"Gone"
Chapter 31
"Duty"
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: See: Chapter 1
"Great Rassilon," Zeta said quietly when the Doctor had finished. "I was only gone a few days – "
"But many weeks had passed by the time you returned," the Doctor explained. "Something had gone wrong with Gallifrey's timestream."
"We've been headed for trouble ever since the Lady President regenerated."
"Perhaps the time will come when I'll be able to cope with what I've done," the Doctor mused. "But until then – "
"You won't allow yourself to remember."
"No. I can't."
"Hmm. I'd never thought of you as weak."
"I've committed genocide!"
"You did your duty as a Time Lord, Theta."
CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 32, "A Familiar Face"
