Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 7. I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. I had fun writing it. And I know why you are probably wondering why Gwendalyn has a problem with wolves. I hope that you all will understand why Gwendalyn has a problem with wolves in this chapter. Hopefully it will make everything clearer to you all of why she has an issue. I hope that I did alright with this chapter because this one was a little bit more challenging. Also at the end of this chapter will be a few questions to my loyal reviewers and readers. Without further ado Chapter 7 of Through It All. Allons-y!
Chapter 7
The Doctor and Robert kicked the door down.
Rose looked at the three of them. "Where the hell have you been."
"Oh lovely to see you too Rose." Gwendalyn said narrowing her eyes at the pink and yellow girl.
The Doctor saw that occupant of the crate. "Oh, that's beautiful."
"Doctor." Gwendalyn said looking at him.
"Sorry." The Doctor said looking at her sheepishly.
"Come on, go. Get out!" Robert told them.
The werewolf breaks out of the crate that it was in.
"Damn it." Gwendalyn muttered. This was a really bad day to be wearing such a long dress.
"Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out!" The Doctor shouted.
"Come on." Rose yelled as everyone began to make a break for it.
The Doctor looked in admiration towards the werewolf.
"Doctor come on!" Gwendalyn yelled looking back at him. "There is no time to look at the werewolf!"
He ducks as it throws a piece of the crate at him. He follows Gwendalyn out and locks the door with the sonic.
Gwendalyn shivered. "Why did it have to be a werewolf of all things."
The Doctor looked concerned. He didn't remember his Artemis being afraid of werewolves.
The Steward hands out the guns to the men. "Arms, and you five. Ready, everyone?" He looked at Lady Isobel. "Take the girls. Get them out through the kitchen."
"I can't leave you. What will you do?" Isobel looked at her husband.
"I must defend her Majesty. Now, don't think of me, just go."
"All of you, at my side. Come on."
The Doctor was working on the shackles releasing them. "It could be any form of light modulated species triggered by specific wavelengths. did it say what it wanted?" He asked looking at them trying to get an answer.
"The Queen, the Crown, the throne… you name it." Rose said looking at him.
A crash alerted them that the werewolf had gotten through the door.
"Well now we are in trouble." Gwendalyn said taking a deep breath.
"I'm going to see…" The Doctor said looking out in the hallway and saw that the werewolf had indeed gotten out. He ran back in and grabs both Rose and Gwendalyn moving them quickly.
"Fire! Fire!" The Steward yelled.
The guns were firing trying to kill the beast.
"Alright you men. We should retreat upstairs. Come with me." The Doctor said looking at them.
"I'll not retreat. The battle's done. There's no creature on God's Earth that could survive such an assault."
"I'm telling you. Come upstairs!"
"You might want to listen to him." Gwendalyn said looking at the Steward.
"You are just a woman." He snapped at Gwendalyn causing her to narrow her eyes at him. "I am telling you, sir. I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall." He said going into the corridor. "It must have crawled away to die." He was lifted up into the air screaming.
"There's nothing we can do." The Doctor said.
"We got to move!" Gwendalyn yelled. "That thing will not stop. It will kill everyone here. We got to move."
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty!" Robert yelled for the queen making sure that she was alright.
"Sir Robert? What's happening?" The Queen asked coming down the stairs. "I heard such terrible noises."
"Your Majesty, we've got to get out. But what of Father Angelo? Is he still here?"
"Captain Reynolds disposed of him."
"The front door's no good, it's been boarded shut. Pardon me, Your Majesty. You'll have to leg it out of a window."
"Doctor." Gwendalyn snapped. "I don't think that is wise."
They go into the Drawing room.
Gwendalyn slammed the door shut. She leaned against the door.
"Excuse my manners, Ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist Her Majesty's egress." Robert told the Queen.
"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh."
"Yeah, any chance you could hurry up?" The Doctor asked his London accent returned.
Gwendalyn narrowed her eyes. "Dear that was not polite. Rude again."
"Sorry dear." The Doctor said looking at Gwendalyn.
Robert opened the window and saw the monks. He paused.
"I reckon the monkey boys want us to stay inside."
"Do they know who I am?" The Queen asked. She was beginning to get fed up with this.
"Yeah, that's why they want you. The wolf's lined you up for a, a biting." Rose told her.
"Stop this talk. There can't be an actual wolf."
A howl was heard.
Gwendalyn gripped her hands tightly. She opened the door and peaked her head out. She swallowed the lump in her throat. She really hated wolves and werewolves. Only because she had been bitten by a regular wolf when she was living alone.
