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A planet was being viewed through the screen of a crashing ship, its atmosphere, swirling with blue-white gases.
"Would all passengers please return to their seats and fasten their safety belts? We are experiencing slight turbulence," the ship's computer told the ship's crew.
The ship's captain, a dark haired woman then entered the bridge, "Both engines failed, and the storm-gate's critical. The ship is going down! Christmas is cancelled."
"Entering atmosphere now! Level - keep her level!" One of the pilots, a caucasian skinned man said.
"Level with what? I can't see! What is that stuff?" The other pilot, a dark skinned man asked.
"Clouds?" The captain suggested.
"What kind of clouds?" The caucasian pilot asked.
"Are you sending a distress signal?" The captain asked him.
"It's not me!" He answered.
The captain then checked the ship to locate the signal, "Who's in the honeymoon suite?"
Amy then entered, wearing her police costume with Rose in her blue t-shirt, dark pink jacket, jeans and converse shoes and Jenny next to her, wearing her clothes from Stonehenge as the captain turned to the door.
"We've sent for help," Amy told her.
"Who the hell are you three?" The captain asked the three women standing in front of her.
"Look, my husband, OK, he can help us. He'll come!" Rose told the captain.
"And what are you wearing?" The captain asked Amy and with a little self-conscious, Amy tugged at the skirt hem.
"That doesn't matter," Amy told her.
"Are you three from the honeymoon suite?" The captain asked them.
"Oh, shut up!" Amy snapped at her.
"Yes!" Rose and Jenny answered at the same time.
Rory then entered the bridge, wearing his centurion outfit and was tossed into the walls as the ship shuddered as he held a device in his hand.
"Amy, Rose, Jenny, the light's stopped flashing... Does that mean he's coming?" Rory asked Amy, Rose and Jenny.
"Honeymoon suite as well?" The Caucasian pilot asked Rory.
"Oh, oh, the clothes, um... It is just a bit of fun," Rory answered.
"Really, shut up!" Amy snapped.
"Sensor-loss on 80% of the hull…" the dark-skinned pilot reported.
"So does this mean he's coming? Or does it mean I need to change the bulb?" Rory asked.
"He'll come. He always comes," Rose reassured him.
"Right, well, he is cutting it kind of fine!" Rory remarked, sarcastically.
"If we can't stabilise the orbit, we're finished," the captain said.
"There's nothing to lock onto. I am flying blind," the dark-skinned pilot announced
"Come on, Doctor, come on…" Amy muttered.
"Come on, Theta," Rose muttered as well.
"Come on, Dad, hurry up," Jenny muttered at the same time.
"There's something coming alongside us. Something small, like a shuttle," the dark-skinned pilot announced.
"Just this once, don't be late," Amy muttered.
"Don't worry, Amy, if I know my husband, he won't be late," Rose reassured her.
"Ma'am...incoming message. It's from the other ship," the caucasian pilot announced.
"On screen," the captain ordered and the words, 'Come along, Pond and Arkytior…' appeared on the screen in front of them as the TARDIS whizzed by the ship's window as Rory looked at Amy, Rose and Jenny who all sighed in relief, "What does that mean?"
"It's Christmas!" Amy, Rose and Jenny all answered at the same time.
In the town of Sardicktown on the planet Ember in the 44th Century, an elderly man, Kazran Sardick was looking out a large window out onto the stormy sky, "On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs as if to say, 'Well done. Well done, everyone, we're halfway out of the dark.' Back on Earth, we called this Christmas or the Winter this world, the first settlers called it the Crystal Feast. You know what I call it?" He then turned around, "I call it expecting something for nothing!"
Kazran then walked into the room where a family was standing.
"Sir. Mr Sardick. We're only asking for one day. Just let her out for Christmas," the father said, pleading with Kazran as two male servants of Kazran wheeled a cryogenic pod into the room. Inside is a young woman with long blonde hair, "She loves Christmas."
" Does she? Oh, does she? I see! Hello!" Kazran said as he began tapping on the cryogenic pod's window with a cane, "Wakey-wakey - it's Christmas! Do you know what? I think she's a bit cool about the whole thing," he then laughed when no one else does, "That was funny." The servants then laughed with him.
"She's frozen," the family's son explained to him.
"She's what, sorry?" Kazran asked him.
"She's in the ice, she can't hear you," the Son explained.
"Oh, what a clever little boy. You must be so irritated," Kazran told the family's son before turning to one of his servants, "How much?"
