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- Dragonfire - Ace is 16
- KANE: How old are you?
ACE: Six, eighteen.
KANE: Eighteen, eh? - I'm sixteen, I'm too young to be freeze dried.
- KANE: How old are you?
- Timewyrm: Genesys - post-Survival
- "So you remember who you are now?"
She considered it. Reaching into her mind, she discovered that she did know: Dorothy - God, how she hated that name! And she and the Doctor had taken off a while ago in the TARDIS - TARDIS: Time And Relative Dimension In Space. A sophisticated machine that looks like a dilapidated London Police Telephone Box on the outside. Inside, its dimensions are vastly larger, and it is capable of traversing all the known boundaries of time and space by passage through the Vortex - they had taken off in the TARDIS from near her home. Perivale, West London. Not much of a home. They had fought the Master (image of a sneering, bearded face, elegant clothing and fangs) on the planet of the Cheetah people (smell of blood, pounding of feet, the thrill of the hunt, the...) "Yes," she said, unable to conceal the smile in her voice. "I'm Ace."
- "So you remember who you are now?"
- Timewyrm: Exodus - continues directly on from Genesys
- "Is she here, then?"
"Who?"
"Ishtar, the Timewyrm, whatever she calls herself."
The Doctor took a small device from his pocket. It was completely inert, no sound, no flashing lights. He shook it, tapped it, and then put it away. "Apparently not."
"We're supposed to be chasing her."
- "Is she here, then?"
- Timewyrm: Apocalypse - continues directly on from Exodus, foreshadowing to Cat's Cradle
- The TARDIS had tracked the Timewyrm to the twentieth century on Earth, where the Doctor restored the time-lines that she had disrupted and scattered her across space and time. The Doctor had suspected that she would be able to reassemble herself, and the winking light on the console was the depressing sign that the TARDIS had detected the Timewyrm's presence and had brought them to Kirith.
- "Professor," she said. "This is probably a silly question, but - are there any animals in the TARDIS?"
The Doctor was glaring at the scanner. "What?" he said absently.
"Well, it's just that yesterday morning I thought I saw -"
- Timewyrm: Revelation - continues directly on from Apocalypse, Ace is in her early twenties
- They had only just left Kirith
- Ace was in her early twenties
- Fellow Travellers through The Grief
- Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible - The TARDIS is invaded by the Process and damaged. Not long since Survival
- Her aversion to cats, especially black ones, had only recently developed.
- Cat's Cradle: Warhead
- Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark - The TARDIS damage is repaired, but it is infected
- Even a battered Type 40 draws its vitality from this wellspring [the Eye of Harmony] - if it can. But links are essential and the Doctor's TARDIS was losing its link.
- 'Where did you see the cat?' the Doctor asked.
'In the cloister room.'
'A call to man the battle stations,' the Doctor murmured to himself. 'I think the time for action has come, Ace. I have reached an impasse in repairing the TARDIS. There is nothing more I can do.'
'Why not?'
'Spare parts are required.'
'For what?'
The Doctor rose from his chair and looked around confusedly. 'Block transfer computation,' he told her as if this made the point clear. He wasn't prepared to tell her of the damage to the link with the Eye of Harmony. - 'The TARDIS is very nearly restored to full functioning. The organic microcircuitry, the link with the Eye of Harmony all repaired.'
- Metamorphosis and Memorial
- Nightshade - Introduces the tertiary console room, Ace wants to leave but the Doctor prevents her because of "other considerations".
- It had been a struggle though. He had hated the lies and the half-truths he’d felt compelled to create in order to protect her from the future. After Fenric and more recently their adventures battling the Timewyrm, he’d hoped to have put all that behind them. But now there were other considerations...
- The Doctor looked at her steadily. He didn’t want to let her go but under normal circumstances he would have done. Under normal circumstances. But there was more at stake now...
- Mark Gatiss's author's notes: "And now the ending. The Doctor tricks Ace and never returns her to Crook Marsham. Under normal circumstances, it says here, he would have done but ‘there was more at stake now’. What does that mean? I don’t know! I only know that I was told it would be wrapped up in the next book and I remember picking up Love and War only to find there was no reference to it whatsoever! No fault of Paul Cornell’s, of course, but I was just baffled. How could she forgive the Doctor so easily? Was it ever referred to again? Answers on a postcard please."
- Love and War - A gap of at least a few months between this and Nightshade. DWM only places Cat Litter there.
- Getting here at all must have been difficult. The TARDIS, the Doctor's multidimensional police-box craft, had been behaving erratically lately.
- Ace found herself sighing. Hell, what was she doing here? What was she after? It has been months since Robin Yeadon, months and years and centuries.
- Deceit - draws a pretty direct line from Cat's Cradle to Love and War
- 'You were being even more stroppy than normal. I don’t know what was wrong with you. Everything should have been OK. You remember the TARDIS was destroyed? And then there was that business in Turkey and New York and all that. And then we went to that Tir-na-n-Og place, and got the stuff to finish fixing the TARDIS. After that, everything should have been fine.’
‘And in fact, Ace, that’s precisely when something else went wrong.’
‘You’re not kidding. After that you went moping round the Yorkshire Moors. You know I made sure the TARDIS didn’t have a gas oven, just in case you thought of putting your head in it? I got you out of that mess at the radio telescope, and did I get any thanks? No, I got my heart broken instead. No, I didn’t. But maybe Robin did. And then–’ She paused for breath.
‘There’s more?’
‘And then you hardly spoke to me at all on Heaven. And I met Jan. And you let him die.’ - ‘You see, the TARDIS was contaminated,’ he said eagerly. ‘There was an impurity in the organic matter I used to refuel the link with the Eye of Harmony. The protoplasm from Tir- na-n-Og must have contained a small fragment of one of Goibhnie’s experiments. Ace, are you listening? It infected the TARDIS, you see. And that meant it was in my mind, too. I couldn’t make any conscious plans to get rid of it, because it always knew everything I knew...’
- 'You were being even more stroppy than normal. I don’t know what was wrong with you. Everything should have been OK. You remember the TARDIS was destroyed? And then there was that business in Turkey and New York and all that. And then we went to that Tir-na-n-Og place, and got the stuff to finish fixing the TARDIS. After that, everything should have been fine.’