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It's Rory's stag night and he's trying to talk to Amy above the loud noise with his cellphone "Hey...! It's me! Hello! How are you? The reason for this call is because I haven't told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal, and even if we weren't getting married tomorrow, I'd ask you to marry me anyway. Yes, I would, because you are smashing."
Behind Rory, a large cake is being wheeled in and a song called 'The Stripper' begins playing. His mates poke him and he turns, still on the phone. "Oh... Oh. Oh, blimey. I've... I've... I-I-I... I'll see you tomorrow."
"Out! Out! Out!" Everyone chanted and the Doctor pops his head through the top of the cake, the chanting stops but the music continues. Rory shakes his head in disbelief and the Doctor looks around confused.
He stood up and turned around and caught the sight of Rory and grinned, "Rory!" He exclaimed, "That's a relief. I thought I'd burst out of the wrong cake. Again. That reminds me, there's a girl outside in a bikini. Could someone let her in, give her a jumper? Lucy. Lovely girl."
"Diabetic," he whispered before getting down to business, "Now, then. Rory," he clapped his hands for a second "We need to talk about your fiancée." Rory blushes and points at the picture of Amy that is on the shirt he's wearing of him and Amy, "Me and Rose want you to come travel with us, as we think that Amy's falling in love with me as she tried flirting with me earlier," just as he said that everyone gasps "Tell you what, though. You're a lucky man - she's great at flirting."Then someone drops their glass and they all stare at the Doctor "Funny how you can say something in your head and it Sounds fine…" He muttered to himself.
The Doctor took Rory to the Tardis and he went into a harness seat in the space underneath the Tardis console doing some welding work, Rory stood by the door, Amy paces nervously above and Rose was reading a book from Gallifrey that was in the Library.
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"Oh! The life out there, it dazzles. I mean, it blinds you to the things that are important. I've seen it devour relationships and plans," the Doctor said, giving a lecture to Amy and Rory and Rory looks down nervously and the Tardis experiences a small explosion "Ohhh! It's meant to do that."
"I bet it did," Rose said sarcastically, knowing full well that it is not meant to do that.
He ignored what the comment that is wie said and resumed working "because for one person to have seen all that, to taste the glory and then go back, it Will tear you apart. So...we're sending you somewhere. Together."
"Whoa! What, like a date?" Amy asked.
Rose closes her book and stood up "It can also be a vacation for me and the Doctor as well. Am I right, Doctor?"
"Yeah, we could do that as well Rose," He said answering her before explaining to Amy and Rory where they could take them "Anywhere you want, any time you want," he said as he stood up and walks up the steps to join them at the console "One condition - it has to be amazing."
"We could take you to Versailles in 1871, when the first German Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck proclaimed Wilhelm I of Prussia as the first Emperor of the German Empire," Rose suggested.
We could do that, Rose," the Doctor said, suggesting that they could take Amy and Rory somewhere else "or we could take them to the Moulin Rouge in 1890! The first Olympic Games! Think of it as a wedding present, because, frankly, it's either this or tokens."
Rory had a stunned expression on his face, that he couldn't believe that the Tardis was bigger on the inside, "It's a lot to take in, isn't it?" The Doctor asked him and he heads up a set of stairs "Tiny box, huge room inside. What's that about? Let me and Rose explain."
"It's another dimension," Rory said.
"It's basically another dimens-" the Doctor started but realized what Rory said before finishing his sentence and was shocked at what he heard "What?"
"After Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories; FTL travel, parallel universes," Rory explained, how he knew that the Tardis was another dimension.
Well the technology and science for the Tardis to be bigger on the inside than the outside is called Dimensional Transcendentalism," Rose explained.
"I like the bit when someone says, 'It's bigger on the inside!' I always look forward to that," the Doctor said walking up to Rory.
"So, this date and vacation," Amy said "I'm kind of done with running down corridors. What do you think, Rory?"
"How about somewhere romantic?" The Doctor asked.
"When he says romantic, he really means it as he once took me to Barcelona," Rose said.
"The City?" Amy asked, "How is that Romantic?"
"No, not the city Barcelona," the Doctor said "the planet and the people who colonized it were from Catalonia sometime after they gain their independence from the kingdom from spain."
"What's so special about this planet,then?" Amy asked.
"What so special about the planet Barcelona is that they got dogs with no noses," the Doctor said answering Amy.
"You're joking, right?" Amy asked.
