The Price of Paradise 06 by The Price of Paradise (html)

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The walk through the forest was different this time. It was still as beautiful as ever and everywhere Rose looked there was another stunning vista to marvel at, but since the attack last night something subtle had changed for her. It might be a paradise but now she was very much aware that there could be monsters lurking all around. Rez led the way, confidently striding through the maze of different trees, following the path the monsters had taken last night. They walked in silence, each occupied with their own thoughts. Finally they reached an area where there were signs of damage to the tree tops.‘This must be where the ship came down,’ Rez told her, pointing up at the broken branches.

A little further on they reached a clearing and there, battered but intact, was the spaceship.

Rose was getting a bit blasé about spaceships these days, but she’d never seen one quite like this. She could tell instantly that this was not a new ship. It looked a bit like one of the cars she used to see boys working on back home on the estate. Not new by any means, but well loved and showing signs of a long life of repairs. On the Powell Estate you’d see cars with bonnets and doors in colours that didn’t match the 95

rest of the car, and it was the same with this space vehicle. Panels looked to have been replaced by spares from entirely different ships, or possibly bits salvaged from junkyards.

‘Perhaps that’s why it crashed!’ she speculated out loud. Rez gave her a look. To him it was an amazing, technologically advanced machine and it was clearly intimidating him.

‘Do you think it’s safe to just walk up to it?’ he asked. Rose wasn’t sure. ‘We could go under a white flag?’ she suggested. Unfortunately a quick search of her pockets failed to produce anything that even faintly resembled a white flag, although Rose did find a half-empty packet of Polos, which was a bonus.

‘Come on, then,’ she said finally, popping a mint into her mouth and offering Rez one. ‘Let’s just walk slowly, keep our hands where they can see them and hope they don’t fancy any target practice.’

A little nervously they stepped out of the cover offered by the trees and began to walk towards the spaceship. As they got closer Rose could see that the main airlock doors were open and there were a couple of people standing just inside.

‘We come in peace,’ she called out hopefully, adding, ‘Don’t shoot!’

‘Rose Tyler, where the heck have you been?’ called a familiar voice. To Rose’s shame she completely lost it. ‘Doctor!’

She ran towards him and was delighted to see that he was running to meet her too. They collided in a giant bear hug that was probably so not cool, but Rose just didn’t care. Sometimes being cool was just overrated.

Finally the Doctor let her go and they just grinned at each other for a moment, then they both began

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