THE HIVE
Chapter Six "Just stay beside me and let me do the talking." The Doctor said as he and Rose approached the entrance of St. George. They walked inside and went over to the desk. The receptionist looked at them. "May I help you?" she asked. "Yes," the Doctor said holding up the psychic paper. "I'm Detective Inspector John Smith; this is Detective Inspector Rose Tyler. We're here to see Jeremy Spencer." "I'm sorry, but Mister Spencer is no longer here." She said to them. The Doctor groaned softly. "Who has him then?" he asked her. "The police released him to Torchwood about two and a half hours ago." She replied. The Doctor forced a smile onto his face. "Thank you." He said politely. He and Rose turned and walked back out of the building. "Bollocks!" he said when they got out of earshot. He ran his hand through his hair. "Great, we were too late." He muttered. He paused. "Torchwood? Why does that name sound so familiar?" he said. "That was the name of the estate we stayed at with Queen Victoria." "Oh yes, that's right!" the Doctor said nodding. He frowned. "There's an organization named after that place?" he said. Rose shrugged. "Maybe it's a coincidence." She said. "Or…maybe not. Remember, Vickie-girl was pretty peeved at us for upsetting her God fearing Christian world with our demon cavorting ways. And technically, we're not supposed to set foot in this country anymore. Who knows what the nutty old bat did after we left." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. What does matter is because this Torchwood one-upped us we lost a valuable opportunity to find out what's going on and now we're back to square one." He slammed his hand against the front of the hospital and cursed. "Damn it, now I suppose we'll have to wait until another innocent victim gets stung before we can do anything else." He said. Rose put his hand on his shoulder. "Surely, as big as that wasp is, it won't be able to fly around without someone seeing it eventually." She said. The Doctor looked at her. "Yes, but the problem is London is a huge city, if it is spotted, we might be too far away to do something." He said sadly. "I just don't want someone else dying. We see enough death as it is." Rose's heart ached for the Doctor. She could tell he was torn up inside. It always killed him when innocent people were hurt and killed, especially if they were human. It touched Rose that he was so protective of her kind, especially since she had heard many other aliens speak negatively about Earthlings. There was times when she wondered what the world would be like if the Doctor didn't care about humankind and it made her shudder imagining the fate that would have been in store for her and everyone else if the Daleks and others like them had taken over the world unopposed. She squeezed his shoulder. "Come on, Doctor, there's nothing we can do right now." She said gently. The Doctor nodded. "Yeah, you're right. Might as well go back to your mum's flat and plan our next strategy." He said. He sighed deeply and took her hand. Rose gave it a squeeze and the Doctor smiled lovingly at her. He thanked Rassilon she was here. She had the power to lift his spirits and give him the support he needed when he felt like beating himself up and having a pity party. She had so much faith in him and that was all he needed to pick himself up and go on. The universe had truly blessed him the day he had met her in Henrik's Department Store. He squeezed her hand back and grinned when she snuggled up against him as they walked away and headed back towards the flat. The queen wasp lay in the safety and security of her hive and looked out at her subjects as they went about their assigned tasks. Ever since they had escaped the confinement of the prison ship, they had managed to find a secret place where they could rebuild and prosper once more. The strange ones who had enslaved them had long since lost their identity and had become a part of her kingdom. Their old form was gone and now they were unrecognizable from her other subjects. She thought it fitting for them. The ones who had captured and tried to kill her and her people were now helping her hive flourish. Little by little, her kind was beginning to regroup and go out and find new subjects among the population of this strange planet. There was just one thing that troubled her. One of her workers had created a new subject, but she could sense he was trapped somewhere and could not get back to the hive. She had called to him and he had called back saying that the strange creatures of this planet had imprisoned him far away from her. It angered her that lesser species should hold one of her subjects captive and she knew she had to act before they killed him. So she reached out to the minds of two of her workers and called them into her presence. They obeyed without question and hovered above her buzzing excitedly, knowing that they were being chosen by their queen for a very special task. The queen thought to them ordering them to find their captive brother. She gave them the general direction of his location knowing that eventually they would be able to pick up his mind when they grew close enough to him. The wasps buzzed in reply declaring their undying obedience to their queen and the hive and then they flew off to fulfill her commands. The queen settled back onto the bed that served as the throne content in the knowledge that soon her subject would be restored to his rightful place in the hive. In the meantime, she had sent a few more workers out to find more subjects and she was confident that soon the hive would grow enough that they could take over the area and then the country and then they would spread over this strange, new world and the planet would be theirs forever. "See you later, Julie." Monica said to her friend as she left the restaurant where she worked. As she walked along the pavement, Julie reached into her purse and pulled out her keys. She disabled her car alarm and hurried to her car sitting several feet away. It had been a long day, she was tired, and her feet were aching. She was looking forward to going home, taking a nice hot shower, getting a hot meal, and resting for the night. She walked past an alley and stopped when she heard a strange buzzing sound coming from it. She slowly looked over and her eyes widened when she saw a huge wasp hovering in the alley staring at her with its coal black eyes. She screamed and ran for her life as the wasp flew out of the alley and chased her. Startled and panicked bystanders leapt out of the way while Monica pleaded with them for help. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw someone lunging at her trying to knock her out of the way. Too terrified to slow down, she instead put on a burst of speed and the man ended up falling to the ground behind her. He watched helplessly as the wasp flew past her and closed in on her. Then, she screamed as she felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her back. She felt to the ground and wept in terror and pain as she heard the wasp hovering over her. "Oh God, please help me!" she implored the people around her. "Please don't let it kill me!" As the wasp slowly lowered itself to pick up her body, some people found the strength to move. They picked up anything they could find to throw and hurled it at the wasp trying to get it to leave. The wasp buzzed angrily and tried to attack them. Monica's defenders staggered back, threw rubbish at the wasp while a couple of people ran up behind it, and pulled Monica to safety. The wasp tried to sting them while they ducked behind cars and into alleys. By this time, a couple of officers had reached the scene. One picked up Monica and ran with her towards his police car. The other officer pulled out his truncheon and tried to get around the wasp towards its head. But the wasp sensing the danger flew up higher. As the crowd watched, it looked at the spot where Monica had been and seeing that she was gone flew off into the sky. The crowd talked amongst themselves while the officer pulled out his two-way radio and radioed headquarters telling them the situation and asking for help to track the wasp down. Once he had finished his conversation, he quickly hurried to his squad car determined to find the wasp before it hurt someone else.
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