DOCTOR WHO: THE KEYS TO DEATH

Chapter 2

As the Doctor, Amy, Rory, River and the UN.I.T personnel began to go into the house, a car screeched on the gravelly drive and came to a halt just beside Rory's Mini. It narrowly avoided it and Rory sighed with relief.
"Wait for me!" then came the voice of the driver of the car. Everyone looked back and saw a woman with bright blonde curly hair pop out and walk towards them. She was dressed simply. Quite casually really and soon joined up with everyone.
"Ah...finally arrived then?" said the Lieutenant.
"Sorry, the traffic is horrendous...I should have set out earlier really..." said the woman as she put her hair back into place. "Oh, I'm Alison Harrison by the way..." she then introduced to everyone else. Amy sniggered at the unfortunate naming while Rory and River just smiled at one another.
"Miss Harrison is the Chartered Surveyor of Holmes House..." explained the Lieutenant. "We drafted her in as she knows the House better than anyone else at present..."
"Well, I do my best!" smiled Alison brightly. It was an infectious smile and the Doctor could only smile back. Everyone soon then progressed indoors and began their investigations.

"I think we'll head off in different directions Hank..." said the Doctor as everyone came to a halt.
"That's Lieutenant Hank..." corrected Nail sternly as he towered over the Doctor.
"Yes, well...I think its best..." carried on the Doctor. "You and Ingrid can go off and join your other UN.I.T mates and us a lot will search elsewhere." The Lieutenant agreed and soon the split unfolded, but Alison still didn't know who she was really with.
"I gather your the Doctor then?" she asked at the Bow-Tied man. "They said you were...different..."
"Different is an understatement..." muttered River. The Doctor could hear River's remark but chose to ignore it.
"Yes Alison, I am the Doctor...the brains behind everything..." he replied. "Over there, that's Amy – the pretty brainy one who was a Kiss-o-gram..."
"Oi!" called Amy. "I really don't like being reminded of that!"
"Next to her is Rory – the Nose of all our operations..." continued the Doctor before doing his action for Rory's long nose. Rory just ignored him, he was used to it. "...and finally this is Dr. River Song – the sexy Gun-slinger of all Time and Space..."
"Why thankyou darling..." smiled River. Alison was quite impressed as she had been told in great detail by the Lieutenant on the phone about the Doctor and his travelling friends. She was about to ask further, but she was rudely interrupted by the screams and gunfire of UN.I.T soldiers. The five of them then set off in the direction of the noise and found two soldiers being bombarded by a ghostly presence around them.
"What the hell?" said Amy as she ducked to avoid it going directly into her.
"Stand back!" called the soldier.
"Put your gun down!" commanded River. "NOW!"
"But its attacking?" said the soldier.
"Leave it be..." demanded River as the Doctor looked at it more closely. It illuminated everywhere in the room and everyone just looked at it in astonishment.
"This isn't the first time I've seen one of these..." said Alison. "I've seen them both...this is or rather was Aubrey..."
"That's Aubrey Holmes?" said Rory perplexed.
"I doubt it..." said the Doctor before the ghostly presence disappeared.
"Well?" said River. "What is it then?"
"It's something different, something interesting...something brilliant!"

"A Ghost?" exclaimed the Lieutenant in the support centre. "Doctor, you are crazy...even beyond your own infamous standards..."
"Its not a ghost..." said the Doctor. "I never said 'ghost', I said 'ghostly presence'...there is a difference..."
"Well whatever it is its simply poppycock!" laughed the Lieutenant. "Were after a possible Alien link here Doctor and all you find is a 'ghostly presence'..."
"Hank..." then began River. "You've got to take this more seriously...we've just been speaking with Alison and she knows that a daylight appearance of one of those is highly rare...we need to investigate at night..."
"If you insist..." said Lieutenant Nail dubiously. "I'll send out the message that everyone should rest until then...unfortunately, we don't have any sleeping quarters for you lot, so you'll have to make do with your Mini..."
"My Mini?" said Rory. "Were going to sleep in my Mini..."
"Afraid so..." said the Doctor. "What's the worst that could happen?"

"Budge up a bit Doctor..." grimaced River as they shared the back row of seats. Amy was in the passenger seat whilst Rory was in the driver's seat with the steering wheel preventing him from moving about a lot.
"I have budged up River...if I could budge any more, I'd be on the gravel!" moaned the Doctor.
"Well, do your best...I know I'm not exactly small, but this is taking the mickey..." grumbled River.
"Don't have a go at my Mini!" called Rory. "I'd had this since I was 21...it's done me a good service...Mum and Dad bought it me...I'd like it to remain in good condition..."
"Well it would if the Doctor wouldn't put his Sonic out on the seat...I've just had the mispleasure of sitting on it!" moaned River even more. River and the Doctor just continued to moan even more and Amy and Rory just remained silent. Once in the car, none of them could leave until the search was on. This has been imposed under the commands on Lieutenant Nail who they could all see walking about the grounds freely. Then, as Evening came and Day went, the four began to feel more and more tired. River had huddled onto the Doctor's shoulder and had fallen asleep from there. Amy was definitely asleep and snoring very loudly and Rory had eventually nodded off despite having a steering wheel locking his legs in one place. However, the Doctor couldn't sleep partly because of Amy's snoring and partly because he could see something roaming the grounds. Like the one he'd seen earlier, it was ghostly and wandered around the grounds of Holmes House and then got progressively closer to Rory's Mini.
"Don't you dare..." muttered the Doctor, but it did and as it neared, it let out a hiss of a scream and went right through the body of the Mini and screamed before everyone.
"Bloody hell!" cried Rory.
"Oh my God!" screamed Amy.
"No you don't!" said River as she grabbed her gun but the ghost wouldn't leave and the Mini then began to rock. It rocked and rocked and soon the ghost screamed again. It made sure the doors were locked and even the Sonic wouldn't be able to open them. The glass was toughened in a second too as there was no way out. Suddenly, the Mini stopped rocking and everywhere fell quiet once more...what had happened? No-one knew...as everyone in the Mini was lifeless...