Doctor Who: Veiled Memories - The History of the Doctor

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Chris McKeon DOCTOR WHO: VEILED MEMORIES ‘I was sentenced to permanent incarceration on a prison asteroid. Not a enticing proposition, so during transit, I summoned my ship and escaped once more. I’ve been looking for you since. It was only days ago that I detected your arrival on Earth coincident with the Auton invasion. Knowing that where a threat was, you would follow, I set myself up as the museum curator to be sure to cross your path.’ ‘While you were crossing, you might have taken the time to help me defeat the Nestenes.’ ‘I couldn’t risk exposure, Doctor, not with the Time Lords certain to be monitoring your arrival so closely. Besides, I trusted your abilities.’ ‘Like my memory,’ the Doctor stated. ‘And I have a very clear memory of you threatening my life and several others! Is that friendship between Time Lords’ The Master stepped from the console and walked to the Doctor. He held out his gloved hands as if in apology. ‘I truly beg your forgiveness, Doctor, but you must understand, I could not be sure what changes to your personality the Time Lords imposed when they forced your regeneration! When I suspected your memory had been altered and saw the depth of your current persona’s…character, I judged a small show of force was the best means to speak with you alone.’ ‘At the cost of several innocent soldiers’ lives, including my good friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart’ ‘Doctor, I am your good friend. And as your friend, you must believe me that the device I claimed was an explosive was merely a technological trick, nothing more. I would never harm innocent lives.’ PAGE 28
Chris McKeon DOCTOR WHO: VEILED MEMORIES The Doctor rubbed his neck, not completely convinced, but swayed somewhat nonetheless by the Master’s words. ‘Well, I grant you allowed enough time for the soldiers to escape.’ ‘Exactly. And they would have been completely unharmed even if I hadn’t.’ ‘Well, even so, I’d like to see for myself that there was no damage done to the museum and that the UNIT troops are all right.’ The Master spread his hands with a sheepish smile. ‘Once more I must apologise, but this machine is merely a pale copy of a true TARDIS; it is old and functioning on minimal power. A side effect of its age is a severe limitation of its navigation capabilities. I’m afraid once we’ve left one location in space/time, we cannot return. ‘ ‘Yes, that’s very much how my TARDIS used to be. My word, I’ve done it again.’ ‘And how fortuitous for me that you have, Doctor; for you know I’m telling you the truth.’ The Doctor permitted himself a half-smile. ‘Very well, perhaps you are. But that doesn’t answer why you’ve brought me here, or what you’ve done with my assistant, Liz Shaw!’ The Master smiled and put an arm around the Doctor’s shoulders. ‘Miss Shaw is perfectly fine; I have her safe in a waiting room. But to answer your first question: I’ve brought you here so that, together, we can quietly slip into your dreary UNIT’s HQ, repair your TARDIS and leave this backwards planet to its own devolution.’ The Doctor slipped out from under the Master’s arm and placed his hands on his hips in excited scepticism. ‘You have the means to restore my TARDIS to its proper working condition’ PAGE 29
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