Prototype
reworked a story I wrote a long time before in which Rose dreams about
the far future when she and The Doctor are old and he dies in his bed
with her at his side. I wrote that story purely as a whim, not intending
it to be part of the continued narrative, but with a little tweaking,
making it from Davie’s viewpoint, it could work.
Davie was always destined to build a time machine out of a DeLorean. He did so all the way back in the Unfinished Business series when The Doctor had to change the future to stop him killing himself on his first test drive. Now the future has caught up with him and the less impulsive but still ambitious young man is ready to test his prototype. His family see him off.
And the next thing he knows, he is right where he started but centuries later, being greeted by his future self.
Davie is plunged into a sort of This Is Your Life for The Doctor, now an old man in a hoverchair with his body failing. And he discovers that there is a purpose to his visit.
The Rite of Mori
has featured in the past. It was first referred to in the Unfinished Business
story Mindflip when Nine and Ten on a joint mission found a crystal used
in the ritual that still contained the essence of a Time Lord. The procedure
is next seen, or first seen, 
depending
in what order the stories are read, in the Theta Sigma story Time is The
Fire, when young Chrístõ, the proto-Doctor receives the soul of his old
friend, Mai Li Tuo, the Chinese Renegade Time Lord. Which actually means
that Davie, when he receives The Doctor’s soul in the same ritual,
also has Li Tuo’s soul within The Doctor’s, like Russian dolls.
But I decided I wasn’t getting into that. The important thing is,
that Davie IS becoming The Doctor in every way. He has his HEART and his
SOUL. All he lacks is his experiences.
This story was well received by most readers, though some found the idea of The Doctor dying of old age hard to take, since it dispels their image of an invincible hero. Some fans also find the idea of The Doctor’s family dynasty difficult, preferring the Lonely God scenario to the New Jacob one. But enough liked it as a brief glimpse of the future to make it a success generally.
