Butterfly Effect

The bastard did not.

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I gulped. “Roseanna, please. Don’t do this.”

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“Why should we?” Roseanna asked. “Why should we spare you?”

“Because the Doctor is coming, and you better hope I’m alive when he does.” I explained. “He tends to get emotional when this all happens.”

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Francesco brushed back a bit of my hair. “Actually, Mummy, I think I shall claim this one to be my bride.”

I glared at the man, panting. “In...your dreams, Nemo.”

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The Doctor just watched me. Didn’t ask any questions, didn’t try to intervene, just watched.

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Guido: “Where’s my Isabella?”

(Guido lifts the girls veils until he finds his daughter.)

Guido: “Isabella? Isabella, it’s me.”

I shoved Guido to the ground hissing at him. The man’s eyes widened.

(One of the girls knocks Guido down and bares her needle-teeth at him.)

WOMAN: “Girls, come along.

Francesco: “She’s gone.”

Guido: “Isabella! It’s me!

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The Doctor: “Hello, handsome.

(As he adjusts his tie in the mirror, girls in white robes appear behind him. They have no reflections.)

Vampire Girls: “Who are you?” We asked him.

The man excitedly looked over us. He froze once his eyes landed on me. He reminded me of the man from earlier. Terrified, horrified, all those other words. I wonder why.

“28.” I found myself saying.

The man frowned. “Terra? What are you doing over there?”

I blinked, tilting my head to the side. How did he know my name?

Vampire Girls: “I’ll ask you again, signor. Who are you?”

The man looked between us and the mirror. “How are you doing that? I am loving it. You’re like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls, and he was shorter. Will be shorter. I’m rambling.”

“Who are you?” My sisters and I asked.

The Doctor: “Why don’t you check this out?

(The Doctor holds out an ID card with William Hartnell’s photograph on it. The girls stare at it blankly, then the Doctor looks at it.)

The Doctor: “Library card. Of course, it’s with. He’s. I need a spare. Pale, creepy girls who don’t like sunlight and can’t be seen.” He looked at me. “Ha. Am I thinking what I think I’m thinking? But the city. Why shut down the city? Unless

Vampire Girls: “Leave now, signor, or we shall call for the Steward, if you are lucky.

The Doctor: “Ooo.

(The girls teeth turn into needles, and they start to advance on the Doctor, hissing.)

The Doctor: “Tell me the whole plan. (sotto) One day that will work. Listen, I would love to stay here. This whole thing. On one hand, I’m thrilled. Other hand, Oh, this is Christmas.

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Rory: “So, basically, both of our parents are dead from getting the plague. 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.

Francesco: “Have we met?

Rory: “I’ve just got one of those faces.

Francesco: “I wasn’t talking to you.

Rory: “She’s got the same face, which is because she’s my sister.

Rosanna: “Carlo, explain yourself. Why have you brought me this imbecile?

(Carlo is the Steward.)

CARLO: “Signora, they have references from His Majesty the King of Sweden.

Rosanna: “What? Let me see.

(Rory steps forward with the psychic paper whilst Francesco circles Amy.)

Rosanna: “Well, now I see what got my Steward so excited. What say you, Francesco? Do you like her?

Francesco: “Oh, I do, Mother. I do.

Rosanna: “Then we would be delighted to accept her. Say goodbye to your sister.

(Carlo hustles Rory away.)

Amelia: “Tell Uncle Doctor I’ll see you both really soon, okay? I’ll be fine.

Rory: “Amy.

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CARLO: “There are clothes on the bed. Get changed and wait here.

Amelia: “Blimey. This is private education, then?

(Carlo leaves with all but one of the girls.)

Amelia: “Hey. Hello, I’m Amy. What’s your name?

Isabella: “Isabella.

Amelia: “Listen, we’re going to get you out of here, but I need you to tell me what’s going on. What is this place? What are they doing?

Isabella: “They er, they come at night. They gather around my bed, and they take me to a room with this green light and a chair with straps, as if for a surgeon.

Amelia: “What happens in there?

Isabella: “I wake up here. And the sunlight burns my skin like candle wax.

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The Doctor: “Push. Come on. There we are. Amy. Where’s Amy? Amy?

