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A few weeks later, the TARDIS was floating in space as the Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory stood in the console room before he spun around and reached into his inside tweed jacket's pocket like it was on fire and He pulled out his psychic paper.
"Please save me from the monsters," he read the message on his psychic paper before turning to Rose, "Did you get it as well, Rose?"
"Indeed, I did, Doctor," Rose answered as she pulled her psychic paper out as well, "It reads 'Please save me from the monsters'."
Both Gallifreyans then put their psychic papers back in their pockets as they started working with the controls on the console, "We haven't done this in a while!"
"Done what? What are you both doing?" Amy asked them.
"Making a house call," the Doctor answered.
"No offence, Doctor, you too, Rose…" Rory said after stepping out of the TARDIS, which materialized at a Council Estate, causing him to be less impressed by the location that the TARDIS materialized at as Amy followed him out of the TARDIS.
"Meaning the opposite," the Doctor said as he stood at the TARDIS doors after Rose stepped out of the TARDIS and stood next to her husband.
"..but we could get a bus somewhere like this," Rory told him.
"The exact opposite," the Doctor told him as he closed the TARDIS door.
"Besides, my Chameleon-Arched self, Rose Tyler grew up on an Estate like this until 2005," Rose told Rory, "But if you want to know what the Estate that my chameleon-Arched self grew up on was called then it was the Powell Estate."
"Well, I suppose it can't all be planets and history and stuff, Rory," Amy told her husband.
"Yes, it can! Course it can! Planets and history and stuff. That's what we do! But not today. No," the Doctor said as he started scanning the area with his sonic screwdriver as they entered a courtyard, "Today, we're answering a cry for help from the scariest place in the universe - a child's bedroom."
"Anyway, Rose, I've always wondered where you got the name Rose Smith from?" Rory asked Rose.
"It's like the Doctor's is like, well, 'The Doctor'," Rose explained, "It's a title. I got mine from my Chameleon-Arched self's name, which as we explained to Amy when we were at that gangar factory in the 22nd Century with Jack, which is what my nickname from the Academy on Gallifrey translates to in English and I got the surname 'Smith' from the Doctor's human alias, John Smith."
The Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory crossed the yard as they waited for the Estate's lift as both Gallifreyans were looking at their psychic papers.
"Please save me from the monsters," Rory said, looking at the Doctor's psychic paper, "Who sent that?"
"That's what we're here to find out," the Doctor said, closing his psychic paper as Rose did the same with hers before he slapped Rory with it on the head before both Gallifreyans put their psychic papers away.
"Sounds like something a kid would say," Amy told the Time Lord.
"It was a kid," Rose said, confirming Amy's suspicions.
"A scared kid. A very scared kid. So scared that somehow its cry for help got through to us," the Doctor added as he crossed his arms, "In the TARDIS."
"Yeah, but you both have traced it here?" Amy asked them.
"Exactly," the Doctor answered as the lift arrived, "Ah! Going up." He and Rose then stepped inside the lift with their companions following them as he lowered his arms.
The Doctor and Rose were looking around at all of the flats with their identical exteriors as Amy and Rory were also looking at different flats as the Time Lord knocked on the door of one of the flats.
The door of the flat that Amy was at opened to show Amy that there was a little girl answering the flat's door.
"Hi!" Amy said, greeting the little door.
A door of the flat that the Doctor knocked on opened to reveal an old woman with light skin and greyish-white hair.
"Hello," the Doctor and Rose said, greeting the old woman.
At yet another flat, a man with light skin and a receding hairline opened the door and looked at Rory, who was standing in front of his door.
"Are your mummy and daddy in, or is it just you?" Amy asked the little girl, who opened the door of her flat wider to reveal an identical twin sister, "OK."
"Is it about the bins?" The old woman asked both Gallifreyans.
"Pardon?" The Doctor asked her.
"What do you mean?" Rose asked at the same time.
"Community support, just checking up on community…based...things," Rory told the man that was standing in the door of the flat that he was standing in front of.
The door was then opened wider to reveal a woman with brown hair, who was the girls' mother.
"Can I help you?" The girls' mother asked Amy.
"Hi. Yeah, no. Sorry," Amy apologized, "I was just wondering if you've had any bother around here?"
"Is everything OK?" Rory asked the man that was standing in the doorway of the flat that he was standing in front of.
