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

The Girl in the Fireplace - Three

"Well we've got to do something" Rose shouted to both of them stopping the argument.

"No. Smash the glass, smash the time window. There'd be no way back." Rose's eyes widened.

"Rose" Rita turned to the girl her face as serious as it had ever been. "Five and a half hours remember it.

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There was a loud crash and people screamed in horror crouching towards the ground "Madame de Pompadour. You look younger every day." The Doctor said casually after Arthur landed on the ballroom floor as if jumping through a mirror was something that happened to him ever day. Rita clung onto him her head on his shoulder and her eyes tight shut.

"What the hell is going on?" The king asked as the Doctor jumped down off of Arthur then helped Rita.

"Oh." Reinette looked at the Doctor and Rita then over to the king. "This is my lover, the King of France." She nodded over to the King.

"Yeah? Well, I'm the Lord of Time" he walked over towards Reinette knelt down with three droids pointing its blades at her. "and here to fix the clock. Rita" he gestured to the brunette. She pulled the mask of the droid which slowly turned its head towards her then pointed its blade towards her.

"Forget it. It's over. For you and for us." He looked over at Rita sadly. They both then looked over at where the 'magic door' to the spaceship once stood. "Talk about seven years bad luck. Try three thousand."

The Doctor then started to explain. "The link with the ship is broken. No way back. You don't have the parts. How many ticks left in that clockwork heart, huh? A day? An hour? It's over. Accept that. I'm not winding you up." He said ironically. The droid dropped its head and the other droids jolted forward as well. One broke on the floor right next to Rita.

"You all right?" He asked Reinette helping her up.

She didn't answer his question instead asked her own. "What's happened to them?"

"They've stopped. They have no purpose now." He simply told her then walked over to Rita and shook his head a little.

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"You know you didn't have to come here" the Doctor said looking up at the sky not taking his gaze away from it, staring up at the stars.

"And leave you here all alone? What kind of a friend do you think I am?" Rita asked him slightly scoffing.

"A bloody great one" he chuckled. "But you knew this was going to happen?" He asked her. "Why did you come? I know it's not so I'm alone, I have known you for quite a while now, I know you better than to take your word for saying that I would be lonely" he looked down at her meeting her gaze up at him.

"It smelt" she lied luckily enough to get him to believe her. "The ship smelt and I wasn't going to stay on it any longer." 

"You could have stayed in the TARDIS she would have taken you home"

"What home" Rita shrugged not looking at all fazed by his mentioning of 'home' "My home if it even was a home is in a parallel world that is unreachable. I know you can't travel through parallel worlds Doctor, I'm not stupid."