59 - Camera Obscura

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The Doctor sat alone and listened to the beat of his remaining heart. He had
never got used to it. He never would. The single sound where double should be.
What was this new code hammering through his body? What did it mean‘
Mortal. No, he’d always known he could die. Not mortal. Damaged. Crippled.
Through his shirt, his fingers sought out the thick ridge of his scar.
Human. . .
The Doctor’s second heart was taken from his body - for his own good, he was
told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious
time-traveller, Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor
unwillingly finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a s´
eance in
Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his
companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to
Time. . .
Before Time itself unravels. . .
This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor.
Camera Obscura
Lloyd Rose
Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd
Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane
London W12 0TT
First published 2002
Copyright c
Lloyd Rose 2002
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Original series broadcast on the BBC
Format c
BBC 1963
Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC
ISBN 0 563 53857 0
Imaging by Black Sheep, copyright c
BBC 2002
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of
Chatham
Cover printed by Belmont Press Ltd, Northampton
To Paul Cornell
Contents
Prologue 6
Chapter One 9
Chapter Two 20
Chapter Three 32
Chapter Four 44
Chapter Five 54
Chapter Six 60
Chapter Seven 65
Chapter Eight 73
Chapter Nine 79
Chapter Ten 93
Chapter Eleven 102
Chapter Twelve 109
Chapter Thirteen 117
Chapter Fourteen 126
Chapter Fifteen 135
4
5
Chapter Sixteen 143
Chapter Seventeen 149
Chapter Eighteen 160
Chapter Nineteen 173
Chapter Twenty 181
Chapter Twenty-one 187
Chapter Twenty-two 192
Chapter Twenty-three 201
Chapter Twenty-four 208
Chapter Twenty-five 216
Epilogue 231
Thanks to: 238
About the Author 239
Prologue
‘I’ve teeth in my hip. My sister’s teeth that should have been. I killed her in the
womb.’
The young woman waited, but her visitor had no reaction.
‘So and that would be why,’ she continued, ‘I was a murderer before I was
born. And that would be why, then, I murdered all those other small ones.’
‘You said at your trial you didn’t kill them.’
She shrugged.
‘It was only me talking, wasn’t it? Everyone knows it was me that killed
them. They tell me the newspapers call me the Angel-Maker.’
He didn’t seem interested in what the papers said. ‘At your trial, you claimed
that you killed an adult male – a man whose body was, in fact, found down-
stairs from the room in which the slaughtered children lay. You said that you
had come to be interviewed for a position and that he attempted to assault
you.’
She raised a leg, setting her foot up on the seat of her chair. Her skirt slid
down her thigh. The man’s dark eyes remained on her face. Funny, that usually
got their interest. He was funny. When he’d come in, not stooping but seeming
to because he was so big and the room was so small, he’d looked around and
said, ‘Ah, the ambience of a Victorian insane asylum.’ As if it were a joke. But
not a joke on her. On the place.
‘And it must be that I was lying, then,’ she said. ‘Or it must be that I don’t
remember. That God in His mercy didn’t let me remember.’
‘Do you believe in God?’
She stared at him for a moment. That was a new question. And he was
asking it seriously. ‘Sure and you’re trying to trap me,’ she said. ‘To get me to
blaspheme.’ He looked like he could be an agent of the Devil. Big and dark.
Powerful. Uncaring.
‘If you believe your soul is damned already,’ he said, ‘what’s a little blas-
phemy?’
‘It’s evil you are,’ she said.
He smiled, gently but with an edge of irony. ‘Do you think you’re evil?’
6
Prologue 7
‘Sure and I must be, after what I did.’
‘If you don’t remember what you did, are you still responsible?’
‘Someone is,’ she said. ‘They were all eight dead. And all the blood.’
‘The wounds on the children were almost identical to the wounds on the
man.’
‘Well, then,’ she said, ‘it must have been me.’ Bored, she lowered her leg. All
the questions were the same.
‘How old are you?’ he asked.
‘I don’t know.’
‘You look about eighteen or nineteen.’ She shrugged again. ‘How long have
you been in service?’
‘It’s five years ago that I left Ireland. I was in Liverpool as a skivvy first. Then
I did the same here for the Porters, till he lost all his money in that speculation.’
‘How would you like to work for me?’
She laughed. ‘And they’re going to let me go from here!’
He nodded, smiling that smile again. ‘They are.’
She looked around the small room: the bare brick walls, the simple furniture
and threadbare rug, the barred windows. ‘And what did you give them, then,
to buy me?’
‘I explained that I was a doctor, a specialist in the treatment of the criminally
insane. That I wanted to take you on as a private patient.’
‘Oh, and it was only that? There was no money?’
‘There was money. This institution needs money.’
‘So it’s that you have bought me.’
‘If you don’t like the work, you can leave any time.’
She snorted. ‘Oh, and it’s likely they’ll allow that.’
‘They no longer matter.’
She stared at him for a long moment.
‘So is it,’ she said, ‘that you want to do the dirty thing with a dirty murderess?
Is that your gentleman’s pleasure?’
He was neither shocked nor insulted. ‘No.’
‘Or is it just that you want a famous killer scrubbing your floors and emptying
your slops?’
‘I live in an odd place,’ he said. ‘You won’t have to do any of that.’
‘And what is it, then, you’ll be having me do?’
‘Why did you kill that man?’ he said. ‘Really.’
‘He –’
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