"Er...it's 4,500 Gideons, sir,' the servant answered.
"You took a loan of 4,500 Gideons and Little Miss Christmas is my security," kazran told the family as the phone rang and the servant answered it.
"We're not asking for her back. Just let her have one day. Let her have Christmas with us," the Father said, pleading with Kazran.
"Sir, it's the President," the servant told Kazran.
"Tell him I'm busy," Kazran told his servant before turning back to the family, "Now...where were we? Oh, yes! She's pretty, though, your daughter. Maybe I should keep her."
"She's not my daughter, sir," the Father told him.
"She's my sister," the Mother told Kazran, "She volunteered for the ice when the family were in difficulties many years ago."
"Sorry, sir, the President says there's a galaxy-class ship trapped in the cloud layer and...well, we have to let it land," the servant said as he walked over to Kazran.
"Or?" He asked.
"Well...or it'll crash, sir," the servant answered.
"Oh. Well, it's a kind of landing, isn't it?" Kazran asked him.
"It's from Earth, sir, registering over 4,000 life forms on board," the servant informed him.
"Not if we wait a bit!" Kazran chuckled.
"You can't just let it crash, sir," the servant protested as the family's son heard the sound of the TARDIS materializing.
"Says who? Oh, give it here," Kazran said as he took the phone from his servant, "Look, petal, we already have a surplus population. No more people allowed on this planet." The son looked at the chimney as he saw soot fall into the fireplace, "I don't make the rules. Oh, no, hang on... I do." He then hung up the phone, "Right, you lot... poor, begging people, off home and pray for a miracle."
The Father ushered his family towards the door as the son looked back to the fireplace just as a huge amount of soot fell, spreading embers in a gust. The Doctor suddenly appeared as he fell through, somersaulting before getting up as he dusted himself off.
"Ah! Yes, blimey. Sorry! Christmas Eve on a rooftop, saw a chimney, my whole brain just went, 'What the hell!'" The Doctor said as he walked to the children, "Don't worry, fat fella will be doing the rounds later. I'm just scoping out the general...chimney-ness. Yes," he then leaned against the chimney, "Nice size, good traction... big tick!"
"Fat fella?" The Father asked.
"Father Christmas, Santa Claus...or, as I've always known him, Jeff," the Doctor answered.
"There's no such person as Father Christmas," the son told him/
"Oh, yeah?" The Doctor said as he pulled out black and white photo, "Me, my wife, Rose, our daughter, Jenny and Father Christmas, Frank Sinatra's hunting lodge, 1952. See him at the back with the blonde...Albert Einstein. The five of us together...hrrroom! Watch out! OK? Keep the faith, stay off the naughty list. Ooh! Now, what's this? And I love this, a big flashy lighty thing - that's what brought me here." He then walked over to a large control panel covered with knobs, buttons and flashing lights, "Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time and a crayon," he then sat in a chair and swiveled to face Kazran, "Now, this big flashy lighty thing is connected to the spire in your dome, yeah, and it controls the sky," he then stood up and walked forward, "Well, technically, it controls the clouds, which technically aren't clouds at all. Well, they're clouds of tiny particles of ice. Ice clouds, love that," he then pointed at the cry-chamber, "Who's she?"
"Nobody important," Kazran answered.
"Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. Well, except my wife, Rose, our daughter, Jenny and our friends," the Doctor told him before he went back to console and began using the controls, "Now, this console is the key to saving that ship, or I'll eat my hat... if I had a hat. I'll eat someone's hat. Not someone who's using their hat - I don't want to shock a nun, or something. Sorry, rambling, 'cause…'cause this isn't working!"
"The controls are isomorphic – one to one - they respond only to me," Kazran told him.
"Oh, you fibber... Isomorphic! There's no such thing," the Doctor told him as Kazran reached across and flipped a switch, shutting the machine off. He then turned it back on as the Doctor tried the same switch and nothing happened. He then ran his sonic screwdriver over the controls then on Kazran as he flicked it open before he checked the readings, "These controls are isomorphic!"
"The skies of this entire world are mine. My family tamed them, and now I own them," Kazran told him.
"Tamed the sky? What does that mean?" The Doctor asked.
"It means I'm Kazran Sardick," Kazran told him, "How can you possibly not know who I am?"
"Well, just easily bored, I suppose," the Doctor told him, "So, I need your help, then."
"Make an appointment," Kazran suggested.
