The three turns a corner, Rita and Rose suddenly notice a soldier in similar clothes to the ones by the carriage earlier was laying on the floor as if he was dead.

"Oh, Miss." Flora cried out "I did warn you."

"He's not dead." Role paused and then continued. "I don't think," she looked at Rita wondering what she thought.

"No he's not" she confirmed.

"he must be drugged or something." Rose then added while looking at the man laying on the floor.

The bold man who Rita remembered from the episode as father Angelo grabbed Flora from behind. Rita jumped around in surprise feeling the maid grab her arm in fright Angelo held a hand firmly around the maid's mouth, unable to speak she widened her eyes at the brunette. Rose, on the other hand, was also grabbed by another one of the bold men in the same position as Flora. Rita had no time to react to what was going on with a third man coming up behind her grabbing her placing a hand over her mouth and dragging the three away.

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Angelo entered a very posh dining area with the Doctor Queen Victoria and one of the soldiers from before seated at a large table in the middle of the room lit by only candles. "Your companions beg for an apology, Doctor." He walked in not looking at the three "Their clothing has somewhat delayed them both."

"Oh, that's all right. Save them both a wee bit of ham." The Doctor looked up at Angelo and smiled.

"Very wise, Ma'am. Very witty" the soldier who obviously must be the captain commented smiling away at the Queen.

"Slightly witty, perhaps." She nodded in agreements, the Doctor watched the two talk and began to wonder how long it actually took for the two girls to change clothes. "I know you rarely get the chance to dine with me, Captain, but don't get too excited." the Queen warned, "I shall contain my wit in case I do you further injury."

"Yes, Ma'am. Sorry, Ma'am" The captain said

"Besides, we're all waiting on Sir Robert." the Doctor spoke turning to the man who looked slightly nervous. "Come, sir. You promised us a tale of nightmares."

"Indeed." Queen Victoria agreed with the Doctor "Since my husband's death, I find myself with more of a taste for supernatural fiction."

The Doctor nodded his head at the woman his mind elsewhere. Where are Rita and Rose? he repeatedly asked himself. "You must miss him." the Doctor replied stopping any thoughts about where the two were knowing that they were most likely busy trying on clothes with Rita complaining about dresses and having to change out of her 'strange' clothes, the Doctor smiled to himself at the thought of her moaning about the different clothes and Rose having no issues with them trying to encourage the brunette to wear a dress that she thought was 'hideous'

"Begin your tale, Sir Robert." the Doctor snapped back into reality not hearing what the Queen had just said he slowly nodded making no comment "There's a chill in the air. The wind is howling through the eaves." the Queen looked between the Doctor, Robert who was now sat down and the captain. "Tell us of monsters."

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Rita and Rose were chained up with Flora and a few another woman who seemed to work or live in the house. " Don't make a sound." the woman Rita remembered as Isobel from the episode warned the rest of the girls. "They said if we scream or shout, then he will slaughter us."

"But he's in a cage. He's a prisoner." Rose told them not knowing what the man really way "He's the same as us."

"He's nothing like us," Isobel spoke her voice cracking a little while she didn't look away from the man terror taking over her face.

"Isobel is right Rose" Rita stared at the creature her face fixed and unreadable. "That's not a man"

"That creature is not mortal," Isobel added only moments before the man's eyes shot open showing the black empty nothingness the woman chained up against the wall on the other side of the room jolt back in horror, even Rita who knew that this was going to happen jolted back in fright. Seeing this happen through a screen was one thing but seeing it in front of your eyes is another.

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"The story goes back three hundred years." Robert began looking a little calmer than before "Every full moon, the howling rings through the valley. The next morning, livestock is found ripped apart and devoured." The Doctor frowned listening to the man closely.

Tales like this just disguise the work of thieves. Steal a sheep and blame a wolf, simple as that.

"But sometimes a child goes missing." The Doctor raised his eyebrows and leant in a little closer "Once in a generation, a boy will vanish from his homestead."

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Rose started to get up from the ground Rita then followed as well having no choice since she was chained up to the blonde, not that it made any difference since she wouldn't put her in danger even if she know Rose would survive it knowing how much the Doctor cared for her even if he didn't even know it himself yet she couldn't place her in any possible life threatening danger that Rose most likely would escape.

" Don't, children" was the only warning Isobel gave them both.

"Who are you?" Rose asked ignoring her.

"Don't enrage him." a steward also chained up also warned Rose who proceeded to ignore him.

