🕷13 Days of Halloween: Day 11
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Prompts: “What was that noise?” “Which noise?” “Oh ya’ know, the one that sounded like fingernails scrapping against a chalkboard?” + “What’s that?” “You don’t want to know. Don’t Look”
Pairing: Eleven (DW) x reader
Gender: Neutral Theme: Angst + a little fluff
Triggers: Mentions of blood and Creepy ass aliens
You shivered at the cold as you set foot out of the Tardis, the chilly night air immediately reaching your bones. The Doctor stepped out beside you, blowing on his hands before rubbing them together and clapping, before looking at you with a large grin. “So? Where shall we go?”
Looking from him to the town, you frowned “Doesn’t look like there is really anywhere too go Doctor.” It seemed that the town on whatever planet you landed on was only a handful of houses and some buildings.
He leaned down towards you, talking into your ear “That’s because this is just a decoy town” you eyed him “It’s underground” his smile widened before he began walking towards one of the buildings “Come on, keep up!”
Quickly jogging to be along side him you looked at the decoy houses. Their windows were broken, tattered curtains moved in the breeze. Most of the doors were ajar or missing completely.
“What exactly is this supposed to be a decoy of? A scary ghost town?”
“What?” the Doctor questioned, looking at you and then following your line of sight. He stopped dead in his tracks.
You looked at him, seeing the confusion on his face “They aren’t supposed to look like that are they?”
He shook his head “I was here only seven years ago on this planets time, it was thriving. The houses were masked as small trading markets. A place people come and go to quickly. All of the real residents live in underground houses, an intricate maize of streets and real markets, beautiful people and amazing food. Though there aren’t many at all, maybe only three hundred people.” he walked over to one of the houses, his eyes catching on large scratch marks on one of the doors.
“What do you think happened?”
“I don’t know, but I hope whatever it was didn’t make it’s way down” he met your eyes as the two of you got a bad feeling in both your guts.
The Doctor moved quickly, you followed right behind. You maneuvered between houses before running down an almost hidden staircase. Coming to a door the Doctor knocked, listening, nothing could be heard. He reached into his pocket for his screwdriver as you looked behind you, eyeing one of the nearby windows. You had the strangest feeling you were being watched.
The loud creaking of the door made you return your attention to the Doctor. He swung the door open as you both slowly made your way inside. There was a long hall in front of you, almost completely dark, only lit by a few fading lights lining the walls. You saw long scratch marks on the walls, and something that looked disturbingly like blood.
“I don’t like this Doctor”
“Come on” the Doctor said before he began walking down the hall.
Taking a deep breath you followed him. The sound of your footprints echoes off of the steel walls. You eyed the stains on the walls, and the scratch marks. They could be made by weapons, or horns…or claws. You almost shivered at the thought. You and the Doctor eventually came to another door, he turned to you briefly “This should lead to the first grouping of homes”
Using his screwdriver the door opened easily. As it swung open the scenery changed dramatically. It would be almost beautiful if it weren’t from the broken glasses, baskets, the smell of rotting food and bloody drag marks that lined the floors and walls. Beautiful paintings covered the walls, most now masked with blood. Tattered rugs and blankets hung from doors and windows that were all but smashed open.
As you neared the first door you pushed it open, part of you expecting to see bodies. But there was only blood. The furniture was thrown around as if there were a great struggle. Rotting food sat on the tables, as if the family that lived there had sat down for dinner just before they were attacked. The Doctor looked over your shoulder as you spoke, quietly, “Where are the bodies?”.
The Doctor didn’t answer but instead rose his screwdriver, you heard it beep a few times, and saw some blinking lights. “There all gone” he spoke, his voice saddened and confused.
He continued to walk ahead, you followed as you eventually rounded another corner, it appeared just like the last. He kept moving. It took you a few moments to realize what he was doing. He was following the blood.
After what felt like moving through an entire maze, you rounded a corner into one large area filled with cubic-like areas. “This was the main market” he spoke as he looked around.
“Doctor!” you called to him, as he approached you pointed a large dark green splotch of something on the floor.
The Doctor moved forward to analyze it “Blood” he stated.
“From what?” the question you both did and did not want and answer to.
He didn’t answer, instead he began pacing around, thinking to himself. Watching him for only a moment you looked around you. There were tables and baskets, blankets and rugs, rotting food and art supplies littering the array of counters. And even among all of these items left behind, there were still no sign of any of the bodies.
Your body froze when you heard a noise in the distance. The first noise you heard that hadn’t been made by you or the Doctor. It was loud, an eerily sharp sound, the kind that made you grind your teeth in discomfort.
Once it stopped it took you a moment to catch you breath “What was that noise?”
You looked to the Doctor who only looked up in confusion “Which noise?”
You scoffed, how was he so deep in his thoughts that he didn’t hear that “Oh ya’ know, the noise that sounded like fingernails scrapping against a chalkboard?”
He took a few steps closer, seeing the fear in your eyes before be looked around, just before he was going to speak, the same noise came again, this time closer than before.
Your head snapped towards him, his face was deadpanned before he looked back down at you “Run” he repeated as he grabbed your wrist and began running back the way you came.
As you began running you rounded corner after corner “Wait, Doctor, that was a wrong turn!”
“Just keep running!” he yelled back “Look for another staircase!”
Your heart was pounding, but only started pounding faster when the noise came again, this time alarmingly closer, and followed by pounding that sounded like footsteps from multiple creatures. The two of you rounded yet another corner, coming into a bunker like area. The Doctor turned and closed the door you passed through, using his screwdriver to lock it. As you began to move forward, something large smashed into the door making you gasp and jump in fear.
