Right, here's chapter 91, the first part of Fear Her. I hope everyone's managed to keep up with this. Thanks so much for your reviews, they really do make me smile. You know, before we get on with this, I don't know how I ever managed to get through Love and Monsters, and the only reason I even did it was because of the crucial character development of Jackie Tyler the occurred in that episode. Anyway, enough about the past, here we go.
On an ordinary suburban street, with well kept houses. A council worker applied a blow torch to the road, evidently carrying out maintenance work. A woman wheels her baby along in her pushchair.
"Morning, love." said the post man
"Morning!" the woman replied with a smile. She went on her way, passing a house with two boys Tom and his friend Dale Hixon - playing football on the front lawn and a man - Tom's Dad - cleaning a car.
"Yes!" Tom said as he scored a goal
"Hiya!" the woman said to Tom's dad
"All right?" he said
A poster on a nearby lamppost asked for information about a missing girl, Jane McKillen.
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A girl of 12 - Chloe - watched the proceedings from her bedroom window, her hand pressed against the glass. An old lady Maeve, walked along the street pulling her trolley bag along behind her.
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A look of confusion passed over the old woman's face as a buzzing filled the air. She looked around. A woman - Trish, Chloe's mother - cames out of the house and watched her.
"Maeve? Are you okay?" she asked, concerned
"No, love, I'm not." Maeve answered.
"Do you want me to call a doctor?" Trish asked
"A doctor can't help." was Maeve's reply. She looked around the superficially ordinary street nervously. "Can't... can't you feel it, Trish?"
"I can't feel anything." Trish replied.
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Chloe continued to watch.
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Maeve worried when she saw the two boys playing football "Boys! Get indoors!" she shouted and hurried over to them "Get inside! Get them inside!"
"What's up with you?" Tom's dad asked "They ain't done nothing wrong..."
"It's happening again!" Maeve said. Whatever had happened had obviously worried the old woman immensely.
Trish glanced uneasily up at her daughter's silhouette at the window. She went back inside.
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Trish closed the door behind her and leaned against it. Chloe was singing and her voice carried down the stairs. "# Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree..."
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"...# Merry merry king of the bush is he... laugh, Kookaburra laugh, Kookaburra gay your life must be." She watched the boys playing football across the road. Then she turned back to her desk and pulled some paper and pencils towards her, and started to draw.
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Out on the street Maeve was still trying to convince Tom's Dad to take the boys inside. "They're not safe!" she said
"They're in the garden!" Tom's dad said trying to reassure the old woman
"That's what it likes." Maeve said stubbornly "It likes it when they're playing. Get them in, I'm begging you."
The boys glanced at one another, sniggering.
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Back in Chloe's room she was singing while she drew "#Merry merry king of the bush is he... laugh, Kookaburra laugh, Kookaburra gay your life must be." She was drawing one of the boys - Dale - outside. She had sketched the outline and was now colouring him in with unnatural speed.
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Tom's Dad was moving Maeve along "I've got my beady eyes on them." he told her
"But, I--" she stopped. Tom's dad took her by the arm ushering her on her way
"Come on." he said.
The moment their backs were turned, there was a whooshing sound as the blonde boy kicks the ball into the goal. Maeve and Tom's dad both turned around to find the boys gone.
"No!" Maeve cried
"T-- Tom?" He dashed over to the football goal and looked around in confusion
"What are you?" Maeve shouted
"Where's he gone?" Tom's
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Trish could hear the commotion from just inside the front door. She glanced up the stairs, arms folded. It seemed as though she knew what was wrong.
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"What do you want with our children?!" Maeve asked.
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Chloe hummed to herself as she finished her drawing. As soon as she had finished the last stroke, the drawing came to life. Dale's mouth opened in a silent scream - he was terrified, trapped inside the drawing.
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When the Doctor and Rose awoke, they got dressed and then had breakfast. While they were eating Rose asked "What are we doing today?"
"I'm not sure." he answered, grinning, he knew exactly where they were going, but he wanted to surprise her. So when they had finished their breakfast, they headed to the control room hand in hand and the Doctor set the coordinates
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The Tardis materialised right in-between two gates, one said "DANGER - KEEP OUT" and the other said "NO PARKING IN FRONT OF THESE GATES". The Doctor opened the door and tried to walk out, but he couldn't as the Tardis had materialised the wrong way round. The door was completely blocked "Ah." he said and then he went back inside and fixed the problem. The Tardis dematerialised and then rematerialised the right way round. "Ah!" the Doctor said as he stepped outside. Rose followed him. They looked around and Rose noticed a Shayne Ward poster advertising his greatest hits album tacked onto a fence "So, near future, yeah?" she asked
"I had a passing fancy. Only it didn't pass, it stopped."
Right, that's it for this chapter, I hope you enjoyed it. I'll get the next one up asap. So I'd better get it ready
TTFN
Julie