The [Fourth] Doctor (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
allpurposescarf) wrote2010-08-08 11:26 pm
allpurposescarf) wrote2010-08-08 11:26 pm
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There are great number of things that Four can tolerate when it comes right down to it. Or more than a few rather, depending on who one asks and how one counts it. Having his TARDIS dragged across all time and space and forced down onto some planet that is very certainly not where he'd meant to be. Not to mention that he'd thought he'd seen the last of this sort of request.
But he'd forgotten about the Time Lords. And he's almost certain it is them. There aren't very many people who would have bothered to try. Again. Needless to say, then, he's decided that whatever they want him to do can wait. He's had too much of getting into trouble on other people's behalf later and certainly they'd have to have been aware that he's getting very tired of this repeated instance that he fix whatever problem has come up this time. Right now, he means to take full advantage of his old fishing rod.
(Romana, of course, had insisted that he'd only been doing it to be contrary, and he's not to proud to admit that she's right. He is - and will continue to be - contrary. Especially if it means that they'll stop asking him to pick up the messes.)
So it is that he's set himself up on the banks of the local river with his old fishing pole, quite entirely unconcerned about the local trouble. In fact, he's whistling softly to himself as he waits, and if Romana's gone off to look into things, he hasn't really noticed any.
But he'd forgotten about the Time Lords. And he's almost certain it is them. There aren't very many people who would have bothered to try. Again. Needless to say, then, he's decided that whatever they want him to do can wait. He's had too much of getting into trouble on other people's behalf later and certainly they'd have to have been aware that he's getting very tired of this repeated instance that he fix whatever problem has come up this time. Right now, he means to take full advantage of his old fishing rod.
(Romana, of course, had insisted that he'd only been doing it to be contrary, and he's not to proud to admit that she's right. He is - and will continue to be - contrary. Especially if it means that they'll stop asking him to pick up the messes.)
So it is that he's set himself up on the banks of the local river with his old fishing pole, quite entirely unconcerned about the local trouble. In fact, he's whistling softly to himself as he waits, and if Romana's gone off to look into things, he hasn't really noticed any.