A/N: Get ready for a new chapter coming right at you! These chapters are based around the Doctor Who episode, 'Fear Her', and a brief flashback from the episode, 'Love and Monsters'.

I don't own Doctor Who. All I own is my OC, Katy Tyler.

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DESOLATION

"It's you and your world
And I'm caught in the middle
I caught the edge of a knife
And it hurts just a little."
– Avicii (feat. Rita Ora): 'Lonely Together' (AVĪCI (O1) [2017])

Their experiences on the impossible planet, where a mysterious, sinister creature calling itself 'the devil' had foresaw Rose's imminent demise in the up-and-coming future, had made both the Doctor and Katy slightly more protective of the blonde. This both puzzled and annoyed Rose completely and made her a bit paranoid; fearing that her sister and the Doctor knew a lot more than they were letting on about what the 'Beast' had predicted.

But that had been quickly forgotten by a phone call from Jackie, who was upset over a young man whom she had taken a liking for, only to discover that he was actually only pretending to take an interest in her in order to learn more about the Doctor and her daughters.

However, when they went to confront this guy, Elton, he was called; they instead had to rescue him from being 'absorbed' by a strange alien that had dubbed itself as an Absorbaloff, a very distant cousin of the Slitheen race. It also turned out that the Doctor had already met Elton once before ... and not during a particularly uneventful incident that Elton had witnessed involving the Doctor, Katy, and Rose dealing with a Hoix, a particularly bad-tempered alien with lots of teeth.

Flashback: Warehouse

The Doctor had taken them back to Earth after he had picked up on a strange signal and decided to go and investigate. It turned out that a Hoix had been separated from the rest of its race and was causing havoc. So, the three of them constructed a trap, which was what the Hoix triggered, and what Elton had unintentionally come across when he had been snooping around the Tardis.

"Doctor! Doctor, the trap!" Rose sounded the alarm causing the Doctor and Katy to come running to see for themselves. Unfortunately, the Hoix had managed to escape and did a runner, much to the Doctor's frustration.

"Where's he gone?" He demanded before turning to Katy. "Did you see him?" Katy was about to answer 'no' when she spotted it turning a corner off in the distance.

"There he is! Stop!" They charge off after it. However, it suddenly does an about face and heads straight towards Katy and Rose, snarling angrily at them. "No! Watch out!" They dodge it and it disappears around another corner. "Oh, come on! Where did it go?" Katy groaned in frustration.

"There!" Rose points spotting it. She and Katy run after it and nearly collide with the Doctor who had been searching in a different area.

"Where? Where?" The Doctor asked, urgently. "Oh, never mind. I see him!" He takes off after it but stops briefly to shout over his shoulder at the sisters. "Go back to the Tardis and grab one of the buckets in the storage cupboard… Rose, wait! Ugh!" The blonde had taken off before the Doctor could finish his instructions. He looks impatiently at Katy and finishes. "Get the red bucket, not the blue. Tell Rose when you catch up to her."

"Got it!" Katy nods and tears off after her sister. That was when Elton suddenly comes face to face with the Hoix who roars loudly in the poor man's face. The Doctor comes up behind the Hoix, waving a pork chop in the air, enticingly.

"Here, boy! Eat the food. Come on, look at the lovely food." The Hoix turns towards the Doctor, eying off the pork chop. "Isn't that nice? Isn't it? Yes, it is!" The Doctor coos at it like it was a baby before eying Elton briefly over its head. "Get out of here, quickly!" He instructs a thoroughly confused Elton abruptly, before refocusing on the Hoix. "That's a boy. Wouldn't you like a porky-choppy then?"

The Doctor gets annoyed when Elton doesn't take the hint.

"I said run!" He states, sharply. Elton finally gets it and turns for the stairs, only to dodge Rose who was coming the other way carrying a blue bucket of something that appeared to be steaming. She throws it over the Hoix, and the Doctor groans. "Wrong one! You just made it worse."

"You said get a bucket!" Rose retorts frustratedly, as Elton watches with curiosity.

"Yeah, but not the blue one! Didn't Katy tell you that?"

