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== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
Old Time | Old [[Time Agent]]s never die - they just lose their memories. Back on [[Earth]] after her involvement in the [[Time War]], [[Ace]] is having trouble fitting in - and coincidence seems to be following her... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to | Back in [[London]] with no memory of her adventures with [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] or living on [[Gallifrey]], [[Ace]] flat sits for a friend and regularly chats with a neighbour. One day, she hangs around the [[post box]]es waiting for the neighbour and, when she arrives, she tells her about the strange day she has had. | ||
''Ace takes the [[London Underground|Tube]] to [[Leicester Square]] and, when the [[train]] stops at [[Covent Garden tube station|Covent Garden]], she is bumped into by a man who remembers her from [[school]] but whom she fails to recall. She purchases the next [[book]] in a series she is reading from a [[bookshop]] on [[Charing Cross Road]] before going to the [[National Portrait Gallery]] where she is approached by another man. Like her, he finds the [[statue]] of [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert|Price Albert]] tacky and, as they laugh about it, he recognises her as the girl who blew up the [[art]] room at [[Perivale High]]. She makes her excuses and leaves.'' | |||
''Ace sits to read in [[Soho Square]], unhappy at being referred to as "Dorothy McShane" by both men who recognised her, and is disturbed by an old woman who sits next to her and keeps trying to make conversation. The old woman also recognises her and identifies herself as [[Matthews (In Search of Lost Time)|Miss Matthews]], her old [[biology]] teacher. Ace feels somewhat threatened when Miss Matthews grabs her hand and asks if things turned out well, so she makes an excuse and leaves without her book, deciding not to return to Soho Square when Miss Matthews tells her that she can always find her there if she wishes to.'' | |||
Having told her story, Ace finally confronts the neighbour, remembering about Gallifrey and knowing that the [[Time Lord]]s are attempting to extract information from her using coded messages. The neighbour confirms that she is a Time Lord and that they are after information to assist in the [[Time War]] and uses a [[memory reintegrator]] on Ace to restore her memories, including [[Braxiatel]] taking them away, long enough to acquire galactic coordinates for a secret research base. Once she has this information, the neighbour says farewell to the [[amnesia]]c Ace and gives her a book. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Ace]] | * [[Ace]] | ||
* [[Matthews (In Search of Lost Time)|Miss Matthews]] | |||
* [[Neighbour (In Search of Lost Time)|Neighbour]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
' | * Ace's friend has gone to [[Salford]] because of her job. | ||
* Ace's friend lives in [[Camden]]. | |||
* Ace's friend has a collection of [[book]]s. | |||
* Ace attended [[Fraser Road Primary]] and [[Perivale High]]. | |||
* Ace visits a [[bookshop]] on [[Charing Cross Road]]. | |||
* Ace thinks that [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert|Prince Albert]] were basically [[Victoria Beckham|Posh]] and [[David Beckham|Becks]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
' | * The title is taken from [[Marcel Proust]]'s {{wi|In Search of Lost Time}}. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||