A Date Gone Wrong (Part Two)
"Well that's interesting, he's quite stiff, froze to death in fact…" the Doctor ranted on as he examined the body, his sonic screwdriver dashing about the body of the deceased.
"Froze to death? But he's so well dressed." Lucy questioned.
"Yes, indeed…" the Doctor said as he raised an eyebrow. Lucy loves it when he does that. "Well, I'm sure it's just a…"
"What's that over there?" Lucy shouted, pointed to the alley where a mysterious, dark shadow she saw from the corner of her eye passed.
"What? Where?" The Doctor got up to see. Lucy was already running towards the alley, so he followed, his screwdriver in hand.
"It's so dark here, I can't see a thing!" Lucy complained as she tried to feel her way.
"Did I tell you my sonic screwdriver is also a flashlight?" boasted the Doctor as he activated code 308 to produce a flashlight. "Lucy, where are you? Did I just feel the temperature drop?"
"Yea, over here." Lucy answered.
The Doctor followed her voice and shined his handy dandy 'flashlight' in that direction.
"Lucy? What's that behind you?" The Doctor enquired as he spotted a figure looming behind Lucy.
Lucy turned around with haste, and an ice sculpture of a well dressed man faced her.
'It's just an ice sculpture, Doctor. Funny how they have these things just lying around the place. That's sort of weird, isn't it?"
"That's odd, the sculpture looks like the man we saw before, you know, the dead one." The Doctor puzzled while knocking the ice sculpture with his index finger. A second later, he abandoned this and pressed his face onto the sculpture.
"Doctor, do you hear that ticking noise?" Lucy asked quietly, her senses alert.
"What?" the Doctor responded in a loud voice, completely oblivious to the silence of the atmosphere.
"The ticking sound…" Lucy whispered again, and this time the Doctor caught on.
"Oh…yeah, it came from my screwdriver." The Doctor concentrated on his screwdriver curiously, totally abandoning the sculpture now. "it's doing a countdown. 30 seconds left…till what?"
After pondering at the subject for five seconds, the Doctor decided it was irrelevant to anything.
"Maybe the battery of your flashlight is running out." Lucy joked, eying the Doctor to see his reaction.
"Right…come on then, let's go." The Doctor was unaffected, or seemed to be anyways.
As they walked towards the entrance/exit of the alley, Lucy's curiosity got hold of her, since she kept on hearing the rhythmic ticking sound.
"What does it say now?"
"Two seconds, one second, and …it stopped"
"That's it?" Lucy didn't try to hide her disappointment. "Let me see that!" She craftily took the screwdriver from the Doctor by just touching his hand; it caught him off guard.
She examined the screwdriver, and then pointed it around the alley. The light shone quite a distance all around.
"Wasn't the sculpture there a second before?"
The Doctor turned around to look, at the same time giving Lucy a teasing frown of 'I am hurt". He discovered to his surprise, that the ice sculpture has indeed disappeared. The Doctor ran back to see, and Lucy followed. He once again felt the temperature drop as he neared where the sculpture used to be, and stopped to think. Lucy, who saw the Doctor stop, decided to take a look for herself with the screwdriver flashlight.
"I don't see anything. Isn't that odd?" Lucy said, now facing the Doctor, the light towards him.
"Watch out! Lucy…RUN!" The Doctor yelled as he saw a figure appear behind Lucy, with a menacing face and cold eyes, ready to suck the life out of her.
