Unicorn and the Wasp Part 2

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"Professor!" Eddison's housekeeper comes charging out the house, shouting, "The library! Murder! Murder!"

The Doctor, followed by Donna, Alice and Agatha rushed towards the house. Threw the door straight open to the library, rushing in. The Doctor goes straight to the body. But the sisters stay put in shock.

"Oh, my goodness," the butler gasped.

"Bashed on the head," the Time Lord mumbles as he checked over the professors head, "Blunt instrument," he now tapped Peach's watch, "Watch broke as he fell. Time of death was quarter past four," he gets up to go and examine the papers all over the desk.

"A bit of pipe," Donna showed him picking it up, "Call me Hercules Poirot, but I reckon that's blunt enough."

While Alice swore that out the corner of her eye she saw Agatha pick up a bit of paper from the fireplace and place inside her bag.

"Nothing worth killing for in that lot. Dry as dust," he remarks, straightening up.

"Hold on. The Body In The Library?" Donna spoke softly, the Doctor and Alice only hearing her, "I mean, Professor Peach, in the library, with the lead piping?"

"Donna's right, it's more like a game of 'Cluedo,' don't you think?" Alice asked smirking at her sister.

"Let me see!" Lady Eddison's voice echoes in the from the hall.

"Out of my way!" Her husband called straight after.

"Gerald?!" Lady Eddison gasped as she entered upon the sight before her.

"Saints preserve us," the reverend took in a breath off shock.

"Oh, how awful," Robina cried.

"Someone should call the police," Agatha suggested.

"You don't have to," the Doctor in that instant holds up his psychic paper to them, "Chief Inspector Smith from Scotland Yard, known as the Doctor. The Noble's are the plucky young girls who help me out."

"I say," Lady Eddison eyes widened in surprise.

"Mrs Christie was right. Go into the sitting room. I will question each of you in turn."

"Come along," Agatha ushered them out of the library, "Do as the Doctor says. Leave the room undisturbed."

"'The plucky young girls who help me out?'" Donna mimicked taking offence soon as everyone had left.

"Yeah, thanks for that," Alice moodily put glaring at him, crossing her arms in front of her

"No policewomen in 1926," he shrugged unsure what else to tell them, but knew he hit a nerve judging by both their faces.

"I'll pluck you in a minute. Why don't we phone the real police?"

"Well the last thing we want is PC Plod sticking his nose in," the Doctor replied, crouching down scraping something off the wooden floor, "Especially now I've found this," standing up he held it out to show them, "Morphic residue."

"Morphic?" Donna frowns.

"Yeah that doesn't sound very 1926," Alice frowns as well.

"It's left behind when certain species genetically re-encode," the Doctor mumbled still checking the goo over.

"The murderer's an alien?"

"Which means one of that lot is an alien in human form," he sighed.

"Yeah, but think about it. There's a murder, a mystery, and Agatha Christie," Alice voices how weird this all is.

"So?" he asked, giving the residue a sniff with his nose making the sisters turn theirs up, "Happens to me all the time," he finished.

"No, but isn't that a bit weird though," Donna asked him.

"Donna's right, Agatha Christie didn't walk around surrounded by murders. Not really. I mean, that's like meeting Charles Dickens and he's surrounded by ghosts at Christmas."Alice agreed with her sisters question.

"Well…" he started to recall that time...

"Oh, come on!" Donna smirked trying to take him seriously.

"Yeah, come on Doctor," Alice scoffed disbelievingly, "It would be like taking a drive to Enid Blyton's house and finding her having a cream tea with Noddy."

"Could we? Noddy's not real. Is he?" Donna checked with him, "Tell me there's no Noddy."

"There's no Noddy," the Doctor assured her before they headed out the door.

"Next thing you know, you'll be telling me it's like Murder On The Orient Express, and they all did it."

"Murder on the Orient Express?" Agatha appeared from behind the alcove near the stairs.

"Ooo, yeah," Donna gave her a smile, "One of your best."

"But not yet though," Alice quickly whispers to her sister.

"Marvellous idea, though," Agatha pondered aloud in thought, liking the idea.

