"She'll be fine", the Doctor reassured Rory as Guido maneuvered the gondola. The Doctor had readjusted Elise's harness so now she was facing his chest as he tried to soothe her.

She was starting to get fussy due to being tired, but there was no time to go back to the TARDIS and put her to bed.

"You can promise me that, can you?" Rory hissed.

"We're here", Guido told them.

"What happened, between you and Amy? You said she kissed you", Rory said as they entered the tunnel.

Elise was confused. Amy kissed the Doctor? That must have been after he put her to bed. But she was engaged to Rory. Why would she kiss the Doctor then?

"Now? You want to do this now?" the Doctor snapped.

"I have a right to know. I'm getting married in four hundred and thirty years".

"She was frightened. I was frightened. But we survived, you know, and the relief of it, and so she kissed me".

"And you kissed her back".

"No. I kissed her mouth".

"Funny".

"Rory. Rory, she kissed me because I was there. It would have been you. It should have been you".

"Yeah, it should have been me".

"Exactly. That's why I brought you here".

A gust of wind blew out the torch the Doctor was carrying. Elise whined and the Doctor rubbed her back to comfort her.

"Can we go and see the vampires now, please?"

The trap door came out in a courtyard and Elise was grateful to be able to see the stars again.

The Doctor climbed out and then helped Rory up. "Come on. There we are. Amy. Where's Amy? Amy?" She should have been here.

Elise was worried about her and her father's ginger friend.

"I can't see a thing", the Doctor muttered.

"Just as well I brought this, then", Rory said, pulling out a tiny penlight. Being a nurse, he always kept one on him.

The Doctor pulled out a long cylindrical light. "Ultraviolet. Portable sunlight".

"Yours is bigger than mine".

The Doctor gave Rory a look. "Let's not go there".

As they waited for Amy, Rory contemplated what to do concerning his wedding. "If we cancel now, we lose the deposit on the village hall. The salsa band. Oh..."

Elise rolled her eyes. If she were older, she would have slapped him and said, "We have bigger problems to worry about than whether you're getting married in the morning or not!"

The Doctor walked over to a chest and opened it. In it sat corpses of girls. The Doctor was suddenly glad Elise couldn't see them.

"What happened to them?" Rory asked.

"They've had all the moisture taken out of them", the Doctor told him.

"That's what vampires do, right? They drink your blood and replace it with their own".

"Yeah, except these people haven't just had their blood taken, but all the water in their entire bodies."

"Why did they die? Why aren't they like the girls in the school?"

"Maybe not everyone survives the process".

Rory threw his arms up in frustration and stormed away from the Doctor and Elise. "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. Elise is your daughter, right? What kind of parent are you? Taking her into dangerous situations like this?"

"Who are you?" The six girls from earlier appeared and the Doctor waved his UV light at them.

"We should run. Run!"

The Doctor, Elise, and Rory ran into the school, but were stopped by a woman and a man.

Elise guessed this was the head of the school, Signora Rosanna Calvierri.

"Cab for Amy Pond?" the Doctor asked.

The six girls came up behind them, blocking their way out.

"This rescue plan. Not exactly watertight, is it?" Rosanna asked.

The Doctor waved his UV light at the girls as Amy and Guido's daughter, Isabella, ran into them.

"Rory!" Amy said.

"Amy".

"Quickly, through here", Isabella told them.

"They're not vampires", Amy said as they followed Isabella down a set of stairs.

"What?" the Doctor asked.

"I saw them. I saw her. They're not vampires, they're aliens".

The Doctor soniced the trapdoor before following. "Classic".

"That's good news? What is wrong with you people?" Rory yelled.

"Come on, Rory. Move", the Doctor told him.

The girls were catching up to them.

"Keep moving. Come on, guys!" the Doctor encouraged.

They finally made it the tunnel entrance. It was day again and Guido was waiting for them with the gondola.

"Quickly, quickly. Get out. Quick. Quick", Isabella told them. Isabella tried to go with them, but the sunlight was too much for her. The girls pulled her away and the door slammed shut.

The Doctor banged on the door and the moment he touched the metal, he was shocked and collapsed onto the wooden steps.

Rory ran forward and knelt down next to him.

"Is he dead?" Amy asked.

"No, he's breathing", Rory told him.

"What about Elise?"

Rory lifted Elise out of the harness and placed two fingers on her neck. "She's breathing. Knocked out like the Doctor though". He handed Elise to Amy, who cradled the little girl in her arms.

The Doctor came to a few minutes later and went after Isabella as Guido took Amy, Rory, and Elise back to his house.

When Elise came to, she panicked when she realized the Doctor wasn't with them.

Amy tried to soothe her, but Elise continued to scream her head off.

"D...D...D..." she cried.

Rory took Elise from Amy and set her on his shoulder. He started humming a random song and Elise calmed down.

It wasn't the song the Doctor sang to her, but it was calming enough.

The Doctor came through the door.

"Oh thank god!" Amy said as Rory handed Elise him.

Elise threw her small arms around his neck.

"Hey, it's okay", he told her, "You're okay". The Doctor felt bad that Elise had gotten shocked, purely because he had been carrying her. Maybe Rory was right.

Once Elise had been calmed enough, he set her down and checked Amy's puncture wounds. "You're fine. Open wide", he told her. He popped a candy into her mouth. "Argh. I need to think. Come on, brain. Think, think, think. Think", he said, sitting down at the table.

"If they're fish people, it explains why they hate the sun", Amy said.

He covered her mouth with his hand. "Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush".

"It's the school thing I don't understand", Rory added.

The Doctor put his other hand over Rory's mouth. "Stop talking. Brain thinking. Hush".

