Time Zero by Justin Richards

Author:Justin Richards [Richards, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563538660
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2002-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

And he realised that she wasn’t looking at him at all. She was looking past him – at the woman who had just spoken. The woman with the gun.

‘Drop the gun, and turn round very slowly.’

‘Sorry,’ he murmured to Anji. He dropped the rifle, letting it hang for a moment by its strap before he laid it down in the soft snow. It sank in leaving a shadow of itself in the crust. He turned, slowly.

‘Where’s Jacobs?’ she asked as she approached him. She kept the gun pointed at him, kept her eyes focused on him.

‘He fell off a cliff.’

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She didn’t react. She was right in front of him now, her rifle aimed up at his face as she stooped down, reached to get the rifle he had dropped in the snow.

As he had dropped it, Flanaghan had let the strap fall away from the rifle so that it looped out close to his foot. He kept his eyes fixed on the soldier’s, keeping her attention, as he moved his foot just enough to get the toe of his boot inside the loop of strap, just enough to pull the rifle away as she reached for it.

The woman’s hand closed on nothing but snow. She scrabbled round, and inevitably glanced down.

As soon as she looked away, Flanaghan kicked out. He had intended to kick her gun away and then try to grab her before she recovered.

But his foot was caught in the rifle strap still, and instead he sent spray of stinging snow up into her face, her eyes, as she looked down.

She cried out in surprise, blinking at the melting snow, raising her own gun again. His foot was still caught in the strap.

But then Anji was moving. Keeping hold of the wooden pillar, she swung her whole body round in an arc. Anji’s feet connected with Sonya’s head and sent it snapping backwards, knocking her down.

But Sonya was still holding the gun.

The shot echoed off the snow and ice. It caught Flanaghan red-hot in the shoulder and sent him reeling. His foot was still tangled, but that meant the rifle went with him. He scrabbled, wrestled for it.

Another shot.

There was a look of complete surprise on the female soldier’s face.

Just for a moment, just for as long as it took for her to register what had happened.

That Flanaghan had shot Anji.

Or rather, as Flanaghan could see the woman now realised, he had shot through the chain that held the handcuffs together. And Anji was pushing herself away from the upright wooden post, crawling backwards through the snow to get as far away from the woman with the gun as she could, trying to get to her feet. Flanaghan could see over the woman’s shoulder as she turned back, as she aimed at him.

He could see that Anji knew what was about to happen, was struggling 170

out of her coat and flinging it desperately at the woman to try to spoil her aim. The coat wrapped round the gun just as she pulled the trigger.

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