Winner Takes All by Jaqueline Rayner

Author:Jaqueline Rayner [Rayner, Jaqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Comics & Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character)
ISBN: 9780563486275
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Published: 2005-05-18T07:00:00+00:00

‘There are so manny people Id like to see DEAD. But not go to prison 4 it!!!! It would be GR8 if you could send them on holiday and they never came home but were KILLED!!!! Do you agree.’

Rose inhaled sharply.

The text ‘Do you agree’ was hyperlinked. ‘That’s where the trail starts,’ said Mickey. ‘Finally, you get a phone number.’ He gestured to a notepad, where a mobile number had been scribbled down. ‘You want someone dead – this person’s prepared to sell you a winning scratchcard. Treat them to a holiday. They never come back. No blame attached.’ He shivered.

The Doctor picked up Mickey’s mobile off the desk without asking.

He walked into the other room. Rose and Mickey looked at each other.

‘It’s sick, isn’t it?’ said Mickey.

She nodded, not really able to bring herself to add to that. Totally sick. Utterly sick. Lose all faith in human nature sick. ‘How’s the knee?’

‘Sore,’ he said. ‘Don’t know how I’m going to cope, to be honest.’

She grimaced in sympathy.

‘What I really need is someone to help me out – look after me, put me to bed, that sort of thing.’

‘Shame I’m busy saving the world,’ she said. ‘I’ll phone social ser-vices, if you like. They can sent round some nice old granny to give you a bed bath.’

Mickey grinned. ‘Oh, what a shame the Doctor’s using my phone.’

‘Oh, look, he’s finished,’ said Rose as the Doctor walked back in.

But their banter was cut short by the expression on the Doctor’s face.

‘What is it?’ Rose said.

‘Five hundred quid,’ said the Doctor. ‘That’s how much death costs off the Internet. Not much more than a wide-screen telly.’

‘You spoke to someone?’ asked Rose.

The Doctor nodded. ‘And it didn’t sound as if I was the first to call.

I reckon your mum’s not the only one who’s been mugged for her winning scratchcard.’

Rose thought of her mum, lying bruised and bloody in a hospital bed. ‘We’ve got to stop this,’ she said.

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