The Rest of the Truth ("Yellow" Entry)
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who_contestTitle: The Rest of the Truth
Rating: G
Word Count: 164
Characters: First Doctor, mentions of Susan and Ian
Summary; The TARDIS turns yellow, and the Doctor only tells half the truth about why they don't stay.
Genre: Humour
The TARDIS came to rest on a pre-industrial world, and the Doctor walked out. He turned to look at his beloved machine, and gave a contemptuous little sniff.
Light refracted a bit differently on this world than on Earth, and her normal blue had bleached to a jaundiced kind of yellow.
He re-entered and manipulated the controls, sending her back into the timestream and pointedly ignoring the confused questions from his granddaughter and her human teachers.
Eventually, he'd tell them that there was something in the atmosphere that just didn't agree with his old body – wearing a bit thin, you know – and in a way, it was the truth.
The rest of the truth, though, he would hold close to his vest. Chesterton was a science teacher, after all, and he wouldn't have been able to resist teaching Susan a practical lesson about light refraction and colour differentials and all of that.
And the truth was, the Doctor simply didn't want to hear that lecture.
END
Rating: G
Word Count: 164
Characters: First Doctor, mentions of Susan and Ian
Summary; The TARDIS turns yellow, and the Doctor only tells half the truth about why they don't stay.
Genre: Humour
The TARDIS came to rest on a pre-industrial world, and the Doctor walked out. He turned to look at his beloved machine, and gave a contemptuous little sniff.
Light refracted a bit differently on this world than on Earth, and her normal blue had bleached to a jaundiced kind of yellow.
He re-entered and manipulated the controls, sending her back into the timestream and pointedly ignoring the confused questions from his granddaughter and her human teachers.
Eventually, he'd tell them that there was something in the atmosphere that just didn't agree with his old body – wearing a bit thin, you know – and in a way, it was the truth.
The rest of the truth, though, he would hold close to his vest. Chesterton was a science teacher, after all, and he wouldn't have been able to resist teaching Susan a practical lesson about light refraction and colour differentials and all of that.
And the truth was, the Doctor simply didn't want to hear that lecture.
END
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