Bride and Gloom

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"Oh, it's a nice day to start again.
Come on, nice day for a white wedding day.
Ooh yeah, a nice day to start again."
- Billy Idol: 'White Wedding' (Billy Idol [1982])

~*~*~

St. Mary's Church
Chiswick, London

A few seconds earlier, the same bride who had mysteriously found herself standing on the Tardis in the middle of space, was standing at the beginning of the aisle with her father, with his arm linked through hers instead of the other way round. Rolling her eyes, the bride quickly changes this.

"Sorry..." her father, Geoff, quickly apologised.

The organist strikes up the Wedding March, and the blushing bride and her father begin to process down the aisle. There is a strange noise that makes everyone glance around curiously, searching for the source of the noise, then eyes widen in shock when the bride appears to start glowing gold before she screams and zooms up through the roof and away in a golden sparkle...

"Where'd she go?" One of the female guests questions in confusion.

~*~*~

The Tardis (Recap)

The Doctor pulls away from Katy after kissing the top of her head, and starts slowly walking around the console, setting controls. Then freezes when something white catches his attention from out the corner of his eye, and he looks up frowning cautiously.

"Doctor? What is it?" Katy asked, having noticed his reaction. She moves around the console and stops in her tracks beside him when she sees a figure, dressed in a white dress and veil, standing in front of the Tardis doors with her back to them.

"What?" the Doctor bursts out, in disbelief. The figure turns around, revealing a ginger-haired woman in her mid-30s, staring at them with confusion.

"Oh!" She exclaims when she sees Katy and the Doctor.

"What?" the Doctor repeated.

"Who are you both?" the woman demanded. The Doctor and Katy look at each other in a bewilderment.

"But-" the Doctor stutters.

"Where am I?" the woman was getting increasingly agitated.

"What?" the Doctor was extremely confused, and Katy wasn't feeling much better.

"What the hell is this place?!"

"What?!" both the Doctor and Katy blurted out in unison.

~*~*~

The Doctor and Katy stare in complete and utter astonishment at the bride who glares angrily back at them. The Doctor recovers first and starts forward towards the bride, aiming to get an explanation.

"What? You can't do that. I wasn't. We're in flight." He babbles, looking back at Katy with confusion and she shrugs back. "That is, that is physically impossible! How did-"

"Tell me where I am!" the Bride yells. "I demand you tell me right now, where am I?" She demands, and the Doctor reacts like a gaping fish for several seconds before replying.

"Inside the Tardis."

"The what?" the Bride blinks.

"The Tardis," the Doctor repeats, calmly.

"The what?"

"The Tardis!" the Doctor repeats once again, now just a little bit impatient about having to repeat himself. The Bride still doesn't look convinced by what she is hearing and repeats herself once again.

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