Doctor Who: BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures [042] - Escape Velocity by Colin Brake

Author:Colin Brake
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563538257
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2001-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Deliverance

Not for the first time since she had met him, Anji wondered just who this man who called himself the Doctor really was. He seemed to have a chameleon-like ability to transform himself into completely different people. When they had first joined Tyler earlier that morning – although it seemed to Anji to have been days ago rather than hours – the Doctor had come over all Enthusiastic Scientist, but now he seemed to have morphed into Avenging Action Hero.

The Doctor had been as good as his word to Tyler and had spent a good hour trying to get to speak to Christine Holland on the telephone. He’d tried her home number, her mobile number and half a dozen people at her college in Oxford, but the nearest he had come to actually speaking to the elusive Professor Holland herself was a long chat with her secretary, Beverly. Anji had watched, fascinated, as the Doctor underwent another transformation before her eyes and become Concerned Friend. Despite the Doctor’s charm, he had failed to get any firm information from the loyal Beverly, merely a promise to pass on his message and an assurance that the professor had been perfectly all right when Beverly last saw her.

When the Doctor put the phone down he had immediately leaped up and grabbed his coat. ‘If Mohammed won’t come to the mountain, then the mountain must go to Mohammed,’ he declared, adding, ‘As I once said to –’ He stopped abruptly, a puzzled frown on his face. ‘Napoleon?’ he concluded after a beat, clearly not quite believing what he had said himself. ‘That can’t be right, can it?’ He looked at Anji, as if she could provide an explanation.

‘Before you lost your memory in this accident,’ she speculated, an idea suddenly hitting her, ‘you don’t suppose you might have been an actor?’

‘An actor!’ He seized upon the idea with wild enthusiasm. ‘An actor!’ he repeated, clearly liking the idea. ‘Yes, that might explain it. One minute a crotchety old man, a quick make-up and costume change, and then a comic little man with a flute… Yes, perhaps you’re right.’

Anji smiled, pleased to have helped, but the Doctor’s grasshopper mind was already leaping back to the task in hand.

‘We must go and find this Christine Holland. She doesn’t live too far out of Oxford – we can be there in half an hour. Are you coming?’

Anji found that she had to run to keep up with him, literally and metaphorically. It was annoying but also invigorating – and even fun. She caught up with him in the car park, noting that he was heading for her car.

‘Would you like me to drive?’ she asked.

‘It would make my day,’ he said, a smile lightening up his features. Anji couldn’t help smiling back.

The Doctor had failed to take into account Anji’s driving ability and the Mercedes pulled up in the road outside Christine Holland’s house twenty-three minutes exactly after leaving Tyler’s base.

‘You’re not going to lecture me about speeding, I hope?’ Anji asked, seeing the expression on his face.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.