"What do we do?" Rose asked looking at the Doctor.
"There's only one thing that we can do." Gwendalyn said softly.
"We run." The Doctor said finishing her sentence.
"Is that it?" Rose said looking at the two of them.
"You got any silver bullets?" The Doctor bit out.
"Not on me, no." Rose said shaking her head.
"There we are then, we run. Your Majesty as your Doctor, I recommend a vigorous jog. Good for the health. Come on!"
Gwendalyn picked up her skirts and ran following the rest of them.
"Can't you do something?" Rose hissed at Gwendalyn as they ran up the stairs.
"No. I am not going to reveal myself…" She whispered.
Rose rolled her eyes. Of course Gwendalyn would be worthless in this. What would be so wrong of her revealing herself?
"Come on! Come on!" The Doctor yelled as the werewolf was smashing its way up the stairs.
Reynolds turns when the werewolf gets too close. He shoots at it causing it to retreat."I'll take this position and hold it. You keep moving, for God's sake. Your Majesty, I went to look for the property and it was taken. The chest was empty."
"I have it. It's safe." The queen told him.
"Then remove yourself, Ma'am. Doctor, you stand as Her Majesty's Protector. And you, Sir Robert, you're a traitor to the crown."
"Bullets can't stop it!" The Doctor shouted trying to grab him.
Gwendalyn's hand shot over to his arm keeping him back.
"They'll buy you time. Now run!"
"Doctor we have to do what he says." Gwendalyn said pulling him along. "We don't have much time."
They five of them ran towards the library. Robert, The Queen, and Gwendalyn had ran in.
Gwendalyn pulled on the Doctor's arm pulling him.
"Rose!" The Doctor grabbed onto her arm and pulled her inside of the library that Gwendalyn had pulled him into.
"Barricade the door." Robert said.
Gwendalyn grabbed a candle stick and put it through the handles of the door.
The Doctor grabbed some chairs and put it in front of the door as well. "Wait a minute." He said stopping.
"Doctor what is it?" Gwendalyn asked softly.
"Shush, shush, wait a minute."
A howl and it was a lonely one.
"It's stopped." The Doctor said with a relief.
"I am not sure about that." Gwendalyn said softly. She leaned against the door and pressed her ear against it.
"It's gone."
"Listen." Rose said softly hearing it moving walking around the room and growling.
"Is this the only door?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes. No!" Robert said realizing that there was another door.
"Oh this isn't nice." Gwendalyn said grabbing another candle stick and barring it through the handles.
The Doctor and Rose and Robert put chairs in front of it.
"Shush."
The noises continued outside of the walls.
"I don't understand. What's stopping it?" Rose asked.
"Something inside this room. What is it? Why can't it get in?" The Doctor wondered. Now this was really something new.
"I'll tell you what, though."
"What?" The Doctor questioned.
"Werewolf." Rose said with a smile.
"I know. You alright?"
"I'm okay, yeah."
The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn. ""You alright?"
Gwendalyn nodded her head. "I'm fine."
"I'm sorry, Ma'am. It's all my fault. I should have sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong. I thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?" Robert asked looking at the Queen.
"Well, they were bald, athletic. Your wife's away, I just thought you were happy."
"Doctor." Gwendalyn said giving him a pointed look.
"I'll tell you what though Ma'am. I bet you're not amused now." Rose said looking at the Queen hoping that she would get something out of her.
"Do you think this is funny?" The Queen snapped.
Gwendalyn closed her eyes. The one thing that Rose wouldn't learn. That was one way you didn't talk to royals. Hell Rose didn't even know that she was a princess perhaps it would have changed the way that the yellow and pink girl would have treated her. But right now that didn't matter to her. Right now they were very much in danger and they needed to get out of it.
"No, Ma'am. I'm sorry." Rose said apologising to the Queen.
"What, exactly, I pray tell me, someone, please. What exactly is that creature?" The Queen asked.
"You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's more of a lupine wavelength haemovariform." The Doctor said explaining it fairly quickly to the Queen.
"And should I trust you, sir? You who can change your voice so easily? What happened to your accent?"
Gwendalyn groaned. He was the one that fell out of the Scottish accent and she had kept hers up. She didn't even think he had realized that he had done just that.
"Oh right, sorry, that's…"
"I'll not have it. No, sir. Not you, not that think, none of it. This is not my world." The Queen said in a stubborn tone. She didn't want believe what was right in front of them.
Gwendalyn moved around the room and saw something. "Doctor."
