Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures [057] - Bad Therapy by Matthew Jones

Author:Matthew Jones
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426204909
Publisher: Doctor Who Books
Published: 1996-12-04T23:00:00+00:00

9

Sweet And Tender Hooligan

Gordy Scraton slept badly that night. What kind of men might the devil send him? Zombies? Demons? Goblins? What had the disembodied voice called them? Lost souls. His dreams had been full of cold and pale human-shaped figures who lumbered through the dark behind him, reaching for him with long, broken fingers.

Gordy had woken, twisted up in his black silk sheets and chilled by a cold sweat. Despite being terrified as to what he might find lurking in his secret shrine that morning, he still threw himself into yesterday’s clothes and, without bothering to pause to wash, he made his way down to the basement. What would the devil have brought him?

Gordy felt their presence when he entered the shrine. There were half a dozen figures standing quietly in the shadows. At first he couldn’t quite see their faces, but as he looked harder he recognized some of the hardest men in London’s underworld. They were all there: Jake Dimes, Ronnie Donaghue, Billy Spot.

Blue-eyed Billy Spot! The short man stepped out of the shadows, took a last drag on his roll-up and ground it out beneath his heel. Billy Spot was a charismatic and attractive young man, probably in his late twenties. He was short and stocky. The way he moved suggested that he was comfortable with himself, untroubled and at ease. He was an East End lad growing gracefully into an East End man. Gordy had heard that Billy Spot had worked as a barrow boy for his old man, until he’d decided that robbing banks was a more lucrative way of earning a living than selling fruit and veg. Gordy could easily imagine Billy working on a market in the East End, sharing a joke and a natter with regular customers. It was hard to imagine him acting violently or committing a crime.

But Gordy knew that this was a man who’d ripped off three banks in as many years, who was rumoured to have killed four men and half as many women. This man was a hero. Gordy envied his city-wide reputation.

Gordy could have cried out with joy, when the armed robber nodded respectfully to him. The devil had certainly come up with the goods this time.

Gordy didn’t care what kind of magic the devil had cast to make it come true.

With men of this calibre and reputation in his employ, Gordy could really make his mark in Soho.

He’d show those bastards who’d told him that he wasn’t up to running the Scraton gang. The accusations had started soon after his brother’s funeral.

Albert’s men had said that he was weak, that he was a coward, that he wasn’t up to the job. Well, they’d be singing a different tune now. They’d soon come crawling back wanting to be in on his rackets when they heard that he had the likes of Billy Spot working for him. He could take Soho in a matter of days.

No, once the word got out, he would be running the whole town in a matter of hours.

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