Doctor Who: Sick Building by Paul Magrs

Author:Paul Magrs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9781846072697
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007-09-20T10:00:00+00:00

She

watched Tiermann’s face twitch in response.

‘Of course,’ the old man said. ‘There will be a hatchway down to the next level. . . ’ He dropped to his knees, wincing with pain from the wound in his side. He felt along the floor with both hands, and now it was the Doctor and Martha’s turn to flinch, as they saw his gloves smoulder and burn.

‘Doctor,’ Solin shouted. ‘Father. . .

can you hurry? Mother has

passed out. . . ’

Martha rubbed perspiration out of her eyes and saw that the Doctor was grinning at her encouragingly. He looked a bit more tousled than usual, perhaps, hoiking off his necktie, but he didn’t seem to be suffering as much as the rest of them. ‘What’s the Domovoi trying to do?’ she croaked at him. ‘We’ll be dead and then she’ll have no one to look after any more. . . ’

The Doctor shrugged and did his quizzical eyebrow thing. ‘One way of keeping us, if we’re dead. And she’s crazy and malfunctioning, too.

Poor old thing doesn’t know what she’s doing.’

‘Poor old thing?’ spat Tiermann. He wrenched open the hatchway he had found with sheer brute strength. It opened at his bidding with a reluctant screech.

The hot vapours writhing on the air were sucked into the cooler air below and everyone took a deep breath and a sigh of relief. ‘Quickly,’

said Tiermann, ‘before she cottons onto us.’

The motley group of captives of the Dreamhome clambered through the hole in the floor. The Doctor went first, then Tiermann, and they were ready to help the others down into the corridor – dark, identical, though not so hot – underneath. There was a sticky moment as Barbara set about wedging herself through the floor. She was extremely heavy and shaking with fear. Tiermann snapped something about her being just some useless old machine; something he had consigned to the rubbish years ago. But the Doctor shot him a nasty look. ‘We’re all in this together, Tiermann. Barbara’s survival is just as important to me as yours is.’

‘Hear, hear!’ warbled Toaster, throatily, his blue bulbs giving a valiant flash. Truth be known, the sun bed was looking much the worse for his ordeal. He seemed very rickety on his feet, and much of his glass had fallen out en route.

Now that they were all out of the choking heat, Tiermann was hastening into action. ‘The override controls are in a room on Level Minus Twenty. A tiny room. A blind spot in the Domovoi’s defences.’

‘Sssh!’ hissed the Doctor. ‘Don’t say it out loud! Just take us there!’

Tiermann nodded stiffly. ‘Emergency stairs. Unless you’d trust the lift?’

None of them wanted to trust the lift.

They followed Tiermann as he hobbled rather painfully down the winding corridors until he found the emergency exit that led to the stairs.

Amanda was sounding delirious as she was helped along by her son.

‘I didn’t even know there were all of these floors. We lived in such a small part of our house. . .

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