Doctor Who - The 8th Doctor - 65 - Timeless by Stephen Cole & Various

Author:Stephen Cole & Various [Cole, Stephen & Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780563486077
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2003-08-03T07:00:00+00:00

‘It was a real puzzle, wasn’t it? How someone could die so. . . spectac-ularly. . . and yet still be found doing their stuff over the ocean, or across state. . . even across town.’ His lip curled. ‘I couldn’t believe it when I found just how close you were. We had some good times, you and me, baby. I couldn’t help but come visit the new you.’

She looked at him, her breath rasping, his stink in her lungs, pressure building in her ears. She couldn’t move her arms to fight him off. He was squeezing tears out of her.

‘It was against the rules, of course, but I ain’t never found better than you,’

he whispered, placing his forehead against hers. ‘So soft, so kind. So compli-ant at the back of your nice, quiet, dark little place out in Tappan, with all the little home comforts I’d picked out for you.’

‘What are you saying?’ she croaked.

‘I’m saying how sorry I was when I finally killed you, baby.’ He kissed her tenderly above the eye. ‘When the new you was all set up and ready to go, and the old you had deteriorated so much that, well. . . ’ He chuckled softly.

‘You broke my heart, baby. You didn’t even know it was me, last time we were together.’

– his breath in her ear, his teeth tugging at her lobe as the noose chafed and tightened –

Abruptly he let go of her, backed away. ‘It’s like I said. . . You, Nencini, the whole goddamn lot of them. You all killed yourselves. You made death inevitable. I just made it happen. I have to make things happen, because I’m 182

the one in control. Get it?’ He was growing more and more agitated, his voice rising up to challenge the singing. ‘But no, you don’t. You’ll never see that.

You’re never going to understand.’ Finally he marched up to the crappy music centre and bashed it off the table. The stylus slit the diva’s throat with a long, noisy scratch. The sudden silence made Stacy’s head throb louder. She could hear herself catching noisy breaths, desperate, like they might be the last ones she could grab for.

‘I missed you,’ he said simply. ‘I went to see the new you day after day. You.

But you didn’t know me. You didn’t know there used to be so much light in your eyes when you looked at me, or how you used to cling to me in the night when the bad dreams got you in your sleep. . . ’

‘You’re a victim, sweetheart,’ she’d sneered at Jacqui. ‘That’s all.’

‘You killed me.’ The words dribbled out of her like blood or tears.

‘It was your time to go,’ he said. ‘That happens. Even to the ones we love.’

He looked across at her, his eyes red-rimmed. ‘But I chose the moment. I did that for you. Don’t you think that’s better than leaving it to God, or something?

Than just trusting to fate?’

Her back was pulsing with pain as she tried harder to rise.

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