"Come on!" The Doctor shouted letting the Queen continue up the stairs. He ran back down shouting at Rita who was fixed in place. "Rita! Come on!" He repeated multiple times trying to get the brunette to snap out of whatever was causing her to freeze, she continued to take no notice and was only pulled out if her trance when the Doctor pulled her by her shoulders and shouted in her face, not because he was angry but because he cared for the girl and couldn't live with knowing her death was his fault, he knew that Rose would always blame him for the brunettes death.
He grabbed her hand and dragged her up the stairs. Her legs not running fast enough to keep up with the Doctor leaving her to be dragged behind him. They turned a corner and the Doctor ducked taking Rita with him behind the captain who proceeded to shoot at the wolf causing it to stumble back.
"I'll take this position and hold it." He told the four. "You keep moving, for God's sake!" He shouted and then looked st the Queen. "Your Majesty, I went to look for the property and it was taken. The chest was empty."
"I have it. It's safe." She reassured him nodding.
"Then remove yourself, Ma'am." He looked over at the Doctor serious expression taking over his face. "Doctor, you stand as Her Majesty's Protector." He then looked over at the other man pointing his gun at him. "And you, Sir Robert, you're a traitor to the crown."
"He tried to save your life!" Rita defended the man. "At least he tried!"
"Not good enough" the captain spoke back in a calm monotone voice. Rita felt a swarm of guilt flow over her. This man was risking his life for his Queen and he didn't have to do that.
"Bullets won't kill it!" The Doctor shouted at him in his face, Rita pulled him back knowing that she or anyone else couldn't stop the man.
"They'll buy you time. Now run!" he orders the Doctor looks at him for a moment and then nods his head running to the library with the Queen, Sir Robert, Rose and Rita.
Sir Robert, Rita and Queen Victoria entered the room panting and out of breath, the Doctor, on the other hand, stood in the exit. Rita looked up to see the blonde standing fixated like just like she was moments ago on the stairs the Doctor shouted for Rose but received no reply, making a quick decision he grabbed the girl around her waist and pulls her in shutting the door behind him.
Robert then ordered them: "Barricade the door" he shouted to them. They all scrambled around the room near the door finding and grabbing what they could to try and block it off. Rita then breathed out a sigh. She noticed that they were in the Libary which was much larger than she anticipated when watching the episode. The room was stacked high with case after case with all different kinds of books many of them hundreds of years old by the time she knew about them.
The Doctor placed a finger to his lips hushing the four humans in the room "Wait a minute. Shush, shush," he leant closer to the door placing his left ear against it "wait a minute." He whispered again. "It's stopped." he breathed out a sigh hearing the wolf sniff and then slowly walk off. "It's gone" he faced the group sighing yet again.
"Listen," Rose told them holding a finger up in the air. Rita widened her eyes remembering part of the current scene and ran to the other door in the room. "It's not the only door!" she whispered quite loudly at them placing chairs in the way of the door. The Doctor and Rose also widened their own eyes rushing over to help the brunette.
"Shush." Rose raised her hand again. "Whats stopping it?" she asked frowning. "Rita?" she looked at the brunette who frowned back at her.
"Yeah?" she replied
"Well, you got foreknowledge so you know what this is right?"
"Rose I can't tell you that" Rita tilted her head. "I don't know the impact of what would happen and I definitely don't want to find it being a bad impact either.
"Not even in a hint?" She frowned again. Rita silently shook her head "Not even a small hint?"
Rita looked at the Doctor for help he, however, said nothing and raised his eyebrows up a little symptheticly for the girl who then sighed and mumbled: "Secret: it's near the walls" The Doctor smiled a little she was begining to understand what she could and couldn't say Rita never noticed this smiled but Rose did and smiled back at him understanding what he was happy at. The Doctor then frowned his smile disapearing off his face.
"Rita" he began. "Why did you stop at the stairs?"
"Why did you stop in the cellar?" she countered crossing her arms.
"I knew I was going to be fine in the cellar you, on the other hand, had no idea of the impact and you knew it too, You knew perfectly well that I was going to be ok yet you stayed behind. So why?" he finished crossing his own arms, his brown eyes searching her face trying to understand what she was thinking behind her skull and in her brain.
"I don't know" she mumbled. "I just stopped, just like Rose did" she shrugged. This isn't how the episode is supposed to go like? She thought not showing her confusion on her face knowing the Doctor was watching her and would definitely know something was wrong.