"There are 4,005 people in a spaceship trapped in your cloud belt. Without your help, they're going to die," the Doctor told him.
"Yes," Kazran told him.
"You don't have to let that happen," the Doctor told him.
"I know, but I'm going to," Kazran told him, "Bye-bye. Bored now. ..Chuck!" One of Kazran's servants took the Doctor by the shoulders to escort him out only for the Doctor to duck out of his grip and stood in front of Kazran, now sitting in a chair, "Ooh, look at you, looking all tough now."
"There are 4 of my family up there in the 4,005 people I won't allow of those 4,005 to die tonight," the Doctor told him, "Do you know where that puts you?"
"Where?" Kazran asked him.
"4,006," he answered.
"Was that a sort of threat-y thing?" Kazran asked him.
"Whatever happens tonight, remember... you brought it on yourself," the Doctor told him.
"Yeah, yeah, right. ..Get him out of here. And next time, try and find me some funny poor people," Kazran muttered as the Doctor was forced towards the door along with the family as the Son picked up a lump of coal and threw it at Kazran, hitting him on the head and he stormed over to the son and raised his hand to hit him.
"No, stop, don't!" The Doctor protested.
"Don't you dare! You leave him!" The Father begged Kazran.
"Get him out of here! Get that foul-smelling family out of here! Out!" Kazran ordered.
"We're going!" The son said as he and his family were taken out of the room as Kazran headed back to his chair but stopped when he saw that the Doctor was still there.
"What? What do you want?" Kazran asked him.
"A simple life with my family," he answered, "But you didn't hit the boy."
"Well, I will next time!" Kazran proclaimed.
"No, you see, you won't," the Doctor told him, "Now why? What am I missing?" He then walked past Kazran, looking at something else.
"Get out! Get out of this house!" Kazran ordered.
"The chairs! Of course, the chairs! Stupid me, the chairs!" The Doctor realized.
"The chairs?" Kazran asked him.
"There's a portrait on the wall behind me. Looks like you, but it's too old, so it's your father. All the chairs are angled away from it. Daddy's been dead for 20 years. But you still can't get comfortable where he can see you. There's a Christmas tree in the painting, but none in this house, on Christmas Eve. You're scared of him and you're scared of being like him," the Doctor explained, "And good for you, you're not like him, not really. Do you know why?"
"Why?" Kazran asked him.
"Because you didn't hit the boy," the Doctor answered, "Merry Christmas, Mr Sardick."
"I despise Christmas!" Kazran told him.
"You shouldn't. It's very you," the Doctor told him as he walked away.
"It's what? What do you mean?" Kazran asked the Time Lord.
"Halfway out of the dark," the Doctor answered as he left just as the servants returned from escorting the family out.
"Get her downstairs with the others. Clean up this mess!" Kazran ordered.
"Everything's offline! Secondary furnace just vented," the dark-skinned pilot reported as Amy, Rose and Jenny were on the phone with the Doctor.
"Have you got a plan yet?" Rose asked.
"Yes, I do," he answered.
"Are you lying?" Amy asked.
"Yes, I am," he answered.
"Don't treat us like idiots," Amy told him.
"Was he lying?" Rory asked.
"No, no," Rose answered.
"OK, the good news. I've tracked the machine that unlocks the cloud belt. I could use it to clear you a flight corridor and you could land easily," the Doctor said as he walked towards the street."
"Oh, hey, hey, that's great news," Amy said.
"But I can't control the machine," the Doctor told them.
"Of course, you can't, Dad," Jenny muttered, sarcastically.
"But I've met a man who can," he added.
"Ah, well, there you go!" Amy told him.
"And he hates me," he told them.
"Were you being extra charming and clever?" Rose asked.
"Yeah, how did you know?" He asked her.
"In all of my 900 years of knowing you since we rebooted the universe, I know you, Theta," Rose told him, "Besides we grew up together."
"Sir... Sir," the father from inside the Sardick said as he called to the Doctor.
"Hang on," the Doctor said as he walked over to the father.
"I've never seen anybody stand up to Mr Sardick like that," the father said as he shook the Time Lord's hand, "Bless you, sir, and merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas. Lovely. Sorry, bit busy," the Doctor told him.
"You'd better get inside, sir. The fog's thick tonight, and there's a fish warning," the father told him.
"Oh, right, yeah. Sorry, fish?" The Doctor asked him.
"Yeah. You know what they're like when they get a bit hungry," the father explained.
"Yeah, fish, I know fish. Fish?" The Doctor asked.
"It's all Mr Sardick's fault, I reckon. He always lets a few fish through the cloud layer when he's in a bad mood," the father explained before putting his goggles that were on his head over his eyes as he shook his hand again, "Thank you. Bless you once again, sir."
"Fish?" The Doctor muttered as the father left the area.
"Doctor, the Captain says we've got less than an hour…" Amy told the Doctor with the phone, "What should we be doing?"
The Doctor then looked up at a streetlight and saw small fish swimming around it like moths, "Fish...!" He mused.
"Sorry, what?" Rose asked.
"Fish that can swim in fog. I love new planets," the Doctor mused as he approached the streetlight
"Theta, please don't get distracted!" Rose said, "I know how easily distracted you can get in this body of yours."
"Now, why would people be frightened of you tiny little fellas?" The Doctor asked the fish as he held up his hand as the fish went to investigate, "Look at you, sweet little fishy-wishies. Mind you, fish in the fog, so the cloud cover... Ooh. Careful up there."
"Oh, great, thanks, Doctor, because there was a real danger we were all going to nod off! We've got less than an hour!" Amy exclaimed at him into the phone.
"I know," he told her as he looked at a clock nearby as 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' began to play over loudspeakers below the streetlight.
"Doctor? How are you getting us off here?" Amy asked.
"Oh, just give me a minute!" The Doctor said before speaking to himself, "Can't use the TARDIS, cos it can't lock on. So that ship needs to land, but it can't land unless a very bad man suddenly decides to turn nice, just in time for Christmas Day!"
"Dad, we can't hear you. What is that? Is that singing?" Jenny asked her father.
"A Christmas carol, Jen," he answered.
"A what?" Amy then asked as she and Rose didn't hear what he said either.
"A Christmas carol," he answered yet again.
"A what?" Rose asked.
"A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Arkytior!" He answered yet again.
"Doctor!" Amy muttered.
The Doctor then looked up as a cunning smile crossed his face, "Kazran Sardick."
"Doctor!" Amy yelled over the phone.
"Merry Christmas, Kazran Sardick," the Doctor muttered.
Inside the Sardick residence, Kazran had fallen asleep in his chair as on a wall, a recording of a little boy in his bedroom began to play.
"Hello. My name is Kazran Sardick. I'm 12½, and this is my bedroom," the little boy said, revealing himself to be azran when he was a kid
"Top secret special project," Kazran mumbled in his sleep.
"This is my top secret special project. For my eyes only. Merry Christmas," young Kazran said
"Kazran, Kazran!" An older voice on the recording shouted, the shouting of the older voice woke Kazra with a start as he started to watch the screen as an older man, his father, Elliot Sardick came into the bedroom as he peered into the camera as Kazran stood up and backed away in fear, "Kazran, what are you doing? What are you doing?! I've warned you before about this, you stupid, ignorant, ridiculous child!"
"I was just going to make a film of the fish," young Kazran answered.
"The fish are dangerous!" Elliot proclaimed.
"I just want to see them," young Kazran explained.
"Don't be stupid, you're far too young!" Elliot told him.
"Everyone at school's seen the fish," young Kazran told him.
"That's enough! You'll be singing to them next, like gypsies," Elliot said with anger.
"The singing works! I've seen it. The fish like the singing," young Kazran said as the older Kazran walked closer to the wall.
"What does it matter what fish like?" Elliot asked him
"People say we don't have to be afraid of the fish," young Kazran told his father, "They're not really interested in us."
"You don't listen to people! You listen to me!" Elliot said, angrily as he backhanded young Kazran, causing the older Kazran to reach a hand to his cheek.
"Ow! I'm sorry, Father," young Kazran apologized.
"This is my house!" Elliot told him as the Doctor entered the room behindKazran as in the recording, young Kazran had his head down on the desk and began crying.
"It's OK. It's OK," the Doctor said as he puts a hand on Kazran's shoulder, startling him as
Kazran jerked away from his touch and turns to the Doctor.
"What have you done? What is this?" Kazran asked the Time Lord.
"Found it on an old drive. Sorry about the picture quality, had to recover the data using quantum enfolding and a paperclip," the Doctor answered as he sat down in Kazran's chair and picked up a newspaper, "Oh, I wouldn't bother calling your servants, they quit. Apparently they won the lottery at exactly the same time, which is a bit lucky when you think about it."
