Her mother always hated horror movies, never liked them, never wanted anything to do with them, so come time when Taylor reached of age, she watched her very first horror movie without her mother's knowledge for this reason, though it would be the last time Taylor had the opportunity.
Taylor never forgot the look on her mother's face coming in the room unexpectedly and seeing the scene of a man dressed in an elegant outfit, primmed with not a hair out of place, watching his victim die in front of him after he had slit their throat, left them shackled to the table, sitting in his chair at the head of the table while calmly drinking his wine, as though he were watching a performance.
Turned ghostly white, that Taylor had to shut off the movie just as the man stood up from his chair to collect the body of his victim to dump it somewhere, tend to her mother who looked like she just seen a ghost.
Warm tea was enough to snap her from her stupor that Taylor promised her mother that she would never watch another horror movie in their home, again.
She kept her promise up until that horrible fire, now there had been adventures where it's though Taylor was in a horror movie.
This one, especially.
Paul made sure that the TARDIS guided Taylor through what he wanted her to do, after figuring out that Arthur wasn't all that he seemed, and horrifically, it came to pass, as he alerted her to a mechanical horror coming after her on Gerald's orders.
It used the sewers to avoid detection from any stragglers lingering outside during the late hours of the night, wise enough that it knew better to be spotted by anyone who wasn't Gerald or Harold.
Amazing how it managed to find her with ease despite being safely kept away in the TARDIS, even it was surprised by this, but regardless, worked with her on ensuring that the mechanical horror wasn't a threat to them
Things didn't go exactly according to plan as Taylor hoped, something she encounters on a given day, and well, it was like that.
The TARDIS managed to paralyze the mechanical horror, allowing Taylor to do what she was supposed to do, and well, the wiring that Gerald done wasn't like anything she ever witnessed, and even the TARDIS was baffled.
Taylor tried prevailing and failed, it'd appear that despite her efforts, all she managed doing was make the mechanical horror blind.
Baffling, she knows, not the worse to come, as even though it went blind, its hearing became too impeccable that it knew where she stood despite her attempts masquerading her presence, it heard her heartbeat without trouble.
The TARDIS had to make a diversion for Taylor to flee back inside, as wisely, they never did the rewiring attempt inside of it.
That'd be a terrifying thought!
Fortunately, the mechanical horror quickly lost interest in Taylor, instead of continuing its assault on the TARDIS for the silver of chance it could force itself inside, it retreated back through the sewers.
Likely, returning to Gerald and Harold.
It wasn't as though Gerald called it back with some chip in its head, he used to phone it home, Taylor made sure to check for anything Gerald could've used.
No, it was as though, something drew it back to the home, for what reason, Taylor didn't know.
All she knew she needed to return to save Paul from a fate worse than death.
Though from what Paul covertly told her, him using his parlor tricks on the brothers' caused dissonance within them, Gerald being a bit jealous about Paul's ability to change face, all that.
Which is extremely useful as it meant that with Gerald jealous, all it took was one well-placed seed within his metallic mind, and they can sow the disaster from the shaky truth falling apart between the Thornton brothers.
Uneasily as she worried about the mechanical horror returning if it heard her in the streets, Taylor wanted the TARDIS to bring her back to the Williams home, allow her to save Paul that way, but instead it had a different plan in mind.
She's to return back at the home by herself and it will remain here, for now.
"What?" Taylor found it confounded the TARDIS wouldn't even so much as allow her to use the controls as it insisted over the monitors for her to go back through where she came.
Time is all it needed.
And before Taylor went out into the darkened streets, the TARDIS warns her that with its sensitive hearing, one pin drop's enough for the mechanical horror to lurch in the direction of the pin drop.
Until then, keep quiet, the TARDIS promised to try and hack the mechanical horror somehow, and use the heightened hearing against it.
Jumping forward into the story, Taylor did just that, using something she found to draw the mechanical horror away from the cellar, else there's a chance it could accidentally harm Paul in the ensuring chaos had it managed to make its way down there.
One of the statues that Gerald kept somewhere in the home, didn't know what it was, but Taylor pushed hard enough that it toppled over in a loud crashing noise, enough that it made a dent in the hardwood floors.
It'd seem that the commotion was enough to draw out the brothers from the cellar, their shared body walking among the darkness, cursing in two distinct voices like a psychotic madman.
Whatever the TARDIS had in mind, Taylor suspected the mechanical horror had a place in it, and the brothers won't see it coming.
The TARDIS will ensure of their ironic downfall.
The Williams home had a different air about it without any working light source, cold, menacing, Taylor ended up on the first floor trying to find a way to sneak down into the cellar since the brothers will be looking for the source of the noise.
They won't be aware of what she done until they do something foolish, which in hers and Paul's line of work, it's a guarantee.
Along the way, something caught her eye, and it made her stop for a moment to look at a portrait of a woman in blue.
The frame had been damaged from the fire caused by the lighting, there's damages to the canvas, it's a miracle it survived this long, but given the identity of the woman in blue, it's no stranger why.
She was Harold's lover.
Centuries later, he'd still hang onto the painting he made of her, a tragic love story.
Even though Gerald effectively killed her, somehow Harold sought peace with him, something impossible in Taylor's mind.
Yet, somehow, Harold forgave Gerald.
Paul kept her informed during the tangents between the brothers and it'd appear that Harold saw futility holding the grudge, believing that while he was incensed with his brother, after everything that happened to their family, he was his only brother.
That's not even including what happened to Harold when Gerald ended up kidnapping him and turned him into one of his creations to be tortured and mutilated.
Still, somehow, Harold forgave him, once more, because Gerald was the only living relative left, and despite everything, he was still his brother.
Even mother would balk at this!
While she was quiet about her family, even she instilled to little Taylor that there's always a limit with families, and those incidents would have broken what little ties remained.
"Finally!" Taylor muttered carefully under her breathe as she found a way inside the wall of the home, like where Paul told her.
It's difficult, she scrapped against the jagged nails more than once, but Taylor found her way down in the cellar.
She hadn't heard from the mechanical horror or the brothers, though with her destroying a statue, Gerald's probably having a fit of rage, but Paul assured her that the brothers didn't know she'd snuck back inside the home.
Grunting, Taylor found her way inside the dark cellar, the smell of blood hit her nose, and immediately she called out to Paul.
"Strapped for time, my dear," she heard Paul as she reached his side.
His wounds slowly healed, but weren't as terrible as they were when the brothers caught him, there's that.
Upon freeing him from the restraints, Taylor watched as Paul pushed himself up from the table, blood soaked through his clothes, leaving a ruby red spot on the cold steel table.
Pulled off the table, Paul felt Taylor's warm embrace as she held him close, exhaling sharply as she chided him.
Acknowledging Taylor's displeasure, Paul hobbled with her as they hurried back through the way Taylor came, as they do, they heard the chaos happening above, the brothers discovered the mechanical horror born from a dead man's corpse wasn't listening to Gerald's commands as he hoped.
"I tried asking what plan it had, but it wouldn't tell me," Taylor warns Paul about the TARDIS' inability telling her what sort of plans it had in store for the Thornton brothers.
A sigh, Paul explained, "It's always been vague, my dear."
