Doctor Who NA28 - Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-13T01:07:22+00:00

EPILOGUE

But that wasn't the end - not quite.

Much later that same night Bernice Summerfield, who was in a somewhat elevated state by now, remembered she was an archaeologist and that she had a crate of largely unsorted specimens in the TARDIS control room.

She had a bourbon-fuelled fancy to have a preliminary look at them and borrowed the TARDIS key from the unsurprised Doctor. He never seemed to sleep himself, and didn't expect anyone else to.

Bernice opened the TARDIS door and stared owlishly at the crate. She could unpack it in the control room, but the Doctor probably wouldn't like it.

She could take it right into the TARDIS, but that seemed like too much trouble. The simplest thing seemed to be to drag it out of the TARDIS and into the empty store-room. So that's what she did. As she said later, it seemed a good idea at the time.

She'd had no time to nail up the crate, so it was easy enough to lift the lid.

She did so and saw Yarven staring up at her, eyes glowing and bloody fangs gleaming. She screamed and jumped back and he sat bolt upright like a jack-in-the-box.

As he sprang out of the crate, Bernice gave another scream, a real glass-shatterer. Yarven, who seemed as frightened and confused as she was, made no move to attack her. He flung himself out of the store-room, right across the empty gaming room and out of the still-closed front window.

She ran to the window and saw him scramble to his feet and stagger away, disappearing into the shadows of the vacant lot.

Her screams and the sound of shattering glass produced first the Doctor, then Dekker wearing a sheet and a Colt .45, followed by Ace wearing a Browning and an extraordinary garment in black silk, followed by Happy Harrigan in night-gown and shotgun.

The Doctor shooed them all away, calmed Bernice down and managed to get a coherent story out of her. He took her back down to the now empty bar and gave her a drink to steady her nerves.

When she realized what had happened, Bernice was appalled. "He must have hidden in the crate sometime after the battle - when it was still stored in Ivo's barn."

"Very probably," agreed the Doctor, not seeming at all perturbed. A thought struck him - or rather, a memory.

"Of course . . . So that's how. . ."

"But don't you see, Doctor, he must have been one of them - a real vampire! We brought him back to Earth and now he's free. You've got to do something!"

The Doctor smiled. "It's already done."

Bernice stared at him. "Already - but how...?"

"Don't worry, Bernice," said the Doctor. "I took care of it ages ago." *

* A reference to the events in " Goth Opera", a companion novel to this one.

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