Doctor Who PDA21 - Players (6th) by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-13T02:42:42+00:00

„Killed!‟ The deep voice shook with fury. „One of Us!

Butchered!‟

„Marcos was a fool,‟ said the exotic female voice. „He brought it upon himself. Twenty-one years he waited, until the Piece was out of balk - then this stupid, flamboyant gesture!‟

„It was an audacious move -‟

„Audacious?‟ said the female voice scornfully. „Disastrous, you mean. What if he had succeeded? Would not the hand of the Player have been clearly seen? The scandal would have been enormous, the Game unbalanced. What if he had been caught? He endangered us all!‟

„Marcos was rash,‟ said the deep voice. „But he had past humiliation to avenge - as I have myself. Humiliation at the hands of this Doctor. And now he has died because of him.‟

„The Doctor was not his executioner!‟

„It may have been one of his minions, but the true guilt lies on the Doctor‟s head!‟

A cold, detached old voice cut in, silencing them both.

„Let us not pile folly upon folly. Who is this Doctor who interferes in our Game and disappears? Who reappears sixteen years later, in a different form and defeats us again?

Then reappears as first we saw him, as if not a moment has passed since 1899 - and meddles once more! A time traveller and a shape-shifter, some rogue Player... We must certainly destroy him, but we must move with caution - and always, always, act through others...‟

Chapter Twenty-Two

The Guest

It took quite a lot of arguing before the Doctor agreed to Peri‟s proposition, but she got her own way in the end. He had no intention of missing his meeting with Churchill, but had to admit he was intrigued by the invitation from Wallis Simpson. What was behind it? Who was the mysterious guest she wanted them to meet - or rather, to meet again?

As Peri pointed out, there was only one way to find out...

They had their last discussion on the subject outside the front door the next morning, while the Doctor was waiting for Dekker to come round with the Rolls.

„Consider the implications of what happened yesterday,‟ he said, holding her by the shoulders.

„The mystery assassin?‟

„The same mystery assassin,‟ corrected the Doctor. „The man we saw trying to shoot Churchill in South Africa in 1899

- trying again in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, with the same gun thirty-seven years later. Untouched by time, Peri, not a day older.‟

„Like us,‟ said Peri quietly.

„Exactly. A time traveller of some kind, has to be. And therefore someone not of this period, perhaps not even from this planet.‟

„Like you?‟

The Doctor frowned. Another Time Lord? No, I don‟t think so.‟

„Why not? Could be another renegade Time Lord like you!‟

„I am not a renegade!‟ said the Doctor indignantly. „Not any more, anyway. I‟m just a bit - semi-detached, that‟s all. No, this just doesn‟t feel like a Time Lord operation somehow. It‟s all too localised, too petty. We Time Lords think big. We hijack whole planets, not individual politicians.‟ He pondered.

All the same, I think we may be dealing with something that isn‟t entirely human.

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