Doctor Who_ The Gallifrey Chronicles - Lance Parkin [111]
‘With a bit of fashion sense this time,’ Trix suggests.
The Doctor has been listening to them. He can also hear the monsters down there, millions of them at home in the darkness. The Vore are massing.
Soon, unless stopped, they will emerge and bring the darkness out with them.
There are countless more like them all across the universe – those that have destroyed more than they have created. They must be fought. A man cannot fight them all, though, not without becoming the worst monster of the lot.
One day, the Doctor knows as he gazes down, he will fall.
He tugs at the lapels of his frock coat, perhaps for the last time. ‘I have a plan, but I can’t beat them alone.’
Fitz smiles, takes Trix’s hand. ‘You won’t have to.’
‘Shall we?’ the Doctor asks.
And he leaps. . .
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Fitz’s Song
Contains Spoilers
I’ve travelled to the past, sweetheart,
And I’ve been to the future, too.
Once, a few hundred years from now,
I thought I’d ask after you.
An obvious formality
Because our love was oh so true.
Together for eternity.
That shows how little I knew.
I saw your file in black and white
Describing everything you’ll do.
And read you won’t wait for me.
I would have waited for you.
We used to talk of destiny.
And in the future you still do.
The sting in the tail is that I’m
Not the man you’ll say it to.
When I say that you are history,
Well, it is literally true.
They only seem like choices, love.
I’ve seen just what you’ll do.
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You’ll sometimes be spontaneous
Would you like to know what you’ll do?
I know how long you’ve got with him
Can’t take that away from you.
You’ll leave me, but no hard feelings.
Because I’ve had my sneak preview.
You’ve moved on in your life, so I
Won’t spoil its twist ending for you.
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The Gallifrey Chronicles
The Album
1. ‘The Wheel Rolls On’, Archie Bronson Outfit
2. ‘Brain Stew’ (Godzilla Remix), Green Day
3. ‘One Armed Scissor’, At the Drive-In
4. ‘Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town’, Pearl Jam 5. ‘Horse Tears’, Goldfrapp
6. ‘The Becoming’, Nine Inch Nails
7. ‘The Story of Our Life So Far’, Salako
8. ‘This Mess We’re In’, PJ Harvey
9. ‘Aenema’, Tool
10. ‘Pets’, Porno for Pyros
11. ‘Last Cigarette’, Dramarama
12. ‘Non Zero Possibility’, At the Drive-In
13. ‘Eraser’, Nine Inch Nails
14. ‘Escape from the Prison Planet’, Clutch
15. ‘Hello Spaceboy’, David Bowie
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About the Author
LANCE PARKIN has written a number of books and other things, including the first-ever original Eighth Doctor novel, The Dying Days (which is available for free on the BBCi site, and for rather more than that on eBay), and the BBC
novels The Infinity Doctors, Father Time and Trading Futures. His most recent works are the science-fiction novel Warlords of Utopia, and (with Mark Jones) Dark Matter, a guide to the author Philip Pullman.
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Document Outline
Front Cover
Contents
Prologue
1: New and Missing Adventures
2: Gone
Interlude: The Girl Who Was Different
3: The Time Trap
4: Acquisitions
5: Deadly Reunion
Interlude: The Last of Gallifrey
6: And the Dream I Had Was True
7: The Edge of Destruction
Interlude: Intervention
8: WWDWD?
9: The Sphere of Our Sorrow
10: Ask Not...
11: The Vore Games
Interlude: Marnal's Error
12: Reloaded
13: It's the End...
Fitz's Song: Contains Spoilers
The Gallifrey Chronicles: The Album
About the Author
Back Cover
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen