"Gone"


Chapter 17

"Day of Atonement"

STANDARD DISCLAIMER: See: Chapter 1

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here he is at last - the Doctor! Yay!


He stopped in front of the synagogue, feeling the urge to join the gathering crowd.

Someone pressed a yarmulke into his hand. He put it on and went inside.

There's something familiar about all of this, he decided. He thought he should be standing with a blonde woman who scolded him in a furious whisper: "Don't fidget!" Who was she? He searched his memory, but found no answers.

It was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He had eaten a beignet earlier; suddenly, he felt inexplicably guilty.

He felt he had much to atone for, but he couldn't remember why.


CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 18, "Going to Bourbon Street"