Missing, Part Two: Message in a Bottle (short story)

 was the seventeenth story in the Short Trips anthology More Short Trips. It was written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker. It featured Melanie Bush.

Summary
A bottle drifts through space. It has a message written on paper in it, and there is a strand of red hair caught in the stopper.

Mel often looks up at the sky and wonders if the bottle is still there.

The bottle has been caught in a stream of matter being drawn into a black hole. It cannot escape gravity's pull, and will be crushed centuries from now.

As the bottle continues its travels, a blue box is briefly reflected in its surface.

Characters

 * Melanie Bush

Continuity

 * As the Seventh Doctor requested when she left the TARDIS, Mel placed a message in a bottle and threw it in the space in the hope that he would one day find it. (TV: Dragonfire)