Night Terrors

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I sit at the console when I nearly fall out of the seat, I take out the psychic paper and read it.

"Please save me from the monsters" I look to the Doctor "haven't done this in a while."

"Haven't done what? What are you doing?" Amy asks.

"Making a house call," the Doctor says. The TARDIS materialises by a big puddle.

"No offence, Doctor, Alex..." Rory starts.

"Meaning the opposite," the Doctor says.

"But we could get a bus somewhere like this" Rory says.

"The exact opposite," the Doctor says.

"Well, I suppose it can't all be planets and history and stuff, Rory," Amy says.

"Yes, it can. Course it can. Planets and history and stuff. That's what we do. But not today. No. Today, we're answering a cry for help from the scariest place in the universe. A child's bedroom" I say.

*Time skip*

"Please save me from the monsters? Who sent that?" Rory asks.

"That's what we're here to find out," the Doctor says.

"Sounds like something a kid would say," Amy says,

"Exactly. A scared kid. A very scared kid. So scared that somehow its cry for help got through to us in the TARDIS" I say.

"Yeah, but you've both traced it here," Amy says.

"Exactly. Ah. Going up" the Doctor says as they get into the elevator. A while later, the four are knocking on doors. A little girl answers the one Amy is at, while the Doctor and I get an old lady.

"Hi," Amy says to the little girl.

"Hello," the Doctor says, and Rory gets a grumpy man.

"Are your mummy and daddy in, or is it just you?" Amy asks, the door opens wider to reveal twin girls "ok."

"Is it about the bins?" the old lady asks looking at me and the Doctor.

"Pardon?" I ask.

"Community support. Just checking up on community-based things" Rory says to the old man, the twins mother speaks to Amy.

"Can I help you?" she asks.

"Hi. Er, yeah. No, sorry. I was just wondering if you've had any bother around here?" Amy asks.

"Is everything ok?" Rory asks the old man.

"The bins. I can't be expected to get down all them stairs. I need new knees" the old lady says, the Doctor and I look at each other.

"Bother? What do you mean?" the twins mum asks looking at Amy.

"Well, I mean..."

"Are your neighbours nice? Do you get on well?" Rory asks, the old man just looks at him.

"He didn't send you, did he?" the mum asks.

"Who?" Amy asks.

"Jim Purcell. Course we get on well. I'm their landlord. They love me, don't they?" Purcell asks looking at Rory.

"You're the landlord?" Rory asks.

"Not the bins, no, Miss?" the Doctor asks looking for the old lady's name.

"Mrs Rossiter" she replies.

"I thought you'd know that being from community support," Purcell says crossing his arms.

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