"No, he's not," Rose said "Barcelona really does have dogs with no noses."
'Theta, where do you think we should take them?' Rose asked her husband telepathically.
'I think we should take them to Venice, near the end of the Renaissance,' he suggested telepathically, through their bond.
'I think your right, as Venice was becoming a city of love during the renaissance,' she said.
'Venice it is then,' he said through their bondand Rose set the co-ordinates while the Doctor set the time to choose form between 1300- 1600 and he pulls down the dematerialization lever.
The Tardis materizlises in the middle of a busy market in the city of Venice and no one takes any notice. The Doctor is the first to exit, with his arms open "Venice!" he said as the others come out "Venezia! La Serenissima! Impossible city. Preposterous city!" both Amy and Rose stared at the city in amazement "Founded by refugees running from Attila the Hun," he went on, "It was just a collection of little wooden huts in the marsh, but became one of the most powerful cities in the world. Constantly being invaded, constantly flooding... constantly... Just beautiful! Oh, you gotta love Venice. And so many people did. Byron, Napoleon, Casanova," he finished "Rose what year is it?"
"Doctor it's 1580," Rose answered him checking her watch, "so we don't have to worry about running into Casanova as he was born in 1725, who might I say when we met him, he reminded me a lot of your last incarnation and he looked like you as well."
"Why would you be worried about running into him?" Amy asked them.
"A few years ago he made a bet with Casanova and he lost and the one who lost would owe the winner a chicken and he still hasn't given him a chicken yet," Rose explained.
"Doctor, you owe Casanova a chicken?" Rory asked the Time Lord with disbelief.
"Long story," the Doctor told him, "and as Rose said me and Casanova had a bet a few years ago."
An official dressed in black steps out in front of the Doctor "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" the official said, telling him that he needs validification in order to enter the city, "Papers, if you please. Proof of residency, current bill of medical inspection."
The Doctor searched his pockets on his tweed jacket for his psychic paper for a second and found it and held hit out for the official to see "There you go, fella," the Doctor told the Official and he took the psychic paper from the Doctor "All to your satisfaction, I think you'll find."
The official was shocked at what he read from the psychic paper and bows deeply in embarrassment "I am so sorry, Your Holiness and milady. I didn't realise who you both were."
"No worries. You were just doing your job," the Doctor said as he took his psychic paper back from the official "Sorry, what exactly is your job?"
"Checking for aliens, visitors from foreign lands what might bring the plague with them," the Official explained.
"Oh, that's nice!" Amy said sarcastically to both gallifreyans, "See where you bring me?" She slaps the Doctor's arm "The plague!'
"Don't worry, Viscountess," the Official said to Amy and he bows in front of her and she sighs "No, we're under quarantine here, no-one comes in, no-one goes out, and all because of the grace and wisdom of our patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri." He points to the crest on a box he's carrying on his chest.
"How interesting," the Doctor said "Me and my wife both heard the plague died out years ago."
"Not out there," the Official said pointing out to the sea "No, Signora Calvierri has seen it with her own eyes. Streets are piled high with bodies, she said."
"Did she, now?" Rose asked with confusion as she knew the the bubonic plague ended in 1351 and Rory reaches for the Doctor's psychic paper as the official goes off to question someone else while the Doctor, Rose and Amy walked on.
Rory opens the psychic paper "According to this, I am your eunuch!" He told his fiancée.
Amy stopped for a second and looked at him "Oh, yeah, I'll explain later."
The Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory got a spot across the canal and watched as a a gondola went by and on the other side of the canal a procession of girls with veils on their faces walked by. A dark skinned man ran up to the procession.
"What do you want?" A woman leading the other women asked the man.
the man began to lift the girls' veils, "Where's my Isabella?" The man asked as he began to lift the veils the covered the girls' faces.
The woman shouted, "What are you doing? Get away from there." The woman leading the women ordered.
The man kept searching, "Isabella! Isabella!" He apparently found who he was looking for but she backed away. "It's me!"
One of the other girls came forward and the man fell to the ground. The girls continued their procession. Another man put his booted foot on the man's chest, keeping him down. He said something then left with a swirl of cloak.
The man shouted after them as two guards lifted him from the ground. "Isabella! It's me!"
Amy asked, "What was that about?" Amy asked and she turned around and noticed that the Doctor and Rose weren't there. "I hate it when they do that!"
