Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor

Author:Jodi Taylor [Taylor, Jodi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Published: 2020-03-30T08:46:43+00:00

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Markham came back in and flung himself on his bed. ‘And the good news is that Dr Stone says if you can keep your dinner down this evening, they’ll let us go tomorrow.’

‘How is your release contingent on me keeping my dinner down?’

‘No idea,’ he said, rifling through his fruit bowl to stave off the pangs of hunger until lunch turned up in half an hour. ‘Perhaps they don’t want to deal with you if I’m not around to assist. Let’s face it, Max – I pulled you through.’

‘Through what?’

‘Your recovery. Who passed you your sippy cup? Who held the basin ready just in case? Who waited outside the bathroom door in case you never came out again? Who cut up your toast for you? I’ve been bloody wonderful.’

While not going quite that far, he had a point. He’d been pretty good. If I woke in the night, he helped me to the bathroom rather than bring in Nurse Fortunata. He reminded me to drink regularly. And he’d done the thing with the basin when my toast had thrown itself into reverse and I hadn’t been able to get to the bathroom in time.

‘Well, I shan’t be sorry to go. It’ll be nice to see Leon and Matthew without a pane of glass between us. Did you see the card that Matthew made me?’

We both looked at the hand-drawn and coloured card with his name carefully inscribed inside.

‘What is it?’

‘The Time Map.’

He squinted. ‘How can you tell?’

‘He never draws anything else. And we can have a proper lunch with Peterson as well.’

‘Yes, God knows what sort of bad habits he’s developed in our absence. You know what he’s like. I never say anything because I don’t want to hurt his feelings but he really needs us to keep him on the straight and narrow, you know.’

‘Can I gather then that your tests all came back negative?’

‘You can,’ he said proudly. ‘Except for the ones that were supposed to. Completely clean bill of health.’

‘Well, you look better.’

And he did. Very much better.

‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘Just one of those things, I suppose. I think sometimes we forget not everything we catch is the result of investigating major historical events in contemporary time. Sometimes a stomach bug is just a stomach bug.’

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