"Gone"


Chapter 45

"Cookies"


STANDARD DISCLAIMER: See: Chapter 1


Zeta stepped out of the oak wardrobe.

"Hi Honey, I'm home!" he called jokingly, glancing around the living room. Nikki was nowhere in sight.

"She's not here," Warin told him. He frowned at the graduate student.

"Not here? Where's she gone?"

"The store, I think."

"Oh." He sounded disappointed. "Did she say when she'd be back?"

"Nope." Zeta's eyebrows went up. Warin smiled sheepishly. "Earth slang."

"Hmm. I see that you're making an effort to fit in."

"Yeah. Missus Benson taught me to make cookies today."

"Cookies," Zeta repeated with a sigh. "A Time Lady making cookies. Rassilon save us!"


CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 46, "Don't Leave Home Without It"