Doctor Who Drabble: Punishment
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badly_knittedTitle: Punishment
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badly_knittedCharacters: Donna Noble, Tenth Doctor.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 1028: ‘Vat’ at
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dw100.Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Donna and the Doctor are under arrest.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
“What’s going to happen to us?” Donna sounded worried, for good reason; she and the Doctor were under arrest, surrounded by armed guards, and were being marched… somewhere.
“Nothing to worry about,” the Doctor assured her cheerfully. “Now, if this was… oh, a century or so ago, we’d have been marched up a ramp and thrown into a vat of boiling oil, but it was decided that was wasteful, so now…”
“What? What will they do?”
“We’ll be dipped in a vat of warm water as a symbolic punishment, then sentenced to a few days’ work in the Royal Gardens.”
The End
“Nothing to worry about,” the Doctor assured her cheerfully. “Now, if this was… oh, a century or so ago, we’d have been marched up a ramp and thrown into a vat of boiling oil, but it was decided that was wasteful, so now…”
“What? What will they do?”
“We’ll be dipped in a vat of warm water as a symbolic punishment, then sentenced to a few days’ work in the Royal Gardens.”
The End
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Date: 2026-05-24 05:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-05-24 06:24 pm (UTC)Thank you.