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#1: The Chalet School and The Doctor Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:10 pm

The girls had been given permission to break ranks 20 minutes previously, and now small groups meandered around the Rösleinalp. The Maynard triplets, along with a couple of others from their form, were wandering through the pine trees, discussing the recent summer holidays, when a scream cut through the peaceful afternoon. With one accord they ran towards the sound. Con, fleeter than the rest, arrived first to find her cousin, Ailie Russell, lying full length holding onto something over the edge of the shelf, and being dragged inexorably closer towards it. Con flung herself on the ground next to Ailie and held on to her, a second or less later, Len arrived and took in the situation in a glance. She lay on the ground and wriggled to the edge of the shelf, where she saw Ailie was clinging to the arm of an unknown girl. Len called for someone to grab her feet and reached down to hold the arm just below Ailie’s grip. The girl below was unconscious, dangling by her arm from their hands.

Behind her, Len heard more arrivals, then the crisp tones of her godmother as she took charge of the situation.

Moment later, it was all over, the unknown girl, still unconscious was safely on the ground, and Ailie, rather pale from shock, turned aside to vomit. As the majority of the school was now congregated in that spot, it was inevitable that three middles were the unfortunate recipients of her stomach contents.

Then Miss Ferrars was pushing her way through the crowd, extracting the bottle of brandy from the first-aid kit as she came. (There wasn’t much in it as the previous mistress to have had charge of it had felt the need for a great deal of fortification when the junior middles had decided to walk backwards for the entire ramble.)

“Where’s a doctor when you need one?” muttered Miss Andrews, as she rubbed the unconscious girl’s hands.

As if her action had summoned a genie, a voice said. “Did you say doctor? I – ah – I am a doctor.” A tall man shouldered his way through the group and a ripple of excitement ran through most of the mistresses and Upper VI.

The doctor knelt beside the unconscious girl. “Seeva?”

“You know her?” asked Miss Wilson.

“She’s my assistant.” He replied. “I’d better take her back to…”

The girl opened her eyes “Doctor?” she said in a faint voice, and closed them again.

“If you’re going to the sanatorium, perhaps you could take these three with you?” Miss Wilson indicated Ailie, Len and Con.

“I’ll come too, if you have space?” volunteered Margot.

“Ah… well…” he looked around him. “I do have space, as it happens. My… ah… transport is not far away, so if you young ladies are able to walk?” He flicked one end of his scarf over his shoulder in a manner that caused two prefects to semi-swoon, and bent down to pick up his assistant. “This way,” he said and led Ailie and the triplets through the trees.

A short time later, the remainder of the school, still standing by the edge of the shelf heard a groaning, wheezing noise.

“I hope that’s not his car,” muttered Miss Wilmot to Mdlle Lachenais, “from the sound of it, we might well be back at the platz before they are. Or no, it sounds as if they’re going.”

They listened as the wheezing faded quickly away, then organised the girls into pairs to head back to the school.

Last edited by LizB on Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:32 am; edited 2 times in total

#2: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:12 pm

Wonderful! thank you Liz - already looking forward to the next installment!

#3: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:14 pm

Lol!!! I can just picture the blue London police box in the Bernese Oberland!!! Could hear the sound of it too!!!Which Doctor are you using? Tom Baker? (Guessing from the mention of the scarf)

#4: Author: Katie, Location: A Yorkshire lass in London

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:15 pm

This looks great Liz - peas let it be the Christopher Eccleston version of the doctor... *swoon*

*Glossing over the fact that the new doctor has apparently abandoned the scarf in favour of a leather jacket*

#5: Author: Kat, Location: Swansea

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:49 pm

Brilliant Liz!!

#6: Author: LadyGuinevere, Location: Leicester

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:54 pm

Hehehehehehe.

Very intrigued to see what happens!

#7: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:26 pm

Katie wrote:

He should be good but I liked the patchwork coat. I'm not sure about Billie Piper though Confused

Looking forward to more.

#8: Author: keren, Location: Israel

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:33 pm

You mean The Doctor. great

#9: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:11 pm

Brilliant!

Looking forward to more of this.....

#10: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:22 pm

Excellent - and love the almost empty brandy bottle too! Laughing

#11: Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:01 pm

The Doctor and his Tardis showing up at the CS - that should explain a few EBDisms!

#12: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:52 pm

“How far is to your car?” asked Len as they entered the coolness of the pinewoods.

“Well, it’s not exactly a car.” The Doctor admitted. “I know I left it around here somewhere… aha! There it is.”

The girls looked in the direction of his gaze and were bemused to see a London Police box.

“What on earth?” muttered Margot to Len.

“That’s never been here before,” answered Len.