"I didn't see Katy." Rose stated, and the Doctor frowns a little.

"What do you mean? Where is she?" But before Rose could respond, the Hoix recovers from being soaked and starts chasing a startled Rose. "Hold on!" The Doctor closes the door in Elton's face, and he decides to make his escape. But he gets lost and ends up witnessing a very Scooby Doo-like farce chase of people running in and out of doors across the corridor. Eventually, Katy reappears carrying the red bucket the Doctor was asking for and joins in the chase after the Hoix with the Doctor and Rose.

But then, randomly, the Doctor returns and confronts Elton with a questioning frown.

"Hold on. Don't I know you?"

Present: Open ground, 2012.

So, after the Doctor explained everything to Elton and partially restored his girlfriend Ursula into the form of a face on a concrete slab, Katy and Rose decided to spend a little time with Jackie to help cheer her up, while the Doctor made some repairs on the Tardis.

Which brings us to the present:

The Doctor decided to take the sisters on a surprise trip and ended up materialising between a pair of cargo containers … with her double doors facing the wrong side. The Doctor opens the door and realises he can't get out.

"Ah." He retreats back inside the Tardis, which then dematerialises, turns ninety degrees and reappears as a train goes whizzing by along the track behind the open ground the Tardis was standing on and the nearby housing estate. "Ah!" The Doctor steps out of the Tardis and out into the fresh air, as Katy and Rose step out after him. The blonde checks out a nearby Shane Ward Greatest Hits poster that had been attached to one of the containers.

"So, near future yeah?" Rose questioned.

"I had a passing fancy," the Doctor responded, shrugging. "Only it didn't pass, it stopped." He grinned, earning a grin back from Katy.

"Ooh sounds intriguing! Where have you brought us?" She asks, linking arms with him.

"You'll just have to wait and see, huh?" The Doctor winked at her, playfully. Neither noticed the sour looks they were getting from a jealous Rose behind them watching them flirting with each other.

Dame Kelly Holmes Close

The trio found themselves walking down an ordinary suburban London Street, which was being heavily decorated and refurbished. Why? Well, it was all in preparation for:

"Thirtieth Olympiad!" the Doctor revealed enthusiastically to both sisters whose mouths dropped open in delighted surprise. A large banner was being strung up overhead revealing that London was going to be hosting the 2012 Olympic Games.

"No way! Why didn't I think of this? This is great!" Rose exclaimed excitedly.

"Only seems like yesterday a few naked Greek blokes were tossing a discus about, wrestling each other in the sand while crowds stood around baying." The Doctor reminisced. "No, wait a minute, that was Club Med." He grinned elbowing Katy who smiled fondly and rolled her eyes. "Just in time for the opening doo dah, ceremony, tonight, I thought you'd both like to see that."

"Every alien and monster we've encountered on our adventures together, Doctor, wouldn't stop me!" Katy stated.

"That's the spirit!" The Doctor approved. "Now the last one they had in London was dynamite. Wembley, 1948. I loved it so much; I went back and watched it all over again." The Doctor was so lost down memory lane and rambling on about it, that he failed to notice a middle-aged man putting up a missing person's flyer on a nearby lamppost. Both Katy and Rose stopped walking and observed, before going over and reading what the poster said. The Doctor was oblivious. "Fella carrying the torch. Lovely chap, what was his…?"

"Doctor…" Katy attempted to grab his attention.

"Mark? John? Mark? Legs like pipe cleaners, but strong as a whippet!" the Doctor carried on, still not paying attention to the sisters, who both wore concerned looks on their faces.

"Doctor…" Rose tried to get his attention this time, and the Doctor started coming over to them, but was still rambling on with his Olympic trivia.

"… And in those days, everybody had a tea party to go to."

"Doctor! We've got a problem…" Katy attempted again.

"… Did you ever have one of those little cakes with the crunchy ball bearings on top?"

"You should really look at this." Rose insisted, and the Doctor finally notices that they were standing in front of a poster and starts scanning it as he continues talking.

