Enchanted ✰ Doctor Who

14 | Rise of the Cybermen

Quinn and Mickey walk past a vacant lot and up to an army roadblock.

"Are we all right to get past?" Quinn asks the soldier.

"Yeah. No bother. Curfew doesn't start till ten," says the soldier.

"There's a curfew?" asks Mickey.

"Course there is. Where you been living, mate? Up there with the toffs?" asks the soldier.

"I wish. See you."

*~*~*

"Are you sure this is your grandmother's house?" Quinn asks Mickey as they stand in front of a building.

"Yes. I'm sure." He knocks on the door. An old West Indian woman calls out from inside.

"Who's that there?"

The door opens. The woman has a white stick, and a pair of earbuds.

"Who is it? I know you're there. Shame on you, tricking an old lady. I've got nothing worth stealing. And don't think I'm going to disappear! You're not going to take me," says the woman.

"Hi," says Mickey.

"Is that you?" asks Mickey's grandmother.

"It's me. I came home. With a friend," Mickey says.

"Ricky?" asks the grandmother.

"I'm Quinn," Quinn introduces herself.

"It's Mickey."

"I know my own grandson's name. It's Ricky. Now, come here," he gets a hug from her.

"Okay, I'm Ricky. Of course I am. Ricky, that's me. This is my friend, Quinn."

Suddenly, she slaps him. Quinn stands aback.

"Ow!"

"You stupid boy. Where have you been?"

"Ow! Stop hitting me in front of Quinn!"

"It's been days and days! I keep hearing all these stories. People disappearing off the streets. There's nothing official on the download but they're all these rumors, and, and whispers. I thought that God had disappeared you!"

"That carpet on the stairs, I told you to get it fixed. You're going to fall and break your neck," says Mickey. Quinn was impressed on how calm Mickey was about all this.

"Well, you get it fixed for me," says his grandmother.

"I should have done way back. I guess I'm just kind of useless."

"Now, I never said that," says his grandmother.

"I am, though. And I'm sorry, gran. I'm so sorry."

"No you're not," Quinn says.

"Quinn's right. Don't talk like that. Do you know what you need? A nice sit down and a cup of tea. You got time?"

"For you, I've got all the time in the world."

"Oh, you say that, but it's all talk. It's those new friends of yours. Except Quinn, I don't trust them."

"What friends are they?" asks Mickey. Quinn slaps him.

"Don't pretend you don't know. You've been seeing them. Missus Chan told me. Driving about all helter skelter in that van."

"What van's that, then?"

"You know full well! Don't play games with me."

The van that does a handbrake turns in the road behind them.