FIC: The Ambassador's Tale (Valiant Tales)

[lindenharp]

Title: The Ambassador's Tale
Series: Valiant Tales.  Read them in order here.
Rating: G
Characters: The Master (Simm), other characters
Genre: drabble
Spoilers: Minor spoilers for The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords.
Summary: A series of drabbles about the people who lived, worked, and suffered on the Valiant during the Year That Never Was.  100 words according to MS Word.
Disclaimer: The sandbox belongs to RTD and the BBC. I'm just playing here, in the corner, making little sand-TARDISs.
A/N:I keep telling these people that I'm busy.  I have a long WIP to finish.  But they insist on barging in and telling me their stories.

I once read that philosophy provides complicated answers to simple questions.

“Who am I?”  I was the French ambassador to the United States, senior member of the corps diplomatique.  Now I am personal chef to the master of Earth.

“Why me?”  Perhaps to humiliate me.  I lacked culinary training.  Since I wished to live, I learned quickly.  Giovanni, who cooks belowdecks, provided a book by Julia Child.  I owe my survival to a Sicilian and a Californian.

“Why am I here?”  The simple answer: President Winters invited me.  The philosophical answer: perhaps to learn the difference between humiliation and humility.