"Yeah. Tell you what. Copyright Donna Noble, Ok?" Donna asked of her.

"Anyway," the Doctor cuts in, "Agatha and I will question the suspects. Donna, you and Alice search the bedrooms. Look for clues," he whispered the last to them both, "Any more residue."

"You'll need this," he reached into his trouser pockets, pulling out a rather large magnifying glass.

"Is that for real?" Donna asked, glaring at him.

"You can't be serious?" Alice put her hands on her hips.

"Go on. You're both ever so plucky," the Doctor grinned trying to get a rise out of them, as Donna snatched the magnifying glass from him and headed up the stairs.

"I hate you sometimes," Alice said rather annoyed, shaking her head before following after her sister up the stairs.

"No you don't," he called after her knowing well there would be a smile on her face.

"Are certainly sure your not a couple?" Agatha questions the Doctor.

"Right then," he brushed off her question completely, getting back to the matter at hand, "Solving a murder mystery with Agatha Christie. Brilliant!"

-Doctor Who-

Whilst the Doctor was now interviewing the suspects along with Agatha, the Noble sisters were snooping around upstairs and had found nothing to go on except for clothes, jewellery, and books in the guests bedrooms. Almost about to give up they come across a door only to find it locked. It made Alice wish they had the Doctor's sonic to open it.

"You won't find anything in there," the butler informed appearing behind them making them jump.

"How come it's locked?" Donna asked.

"Lady Eddison commands it to be so."

"And we command it to be otherwise. Scotland Yard. Pip, pip," Alice ordered the butler.

"Why's it locked in the first place?" Donna asked with interest, as the butler unlocked the door.

"Many years ago, when my father was butler to the family, Lady Eddison returned from India with malaria," he answered, "She locked herself in this room for six months until she recovered. Since then, the room has remained undisturbed," The door creaked rather loudly as Donna opened it, you could tell it hadn't been used in a long time, "There's in here."

"How long has this room been empty?"Inside Alice spots a single sorry looking wooden bed with a old teddy bear sat upon on it, raggedy curtains drawn across the windows. Also some shelves, a bureau, fireplace and the whole room every surface top to bottom was covered in thick dust and cobwebs.

"Forty years."

"Why would she seal it off?" Donned mumbled only to herself before turning back to the butler, "All right, we need to investigate. You just… butle off," she shuts the door as he turned and walked off. Looking around she sees Alice by the bed, holding the teddy bear, "Why are you holding the bear?"

"Don't know, trying to figure out why it would be here in the first place," Alice responded looking down at the teddy.

Donna comes over to stand beside her, "Could it be a clue you think?"

"Might be… but let's hang onto it just in case."

She nodded in agreement with her sister and took it to look at and smiled, "I got you a teddy once for your fourth birthday… remember?"

Alice smiled recalling the memory, "Yes, I remember," she still had that very teddy sitting upon her bed, many years later and it had been everywhere with her since she had finished University.

"It was the only thing that could help you sleep," Donna laughed.

Alice nodded laughing along with her, remembering the nights she had a tantrums because her mum would try to wash the bear before going to bed, "It was the only thing that would help me," she points out, "If not, you, mum and dad would have had many nights of restless sleep to deal with."

Her elder sister thought about it, nodding, "Not wrong there."

A buzzing suddenly caught their ears, "Don, can you hear that?"

"Yeah I hear it," Donna stops whatever she's doing and listens out for it, "Definitely sounds like a bee," Donna sighed, "So in 1926, there's still bees," she rants heading towards the window where the buzzing could be heard. And it was getting louder, "Oh, what a noise. All right, busy bee, I'll let you out. Hold on," she makes her voice go posh, "I shall find you with my amazing powers of detection."

Alice gave a small laugh shaking her head. Just as her sister drew back the curtains with her free hand. In that instant she screamed seeing a giant wasp at the window.

"That's impossible!"

The teddy bear instantly fell from Alice's grasp, she dashed over to her sister and tugged on her arm pulling her towards the bedroom door, "Doctor!" they screamed together.