"Where are you from?" She started to kneel down not being able to move forward any further. Rita stood by her protecting Rose, she could never be too sure.

"You're not from Earth," Rita told the man more like a statement than a question.

"What planet are you from?" Rose asked wanting to help the man.

"Oh, intelligence." the man snapped his head in Rita's direction she stayed firmly in place. His voice was scratchy and croaky as if he had not spoken for a long time.

"Where were you born?" Rose asked ignoring his comment to her friend.

"This body? Ten miles away. A weakling," he spat "Heartsick boy, stolen away at night by the brethren for my cultivation. I carved out his soul and sat in his heart." The man spoke as if it was an everyday thing for him to just take a body like that. Take the body of a young man someone somewhere loved siblings parents possibly a relationship all gone because something more powerful than him could take his body and claim it as its own.

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"Are there descriptions of the creature?" The Doctor was definitely interested.

"Oh, yes, Doctor. Drawings and woodcarvings." Robert paused looking at the Doctor very seriously "And it's not merely a wolf. It's more than that. This is a man who becomes an animal." he spoke as if it was impossible yet so real like he had seen it before or at least know it was real.
"A werewolf?" the Doctor widened his eyes asking Robert if what he thought he had heard correctly was indeed real.

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"All right," Rose sighed trying to piece things together as Rita watched trying to remember as much about the episode as she could which honestly wasn't that good considering the episode was released in April 2006. It was around January 2017 for Rita before she had come here, she didn't remember as much as she would have done with the episode being fresh in her mind. "So the body's human." Rose questioned the man thinking though every so delicately "But what about you, the thing inside?"

"So far from home, just like you Miss Stone" the man snapped his head to the brunette now wide-eyed with more fear than she ever had been full of before. Rose stared at the brunette with disbelief How does it know me? Rita repeated over and over in her mind thinking back trying to remember the episode. It never mentioned Rose in the episode? she thought now doubting herself more and more the longer she thought about it. Why me? she questioned herself. It couldn't have anything to do with me being from 'another world' or the future, Rose was from the future as well? The girl thought. Why didn't it mention Rose?

"We can help you get back home." Rita shook the thoughts from her head focusing on the current moment.

"Why would I leave this place?" He asked "A world of industry, of workforce and warfare. I could turn it to such purpose." The voice almost gleamed at the thought.

"How would you do that?" Rose asked

"I would migrate to the Holy Monarch."

"You mean you would take over Queen Victoria" Rita corrected making it sound much harsher than it already did.

"With one bite, I would pass into her blood, and then it begins. The Empire of the Wolf. Many questions." The man lunged forward, hands on bars and his face between them staring at the girls.

"Look. Inside your eyes. You've seen it too." The scratchy voice spoke.

"Seen what?" Rose asked confused. Rita slowly moved her hand over to Rose's to comfort the girl knowing what was about to be said.

"The Wolf. There is something of the Wolf about you" he didn't fully understand what he could possibly see in the blonde's eyes.

"I don't know what you mean." Rose denied all knowledge, however, she knew what he meant, she just didn't believe it.
"You burnt like the sun, but all I require is the moon." He said before snapping his head to Rita. "And you," she frowned puzzled. "The girl so alone yet not so much." Rita frowned. She wasn't alone she had Rose and the Doctor they were all she really needed, none of her 'friends' from 'her world' had time to spend with her, always at parties or family dinners. Rita was all alone.

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"My father didn't treat it as a story." Robert continued "He said it was fact. He even claimed to have communed with the beast, to have learned its purpose. I should have listened. His work was hindered. He made enemies. There's a monastery in the Glen of Saint Catherine. The Brethren opposed my father's investigations." He explained. There was a faint whisper in the room coming from Angelo staring up at the moon.

"Perhaps they thought his work ungodly." The Queen suggested.
"That's what I thought." He sighed his eyes flickering between Angelo and the three sitting at the table "But now I wonder. What if they had a different reason for wanting the story kept quiet?" He paused looking at the three seriously "What if they turned from God and worshipped the wolf?"

The Doctors eyes widened suddenly realising what Robert was talking about his eyes scanned the room landing on Angelo by the window ignoring the four at the table, staring at the moon mumbling words in a whisper. "And what if they were with us right now?" He said turning back to the three.

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The cellar doors flew open causing the chained up people to jump back and the man to throw his head in the direction of the light. "Moonlight" he whispered pushing his head between the bars trying to get as close as he possibly can to touch the light. A wind began to rise in the room, impossible since it wasn't windy out Rita could clearly see there was not a single breeze she knew Rose could see as well. The man began to remove his cloak. She pulled the blonde back to the wall and grabbed the chain with both hands.

