The void, Time Lords and saving people.
Chapter fourteen:
Disclaimer sadly
Donna and Jenny were in one of the many up stairs corridors, looking for any thing that might help. They had been going from door to door, having a quick look thorough each bedroom until Jenny came along a locked room. Her dress had come with a pocket big enough to hold a sonic screwdriver of her own and she when for it but before she could grab it out, the butler that had she hadn't noticed next to her spoke, making her jump slightly.
"You won't find anything in there," he said in monotone.
"How come it's locked?" Jenny asked as Donna moved so she was next to the girl.
"Lady Eddison commands it to be so."
"And I command it to be otherwise. Scotland Yard. Pip, pip," Donna said a touch snidely.
The butler obeyed the ginger woman and unlocked the wooden door
"Why's it locked in the first place?" Asked the young Time Lady, both of them staring at the wooden door, not going in yet.
"Many years ago, when my father was butler to the family, Lady Eddison returned from India with malaria. She locked herself in this room for six months until she recovered, since then the room has remained undisturbed," he told them.
The two companions walked in to the dim room, looking around, the saw a small bed with a teddy bear at the bottom, the whole room looking like it hadn't been touched for years.
"There's nothing in here," he said, dismissing the room before the got a good look.
"How long's it been empty?" Jenny asked looking round.
"Forty years," he replied.
"Why would she seal it off? All right, we need to investigate you just butle off," Donna said waving him away.
Once Greeves had left, the pair started searching the room, trying to find anything to help, thought after a few seconds, a loud buzzing sound came from the widow.
"1926, they've still got bees. Oh, what a noise! All right, busy bee, I'll let you out, hold on, I shall find you" the ginger woman said bringing up the magnifying glass to her eyes, smiling a bit.
"with her amazing powers of detection," Jenny put in with a grin.
Though all amusement went when Donna pulled back curtains and the pair saw a ginormous wasp trying to break through the window.
"That's impossible," Donna said as Jenny and her backed away from the window.
"No, just highly unlikely," Jenny said back to her.
Both women shrieked when the large wasp broke through the widow and charged towards the pair. Jenny quickly pulled Donna out of the way, making the wasp hit the wall, and the two of them moved in front of the broken window as it righted it's self and prepared to charge again.
"Doctor!" "Dad!" Both of them yelled at the same time.
An idea suddenly came to Donna and she held up the magnifying glass in her hand up to the sunlight, concentrating the heat and light on the giant bug. When the pain became to much for it, it dropped on the bed and the two women raced for the door. Once they were out, Jenny slammed the door closed and locked it with her sonic only to jump away from the door with a squeak, the giant stinger of the wasp narrowly missing hiring her as it came through the door.
"Doctor!" Donna yelled just before the stinger came through and also jumped away.
A few seconds the Doctor and Agatha arrive, halting just infront of the ginger.
"It's a giant wasp," Donna gasped out.
"What do you mean, a giant wasp?" The Doctor demanded.
"I mean, a wasp that's giant!" The ginger exclaimed.
"It's only a silly little insect," Agatha said dismissively.
"No, When we say giant, we don't mean big, we'er saying flipping enormous! Look at its sting!" Jenny yelled annoyed, pointing down at the large spike protruding out of the door.
"Let me see," he said.
Once the Doctor got to the door, he tried it, in which he found it locked and frowned, shooting a quick look at Jenny who quickly sonicked opened the door. The group of four moved into the bed room only to find it empty of the over sized bug.
"It's gone. Buzzed off," he said.
"But that's fascinating," Agatha said a she headed for the gooey end of the stinger, crouching down beside it.
"Don't touch it. Don't touch it. Let me," the Doctor said quickly, stoping the writer before she could touch the stinger.
Grabbing a pencil and test tube out of his jacket pocket, he scooped up some of the goo with the pencil and shook it in to the small tube.
"Giant wasp. Well, tons of amorphous insectivorous lifeforms, but none in this galactic vector." He said staring at it.
"I think I understood some of those words. Enough to know that you're pottier that Rosaline," Agatha said befuddle and annoyed.
"Lost its sting, though, wouldn't that it defenseless?" Donna asked.
"A creature of this size, it wouldn't have a stinger for very long, right Doctor?" Jenny asked, answering the red head and asking her dad at the same time while staring at the stinger.
"Nah, few minuets in human form and would be good as new, it would have to be able to grow a new one to survive," the Time Lord said quickly.
