Doctor Who PDA58 - Fear of the Dark (5th) by Trevor Baxendale

Author:Trevor Baxendale
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-13T02:44:39+00:00

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Tegan raced after Bunny, wondering what he was going to do. He had gone straight for the airlock and left the ship. By the time Tegan caught up with him, he was halfway down the steps leading to the caves.

'Bunny, wait! Where are you going?'

'Nowhere,' he responded savagely.

She hurried down the steps and followed him into the main cavern. There was still a lot of Stoker's equipment scattered about, and Bunny kicked viciously at an empty crate. The plastic cracked and the box skidded away, the noise echoing all around the cavern.

'Just calm down,' Tegan told him. 'This isn't doing anyone any good.'

'Who cares?' Bunny snarled. 'God, what a mess. I've really screwed up this time. I was going to shoot someone! I was going to shoot the Doctor! What's the matter with me?'

'Don't be too hard on yourself,' Tegan advised. 'We're all under a lot of stress.'

'I don't see you holding anyone at gunpoint.'

'Given the right reasons, I might.'

'And what reasons would they be?'

'If I thought I'd never see my family again. If I thought it was the only chance I had. I don't know. We're all scared of different things.'

'What are you scared of?'

'Loads of things: snakes, for starters.' Tegan sat down on a crate and thought. 'Being alone. Not being any use to anyone. Letting my friends down. The usual stuff, I suppose.'

'I notice that you don't include gun-crazy lunatics with one arm.'

Bunny sat down next to her. 'Thanks for coming after me.'

Cadwell turned from a monitor screen on board the Adamantium and said, 'I think you ought to know that your friend Cheung has left the ship, Doctor.'

'He was very upset,' the Doctor remarked.

'Like I care. But, typically, the fool's gone straight back into the cave system.'

The Doctor frowned. 'What do you mean?'

It was Nyssa who answered, sitting up suddenly erect in her chair. 'Doctor! The creature... it's hunting again!'

The Doctor glared at Nyssa, horrified by the implications.

'Tegan and Bunny - it'll kill them both!'

Nyssa closed her eyes as if in pain.

The Doctor had sprinted for the exit without another word. Cadwell followed him, collecting a blaster pistol on the way, a grim smile on his face.

Tegan simply wasn't ready for it. It wouldn't have mattered if she had been.

The impact hurled Tegan from the packing crate and flattened her. The beast squatted on her back, squeezing the breath out of her. Panicking, Tegan tried to twist and turn, but its grip was like steel. She could feel its fingers digging into the flesh of her arms like talons.

Then she felt it on her neck: something cold and moist, probing the skin of her throat and face. More things wound their way around her head, white tentacles crossing her vision like coiling snakes.

Her heart hammered like a fist in her chest as she felt the tubes digging harder, burrowing into the flesh, wriggling desperately. She could feel its wheezing breath in her ear.

She fought like an animal to dislodge the thing from her back, but its slimy tentacles were winding tighter and tighter.

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