Doctor Who_ Warlock - Andrew Cartmel [155]
The dog suddenly twitched, its yawn abruptly terminated. It shifted on the seat, watching Vincent.
‘I don’t know why I chose Jack,’ he said. ‘It just popped into my head.’ He looked at the dog again. It lay there looking back at him.
‘It seems to suit you. Or at least it suits me. I like the sound of it.’
He smiled. ‘Like I said, I know you’re crazy. Driven mad by some tragedy. But you’ll get over it. You’ll be okay.
‘Just remember. The future. No looking back, that’s our motto. We’re heading towards a new life.’ He dabbed on the accelerator with his foot.
‘As for the past, don’t even think about it. It’s over. Gone. Even something that happened one second ago is in the past. It’s history. Don’t look back.’
The bank of grey clouds ahead had broken open to allow a mountainous slant of late sunlight through. The fields and trees on either side of the car lit up in the smoky yellow light. Vincent squinted as the windshield dimmed to compensate.
‘Jack the dog and Vincent drive off into the sunset,’ he said. ‘The future. Adventure. The open road and whatever it might bring.’
The dog said nothing, of course.
Vincent put his foot down on the accelerator. The car was moving along at steady speed now and he wanted to reach for a bar of chocolate. It was on the seat beside the dog. He’d have to reach past the dog to get at it.
But he was a bit concerned about how the dog would react.
He didn’t know if it was going to lick him or bite him.
Like the future.
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First published in Great Britain in 1995 by
Doctor Who Books
an imprint of Virgin Publishing Ltd
332 Ladbroke Grove
London W10 5AH
Copyright © Andrew Cartmel 1995
The right of Andrew Cartmel to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1994
Cover illustration by Tony Masero
ISBN 0 426 20423 9
Phototypeset by Intype, London
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berks
All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35