Doctor Who: Eater of Wasps by Trevor Baxendale

Author:Trevor Baxendale
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563538325
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Americas
Published: 2001-06-15T10:00:00+00:00

seal it with. Jacobs handed him a lid, which the Doctor quickly jammed on to the beaker.

‘There’s more coming,’ noted the professor shakily.

The Doctor put the beaker down and turned back to Hilary Pink’s body.

More wasps were indeed crawling out of the bloody abdominal wound. ‘I had no idea the infestation was so large,’ said the Doctor with some fascination.

‘Oh, Lord,’ breathed Jacobs as the cadaver began to tremble.

‘Don’t worry,’ said the Doctor. ‘It’s just a reflex reaction. The wasps must have been trying to rewire his central nervous system as well.’

More wasps were boiling up out of the wound, milling around the edges of the flesh and dropping on to the examination table. Hilary Pink’s body was shaking uncontrollably now, legs and arms moving with stiff, urgent jerks as though it was about to leap off the table.

‘Don’t worry?’ gasped Jacobs, backing away. ‘We’ve got to do something!’

The Doctor instantly seemed to snap out of his fascination. He grabbed a bottle of laboratory ethanol from the nearby bench and poured it liberally over Pink’s exposed innards. The wasps immediately began to stir.

‘Quickly, Professor – a match!’

Jacobs recoiled. ‘You can’t mean to –’

‘Have you a better idea?’

‘Here, Doctor,’ said Gleave, offering his box of Swan Vestas. He felt utterly horrified. ‘Do it!’

Grim-faced, the Doctor quickly struck one of the matches and dropped it into the mass of soaking wasps. Blue and orange flames whooshed into existence as the ethanol ignited. The wasps were swallowed up in the conflagration, curling up and blackening within seconds. Slowly the angry buzz was replaced by the pop and crackle of roasting flesh.

A little later, Inspector Gleave found himself standing outside the pathology lab, or rather leaning heavily against the nearest wall. He still felt a little faint, and a cold sweat covered his body. Nervously he lit a cigarette, using the box of matches that he had given the Doctor. His fingers were trembling.

‘God, I’ve never seen anything like that in my life,’ he muttered, ‘and I hope I won’t see anything like it again.’

The Doctor seemed unmoved, and this no longer surprised the policeman.

In fact, the Doctor seemed to be more knowledgeable and in control than ever.

While Gleave leaned against a wall and took long, needful drags on a cigarette and Professor Jacobs sat with his head in his hands, the Doctor merely held up his little beaker with its captured wasp to the light so that he could see it more easily. The wasp was buzzing around inside, frenzied by its captivity. It 123

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