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|enemy          = [[Wolf|Wolves]]
|setting          = [[22nd century]], [[London]], [[Earth]]
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|writer        = [[Moray Laing]]
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'''''When the Wolves Came''''' was a short prose story published in [[September]] [[2014]] in ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2015]]''. It is the first licensed short story in any medium to feature the [[Twelfth Doctor]].
'''''When the Wolves Came''''' was a short prose story published in [[September]] [[2014]] in ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2015]]''. It is the first licensed short story in any medium to feature the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. While not expressed directly, the story's setting in the a ruinous [[22nd century]] [[London]] and its allusion to [[Bedfordshire]] make it easy to identify it as taking place during the [[22nd century Dalek invasion|Dalek invasion]], which first featured in ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]''.


== Summary ==
== Synopsis ==
In the [[22nd century]], a boy named [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] is trying to survive after an evacuation left them behind due to an alien invasion. [[Wolf|Wolves]] then arrived to make surviving more difficult. Luckily, Simon had a [[TARDIS|strange blue box]] as a base, impossibly bigger on the inside. When realizing that the wolves could leave him stranded there, he touched some panels and asks for rescue. Then, The [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] materialize in, because those were the telepathic circuits. The Doctor landed the TARDIS by Simon's mum and dad, and then departed themselves.
Amongst the rubble of [[22nd century]] [[London]], [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] must finds he has a protector in the form of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a blue box]]...
 
== Plot ==
In the [[22nd century]], a boy named [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] is trying to survive in a [[London]] desolated by the [[22nd century Dalek invasion|Dalek invasion]]. [[Wolf|Wolves]] roam the streets and Simon has to flee from them after an excursion to find food. He drops the tin of [[baked bean]]s he found and runs into [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] which has been keeping him safe for months. Touching the console, he pleads for assistance and suddenly the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] materialise near him. The Doctor says that the TARDIS has been stuck in the 22nd century and that Simon must have used the [[telepathic circuit]]s. He then takes the boy outside of the 'danger zone' to [[Bedfordshire]].


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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== References ==
== References ==
''to be added''
*Simon finds a tin of [[baked bean]]s.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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