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“I’m sorry,” Rory began with rather more calm than the situation perhaps demanded, a reality swiftly reflected by the increasing anger and volume of his tone. “But what do you mean you ‘weren’t surprised, really,’ when you found out my wife was a werewolf!”
“This sort of thing can skip a generation - or, well, five,” the Doctor amended, trying to do some quick calculations about tiny human lifespans. “But there was this werewolf sort of cult, back in Scotland - really had it out for Queen Victoria - and well, sometimes intense trauma -” and here he paused to gesture at the crumpled forms of the Headless Monks (really, it was probably for the best that you couldn’t see how mangled they were under their robes) “- can trigger physiological responses.”
“I am right here,” Amy interjected, breathing heavily and still covered with blood. (Jenny had to bodily restrain a visibly aroused Vastra.) She looked suspiciously at the back of her hand, as though expecting it to sprout russet fur once again. Which, honestly, Rory thought, was well within the realm of possibility. However worrying that might be.
“So wait,” Amy continued. “Are you saying I’m descended from a secret evil Scottish werewolf cult?”
“Maybe! I don’t know!” The Doctor flung his hands up in the air. “And given that the Queen promptly formed Torchwood to hunt down aliens, it was probably just as well I didn’t hang around to check!”
“Blimey, how many public enemy lists are you on, Doctor?”
Before the Time Lord could answer, Rory crossed the room to Amy and spoke in a hushed tone. “You really are handling this better than I would have guessed.”
“I mean it’s kind of cool, right? I get to be all fangs and claws and stuff every once in a while.” She poked him in the middle of his breastplate. “We can’t all look incredibly sexy in antique armor.” The Doctor, flustered, muttered something about running a scan back on the TARDIS. “Fine, Doctor, scan first! Then,” she turned back to Rory, “well, leave the armor on. At least to start.” She winked, and led her boys back to their spaceship.