"All of you!" Rose shouted back at them understanding Rita's plan or what was meant to be her own plan. "Stop looking at it!" She turned to Flora and looked at her in the eyes, terror taking over the girls body "Flora, don't look at it" Rita called back making an early start on pulling the chain. "Listen to her!" Rose shouted at Flora "Grab hold of the chain and pull!" She ordered the rest of the people in the room. Eyes fix on the man now almost the wolf. "Come on! With me! Pull!" She grabbed the chain and began to pull along with Rita with all her might.

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"What is the meaning of this?" Queen Victoria demanded to know what was going on her.

"Explain yourself, Sir Robert!" The captain also demanded, shouting at Robert.

"What's happening?" The Queen asked confused she looked between the two men for an answer while the Doctor sat in his chair thinking.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, they've got my wife." Sir Robert blurted out. The Doctor widened his eyes and then jumped up storming over to Angelo who wasn't paying attention as if he was in some kind of trance.

"Rose!" He shouted at the man who was still taking no notice of him "Where's Rita!?" he shouted gritting his teeth and clenching his hands that were now in tight fists "Where are they!? Sir Robert, come on!" he turned and ran ordering the man to follow.

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The two girls along with the rest of the people chained together continued to pull the chain attached to the wall with all their strength, not wasting a single moment or breath Rita gritted her teeth arms aching and hands feeling like a newly lit fire with how much they burned and stung from pulling the chain and almost her skin. Rose also felt the same she counted the group in ready to pull: "One, two, three, pull!" she shouted out. "One, two, three, pull!"

"One, two, three, pull!" Rose shouted again, Rita groaned pulling with all of the energy she had left in her arms freeing the chain and the group of kidnapped people from the wall. Rita jolted her head in the direction of the door as she heard it breaking open on the other side.

"Doctor!" Rita shouted getting Rose and the Doctors attention.

"Where the hell have you been?" Rose sighed in relief still not out of danger, though.

"Oh that's beautiful" The Doctor mumbled staring at the wolf as it fully formed snapping parts of the cage.

"Now's not the time to flirt with it, Doctor!" Rita shouted at him while Robert ordered everyone out of the room. The wolf breaks the cage with its size freeing itself and snapping its neck in the group's direction"Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out!" the Doctor shouted at the remaining people in the room pushing them to the door Rose ran out and into the hallway waiting for the Doctor, Rita stood just before the doorway knowing what was to happen next.

"Come on!" Rose shouted at the pair while running down the hallway the Doctor watching the wolf in awe Rita standing waiting for him.

"Doctor!" she shouted just before the wolf threw part of its cage at the man who ducked under it grabbing Rita's hand and rushed out the room locking the door with the sonic screwdriver after him, The Doctor and Rita raised down the hall after Rose. They both catch up to Rose who was with the rest of the people from the cellar in a room as Sir Robert handed out guns and orders to the men.

"Arms, and you five. Ready, everyone?" he asked the men, the Doctor and Rita ran up to Rose. "I thought you both died!" she hit Rita and the Doctors arms

"Not today Rose" Rita smiled "Had to make sure he got out with his head" Rita pointed her thumb at the Doctor. "You may like your thumb but you look better with your head attached to your body" Rita shook her own head.

"What is it though Doctor?" Rose asked while he used the sonic screwdriver to remove the shackles off the girls.

"It could be any form of light modulated species triggered by specific wavelengths." he shook his head still unsure.

'Think Doctor' Rita thought

"Did it say what it wanted?" He looked at them both.

"The Queen, the Crown, the throne - you name it." she shook her head confused as to why.

the three heard a crash, the Doctor ran back to the hall to see what it was guessing most likely the wolf Rita sighed shaking her head before following staying behind the corner and peeking out to see the Doctor standing there still watching the wolf what was growling and sending daggers at him with its eyes. The wolf then began to ran the Doctor didn't move What are you doing?! She thought to widen her eyes as the wolf came closer not thinking she ran out and grabbed his hand jolting him back and pulling him with her "Come on!" She shouted rolling her eyes and running as fast as she could. "One day you're going to get yourself killed because you think something looks pretty!" They ran back to where a line of men was pointing guns in there direction, not at them, though. The Doctor pulled Rose back behind him along with Rita keeping them both behind him while he stood behind them, men.

