The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

The Lady & the Giant Pt. 9

Silence loomed while the four stood near the stripped billiard room, outside they heard nothing, not even the sound of guards talking among themselves. Jimmy almost went out and checked if his guards went off somewhere if not for Kira pulling him back while Theodore and Lila became alarmed.

"She couldn't have killed them all," Lila wearily looked towards Theodore, she didn't believe someone's capable of killing the guards silently. One should've felt something off and sounded an alert.

Yet, nothing. Not even a man running through the doorway.

"She's done this before, she knows how to do it," Theodore concluded that Annika managed to kill them without any alerting the others or Jimmy.

Thinking to himself, he quickly led Lila as she helped him putting up barriers in front of the front door, ordering Jimmy and Kira boarding up the windows.

No time to explain, just do it, and his Glaswegian came out in full force as he demanded Jimmy's best. It's his life at stack, he ought to do everything possible keeping it, and in extension helping the people who wanted him to keep his life.

As misbegotten it may be.

Not sure how good of an idea this is, but Theodore hoped Annika doesn't burn the house down, attempting at trapping Jimmy in a burning inferno.

For once, Theodore hoped an enemy attempted their lives head-on and not with off-hand attempts.

As he and Lila worked boarding up the windows, Theodore listened for anything, but he heard only silence, and Lila wondered if the guards took off running after seeing Annika.

"I doubt it," Theodore thoughtfully said.

Frowning, Lila remarked, "You could've lied, y'know!"

Shaking his head, his wild hair bobbing up and down, Theodore replied he didn't want to lie about something like this, not his character.

He's alerted to movement outside the boarded-up window in the parlor while Lila's nailing the last half of the wooden board in place.

When she finished, she looked over to Theodore, seeing him quizzical, and asked him what he's doing, only for him to tell her, "Run."

As they've traveled through time and space, Theodore and Lila developed a set of verbal cues they used together, alerting the other whenever something's happening, in few words possible.

Clenching her hammer, Lila nodded, as she's about to take off running, she asked about him.

"Trust me, I'm the Doctor," Theodore gave her a cue before telling her covertly that she needed to find Jimmy and Kira, get them to a safe spot, and wait for his cue.

Chewing on her bottom lip, Lila nodded, as she turned her back, about to run, she tells him that if he gets hurt, she's telling on him.

Hammond made it known that Lila's to tell him every injury Theodore incurred from his adventures, especially if he's lied.

Theodore knows the consequences if he gets hurt and he doesn't want Hammond putting him on the spot for any more of his meetings. He purposely elongates his meetings just to annoy Theodore!

Lila hurried onwards, looking for Jimmy and Kira somewhere in the house, as Theodore turned his attention back to the boarded-up window.

Outside, he only heard silence, but for a moment, he thought he heard faint movement.

It's coming towards the boarded-up window and suddenly stopped short of the glass.

Rule of horror, never stay near the window after hearing noises outside it that suddenly stopped short of the glass, everyone knows that, Theodore especially, and he fled from the boarded-up window without looking back, because that's another rule of horror.