Doctor Who - The 8th Doctor - 42 - Escape Velocity by Colin Brake

Author:Colin Brake [Brake, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Space Flight, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character)
ISBN: 9780563538257
Publisher: BBC Pubns
Published: 2001-03-14T07:00:00+00:00

Dave felt awful. How had the conversation deteriorated that quickly? One minute she’d been delighted to see him awake and well and the next they were fighting worse than ever. And yet Anji hadn’t exactly torn him to shreds, had she? In fact as she ran off he thought he’d seen tears in her eyes. Dave tried to remember their post-row discussions in the past. It was always Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus territory; something about men reacting to a problem on a practical level while women needed emotional support. But Anji wasn’t an emotional sort of woman, was she? She was hard-nosed, no-nonsense, all that stuff; that was what made her good at her job: she was so determinedly unemotional about it. At least she seemed to be. But Dave knew better: he’d been closer to her, more intimate with her, than anyone else in her life these past few years. He knew that underneath the professional veneer she was still a vulnerable human being, with emotional needs like any other man or woman. And he’d had completely forgotten them. What must Anji have been through in the last few days, while Dave was so completely out of it? She must have been out of her head with worry. No wonder she got all teary when he suggested going with Tyler into space.

Dave hurried off to try to find Anji and repair the damage. He realised now how much he loved her and he knew that he had to tell her as soon as he could.

The personnel computer registered that Miles Gorman reentered the complex at 15:21, just three hours after he had logged out after a massive thirty-six-hour shift. The software that maintained the security systems was top-of-the-range and state-of-the-art, but it was also a good deal more stupid than a human being. A human being faced with that data might just question it – surely 158

Escape Velocity

Mr Gorman would be needing more than a few hours’ rest after a session like that – but the computer just accepted the facts without question and recorded them. The close-circuit camera moved automatically to capture Miles Gorman’s face as he passed through the opened barrier but the image went directly to a video tape, rather than through any recognition software, so the fact that Miles Gorman no longer looked much like the photograph on his ID pass went unnoticed.

Fray’kon moved into the complex with confidence, looking for the means to get to the spacecraft without attracting any more attention. Television screens in the corridors relayed details of the countdown and Fray’kon noted that the ship was due to take off in less than an hour. He hurried on, nodding politely at people he passed, as if he’d been seeing them every day for weeks. No one questioned him, no one stopped him, confirming Fray’kon’s belief that the human race were very stupid.

On the whole planet there were probably only a hundred beings who had encountered Fray’kon face to face, so the chances of anyone recognising him for who he was were very small.

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