Chapter 4: The Meeting

Suddenly, a scream echoed throughout the house as the Doctor quickly brushed Martha away and ran towards the door as another scream was heard, and the Doctor realised it was coming from the house next door. He ran to the door, knocking on it, screaming in vain to see if someone was inside. "Hello, anyone in there, open the door and I can help, anyone?" There was no reply but a third scream as Martha leaped out from her own house and joined the Doctor outside the house next door. He pulled out his Sonic Screwdriver and used it on the lock, as a click was heard and he put it away in his inside pocket as quick as he could and then continued to try the handle. He tried again and again but for some reason the handle would not move, it was still locked even though his sonic screwdriver had never failed him before. "That's strange" he said to himself, as he looked around but he could not find anything to help him. "Stand back Martha!" as he moved a step away and lifted his right foot smashing the door inwards as it crashed to the side. He pushed it away as he ran inside and towards the living room, brightly lit from the sun coming through the glass window but no one was about. Martha had followed and waited near the door, as once again and this time a final scream was heard from above. "Its coming from upstairs!" screamed Martha as she ran up the stairs with the Doctor quickly following behind as he caught her up.

They arrived at the top of the stairs as the screaming stopped and they each quickly checked behind every door they could find but no one was around until they finally reached the final door together. The Doctor opened it as he stepped inside what looked like a little girl's room. The wall was decorated with nice pink flowers, and a large doll's house could be seen in the farm edge of the room with a small bed placed against the wall as Martha joined the Doctor inside the room. He walked over slowly as he looked around not seeing anyone at first, as he turned his head to see a small child, a young girl wearing a bright yellow dress crouching down hiding at the side of the bed curled up in fear. The Doctor looked over at Martha as she moved forward to see the small girl and slowly walked towards her, as the Doctor examined the room. Martha bent down to try and check the little girl was ok. "Hello, mine name's Martha, and this is the Doctor, its ok we are friends." The little girl just jumped forward as she grasped her arms around Martha's neck in a show of fear of what she had witnessed. "It's ok, its ok!" Martha said as she pulled the girl up and held her tight as the Doctor saw the caring side he had rarely seen of Martha on their visits to other planets and almost smiled but let it not be known that he knew he had picked the right girl to travel with him on his journey.

Martha sat down on the bed as the girl held tightly on, shaking slightly at what she may have witnessed. The Doctor moved over as he crouched down to be able to look at this young girl, but it seemed she was too shy as she kept her face hidden from view, burying it into Martha's shoulders. "Hello, I'm the Doctor, what is your name?" asked the Doctor hoping she would be ok enough to reply. "My name is Judy!" she said back in soft voice but refusing to turn around. "Well Judy, we aren't gonna hurt you ok. We are here to help, can you tell us what happened here, why you were screaming?" the Doctor asked hoping she may be able to help answer at least one of the millions of questions he was thinking at this time.

"There was a monster, here, it was trying to kill me." the little girl claimed shaking still at the thought of the face of evil she had seen. "It came from behind that door!" as she pointed towards the closet door behind them all, as the Doctor turned to look at it and got back to his feet before he spoke to Martha. "Martha, why don't you take Judy downstairs and get her something to drink and eat!" as he turned to nod to Martha that it may be best if she left the room with the little girl and leave him to fight anything that may be behind the door.

Martha didn't need to ask twice as she got off the bed and carried the little girl still hugging on tightly out the room as the Doctor shut the door behind them and heard them walk down the stairs to safety. He moved over to the closet door, unsure of what he find as he took a hold of the handle and turned it as he swung the door open quickly.