"Do you know those things? Nobody else in this entire galaxy's ever even bothered to make edible ball bearings. Genius!" Then the Doctor really started paying attention when he realises he was reading a missing poster. He immediately becomes serious. "What's taking them, do you think? Snatching children from a thoroughly ordinary street like this?" He wondered, as Katy suddenly shivers from cold.

"Why's it so cold? Where did that cold breeze come from?" She wondered, rubbing her arms through her jacket.

"It says they all went missing this week," Rose read. "Why would a person do something like this?"

"What makes you think it's a person?" The Doctor countered, before spotting something and immediately grabbing Katy's hand, pulling her along with him as he went to investigate. Rose obliviously watches a woman at a nearby house putting out her rubbish and immediately going straight back inside. No one else is around except for some council roadmenders and their white van.

"Whatever it is, it's got the whole street scared to death," Rose realised. "Doctor, what—" she cuts herself off when she spots the Doctor and her sister running ahead towards a house with a kid's goalie net in the front yard.

She scowls and jogs to catch up with them. She watches as the Doctor squats down to the lawn and holds out his hand over the grass, observed by a perplexed Katy. A man in a Mini drives onto the road, when his car suddenly stops randomly in the middle of it. One of the road menders stops what he is doing and comes over to help.

"There you go. Fifth today. It's not natural, is it?" He says to the driver, who gets out of his car and inspects it in confusion.

"I don't know what happened, I had it serviced less than a month ago."

"Nah, don't even try and explain it, mate." The road mender suggested. "All the cars are doing it. And do you know what? It's bonkers. Bonkers. Come on then, pal. I'll help you shift it. Quicker you're on your way, happier you'll be." The two men start pushing the car along the road to get it going again. "There we go." He grunts, attempting to push the heavy car from behind.

Rose approaches to lend a hand.

"Need a hand?" she offers.

"No, we're all right, love." The road mender declines, smiling politely at her. But Rose gently nudges him over and starts pushing beside him.

"You're not. I'm tougher than I look, honest." She reassures him. With Rose's help, the two men slowly edge the car forwards, and the engine suddenly bursts to life, causing the road mender to nearly fall over. The driver gets back into his car. "Does this happen a lot?" Rose questioned, frowning a little as the driver waves at them gratefully.

"Cheers, mate!"

"Been doing it all week," The road mender explained.

"Since those children started going missing?"

"Yeah, I suppose so." He confirmed, and Rose chewed on her bottom lip thoughtfully as she continues walking towards the Doctor and Katy.

While Rose was helping a driver get his car going after mysteriously stalling in the middle of the road, Katy was observing the Doctor behaving peculiarly on the lawn in front of a stranger's house. A stranger, whom she suddenly noticed, was now looking out the window right at them with a suspicious frown on his face. Her eyes widened when the man suddenly disappeared from view in a hurry, and Katy realised he was on his way out to investigate.

"Uh, Doctor…?" Katy attempted to grab her boyfriend's attention, but he ignored her, too focused on what he was doing on the lawn in front of him. The Doctor hovered his hand over the grass and giggled a little when something brushed against his palm

"Ooh, tickles!" The Doctor grinned, still completely oblivious. Katy tried again to get his attention.

"Sweetie, perhaps we should leave—"

Too late.

Katy flushed with embarrassment as the man emerged from his house and approached them, eying her sternly, then redirected his attention down at the Doctor.

"What's your game?" The owner of the house questioned the Doctor, unamused. The Doctor froze and slowly looked up at the man, looking sheepish.

"My er … Snakes and Ladders?" He replied, and Katy just threw him a reproachful look. "Quite good at squash. Reasonable." When neither Katy nor the man laughed the Doctor's face fell. "I'm being facetious, aren't I?"

"Obviously, sweetie." Katy agreed, shaking her head.

"Yeah, there's no call for it." The Doctor admitted and got to his feet as the owner suddenly advances on him and the Doctor backs off, grabbing Katy and pulling her behind him for protection.

Rose was continuing her conversation with the road mender, whose name she learned was Kel; at the same time gathering information about what was happening with the random child kidnappings in the street. She was oblivious to her sister and the Doctor getting themselves into trouble with one of the neighbours.

