Doctor Who - Past Doctor Adventures - 32 - Heart of TARDIS (2nd Doctor & 4th Doctor) by Dave Stone

Author:Dave Stone [Stone, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character)
ISBN: 9780563555964
Google: _CcGAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0563555963
Publisher: BBC Pubns
Published: 2000-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

McCrae started fumbling in the glove compartment, for the department-issue automatics that had hardly ever seen the light of day and never once been fired.

„I told you I had a bad feeling about this,‟ he said.

They set off after Romana‟s rapidly diminishing form and followed her into the block.

The ground-floor reception area was actually nearing completion. As their footsteps rang around fake marble walls and floor, both Slater and McCrae felt decidedly uneasy. It was the feeling one could imagine having upon entering some brooding gothic pile in the middle of a thunderstorm, with cobwebbed suits of armour seeming to look at you and something hiding in the grandfather clock. The feeling didn‟t seem to fit these ostensibly stylish and well-designed surroundings at all.

In fact, what the pair were feeling was the perfectly natural terror of an animal taken from its natural habitat.

subconsciously they thought the docklands should be mouldering old warehouses and derelict shipping cranes, and this ersatz finery dumped on top of it just seemed fundamentally wrong. They hurried on to catch Romana up, more for the comfort of the fact that she was another living being in this place than they would ever care to admit.

„There‟s nothing here,‟ McCrae said, in the tones of someone hoping this was true. „Whatever we‟re supposed to be looking for, it‟s gone.‟

„There‟s something,‟ Romana said, in tones of irritated concentration. „I can feel it. There‟s something left here for us to find...‟

Finding things or not, however, rapidly became academic -

because the things that had been left here suddenly found them. A number of doorways on the ground level had yet to be filled and had been sealed with grubby plastic sheets. Now, they split open with a sound like tearing skin and things came through them, black-clad semi-humanoid things, more than a dozen of them.

They engulfed Slater, McCrae and Romana, and bore them down to the artificial marble floor before they even knew what was happening.

In the UNIT barracks, Katharine Delbane was finding herself at something of a loose end. In police-procedural TV shows this was the sort of time that is conveyed by shots of customs officials carefully checking man-sized crates at an airport, uniformed bobbies looking around derelict factories with torches, tracker dogs straining on their leashes as handlers lead them around woodland areas for no good reason, and so forth.

Such things were of course happening, somewhere, in the general sense, but the reality of the situation so far as she, Delbane, was concerned was that she was simply hanging around with nothing to do and nobody to talk to.

The Special Branch men had long left to go about their business. Crowley was sequestered in the Brigadier‟s office and the few other Provisional Department operatives he had brought in were busily examining this and itemising that as though they were pricing things for a clearance sale. The UNIT

troops, to a man or woman, regarded her with cold blank disgust now that her true identity and purpose for being here were revealed.

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