Doctor Who - Telos Novellas - 06 - Rip Tide by Louise Cooper

Author:Louise Cooper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781903889121
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Published: 2003-03-02T08:00:00+00:00

She laughed, though there was a shaky edge to her laughter. ‘No! He’s – he was – much too old. This was later, after the … No, hang on; I’m getting this all wrong.’ She shook her head as if to clear a muddle, then made an exasperated noise. ‘Sorry. Steve didn’t get the blisters after they brought the body in. It was at the same time as Charlie. After the dive.’

‘Dive? What dive?’

‘Oh, it was a few days later,’ she said. ‘One of Charlie’s crab-pot lines got snarled on the sea-bed. Steve and a couple of others helped him free it; there was some junk down there, wreckage that the currents must have brought in, and –’

‘Nina.’ The Doctor’s tone stopped her in her tracks, and his expression became taut suddenly, his eyes lighting unnervingly. ‘Tell me about the wreckage. What did they find?’

She shrugged. ‘Junk, like I said. Probably stuff off a container ship, or something.’

‘They didn’t bring any of it to the surface, did they?’ ‘Yeah, they did, actually.

Just a scrap, though; it couldn’t tell you

anything.’

‘What happened to it?’

The light in his eyes had intensified and Nina’s heart began to thump. ‘Why?’ she asked.

‘Because it might be the most important clue so far! Tell me, Nina, what happened to that piece?’

‘Steve gave it to Charlie, and Charlie made it into a pendant. He was good at making jewellery; he used to –’ Then she stopped, as the connection, the howlingly obvious connection that she hadn’t thought of until now, hit her. ‘Oh, my God …’ she said.

‘When Charlie died, his family gave the pendant to Steve!’

The Doctor snapped his fingers and jack-knifed to his feet so fast that she visibly jumped. ‘Has he still got it?’

‘Yes. He wears it, like a sort of keepsake. Doctor, is that it? Is that what killed Charlie – and what’s making Steve ill?’

The Doctor was heading for the door of the TARDIS, and flung his reply over his shoulder at her. ‘I don’t know,’ he said, ‘but if I were a betting man, I’d put my shirt on it! Come on, Nina, come on!’

‘Where? What are we going to do?’

‘Not we,’ he said, ‘you.’ He flung the door open, revealing the incongruity of the cottage room beyond. ‘I don’t care how you do it. But you’ve got to get me that pendant – and fast!’

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