Chapter 4
A Night to Remember
The first thing that ran through her head was how clean was that needle that needle he was about to stick in her arm. Jimmy told her not to worry when she had asked but she was worried. Megan was 17 and had run away from home just two weeks earlier. She wasn't cut for this way of life she thought to herself and yearned to be back home in her comfortable king size bed back home. Home was a large 5 bedroom house in Murray Hills in the Upper East Side of New York. Megan was an only child to John an investment banker in the city and Mary a high-flying lawyer. Meagan's parents had not been too happy when she had bought home her boyfriend Jimmy. A drug pusher from Queen's, not that Megan had known that at the time. Sitting in an old, smelly, damp lobby of one of the many infamous high-rise apartment blocks known locally as 'The Projects' she could understand now why.
"No, I don't want to Jimmy, I just want to go home now" Megan finally plucked up the courage to say. Jimmy face turned from one of mellowness to one of anger and without warning pushed a slender Megan to the ground and put all the weight of his knees into upper arms. Jimmy was muscular but not 'gym-junkie' muscular. The kind of muscular that you gain from spending fourteen hours a day on the streets trying to sell his goods to other delinquents and addicts of the Projects. He had to learn to fight to stay in his line of work otherwise he wouldn't have lasted very long.
"You don't get to say how this works! I tell you what to do and you do it! Understand" Jimmy shouted at her. "And I say that you are staying with me and we are going out to sell this gear" Jimmy continued. "You haven't got a problem with that have you?" he asked. "Jimmy, please, I just want to go home and see my parents" She pleaded. "I don't think I'm cut out to live like you do" She added. This angered Jimmy; he was highly insulted by that outburst. "Oh, that's it! He shouted "You asked for this" He said planting his hand firmly over her mouth "I'm going to give you a night to remember"
Just then a voice came from behind them. A voice that sounded English "I wouldn't do that if I were you!"
Jimmy looked round to see a tall man, about six foot he'd of guessed with medium length hair wearing a purple jacket with a blue bow tie. "Oh yeah, and why's that limey?" Jimmy spat "What are you going to do about it?" he added. "Me?" "Nothing, but my friend here might have something to say about it" the tall man said. Just then, without warning something hit Jimmy in the face, covering his mouth and knocking him backwards off of Megan. Before he got the chance to stand up his whole body had been covered in this material that he could only describe as being like a spider's web. Before he knew what was happening he was suspended from the ceiling entangled in a web with a young looking man in his late teens looking at him. "You know, if you ever sell any of this poison again or touch another girl you'll no longer be breathing. Understand?" And with that the young man punched Jimmy square in the face rendering him unconscious.
Megan arose to her feet and was confronted by three people. The Englishman, the young American one who had just given Jimmy and beating and a pretty girl in her early twenties. "Thank you" Megan said "But can I ask who you are" she added. "Of course you can said the Englishman" "I'm The Doctor, this is Clara and that is Peter" The Doctor said. "And you are?" "Megan" she replied. "Tell me Megan what's nice girl like you doing in an awful place like this" The Doctor enquired. "Long story" Megan answered now looking at Peter "What was that stuff you tied Jimmy up with? It looked like a Spider's web" Peter shot her a smile "Long story"
"Megan we need your help with something" Clara said finally being able to get a word in edgeways what with the drama which had just unfolded. "Have a seen a girl about Peter's age come in her recently with blond hair" She asked showing her a picture of Gwen. "As a matter of fact I did, she was in here with a tall man holding onto her tightly by the arm" Megan replied. "How do you know it was her?" Peter asked worriedly. "Because she looked like she didn't belong here either" Megan replied. "She must have been going to the top floor as kept going on about taking a little trip to the roof" She added. With that The Doctor, Clara and Peter exchanged worried looks to each other. "Thank you for all your help Megan" The Doctor said gratefully "Get yourself home now and never come to a place like this again" he added and with that the thee three made a run for lift.