Chapter 3

Books To Take Back

Hi guys,

Good to be back! Had a great holiday! Enjoy.


The next morning, Linda decided to see how the new therapist was getting on. She knocked on the door and the heard the cry from the next room, 'Come in!'

She went down the corridor and opened the door.

'What are you doing here?'

'Treating the patient,' The Doctor replied, 'any chance of a cup of tea?'

The three of them looked bedraggled indeed. No-one had been able to sleep after the encounter with the.. thing.

Linda nodded and raised an eyebrow at the room, and then walked out.

Silas wasn't paying any attention to his companions, to busy rummaging around in the tangled web of pyjamas, sleeping bags and- 'aha!', Silas grinned.

He pulled out the battered copy of French Myths and Legends and added it to the pile already accumulated on his bed.

'What are you doing?' Amy raised an eyebrow at the scurrying teenager, who currently had his curly head inside a pillowcase. 'Yes!' he grinned victoriously, as he retrieved a very old volume of A Tale of Two Cities.

'Getting my books together, I have to take them back today!' He pelted off down the staircase with a stack of books under each arm. The Doctor bolted after him.

'Doesn't he remind you of someone?' Rory looked Amy in the eye.

'Yes,' Amy smiled, 'he does.'

Monty, the Library Assistant, shivered as the dawn shook the cold from the folds of his coat. It was a big library for just three people to manage, but they had a rotor, and a rotor was the key to all efficiency.

He had barely unlocked the door and taken his overcoat off, before the first customers arrived.

The Doctor was scanning the shelves of the Mythology section, which was poorly sorted, due to lack of staff, but was, happily, very thorough.

'Grrr..' muttered The Doctor as he picked his way through with the care people use around old and rather authoritative texts. 'The Greeks are next to the Mesopotamians! This so confusing! Oh! Here it is!'