There was a window on the door, you saw something pass over it, but before you could look closer the Doctor grabbed your arm and pulled you along “What’s that?”
“You don’t want to know. Don’t look”
You tried to swallow your fear as you left the area, moving quickly down another endless chain of hallways. Suddenly, from in front of you, another sound was heard. This one sounding more like an animalistic shriek.
Stopping in your tracks you and the Doctor looked behind you, the distant sound of banging echoing down the halls. You turned back, making a right down a different hallway. Each hall looking the same, each group of houses littered with items and blood. It felt as though you were going in circles, trapped.
Entering into another bunker like storage area you saw a staircase leading up “There!” the Doctor called.
A large metal shelving case had fallen down in front of it, as you both grabbed different sides of it, you groaned as you began to push the large case. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you felt something wrap around your ankle, pulling you backwards. You felt to the ground on your stomach before being dragged backwards out of the room “Doctor!” you screamed in terror.
You saw him turn, fear the only emotion evident on his face as he raced after you “Y/n!” whatever was dragging you was much faster than the Doctor, it pulled your down a corner, your body slamming into the adjacent hall as you grunted in pain. You tried to grab onto anything that might stop the creature from taking you, but failed as it pulled you too quickly.
Trying to look behind you, you only got a brief glimpse of whatever was dragging you, all you could tell was that it was tall, large, and black. It was running, the same noise as before, it sounded like multiple things, but all you saw was one.
Rounding another corner you managed to grab the wall, latching onto a crease in a door frame. The creature shrieked before you felt something like teeth dig into your leg. Screaming, you kicked back with all your might, feeling your foot connect with something the creature made another sound, almost like a growl. It yanked your leg harshly, but you pulled back, using whatever strength you had to hold on.
Suddenly something wrapped around your chest, looking down it appeared almost tentacle like. It began to pull you again. Taking whatever chance you could, you opened your mouth and bit down on the tentacle. The monster shrieked before it let you go, pulling yourself forward you tried to stand but were immediately knocked off your feet and thrown into a wall.
Turning on your back you finally saw the creature in full. That wasn’t a tentacle that wrapped around you, it was a leg. The creature was tall and skinny, it’s body appearing almost human like, but it had almost half a dozen spider-like legs coming from it’s back. It’s eyes were large and black, surrounded by a group of smaller red eyes. Part of you wanted to scream, but you were too scared.
The creature shrieked at you, the sound almost deafening. Anticipating it’s attack you reached near you and grabbed the leg of a broken chair lying nearby the door to a home. As the creature lunged at you, you shoved the leg out, stabbing it in the neck. As the creature shrieked and staggered back, you moved to run.
As you turned you saw the Doctor running towards you, he had rounded the corner just in time to see you stab the alien. Grabbing your hand he pulled you behind him as he raised his screwdriver at the alien. It moved to attack him, but the Doctor pressed a button on the device as it emitted a high pitch frequency that made your ears pop. The creature writhed over in pain as it tried to cover it’s ears, it made noises of pain as the Doctor began to step back, pushing to you go. Quickly you made your way back towards the storage bunker.
As you backed down the hall, the alien trying to follow you but failing to do anything but writhe in pain. You heard another noise behind you, spinning you see another creature running towards you “Doctor!” you cried in warning.
He spun around and pointed the screwdriver in it’s directions as it fell in pain like the last. He lunged towards it, causing it to back away in pain. As you finally got back to the storage bunker you ran in behind the Doctor pushing the shelf out of the way as he pointed the screwdriver at the door, stopping the creatures from entering. With one last struggling push you moved the shelving out of the way just enough to squeeze by “Come on Doctor!”
You pulled open the large heavy door before running out into the cold. The Doctor slammed the door shut behind you as you ran through the town, you were clear on the other side from where the Tardis was.
As you ran across the town, your leg aching, and seeping out blood you heard the creatures trying to break through the door. You reached the Tardis just as you heard the door fly open, and the creatures shriek in warning and anger.
The two of you all but leapt into the Tardis, the Doctor taking off faster than ever. You fell against the door, sliding down until your butt hit the floor. The familiar sound of the Tardis taking off finally sending a well needed burst of relief through your body. The Doctor came back over to you, crouching down in front of you and taking your leg in his hands.
You winched in pain as he studying the wound “Don’t worry” he began as he stood, grabbing a nearby medical kit and taking out some bandages “The Takasites don’t pass anything on through bites”
He nodded “A very rare and ancient species, I didn’t even know they existed anymore. They are like parasites. The locate any place with living beings and devour anything they can”
“So all those poor people fell prey to a spider-like parasite the size of a car?”
He nodded as he began wrapping your leg “Yes”
You continued to catch your breath as you sat in silence for a moment “Thank you for saving me….again”
He smiled lightly “Don’t thank me. I should never have put you in danger in the first place” he frowned as he finished dressing your wound.
“You didn’t know that would happen Doctor”
“No. But I don’t have the best track record when taking you to new places do I?”
You chuckled, making him smile shyly “No, you don’t. But it’s the thought that counts isn’t it?
He shook his head “You humans”
“What?” you questioned, giggling.
“You give people too many chances” he moved to sit next to you, your shoulders pressed together.
“True. But to be fair. I only give people I trust more than a second chance”
“You must really trust me then. This is the what? The seventh chance you’ve given to me?”
He chuckled, causing you to join in. After a moment you both breathed out in unison, the adrenaline beginning to ware down. You leaned your head onto his shoulder as you yawned “Maybe next time, you let me choose where we go”
“Deal” he agreed as he leaned his head against yours.