The Doctor and Rose followed the man and the man walks along a passageway and both Gallifreyans crosses behind him and leaps onto the steps near the bottom of a stairway.
"Who were those girls?" The Doctor asked the man.
I want to know as well," Rose said agreeing with her husband.
The man stops and looks at Doctor "I thought everyone knew about the Calvierri school,"
he said to both gallifreyans
"Who are you, by the way?" Rose asked the man.
"Ma'am, my name is Guido," the man answered.
It's me and my wife's first day here in Venice," he explained as he stepped down the steps "Parents do all sorts of things to get their children into good schools. They move house, they change religion. So, why are you trying to get her out?"
"Something happens in there. Something magical, something evil," Guido explained "My own daughter didn't recognise me. And the girl who pushed me away, her face... like an animal."
The Doctor puts his arm around Guido's shoulder "I think it's time we met this Signora Calvierri," the Doctor said to Guido and Rose.
Amy and Rory walks through a narrow passage "And what have you been doing?"
Rory asked his fiancée.
"Well... running. And fighting. I've been scared," AMy told him "More scared than I thought was…"
"Did you miss me?" Rory asked Amy.
"I... I knew I'd be coming back," Amy said while hesitating and softly punched Rory's arm.
"He was right. It blots out everything else," Rory said.
"Rory... this is our date and their vacation," Amy told him "Let's not do this, not now."
They heard birds fluttering their wings above them and Rory looks up. "Ha!" He laughed, for a quick second "We are in Venice and it's 1580!"
"I know!" Amy said after laughing and Rory laughed with her as they walk off, arm-in-arm. They pass an archway and a stairway.
Amy poses in front of a doorway and Rory kneels to take her photo with his phone, when suddenly they both heard a loud, piercing scream and Amy ran towards the sound.
"What was that?" Rory asked before Rory ran after Amy and they arrived in the area of which the scream came from, they saw a pale skinned man, who was wearing a hat and was on top of a girl He lifts his head and they saw blood on the girl's neck and they quickly looked up at the man and saw that his mouth is open, showing non-human fangs. He walks past them with a hiss, holding his cape in front of his face. Rory goes to the girl."She'll be OK," Rory said while Amy went to chase the man and Rory saw her take off, "Where are you... Amy! Come back!"
Amy ran off after the man, but her chase comes to an abrupt end at one of the canals.
Meanwhile back with The Doctor, Rose and Guido, they got to the school and the Doctor told that he and Rose needed a distraction in order to get into the school, so Guido decided to approach the guards of the school "You have my daughter. Isabella!" Guido yelled making a distraction for both Gallifreyans.
"You're not coming in, stop there! We've told you…" the Guards told Guido, not letting him pass, while Guido has the guards distracted, both the Doctor and Rose sneaks along the side.
"You have my daughter. Isabella!" Guido said, continuing to distract the guards "I demand you let me see my daughter."
The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver on the canal gate.
"Isabella! It's me! It's your father," Guido said still distracting the guards.
"I'll arrest you…" the guards warned.
"Isabella!" Guido yelled as the Doctor and Rose made it inside and then he left.
The Doctor and Rose walk down some stone steps and enter a chamber, on one wall, he saw a mirror "Hello Handsome, he said as he approaches it, straightening his bow tie and checks his teeth.
"Hello Narcissist," Rose said teasing him.
Hello Beautiful," he said to Rose before kissing her.
"Who are you?" They heard feminine voices say from behind them and they stopped kissing and looked behind and saw five girls dressed in white gowns, pale skin and most of them had dark hair.
They look at the girls in white gowns and looked back at the mirror and the girls weren't appearing on the mirror and did it a few times "That's impossible," Rose muttered, knowing that vampires are extinct from the Gallifreyan-Vampire war, during the days of Rassilon.
"Rose, your right," the Doctor told Rose "But how are you doing that?" He asked the girls "I...am...loving it. You're like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls, only he was shorter. Will be shorter."
"Doctor, your rambling again," Rose told the Doctor.
"I'll ask you again. Who are you?" The girls asked both Gallifreyans again.
"Why don't you check this out?" The Doctor pulled out a wallet that showed an ID with a photo of his first incarnation, near his regeneration "Doctor that's the Library card," Rose told him.
"Of course, it is," the Doctor told her as he put the wallet away "it's with... He's... I need the spare. Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight and can't be seen in…" He said and looks back at the mirror and realizes what the girls could be "Am I thinking what I think I'm thinking?" He asked himself, "But the city. Why shut down the city? Unless…"
Leave now, or we shall call for the steward... if you are lucky," the girls threatened the two gallifreyans.