"Every car cuts out," Kel explained. "The council are going nuts. I mean, they've given this street the works. Renamed it. I've been tarmacking every pothole." They approach a nearby newly patched up piece of the road. "Look at that. Beauty, innit?" Rose nods politely, but very obviously not interested in the mechanics of road repairs. "Yeah! And all that is because that Olympic Torch comes right by the end of this Close. Just down there." Rose follows Kel's pointing finger towards the end of the street, curiously. "Everything's got to be perfect, ain't it? Only it ain't."

An elderly woman walks by and when she overhears the topic of the conversation, comes over to join the conversation.

"It takes them when they're playing," the elderly woman explained, drawing Rose's attention towards her.

"What takes them?"

"Danny, Jane, Dale. Snatched in the blink of an eye." Rose looks disturbed, then jumps out of the way when the Doctor and Katy walk backwards in front of her, trying to avoid an irate neighbour laying in on the Doctor.

"I'm, I'm a police officer! That's what I am," the Doctor was attempting to explain while shepherding Katy behind him in case the man pursuing them happened to be violent. "I've got a badge and a police car…"

"Police box is more accurate..." Katy mutters underneath her breath. "Ow!" She jumps when the Doctor pinches the skin on her hand as a warning to be quiet and to cut the cheek.

"…You don't have to get... I can, I can prove it. Just hold on!" The Doctor gropes around in his jacket pocket for the psychic paper, but the man butts in before he could do so.

"We've had plenty of coppers poking around here, you don't look or sound like any of them." The angry man accuses.

"See, look. You've met my colleague…" He indicates to Katy, who waves awkwardly at the man from over the Doctor's shoulder. "And my other colleague." The Doctor gestures to a confused Rose who grimaces at the man, who doesn't look convinced.

"Well, they look less like coppers than you do."

"Training," the Doctor was quick to clarify. "New recruits. It was either that or hairdressing." Both Katy and Rose made faces at that.

"Plus, appearances can be deceiving, sir. Never assume anything." Katy chided. The Doctor wasn't sure if he was impressed or annoyed by Katy's retort but dismissed it as he continued his attempt to smooth things over.

"So, voila!" He brandishes his psychic paper in front of the man's face. Another neighbour, a dark-skinned woman in her mid to late 30s whose name was Trish, walks over to them; having emerged from her house to investigate what was going on, and questions them.

"What are you going to do?" She asked, looking doubtful. Maeve, the elderly lady who joined in the conversation with Rose and Kel, spoke up.

"The police have knocked on every door. No clues, no leads, nothing."

"Look, kids run off sometimes, all right? That's what they do." The angry man argues to Maeve who scowls at him.

"Saw it with me own eyes. Dale Hicks in your garden, playing with your Tommy, and then pfft! Right in front of me, like he was never there." She insists strongly, and the Doctor, Katy, and Rose look disturbed by this information. Nothing human is capable of doing something like this. An alien was obviously behind the kidnappings, it was just a matter of finding out who, what, and where it was. "There's no need to look any further than this street. It's right here amongst us."

"Why don't we—" the Doctor attempted to calm them down but was interrupted by yet another irate neighbour butting into the conversation.

"Why don't we start with him?" The neighbour points accusingly at Kel, who looks offended. "There's been all sorts like him in this street, day and night."

"Fixing things up for the Olympics!" Kel protested his innocence.

"Yeah, and taking an awful long time about it," the angry neighbour begins pointing fingers too, causing the Doctor to frown harder and raise his voice louder to be heard.

"I'm of the opinion that all we've got to do is just—"

"You don't. What you just said, that's slander!" Kel retorts back to the neighbour who first started accusing him.

"I don't care what it is!" She shouts back, getting angrier.

"I think we need to just—" the Doctor tries again.

"I want an apology off her!" Kel glares at his accuser, and Maeve backs him up.

"Stop picking on him."

"Yeah, stop picking on me." Kel seconds that.

"And stop pretending to be blind. It's evil!" Maeve scolds all the neighbours. But the neighbour who started this argument continues arguing.