"Gwendalyn what is it?" The Doctor asked her moving towards her.
Rose huffed and crossed her arms.
"Come here." She told him.
The Doctor came up behind her. "What is it Dalyn?" He whispered into her ear.
She shivered a little bit. "Look at this."
"Mistletoe. Sir Robert, did your father put that there?" The Doctor asked pointing out the mistletoe carving on the door that Gwendalyn had found.
"I don't know. I suppose." Robert told him.
The Doctor looked at it closer. "On the other door too." The Doctor said moving towards it. "No, a carving wouldn't be enough. I wonder." He licked the woodwork.
Gwendalyn turned her head. Now she wasn't expecting him to lick it. Now that was just nasty.
"Viscum album, the oil of mistletoe. It's been worked into the wood like a varnish. How clever was your dad? I love him. Powerful stuff, mistletoe. Bursting with lectins and viscotoxins."
"And the wolf's allergic to it?" Rose asked in confusion.
"Well, it thinks it is. The monkey monk monks need a way of controlling the wolf, maybe they trained it to react against certain things."
"Nevertheless, that creature won't give up, Doctor, and we still don't possess an actual weapon." Robert said shaking his head.
"He does have a point Doctor." Gwendalyn said looking at him dead in the eyes.
"Oh, your father got all the brains didn't he?"
Gwendalyn cleared her throat. "Rude."
"Good. I meant that one. You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have." He said grabbing some books and tossing them to Rose. "Arm yourself."
Gwendalyn took books and began to look through them.
"Biology, zoology. There might be something on wolves in here." Rose said.
"Hold on, what about this? A book on mistletoe." The Doctor said.
"A book on magic."
"Give me that." Gwendalyn said taking it from Rose.
"Some form of explosive." Robert said.
"Hm, that's the sort of thing."
"Wolf's bane, what about that?" Rose asked.
"Look at what your old dad found. SOmething fell to Earth."
"A spaceship?" Rose asked.
"A shooting star." Robert said. "In the year of our Lord 1540 under the reign of KIngs James the Fifth,an almighty fire did burn in the pit. That's the Glen of Saint Catherine just by the monastery."
"But that's over three hundred years ago. What's it been waiting for?" Rose asked.
"Maybe just a single cell survived. Adapting slowly down the generations, it survived through the humans, host after host after host." The Doctor said thinking.
"But why does it want the throne?" Robert asked.
"That's what it wants. It said so. The, the Empire of the Wolf." Rose said looking at them.
"Imagine it. The Victorian Age accelerated. Starships and missiles fueled by coal and driven by steam, living history devastated in its wake."
"Sir Robert. If I am to die here." The Queen said.
"Don't say that, Your Majesty." Robert said.
"I would destroy myself rather than let that creature infect em. But that's not matter. I only ask that you find some place of safekeeping for something far older and more precious than myself."
"Hardly the time to worry about your valuables." The Doctor said to the Queen.
"Thank you for your opinion, but there is nothing more valuable than this." She said showing them the finest white 105.6 carat diamond.
"Oh my…" Gwendalyn said looking at the beautiful diamond.
"Is that the Koh-I-Noor?" Rose asked.
"Oh, yes. The greatest diamond in the world." The Doctor said looking at it in awe as well.
"Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said the whoever owns it must surely die." The Queen said.
"Well, that's true of anything if you own it long enough. Can I?" The Doctor asked examining it. "That is so beautiful."
"How Much is that worth?" Rose asked.
"They say the wages of the entire planet for a whole week."
"Good job my mom's not here. She'd be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing."
"And she'd win."
"Where is the wolf? I don't trust this silence." Robert said looking around.
"Silence is never a good thing." Gwendalyn said looking around as well.
"Why do you travel with it?" The Doctor asked the Queen.
"My annual pilgrimage. I'm taking it to Helier and Carew, the Royal Jewellers at Hazlehead. The stone needs recutting."
"Oh, but it's perfect." Rose said looking at it.
"My late husband never thought so."
"Now, there's a face. Prince Albert kept on having the Koh-I-Noor cut down. It use to be forty percent bigger than this. But he was never happy. Kept on cutting and cutting."
"He always said the shine was not quite right. But he died with it still unfinished."
"Unfinished. Oh, Yes."
Gwendalyn took it from him knowing that he was going to throw it and handed it to the Queen.
"There's a lot of unfinished business in this house. His father's research, and your husband, Ma'am, he came here and he sought the perfect diamond. Hold on, hold on. All these separate things, they're not separate at all, they're connected. Oh, my head, my head. What if this house, its a trap for you. Is that right, Ma'am?"