"Ooh!" The Doctor said and the girls hiss and bare their fangs as they advance toward the Doctor and Rose. They run over to the doorway. "Tell me the whole plan," he ordered
"That will never work," Rose told her husband.
"Rose, it will work some day," he told Rose before turning back to the pale creepy girls "Listen, I would love to stay here. This whole thing... I'm thrilled. Oh, this is Christmas!" He and Rose grabbed each other's hand and ran back up the stairs as the girls hiss after them.
It was night and both the Doctor and Rose met up with Amy from across the canal from the school.
"Doctor! Rose!" Amy exclaimed as she caught up with them.
"Me and Rose just met some vampires-like women!" The Doctor told Amy.
"Me and Rory just saw a vampire!" Amy said at the same time with their voices overlapping
"And creepy girls and everything," the Doctor went on.
"Vampires!" Amy said and they jump up and down together excitedly as Rory joins them.
"We think we just saw a vampire," Rory told them.
"Rory, Amy was just telling us," Rose told the nurse.
"Yeah! Both the Doctor and Rose actually went to their house," Amy told her Fiancée.
"Oh. Right. Well…" Rory starts before being interrupted.
"OK, so…" The Doctor said before slapping his hands on Rory's cheeks "first we need to get back in there somehow."
"What?!" Rory said as he was shocked at what he just heard the Doctor say.
"How do we do that?" Amy asked at the same time.
"Back in where?!" Rory asked
"Isn't it obvious," Rose told Rory "The school."
"Come and meet our new friend, Guido," the Doctor told Amy and Rory.
The Doctor and Rose took Amy and Rory to Guido's house and Guido brought out a map of the city of Venice and the Doctor, Rose and Amy are at the table looking it over with him as Rory sits back among some barrels.
"As you saw, there's no clear way in. The House of Calvierri is like a fortress. But there's a tunnel underneath it, with a ladder and shaft that leads up into the house," Guido said, tracing one of the streets on the map with one of his fingers, "I tried to get in once myself, but I hit a trapdoor."
"You need someone on the inside," Amy realized.
"No," the Doctor said instantly as Amy said that.
"You don't even know what I was going to say!" Amy told him.
"We pretend you're an applicant for the school to get you inside and tonight you come down and open the trapdoor to let us in," the Doctor told Amy telling her what her plan was.
"Oh," Amy said, realizing that he just told her the plan that she came up with, "So you know what I was going to say!"
"Are you insane?" Rory asked his Fiancé
"We don't have another option," Amy told him.
"He said no, Amy," Rory said "Listen to him."
"Amy, the Doctor and Rory are right," Rose told Amy before noticing that there were barrels in the room and guessed that there were gunpowder inside the barrels, "Guido, are these what I think they are?"
"I was just getting to that," Guido said, "There is another option. I work at the Arsenale. We build the warships for the navy."
The Doctor approaches the barrels and he sniffs the barrels to see if he could smell gunpowder resonating from them and found that Rose was correct "Rose, you are right there is gunpowder in these barrels," he puts his hand on Rory's shoulder "Most people just nick stationery from where they work."
Rory slides slowly off the barrel and backs away into a dead rabbit hanging by the fireplace now knowing that there was gunpowder present within the barrels.
"Look, me and my wife both have a thing about guns and huge quantities of explosive," the Doctor said as he walked back to the table.
"The Doctor is right," Rose said, "me and him are both pacifists. We hate violence and we try to avoid it at all costs."
"What do you both suggest, then?" Guido asked both Gallifreyans as he turned away and pokes at his fireplace, "We wait until they turn her into an animal?"
"I'll be there three, four hours tops," Amy said, still thinking about her plan.
The Doctor gives a small smile at her persistence and seemed to consider her plan before dismissing it yet again, "No, no, no, no, no, no. It can't keep happening like this. This is how they go," he sits on the bed, with his head in hands. Rose walks over to the bed and sits down with him. He then takes a breath and sits back "But I have to know. If me and Rose went with you," the Doctor added finally giving into Amy's plan, "Say you're our daughter."
"What?! Don't listen to him!" Rory said walking over to his fiancé.
"Your daughter?" Amy asked with shock "Doctor, you look about nine and Rose you look about twenty-five"
"Brother and sister, then," the Doctor suggested.
