Doctor Who: Shining Darkness by Michalowski Mark

Author:Michalowski, Mark [Michalowski, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409072836
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2010-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

‘HOW DO I know you’ll honour your word?’ asked the Doctor.

‘You don’t. But if you do anything to the segment then you can be sure that we will. This is not your fight, Doctor.’

The Doctor sighed and stuck his hands in his pockets, kicking at a bit of scrap on the ground.

‘Now, y’see, threatening Donna is the fastest way to make sure it is my fight. You really haven’t thought this one through, have you? If you’d just given Donna back to me, then things might have been different.’ He shook his head ruefully. ‘But you had to go and do the threatening bully-boy bit, didn’t you? I mean, assuming you are a bully-boy and not a bully-girl. There’re plenty of those around. It’s not big and it’s not clever.’

The Doctor stopped as he caught a brief flare of white light from one of the side aisles.

‘The recovery party beaming down, eh? Hope Donna’s amongst them. I want to make sure she’s OK before I agree to anything.’

And to hammer home his point a little more, he took a step up onto the segment and began jumping up and down on it.

‘Hello!’ he said cheerily as two figures – a muscled black man with a grim, angry face and a thin, blonde, humaniform robot – stepped into the light. He looked around in mock puzzlement. ‘No Donna?’

As if in answer, there was another flash of light and a slightly bemused Donna materialised a few metres to the side of the new arrivals. She squinted in the darkness, getting her bearings, before she spotted him.

‘Doctor!’

‘Hello again!’ he grinned, hands in pockets, still jumping up and down on the segment like a child full of tartrazine. ‘We’re really going to have to stop meeting like this. People’ll begin to talk. Especially with you being a goddess an’ all! “Too good for him!” they’ll be saying.’

‘They wouldn’t dare,’ laughed Donna.

Donna started to head towards him, but the man stepped forward with an outstretched hand to stop her. She pulled an apologetic face at the Doctor.

‘Looks like I can’t come out and play just yet,’ she said.

The man indicated that Donna should stay where she was, and then he and the blonde robot crossed to the Doctor and stood a few feet from where he’d finally stopped his bouncing.

‘You’ve set up some sort of interference field, haven’t you?’ asked the little, boxy robot chirpily.

The Doctor smiled and pulled out the sonic screwdriver, the tip of which was glowing a gentle blue.

‘Turn it off and step off the segment.’

Keeping an eye on Donna, the Doctor jumped down; the man and the robot came and stood right next to the battered artefact.

‘The interference field, Doctor,’ the little robot reminded him.

‘Oh yes.’ He fiddled with the screwdriver for a moment.

‘Good,’ said the robot. ‘Thank you. Goodbye, Doctor. Let’s hope our paths don’t cross for a while. I’d hate to have to be the one to inform you of Donna’s death. One never knows what flowers to send, does one?’

‘What?’ called Donna, not understanding what the little robot was on about.

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