"There isn't a lottery," Kazran told him.
"Yeah, as I say, lucky," the Doctor said, repeating himself.
"There's a fog warning tonight. You keep these windows closed, understand? Closed!" Elliot said from the recording.
"Who are you?" Kazran asked the Time Lord.
"Tonight, I'm the Ghost Of Christmas Past," the Doctor answered.
"Mrs Mantovani will be looking after you tonight," Elliot told young Kazran, "You stay here till she comes. Do you understand? Do you understand?"
"Did you ever get to see a fish back then, when you were a kid?" The Doctor asked as Elliot left young Kazran's room in the recording.
"What does that matter to you?" Kazran asked.
"Look how it mattered to you," the Doctor told him.
"I cried all night, and I learned life's most invaluable lesson," Kazran told him.
"Which is?" The Doctor asked.
"Nobody comes," Kazran answered before getting angry, "Get out! Get out of my house!"
"OK. OK. But I'll be back. Way back. Way, way back," the Doctor told him as he opened the door and through the doors was the TARDIS and he closed the doors before entering the TARDIS.
At the same moment, young Kazran lifted his head and turned to the window where the Doctor had appeared as he opened the window, "See? Back!"
"Who are you?" Young Kazran asked.
"Hi. I'm the Doctor. I'm your new babysitter," he answered as he jumped into the room.
"Where's Mrs Mantovani?" Young Kazran asked him.
"Oh, you'll never guess! Clever old Mrs Manters, she only went and won the lottery!" The Doctor answered as he jumped on the bed and bounced on it.
"There isn't any lottery," Young Kazran told him.
"I know. What a woman like my wife is!" He said, agreeing with him as he jumped off the bed.
"If you're my babysitter, why are you climbing in the window?" Young Kazran asked him.
"'Cause if I was climbing out, I'd be going in the wrong direction. Pay attention," the Doctor told him.
"Mrs Mantovani's always my babysitter," Young Kazran said with confusion.
"Times change," the Doctor explained as he peered into the camera, "Wouldn't you say? You see... Christmas Past."
"Who are you talking to?" Young Kazran asked him.
"You," the Doctor answered, "Now, your past is going to change. That means your memories will too. Scary, but you'll get the hang of it."
"I don't understand," Young kazran said with confusion.
"I'll bet you don't! I wish I could see your face," the Doctor said as he pointed at Young Kazran and then at the camera.
"Right, then. Your bedroom. Great! Let's see, you're 12 years old, so we'll stay away from under the bed. Cupboard! Big cupboard, I love a cupboard," the Doctor said as he sat on Young kazran's bed before he ran a cupboard and opened it, "Do you know, there's a thing called a face spider. It's just like a tiny baby's head with spider legs, and it's specifically evolved to scuttle up the backs of bedroom cupboards…" He then closed the door as he walked up to young Kazran as he clapped his hands, "which, yeah, I probably shouldn't have mentioned. Right, so what are we going to do? Eat crisps and talk about girls? I've never actually done that, but I bet it's easy and my wife, Rose, will probably kill me for talking about them. Girls! Yeah?"
"Are you really a babysitter?" Young Kazran asked him.
"I think you'll find I'm universally recognised as a mature and responsible adult," the Doctor said as he pulled out his Psychic Paper and showed young Kazran it.
"It's just a lot of wavy lines," young Kazran told him.
"Yeah, it's shorted out. Finally, a lie too big," the Doctor said, looking at his Psychic Paper before putting it away, "OK, no, not really a babysitter, but it's Christmas Eve. You don't want a real one, you want me."
"Why? What's so special about you?" Young Kazran asked him.
"Have you ever seen Mary Poppins?" The Doctor asked him.
"No," Young Kazran answered.
"Good. 'Cause that comparison would've been rubbish but my wife would probably disagree with me on that. Fish in the fog, fish in the clouds," the Doctor told him, "How do people ever get bored? How did boredom even get invented?" He then stood at the window.
"My dad's invented a machine to control the cloud belt. Tame the sky, he says. The fish'll be able to come down, but only when we let them. We can charge whatever we like," young Kazran told him.
"Yeah. I've seen your dad's machine," the Doctor said as he turned to face young Kazran as a large fish-like creature passed behind the Doctor.
"What? You can't have," young Kazran said with disbelief.
