Doctor Who_ Wolfsbane - Jac Rayner [94]
„You‟re bleeding yourself he commented, and something he‟d never felt before stirred deep inside him.
Harry followed Sarah out of the control room.
By the time the Doctor came looking for them, later on, only Harry was left.
The Doctor fetched a gun with silver bullets from deep within a TARDIS store room.
A few hours later, the TARDIS landed in Scotland. The Doctor hitched a lift to the nearest village, where he found Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart waiting for him.
„I thought Miss Smith and Lieutenant Sullivan would be with you,‟ the Brigadier said.
„No,‟ said the Doctor. „I‟m afraid they‟re not coming back.‟
It was a beautiful spring day when the TARDIS landed in Arthurian times. The Doctor escorted Godric to the court, and presented him to King Arthur himself. Arthur made Godric a knight for services to the realm, and there was feasting and merriment for days. Sarah got to spend time with Guinevere, and try on lots of fabulous frocks. The Doctor discussed alchemy with Merlin, and was only narrowly beaten by Sir Lancelot in a joust. (Although the Doctor claimed afterwards that in deference to the knight‟s reputation, he‟d let him win.) Harry drunk a lot of mead, and listened to the tales sung by Taliesen the bard. None of them really wanted to leave, but eventually the Doctor said he supposed they‟d better see what the Brigadier had wanted.
The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry travelled in the TARDIS to Scotland, where they helped the Brigadier defeat the menace of the Zygon invasion. Sarah and the Doctor left in the TARDIS.
Harry decided to travel back by train. No more going in the TARDIS for him, not unless it was strictly necessary. Didn‟t want to end up in the dark days of the early twentieth century a second time, no knowing if he‟d ever see his home again.
The next month, the newspapers carried the story of an Essex farmer who had found one of his cows dead, mutilated The police and the RSPCA were called in. People theorised that it was sick teenagers out for kicks, or aliens, or a satanic cult, or an escaped beast from Colchester Zoo, even though Colchester Zoo stated that none of its animals had escaped Well, they would say that, said the locals, nodding their heads knowingly at the ways of zoos.
The next month, there was a spate of animal killings. Sheep, this time, as well as cows. People still blamed a puma, or an ocelot, or the Hound of the Baskervilles - or, of course, teenagers.
The next month, a teenager called Leslie Heron disappeared.
They never found his body. Well, not all of it. He was the sort of boy that people imagined would have had a part in whatever satanic, animal-mutilating, alien-loving things were going on, and they assumed that somehow he‟d been involved in something unpleasant which bad gone horribly wrong, although no one ever said as much to his parents.
Harry Sullivan left UNIT and went on to do hush-hush work for NATO, and no one ever suspected he was a murderer.
„There‟s something going on with Harry,‟ Sarah whispered to the Doctor.
The Doctor raised his head from the controls. „Oh yes? What sort of thing?”
„I don‟t know. Just something... strange. Since the night after we took Godric back home. I‟ve heard him crying out in his sleep.‟
„A nightmare.‟
„No, no, it‟s more than that. It sounds... well, it sounds as if he‟s almost howling. And I‟m probably being silly, but there was this bite on his neck and what if it was the werewolf?‟
The Doctor froze. „Did he say it was the wolf?‟
„No - but be didn‟t say what it was. He was all funny about it.‟ Before she‟d finished the sentence, the Doctor was through the door, striding deeper into the TARDIS. After a few minutes, Sarah managed to catch him up. „Do you think I‟m right, then?‟
He span round and stared her in the eye. „Emmeline Neuberger assumed Harry was dead because she could no longer sense him, but later she said she couldn‟t sense humans. She wanted a man very much; she told me there