"The bins. I can't be expected to get down all them stairs," the old woman explained to both Gallifreyans, "I need new knees."
"Bother?" The girls' mother asked with confusion, "What do you mean?"
"Well, I mean…" Amy began to answer.
"Are your neighbours nice?" Rory asked the man that was standing in the doorway of the flat that he was standing in front of, "Do you get on well?"
"He didn't send you, did he?" The girls' mother asked Amy.
"Who?" Amy asked her.
"Jim Purcell," the man said to Rory, introducing himself to the nurse, "Course we get on well. I'm their landlord. They love me, don't they?"
"You're the landlord?" Rory said with surprise in his voice.
"Not the bins, no, Miss?" The Doctor told the old woman.
"Mrs Rossiter," the old woman answered.
"Nice to meet you Mrs Rossiter," Rose said, greeting Mrs Rossiter.
"Thought you'd know that, being from community support," Purcell told Rory.
"Yeah. Yes! Yes, of course. Sorry," Rory apologized to him.
"I've already got a new hip, I'll be able to manage when I get the knees," Mrs Rossiter told both Gallifreyans, "Up and down them stairs like Sherpa Tensing then."
"Can we come in?" The Doctor asked her.
Purcell's bulldog then barked and lunged at Rory, pulling at his lead.
"Course not!" Mrs Rossiter told both Gallifreyans, "You both could be anyone!"
"Could be, but we're not," the Doctor stated.
"Or maybe it's best I could come back another time," Rory told Purcell.
"I'm the Doctor," the Doctor said, introducing himself to Mrs Rossiter.
"And I'm his wife, Rose," the Time Lady said, introducing herself to Mrs Rossiter as well as Mrs Rossiter slammed the door on them as Purcell did the same to Rory, and the girls' mother did the same on Amy as well before she leaned over the railing of the Estate's railing of the floor that she was on.
"We've got to find that kid," Amy told Rory after meeting back up with him as they walked past a window, where a kid with light skin and light ginger hair was watching them.
"Maybe we should let the monsters gobble him up!" Rory said in a teasingly tone.
The Doctor and Rose were on the level above their companions as the Doctor saw them walk by before seeing a young boy peering out a window that Amy and Rory walked past.
"What is it, Theta?" Rose asked her husband.
"I think I just found the kid who sent us the message, Arkytior," he answered before they met back up with Amy and Rory by the lift.
"Hey! Any luck?" Amy asked them.
"Three old ladies, a traffic warden from Croatia and a man with ten cats," the Doctor answered.
"What are we actually looking for?" Rory asked him.
"Ten cats! Scared kid, remember?" The Doctor answered.
"Actually, we're looking for a very scared kid," Rose explained.
"I found scary kids," Amy told them, "Does that count?"
"Hm. Try the next floor down. Catch you later," the Doctor told Amy as he tapped her on the shoulder before continuing on with Rose.
"OK," Amy muttered as she watched both Gallifreyans walk away from them.
"Maybe it was, you know... junk mail," Rory suggested as he leaned on the wall, next to the wall with his arms crossed after pressing the call button for the lift.
"What?" Amy asked him with confusion.
"The messages on the Doctor and Rose's psychic papers," Rory explained, "Maybe it was just nothing." The lift then arrives and they get in before Amy pressed the button for the floor below before pressing the button again and the door slid closed quickly and the lift plummets as both Amy and Rory screamed, pressed against the sides and when the door opened, the lift was empty.
The Doctor spun around as he and Rose approached a door to another of the flats and knocked on the front door as a man with tan skin and black hair opened the door before the Doctor and Rose both took out their psychic papers and flashed them at him.
"Oh. Right. That was quick," the man said with surprise.
"Was it?" The Doctor said as he and Rose both exchanged a look.
"Claire said she'd phoned someone," the man told them, "Social Services."
"Yes," the Doctor said as he and Rose both looked at their psychic papers, "Yes!"
"Yeah, we are Social Services," Rose said, agreeing with her husband and their psychic papers.
"It's not, easy, you know. Admitting your kid's got a problem," the man told them.
"You've got a problem. We've got a problem. I bet they're connected, I'm the Doctor," the Doctor said, introducing himself as he put his psychic paper away before Rose did the same with hers, "Call me Doctor and this is my wife, Rose. What can we call you?"
