Rules Chapter 4
I'm sorry, I am so sorry! I know this chapter is really late, I had a twelve page research paper due before my college had Thanksgiving break and I've been obsessing over it because it's half the grade for the course! All the reviews I've gotten sure help brighten things up. Thanks to everybody who's reviewed and hope you all enjoy this! Rule 73 comes from Wernher von Braun, and 78 is an adaptation of a review by artsoccer. Thanks, guys!
61- No more black tie events. Something always seemed to go wrong when the Doctor attended one. And he had never really been able to get the idea of how to talk to people at these kind of things. He usually ended up feeling totally out of place until something threatened the existence of the universe.
62- I realize it was necessary at the time, but don't ever play an organ that loudly again! Martha's ears were still ringing.
63- Stop hitting the TARDIS with a hammer! Martha was rather horrified that the Doctor would treat the TARDIS that way, although she had to admit that smacking the console repeatedly had eventually worked.
64- No slapping me repeatedly "just to see if you would like someone to do that to you"! Martha had been just upset enough at the Doctor to see if he would like to find the shoe on the other foot. Since the TARDIS couldn't get revenge, she took matters into her own hands, quite literally. The Doctor was beginning to think that Jackie Tyler had actually been less violent than his new companion.
65- Stop singing, "You are my Sunshine." The Doctor didn't find that funny at all. After being possessed by a living sun, he was in no mood to be reminded of it.
66- Don't look at the sun. Martha couldn't resist this one, her parents had told her that when she was three. Really, the Doctor should have known better.
67- Do not eat an entire jar of jam in one sitting! The Doctor was hyper enough without adding sugar. And that was the reason the TARDIS ended up crash-landed in a swamp.
68- If we ever have to hide again, have me pose as something other than a servant! Almost anything would have been better, Martha thought. Although it really could have been worse. They could have gone back to the American Civil War era again.
69- You were supposed to keep me from eating any pears! Apparently the human John Smith liked them quite a bit. The Doctor did not. He was quite disgusted to find one in his coat pocket after becoming a Time Lord again.
70- Watch out for stairs. Martha couldn't resist a small joke at the Doctor's expense. For the next two weeks, whenever they approached a flight of stairs, she would say, "Don't turn your back on them, they have a way of sneaking up behind you."
71- Stop scaring me by pretending a scarecrow is alive. The Doctor had thought it would be fun to give Martha a bit of a fright. He was still laughing at the way she'd screamed like a little girl and went running back to the TARDIS as fast as she could, although he was afraid he'd pay for it later.
72- No more pets in the TARDIS, period! Apparently Martha had decide the no alien pets rule only applied to Rose. They had visited a planet where there were dozens of beautiful moths. Martha had taken back a cocoon that she thought would hatch into a moth. It turned out to have hundreds of small grasshopper-like creatures inside. The Doctor was still finding them in odd places all over the TARDIS.
73- Never use the timey-wimey detector in an airport. The doctor had been arrested when the police thought he was trying to smuggle a bomb in. Martha was still fuming about having to explain. And then for having to bail him out of jail for resisting arrest.
74- Not every statue is a weeping angel. Martha was now avoiding sculptures of any sort that appeared even vaguely human.
75- Licking everything you see is just asking for trouble. On a frozen planet, the Doctor had decided to test the chemical composition of the ice with his tongue. Martha had to unstick him from a very large icicle.
76- If it seems too good to be true, it usually is. Martha and the Doctor discovered that the reason a very lovely jungle planet was uninhabited were the extremely active volcanoes all across its surface. They were almost cut off from the TARDIS by a fast-moving flow of lava.
77- No hitchhiking on the TARDIS! The Doctor was very upset when he found out what Jack had done. The TARDIS hadn't been too fond of the whole thing either.
78- Jack, I mean it this time. Stop flirting with the companions! Jack was just being Jack.
79- I never want to hear drums again. Martha didn't think she'd ever be able to forget that four-beat rhythm the Master had used.
80- No, my nickname is not Yoda, even if I am over 900 years old. After the Year That Never Happened, Martha couldn't help teasing the Doctor a little bit about when the Master had aged him.
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