out as he and Amy jumped for joy.

"That's my Doctor!" Stella clapped he hands together before rushing back into the house to find the Doctor.

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Rosanna could not turn her perception filter off leaving her in human form, the realization causing her face to fall into great sadness. She undressed quickly glancing over her shoulder from time to time then she approached the water walking onto the plank in her under white gown.

"Rosanna!" The Doctor called out as he stopped at the archway.

"One city to save an entire species. Was that so much to ask?" Rosanna asked tearfully as she stood on the plank looking down at the churning water, the calls of her children coming up from the depths.

"I told you, you can't go back and change time. You mourn, but you live. I know, Rosanna. I did it." The Doctor tried to reason with her as he slowly approached the plank.

"Tell me, Doctor. Can your conscience carry the weight of another dead race?" Rosanna looked back to him. "Remember us." The Doctor was almost to the plank. "Dream of us."

Rosanna stepped off the plank into the water as the Doctor leapt onto the plank to grab her, but missed and the water churned as her sons unknowingly consumed their mother.

"No! No!" The Doctor called out from the edge of the plank as Stella ran in just in time to see what happened. Stella walked up to the plank as the Doctor continued to stare horrified into the canal, the water going deathly still.

"Theta." Stella said softly as he stood up slowly backing back off the blank, his eyes never leaving the canal. When he was back on the stone ground Stella wrapped her arms around him, his arms automatically wrapping around her as well, tightly clinging to her for comfort.

"I couldn't save her, I can't save them…" The Doctor mumbled into her hair.

"Stagnum." Stella said as she leaned back looking up at him.

"What?" The Doctor looked down at her in confusion.

"The planet of interconnecting lakes, they'd be more than willing to accept them into their home, we can take them there and they will live on. Plus they owe me a favor or two." Stella explained with a wide smile. The Doctor let out a cheer as he scooped Stella up swinging her around before setting her back on the ground and kissing her deeply. "I see you approve of my idea."

"Very much so my precious Starlight." The Doctor said as they rushed off to make the arrangements. "After all we can't leave vampire fish swimming throughout the canals Venice."

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The Inspector gave the Doctor his deepest, most respectful bow as they walked by back to the Tardis. The people of Venice were recovering all around them gathering up what they could from the wreckage that was left in the wake of the storm.

"Now then, what about you two, eh? Next stop Leadworth Registry Office. Maybe I can give you away." The Doctor grinned as he walked quickly ahead of them hand in hand with Stella. "And Stella can be maid of honor."

"Sweet." Stella smiled as they stopped outside the Tardis.

"It's fine. Drop me back where you found me. I'll just say you've…" Rory sighed noticing Amy's pensive look as she avoided his gaze.

"Stay. With us. Please. Just for a bit." Amy pleaded with him making him smile a bit before he looked to the Doctor and Stella. "I want you to stay."

"Fine with me." The Doctor said wrapping his arm around Stella holding her close.

"I've love it." Stella agreed resting her head against his shoulder.

"Yeah? Yes, I would like that." Rory's smile grew.

"Nice one. I will pop the kettle on." Amy smiled before looping her arm through Stella's "Hey, look at this Stella. Got our spaceship, got our boys. Our work here is done."

"Oh Amy, our work only starting with those two." Stella laughed as she and Amy went into the Tardis. "Come on, I'll help you with the tea."

"You can get the mugs." Amy said right away.

"Seriously! I am not that bad, I can at least make tea." Stella said in annoyance.

"Er, we are not their boys." Rory said as he stepped into the doorway.

"Yeah, we are." The Doctor clapped him on the back.

"Yeah, we are." Rory nodded and then suddenly, Venice was empty of people, empty of sound, empty of life.

"Rory, listen to that." The Doctor said tensely as he stopped Rory from going inside.

"Er, what? All I can hear is silence." Rory said with a shrug.

'There were cracks. Through some we saw Silence and the end of all things.'