"Alex," the man answered.
"Nice to meet you, Alex," Rose said, greeting him as she shook his hand.
"Hello, Alex," the Doctor said, shaking his hand as well before he and Rose stepped inside Alex's flat, "So... tell us about George." The Doctor then looked at a door next to him and Rose that had a drawn sign that says 'George's Room before Alex shuts the door.
"Ever since he was born he's been a funny kid," Alex told both Gallifreyans as the three of them were sitting on the sofa as the Doctor and Rose were looking through Alex's photo Album, which contained him, his wife, Claire, who had brown hair and their son, George from when he was a baby.
"Funny's good!" The Doctor told him, "We like funny, don't we, Rose?"
"Yeah, I like funny, too, Doctor," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"He never cries. Bottles it all up, I suppose," Alex added, "Tell him off, he just looks at you."
"How old is he?" Rose asked him.
"He was eight in January," Alex answered, "He should be growing out of stuff like this, shouldn't he?"
"Maybe," the Doctor said as he closed Alex's photo album and put it down on a table in front of them, "It's got worse, though lately?"
"Yeah. We talked about getting help. You know, maybe sending him somewhere. He started getting these nervous tics, you know, funny little cough. Blinking all the time. But now it's got completely out of hand," Alex confirmed as he stood up, "I mean he's scared to death of everything."
"Pantophobia," the Doctor told him.
"What?" Alex said with confusion.
"That's what it's called. Pantophobia," Rose explained.
"Not a fear of pants though, if that's what you're thinking," the Doctor added, "It's a fear of everything, including pants, I suppose, in that case. Sorry. Go on."
"He hates clowns," Alex told them.
"Understandable," the Doctor muttered.
"Old toys," Alex added, "He thinks the old lady across the way is a witch." He then pointed across to another flat outside, "He hates having a bath in case there's something under the water. The lift sounds like someone breathing!" He then sighed, "Look, I don't know," He then sat in a chair next to the couch that the Doctor and Rose were sitting on, "I'm not an expert. Maybe one of you can get through to him."
"We'll do our best," the Doctor assured him.
Rory soon woke up in a dim room, with the only light coming through the bare windows next to him as he looked around, "Amy?" He called out to his wife in a whispered tone.
"Hmm," Amy mumbled as she woke up as well.
"Amy? Are you here?" He asked her again.
"Here. Here! Ow! I'm here! It's me," Amy answered as she crawled towards him.
"You OK?" He asked her as he switched on a small torch as he accidentally shone it in Amy's face.
"Yeah, I think so," Amy answered as she squinted at the sudden light from Rory's torch in her eyes.
"What happened to the lift? We were in a lift, weren't we?" Rory asked as he looked around.
"Yeah, yeah. We.. I remember getting in and then…" Amy began to answer before Rory groaned, "What?"
"We're dead, aren't we?" He asked her.
"Eh?" She said with confusion.
"The lift fell and we're dead," Rory explained.
"Shut up," she told him.
"We're dead... again!" Rory said, recalling how many times he has died and came back to life while travelling with the Doctor and Rose.
"Oh, shut up! Let's just find out where we are," Amy told him as she stood up and pulled Rory up with her as they began to explore their surroundings and walk out the open door into a corridor.
"You know it's obvious what's happened," Rory said as they began to explore the corridor.
"Yeah? Really? Because it's not obvious to me," Amy said with confusion.
"The TARDIS has gone funny again," Rory explained, "Some time... slippy... thing. You know, the Doctor and Rose's back there in EastEnders-land and we're stuck here in the past. This is probably 1700 and something."
"Yay. My favourite year," Amy muttered, sarcastically as unbeknownst to them, a shadowy figure crossed the corridor from behind them.
George, the kid with light skin and light ginger hair was using a torch as he saw spooky shadows and saw a blue robe hanging on the back of his bedroom's door move before sitting up in such a rush, he knocked a lamp that was on his bed stand next to him to the floor, Alex heard this and rushed in as he and both the Doctor and Rose were approaching his bedroom.
"George? You OK? What's the matter?" Alex asked George as he saw the lamp and kneeled to pick it up and place it back on the nightstand, "Oh. Never mind. Were you having a nightmare, son?"
