A/N Just a thought....
Thoughts of a Time Lady.
She barely heard his voice as he said, " one down, five more to go."
She was thinking of the events that had led up to this moment, from the moment the president of Gallifrey had presented her with this task. At first, she had not been enthusiastic about spending time with a notorious renegade with a peculiar habit of picking up "inferior" companions.
She's already met one; Leela, warrior of the Sevateem, and former travelling companion of the Doctor, the infamous Prydonian renegade who'd failed his exams and fleeing Gallifrey in a battered, rackety old TARDIS.
He was infuriating!
So smug, arrogant….so brilliant. The way he'd deduced the whereabouts and true form of the 1st segment of the Key to Time. If he hadn't, she might've been fed to the Shrivenzale for breakfast. Oh, what a fool she'd been, ignoring the logical evidence for the damn segment. It'd been obvious the segment had been moving, so it couldn't have been the Crown in the display case. How could she not have realised that ?!
She, the Time Lady graduate of the Academy, the one who'd scored a Triple First on her examinations, had been shown her illogical error by a Time Lord who was already moving through his regenerations like sand trickling through fingers. He'd shown her the evidence, laying it down reasonably and logically and he didn't gloat about it, saying only, " a bright girl like you." Does that mean he likes me ? After psycho analysing him, saying how he had a compensation syndrome and all the rest.
It was clear she needed to learn so much now she was seeing the universe. She'd spent most of her time on Gallifrey, learning, as the Doctor did all those centuries ago, how to be a Time Lord and observe the universe, standing proudly at the centre of time and space. He didn't stay. No. he decided to leave Gallifrey and travel the universe causing chaos.
Meeting the Doctor has changed my outlook on life considerably - back home, Time Lords are not thieves. The Shobogans are…fascinating yes, but not a threat. Showing me that the universe is a sometimes unkind place, where the strong rules and the weak are hunted - the Graf Vynda Ka among them, is probably the best lesson I've ever learned.
The Doctor is a great teacher, he teaches by example and by experience, learning from his mistakes. He teaches in a way the professors at the Academy back home never could. He improvises, using all the experiences learned on his travels to help him in the present.
He's been travelling for nearly 600 years after all. He must've learned something useful in all that time.
The Doctor….in the time I've gotten to know him, which is so brief, I've realised that his reputation on Gallifrey is not deserved.
Yes, he is erratic, irresponsible, highly eccentric and …he's amazing.
Yes, Romanadvoratrelundar will definitely have the time of her lives. If she can just adjust to the eccentricities of the Doctor.
It will take a long time.