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'''''Last Christmas''''' was the first short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury]]''. It was written by [[Simon Guerrier]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | '''''Last Christmas''''' was the first short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury]]''. It was written by [[Simon Guerrier]]. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
' | Samarjit is in the trenches of World War I. His British army mates volunteer him for a dangerous mission. Captain Oakes introduces him to Dr Smith. | ||
Samajit accompanies Dr Smith through enemy lines. They next find a deep impact crater, at the bottom of which is a stone building. The Doctor pockets something that he finds. Next, the Doctor explores the surrounding area and examines every spent bomb he finds; when he finds one that hasn't detonated, he takes its parts with him back to the crater. As he starts to set the bomb for detonation, Samarjit is shot. | |||
When Samarjit awakes, he is in hospital; he has been healed. The Doctor had given him an elixir that healed his wounds. | |||
After the war, Samarjit dies from a cold. However, because of the elixir, his consciousness lives on. He and the Doctor meet every year on [[Christmas Eve]] in a pub. Samarjit is angry at everything that happened to him; the Doctor tries to convince him to let go. | |||
Samarjit is especially bitter about Christmas. He has seen people ruin their lives over and over again. Nearly a century after they first met, the Doctor takes Samarjit outside the pub and shows him the happy faces | |||
of Christmas. Samarjit is finally able to let go. | |||
In the morning, Benedict enters his pub. He is used to finding the Doctor here on Christmas morning, but this time the Doctor is asleep, his head lying on a table. The Doctor joins Benedict's family for Christmas as usual; however, Benedict doesn't yet realise that this is the last Christmas the Doctor will visit him. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