"Obviously." She said looking at him.
"At least, that's what the wolf intended. But, what if there's a trap inside the trap?"
"Explain yourself Doctor."
"Oh, that is brilliant." Gwendalyn said looking at him.
"What if his father and your husband weren't just telling each other stories. They dared to imagine all this was true, and they planned against it, laying the real trap not for you, but for the wolf."
Gwendalyn jumped when some plaster fell from the ceiling.
They all looked up.
"That wolf there." The Doctor said pointing it out.
The glass crack.
"Out out out!" The Doctor yelled.
They unblocked the door and ran out.
The Doctor shut the doors.
"Your Majesty!" Robert yelled.
"Get to the observatory!" The Doctor yelled.
They ran, but the werewolf was catching up to Rose.
A pan of liquid is thrown over it and the werewolf backs off.
"Good shot." The Doctor said with a smile.
"It was mistletoe." Flora said with a smile.
"Isobel!" Robert said.
Isobel ran to her husband kissing him.
"Now, get back downstairs." He told her.
"Keep yourself safe."
"Now go."
"Girls come with me. Down the back stairs, back to the kitchens. Quickly!"
The girls follow Isobel's orders.
"Come on!" The Doctor shouted.
"All this running." Gwendalyn muttered running as fast as she could trying to catch up with him and the others. She tripped on the hem of her skirts and tumbled squeaking.
The Doctor heard her squeal. The Doctor turned and saw that she had fallen. "Gwendalyn!" He ran back and helped her up.
"I'm fine."
"I am not so sure about that. Come on." He told her. He picked her up carefully and ran up the staircase following them. "No mistletoe in these doors because you father wanted the wolf to get inside. I just need time. Is there any way of barricading this?" He asked trying not to allow Gwendalyn's feet to touch the floor. He thought that she had hurt herself.
"Just do your work and I'll defend it." Robert told him.
"If we could bind them shut with rope or something."
"I said I'd find you time, Sir. Now get inside."
"Good man."
"Doctor." Gwendalyn said softly.
"I know."
The four of them went into the room and shut the door.
The Doctor put Gwendalyn down in an empty chair. "Stay there."
"But Doctor." Gwendalyn began to protest.
"No, buts Gwendalyn." He said staring at her.
Gwendalyn nodded her head. "Alright."
The Doctor walked over to the Queen. "Your Majesty, the diamond."
"For what purpose?" The Queen asked.
"The purpose it was designed for."
She handed him the diamond.
"Rose." The Doctor told her.
Rose nodded her head.
The two of them went to the control wheels and start raising the telescope up.
"Lift. Come on."
"Is this the right time for stargazing?" Rose questioned.
"Yes, it is."
The Queen held her jet cross in her hands praying.
Gwendalyn closed her eyes. "Come on Theta. I know you can do this." She said into his mind.
"I am glad that you have faith in me my dear."
"Always."
"You said this thing doesn't work." Rose snapped at him.
"It doesn't work as a telescope because that's not what it is. It's a light chamber. It magnified the light rays like a weapon. We've just got to power it up."
"It won't work. There's no electricity. Moonlight. But the wolf needs moonlight. It's made by moonlight."
"Rose shut up for once." Gwendalyn snapped. "Quit thinking that it won't work."
"You're seventy percent water but you can still drown. Come on! Come on!"
The moon shines down into the telescope lenses bouncing on the prisms magnifying it.
The werewolf broke through the door and aiming for the queen.
The Doctor slid the diamond in where the light hit the floor.
The light hits the werewolf catching it in its light and lifting it up off of the floor. It turns back into a man.
"Make it brighter. Let me go." The wolf said.
The Doctor adjusted the magnification eyepiece.
The man turns back into a wolf shape and howls and vanishes.
The Queen is looking at a small scratch that was on her wrist.
"Your Majesty? Did it bite you?" The Doctor asked.
"No, it's, it's a cut, that's all."
"If that thing bit you."
"It was a splinter of wood when the door came apart. It's nothing."
"Let me see."
"It is nothing." She repeated to him.
"Doctor it's nothing." Gwendalyn said to him softly.
The Doctor sighed in defeat. He wanted to make sure that she hadn't been bitten.
DWDWDW
The Doctor, Rose, and Gwendalyn kneeled before the Queen who was armed with a sword.
"By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee Sir Doctor of the Tardis. By the power invested in my be the Church and the State, I dub thee Dame Gwendalyn of the Tardis. By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee Dame Rose of the Powell Estate. You may stand."
