Doctor Who - Past Doctor Adventures - 37 - The King of Terror (5th Doctor) by Keith Topping

Author:Keith Topping [Topping, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera
ISBN: 9780563538028
Google: 8NwCAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0563538023
Publisher: BBC Pubns
Published: 2000-11-14T08:00:00+00:00

‘ The London men numbering thirty shall secretly conspire against the King. They shall make their plots upon a bridge. Their satellites shall taste of death. ’

An extremely bad translation of ‘Century IV.89’ from The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus first translated by Theophilus de Garencieres (1672).

Chapter Seventeen

Submission

Turlough emerged from the long dark tunnel of sleep into the harsh and naked light of day and fell the final few feet to the bedroom floor with a muffled thud.

‘That was the worst day of my life,’ he muttered as his eyes flickered open and his senses were rudely assaulted.

The first thing his vision allowed him to focus upon was the carpet. Again.

Through a high window on the opposite wall, a disgruntled sun was giving off its light with all the enthusiasm of a turkey in the weeks leading tip to Christmas.

Turlough tried to move but something hard and strong was holding him in place. Turning his head, he found that his left hand and both of his feet were manacled to a short length of chain attached to a nearby radiator.

For a long time he simply lay where he was, waiting for something to happen. But nothing did, so he eventually pulled himself upright and sat, uncomfortably, with his back to the still-warm radiator. And it was then that he began to find out about the plot in which he had become an unwilling pawn.

Snatches of conversation from the next room floated through to him between long periods of brooding silence.

The instant he heard the word ‘Jex’, however, he knew exactly what they wanted him for.

Sometime early in the evening Eva came into the small room where he was chained tip and sat on a chair opposite him. She crossed her long legs, provocatively, and smiled at Turlough’s obvious discomfort.

‘Hello little man,’ she said. ‘Back in the land of the living, I see?’

Turlough didn’t feel like indulging in casual conversation. ‘I imagine you’ll have taken what you wanted from me by now?’ he asked sullenly. ‘That’s presumably why you’re no longer torturing me in that padded cell you’ve got behind your bedroom?’

‘And what might that be?’

‘My DNA,’ Turlough replied, wiping the amused smile from Eva’s face. ‘I know who you are, and I know what you want from me.’

Turlough one, Intergalactic Sadists nil. Extra time being played.

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Eva stood and crossed the room, towering over Turlough, the sharp points of her ‘I’m dead hard, me’ shoes digging into his shins. ‘That sounds like knowledge that should be shared,’ she said and kicked him viciously in the ribs.

Turlough winced, but grinned back at her in futile defiance. ‘Knowledge is power, right? The Jex are all dying, everybody from here to Andromeda knows that. You want to make Earth your new home and repopulate the planet. Nice plan but, I’ve got to tell you, it’s been tried before and it’s failed miserably every single time. Just a wild stab in the dark by the way . . . ’

The woman knelt beside

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