"Fire!" the man in the middle shouted as the wolf came into sight. "Fire!" he repeated while they shot at the wolf. The wolf then dived the corner escaping some of the bullets, Rita knew it wasn't over and she could see that the Doctor and possibly Rose also realised just that.

The Doctor ordered the men lined up: "All right, you men. We should retreat upstairs. Come with me." he told them.

"I'll not retreat." the man in the middle told the Doctor, Rita gritted her teeth knowing what was to happen next. "The battle's done. There's no creature on God's Earth that could survive such an assault."

"How do you know that?" Rita said through her gritted teeth.

"It's impossible," he told her.

"Nothing is impossible, the Doctor is trying to save your life!" she shouted her eyes blazing at the man.

"You girl" he pointed right in her face. "You do not have the authority to tell me what to do!"

"authority my a-"

"I'm telling you" the Doctor spoke calmly, much calmer than he did in the episode. "Come upstairs"

"And I'm telling you, sir," he started to walk away from the group towards the corridor, Rita went to try and stop him only to be pulled back by the Doctor, she looked up and could see the sadness in his eyes. Is this what it's like? she thought.

Is this what I am going to have to get used to? Knowing that people will die and I just have to stand there and watch? she sighed and felt a squeeze in her hand. The Doctor trying to comfort her, Rose placed one of her hands upon Rita's shoulder as the man continued.

"I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall"
He turned towards where the wolf had stood, looking round the corner he then turned back towards the group. Rita closed her eyes squeezing them as tight as possible. "It must have crawled away to die." He grinned mo king the group before screaming in pain as he was pulled into the air and ripped into shreds. The Doctor looked up in horror and anger grabbing Rose's hand with the one not holding Rita's

"There's nothing we can do!" The Doctor shouts.

"Everybody out!" Rita shouted ordering everyone to move. The Doctor pulled the girls away from the beast hearing the monstrosity of the man screaming in agony behind them as his skin and bones were pulled apart.

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The three continued to run not looking back. They came to a staircase finding Queen Victoria and Sir Robert who had ran ahead. "The front door's no good, it's been boarded shut." The Doctor informed them both and then looked over at to the Queen "Pardon me, Your Majesty. You'll have to leg it out of a window." He pursed his lips and then gestured with his hand to the room with the open window which he had found moments before. Rita followed the Doctor Rose, Queen Victoria and Robert into the room. "Excuse my manners, Ma'am," he looked over at the Queen "but I shall go first, the better to assist Her Majesty's egress."

"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh" the Queen smiled nodding in approval.

The Doctor sighed and then broke his Scottish accent "Yeah, any chance you could hurry up?" He snapped.

"Accent" Rita whispered behind him just loud enough for him and Rose to hear while Robert opened the window and began to climb out only to almost dive back in again as bullets flew in the group's direction coming from only the monks.

"I reckon the monkey boys want us to stay inside." The Doctor commented keeping his head down with his companions behind him just as low to the ground as he was.

"Do they know who I am?" Queen Victoria said in disgust standing back up and looking between the people in the room with her.

"Yeah, that's why they want you." Rose pointed out. "The wolf's lined you up for a, a biting."

"And that's not a metaphor" Rita added.

"Stop this talk." She demanded. "There can't be an actual wolf." She stated before hearing the howling of the wolf itself. The three, as well as the Queen and Sir Robert, snapped their heads in the direction of the door the Doctor then ran into the corridor and stared at the door clearly seeing the wolfs attempts to get in.

"What do we do?" Rose asked her eyes fixated on the door.

"We run" the Doctor stared at the door.

"Just like we have been doing" Rita sighed. "I ran less in a year at school" she joked then looked between the Doctor and Rose seeing their unamused expression. "Sorry bad time" she mumbled looking at the floor.

"Is that it?" Rose asking her voice raising a little.

The Doctor finally looked away from the door turning to Rose, "You got any silver bullets?" He snapped

"Not on me, no." Rose snapped back.

"There we are then," he tilted his head at her.

"Not the time" Rita snapped at them both.

"we run." He looked over at the Queen "Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigorous jog." He then mimicked a jog and smiled, placing his hand out for the Queen to take. "Good for the health. Come on!"

The Doctor took the lead up the stairs followed by Sir Robert then Rita and Rose running up together. There was a loud crash of wood smashing and colliding with the floor. Rita turned her head and looked down the spiral stairs to look for the wolf. She saw it snarling at her.

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