Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The Girl in the Fireplace

"As I was saying. August is rubbish, though. Stay indoors. Okay, that's all for now. Thanks for your help. Hope you enjoy the rest of the fire. Night, night." He waved.

"Goodnight Monsieur. Goodnight Madam." Reinette said as the two stood up. Mickey frowned in confusion.

"You said this was the fifty-first century."

"I also said this ship was generating enough power to punch a hole in the universe." The Doctor pointed out. "I think we just found the hole. Must be a spatio-temporal hyperlink."

"What's that?" Mickey slightly tilted his head.

"No idea." He shrugged then told the truth. "Just made it up. Didn't want to say magic door."

"I think 'magic door' sounds better" Rita tilted her head to the left smirking a little.

"And on the other side of the magic door is France in 1727?" Rose asked for confirmation.

"Well, she was speaking French. Right period French, too." The Doctor told them.

"She was speaking English, I heard her." Mickey protested.

"That's the TARDIS," Rose explain to him. "Translates for you."

"Even French?" Mickey asked.

"Yeah"

"Why wouldn't it?" Rita asked.

"Gotcha!" Said the Doctor pulling a lever causing the fireplace to start to spin.

"Oh no, you don't!" Rita shouted jumping on the Doctors back. The two spun around on the fireplace while Rose shouted both their names.

When the fireplace stops Rita jumps off his back. "God you're heavy" he mumbled quietly earning a playful slap on his arm by the brunette. "That's for trying to get away and for saying I was heavy"

"You didn't have to come" he whispered walking over to the window and moving the curtain to see outside that it was around midnight and snowing lightly outside. The pair spun around to see the young girl Reinette sitting up in her bed with s very paced breathing and a shocked and scared expression.

"It's okay." The Doctor placed out an arm towards her. "Don't scream. It's just us. It's the fireplace people." He spoke slowly and calmly not to scare the young girl. "Look. We were talking just a moment ago. We were in your fireplace." The Doctor reaches into his brown coat pocket slowly not taking his eyes of the young girl who was now a lot calmer than before. He took out the sonic screwdriver and pointed it at a candle then lightened it.

"Monsieur, that was weeks ago." She paused. "That was months."
"Really?" He looked at Rita who nodded at him backing the girl up. "Oh. Must be a loose connection. Need to get a man in."

"You are a man" Rita rolled her eyes

"Who are you two?" She looked between the Doctor and Rita then asked them another question. "And what are you doing here?"

The Doctor noticed Rita staring at the broken clock on the mantle of the fireplace.

"Okay, that's scary." He said reaching out to Rita's hand beside him and placing his hand in hers.