Business Unusual by Gary Russell

Author:Gary Russell [Russell, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563405757
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 1998-06-11T22:00:00+00:00

WEDNESDAY

36 Downview Crescent, Pease Pottage, West Sussex

26 July 1989, 07.15

Sontarans in his TARDIS! It was an outrage, but he had outwitted them, oh yes! One quick blast of coronic acid and there the two of them were, no more Mr Potato Heads. Of course, there was always the question of how Sontarans had breached his TARDIS but he would sort that out when he… when he… Would he wake up?

‘Wake up, Doctor!’

He was being shaken awake, rather violently. ‘All right,’ he said, ‘All right! All right!’

The Doctor sat bolt upright, taking in his surroundings in a second. The Bush family house. The living-room sofa. He hadn’t intended to fall asleep, but wasn’t going to let Alan Bush know that.

‘Thank you, Alan! I was having a marvellous dream about a victorious battle against the armed might of a thousand Sontarans, every one of them trying to destroy my TARDIS and I had to use all my wits, all my intellect and all my courage to deal with them.’ He looked the man straight in the eye. ‘And you, with your shaking and shoving, have spoiled it. Next time that one comes around, I’ll probably forget how to defeat them and they will rampage through time and space.’

He stood up, jabbing Alan Bush’s chest. ‘And it will be all your fault,’ each jab underlining each syllable. He looked around the room. ‘What do you want anyway?’

‘To know if you have come up with a way to rescue Christine and Melanie yet. And Trey!’

‘Well, of course I have,’ he said in a voice of outrage, despite having come up with nothing of the sort. ‘But it relies on tact, discretion and subtlety. In which case, I will venture back to SenéNet on my own. You will go to work and act as if nothing has happened!’

Alan was astonished. ‘Work? As if nothing has happened? How on earth am I expected –’

‘Because,’ snapped the Doctor, ‘if you act strangely, SenéNet might hear about it, know we’re on to them and do something to your family. And neither of us wants that on our conscience, do we?’

It was a miserable lie to tell, but guaranteed to panic Alan enough into going to the office and doing what he was told. It worked, and over the next few minutes, Alan scurried about, getting ready. He shoved a rather large cellular phone into the Doctor’s hand.

‘Call me the moment you have anything to report,’ he ordered.

The Doctor looked at the cumbersome object. ‘In five years, people will look at this as an antique, you know.’

‘That, Doctor, is state of the art. And bloody expensive to boot.’

‘A good kick into the history books is about all it’s good for. But for your sake, I’ll take it.’

Despite its bulk, the Doctor dropped it into a pocket, noting with some satisfaction that Alan clearly could not work out how it fitted in there and also seemed suddenly to weigh nothing.

‘Can I take you into town?’ asked Alan.

The Doctor agreed that this would be a good idea, but first:

‘I need breakfast.

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