Drabble (2/22): Another Way Back

[john_amend_all]

"What..." Peri managed to open her eyes, and recognised the shabby, beaming figure standing over her. "What happened? Where's my Doctor?"

The Doctor took her hand in both of his. "I'm afraid he thinks you're dead."

"Dead?"

"On Thoros Beta. Fortunately your consciousness was saved in the Matrix, and once I found a suitable body—"

"Suitable body?" Peri sat up. In the mirror, a turquoise-skinned alien stranger stared dumbly back at her. "That's me?"

Shaking all over, she buried her inhumanly beautiful new face in his shoulder.

"Doctor?" she said, after a while.

"Yes?"

"Thanks." She swallowed. "I guess."

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, yes, that one gets a lot in. V good.

[john_amend_all]

Thanks. That was one of the harder ships to come up with something reasonable for.