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arrived-but-out-of-breath Lukas a look that said ‘Oh, that told you, mate’.
    Lukas pulled Joe back from the Doctor. ‘Leave him alone,’ Lukas snapped at him. ‘Touch him and I’ll have the police here.’ As if to underline this, Lukas had his mobile out and ready.
    The Doctor didn’t bother pointing out that Joe had found him . Nor did he point out that Lukas was clearly only being aggressive because of what the Doctor had said in the other shop.
    He had to remember that people didn’t always like getting hints about their future. Always tripped him up, that one.
    Spoilers, someone once said.
     
    ‘How do you mean you are going to save my life?’
    The Doctor shrugged. ‘Done it.’
    ‘Done what?’
    ‘Saved your life.’
    ‘How? When and why?’
    The Doctor drew his psychic paper out of his inner jacket pocket and showed it to Lukas. It had the right date on it, the name of the shop and the message SAVE
    LUKAS SAMUEL CARNES’S LIFE BY STOPPING
    HIS BROTHER BUYING AN M-TEK.
    ‘Dunno who wrote it,’ the Doctor said, ‘cos I don’t recognise the handwriting. But it appeared on the paper about twenty minutes after I arrived in Chiswick. Bad form to ignore messages, I always think. So, you’ve been saved, my job is done, all I need to do now is find out whether Loretta’s is a laundrette, a florist or a coffee shop in this time period. It’s one of those in 2009 but I’m not sure which.’
    ‘Laundrette,’ said Joe.
    Lukas pulled Joe behind him. ‘Don’t talk to that man,’
    he scolded his kid brother.
    ‘But you’re talking to him,’ Joe protested, not unreasonably.
    ‘That’s different,’ Lukas said, realising with horror that this was exactly what his mum used to say when she’d said something he considered hypocritical or unfair.
    The Doctor turned away. ‘Nice to meet you, boys, but I thought I might wander off to a lovely restaurant in Brentford, down by the canal there, to pass the time before I meet up with my friend.’
     
    ‘What?’ said Lukas, mentally kicking himself for caring. Just let the weirdo go, he urged himself. But his mouth wouldn’t stop asking questions. ‘What would’ve happened if Joe had got an M-TEK?’
    And the Doctor looked at him. ‘No idea. I don’t know what an M-TEK is. I assumed it was that laptop you were thinking of buying. I did a search, but I couldn’t find any reference to it. Then I saw you watching the demo, like everyone else appears to be, so I guess that’s the M-TEK.’
    ‘No,’ said Joe, pushing forwards. ‘That’s the new Psiryn Book Plus. It’s rubbish. I wanted an M-TEK.’
    ‘But I wasn’t planning to buy one,’ Lukas added. ‘For Joe or me.’
    ‘So what’s an M-TEK then?’ the Doctor frowned.
    Lukas sighed. ‘How can you save me from it, if you don’t know what it is?’
    ‘If I knew everything I was saving people from before I tried saving them, I’d save very few people cos I’d be spending all day researching what I was saving them from, wouldn’t I?’
    Lukas and Joe glanced at each other.
    ‘You’re funny,’ said Joe.
    ‘Thank you,’ the Doctor said.
    Lukas shook his head. ‘Home,’ he said to Joe. ‘Come on.’ He all but dragged his little brother away.
    ‘Bye, Doctor,’ Joe called back.
    The Doctor waved as the two boys vanished into a side street. Then he started to wander towards the lower end of Chiswick, and the M4 flyover, towards Brentford. And that nice Italian in the square. Luna Piena. He hadn’t had a
    decent Italian meal in years. Centuries perhaps.
    SINCE 1492 was written on the psychic paper.
    Which was weird, because the psychic paper didn’t work like that. At least, it hadn’t in the past. It was bad enough that people were using it more and more to send him messages these days, but when it started answering him unbidden, it was time perhaps to give it a two-thousand leaf service.
    He shoved the leather wallet with the paper in it back inside his jacket pocket and tried to