"Look out!" Stella broke the silence as she dashed past the Doctor out of the Tardis with a flaming kettle in hand which she tossed into the water.

"What…?" The Doctor started as he and Rory looked to her wide eyed.

"Don't say a single word." Stella stomped back into the Tardis grumbling under her breath about stupid flammable objects.

"But it was metal, how did she set metal on fire?" Rory asked as the Doctor chuckled lightly shaking his head before they stepped into the Tardis and took off.

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Stella whistled as she sat in the Tardis garden laying out book in hand enjoying the peaceful day that had been set up for her. The garden room had an artificial weather system and sky that supported the various plant life that grew there making it the perfect area for brain storming. There were different types of regions that were acclimated for the types of vegetation that grew there as well as areas with different seasons. You could step from summer to winter in just a few strides.

Stella was currently in the garden filled with wild flowers, stone paths, thick green grass, and with the wisteria trees in full bloom all around her. She lay under a massive tree that was laden with the amazing flowers of the wisteria tree, all in vary shades of purple and pink.

"Oh my…" Amy breathed out gaining Stella's attention as she sat her book aside. The cyborg looked over watching as Amy and Rory came over an oriental styled bridge that stretched across a gentle river nearby and lead to her spot under the tree.

"Are we still on the Tardis?" Rory questioned.

"Yep." Stella called out as she waved them over.

"This is amazing." Amy said as she ran over to Stella pulling Rory along with her, only to let go of his hand when she came under the tree spinning around under the falling petals.

"It's one of my favorite rooms beside the theatre and roller rink." Stella smiled as she fell back so she was lying on the ground causing some of the petals to whirl up around her.

"Roller rink?" Rory echoed as Amy lay out next to Stella, Rory following putting his arms behind his head.

"How many rooms has the Tardis got?" Amy asked.

"As many as we need, you think it and the Tardis can do it if she wants." Stella replied.

"If she wants?" Rory asked.

"Oh yeah, the Tardis is completely sentient." Stella informed them. "Feeling, thoughts, everything, she is alive."

"Whoah." Amy and Rory said at the same time.

"Yeah." Stella agreed.

"What else is there in the Tardis?" Amy asked.

"Oh, well, let's see…" Stella hummed a bit. "There's a movie theatre, arcade room, some dance club rooms depending on what time period or planet you're shooting for, bowling room, a couple of sport fields, the wardrobe, the library, swimming pool, music room…"

"Bet that's one of your favorites." Amy pointed out.

"Of course." Stella nodded. "There's a lot more, but it's more fun to find them for yourself."

"There you all are?! What are you doing in here?" The Doctor strolled over to them.

"Enjoying a nice artificial spring day." Stella replied patting the ground beside her and the Doctor plopped down unceremoniously next to her laying his head on her stomach. Stella rolled her eyes at him and started to run one of her hands through his hair making him hum in contentment.

"So what were we talking about before I showed up?" The Doctor asked.

"The Tardis and her magnificence." Stella replied easily.

"Do you really have an infinite number of rooms in here?" Rory asked the time lord.

"Depends on how you look at." The Doctor replied resting his hand on his stomach as he crossed his legs at the ankle.

"Depends how?" Amy asked.

"Well, it depends on how many rooms you can think of really." The Doctor shrugged.

"Really? Any room I think of, she can make appear?" Amy sat up.

"Yep." The Doctor nodded, the book catching his attention. "But you need to be specific."

"I made a ball room once, but wasn't specific." Stella said with a wince as she recalled the copious amounts of rubber balls cascading out of her new ball room. "It was like middle school dodgeball meets the apocalypse." Stella shook her head of the thoughts. "So what's our next adventure?"

"So glad you asked, come along you three." The Doctor sprung to his feet leading the others out of the room pulling Stella along by her hand and onto the console room for their next destination. "How do you lot feel about the Continuum Cascade of Regal Nine?"