That might work but it could be too weird," Amy said.
"I'm not having the Doctor and Rose running around telling people that your their sibling," Rory said.
"No. No, you're right," Amy told Rory.
"Thank you," Rory said.
"I mean, they've already seen the Doctor and Rose," Amy told him, "You should do it."
"Me?" Rory asked her.
"Yeah!" Amy said and rubs his head playfully "You can be my brother."
"It does sound better than with me and my husband as Amy's siblings," Rose said, "The girls that we met might've reported the two of us to Calvierri."
Over on the bed, the Doctor smiles at Amy and Rory's interaction with each other and he gives rose a kiss.
"Why is him being your brother weird, but with me, it's OK?" Rory asked Amy.
"Actually Rose, I thought you were her sister," Guido said and I thought your husband was her brother-in-law."
"Yeah, that's not helping," the Doctor told Guido.
"Doctor that was rude," Rose told him..
Anyway, this whole thing is mental!" Rory said, "They're vampires, for God's sake."
"They're not vampires," Rose said, "Vampires are extinct, they all died in a war with our species a billion years before we were born, which was during the days of Rassilon, one of our founding fathers and he killed them all except for their leader who he sent to another dimension which I'm assuming that he's dead by now."
"We hope," the Doctor said, "Unless they found a way of time traveling before we time lords did."
"So if they're not vampires...?" Amy asked.
"Makes you wonder what could be so bad it doesn't actually mind us thinking it's a vampire?" The Doctor said and Rose agreed with him on that.
Later Rory and Guido exchanged clothes and Guido gave Amy clothes that belonged to Isabella and they walked down to Calvierri's school ad stood as petitioners in front of Signora Calvierri.
"So, basically, both of our parents are dead from getting the plague," Rory told Signora Calvierri the cover story that the Doctor and Rose said that would be best for them to use, "I'm a gondola... driver... so... money's a bit tight... so having my sister go to your school for special people would be brilliant. Cheers."
A man next to Signora Calvierri shows an interest in Amy, "Have we met?" He asked her.
"I've just got one of those faces," Rory said, thinking the man was talking to him and the man walks towards Amy and stands in front of her.
"I wasn't talking to you," the man said as he walks towards them and points one of his fingers at rory.
"She's got the same face... which is because she's my sister!" Rory explained, laughing a bit as he said that.
Sigora turns to a male servant who was wearing a nightcap on his head, "Carlo, explain yourself," she demanded, "Why have you brought me this imbecile?"
"Signora, they have references from His Majesty, the King of Sweden," Carlo explained to Signora Calvierri.
"What?!" She said in disbelief, "Let me see." (holds out her hand and Rory walks to the throne and hands her the psychic paper that the Doctor gave him, "Well, now I can see what got my steward so excited," Signora Calvierri added as she looks at the Psychic Paper and then hands it back to Rory "What say you, Francesco? Do you like her?" Signora Calvierri asked the man that was pacing in a circle around Amy.
"Oh, I do, Mother. I do," the man named Francesco answered.
Then we would be delighted to accept her," Signora Calvierri told Rory "Say goodbye to your sister."
Rory and Amy grip each other's hands just before Carlo leads a stuttering Rory away.
"Tell Uncle... Doctor… and Aunt... Rose that I'll see the three of you pretty soon, OK?" Amy told Rory as he was lead to the doorway and he nods at her, "I'll be fine," she added smiling.
Suddenly behind Amy Francesco bares his teeth and Rory saw this, "A- Amy!" He yelled as the door closes.
Fun Fact: Venice was once it's own country from 697-1797 and it was a maritime republic and it was known as the most serene republic of Venice and the language that was spoken there was Venetian, which Italian was becoming more common in Venice during the renaissance and it was conquered by Napoleon in 1797 and when Napoleon signed the Treaty of Campo Formio on October 12th, 1797, Austria took control of venice but was taken from them by napoleon's kingdom of italy till napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and was given back to Austria at the treaty of paris in 1814 and it stayed part of the Austrian Empire till the Austro-Prussian war in 1866, also known as the seven weeks war or the brothers' war as both Prussian and Austria were German and the war resulted in an Austrian defeat and the Austrian defeat resulted in a prussian hegemony of the southern German nation exclauding Austria, which became Austria-Hungary in 1868 and they gave Emperor Napoleon III of France Venice who then gave Venice to Italy and from then on it has been part of Italy
Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader.