The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

The Doll Maker Pt. 3

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Eating the second half of the sandwich, Tim tells the curious Theodore that the police were aware of the disappearances from an orphanage, but they chose not to proceed with investigations into the disappearances because the orphans came from destitute families.

Just wrote down on their little notepads that the children ran away, went on their merry way, nobody cared to help find them, said to call if there's a body.

Nobody believed Tim or the other children that the Bogeyman did it, said it's just their imagination, they better stop fooling around, likely to get a good thwack on their bums if they kept on, and that was that.

"How about elsewhere?" Lila inquired if Tim knew any stories about the Bogeyman appearing elsewhere and the paperboy tells her that it pops up everywhere in the city, it's hard for them to know where it'll show up.

So, Theodore asks if there's any locations that the Bogeyman seemed fond of, at least enough to make extra trips, and it took time for the paperboy to think about Theodore's question before he finally said that it's known that the Bogeyman particularly liked coming around orphanages.

There's many in the city, it's hard to say which one it'd visit on a given day, but it'd occasionally appear near one with at least a child or two missing.

"How does it get them?" Theodore asked Tim how this Bogeyman took children without the people working in the orphanages seeing it and the paperboy replied that he heard it lures them out of bed, others told him it'd use its long arms and reach through the opened windows, snapping up children from their beds.

Most orphanages can't afford locks on their windows, much less repair broken ones, that scared children ended up blocking off windows in their rooms by moving bookcases in front of the windows.

Hearing this reminded Lila of an old book, only she doesn't think Tim Curry's among them in a clown costume, which, doesn't help much, as she doesn't like clowns.

Who did?

Even the aloof giant didn't like them and that said a lot, of course, knowing his dad's luck, he'd probably encountered the killer kind in space on an adventure.

Always a kernel of truth in those schlocky movies, so it went.

The fact that short of a description about a clown kidnapping children, they're dealing with Pennywise, Lila isn't too pleased.

The only thing they must go on's there no confirmed bodies of the missing children, but there's a lot of leeway in this time for people kidnapping children for forced labor or worse.

Tim and the other children he lived with are petrified of the Bogeyman coming for them next, they haven't a clue when it shows up, only that it comes out of the sewers at night, when no one's around.

Long arms, strong enough to kidnap a child from their bed, sounds like an alien all right.

"Can I go now, I have to work," Tim noticed the time after finishing his pastrami sandwich, he needed to return to his post, hocking newspaper, and Theodore let him leave while he stood beside Lila with looks on their faces.

Lila exhaled as she said aloud, "Oh, wonderful, Pennywise. If Stephen King comes by the library, I'm gonna thank him for giving me nightmares and warning me that he exists!"

Theodore calmed her by telling her that it didn't only take children, it took adults, too, so they weren't dealing with an eldritch horror possibly prophesied by Stephen King.

They don't even know if it changed forms or came out of drains.

"Don't even," Lila poked him hard in the chest as she warned him again putting the thought of them dealing with an evil clown thing that came from beyond.