lindenharp: (valiant tales)
lindenharp ([personal profile] lindenharp) wrote2009-01-24 11:04 pm

Fic: The Other Doctor's Tale (Valiant Tales)

Title: The Other Doctor'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: This is the other side of
The Medic's Tale.  I suggest reading that one first.


The Master calls me "Doctor Patel" with a sneer, as if only his compatriot deserves the title.  I took my degrees at Edinburgh and Harvard; nevertheless, I swallow the insult for the sake of all I can learn.

The test subject he calls "The Freak" is remarkable.  I must perform more experiments.  If I can replicate this accelerated healing in humans...

I have a coffee mug that says "Primum non nocere" -- an outdated platitude!  Medicine is never without harm.  Drugs have side-effects; surgery violates the body.  I will give the mug to my corpsman.  I no longer need it.

[identity profile] rose-cat.livejournal.com 2009-01-25 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, my. From "The Medic's Tale" I'd assumed Dr. Patel gave up the coffee mug because he felt guilty. I'm probably not the only one who thought that. Creepy. An interesting detail about the Master, too -- for all his abuse of, and hate for, the Doctor, he still respected him.

[identity profile] lindenharp.livejournal.com 2009-01-25 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
From "The Medic's Tale" I'd assumed Dr. Patel gave up the coffee mug because he felt guilty. I'm probably not the only one who thought that.

I thought that, too, perhaps because the Medic is kind and slightly naive. So I was prepared to give Dr. Patel the benefit of the doubt when he walked into the interview room in the back of my head, but he insisted on showing his true colors.

An interesting detail about the Master, too -- for all his abuse of, and hate for, the Doctor, he still respected him.

Whatever else the Master may think of his enemy, he cannot forget that the Doctor is a Time Lord. And Patel, however useful he may be, is only a human.