"I'll tell you what though" Rose spoke making Rita smile a little
Back on track, she thought.
"What?" The Doctor said.
"Werewolf" Rose cracked up into a small laugh Rita then joined in.
"I know!" The Doctor laughed along with the girls. "Are you both alright?" He asked them both after they all stopped laughing.
"After the running? Feel like I have lost a few pounds" Rita joked.
"I'm okay, yeah" Rose replied nodding.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am." Sir Robert shook his head in apology. "It's all my fault. I should have sent you away." He blamed himself. "I tried to suggest something was wrong. I thought you might notice." He sighed asking: "Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?"
"Well," the Doctor dragged it out. "They were bald, athletic." He pointed out. "Your wife's away, I just thought you were happy." He joked.
"Rude" Rita scolded him hitting his arm.
"I'll tell you what, though, Ma'am," Rita slowly shook her head crossing her arms and leaning against a wall knowing where Rose was going with this. "I bet you're not amused now."
"Do you think this is funny?" She asked raising her eyebrows definitely not amused.
"No, Ma'am. I'm sorry." Rose mumbled slowly walking backwards joining Rita leaning against the wall.
"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 a more of a lupine wavelength haemovariform." He spoke proudly as if that was a good thing.
"You just want to sound smart" Rita smirked.
"Of course" he raised his brows at her making the brunette snort.
"And should I trust you, sir?" The Queen spoke up Rita and the Doctor stopped grinning turning to the Queen. "You who change your voice so easily? What happened to your accent?"
Rita sighed. "I did tell you" she pointed out raising her brows and looking at the doctor with the 'I told you so' face smirking ever so slightly, he rolled his eyes.
Rose chuckled a little at the pair. "When does he ever listen to us?" she joked grinning at Rita who grinned at her back.
The Queen coughed slightly bringing the trio's attention back onto her. "Oh right," the Doctor rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly "sorry, that's-" he tried to find the correct words to explain but was interrupted by the Queen.
"I'll not have it. No, sir." She then pointed to the door "Not you, not that thing, none of it. This is not my world"
"Not mind either, trust me" Rita mumbled.
"I beg your pardon?" the Queen looked at her frowning. "You look like you are very much enjoying this"
"No, I mean-" Rita stuttered. "This isn't-" she looked at the Queen who didn't seem to understand or care in the slightest. "Never mind" she mumbled looking down at her shoes.
The Doctor patted her shoulder. "Right," he said and then looked up at the door of the room. "Mistletoe." The Doctor identified a carving in the door. "Sir Robert, did you father put that there?" he questioned the man standing beside the Queen looking just as confused as she was.
"I don't know. I suppose." He shrugged not understanding where the Doctor was going with this.
"On the other door, too. No, a carving wouldn't be enough. I wonder." He ran a hand though his hair. "Rita" he turned to the girl. "Anything?"
"Might sound odd but maybe if you lick something" her voice trailed off getting quieter the more she spoke.
"Lick?" He started to pace around. "Lick, lick, lick, lick, lick," he said pacing back and forwards before stopping. "Oh I am very thick" he ran another hand though his hair. "You Rita Stone" he pointed at her grinning. "You are very, very clever" he emphasised the word 'very'. He then added "and brilliant"
"No that was you" she protested. "I just gave you the secret hint"
"Still clever in my book" he winked running over to the door and licking it.
Rose scrunched up her nose at the sight. "Why is he licking the door?" She asked Rita.
"Viscum album," he announced "the oil of the mistletoe. It's been worked into the wood like a varnish. How clever was your dad?" He grinned at Robert "I love him."
"Aww I ship it Doctor x Sir Roberts father" Rita laughed joking the Doctor, Sir Robert and Rose scrunched up their faces in disgust at the thought and in slight confusion. "What? You said you loved him not me" she raised her hands up in defence the Doctor thought for a second and then tilted his head making the 'eh' face before continuing to explain.
"Powerful stuff, mistletoe. Bursting with lectins and viscotoxins."
"And the wolf thinks it's allergic to it?" Robert questioned.
"Well, it thinks it is. The monkey monk monks need a way of controlling the wolf," he thought aloud "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." Sir Robert pointed out.
The Doctor winced at the thought of weapons. "Oh, your father got all the brains, didn't he?"
"Being rude again" Rose chipped it crossing her arms.
"Good." Rita gave him a playful slap on the arm.
"Rude and not ginger, keep like that and you will never be ginger" she pointed at him in the face joking.