"I don't believe in evil."

"Oh no, you just believe in tarmackers with sack loads of kidnapped kiddies in their van!" Kel defends himself.

"Here, here, here. That's not what she's saying," the angry neighbour defends the woman.

"Would you stop ganging up on me!" Kel shouts.

"Feeling guilty, are we?" The accusing neighbour sneers, and finally the Doctor has had enough.

"Fingers on lips!" He growls, and the shocked neighbours slowly obey his request, including Katy and Rose whom the Doctor looks pointedly at them to make the shush gesture, and they raise their fingers to rest on their lips. "In the last six days, three of your children have been stolen. Snatched out of thin air, right?" He confirms.

"Er, can I?" Maeve asks the Doctor, who nodded. "Look around you. This was a safe street till it came. It's not a person. I'll say it if no one else will. Maybe you're coppers, maybe you're not. I don't care who you are. Can you please help us?" She begs, anxiously. Something moves out the corner of Rose's eye and she glances up to spot a little girl with a dead look in her eyes, looking out the window at them.

"Katy, look!" Rose nudges her sister and points up at the window.

Trish spots the girls looking at her house and notices her daughter. She immediately looks uncomfortable and goes back inside.

Katy and Rose watch the Doctor as he starts sniffing like a bloodhound around the yard they had been inspecting earlier, now that they had permission to do so.

"Want a hanky?" Rose asks him, raising an eyebrow at his odd behaviour. He ignores her question, looking puzzled.

"Can you two smell it?" He asks.

"Smell what?" Katy asks, coming closer to him to smell for herself. The Doctor straightens up and looks at the sisters, encouragingly.

"You tell me. What does it remind you of?" He gestures, and both Katy and Rose take a sniff for themselves, unsure what they were supposed to be looking for.

"Smells like metal," Katy responded cautiously.

"Exactly!" the Doctor beamed.

"Oh!" Both girls exclaim in relief.

They take a walk and find themselves going between two lots of back gardens, searching the same metal smell they came across. The Doctor starts giving them both a lecture about what they've learned so far from the neighbours.

"Danny Edwards cycled in one end but never came out the other," the Doctor explains then stiffens when he suddenly smells the same metal scent from earlier. "Woah! There is goes again!" He grins excitedly. "Look at the hairs on the back of my manly hairy hand."

"There's that smell again…" Katy wrinkles her nose with disgust.

"It's like a burnt fuse plug or something." Rose points out.

"There's a residual energy in the spots where the kids vanished. Whatever it was, it used an awful lot of power to do this." The Doctor realises. They step back out onto the main street. Rose and Katy stop when a ginger cat suddenly crosses their path, meowing and circling around Rose's ankles.

"Aren't you a beautiful boy?" She coos to the cat and kneels down to pat and stroke the creature.

"Thanks! I'm experimenting with back combing," the Doctor acknowledged, then trails off when he realises Rose wasn't talking to him. "Oh." He pouts in disappointment, as Katy takes her eyes off the cat and walks over to him, smirking.

"You're not seriously jealous of that cat, are you?" Katy asks, linking arms with her boyfriend as he grimaces at the idea.

"No, it's nothing like that. I'm just not really a cat person," he admitted. "Plus, once you've been threatened by one in a nun's wimple, it kind of takes the joy out of it."

Katy giggles at the reminder of Novice Hame and the rest of the Sisterhood from their first adventure with this version of the Doctor back on New Earth. She stands on her tiptoes to whisper into his ear.

"Well, I think you're handsome," Katy whispers to him, pecking him affectionately on the cheek as the Doctor beams at her warmly before returning the kiss quickly before Rose could notice. The cat loses interest in Rose and begins to walk off, with the blonde in close pursuit.

"Come here, puss." The cat goes inside a cardboard box. "What do you want to go in there for?" She asks it, then freezes when the cat lets out a distant meow. "Doctor!" Rose turns over the box and realises that the box was now empty. "Phew!" She recoils from the strong smell as the Doctor and Katy come over to see what Rose had discovered. The Doctor takes the box from Rose and recoils back also, laughing in delight.

