Lethbridge-Stewart - Lineage: A Doctor Who spin-off anthology. by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

Historian’s note: Mary Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared in the novel, The Forgotten Son, by Andy Frankham-Allen.

THE NOTE

By Andy Frankham-Allen

This story takes place in 1945

Colonel Alistair Conall Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart was so many different things to so many different people. After sixty-five years of life, he was now a husband, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a brother and still, above all those things, the son of the Honourable Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart. He remembered where he was when he learned of his father’s death, and he remembered the impact it had on his life. But that was nothing to how he felt now, holding in his hands the kind of telegram a father dreaded receiving.

We regret to inform you that your son, Wing Commander Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart has been confirmed as MIA. Due to the sensitive nature of his mission, we are…

He folded the paper and looked out over the family estate in Glen Cladach, Appin, Scotland. Passed on to him twenty years ago. Too late for his sons to enjoy it; by that time they were both grown men, starting families of their own. But his wife, Lillian, enjoyed living on the estate, hosting parties, becoming something of a socialite while he continued to work for British Intelligence, supervising some of the more precarious Special Operations Executive missions, liaising with the Russians… But now the war was over, and it was time for him to retire, maybe offer his services for consultation occasionally, but mostly it was time to enjoy a life of retirement with his family.

He had hoped to have his children, and their children, over for Christmas.

He lowered his head and closed his eyes, and saw an image of fifteen-year-old Gordon, so keen to join up during the Great War. Well, he certainly got his chance when the Second World War broke out…

Alistair opened his eyes, heard the footsteps closing in behind him.

‘What is it, Con?’ Lillian asked, using her pet name for him. The one only she used.

What could he say? She had married a man who came from a military family, knew her sons would undoubtedly follow their father’s footsteps. But what parent was ever prepared for news of a child’s death…?

All he could do was hand her the telegram and hold her in his arms when the shock hit her.

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