Right, this is the last update for now. Here's The Idiot's Lantern part three.

Chapter 64- The Idiot's lantern part three

The Doctor handed Mr Connolly the flags "Right." he said "Yes, sir. You'll be proud of us, sir! We'll have Union Jacks left, right and centre!"

"Excuse me, Mr Connolly." Rose said "Hang on a minute. Union Jacks?"

"Yes, that's right, isn't it?"

"That's the Union flag." Rose answered "It's the Union Jack only when it's flown at sea."

"Oh, I'm sorry." said Mr Connolly, who the Doctor could tell was feeling intimidated "I do apologise."

"Well, don't get it wrong again." Rose said, with a smile on her face "There's a good man. Now get to it!"

They watched as Mr Connolly began to put up the flags.

"Right, then, nice and comfy." said the Doctor "At her Majesty's leisure!" he and Rose sat down "Union flag?" he asked her

"Mum went out with a sailor." she answered

The Doctor chuckled "I bet she did." He turned back to the other two occupants of the room "Anyway, I'm the Doctor and this is Rose. And you are?"

"Tommy." answered the boy

"Well, sit yourself down, Tommy." They moved so that he could sit between them "Have a look at this." the Doctor said "I love telly, don't you?"

"Yeah, I think it's brilliant." Tommy said

"Good man." he turned around "Keep working, Mr C!" He then turned to Mrs Connolly. "Now, why don't you tell me what's wrong?"

"Did you say you were a doctor?"

"Yes, I am." the Doctor answered

"Can you help her?" she asked "Oh, please. Can you help her, Doctor?"

"Now then, Rita, I don't think the gentleman needs to know."

"Oh, the gentleman does." said the Doctor

"Tell us what's wrong, and we can help." Rose said. Mrs Connolly began to cry "It's all right. It's all right." said Rose as she got up off the settee "Come here." Rose hugged her "Oh, its okay. It's all right."

"Hold on a minute." said Mr Connolly "Queen and Country's one thing, but this is my house. What the…What the hell am I doing?" he dropped the flags "Now you listen here, Doctor." he said "You may have fancy qualifications, but what goes on under my roof is my business."

"Not if people are being bundled into…"

"I am talking." said Mr Connolly cutting off the Doctor

"And I'm not listening!" said the Doctor, standing up "Now you, Mr Connolly, you are staring into a deep, dark pit of trouble if you don't let me help. So I'm ordering you, sir, tell me what's going on!"

Suddenly a thudding sound came from up above

"She won't stop." he said "She never stops."

"We started hearing stories, all round the place." said Tommy "People who have changed. Families keeping it secret 'cause they were scared. Then the police started finding out. We don't know how, no one does. They just turn up. They come to the door and take them. Any time of the day or night."

"Show me." said the Doctor

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Tommy led them up the stairs after getting a key and opened a door. "Gran, it's Tommy." he said as they entered "It's all right, Gran. I've brought help." The Doctor clicked on the light and they saw what had happened to Tommy's Gran. Her face had been sucked off. The Doctor and Rose stared at her in shock, neither of them had seen anything like this before "Her face has completely gone." the Doctor said, he took out the sonic screwdriver and scanned her "Scarcely an electrical impulse left. Almost complete neural shutdown. It's just ticking over. It's like her brain's been wiped clean."

"What are we gonna do, Doctor?" asked Tommy "We can't even feed her."

Someone barged their way into the house "We've got company!" said Rose

"It's them." said Rita "They've finally come for her!"

"What was she doing before this happened?" the Doctor asked "Where was she?" No one answered "Tell me, quickly, think!"

"I can't think." said Tommy "She doesn't leave the house. She was just…"

A large man walked into the room "Hold on a minute!" said the Doctor "There are three important, brilliant and complicated reasons why you should listen to me. One…" The man punched him

"Doctor!" Rose said as she knelt down beside him

The men grabbed Rita's mother "Leave her alone." she said "You'll hurt her! Mum!"

Rose slapped the Doctor's face lightly several times in order to wake him up. It worked…eventually "Hell of a right hook." he said as he sat up suddenly "Have to watch out for that."

Okay, that's it for now, I've caught myself up, so now I'm going to order dinner for me and my sisters and then I'm going to fix the settees in my living room and put my stuff away. I'll be back in a bit and I'll finish The Idiot's Lantern and then I'll update Series 3 with Rose.

TTFN

Julie