"Woah! Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!" He crows, loudly. "Ion residue. Blimey! That takes some doing. Just to snatch a living organism out of space-time. This baby is just like, I'm having some of that." He drops the box. "I'm impressed."

"So, the cat's been transported?" Katy questioned.

"It can harness huge reserves of ionic power," the Doctor explained to the sisters. "We need to find the source of that power. Find the source and you will find whatever has taken to stealing children and fluffy animals." He glances about the street with interest before turning back to them. "Let's split up. You two see what you can see." The Doctor takes off on his own search, yelling back over his shoulder at the girls. "Keep them peeled!"

Garages

Katy and Rose make their way to the top of the Close, coming across narrow three-story houses with integral garages next to the front door. They jump when they hear a loud noise coming from one of them.

"What was that?" Katy questioned.

"Dunno," Rose responded. "I think it came from over here…" The blonde leads her sister towards one of the garages and flinches back when something pounds on the door. "Is that you, puss-cat? Are you trapped?" Rose calls out.

"Do you think we should open it?" Katy asked, and Rose shrugged.

"Probably not. But we won't know what's making that noise until we find out, right?"

"I guess. Shall I do the honours?" Katy offers.

"Be my guest," Rose shrugged once again.

Katy reaches for the knob and gives it a test turn. Surprisingly, the door is unlocked and together the sisters gently open the garage door … and a big black ball of scribble suddenly knocks down Rose.

"Rose!" Katy yells in alarm and attempts to help her when the Doctor spots them and comes running.

"Stay still!" the Doctor instructs, pointing his sonic screwdriver at the scribble ball, which becomes hand sized. It zooms at Katy, who catches it. The three of them sigh with relief as the Doctor helps Rose off the ground.

"Okey dokey?" He asks Rose, who nods at him, slightly out of breath.

"Yeah, cheers." She thanks him, hugging him in relief.

"No probs," the Doctor replied before they both turn towards Katy who was examining the ball, puzzled. She hands it to the Doctor who looks just as confused as she did. "I'll give either one of you a fiver if you can tell me what the hell it is, because I haven't the foggiest." The Doctor stated, poking at it with the sonic.

"Well, I think you killed it," Katy stated.

However, the Doctor shakes his head.

"It was never living. It's animated by energy. The same energy that's snatching people," he explains before grinning in amusement. "That is so dinky! The go anywhere creature. Fits in your pocket, makes friends, impresses the boss, breaks the ice at parties." He puts the ball inside his bigger-on-the-inside jacket pocket.

The TARDIS

The trio return to the Tardis so the Doctor could analyse the scribble ball. He places it on the console and punches in a few buttons. The process only takes a few minutes.

"Oh, hi ho, here we go. Let's a have a look." The analysis finishes and the Doctor's eyebrow rises. "Get out of here!" He mutters in disbelief at what he reads on the monitor in front of him.

"What's it say?" Katy asks him, wishing that she was a Time Lady again so she could understand Gallifreyan. It was very frustrating. In response, the Doctor pulls a pencil from one of his pockets and uses the eraser end of it on the ball and rubs some of it out. "Wow…"

"It is," the Doctor blows off some pencil residue. "It's graphite. Basically, the same material as an HB pencil."

"I was attacked by a pencil scribble?" Rose was amazed.

"Scribble creature," the Doctor corrects her. "Brought into being with ionic energy. Whatever we're dealing with, it can create things as well as take them. But why make a scribble creature?" He pondered.

"Maybe it was a mistake?" Katy guessed. "I mean, you scribble over something when you want to get rid of it, like a…" She trails off, eyes widening and looks over at Rose, who had come to same conclusion as she did. "Like a drawing. Like a, a child's drawing. You said it was in the street." She reminded the Doctor.

"Probably," the Doctor acknowledged.

"The girl." Rose realised.

"Of course!" the Doctor exclaimed, then frowned in confusion. "What girl?"

Katy shakes her head fondly.

"Rose and I noticed a girl watching us earlier from her bedroom window." She explained.

"Something about her gave us the creeps. Even her own mum looked scared of her." Rose added.