"Tame the sky... Human beings, you always manage to find the boring alternative, don't you? You want to see one?" The Doctor asked him, "A fish. We can do that. We can see a fish."
"Aren't you going to tell me it's dangerous?" Young Kazran asked him.
"Dangerous?!" The Doctor said with disbelief as he went back inside, "Come on, we're boys! And you know what boys say in the face of danger."
"What?" Young Kazran asked.
"Mummy!" He answered and soon he tied his sonic screwdriver to a string that was connected to a pulley hanging from the ceiling as it went into a cupboard where the Doctor and young Kazran were hiding as the screwdriver beeped intermittently as the Doctor had the string looped around his finger.
"Are there any face spiders in here?" Young Kazran asked.
"Nah, not at this time of night. They'll all be sleeping in your mattress," the Doctor answered, "So why are you so interested in fish?"
"'Cause they're scary," young Kazran answered.
"Good answer," the Doctor told him.
"What kind of tie is that?" Young Kazran asked him.
"A cool one," the Doctor answered.
"Why is it cool?" Young Kazran asked him.
"Why are you really interested in fish?" The Doctor asked, changing the subject.
"My school. During the last fog belt, the nets broke and there was an attack. Loads of them, a whole shoal. No-one was hurt, but it was the most fish ever seen below the mountains," young Kazran answered.
"Were you scared?" The Doctor asked.
"I wasn't there. I was off sick," young Kazran answered.
"Ooh, lucky you," the Doctor said, before realizing that Rose probably would call him rude for saying that, "Not lucky."
"It's all anyone ever talks about now, the day the fish came. Everyone's got a story," young Kazran explained.
"But you don't," the Doctor told him.
"I see," the Doctor muttered
"Why are you recording this?" Young Kazran asked the Doctor.
"Do you pay attention at school, Kazran?" The Doctor asked him.
"Sorry, what?" Young Kazran asked him.
"'Cause you're not paying attention now," the Doctor answered as the string was tugging the Doctor's finger, "Ssh!" He then stood up and went to the door.
"Doctor, are you sure?" Young Kazran asked.
"Trust me," the Doctor told him.
"OK," young Kazran said.
"Oi! Eyes on the tie. Look at me. I wear it and I don't care. Trust me?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes," young Kazran answered.
"That's why it's cool," the Doctor told him as he slowly entered the room and saw a small fish investigating the screwdriver, "Hello, fishy. Let's see." He then slowly walked close to the walls, "Interesting. Crystalline fog, eh? Maybe carrying a tiny electrical charge. Is that how you fly, little fishy?"
"What is it? What kind? Can I see?" Young Kazran asked.
"Just stay there a moment," the Doctor told him.
"Is it big?" Young Kazran asked him.
"Nah, just a little one," the Doctor answered as he leaned in closer, "So, little fella, what do you eat?" A shark then swam into the room and swallowed the fish—and the sonic screwdriver, causing the Doctor to jerk back.
"How little?" Kazran asked.
"Erm…" the Doctor stuttered.
"Can I come out?" Young Kazran asked.
"No, no. Maybe just...wait there for a moment," the Doctor said as without taking his eyes off the shark, the Doctor edged his way back to the cupboard door.
"What colour is it?" Young Kazran asked him.
"Big. Big colour," the Doctor answered as he dashed for the door and shut it as he reentered the cupboard and leaned against it as the shark butts it with its head.
"What's happening?" Young Kazran asked.
"Well, concentrating on the plusses, you've definitely got a story of your own now. Also, I got a good look at the fish, and I understand the fog, which'll help me land a spaceship in the future, and save a lot of lives. And I'll get some readings off my sonic screwdriver when I get it off the shark in your bedroom," the Doctor answered.
There's a shark in my bedroom?!" Young Kazran asked with disbelief.
"Oh, fine, focus on that part!" The Doctor exclaimed as the banging soon stopped.
"Has it gone? What's it doing?" Young Kazran asked.
"What do you call it if you don't have any feet, and you're taking a run-up?" The Doctor asked as he grabbed young Kazran and pulled him from the door just as the shark broke through as the camera stopped as both of them got on the floor in the far corner, out of reach from the shark at the moment. As the shark opened its mouth, there was a green glow inside.
"It's going to eat us, it's going to eat us, it's going to eat us... Is it going to eat us?" Young Kazran asked.
"Maybe we're going to eat it, but I don't like the odds. It's stuck, though. Let's see. Tiny brain. If I had my screwdriver, I could probably stun it," the Doctor told him.
