"Hey! Hey!"
"Over here!"
"Hoi!"
"Take hold of the rope. Over here!"
Celestia heard several voices trying to help the people on the boat. She was glad that she didn't have to use her powers because then this crazy lot would think that she was Estela which would make the situation even worse.
"Oh, Mother of God, thank you. We're saved, Doctor, Celestia. Look, it's Orsino's guards. We were close enough to the Palace. They're pulling us in." Churchwell exclaimed.
"What was that?" The Doctor said as he tried to help Celestia gain her balance.
"I said we're saved." He repeated.
"Oh, hurrah." Celestia said, rolling her wyes. "Doctor, I am unharmed, seriously." She said after The Doctor wouldn't let her go, insisting that he needed to make sure that she was really fine.
"The boat was smashed to matchwood. We're lucky to be alive. I don't know if our captors have." Churchwell stopped when he saw the man. "Oh."
"Saved. I am saved. The spirit of our Lady Estella has spared my soul. I live, and stand once more on dry land." The man said.
"I think you'll find, Vincenzo, that it was the Duke's guards who dragged your stinking carcass out of the canal. Where are the others? Did they all drown?" Churchwell questioned.
"They have been murdered by those toads, the Gondoliers, sucked into the depths of the lagoon. No matter. I have plenty more where they came from." Vincenzo said.
"Of course you have, back at the old secret base. But remember, Vincenzo, I know where your lair is. I know where the casket is hidden." Churchwell said.
"I could kill you now." Vincenzo threatened.
"You need me to bargain with the Duke. You need me ali-ive!" Churchwell said in singing tone.
"Look, boys, can we stop quibbling and shivering outside? I'm completely soaked." Celestia said after The Doctor stopped checking up on her.
"Shall we just go into the Palace and carry this on in there?" The Doctor finished her sentence.
"Into the heart of depravity and decay?" Vincenzo questioned.
"So long as I get a cup of tea and Celestia gets her coffee. I don't mind where we go. Come on." The Doctor said as he took the Time Lady's hand.
"You're so sweet." Celestia giggled as they started walking off.
"Essentially we're here before you under duress, Orsino. The High Priest here, the delightful Vincenzo, has urged us here to bargain with you over the small matter of a portrait." The Doctor said when they stood in front of Orsino.
"Churchwell is my curator. You should direct all such queries to him. I have no time for art tonight." Orsino dismissed him.
"It's a very special portrait, you see, Your Grace." The Doctor explained.
"Do go on, Doctor. I have no idea who you are, but you are being extremely diverting." Orsino said.
"You flatter me." The Doctor said.
"You'll be even more diverting as a human sacrifice when I have your gizzards ceremonially removed during my nuptials at dawn." Orsino declared.
"Gizzards?" The Doctor asked.
"Nuptials?" Churchwell asked too.
"You guys think these are the important parts in what he said?" Celestia asked them both.
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Fixing The Problems
FanfictionCelestia is a Time Lady from Gallifrey who is the best friend of The Doctor. She met him when they joined Time Lord Academy. They immediately got along and became best friends. She is also coming from a family of, what some people might call, "witch...