"I say we take the fight to them", Guido told them.

"Ah, ah, ah".

"What?"

The Doctor looked at Rory and gestured to Guido with his head. Rory put his hand over Guido's mouth. "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". He placed his hands on Amy and Rory's heads and moved them back and forth. "Bend the heavens. She's going to sink Venice".

"She's going to sink Venice?" Guido asked.

"...And repopulate it with the girls she's transformed".

"You can't repopulate somewhere with just women. You need blokes", Rory said.

"She's got blokes", Amy said, recalling what Rosanna had said.

"Where?" the Doctor asked.

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

"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".

A sound came from up above them.

"The people upstairs are very noisy", the Doctor said.

"There aren't any people upstairs", Guido told him.

"Do you know, I knew you were going to say that. Did anyone else know he was going to say that?"

"Is it the vampires?" Rory asked.

"Like I said, they're not vampires". The Doctor pulled out his UV light. "Fish from space".

A window broke and the girls from the school appeared.

"Aren't we on the second floor?" Rory asked.

The Doctor waved his UV light at them and then used his screwdriver to show what they really looked like.

"What's happened to them?" Guido asked.

"There's nothing left of them. They've been fully converted. Blimey, fish from space have never been so buxom. Okay, move", the Doctor told them.

Amy grabbed Elise and started running.

"Go, go, go, guys. Keep moving. Go, go, go", the Doctor said as they made it outside.

Amy, Rory, and Elise ran on ahead as the Doctor stayed back to try and help Guido.

There was a loud explosion. A second later, smoke started to rise out of a bell tower.

"Rosanna's initiating the final phase", the Doctor said.

"We need to stop her. Come on", Amy told him.

"No, no, no. Get back to the TARDIS".

"You can't stop her on your own".

"We don't discuss this. I tell you to do something, Amy, and you do it. Huh?"

Amy stormed off with Elise in her arms, not even allowing the young Timelord to say goodbye to her father. As Amy, Rory, and Elise were making their way back to the TARDIS, they were stopped by Rosanna's son, Francesco.

Rory picked up a couple of candlesticks and held them out in front of him in the sign of a cross. "Amy, run", Rory told her.

Francesco knocked the candlesticks out of Rory's hand and advanced towards Amy and Elise.

"This way, you freak. No!" Rory yelled, "This way, you big, stupid, great SpongeBob. The only thing I've seen uglier than you is your Mum".

Francesco turned to face Rory. "Huh?"

"No".

"Did you just say something about Mummy?"

Rory picked up a broomstick and lunged towards Francesco.

Francesco drew his sword.

Rory managed to block a few of Francesco's swipes before the broomstick was chopped in half.

Amy spotted a staircase. She set Elise down and pointed at the staircase and the little Timelord ran, Amy following. "This way. Bring him this way. Rory!" Amy yelled.

Rory backed up towards the staircase as Francesco changed to his real form and leapt towards him.

"Hey, Mummy's boy!" Amy yelled.

Francesco looked up as Amy opened her compact mirror. The sunlight hit Francesco who burned up instantly and exploded, covering Rory in ash.

"Oh", Rory gagged.

"That was lucky", Amy said, closing her compact mirror, "Why did you make the sign of the cross, you numpty?"

Rory climbed the stairs towards them. "Oh. Oh, right, I'm being reviewed now, am I?" Amy grabbed him and kissed him as Elise pulled a face. "Now we go help the Doctor. Come along, Elise!" Amy said.

The young Timelord took the ginger's hand.

"Rightio", Rory said, following after the two girls.

Amy, Elise, and Rory entered the Calvierri school.

They ran into the throne room and ran into the Doctor.

"Get out. I need to stabilize the storm", he told them.

"We're not leaving you", Rory said.

The Doctor stalked up to Rory. "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 shook, knocking them all to the ground.

Amy covered Elise's small body with her own.

"What was that?" Rory asked.

The Doctor stumbled to his feet. "Nothing. Bit of an earthquake".

"An earthquake?" Amy asked, getting her feet. She helped Elise up and the little girl grabbed her hand.

"Manipulate the elements, it can trigger earthquakes. But don't worry about them", the Doctor told them.

"No?" Rory asked.

"No. Worry about the tidal waves caused by the earthquake. Right, Rosanna's throne is the control hub but she's locked the program, 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". The Doctor started to run from the room before he stopped and turned back to them. "Elise!" She looked at him and he pulled out his screwdriver. "Point and think!"

She nodded and pulled out her own. She pointed it at the wires and thought about what the Doctor said as Amy and Rory went to town ripping out what they could.

"Oh yeah, she's definitely the Doctor's daughter", Rory said watching the young Timelord work.

Once they were done, they went outside and watched the Doctor struggle to stop the device. "

There he is!" Rory said, pointing to the top of the bell tower, "Come on. Come on".

"Come on", Amy said.

The rain stopped and the clouds disappeared. People around them clapped and cheered.

Amy, Rory, and Elise made their way back to the TARDIS and waited for the Doctor.

Elise was asleep in Amy's arms.

"Now then, what about you two, eh? Next stop Leadworth Registry Office. Maybe I can give you away", the Doctor said.

Rory looked at Amy. "It's fine. Drop me back where you found me. I'll just say you've..."

"Stay", she told him, "With us. Please. Just for a bit. I want you to stay".

Rory looked at the Doctor for approval.

"Fine with me".

"Yeah? Yes, I would like that".

"Nice one", Amy said kissing him, "I will pop the kettle on and put this one to bed. Hey, look at this. Got my spaceship, got my boys. My work here is done". Amy entered the TARDIS and carried Elise to her bedroom.