"Well, where's your screwdriver?" Young Kazran asked.
"Well, concentrating on the plusses... within reach. There's a real chance, the way it's wedged in the doorway, of keeping its mouth open," the Doctor answered.
"There is?" Young Kazran asked.
"Agree with me," the Doctor told him, "Cause I've only got two goes, and then it's your turn."
"Two goes?" Young Kazran asked.
"Two arms. Right, then! OK. Geronimo! Open wide!" The Doctor said as he got up and headed for the shark.
A while later, The Doctor and Rose were on the patio just outside young Kazran's bedroom with the shark lying on the ground as young Kazran kneeled beside it as the Doctor was checking his screwdriver, "What's the big fishy done to you? Swallowed half of you, that's what. Half a screwdriver, what use is that? Bad, big fishy."
"Doctor? I think she's dying," young Kazran told the Time Lord.
"Half my screwdriver's still inside, but yeah, I think so. I doubt they can survive long outside the cloud belt," the Doctor told him as he tried scanning the shark with his half-eaten sonic screwdriver, "Just quick raiding trips on a foggy night."
"Can't we get it back up there?" Young Kazran asked as he sniffed in grief, "We were just going to stun it. I didn't want to kill it."
"She was trying to eat you. I'm sorry, Kazran. I can't save her," the Doctor told him.
"She was hungry," young Kazran explained.
"I'm sorry, Kazran. I can't save her," the Doctor told him, "I could take her back up there, but she'd never survive the trip. We need a fully functioning life-support."
"You mean like an icebox? OK," young Kazran said as they went back inside the house and ran down the stairs.
"Ooh, a tree!" The Doctor said as he noticed a christmas tree as young Kazran grabbed a lamp before he led the Doctor to the basement.
In the basement of the Sardick residence, the Doctor peered through a small window and saw a room lined with containers, similar to the one that contained the young woman that he saw earlier when he met Kazran when he was an old man, "What is this?"
"The surplus population. That's what my dad calls it," young Kazran answered as they tried to turn the wheel to open the door, Oh, it's not turning! We're running out of time."
The Doctor then used his half-eaten sonic screwdriver on the security keypad, but it didn't work, "Ah, what's the number?"
"I don't know!" Young Kazran told him.
"This place is full of alarms, it's not just the door. I need the number!" The Doctor explained as he went back to the wheel, "I need the number!"
"I'm not allowed to know until I'm older," young Kazran told him, causing the Doctor to go back to the TARDIS and travel back to the future.
"7258!" The older Kazran yelled as he was watching the recording as the TARDIS materialized at the door behind the next room.
"Just what I was after. Thank you!" The Doctor said as he closed the door and traveled back in time to where young Kazran was.
"7258! 7258!" The Doctor said as he ran back down the stairs to the basement and as young Kazran heard those numbers, he punched them into the security system as the wheel was unlocked as it spun around as the Doctor opened the door.
Due to the cold temperature inside the ice vault, the fog was thicker as young Kazran led the Doctor through the vault.
"Ah, there's fish down here, too," the Doctor said as he saw fish inside the ice vault.
"Yeah, but only tiny ones. The house is built on a fog lake. That's how Dad freezes the people," young Kazran explained as they stopped in front of a chamber, "They're all full, but we could borrow one," he then pointed at a chamber that they stood in front of, "Yeah, this one."
"Hello again," the Doctor said as he held the lamp up to the window as he saw the same woman from the cryo-stasis chamber that he saw earlier when he met Kazran's older self.
"You know her?" Young Kazran asked him.
"Why her? Important, is she?" The Doctor asked.
"She won't mind. She loves the fish," young Kazran told him as he tapped in some number on a keypad on the side of the container. A video of the woman speaking appears in the small window.
"My name is Abigail Pettigrew, and I'm very grateful for Mr Sardick's kindness. My father…" a video of the woman said as it appeared in the small window.
"She starts to talk about the fish in a minute," Kazran told the Doctor.
"…but I would not allow it. I could not have chosen this path were it not for the compassion and generosity of the great philanthropist and patron of the poor, Mr Elliot Sardick, but I'm also surrounded by the fish, the beautiful, iridescent, magical fish…"
As Abigail was speaking, the Doctor walked down the row of containers, peering into some as young Kazran stayed in front of Abigail's chamber and watched the video.
"Why are these people here?" The Doctor asked.
