The TARDIS Trap

Eleven

ELEVEN

 “You came Doctor…Oh thank God, you’re here…” I half choked and gasped, believing my friend had been defeated by this creature but I should have known better even in his vulnerable state this was the Doctor and he didn’t give up without a fight…

 There was so much I needed to tell the Doctor but I didn’t know where to begin as I struggled to rearrange my thoughts, all I could do was utter in an agony of shame.

 “I’m sorry, it’s all my fault…”     

 The Doctor simply raised his eyebrows with mild bemusement and alarm at my apology, he shook his head, adamant that he would not allow me to take responsibility for the creature in the attic. Unconvinced, I wrestled in my agitation, he needed to know everything but the Doctor simply placed a finger to my lips to calm me.

 “It’s alright Anna… I heard everything, I know what’s been going on here.”

 Even in his physical and mental incarceration the Doctor had been watching over me and had been biding his time to break through the creature’s defences. The Doctor smiled sadly but there was a grim look of determination as he gently set me down on my feet near the doorway and then he took charge. In those vital and perilous moments, the Doctor had returned, it was my Doctor again. 

 Those minute’s I was reunited with the Doctor were in slow motion and is imprinted upon my heart forever, the following events happened at a frantic speed. I don’t know whether it was the Doctor’s intervention but Mrs. Orgreave who had been standing in a daze suddenly awakened with a violent jolt, severed from the creature’s control, she stared at the man who used to be her husband with anguish and repulsion, her lips quivering but she held her tongue and her instincts as a mother kicked in as she finally returned to her senses

 “George!” Helen Orgreave shouted as she fled the attic and began her descent down the stairs to find her child.

 But I knew the boy would be safe, the Doctor would have seen to that.I braced myself ready to run but I wasn’t going anywhere without the Doctor. The Doctor turned round to face our tormentor his eyes flickering briefly over the TARDIS, the creature still struggling to come to terms with its new form had appeared to have been temporary drainedfrom its earlier exertions of trying to impose its will over my own, to turn me into his willing companion.

 “You’ve hurt my friend…” The Doctor growled, pointing a finger of accusation at the man who was once Orgreave, I shuddered as I observed the Time Lord’s steely glare and barely contained outrage. “You are not the first to attack me and my TARDIS and I daresay you won’t be the last…” The Doctor’s voice was filled with righteous indignation, filling every corner of the shadowy attic. “But you have hurt Anna and I won’t let that pass… Ravonite”

 The Doctor had named the creature, I kept expecting it to answer back, to act defiantly but Ravonite stood back and took the Doctor’s verbal blows, two strong opponents weighing each other up. Though I did wonder whether the Doctor was pushing it a bit too far as he opened and closed his fingers and thumb, mimicking the talking action with his hand.

 “I’ve had it up to here with you. Going on and on, inside my head…Well I’ve decided enough is enough…So here I am…” The Doctor moved closer, the atmosphere was electric as he bridged the gap between himself and the skulking Ravonite. The Doctor continued imposing his presence, full of authority. “I know all about you. In the Universe’s early, savage days my people banished your kind to the shadow dimensions and for the biggest renegades of them all they created a time prison to hold you in but it seemed  you were forgotten Ravonite and so you escaped and found yourself on Earth. Biding your time, you grew stronger, feeding on emotions, hopes and dreams. Waiting for the opportunity when you could break through, where you could use my companion to get to me and my TARDIS. Oh I know all about you.” The Doctor’s eyes blazed angrily.