Doctor Who: Heritage by Dale Smith

Author:Dale Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563538646
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Published: 2002-10-06T10:00:00+00:00

Ace nearly melted.

‘You were right, Ace,’ he murmured, just to her. ‘We can’t let them get away with it.’

There wasn’t anything she could say, then.

‘You must be the Doctor,’ Lee said, his face showing the first signs of realising what an unstoppable force the Doctor was.

As if plummeting to certain death could stop him!

‘And you must be.. ’ the Doctor paused and looked at Ace.

‘Well, you must be a friend of Ace’s whom I’m sure I’ll get to know once we’ve moved away from here.’

The Doctor doffed his hat then, and Lee had no option left but to smile at the little man. Ace was smiling herself, and she’d seen the routine thousands of times before. It was like watching Billy Connolly or listening to Eddie Murphy on one of those old tapes you really shouldn’t have; it didn’t matter if you’d heard it before, when they tried with all their heart it gave the whole thing an energy that made it irresistible. Not for the first time, Ace realised that the Doctor could take over the world in an instant, if that was what he wanted.

‘And what’s the plan, Doctor?’ Lee asked, and the Doctor raised an eyebrow.

Ace smiled at that.

‘I told you we weren’t coming to rescue him,’ she said.

The Doctor shook his head slowly.

‘We need to let the universe know that something has happened here,’ the Doctor said, his eyes misting slightly.

‘Something terrible. Ace, I need you to contact our shuttle. The pilot will be able to put a call in to the Adjudicators. This sort of situation is more their kind of thing. And I’ll see if I can’t make Sheriff see reason, before we leave.’

The smile froze on Ace’s face, icicles forming and dragging it down into a frown.

‘But,’ she said, and stopped. Was there any way she could put the feeling in her belly into words? ‘But Professor..’

‘No, Ace. We can’t get involved,’ he looked at her, his eyes suddenly sad. Ace tried desperately to remember whether they’d always been that sad, whether the sadness had always been there and the sudden joy was just a ploy that had fooled all of them.

She couldn’t. ‘Please, Ace. Trust me.’

Trust him. How many times had that got her into trouble?

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