Sam sat on the bed in the strange room, swinging his feet absently.  In reality, he was rather too tall, and the bed rather too short for effective leg-swinging, but that didn't stop him.  Every now and again, he would turn to the laptop sitting next to him and give it a curious little poke, wrinkling his nose at the screen; it was clear that he ( Read more... )

On his bed, Sam Tyler shivered; he felt like he was burning up with fever, but the sweat that dotted his forehead and stained the collar of his vest was cold and clammy.  He hiked the blanket up further around his shoulders, hunching over the incongruous silver laptop that sat before him.  Typing was an effort, with the way his fingers shook, and ( Read more... )

Sam laid on his bed, lazily regarding the ceiling.  A faint smile played absently over his lips.  In the background, the radio was fuzzily playing Atomic Rooster, for once entirely devoid of the voices of doctors and nurses or the sound of a heart monitor.  For once, Sam didn't particularly care.  It was a warm evening, the light of the late sun ( Read more... )

Sam gritted his teeth as he drove down the narrow streets of 1973 Manchester, his eyes peeled at every turn for a brick building with a large camper van out front.  The problem with that, of course, was that most of the buildings in 1973 Manchester were made of brick, as were the roads, and Sam had no idea where this camper van might be.  However, ( Read more... )

Sam blinks his way out of an uncharacteristically untroubled sleep to the sound of the static on his television.  He blinks at it through the lingering scraps of sleep that cloud his vision, then rolls out of bed, grumbling, to switch the set off.   It takes him a moment or two to remember the events of the night before, and when he finally does, ( Read more... )

'You're buying me a drink.'  DCI Hunt had told him curtly.  'Tomorrow.'

Sam hadn't bothered to ask why; it wasn't as if it was important enough to needle the man about, anyway, and certainly he'd find out when he bought the Guv his drink anyway.  Like as not it was some stupid attempt to get him out of the station so he wouldn't 'get in the way' of ( Read more... )