Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island by Mike Tucker

Author:Mike Tucker
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563486503
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Published: 2007-06-05T10:00:00+00:00

83

Rose shivered. She had the feeling that he wasn’t bluffing. ‘Tyler. It’s Rose Tyler.’

‘Better. And Dr. . . Jones? Is he around somewhere too? Do I need to send my people to flush him out?’

Rose shook her head. ‘No, he’s not here. But he knows where I am. If I’m not back soon he’ll come and. . . ’

‘What?’ Morton smiled. ‘Come and pay your bail? Come and explain to the police what you were doing, trying to gain access to my affairs under an assumed name. Come and listen to you explaining why you were caught breaking and entering. Come and offer compensation for the criminal damage that you have no doubt caused gaining entry to my property.’ He tutted condescendingly. ‘No, no, no. I’m afraid that, if I want, you can be in an awful lot of trouble, young lady.’

‘And what are you going to do about them?’ Rose nodded at the Cynrog that lurked in the open doorway. ‘How you gonna explain to the police that you’ve got alien nurses looking after your patients?’

Morton gave Peyne a look of surprise. ‘She is well informed. How refreshing. Perhaps the police aren’t such a good idea after all.’

‘Oh, I dunno,’ said Rose. ‘Bring ’em on. I’m sure they’d be interested in hearing about you covering up that death on the beach.’

Morton stiffened in his chair and his tone changed. ‘It seems that you have been digging rather deeper into my affairs than I had realised. Perhaps we do need to tighten up our operation a little. Peyne, whatever it is she found get rid of it. Then make sure that she was alone. Get your men to make a thorough sweep of the grounds. And tell them to put their masks back on. We don’t want any prying eyes seeing too much, do we?’

Peyne gestured to her unmasked colleagues and they snapped to attention, pulling the surgical masks with their human faces back into place and hurrying away down the corridor.

Rose nodded after them. ‘Couldn’t afford proper masks for that lot, then? Had to resort to cheap fancy-dress nurses’ outfits for everyone except matron here?’

‘Quite so.’ Morton wheeled himself over to her. ‘Full lip synch in 84

the masks is very expensive to achieve and I’m afraid the Cynrog are sticklers for working to an exact budget. Miss Peyne here is the only one who needs direct interaction with the populace. The others are merely disguised for the benefit of nosy, interfering busybodies.’

‘So what are you up to, Morton? What deal have you done with the Cynrog? Running a nursing home for them?’

‘You know nothing.’ Morton’s voice was low and measured.

‘Those things are killing people, Morton!’ Rose was getting angry now, frustrated by the calmness of the man in front of her. ‘Does she tell you about her little night-time trips to clean up the mess that’s left when your monsters have finished eating? Does she? People are going to be missed. You can’t just keep on with what you’re doing without someone noticing!’

Morton wheeled himself slowly over to the desk.

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