"..they catch the light as they dart through the fog…"
"What's all this for?" The Doctor asked.
"My dad lends money. He always takes a family member as... He calls it security," young Kazran answered.
"Hard man to love, your dad. But I suppose you know that," the Doctor told him.
"..I am not alone, and I am at peace."
Young Kazran then hits more buttons as the inside of Abigail's cryo-stasis chamber lights up before he walked over to the Doctor as his half-eaten sonic screwdriver started to make a warble sound as it lit up green, "What's wrong?"
"Just my half a screwdriver trying to repair itself. It's signalling the other half," the Doctor told him as he realized that the shark was coming towards them.
"The other half's inside the shark," young Kazran told him.
"Yeah. Sounds like she's woken up. OK. So it's homing on the screwdriver…" the Doctor said as the shark loomed out of the fog, mouth wide open as the Doctor fell to the floor as he got out of the shark's way.
As young Kazran ran through the maze of containers, he stopped and hid behind a small pillar. Behind him was the shark as it swam by before they heard a woman's voice singing 'In the Bleak Midwinter' and young Kazran followed the music and soon saw that the door to Abigail's container was open and at the end of the aisle he saw that she was kneeling on the ground, singing to the shark as she stroked it as the Doctor found them.
"It's not really the singing, of course," the Doctor told him.
"Yes, it is," young Kazran told him.
"Nah," the Doctor argued.
"The fish love the singing, it's true," young Kazran insisted.
"Nah. The notes resonate in the ice, causing a delta wave pattern in the fog," the Doctor said before he slapped the back of his neck as he felt a fish biting him, "Ow! A fish bit me."
"Shut up, then!" Young Kazran told him as Abigail turned to them as she continued to sing.
"Of course! That's how the machine controls the cloud belt. The clouds are ice crystals. If you vibrate them at the right frequency, you could align them…" He then slapped his neck again as another fish bit him, "Ow! Why do they keep biting me?"
"Look, the fish like the singing, OK? Now shut up!" Young Kazran told him.
"OK," the Doctor said after he mouthed at him and made a face as young Kazran was entranced by her singing before the Doctor took both young Kazran and Abigail to the Tardis.
"It's bigger on the inside," young Kazran said with amazement as he and Abigail looked inside the Tardis with amazement.
"Yeah, it's the colour. Really knocks the walls back," the Doctor said as he tapped on the cryo-stasis chamber lying on the floor, which now contained the shark, "Shark in a box, to go."
"This is...amazing!" Abigail said as she looked around the TARDIS with wonder on her face as the Doctor sets the TARDIS in motion.
"Nah, this is transport and my home as well as my wife and our friends' home. I keep amazing…" the Doctor said as he ran to the door and opened it, "out here." They then saw fish swimming amongst the clouds before he headed back to the container, "Come on, then, let's get this shark out." He then punched the numbers to start the defrost of the cryo-stasis chamber as young Kazran pulled out a camera and began taking pictures. The first was of Abigail as she looked out at the fish.
"Hey, look at her go!" Young Kazran said as he watched as the shark was released back into the cloud belt and as he closed the container, the Doctor saw numbers on the front.
"Abigail, this number, what does it mean?" The Doctor asked.
"It pertains to me, sir, not the fish," Abigail answered.
"Yeah, but how?" The Doctor asked.
"You are a doctor, you say? Are you one of mine?" Abigail asked him.
"Do you need a doctor?" He asked her and she looked sad as he asked that and he was about to pursue the question when a bell on the console chimed, causing him to run back to the console, "Ah! Sorry! Time's up, kids!"
"Why?" Young Kazran asked him.
"It's nearly Christmas Day!" The Doctor answered.
Soon back in the ice vault, young Kazran and the Doctor stood in front of Abigail's cryo-stasis chamber as they were putting her back in it.
"If you should ever wish to visit again…" Abigail began to say.
"Well, you know, if I'm ever in the neighbourhood…" the Doctor said as he placed his hand on the side of the cryo-stasis chamber.
"He comes every Christmas Eve. Yeah, he does, every time. He promises!" Young Kazran told her.
"No, I don't…" the Doctor told her as Kazran closed the door.
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And should I do the episode where the Eleventh Doctor meets Sarah Jane and Jo Grant in the Sarah Jane Adventures, or should I just skip it and when Amy and Rory first meet the Doctor and Rose in the next episode should Rose already be on her next incarnation from them being on a 200 farewell tour?