“Ah, if one of you could get the key from my jacket pocket and open the door?”

The triplets and Ailie looked at each other. “Better humour him” mouthed Margot and the others nodded. Len, rather nervously, but feeling it was another of those things she most unfairly had to do because she was the eldest by half an hour, felt in the doctor’s jacket pocket and brought forth a large key attached to something sticky, which turned out to be a lump of jelly babies squashed together. She detached the key from the sweets, fitted it into the lock and turned it.

“Come on in, come on in.” invited the Doctor, cheerily, leading the way in. With another of those quick looks among them, the four girls stepped inside.

“What on earth?” asked Margot again, while the others stood gazing round them in silent disbelief. The Doctor had disappeared, carrying his assistant through another door, but now he returned without his burden.

“Don’t just stand there, come in and make yourselves at home.” As he spoke, he was busy flicking some switches at a kind of table in the centre of the room. The girls watched, mesmerised as a column in the centre of the table rose and fell and then looked apprehensive as a loud groaning, wheezing noise started.

“But we saw it from the outside.” Con said in a faint voice. “It wasn’t this big.”

“Oh, but it’s bigger on the inside than on the outside,” explained the Doctor.

“But it can’t be,” said Len. “that’s impossible.”

“Not at all, my dear, not at all. You see the theory of time and the theory of relativity when combined with the theory of spatial variances show that E equals…”

“I’m sorry,” Con interrupted, “but I have enough problems with Maths as it is, without getting into some kind of weird physics formulae. I’ll just have to believe the evidence of my eyes.”

“I’d like to know though,” said Ailie. “Will you explain it to me please, Doctor?”

“Of course, my dear. Now come here, and see this ognimyometer, that tells us that…”

Meanwhile, back at the school ...

#13: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:09 pm

Really enjoying this Very Happy

Thanks LizB

#14: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:20 pm

As a HUGE fan of The Doctor, this has me totally hooked!

My favourite is Tom Baker. Wink

#15: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:20 pm

Love the jelly babies!!! Laughing

#16: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:24 pm

What a fantastic idea!

Looking forward to getting hooked on yet another drabble Very Happy

#17: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash/Aberystwyth

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:38 pm

Looks great, Liz!! Very Happy

Can't wait for more!

#18: Author: Miss Di, Location: Newcastle, NSW

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:43 pm

The Doctor! It has to be the real doctor (the Tom Baker version) - as evidence I offer a long scarf and jellybabies.

Brilliant idea, I look forward to seeing more.

#19: chalet school and the doctor Author: tiffinata, Location: melbourne, australia

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:18 am

Excellent.

#20: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:09 pm

Wonderful Liz. Love Tom Baker as the Doctor! Hope the new one is as good.

Looking forward to the next episode of this.

#21: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:40 pm

I am picturing Tom Baker for this, because he's the doctor I know the best, but may (accidentally or on purpose!) include idiosyncracies from other regenerations.

Miss Annersley had been taking advantage of the peace and quiet to catch up with some paperwork and was thoroughly engrossed in it when Mitzi knocked at the door to tell her she had a visitor.

“Just give me a moment please,” she said, frowning at the piece of paper in front of her. Then as Mitzi watched, she carefully unfolded it and held up a horse.

“That’s your best one yet, Miss Annersley,” breathed Mitzi in awe.

“It is rather good, isn’t it,” agreed Miss Annersley,, looking at her work with some satisfaction. She picked it up and put it in a cupboard with a collection of other origami animals and flexed her fingers.

“Right, I’d better see this gentleman now. Show him in will you Mitzi, thank you.” She sat down at her desk, looking as stately as ever. She watched as her visitor strode confidently into the office.

“Miss Annersley?”

“Yes, Mr?” there was a slight question in her voice, and the brows above the eyes that had never needed glasses rose a fraction.

“I am the Master.” He told her.

Miss Annersley was slightly surprised, but years of practice helped her to keep her face as expressionless as a botox-addict.

“The new dramatic arts master?” she took in the slightly theatrical air of the main, his black garments and suspiciously unnatural black hair and goatee, and wished she hadn’t trusted Nell Wilson with the appointment. Certainly, when she’d offered Kathie Ferrars a job, Nell had made a fantastic choice, but since then she seemed to be going downhill. Whatever had made her think that this strange-looking man would be suitable for the Chalet School. He appeared even more eccentric than Mr Denny, and that was saying something! The thoughts flowed through her mind, while her voice continued with the polite formalities. “We weren’t expecting you until next week. We don’t have anywhere prepared for you yet.”

“That’s not a problem, I have somewhere to live. In a new chalet a little further along the road.”

“I didn’t realise there were any new chalets along here.” Miss Annersley replied.

