Chapter 33 the haunting of villa diodati

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Oh god it's about ghosts bill said making me smile at her softly the video began

[Lake Geneva, June 1816]
(Thunder, lightning and torrential rain, probably thanks to the eruption of Mount Tambora the previous year which caused severe global cooling as the ash blocked out sunlight around the world. A woman holds her young child as she looks out of the window of a villa.)
Oh no it's the ghost adventure where you didn't believe me graham said making me laugh with yaz
[Drawing room]

BYRON: Confined again. I cannot bear it.
MARY: The very world itself seems sick.
POLIDORI: A most ungenial summer. I've never known air as dank and frigid.
BYRON: Oh. Dank and frigid. Who does that remind me of, I wonder? Oh.
(Snaps his fingers and points at Polidori.)
MARY: Sleep well, sweet boy.
(She hands off the child to a servant.)
MARY: Perhaps Lord Byron or Doctor Polidori would read to us?
BYRON: What would Miss Clairmont wish to hear?
MARY: Something to awaken thrilling horror.
BYRON: Yes, Mrs Shelley.
MARY: To make us dread to look around. To curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.
You know she didn't seem the type to love horror I whispered to yaz making her smile and shake her head at me
BYRON: I have just the thing.
MARY: Oh.
(He opens a copy of Tales of the Dead - French horror stories translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson.)
BYRON: (reading) Tales of the dead. At midnight, we took a torch to the chapel. With pallid countenance and trembling limbs we descended to the vault. Hildegarde's leaden coffin loomed before us. The Count was seized with the sensations of terror.
(The maid walks down an upper corridor, and a door handle rattles behind her.)
This reminds me of the house with the creepy landlord bill said staring at me oh yeah I said smirking the bugs
BYRON: He opened the coffin with a stifled cry of dread, and inside we saw...
(Someone knocking on the door makes them all jump.)
Oh lord I think I wet myself as well Donna said glaring at me what I said laughing well I have this feeling it's you Martian she said making me laugh
FLETCHER: I shall send whoever calls away, my lord.
BYRON: No, Fletcher.
MARY: What if it is she? Hildegarde, the death-bride.
BYRON: If something infernal is on my doorstep, I should be the one to go and greet it.
CLAIRE: Infernal? Surely not.
BYRON: Who is brave enough to come and see?

[Hallway]

(The banging continues.)
POLIDORI: I'll wager it's Shelley, amusing himself with a trick.
MARY: Shelley is not one for tricks.
(Bang!)
BYRON: There is nothing to be afraid of.
(He opens the doors and everyone cries out. Now in another version this would be the 8th Doctor suffering with severe burns, about to pass out, but... the 13th Doctor and her companions, in period costume, also cry out, startled.)
Hah raggedy man you goofball Amy said laughing with Rory
DOCTOR: Good evening. Not quite the welcome I was hoping for, but I'll admit we've looked better. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintances. I'm...
(She holds out the psychic paper.)
DOCTOR: Nothing? Weird. Might need a blow-dry.
YASMIN: Got a bit caught in the downpour.
GRAHAM: Yes, because it is a truth universally acknowledged...
DOCTOR: Wrong writer.
GRAHAM: ..that one's driver will park one's carriage imprudently too far from whence one is going.
Oh god yous are hilarious Martha said laughing with rose
RYAN: Can we please just come in before we drown to death? Please.
Yes Ryan the only one with a brain cell river said smirking making me pout
[Staircase]

(Coming downstairs.)
DOCTOR: One hour, tops.
GRAHAM: Plus drying time.
DOCTOR: Okay, so there was a spot of rain, and gale-force winds and a super-long walk. But I got us here, didn't I? And Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, soon to be Shelley, screamed in your face. Quality historical experience, that. Gold.
YASMIN: (sotto) On that night that inspired Frankenstein.
FLETCHER: If... you'd be so kind.
GRAHAM: Blimey.
He just kept appearing graham said in a tone that resembled whining making me yaz and Ryan laugh no your just very jumpy old man I said making Ryan laugh loudly old man your older than I am graham said making me smirk
DOCTOR: Excuse me, Yaz. I was very clear about the rules.
RYAN: Nobody mention Frankenstein, and don't interfere.
YASMIN: And nobody snog Byron.
Was that an option then Dan said staring at me and yaz well ask her yaz said smirking at me her and Byron got on very well yaz I said blushing oh no raggedy man Amy said laughing I heard river laughing loudly
GRAHAM: In, out, soak up the atmos.
DOCTOR: Witness some of the most enlightened minds of a generation at the pinnacle, the absolute zenith of their creativity...

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