The Doctor grins at them.

"Are you two deducting?" He questioned, playfully.

"Yep, absolutely." Katy agreed.

"Copper's hunch?"

"Permission to follow it up, Sarge?" Rose questioned the Doctor who nodded.

Trish's house

The very last thing Trish expected this day was to play host to this mysterious 'Doctor' and his two companions. So, when she heard the doorbell ring and the letterbox rattle, her first reaction was immediate dread. She took her time answering the door, and when she did the Doctor gave her a pleasant smile and the two girls had varying expressions; the blonde had the same pleasant smile as the Doctor, but the brunette was a bit more reserved.

"Hello," the Doctor greeted Trish politely. "I'm the Doctor and this is Katy and Rose." He introduces them to Trish who doesn't smile back and simply nods instead. "Can we see your daughter?"

"No, you can't." Trish was quick to say.

"Okay, bye." The Doctor was also quick to say, and immediately turned and walked off with Katy and Rose following him. Trish realised how abrupt she had been just then and realised that they could help her.

"Why?" the three of them paused and turned back to look at Trish. "Why do you want to see Chloe?"

"Well, there's some interesting stuff going on in this street, and I just thought. Well, we thought, that she might like to give us a hand." The Doctor replied casually.

"Our mistake," Katy acknowledged.

"Sorry to bother you," Rose chimed in sweetly.

"Yeah, sorry. We'll let you get on with things … on your own. Bye again." The Doctor gestures for the girls to follow him.

Trish decided to take a chance.

She calls out to them.

"Wait!" They look at her again. Trish hesitates again before biting the metaphorical bullet. "Can you help her?

"Yes, I can." The Doctor smiles reassuringly.

Living Room

Trish leads her guests into her living room. The Telly was on with a live view of the Olympic Torch making its way through England towards its final destination in London. The commentator is in the middle of his report.

"…The Torch Bearer is running up the Mall, which I can tell you is—" Trish mutes the TV.

"She stays in her room most of the time," Trish explains quietly. "I try talking to her, but it's like trying to speak to a brick wall. She gives me nothing, just asks to be left alone."

"What about Chloe's dad?" Katy asks.

"Chloe's dad died a year ago."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Katy apologised, sheepishly. Trish snorts earning surprised looks from her guests.

"You wouldn't be if you'd known him." She stated bitterly. The Doctor straightens up from his perch on the armrest of a nearby chair.

"Well, let's go and say hi." He suggests.

"I should check on her first. She might be asleep." Trish said, and the Doctor smiled knowingly at her.

"Why are you afraid of her, Trish?" the Doctor asked, gently. Trish's eyes widened in alarm before she took a deep breath in before giving an explanation.

"I want you to know before you see that she's a really great kid."

"Of course she is." Katy agreed, trying to reassure Trish that they weren't here to be judgmental, only to help.

"She's never been in trouble at school. You should see her report from last year: A's and B's." Trish continued, proudly.

"Can I use your loo?" Rose suddenly spoke up, causing Katy to raise an eyebrow at the randomness of the question. Trish nodded, and Rose walks out the room.

"She's in the choir. She's singing in an old folk's home," Trish continued trying to convince the Doctor and Katy that her daughter wasn't as she appeared. "Any mum would be proud." She swallows hard. "You know I want you to know these things before you see her, Doctor, because right now, she's not herself."

Meanwhile, Rose heads upstairs to snoop around, looking for evidence of whatever could be stealing these children out of thin air. She immediately hides in an airing closet, narrowly avoiding being seen by Chloe when the 12-year-old comes out of her room and goes downstairs. When the coast was clear, Rose emerges from the closet and heads into the bedroom.

The first thing she noticed was that one of the walls in the room was covered in drawings, including Dale and the ginger cat she, the Doctor, and Katy had come across in the street. Rose jumps in surprise when the doors of Chloe's wardrobe suddenly start rattling, and she accidentally knocks over a jar of coloured pencils. She bends over to pick them up and when she straightens up, she spots that the picture of Dale was now scowling.

A/N: Stay tuned for part two!