64 - The Last Resort

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‘I think time and space just fell apart.’
Anji isn’t sure, but then it’s hard to be sure of anything now. Good
Times Inc. promised a new tourist experience, with hotels in every
major period of human history – but that kind of arrogance comes
with a price, and it’s a price the Doctor doesn’t want to pay.
As aliens conquer an alternative Earth, Anji and Fitz race to find
out how to stop Good Times without stopping time itself. But they
find that events are out of control – they can’t even save each
other. And when the Doctor tries to help, it gets far worse. At the
Last Resort, only Sabbath can save the day.
And then the price gets even higher. . .
This is another in the series of continuing adventures
for the Eighth Doctor.
THE LAST RESORT
PAUL LEONARD
DOCTOR WHO: THE LAST RESORT
Commissioning Editor: Ben Dunn
Creative Consultant & Editor:
Justin Richards
Project Editor: Jacqueline Rayner
Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd
Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane
London W12 0TT
First published 2003
Copyright c
Paul Leonard 2003
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Original series broadcast on the BBC
Format c
BBC 1963
Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC
ISBN 0 563 48605 8
Cover imaging by Black Sheep, copyright c
BBC 2003
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of
Chatham
Cover printed by Belmont Press Ltd, Northampton
This novel is dedicated to Jim Mortimore,
who showed me unselfish friendship and great patience
and taught me all about writing novels
(everything else is my fault)
Contents
Prologue
The King Is Dead 7
Chapter One
There is No. . . 10
Chapter Two
Happy Days 15
Chapter Two
Happy Days are Here Again 26
Chapter Two
. . . And Again 32
Chapter One
. . . Alternative 33
Chapter Three
A Day in the Life of the Time Police 35
Chapter Four
It’s a Kind of Magic 46
Chapter Five
Multiplication, That’s the Name of the Game 56
Chapter Six
Last Boat on the River Nile 62
4
Chapter Seven
Down Among the Dead Men 69
Chapter Eight
You Can Run but You Can’t Hide 80
Chapter Nine
Wanna Live For Ever 90
Chapter Ten
Just the Two of Us 102
Chapter Eleven
Don’t Wanna Live For Ever 114
Chapter Twelve
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like 123
Chapter Thirteen
Bad Moon Rising 130
Chapter Fourteen
The King is Dead. . . 138
Chapter Sixteen
Feels Like Starting Over 141
Chapter Fifteen
. . . Long Live the King 147
Chapter Seventeen
Not the End, Not Even the Beginning of the End. . . 153
Chapter Eighteen
. . . But the End of the Beginning 158
Chapter Nineteen
It’s Not Better Than Anything 165
6The Last Resort
Chapter Two
Happy Days are Here [Yet Again] 175
Chapter Twenty
There is No Alternative 178
Chapter Twenty
No Alternative 181
Chapter Twenty-one
No 184
Epilogue
Goin’ Back 186
Prologue
The King Is Dead
‘Your Majesty! If you could just turn this way. . . ’
The man had an American accent, but he looked Chinese. He had used the
wrong form of address as usual, but the High Supreme Ruler of the Two Egypts
and the Greater World had long since ceased trying to insist, just as he had
ceased trying to account for all the languages and races and strangeness of the
time travellers. The small silver thing, the camera, flashed in Cheops’s eyes,
dazzling him for a moment.
He tried to smile. ‘I think you will find –’ he began, hesitant as always in
the tourist language, but a tour guide was striding across the stone floor in her
sea-blue uniform, already shouting at him.
‘Mister Chee! I’m sorry but I really must ask you to put your camera away!
The fabrics and materials here are very sensitive to the light.’
Mr Chee’s expression became flat, threatening. ‘I paid money,’ he said. ‘Good
money, as good as the next man’s. Are you saying I can’t take pictures?’
The guide was facing him now, unintimidated by his anger. ‘The materials of
the throne and the Pharaoh’s costume are quite irreplaceable.’
‘Because no one can do that any more,’ said Cheops, but both guide and
tourist ignored him. The fabric that made his cloak and covered the throne had
been soaked for hours in the clear Nile water, the colours flowing in, flowing
out, like blood in a vein, a hundred times for the floods, a hundred times for
the blood of the Hundred Gods –
But the Nile water was no longer clear, it was slicked with oil from the
tourists’ boats, and their factories, and their markets, and their cars.
Mr Chee was still talking. ‘Stop me if I’m wrong but I thought that we’d
travelled in time, like, in time, so surely these people can make some more
of this lapis blue or whatever it is? I mean, it’s not like this is a museum or
something!’
Cheops knew what a museum was, and knew that his Kingdom had become
one of those dead places. He touched the Ring of Power, with its gold cast of
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`Ithinktimeandspacejustfellapart.'Anjiisn'tsure,butthenit'shardtobesureofanythingnow.GoodTimesInc.promisedanewtouristexperience,withhotelsineverymajorperiodofhumanhistory–butthatkindofarrogancecomeswithaprice,andit'sapricetheDoctordoesn'twanttopay.AsaliensconqueranalternativeEarth,AnjiandFitzraceto...

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