"I meant that one." He added not regretting what he said while grinning at the brunette, Rose just grinned at them both. "You want weapons? We're in a library." He ran to one of the cases filled with many different books of all shapes, sizes and thickness "Books! Best weapons in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have." He placed his black rimmed glasses on his nose then picked up a few books throwing Rita and Rose one each. "Arm yourself."
"Biology, zoology. There might be something on wolves in here."
"Nope" Rita sighed crossing her arms.
"Aren't you going to help?" Rose raised a brow closing the book in her hands.
"I know what it is Rose, me going through these books is pointless. I can't tell you what that is, you four need to work it out yourselves." She sighed then muttered: "Sorry"
"Hold on, what about this?" The Doctor looked up. "A book on mistletoe." Rita grinned slightly moving over to stand beside the Doctor watching him scan through the book.
"A book on magic." Rose frowned joining them followed by Sir Robert.
"Some form of explosive." He mumbled looking at the Doctor.
"Hmm, that's the sort of thing." He hummed looking at the book intently.
"Wolf's bane, what about that?" Rose pointed to the words written on the page.
"Look what your old dad found. Something fell to Earth." He mumbled looking at Rita raising his brow at her. The brunette nodded back showing that he was on the right track to discovering what the wolf actually was or how to 'kill' it.
"A spaceship?" Rose questioned.
"Something like that" Rita nodded at the blonde then looking at the book again.
"A shooting star." Sir Robert said then began to read from the book. "In the year of our Lord 1540, under the reign of King James the Fifth, an almighty fire did burn in the pit." He blinked thinking for a moment. "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 crossing her arms.
"Maybe just a single cell survived. Adapting slowly down the generations, it survived through the humans, host after host after host."
"Like a virus except it isn't a virus" Rita chimed in the Doctor grinning at her comment.
"And you said you weren't clever" the Doctor grinned even more. Rita shook her head still denying her cleverness.
"But why does it want the throne?" Sir Robert interrupted the pair.
"That's what it wants. It said so. The Empire of the Wolf." said Rose.
"Imagine it." The Doctor removed his glasses placing them on the inside of his long brown coat. "The Victorian Age accelerated. Starships and missiles fueled by coal and driven by steam, leaving history devastated in its wake"
Queen Victoria sighed "Sir Robert. If I am to die here-" She began getting interrupted by the man.
"Don't say that, Your Majesty."
She then continued despite his wish for her not to. "I would destroy myself rather than let that creature infect me. But that's no matter. I ask only that you find some place of safekeeping for something far older and more precious than myself."
"Hardly the time to worry about your valuables- ow!" he cried out feeling a sting on his arm.
"You have got to stop being so rude" Rita pointed up at him narrowing her eyes. "Pay attention shut up and listen, Doctor" she huffed then softened her face moving her left arm and resting it behind her identical to her right. "Please" The Doctor just stared at her with a blank expression, Rose bit on her bottom lip holding back a laugh at Rita and the Doctors expressions.
"Thank you for your opinion," Queen Victoria spoke sarcastically "but there is nothing more valuable than this." She brought out what looked like a stone at first but actually a diamond from her bag.
"Is that the Koh-I-Noor?" Rose asked her mouth gaping open.
"Oh, yes. The greatest diamond in the world." He groaned out a little feeling a slight jab in his left side where Rita was now standing.
He turned to the brunette who was on her tiptoes close to his ear. "That's' for not apologising to her," She whispered and then moved her gaze from the Doctor to Queen Victoria and nodded slightly "She's the Queen and will no doubt have you exiled if you keep on being rude and careless about them," she turned her gaze back to him. "There people Doctor, scared people who have already lost so many to that thing out there. The least you could do is try not to run around looking so ecstatic about the whole situation."
The Doctor blinked at her mini speech not taking his eyes off of the Queen and Sir Robert who were talking most likely about the diamond, he could see what they had been though in the night just with the expression on their faces. His own eyes softened and he nodded not looking at the brunette beside him. "Sorry" he mumbled.
"I'm not the one who you should be apologising to Doctor, " she said a little too harsh than she meant. "Sorry, that wasn't meant to be rude."
"Who's rude now?" he turned to her for the first time since she had told him off smirking at the brunette who grinned back at him a few freckles on her face popping out. She shook her head closing her eyes and sighing.
"How long have you had it?" Rita asked her grinning expression leaving her face as she turned to Queen Victoria.
"Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps it's legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns it must surely die."
"Well, that's true of anything if you own it long enough." he then looked at the Diamond before gesturing to it "Can I?"
