Doctor Who: BBC Past Doctor Adventures [026] - Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell

Author:Gary Russell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780563555780
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 1999-09-13T22:00:00+00:00

2

(Forever) Live and Die

‘You don’t know how to fly this thing, do you?’

The Doctor, who had been hunched over the TARDIS console, stood up. ‘Of course I do,’ he snapped at Millennia.

‘Have you two got nothing better to do than criticise?’

Rallon laughed. ‘I’ll check the fault locator.’

‘Fault locator,’ muttered the Doctor. ‘I am the fault locator. I can find the fault.’

Millennia peered over his shoulder. ‘I thought there wasn’t a fault.’

‘There isn’t a fault,’ retorted the Doctor. ‘But if there was, I’d be able to find it, not some ridiculous machine.’

‘It’s in the navigational systems,’ Rallon called over from the fault locator room. ‘G3 4S.’

‘I know where the navigation systems are, Rallon.’ The Doctor tugged up the corner of the panel on the TARDIS console that was nearest the outer doors, peered inside, shut it and opened the next panel. ‘Well, if they didn’t keep moving things around…’

Millennia resumed her wandering around the console room.

‘The TARDIS is smaller than I thought it would be.’

‘It’s only a Type 18, Millennia,’ Rallon said. ‘Now, if we’d acquired a Type 35, or even a Type 30 Mark III, we’d be more comfortable.’

‘Well, if someone had distracted the traffic controller longer than she did, I might have had the opportunity to find one.’

The Doctor slammed the panel shut. ‘As it is, this is the best I could do.’ He glowered at Millennia. ‘As usual, I have to do everything, hmmm?’

‘To be fair, Doctor,’ said Rallon, ever conciliatory, ‘this was your idea. We’re just along for the ride!’

‘I want to see Chancellor Delox’s face when we get back, see if she still thinks you’re worthless, Doctor.’ Millennia suddenly clapped her hands together. ‘Oh, oh. I want to get a souvenir. A rock or something. Just think what we can do with it!’

‘What exactly?’ asked the Doctor, retrying the navigational controls.

Millennia’s thought processes clearly hadn’t got quite far enough to answer him – geology wasn’t her field of interest after all. ‘Oh, I don’t know. It’ll be different rock to Gallifrey rock, so the geologists will be fascinated. And anyway, I want to show it to my family, to prove how we can learn to do things without using our “influence”.’

The Doctor shot her a curious look – the sad fact was that her family had connections and money rather than brains. To them, Millennia’s time at the Academy was an excuse to get her out of the house and away from whatever harm she might do to herself. But although she was a bit young and given to flights of sulking, the Doctor was as impressed by her aptitude as Rallon. He had little doubt that one day she would prove to her House just how clever she was. Maybe after this very excursion.

‘I think I’ll throw a party when we get back, you two. A big welcome home for the brave adventurers.’ She looked around her. ‘Where is the computer?’

‘Why?’ asked Rallon.

‘I want to start a list of who to invite, silly.’ She kissed his cheek.

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