Watching the television that morning, Clara was in utter shock. Dressed in her blue dressing gown and grey pyjama top, she slowly bit into her toast as she listened to what the news reporter had to say. A man had been found dead at the museum where she and Bucky were at yesterday. The museum was closed off for at least a few days whilst investigations were happening.

'I can't believe it,' she said, not taking her eyes off the television.

'I know,' Bucky probed the microwave. 'It was halfway through microwaving a bun as well.'

'I'm not on about the microwave,' she said, standing up from the sofa as she made her way to the kitchen where her lover was. 'A security guard was found at the museum we were at yesterday and that Mexican mummy has gone missing. And what did I see last night?'

'You think this is all connected?'

'Well it's got to be!' she waltzed off to the bedroom to change her clothes. 'Mexican mummies don't just appear in your bedroom at night for no reason. It's got to be that writing that was on the stone coffin like it was some sort of curse or awakening summoning or something.'

'Check the library out,' he gave up on the microphone and got a bowl and box of muesli from the cupboard. 'I'm sure they have stuff on Mexican curses.'

'Come on them,' she peeked her head around the corner. 'We haven't got long! I could be dead in a few weeks. I'm going to call Lucy and have her help us out. The more heads the better.'

At the central library, Lucy Charles waited outside dressed in black tank top and blue denim jacket. Smiling at Bucky and Clara she made her way towards them and she tried to hug the schoolteacher but she insisted there was no time.

'I got your message,' she admitted as they made their way into the library. 'You think a curse has been put on you?'

'I don't know whether it's just me or the both of us or what!'

The trio approached a small blonde woman at the main desk with red glasses and she looked away from the computer and glared up at them with an enthusiastic smile.

'Can I help you?'

'Have you got anything on curses?' Bucky asked while Clara noticed a stain on his grey t-shirt so she tried to get it off. He tugged at her dark purple dress to make her stop. 'Preferably Mexican mummy curses.'

'Try the supernatural section.'

Thanking the woman, he ushered the two men towards the supernatural section and he nearly tripped over a table leg but being behind them nobody else noticed.

After several hours of flicking through Mexican books and gothic literature, Clara eventually came across what she was looking for – Mayan curses. After looking at some of the symbols in the book she realised they didn't match the ones on her phone but she read along anyway.

'It says here some Mexican curses can awaken the mummies of the past.'

'Hang on,' Lucy pointed to some symbols on another page. 'Aren't they the ones that are on your phone?'

'Oh God,' Clara's eyes enlarged and growing concerned, Bucky leaned in over closer until Clara could smell his aftershave. 'It says that mummies' coffins engraved with these symbols hold mummies that can be awoken by speaking the symbols. It is an ancient Mayan curse that means the mummy will stalk its prey for two days and then drain its life force and thus becomes stronger.'

'If it even tries to lay a finger on you,' Bucky shook his head in disbelief. 'I will rip its bony arm off.'

'There's more,' she traced her finger along the text. 'If a curse is bestowed upon one's soul, one can remove it by speaking allowed the symbols it said to awaken it. When stalking its prey, it may appear in spiritual form to shake the victim. Well that explains the mummy in our bedroom.'

'But how are we going to speak the symbols?' asked Lucy. 'I mean do we have to be in the same presence as the mummy?'

'It says here that it needs to be within metres of its coffin.'

'So where in hell is the mummy?' Bucky snatched the book from his girlfriend's grasp to browse through it. 'It said on the news it had escaped from its coffin.'

'Well it's coming after Clara tonight,' Lucy blankly confessed and so the other two immediately glanced at her. 'If we have to be within metres of the coffin, then we have to get inside the museum.'

'How do we get inside the museum tonight?' asked Bucky. '1. The museum isn't open at night and 2. With that murder at the museum, we can't even get in during the day.'

'If it drains the life force of its victims,' Clara rose from her chair. 'It will have drained the life force of that security guards. It will have gotten stronger.'

'We have the psychic paper thing the Doctor made a copy of that he gave to you back at the apartment,' Bucky suggested and Clara's face lit up. 'We can pretend to be MI5 or something. We can hide in the restroom until night.'

'Sounds like a plan,' Lucy scooped the book and placed it in her brown handbag and so Bucky and Clara pulled a face. 'What?'

'That's theft,' admitted Clara.

'I'll bring it back,' she placed the bag over her shoulder and encouraged the others to make a move also. 'Besides, I think an ancient mummy trying to kill my best friend is a little bit more important than a stolen library book. Now off we go.'