Rory: “I can’t see a thing. Just as well I brought this, then.

(Rory produces a tiny penlight, the Doctor pulls out a small light sabre.)

The Doctor: “Ultraviolet. Portable sunlight.

Rory: “Yours is bigger than mine.

The Doctor: “Let’s not go there.

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Rory: “If we cancel now, we lose the deposit on the village hall. The salsa band. Oh.

(The Doctor opens a nearby chest. It contains desiccated vampires.)

Rory: “What happened to them?

The Doctor: “They’ve had all the moisture taken out of them.

Rory: “That’s what vampires do, right? They drink your blood and replace it with their own.

The Doctor: “Yeah, except these people haven’t just had their blood taken, but all the water in their entire bodies.

Rory: “Why did they die? Why aren’t they like the girls in the school?

The Doctor: “Maybe not everyone survives the process.

Rory: “You know what’s dangerous about you? It’s not that you make people take risks, it’s that you make them want to impress you. You make it so they don’t want to let you down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you’re around.

Vampire Girls: “Who are you?

(Six girls have appeared. The Doctor waves his UV light at them.)

The Doctor: “We should run. Run.

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The Doctor: “Oh! Rory, come on.

(Rosanna, Francesco and Carlo run out.)

(They block the Doctor’s way.)

The Doctor: “Cab for Amy Pond?

Rosanna: “This rescue plan. Not exactly watertight, is it?

(The Doctor brandishes his UV light again.)

The Doctor: “Ah ha!

(Isabella and Amy run in.)

Amelia: “Rory.

Rory: “Amy.

Isabella: “Quickly, through here.

Rosanna: “Seal the house.

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Amelia: “They’re not vampires.

The Doctor: “What?

Amelia: “I saw them. I saw her. They’re not vampires, they’re aliens.

(The Doctor sonics the trapdoor hatch.) The Doctor: “Classic.

Rory: “That’s good news? What is wrong with you people?

The Doctor: “Come on, Rory. Move.

(Francesco and the vampires catch up to them, but are held back by the UV light. He sends the girls ahead of him.)

The Doctor: “Keep moving. Come on, guys.

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Isabella: “Quickly, quickly. Get out. Quick. Quick.

(But Isabella recoils as the sunlight touches her skin.)

The Doctor: “Come on. Run.

I threw my jacket over Isabella’s head, shoving her after the Doctor.

He gave me a wide eyed look. “Terra, what are you-?!”

“Trust me!” I yelled at him, slamming the door shut.

I faced my clan, giving them hard stares.

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CARLO: “And so in memory of the children lost to the Silence, the traitor is delivered to the arms of those she betrayed.

I was shoved into the water.

“Something touched my leg! They’re all around me. They bite!

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The Doctor

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The Doctor: “Long way from Saturnyne, aren’t you, Sister of the Water?

Rosanna: “No, let me guess. The owner of the psychic paper. Then I take it you’re a refugee, like me?

The Doctor: “I’ll make you a deal. An answer for an answer. You’re using a perception filter. It doesn’t change your features, but manipulates the brainwaves of the person looking at you. But seeing one of you for the first time in, say, a mirror, the brain doesn’t know what to fill the gap with, so leaves it blank, hence no reflection.

Rosanna: “Your question?

The Doctor: “Why can we see your big teeth?

Rosanna: “Self preservation over rides the mirage. The subconscious perceives the threat and tries to alert the conscious brain.

The Doctor: “Where’s Terra?

Rosanna: “My turn. Where are you from?

The Doctor: “Gallifrey.

Rosanna: “You should be in a museum. Or in a mausoleum.

The Doctor: “Why are you here?

Rosanna: “We ran from the Silence. Why are you here?

The Doctor: “To get my Terra back. The Silence?

Rosanna: “There were cracks. Some were tiny. Some were as big as the sky. Through some we saw worlds and people, and through others we saw Silence and the end of all things. We fled to an ocean like ours, and the crack snapped shut behind us. Saturnyne was lost.

The Doctor: “So Earth is to become Saturnyne Mark Two?

Rosanna: “And you can help me. We can build a new society here, as others have. What do you say?

The Doctor: “Where’s Terra?

