Doctor Who - Past Doctor Adventures - 28 - Last of the Gaderene (3rd Doctor) by Mark Gatiss

Author:Mark Gatiss
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Science Fiction, General, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), Fiction
ISBN: 9780563555872
Publisher: BBC
Published: 2002-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

In one hand he held the thick lens from Graham Allinson’s spectacles which he had stolen and broken the day before. He was putting the lens to good use, he thought, with a chuckle as he angled it towards the blazing disc of the sun and watched the focused beam crawl towards the spider.

He had caught the creature and slapped a piece of sticky tape over it to keep it rooted to the spot. It wriggled confusedly, trying to extricate itself from its prison. The beam of light came closer, closer.

This was the latest in a series of tortures which Anthony had devised. One of his favourites had always been to squirt water from an old washing-up-liquid bottle over the hundreds of red mites that seemed to crawl out of the concrete every summer and drown them.

The other kids in the street would be doing girl), things like writing their names on the parched concrete with the stream of water. Anthony found his game much more satisfying. He imagined himself a great king, bringing destruction to an invading army; opening the floodgates and exterminating the heathen hordes of red mites.

Grinning, he shifted his weight on his ample buttocks and watched as the sunlight began to burn the spider’s carapace.

Whitish smoke began to curl upwards. Anthony cackled with delight. The spider struggled. A tiny black hole had been scorched into its side.

Anthony suddenly looked up as he heard shoes scraping on the concrete driveway.

A lanky boy in shirts and T-shirt stood blinking in the sunlight.

Anthony grinned. Today just got better and better.

‘Hello, Bongo,’ he said in his surly way. ‘Come back for some more?’

Graham Allinson didn’t say a word. He stared at Anthony, then down at the trapped spider.

‘What are you smiling at?’ demanded Anthony.

He got to his feet, hands curling into fists, forgetting all about the spider.

Grinning madly, Graham turned on his heel and disappeared through the narrow alley that separated Anthony’s garage from his neighbour’s.

The bully was after him at once, feet scrunching over the gravel. He emerged into the back garden and looked around wildly.

Graham was crouching on his haunches, his back to Anthony, peering down at something.

Anthony ran across and belted him in the small of the back. The skinny boy didn’t flinch.

Enraged, the bully raised his fist to hit again, then paused.

‘What have you got there?’ he muttered.

Graham did not reply. He merely rocked on his haunches, gazing down at the object at his feet.

Anthony grabbed him by the shoulder and wrenched him back. He was startled to see some kind of container lying on the ground, and what looked very much like the spider he had been burning inside it. But this ‘spider’ was big. Horribly big.

And it had dark, dark eyes. And they were staring up at him.

When it was all over, Graham picked up the empty container and he and Anthony set off to see if they could make some new friends.

Chapter Nineteen

Sleepers

Jo found the Doctor just as he was emerging from the post office.

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