Meetings

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 20120

Ragan

"You took your time," says a voice. "Get on the radio and tell the group captain that I think I've located the..."

I clear my throat, politely interrupting, and startled faces whip around to stare at me. One of them I immediately recognize as Rachel Jensen, the scientist we came here to look for.

"Who are you?" says Rachel. "What are you doing here?" By the tone of her voice, she's obviously quite unsure how to respond to us.

The Doctor comes up next to me, smiles, and hands her an ID card. She peers at it. "Doctor John Smith," she reads out loud. "UNIT scientific advisor. What's UNIT? And, wait a moment, the date on this is..."

"Yes," says the Doctor, and steps into the van. "I say, those are some interesting readings. Have you pinpointed their origin yet?"

"What?" says Rachel, startled. She directs her attention to the control panel the Doctor is looking at and says, "Yes, we think we may have got a fix on it."

"It certainly appears to be an artificial pattern. Look at the rhythmic nature of the pulses."

"Yes, we were just investigating that..."

In moments, the two are deep in some sort of technical discussion that goes right over my head. I smile behind my hand. Some things are constant about the Doctor, from one regeneration to another and one universe to another. At least this one's face actually matches the picture on his ID. Probably.

I smile politely at the other people in the van, who are just standing there looking a bit bewildered, and quietly back out of the van.

"Ah, there you are!" I hear the Professor saying cheerfully. For a moment, I think he's talking to me, and start to shoot back some flip answer about having not gone anywhere except inside the van, but I quickly realize that he's greeting the newly arrived Group Captain "Chunky" Gilmore. I smile at the irritated expression on the Captain's face, but my smile quickly fades as I realize he hasn't come alone.

"Isn't that..." my twin whispers. She doesn't bother finishing the sentence, because we both know who it is.

  1. Yup, it's Mike Smith, the soldiers who's selling them out to the Daleks. Should have expected him to turn up sooner or later...

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