Rosanna: “Terra?

The Doctor: “The girl who saved my friend.

Rosanna: “Oh, deserters must be executed. Any general will tell you that. I need an answer, Doctor. A partnership. Any which way you choose.

The Doctor: “I don’t think that’s such a good idea, do you? I’m a Time Lord. You’re a big fish. Think of the children.” He whispered in her ear. “And, I’m taken.”

Rosanna: “Carlo? You’re right. We’re nothing alike. I will bend the heavens to save my race, while you philosophise.

(Carlo enters.)

The Doctor: “This ends today. I will tear down the House of Calvierri, stone by stone. Take your hands off me, Carlo. And you know why? Because you dared to lay a finger on someone I love.

Carlo: “Open the gates.

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She wasn’t dead. She couldn’t be.

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The Doctor: “You’re fine. Open wide.

(He pops a humbug into Amy’s mouth. Guido and Rory have got their own clothes back.)

The Doctor: “Argh. I need to think. Come on, brain. Think, think, think. Think.

Amelia: “If they’re fish people, it explains why they hate the sun.

The Doctor: “Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush.

Rory: “It’s the school thing I don’t understand.

The Doctor: “Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush.

Guido: “I say we take the fight to them.

The Doctor: “Ah, ah, ah.

Guido: “What?

The Doctor: “Ah. Her planet dies, so they flee through a crack in space and time and end up here. Then she closes off the city and, one by one, starts changing the people into creatures like her to start a new gene pool. Got it. But then what? They come from the sea. They can’t survive forever on land, so what’s she going to do? Unless she’s going to do something to the environment to make the city habitable. She said, I shall bend the heavens to save my race. Bend the heavens. Bend the heavens. She’s going to sink Venice.

Guido: “She’s going to sink Venice?

The Doctor: “And repopulate it with the girls she’s transformed.

Rory: “You can’t repopulate somewhere with just women. You need blokes.

Amelia: “She’s got blokes.

The Doctor: “Where?

Amelia: “In the canal. She said to me there are ten thousand husbands waiting in the water.

The Doctor: “Only the male offspring survived the journey here. She’s got ten thousand children swimming around the canals, waiting for Mum to make them some compatible girlfriends. Urgh. I mean, I’ve been around a bit, but really that’s, that’s eugh.

(Thump creak.)

The Doctor: “The people upstairs are very noisy.

Guido: “There aren’t any people upstairs.

The Doctor: “Do you know, I knew you were going to say that. Did anyone else know he was going to say that?

Rory: “Is it the vampires?

The Doctor: “Like I said, they’re not vampires. Fish from space.

(A window breaks. Vampires gather the doors and windows.)

Rory: “Aren’t we on the second floor?

(The Doctor waves his UV light at them, then uses his sonic screwdriver to reveal their true appearance.)

Guido: “What’s happened to them?

The Doctor: “There’s nothing left of them. They’ve been fully converted. Blimey, fish from space have never been so buxom. Okay, move.

Rory: “Come on.

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The Doctor: “Go, go, go, guys. Keep moving. Go, go, go.

Guido: “Stay away from the door, Doctor.

The Doctor: “No. Guido, What are you doing?

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“I’m not leaving you. What are you doing?

(The sonic screwdriver is useless.)

The Doctor: “Argh, bolted.

Guido: “Come on. That’s it, keep coming. Come on.

The Doctor: “Guido!

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“Are you the Doctor?” She asked me.

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Terra kissed me with all she had. Then, she broke down crying.

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Terra gasped, grabbing the tweed on my jacket. “She took my necklace.”

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The Doctor: “Rosanna’s initiating the final phase.

Amelia: “We need to stop her. Come on.

The Doctor: “No, no, no. Get back to the TARDIS.

Amelia: “You can’t stop her on your own.

The Doctor: “We don’t discuss this. I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it. Huh?

(Amy storms off.)

Rory: “Thank you.

The Doctor: “You’re welcome.

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Terra

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Rosanna: “You’re too late. Such determination, just to save one city. Hard to believe it’s the same man that let an entire race turn to cinders and ash. Now you can watch as my people take their new kingdom.”

I growled. “Where’s my necklace?” I snapped at her. The Doctor held my shoulder, calming me down. “You asked him what he was willing to do for his race.” I reminded. I glared angrily. “I’m willing to burn for the things I love.”

“You got one warning.” The Doctor warned. “One. And Terra gave it to you. Expect nothing more from me.”

“Oh? Was that supposed to warn me off?” Roseanna asked.

The Doctor: “The girls have gone, Rosanna.

Rosanna: “You’re lying.”

The Doctor: “Shouldn’t I be dead, hmm? Rosanna, please, help me. There are two hundred thousand people in this city.

Rosanna: “So save them.

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I held his hand. “My necklace is still gone.”

The Doctor looked up at me, a ghost of a smile on his face. “You really love that necklace.”

“You gave it to me.” I explained.

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The Doctor: “Get out. I need to stabilise the storm.

Rory: “We’re not leaving you.

The Doctor: “Right, so one minute it’s all you make people a danger to themselves, and the next it’s we’re not leaving you. But if one of you gets squashed or blown up or eaten, who gets the

(The house shakes, knocking them off their feet.)

Rory: “What was that?

The Doctor: “Nothing. Bit of an earthquake.

Amelia: “An earthquake?

The Doctor: “Manipulate the elements, it can trigger earthquakes. But don’t worry about them.

Rory: “No?

The Doctor: “No. Worry about the tidal waves caused by the earthquake. Right, Rosanna’s throne is the control hub but she’s locked the programme, so, tear out every single wire and circuit in the throne. Go crazy. Hit it with a stick, anything. We need it to shut down and re-route control to the secondary hub, which I’m guessing will also be the generator.

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Rory: “There he is. Come on.

(The Doctor opens the brass ball to reveal clockwork.)

Rory: “Come on.

Amelia: “Come on.

(The Doctor finds a tiny switch and stops the mechanism. Instantly the rain ceases, the clouds vanish and birds start singing again. The people cheer and applaud.)

Rory: “You did it!

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“Terra, this belongs to you.” Rory held out his hand.

I gave him a curious look, before I saw what was in his outstretched hand. “Oh my Storyline!” I yanked it out of his grasp, holding it to my lips. I kissed it deeply, as if it were the Doctor himself.

“Francesco had it on.” Rory explained. “Amy said it was-”

“I don’t care.” I mumbled. “Good work, Nurse boy. Gold star.”

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The Doctor: “Now then, what about you two, eh? Next stop Leadworth Registry Office. Maybe I can give you away.

Rory: “It’s fine. Drop me back where you found me. I’ll just say you’ve

Amelia: “Stay. With us. Please. Just for a bit. I want you to stay.

The Doctor: “Fine with me.

Rory: “Yeah? Yes, I would like that.

Amelia: “Nice one. I will pop the kettle on. Hey, look at this. Got my spaceship, got my boys. My work here is done.

(Amy goes into the TARDIS.)

Rory: “Er, we are not her boys.

The Doctor: “Yeah, we are.

Rory: “Yeah, we are.

(Suddenly, Venice is empty of people.)

The Doctor: “Rory, listen to that.

Rory: “Er, what? All I can hear is silence.

I felt a shiver go down my spine. Silence. They’re the things that put the Manipulator on my arm. It hurt, it had legitimately hurt.

Meh, I got over it. I found a new target.

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I was wearing something else. It was basically Clara’s dress in Journey to the Centre, but TARDIS blue. There was a camisole of raspberry pink. My socks were knee high, and a sunshine yellow. My boots were brown, the same I wore in Rebel Flesh.

In terms of jewelry, I just had my infinity necklace on. My bag was also draped over my shoulder. What? I liked having my shit together.

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“You’re my companion now.” I told Rory. “My Doctor and my Nurse. My boys.” I said in a Scottish voice.

What? The Mistress had some cool lines!

“Companion?” Rory asked.

“I travel throughout all space and time.” I said, pointing at the Doctor. “His time, and his space. I need a double agent to spy on him and report to me.” I have him a confident look. “Can I count on my Nurse?”

Rory looked over at the Doctor, and then at me. “Yes.”

I smiled. “Perfect.” I hugged him. “You’re awesome Rory.”

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