The Night After Hallowe'en (short story): Difference between revisions

Best friends and cousins [[Louie Rollins]] and [[Millie Peterson]] are leaving school, laughing and talking about the Hallowe'en party the night before. While riding his bike home from school, Louie's tyre becomes flat. He enters a warehouse whose door is ajar to see if anyone has a phone to call his mother, but no one is there. All that is in the warehouse is a lot of Hallowe'en paraphernalia made out of authentic materials. He hears a scuffling noise, which then repeats itself, closer. He sees a man crouched on a box and asks him for help, but the man does not acknowledge him. He moves closer and is startled to find that the man has peeling grey skin and blank eyes. Louie is then tapped on the shoulder by the [[Eleventh Doctor]], who motions for him to be quiet and follow him. When the two are at a safe distance from the man, the Doctor introduces himself to Louie and reveals he came to help Louie and "mankind in general". He gives Louie a mobile phone he had because [[Amy Pond|Amy]] insisted that he keep in touch while she was on her honeymoon with [[Rory Williams|Rory]], and Louie calls his mother. As the Doctor attempts to walk Louie out of the warehouse to bring him home, the grandfather clock began to tick loudly and the door began to shut itself. The Doctor and Louie did not make it out the door in time. The Doctor tells Louie that the man they saw had been dead for a few days and being animated like a puppet. Louie then feels something run over his foot and they discover that the warehouse is invested with large spiders, which Louie had previously thought to be just toys. One of the spiders had climbed the wall behind them and now bared its fangs and jumped...