Doctor Who_ Peacemaker - James Swallow [67]
‘It’s not the first time I’ve been there recently. And if I stay, it could happen again, couldn’t it?’
‘Yes,’ he admitted, careful and serious. ‘It could. And the next time you might not be so lucky.’
A slow smile crossed her face, turning into a grin as the Doctor’s expression became one of mild confusion. ‘You know what? I lived through that. Me, Martha Jones, Medical Student. I lived through it and I was never afraid, not even for a second. Do you know why?’
He was starting to smile again. ‘Tell me,’ he said.
‘Because I trust you. You’re the Doctor.’
He shook his head and chuckled. ‘And you’re a rare one, Martha Jones.’
‘I am,’ she agreed, walking across to lean over his shoulder and study the monitor screen. ‘So,’ she asked, ‘where next?’
The Doctor matched her grin. ‘Let’s follow the trails of time, and see where that takes us. . . ’
The TARDIS blazed on through the coruscating fires of the temporal vortex, across the depths of space and time, with a million new adventures ranged out before it.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to all these folks in the many domains of Doctor Who for their support and confidence:
Justin Richards and Russell T Davies for giving me the opportunity to tell a Tenth Doctor story.
John Ainsworth, Nick Briggs, Sharon Gosling, Simon Guerrier, Ja-son Haigh-Ellery, Alan Barnes and everyone else in the Big Finish crew.
Keith Topping, David McIntee, David Howe, Ben Aaronovitch, Marc Platt, Joe Lidster, Nick Wallace, Steven Savile, David Bishop, An-drew Cartmel, Paul Cornell, Caroline Symcox, Tony and Jane Kenealy, Shaun Lyon, Clay Eichelberger, Tara O’Shea, Jill Sherwin, Kathryn Sullivan, Stewart Vandal and David Gould for counsel and comrade-ship.
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Document Outline
Front Cover
Contents
Prologue
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Acknowledgements
Back Cover
Table of Contents
Prologue
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Acknowledgements