“It is very new, and has been built very quickly – you might say it came here ready-made.”

“Oh, one of those prefabricated housing places.” Really, she thought, those buildings were all very well in the towns, but fancy spoiling the platz with a concrete eyesore like that. “Well as you are here, would you like a tour of the school?” He assented and she led the way, pausing a little later to ask “What made you decide to come here early?”

“I am looking for the Doctor. - I beg your pardon?” Miss Annersley smiled but did not repeat her murmured comment of “you and most of my staff”.

“I followed him here.” The Master told her, “But he evaded me at the last minute.”

“Ah, well, doctors can be like that,” she told him, at least it sounded like she would not need to worry about him leading the girls to think he cherished romantic notions about them, “if you’re not careful they’ll slip right out of your grasp, but we do have some experience in tracking them down, so do let me know if you would like any assistance.”

“Thank you, that is most kind of you, and I’m sure that you will be of great help in my mission.” Miss Annersley wondered if his eyes really glowed a strange colour for a moment, but decided she must have imagined it and led him on to the Speisesaal.

#22: Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:51 pm

Thanks Liz! I'd love to see a showdown between the Master and Matey, if that's possible!

Maybe Nell is an evil Time Lady and that's why she hired the Master. She could be the Rani in another regeneration...

#23: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:34 pm

Love the doctor mix ups in this. Laughing

#24: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:01 pm

Excellent, love the misunderstandings, and the comment about the staff and doctor! Laughing

#25: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:36 pm

Wonder when Hilda will see through the Master.

#26: Author: Lyanne, Location: Ipswich, England

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:40 pm

Interesting that most of us (myself included) see Tom Baker as THE Doctor

#27: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:06 pm

I love the misunderstanding about doctors in general and THE Doctor! and the new Arts Master and THE Master!

I also love Hilda's origami Laughing

#28: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:44 pm

Lyanne wrote:

Interesting that most of us (myself included) see Tom Baker as THE Doctor

My 7 year old Dr Who mad son also think Tom Baker is THE doctor...certainly his favourite. Interesting as he has seen lots of different ones in a short time (well cf to those of us who grew up with Dr Who) and still chooses Tom Baker.

#29: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:53 pm

Sensible child, your son, Carolyn!

This is great - thankyou Liz. I loved Miss Annersley's aside about looking for doctors!

#30: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:42 am

Loved Hilda's comment about doctors!!! Laughing

Thank you Liz!

#31: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:47 pm

Wonderful! Hilda's comment is fabulous. Thanks Liz.

BTW - did anyone hear on the radio news last night that Tom Baker was voted the BEST Doctor? I think Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy came next.

#32: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:12 pm

Have altered this slightly, having read a certain other drabble today! Laughing

Leaving Ailie to a lesson in advanced physics and relative dimensions in time and space, the triplets went to look for the Doctor’s assistant, thinking they ought to see if she was alright, and also if she knew a way of handling this certainly eccentric, if not completely round the bend, man.

At the most, when they went through the door they expected to find themselves in a small room, instead they entered a long corridor, Con, peering down it, wasn’t even sure she could see the end of it, with many doors along it. Margot cautiously opened the first door and found a cupboard containing a collection of clothes, of various ages and fashions. The next seemed to go into another corridor, also endless.

“Whatever you do, please don’t let Jack Lambert find out about this.” Len said, “Can you imagine the questions she’d come up with, I’d never be able to answer them, and she’d never run out of new ones to ask!”

Margot grinned, “but at least you’d have a good chance of hiding from her and never being found in this place!” She tried the handle to another door as she spoke.

This opened to show them a room where they saw the girl they had helped rescue was lying on a bench against the wall. She stirred and opened her eyes as they entered. “Hello,” said Len, “Are you okay?”

“Who are you?” she asked. “Where’s the Doctor?”

“The Doctor’s in the other room,” answered Len, “explaining some kind of weird physics to Ailie. I’m Len, by the way – these are my sisters, Con and Margot and Ailie’s our cousin.”

“I’m Seeva.” The girl told them, moving into a sitting position. “I’d better go and help the Doctor – he’s bound to land in the wrong place or time without me there.”

“Land?”

“Wrong place?”

“Wrong time?”

asked the triplets simultaneously, and looked at each other. Obviously this girl was as cracked as the man in the other room. They’d better go with her. They shouldn’t leave Ailie to deal with them both on her own. Following Sheeva they made their way back to the Tardis control room.

Ailie looked up as her cousins and Sheeva came in. “Hey, this is amazing!” she exclaimed. “Come and look at this, you guys.”

Margot went over to join her. “What is it?” she asked. Before Ailie had time to explain there was an exclamation from the doctor!