The Queen nodded he walked over and she handed him the diamond, he held it carefully examining every inch of it. "That is so beautiful," he said in awe smiling at the impressive diamond in his hands.
"How much is that worth?" Rose asked also looking at the diamond.
"They say the wages of the entire planet for a whole week."
"Good job my mum's not here." Rose joked. "She'd be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing."
"And she'd win." she added.
"Still got to meet your mum" Rita grinned at the blonde "Wish I was there for Christmas could have met her then" Rita snorted at the thought.
"Where is the wolf?" Sir Robert piped up "I don't trust this silence."
Rita froze. 'How could I be so careless to forget? Uh, I was too busy telling the Doctor to stop being rude' she thought glancing at the Doctor narrowing her eyes at the man who was not watching her. "Doctor"
"Why do you travel with it?" The Doctor asked.
"Doctor"
"My annual pilgrimage. I'm taking it to Helier and Carew, the Royal Jewellers at Hazelhead. The stone needs recutting." The Queen replied both the Doctor and the rest of the people in the room ignoring the brunette.
"Oh, but it's perfect," Rose said in awe looking at the diamond.
"My late husband never thought so." the Queen sighed.
"Now, there's a fact." The Doctor began "Prince Albert kept on having the Koh-I-Noor cut down. It used 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." Queen Victoria sighed thinking about her late husband.
"Unfinished. Oh, yes." The Doctor commented.
"Doctor" Rita spoke louder this time hoping to get the mans attention. However, he ignored the brunette throwing the diamond to Queen Victoria who caught it The Doctor then started to go on one of his rambles. For saving millions of lives as well as planets he definitely is an idiot Rita thought gritting her teeth.
"There's a lot of unfinished business in this house. His father's research," he pointed to Sir Robert. "and your husband, Ma'am, he came here and he sought the perfect diamond." he stoped pacing around something the rest didn't realise he was doing. He ran a hand though his hair then held it up to hush the group which was already silent. "Hold on, hold on. All these separate things, they're not separate at all, they're connected." he then prodeced to hit his head with the bottom of his palm running another hand though his hair. "Oh, my head, my head. What if this house, it's a trap for you. Is that right, Ma'am?" He asked.
"Obviously."
"Doctor"
"At least, that's what the wolf intended." he continued ignoring the brunette yet again. "But, what if there's a trap inside the trap?"
"Explain yourself, Doctor." Queen Victoria demanded.
He then pointed to the Queen and Sir Robert "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."
"Doctor!" Rita shouted having enough of being ignored.
"No need to shout Rita I am right here"
"You kept ignoring me" she huffed. "And now it's too late more running I guess" she sighed. The Doctor walked over to her and scraped a finger on her shoulder collecting something he then rubbed it between his fingers.
"Dust" he mumbled and then looked up at the same time as the rest of the group. "That wolf there." The glasses then cracked making a slight echo in the silents of the room the Doctor's eyes widened in horror knowing that the wolf would fall right on top of them. "Out! Out! Out!" he shouted pushing Rose and Rita towards the door. The two along with Sir Robert and Queen Victoria flung the objects that were keeping the wolf out in different directions trying to allow access to exit the Libary they were now trapped in.
"Rita" the Doctor huffed moving a chair out of the way while the brunette moved another herself she looked over at him giving her attention. "Next time don't let me ignore you" he grabbed her hand as well as Rose's before she could reply and then ran out the room making sure Queen Victoria and Sir Robert were in front of them. Letting go of Rita's hand he shut the door on the wolf which was now in the room.
He turned and ran beside Rita turning left and running down a hall. "Your Majesty!" Sir Robert shouted as they ran.
"Get to the observatory!" The Doctor told them. As they continued to run. Roses turned around stopping and seeing the wolf behind her. She screamed out just before a liquid was thrown onto the wolf it howled out in pain and then ran in the direction it came in.
"Good shot." The Doctor commented moving out from behind Isobel and walked over with Rose and Rita to where the wolf headed.
"It was mistletoe." Lady Isobel informed them.
"Isobel!" Robert shouted pulling her into a kiss and then ordering her to head Back downstairs.
"Keep yourself safe." She told him.
"Now go." He ordered not promising her. Rita's face fell at the sight. 'He never promised her...'
"Girls, come with me. Down the back stairs, back to the kitchens. Quickly!" Isobel told the woman running in the direction of what Rita guessed was the kitchen.
Hope you liked it.