079 - Doctor Who - Terminus

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When the TARDIS console is wilfully

sabotaged, the Doctor’s time machine becomes

dimensionally unstable and begins to dissolve.

The area immediately affected is the room where

Nyssa is working by herself.

As the creeping instability closes in on

her, the TARDIS locks onto the nearest passing

spacecraft, and the process of collapse is

halted – but there is no sign of Nyssa.

Hoping that she has escaped onto the strangely

deserted host liner, the Doctor goes looking

for her. Whether or not he finds her, getting

back to the TARDIS will be no easy business...

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DOCTOR WHO

TERMINUS

Based on the BBC television serial by Steve Gallagher

by arrangement with the British Broadcasting

Corporation

JOHN LYDECKER

A TARGET BOOK

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Target Book

Published in 1983

by the Paperback Division of W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

First published in Great Britain by

W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd 1983

Corporation 1983

Phototypeset by Sunrise Setting, Torquay, Devon

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks

ISBN 0 426 19385 7

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall

not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold,

hired out or otherwise circulated without the

publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or

cover other than that in which it is published and

without a similar condition including this condition

being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Tegan was sure that there must be something to like

about Turlough, but she couldn’t think what. It wasn’t

his age, it wasn’t his looks – it wasn’t anything that she

could name, but as they walked down the TARDIS

corridor his presence behind her gave Tegan a creepy

feeling between the shoulders. It was like stories she’d

heard of travellers back home in the Australian bush;

they’d get the same crawling sensation and look down

to see a snake about to strike.

‘These are all storerooms,’ she said, gesturing at a

set of doors she was certain she’d never seen before,

and she carried on past before Turlough could ask any

awkward questions. Just give him the tour, Tegan, the

Doctor had said, you know your way around by now, and

she was left in the position of either tackling the job or

else arguing for her own incompetence – which she

wasn’t going to do, not in front of the Brat. Her

assessment of Turlough was such that she’d trust him

to store up the admission and use it to embarrass her

sometime. It was about the only thing she’d trust him

for.

At the next intersection, she stopped and glanced

back. Turlough was looking the doors over as if he was

weighing up whether or not to believe her. In the cool

grey light of the timeless corridors he looked serene,

almost angelic, but when he caught her eye and smiled

there was a glint of something hard and unpleasant

under the surface. If the Doctor looked for long

enough, he’d probably see it as well... but then he’d

never had reason to, and on the couple of occasions

when she and Nyssa had tried to describe their doubts

he’d dismissed them. Reservations about a new

companion in the TARDIS could so easily look like a

display of petty jealousy; and when the Doctor was

around, Turlough’s act was very, very good.

He sauntered along slowly to catch up, and Tegan

turned the corner. She saw with relief that, at last, they

were coming into an area she recognised. Not only was

so much of the TARDIS unfamiliar, she was convinced

that parts of the craft quietly redesigned themselves

when no one was looking.

Through this open area and out the other side, and

they’d come to the corridor with the main living areas.

She slowed, so that Turlough could make up the

distance. He didn’t hurry. Something else that had

unsettled her; Turlough was no primitive, but there

had been nothing in his background to prepare him

for the intellectual and sensual shock of entering a

craft containing the floorplan of a mansion in an

external package the size of an old-earth police

telephone box. So why was he taking it all so calmly?

‘Well,’ she said as they reached the living space,

‘that’s the layout.’ She tried not to sound too relieved

at making it back.

‘It goes on forever,’ Turlough said politely, as if he

was thanking an aunt for a present (but he ought to be

standing there with his mouth hanging open and his mind

completely blown, Tegan thought).

‘It can seem like it,’ she said. ‘It’s best if you don’t go

wandering until you know your way around.’

‘How am I supposed to manage?’

‘Give me a call.’ That’s a joke, she thought, and

pointed across the corridor to the door of the room

that she shared with Nyssa. ‘Most of the time I’ll be

over there.’

‘Don’t I get a room?’

‘I was coming to that next.’

Well, to be honest, she’d been putting it off for as

long as she could. She led him down to another of the

doors and touched for it to open. ‘This one... isn’t

being used,’ she said delicately.

Turlough went through and stood in the middle of

the room, looking around. Tegan hesitated for a

moment before she followed. This was Adric’s old

room. Nothing inside had been touched or moved

since they’d lost him. She could understand that it was

only fair to let Turlough have somewhere that was

within easy distance of the console room and the social

areas, but why did it have to be here?

She knew the answer, of course; that the pain was a

necessary part of the healing. But it didn’t make her

feel any better.

‘It looks like a kid’s room,’ Turlough said.

Tegan did her best to keep the anger out of her

voice. She almost succeeded. ‘It was Adric’s.’

‘Who?’

‘It doesn’t matter. But he wasn’t a child.’

Turlough barely seemed to have noticed. ‘I’ve had

enough of children,’ he said, ‘what with that awful

school on Earth.’

She relented a little. Maybe the Doctor was right,

and she simply wasn’t giving him a chance. She said,

‘You can change things around to suit yourself.’

He picked up an interlocking mathematical puzzle

from the desk, inspected it, and tossed it back. It rolled

and landed on a heap of notes and charts. ‘All this can

go, for a start,’ he said, and then he looked up and

smiled. Practising for the Doctor. ‘That’s not

unreasonable, is it?’

‘Do what you like,’ Tegan said stiffly. ‘It’s your

place.’ And she turned and walked out.

When she was back in the corridor, she had to stop

and take a deep breath. Steady, now, girl, don’t let him

get to you. That’s how he works – he’ll needle away

until you explode, and then he’ll stand there in

complete innocence while you make a fool of yourself.

But why? We’ve taken him in, sheltered him... why

isn’t it enough?

She stood under the corridor lights and listened to

the even heartbeat of the TARDIS all around her. It

was a good trick for getting calm. Tegan got half-way

there, deciding it was the best she was going to

manage, and went through to join Nyssa in their

shared room.

‘He’s got the manners of a pig,’ she said.

Nyssa looked up from her work, surprised. ‘The

Doctor?’

‘The brat! I had to show him all around the

TARDIS. You’d think he was going to buy it.’

‘Perhaps he’ll settle down,’ Nyssa suggested, but

Tegan wasn’t about to be reassured.

‘You know he threatened me?’ she said.

Nyssa laid aside the abacus that she’d been using to

check over some data. ‘Seriously?’

‘It seemed serious enough at the time.’

‘Why?’

‘I found him playing around with a roundel. He

tried to laugh it off, but he’s up to something.’

‘Have you told the Doctor?’

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