"Can we return to sanity? There are no such things as giant wasps," Agatha said even more annoyed by the strange trio.
"Exactly. So, the question is, what's it doing here?"
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As that was going on upstairs, Rose was wandering around the grounds of the manor. Having not found any thing around though, she brought out her gas mask that she had stashed in her coat pocket and was trying to find any thing to help with this situation from the sentient mask after giving up trying to talk with her ship, he was hiding something, she could tell, but not what it was of course, and it was annoying.
When she was nearing the corner to the small court yard thing, she could just hear a short stone on stone grating sound and then a loud shriek. She ran the rest of the way around but stoping instantly when she saw the Indian house maid, Miss Chandrakala, being crushed to death by a large lump of stone in the shape of a gargoyle. She quickly ran to the woman's side, she knelt down once there next to her and heaved the lump of rock off Miss Chandrakala.
"Hey come on say with me, stay awake, you'll be fine, just..." She had been talking gently to the woman while she was scanning her with the sonic but trailed off when the mask listed off the results.
'All ribs crushed in and most puncturing one or the other lung, several other smashed bones beyond repair, several crushed internal organs, heavy internal bleeding. Chance of survival: zero.'
As Rose slipped off her mask, she could hear running foot steps behind her and horrified gasps and noises when the running stopped but she didn't turn around.
Rose grabbed Miss Chandrakala's hand and griped it tightly and whispered "I'm sorry," to her.
She just shook her head a bit, "The poor little child," she rasped out then stopped breathing.
Before anything more though, there was a loud buzzing sound from above her and she quickly looked up at the ginormous wasp fly above them.
"There!" She heard the Doctor yell behind her just before it flew off, "Come on!" He yelled again and took off, the Rose and the other three quickly followed.
"Hey, this makes a change. There's a monster, and we're chasing it," Donna commented when they were running up the stairs.
"This is exactly like those stories you told me, but there not true, It can't be a real monster it's a trick They Do It With Mirrors."
"All of thoughts stories are true and this is no trick," Rose said back to the writer.
When they reached the up stairs corridor, near the top of the stairs in a sun lit area, the large wasp was hovering above them.
"By all that's holy," Agatha breathed.
"Blimey, now that's a wasp" Rose said.
"Oh, but you are wonderful. Now, just stop. Stop there," The doctor said and started backing away when it flew at them.
The wasp lunged at the group who quickly moved out of the way and it got the wall instead.
"Oi, fly boy!" Donna said loudly and heeled up the magnifying glass to the light making the oversized bug cringed and start to fly away through another corridor towards the bedrooms.
"Don't let it get away!" The doctor yelled and the group ran after the retreating bug, "Quick, before it reverts back to human form. Where are you? Come on. There's nowhere to run. Show yourself!" He yelled again when they got to the corridor with the bedrooms.
Promptly, every door opened simultaneously and each of the guests popped their heads out of a door.
"Oh, that's just cheating." He said annoyed.
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"My faithful companion, this is terrible," lady Edison wept after hearing of Miss Chandrakala's death.
The group had had congregated in the drawing room to talk about what had just occurred.
"Excuse me, my lady, but she was on her way to tell you something," Davenport the foot man said to the distraught woman.
"She never found me, she had an appointment with death instead," she said back.
"Before she died, miss Chandrakala said, 'the poor little child' , does that mean anything to anyone?" Rose asked the group.
"No children in this house for years, highly unlikely there will be," the Colonel said eyeing his son pointedly.
"Mrs Christie, you must have twigged something, you've written simply the best detective stories," lady Edison said desperately.
"Tell us, what would Poirot do?" Reverend Golightly asked.
"Heavens sake. Cards On The Table, woman. You should be helping us!" the Colonel exclaimed gruffly.
"But, I'm merely a writer," Agatha said back helplessly.
This set off warning bells in Rose's head that it was time to intervene. "Oi, could you lot leave her alone, this isn't a story," she tried only to be ignored completely.
"But surely you can crack it, these events, they're exactly like one of your plots," The woman Rose had found out to be called Robina Redmond said.
"That's what I've been saying! Agatha, that's got to mean something," Donna said.
"But what?" Agatha asked dejectedly, "I've no answers, none, I'm sorry, all of you. I'm truly sorry, but I've failed, if anyone can help us, then it's the Doctor, not me." She continued, she then got up and walked out of the room, head bowed.
Rose shot a quick glare at the group and followed her friend out.
Sorry it's late and crap, no excuse, just being unproductive and lazy.