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"Next Steps" - Part Six

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Part Six The laughter faded. Zeeva didn’t move. Her sonic screwdriver remained aimed toward the darkness beyond the console room, its sapphire tip casting a narrow glow along the empty corridor. Finn stayed close behind her. Bunsen and Beaker stood several feet away, watching the instruments. Nobody spoke. Then— THUMP! Finn jumped. Zeeva immediately reached one arm behind herself, gently keeping him from moving any farther forward. “Stay with me,” she whispered. “You don’t have to tell me twice,” Finn whispered back. From somewhere inside the TARDIS, the voice came again. “ You can’t keep him forever. ” Zeeva’s jaw tightened. “Don’t need forever.” She slowly swept the sonic screwdriver through the air. “Just longer than you.” The device chirped. Zeeva frowned. Nothing. No life signs. No spatial displacement. No dimensional breach. Nothing that should’ve explained how another intelligence was speaking from inside her ship. Bunsen suddenly leaned toward one of the monitors. “Curious.” Z...
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"Next Steps" - Part Five

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Part Five The words remained suspended above the console: IT HAS FOUND THE BOY. Finn stared at them. A few minutes ago, he had been marveling at the impossible interior of Zeeva’s TARDIS. Now…something impossible was marveling at him . “What does that mean?” Nobody answered. Finn looked at Bunsen. The scientist was frantically tapping controls beneath the holographic display. He looked at Beaker. “Mee mee…” Beaker whimpered. Finally, Finn looked at Zeeva. She hadn’t moved. Her eyes remained fixed on the message. “Zeeva?” Finn beckoned to her. She turned. The moment she saw the fear on Finn’s face, something in her expression softened. She crossed the console room and crouched beside him. “Hey,” she whispered. Finn swallowed. “Is something trying to kill me?” Zeeva hesitated—she hated lying to children, and she hated frightening them even more. “I don’t know what it wants.” “That’s not a ‘no’.” “No.” Finn’s shoulders sank. Zeeva gently placed both hands on them. “But listen to me.” Finn...
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