"Wasn't a nightmare. I wasn't asleep," George answered as the Doctor and Rose both walked in as the Doctor had his arms crossed and leaned against the jamb with Rose standing next to her husband, "Who are you two?"
"I'm The Doctor," the Doctor said, introducing himself.
"And I'm his wife, Rose," Rose said, introducing herself as well.
"A doctor?" George said with a scared tone in his voice, "Have you both come to take me away?"
"No, George, we just want to talk to you," the Doctor told him.
"What about?" George asked him.
"About the monsters," both Gallifreyans answered at the same time.
Rory and Amy soon entered a kitchen where there were shelves reaching to the ceiling on one wall, another had two large cooking fireplaces and yet another had a long counter with a sink. In the middle was a long table with a copper pan and loaf of bread resting on it. Amy knocked against some utensils that clatter loudly in the quiet room.
"Bit neglected, wherever it is," Amy muttered.
"Let's find the front door, at least. Then we can work out where we are. When we are," Rory told Amy.
"Rory," Amy said as she picked up the pan from the table and knocked on the bottom of it, which didn't sound like it was made of copper at all.
"Hm?" He said as he turned to her.
"Look at this," she told him.
"What?" He said with confusion, "It's a copper pan."
"No, it's not," she told him as she knocked on the pan again, "It's wood. It's made of wood and just painted to look like copper."
"That is stupid," Rory said as he knocked on the side of the pan with one of his fingers before shining his torch around as Amy spotted a lantern with a candle inside of it .
"Wait. Hang on," Amy said as she examined the lantern with a candle inside of it, "There's a switch." She then turned it on as the fake candle lit up.
"Wow! Well, not 1700 and something then," Rory muttered as they started opening drawers on the counter with Amy struggling with a drawer before she finally opened it to see a giant eye within the drawer, causing them both to scream before Amy slowly reached a hand out to touch it.
"It's glass! It's a glass eye," she told him as she tapped the eye before Rory's torch flickered on and off five times, "Stop doing that."
"It's not me," Rory said as his torch stopped flickering, "Come on."
"Yep," Amy said as she picked up a lamp, "Hang on," she then picked the pan back up before they left through the door opposite from the one they came in.
The Doctor was sitting on the foot of George's bed playing with a Rubik's cube with Rose standing next to him as George was now sitting up against the headboard of his bed, while Alex was pacing around the room with his arms crossed.
"Maybe it was things on the telly, you know?" Alex suggested.
"Right," the Doctor said, agreeing with him.
"Yeah, scary shows on telly can do that to little kids," Rose said, agreeing with them.
"Scary stuff, getting under his skin, frightening him," Alex added.
"Hm-hm," the Doctor said as he continued to twist the Rubik's cube around.
"So we stopped letting him watch," Alex told them.
"Oh, you don't want to do that," the Doctor stated.
"Yeah, you really shouldn't do that," Rose said, agreeing with her husband as they gave George a small smile.
"Then Claire thought it might have been something he was reading," Alex told them.
"Great! Reading's great," the Doctor said before turning to George, "You like stories, George?" He nodded his head, "Yeah? Me, too."
"I do as well," Rose added.
"When we were your age, about, ooh... a thousand years ago, we loved a good bedtime story," the Doctor said as he began to remember when he and Rose were children and in their first incarnations when they were around eight years old, "The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White And The Seven Keys To Doomsday, eh?"
"And the stories of the Toclafane that used to scare us," Rose added as she began to remember when she and the Doctor were children and around eight years old as well.
"All the classics. Rubbish," the Doctor said before throwing the Rubik's cube over his shoulder after not being able to solve it, "Must be broken. I hate those things." Alex then moved to pick it up, "Better tidy it away, though, eh?" The Doctor then stood up and took the Rubik's cube from Alex as he turned to a cupboard in the room, "How about in here?" George then gasped, "No? Not in the cupboard? Why not in there, George?"
"Yeah, what's wrong with it, George?" Rose asked, agreeing with her husband.
"It's a... thing. A thing we got him doing ages back. Anything that frightens him, we put it in the cupboard. Creepy toys, scary pictures, that sort of thing," Alex explained.
"And is that where the monsters go? Yeah," the Doctor surmised as he walked slowly towards the cupboard, "There's nothing to be scared of, George. It's just a cupboard," as the Doctor was about to turn the latch, they heard a loud knocking that startled four of them.
"Front door," Alex explained after he sighed as he went to answer the door.
Rory and Amy crept down a different hallway as she was still holding the wooden pan in her hand along with the lantern in her other hand.
"Let's try down here," Rory whispered to her before they continued on as another figure stood in the hall behind them, watching.
As Alex opened the front door to his flat, he saw Purcell standing in front of his doorway, walking his dog.
"Evening," Purcell said, greeting Alex.
"Oh, hi," Alex said, greeting him back as he entered the flat as the Doctor, Rose and George watched and listened to their conversation from George's bedroom.
"How's Claire?" Purcell asked him.
"Good, thanks. At work," Alex answered, "Look, this really isn't a good time. Maybe later…"
"And the kiddie?" Purcell asked him.
"Good," Alex replied.
"Yeah," Purcell said, "You know how I hate to mention it, but it's that time again."
"Yes," Alex muttered.
"And you know I like my money prompt," Purcell told him.
"The thing is, I still haven't found anywhere since the shop shut and Claire's wage only goes so far. I thought we could, you know, come to some sort of arrangement," Alex suggested.
Back in George's room, the Doctor and Rose both tried to take George's mind off the adult conversation as they both took out their screwdrivers and activated them.
"Are those torches?" George asked both Gallifreyans.
"Screwdrivers!" The Doctor answered as he sat back on the bed, while Rose stood next to him.
"Sonic ones," Rose added as they activated their screwdrivers multiple times before stopping, "And other stuff."
"Please may I see the other stuff?" George asked them.
"You may," the Doctor answered as he and Rose both used their sonic screwdrivers on the battery-powered toys in the room, powering them on, "Ah, pretty cool, eh?"
"And nice screwdrivers?" Rose asked him.
"Listen to him," Purcell said as his dog began growling at Alex, "Isn't he awful, eh? Don't growl at the nice man, Bernard. He don't mean to upset daddy, do you?"
"No," Alex answered.
"Look, son, I know what you're thinking. Here comes horrible Purcell after his rent. Dog on a chain," Purcell told him before he rushed towards him a little, surprising Alex, "See? Wasn't expecting that, was ya?" Alex then sighed in relief, "I'm not as daft as I look. In fact, I'm not daft at all."
George was watching the Doctor and Rose using their screwdrivers to control his toys with fascination as the Time Lord was still sitting on his bed next to him, while Rose was standing next to him.
"That's better. No tears from George. That's what I've heard. Go on, give us a smile. There's a brave little soldier. Bit rusty at this," the Doctor said before standing up, "Anyway, let's open this cupboard, eh?" He then began to scan the cupboard with his screwdriver, "There's nothing to be…" his sonic screwdriver then increased in pitch, "Off the scale. Off the scale," he then flicked his screwdriver into its claw mode before sitting back down next to him, "Off the scale! How...?"
"There's something dangerous inside of there?" Rose surmised.
"Exactly, Rose," the Doctor confirmed.
"All I want is my £350," George heard Purcell say as he saw him and Alex through the partially open door, "Simple as that."
"Goodnight. Come on, son. Come on," Purcell said before leaving the flat with his dog.
The Doctor puts a hand on George's shoulder as he and Rose both stared at the cupboard with George as Alex reentered the room.
"Right, sorry about that," Alex apologized, "So, have we got this thing open yet?" He then reached for the latch to the cupboard.
"No! No! No, no, no! You don't want to do that!" The Doctor told him.
"Yeah, you really shouldn't do that," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Why?" Alex asked them at the same time.
"Because George's monsters are real," the Doctor and Rose both answered at the same time.
Amy and Rory have soon reached the front hall where there were discarded items scattered on the floor as Rory closed the door they came in from shut as Amy went around the room as Rory headed for the front door.
"Oh, at last," Rory said as he went to open the front door before groaning.
"What is it?" Amy asked him.
"No door knob!" He answered, "Wooden pans, a massive glass eyes and now no doorknob!"
"And this clock," Amy said as she saw a clock in the room.
"What?" He asked her.
"Look - the hands, they're painted on," Amy explained as she touched the clock's face before they turned as they suddenly heard the sound of a child laughing before Rory put a finger to his lips before they walked towards another door.
"You both are supposed to be professionals," Alex told the Doctor and Rose as he entered the kitchen and saw the Doctor searching through the cabinets, "I'll never get him to sleep now!"
The Doctor then found teacups, "It's so... irresponsible."
"No, Alex. Responsible," the Doctor argued, "Very. Cupboard bad. Cupboard not bare. Stay away from cupboard. And there's something else. Something we've missed. Something staring me in the face."
"Look, Doctor and Rose, I'd like you both to leave, please," Alex told both Gallifreyans, "You're both just making things worse. Will you stop making tea, Doctor!" He then took the teacups away from the Doctor, "I want you both to leave!"
"No," the Doctor protested as he took the teacups back before opening the fridge.
"What? What do you mean 'no'?" Alex asked as he closed the fridge, "Leave! Get out!" The Doctor then opened the fridge again before Alex closed it shut again, "Now, please! Look, maybe this was a bad idea. We should sort out George ourselves."
"You won't be able to," Rose argued as she took a teacup from the cupboard as well.
"She's right, you can't," the Doctor said, agreeing with Rose as he opened the fridge and took out a carton of milk and poured it into the three teacups.
"No one's going to tell us how to run our lives," Alex told both Gallifreyans, "I don't care who you two are or what wheels have been set in motion, we'll sort it!"
"I'm not just a professional. I'm The Doctor," the Doctor told him.
"And I'm his wife, Rose Smith," Rose told Alex.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Alex asked both Gallifreyans.
"It means we've come a long way to get here, Alex. A very long way. George sent a message. A distress call, if you like. Whatever's inside that cupboard is so terrible, so powerful that it amplified the fears of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of Time and Space," the Doctor explained.
"Eh?!" Alex said with confusion.
"Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire. Through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought and a whole, terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities," the Doctor went on as he tapped on Alex's forehead for a second, "You see mine and Rose's eyes? They're old eyes. And one thing we can tell you, Alex... monsters are real."
"You're both not from Social Services, are you?" Alex realized.
"Finally you figured it out," Rose told him.
"First things first. You got any Jammie Dodgers?" The Doctor asked him.
Amy and Rory entered a hall with a checkerboard floor and the large main staircase as they heard laughter.
"You hear that?" Amy asked her husband.
"Yeah," Rory answered before she started to walk forward, only for Rory to hold her back, "Wait!"
"They're getting closer!" Amy told him as the laughter was getting louder and closer towards them.
"They?!" Rory asked her before they slowly crossed the room to the door on the other side. Amy readied her wooden pan as Rory slowly reached for the doorknob and opened it quickly and both jumped back with a scream as they saw that there was a life-size doll with a large head standing in front of them with the paint chipping off.
"It's just.. It's a dummy," Amy said as she realized that it wasn't something that was living, "Oh, it's a dummy."
"This is... weird," Rory muttered.
"Yes, says the time-travelling nurse," Amy said, teasing her husband before he reached forward and tapped on the head and got a hollow sound, "Let's just... leave that for now. Come on." As they turned away and continued exploring, the dummy turned its head.
"What is it with these photos?" The Doctor asked as he was looking at the photo album again, this time at Claire and Alex instead of Claire and George before putting the album down, "Anyway! Good. Nice tea. Nothing like a cuppa, but decision." He puts his tea cup down on the coffee table, "Should we open the cupboard?"
"I think we should," Rose answered as she took a sip of her tea.
"What?!" Alex said at the same time as he spit out his tea, shocked at what he heard the Doctor suggest.
"Should we?" The Doctor asked him again, "Rose agrees with me. So should we?"
"Well…" Alex stuttered.
"Got to open the cupboard, haven't we? Course we have! Come on, Alex! Alex! Come on! How else will we ever find out what's going on here?" The Doctor explained.
"Right. But you both said…" Alex began to remind them.
"Monsters!" The Doctor finished for him, "Yeah, well, that's what We do! Breakfast, dinner and tea. Fight the monsters. So this... this is just an average day at the office."
"OK. Yeah. You're both right," Alex told them as they began heading towards George's room.
"Or maybe we shouldn't open the cupboard," the Doctor said as they stopped and went back to the sitting room, "We have no idea what might be in there! How powerful, how evil it might be!"
"We don't?!" Alex asked them.
"Yeah, we don't know how powerful or evil it is," Rose answered.
"She's right," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife, "Come on, Alex! Alex! Come on! Are you crazy? We can't open the cupboard!"
"God, no. No, we mustn't!" Alex said, agreeing with both Gallifreyans.
"Right. That settles it," the Doctor said as he put his hands on both sides of Alex's head.
"Settles what?" Alex asked them.
"Going to open the cupboard," the Doctor and Rose both answered at the same time after the Doctor removed his hands from Alex's head and grabbed his teacup to take another sip of his tea before giving it to Alex as both Gallifreyans left the sitting room as they ran towards George's room.
The Doctor, Rose and Alex were soon standing in George's room, facing the cupboard as the Doctor stretched his arms and cracked his neck as the Doctor slowly walked forward as George watched from behind Rose and Alex before the Doctor rushed forward to lean against the furniture, startling Alex and George as the Doctor turned the latch and reached for the handle as he yanked the cupboard open and saw that inside the cupboard there were some clothes and old toys, including a dollhouse before he turned around.
"I don't understand it. It has to be the cupboard," the Doctor said with confusion, "The readings from my sonic screwdriver, they were…" He then rushed out of the room and ran back into the sitting room and grabbed the photo album before heading back to George's room, "How old is George, Alex?"
"What? How old?" Alex asked with confusion.
"Yes," the Doctor confirmed, "How old is George?"
"Well, I told you and Rose. Just turned eight," Alex answered.
"So you remember when he was born then?" The Doctor asked him.
"Of course!" Alex answered.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Rose asked her husband.
"I do, Rose," the Doctor answered before turning back to Alex, "'Course you do! How could you not? You and Claire. Christmas Eve. 2002, right?" He then showed him a photo of him and Claire before George was born.
"What? Er... yeah," Alex answered.
"Couple of weeks before George was born," the Doctor told him, "Tell me and Rose about the day he arrived. Must've been wonderful."
"Best day of my... life," Alex answered, sounding like he doesn't even remember his son being born.
"Sure?" The Doctor asked him.
"Yes," Alex answered.
"You don't sound sure, Alex," Rose told him.
"What are you two trying to say?" Alex asked both Gallifreyans, "Look, I don't like this. I've told you both before, I want you both to go!" He then pointed to the door.
"What's the matter, Alex?" The Doctor asked him.
"I can't... Don't! Oh, this is scary!" Alex told them.
"No, Alex. This is scary. Claire with baby George," the Doctor told her as he showed him another photo, this time one with Claire holding George as a baby, "Newborn, yes?"
"Yes," Alex answered.
"Less than a month after Christmas," Rose added as she looked at the photo as well.
"So?" He asked them.
"So look," the Doctor told him, "Look! Claire's not pregnant."
"What?" Alex said with surprise.
"Not pregnant," the Doctor and Rose both said at the same time.
"Well, of course not. Claire can't have kids!" Alex explained before realizing what he just said.
"Say that again," the Doctor told him, wanting to know if he and Rose heard him correctly.
"We tried everything. She was desperate. As much IVF as we could afford, but... Claire can't have kids," Alex explained, "How... How can I have forgotten that?"
"Who are you, George?" The Doctor asked George as he, Rose and Alex slowly turned and looked at him sitting on his bed.
"It's not possible! This isn't…" Alex began to say in disbelief.
"George?" The Doctor and Rose both said as they stared at George.
The room then began to shake as light came through the cracks of the cupboard as the bedside lamp switched on brightly as the cupboard's door swung open as Alex, Rose and the Doctor were pulled towards it as the three of them tried to fight it as George was terrified.
"George...! George, what's going on? Are you doing this?" The Doctor asked George.
"What's happening?" Alex asked.
"Please save me from the Monsters!" George began chanting as he pulled his legs under his chin and wrapped his arms around them and closed his eyes, "Please save me from the Monsters! Please save me from the Monsters! Please save me from the Monsters!"
"George!" The Doctor and Rose called out to Rose as they struggled to fight the pull of the cupboard.
"Doctor! Rose!" Alex called out to both Gallifreyans.
"George!" The Doctor called out to George as he was pulled into the cabinet.
"Why are you doing this, George?" Rose asked George as she was pulled into the cupboard as well.
"George!" Alex called out to George before he was pulled into the cupboard like the Doctor and Rose were as the cabinet door closed behind them as George opened his eyes and blinked five times.
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