“Aha! Here we are!”

He opened the door, but before anyone could exit and woman in lime green muscled her way in.

“Sorry – need to hijack you temporarily.” she explained and went over to the controls. In a very short space of time they had landed in Australia, then the USA and Canada then they had a whistlestop tour of the UK. At each stop they were joined by one or more women in lime green, all of whom seemed to recognise each other by name, if not by sight.

“Okay, is that everybody?” came the question and to a chorus of affirmatives, the first woman flicked the controls one more time. This time when the Tardis stopped the women all poured out.

Feeling somewhat curious, and surprised at the number of women who had recognised them, as well as concerned about some of the comments made to them (Len started to worry what Reg’s accident might be; Con wondered why she was being advised to give some men called David and Sean a wide berth; Margot was concerned that people had somehow been reading her letters to Auntie Rob; and Ailie was very confused to be congratulated on the birth of her daughter!) the girls and the Doctor followed them out to find themselves in the streets of Aberystwyth.

#33: Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!!

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:27 pm

Love it Auntie Liz

Mexican Wave

#34: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:31 pm

Love it!

#35: Author: pim, Location: Helmel Hampster

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:46 pm

*giggling madly* Love it Liz, thanks Very Happy

#36: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:04 pm

Wonderful!! Thank you Auntie Liz!!!

Laughing

#37: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash/Aberystwyth

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:07 pm

*giggles madly* Love it!

#38: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:14 pm

Thank you, Liz! Nice of Dr. Who to provide transportation Mr. Green

.

*giggles over puzzlement of CS characters*

#39: Author: Katie, Location: A Yorkshire lass in London

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:26 pm

Yay, an FCS crossover! Lovely. Laughing

#40: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:59 pm

So funny thanks Liz.

Have now been and read 'the other' drabble to see where the two meet!

#41: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:39 pm

I wondered how they got there so quick! Laughing

I saw a preview for Doctor Who yesterday and the music got me excited Laughing

, can't wait for the new series!

#42: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:51 pm

*giggles madly*

thank you Liz!

#43: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:38 pm

Love your reaction to 'current events'. Laughing

#44: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:37 pm

Wonderful Liz!!!
Thank you!

#45: Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:02 am

This is so funny Liz! Laughing

#46: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:32 am

Bruno looked dubiously at the strange animal. It claimed to be a dog, and did look a little like one, but there was something not right about it. Where were its legs? He had come across dogs with very short legs, and dogs with hair so long it touched the ground and covered their legs, but this creature appeared to have no legs at all.

He sniffed at it cautiously. It certainly didn’t smell like any dog Bruno had ever encountered. It smelt more like the machine Anna put the clothes in but without the wet soapiness. Bruno gave a small bark.

“Are you sure you’re a dog?” he asked.

“Affirmative. K-9” came the reply.

“What are you doing here?”

“The Doctor brought me.”

“But he can’t have done. I’m the doctor’s dog.” Bruno felt his hackles start to rise. Who did this newcomer thing he was. He wasn’t going to be ousted by some hairless strange-smelling creature. He was the mistress’s darling. The only dog he couldn’t compare to as far as she was concerned, was Rufus, and as an inmate of the great kennel in the sky, Rufus was no competition!

This creature might be competition though. Bruno thought of the lady-doberman who had recently arrived on the platz and had shown an encouraging interest in him. What if she were more impressed by the sleek lines and precise angles of this hairless newcomer, than by his boundless energy and magnificent coat? Was baldness really a sign of virility? What if all his female friends found the very differences in this dog attractive? Bruno knew he was loveable, but how could he compete with this creature with his trick of swivelling his strange ears through 360º?

He considered his options. Friend or foe? If he made an enemy of this creature then he could be made a fool of, he had a horrid feeling his teeth and size might not make much of an impression on the hard-coat of his new acquaintance. Maybe he should opt for friendship – then he could keep an eye on him, and it might be handy to have a friend who could shoot lasers from his eyes and speak the human language. Making his decision, Bruno wagged his tail in a friendly fashion. “Come on then, let me show you where I buried a lovely juicy bone.”

#47: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:45 am

Oh wonderful!!!!! Laughing

Poor Bruno.

#48: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:35 pm

excellent!

#49: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:47 pm

*giggling*

#50: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:30 pm

#51: Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:23 pm

Oh brilliant! ROFL

#52: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:09 pm

*chokes on coffee*

thank you so much!

#53: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:04 pm

I LOVE K9!!

#54: Author: JustJen, Location: waiting for a bus

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:44 pm

Ahh Doctor Who one of first fandoms back in the old days

Great story Can't wait for the Master and Matey to meet

#55: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:56 am

Poor confused Bruno!

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