The Doctor stood up and helped Gwendalyn up slowly. He kept his arm around her. When she had fallen she had hurt her ankle landing on it funny. He was going to have to take a look at it when he had the chance to. "Many thanks, Ma'am."
"Thanks. They're never going to believe this back home." Rose said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the great beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now, Ma'am, from beyond the grave."
"Indeed. Then you may think on this also. That I am not amused."
"Yes!" Rose shouted in delight.
"Rose. Shush." Gwendalyn said looking at her.
"Not remotely amused. And henceforth I banish you."
"I'm sorry?" The Doctor asked in confusion. Now what did he do wrong?
Gwendalyn couldn't help, but groan. Of course they had messed up. Showing their dangerous life to the Queen of England. Of course she wasn't going to be amused.
"I rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you are exiled from this empire, never to return. I don't know what you are, the three of you, or where you're from, but I now that you consort with stars and magic and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death, and I will not allow it. You will leave these shores and you will reflect. I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good, and how much longer you will survive this terrible life. Now leave my world, and never return."
DWDWDW
"Whoa!" A man said slowing his cart down.
"Cheers, Dougal!" The Doctor said with a smile helping Gwendalyn off of the cart.
Rose got off as well. She blamed Gwendalyn for this.
"Walk on."
"No, but the funny thing is, Queen Victoria did actually suffer a mutation of the blood. It's historical record. She was haemophiliac. They used to call it the Royal Disease. But it's always been a mystery because she didn't inherit it. Her mum didn't have it, her dad didn't have it. It came from nowhere." The Doctor told Rose as he helped Gwendalyn towards the Tardis.
"What, and your saying that's a wolf bite?"
"Well, maybe haemophilia is just a Victorian euphemism."
"For werewolf?"
"Could be."
"Queen Victoria's a werewolf."
"Could be. And her children had the Royal Disease. Maybe she gave them a quick nip."
"So the Royal family are werewolves?"
"Well, maybe not yet. I mean, a single wolf cell could take a hundred years to mature. Might be ready, oh, early 21st century?"
"Nah, that's just ridiculous. Mind you, Princess Anne."
"I'll say no more."
"And if you think about it, they're very private. They plan everything in advance. They could schedule themselves around the moon. We'd never know. And they like hunting."
They went into the Tardis.
"They love blood sports. Oh my God, they're werewolves."
"Enough talk about wolves please. It's not like it is safe to have werewolves running the streets even as Queens or kings." Gwendalyn said shaking her head.
The Doctor sits Gwendalyn in one of the chairs. He flicked a few buttons. "You should rest Rose. Trying day."
Rose nodded her head. She smiled at the Doctor. "Good night." She said telling him good night and going to her room.
The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn. "Now let's check that leg of yours."
Gwendalyn nodded her lifted her skirt up of her dress and lifted her leg up some so he could check it.
His hands carefully touched her ankle. He moved it carefully to see if it was broken or just sprained.
She hissed softly when he moved it the wrong way.
"Sorry."
"It's fine." She told him softly. "It's just a little sore."
The Doctor looked at her. "I'm sorry that this happened Mis…"
"It's fine. Really it is." She said running her fingers through her hair. "It will heal pretty quickly. You know that."
"It's a sprain." He said softly.
Gwendalyn nodded her head.
"Mis why do you not like werewolves or wolves?"
"It don't matter. Don't worry about it Theta. Just a terrible memory." She said rubbing her arm a little. "We should get some rest."
The Doctor nodded his head. "Just be careful."
She carefully stood up on her feet trying to keep her balance wobbling a little bit. "I always am. Or try to be. Try to get some rest…"
"Too much stuff to do." He said with a wide smile.
Gwendalyn gave him a look.
The Doctor's face flushed. He knew that look. Oh he hated that look that she gave him. It always had him. It was the look that he was going to get sleep whether he wanted to or not. "Alright. Alright." He threw his hands up. "I'll get some rest." He told her.
Gwendalyn smiled. She pressed a kiss to his cheek. "Good." She said with a smile.
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This is the end of Chapter 7. I hope that you enjoyed it. I was enjoying it for the most part because I have been working so hard on this chapter. School Reunion is certainly going to be something else. The question is what should she be? Should she be a teacher along side him, working in the kitchen with Rose? Something else? I am really not sure of what to really do at the moment with that. Once it is decided on what she's going to be in School Reunion I'll be able to update. But please review and let me know what you think of this chapter and what you think of the ideas that I have. Until next time.