An idea quickly came to Alice, grabbing the magnifying glass from her sister, she held it up to the sunlight, aiming it just at the right angle the beam of light hits the wasp. As it was screeching in pain, she reached the doorknob turning it quickly pulling Donna out with her and slamming it shut behind them catching their breath.

"Doctor!" Donna only called for him this time, her cry for help probably echoing throughout the grand house. Just as the giant stinger pierced through the door both of the sisters screamed jumping away from the door. It's only just now that the Doctor and Agatha showed up seeing both women wide eyed and clutching their chests.

"There is a giant… wasp!" Donna exclaimed, running halfway down the

"What do you mean, a giant wasp?" the Time Lord demanded.

"We mean a wasp… that's giant!" Alice exclaimed voice going high pitched trying to him to understand what their saying.

Agatha frowned looking at the women as if they've gone mad, "It's only a silly little insect."

Donna swallowed hard,"When we say giant, we don't mean big, we mean flippin' enormous!"

Her sister pointed towards the door, "Look at the size of the sting it left behind!"

The Doctor's eyes widened, seeing the stinger poking through the wooden door, "Let me see!" pushing the door open and running to inside the room, only to find it completely empty and no wasp in sight, except for the broken window it probably come through, "It's gone. Buzzed off," he dashed over to the window.

"But that's fascinating…" Agatha murmured eyeing the stinger with utter fascination, Donna and Alice nearby.

"Wouldn't touch that if I were you Agatha," Alice advised to the author in warning, watching as her nearly reached for the stinger that she could only guess is poisonous.

"Don't touch it," the Doctor agreed with her coming over, "Don't touch it. Let me," he kneeled before the stinger and pulled a vial with a stopper out of his pocket, scooping the substance inside it with a pencil, "Giant wasp… well, tons of amorphous insectivorous lifeforms, but... none in this galactic vector."

"I think I understood some of those words," Agatha eyed him curiously, "Enough to know that you're completely potty."

"Yeah, you get used to the sciencey talk after being with him for awhile," Alice commented, looking down at him with admiration. The Doctor can't help but smile about it.

"Lost its sting, though," Donna pointed out, "That makes it defenceless."

"Oh, a creature this size?" he scoffed, "Got to be able to grow a new one."

"Can we return to sanity?" Agatha stared at the trio, "There are no such things as giant wasps."

"Exactly! So… the question is, what's it doing here?"

The group of four walked down the stairs, when a shrill scream from outside pierced their ears and they ran straight outside, finding Miss Chandrakala, Lady Eddison's housekeeper pinned under a stone gargoyle, "The poor…little...child," she breathed her last words before dying.

Looking up, loud buzzing is heard above them, "There!" the Doctor shouted as the wasp whisked past and towards the house, and Alice noticed it had grown a new stinger just the Doctor said it would, "Come on!" the group run back inside after it, chasing it up the staircase..

"This is different, for a change," Alice remarks, "There's a monster, and we're the ones chasing it."

"It can't be a monster," Agatha insisted, "It's a trick. They do it with mirrors," having reached the top, they stopped dead in their tracks seeing the giant wasp, "By all that's holy…"

"Oh, but you are wonderful," the Doctor beamed in excitement as he came face to face with it, only to lose his grin as it prepared to attack realising Alice and Donna are beside him, "Now, just stop. Stop there…"

But the wasp ignored his instruction, charging straight at them stinger first nearing Alice. He pulled her down quickly, just missing it by inches, shielding her body with his.

"Oi!" Donna grabs the wasps attention, glaring angrily at it for almost harming her sister, "Flyboy!" she holds up the magnifying glass remembering how startling it with the light until it flew away.

"Don't let it get away! Quick, before it reverts back to human form!" they chased it down to the hallway where the guests are staying, "Where are you? Come on! There's nowhere to run... show yourself!" all of doors in the hallway opened with everyone staring back at him, "Oh...that's just cheating," he pouted in disappointment.

Alice patted the Time Lord's shoulder in reassurance whilst waving awkwardly at everyone with her free hand, "Uh, hello."