Liquid Reprisals
A TTR:TDF quick Lunch-Break fiction

Apologies to Erin Tumilty, who originally concocted 'Adric's Demise' for her drabble "Sadism".

*****
She came immediately to the bar as soon as she heard the news.

"What's this about you inventing a drink in my honor?" she demanded from the bartender.

Adric gave her a blank look.  "Well, since everyone seems to have decided that I'm stuck with this job indefinitely, and since that means I get to decide what can be served here, I thought it was time to repay the compliment you gave me when you concocted 'Adric's Demise' a few months back."

A few of the regulars began to carefully gather around the counter at this point, but those who had been standing in closest proximity to the pair took an immediate step back.

Adric took a bottle of Everclear and poured some into a shot glass. Then, he took a bottle of brown food coloring, let fall a few drops into the glass, and mixed.

He pushed the shot glass to her.  "There." he said, "A Trakenite Slammer."

"That's it?" she said, uncertainly.

"Uh huh." he responded.  "Small, brown, plain, rather unimaginative..."

The 5th Doctor sprayed his Guinness.

"You.. You..." she stammered, from behind clenched teeth.

"Oh, I forgot." he said, arching his eyebrows.  "It also has absolutely no taste."

He barely managed to duck the mallet that had suddenly appeared in her hand.

As she stormed off, Jamie and Sgt. Benton turned to one another, nodded, then stepped up to the bar.  "Eh, bartender." Jamie called.  "Give us two of those..."

-- DBK
24 March 1999

New Blood
A TTR Drabble

*****

Charley Pollard stopped in the doorway of the This Time Round, looked uncertainly at the clutched sheet of paper, and cautiously stepped inside.  Her eyes opened wider with each step, as she got a good look at some of the denizens.

Adric watched her from behind the bar.  "Uh oh.  Looks like we have a new companion." he whispered to the asian woman at the counter.

Anji broke away from reading her copy of the Financial Times and glanced at the teenager.  "Oh, how can you tell?"

"The simultaneous looks of disorientation, shock, and dismay are usually a dead giveaway."

--DBK
31 May 2000

Character Traits
A TTR Drabble

*****

"I never watched Professor X." Peri commented. "It was just never syndicated in the U.S."

"Uh huh." Chang Lee agreed. "All we ever had were Galaxy Quest reruns."

"Oooh, I remember that one." Sarah-Jane whispered. "I always liked Dr. Lazarus..."

"Weren't they making a new series?" Tegan asked. "I thought I'd heard something about one not too long ago."

"This fall." Adric confirmed. "On some new cable startup called Network 23."

"What about the Professor X movie?" Turlough remarked. "Didn't the rumors say one was in the works?"

Everyone else laughed.

"We'll believe it when we see it." was Mel's response.

--DBK
8 June 2000

Waiting for Doug
A TTR Drabble

*****

Antimony looked the other two over curiously.  "And you two are...?"

One of the two pushed his hand toward the newcomer.  "Jeremy Fitzoliver." he said cheerily, then indicated his drinking companion.  "And this is Grant Markham."

"Welcome to the Obscure Companions table." Grant quipped more darkly, but indicating an empty chair, "Take a seat, because it's going to be a long wait."

"Yeah," Jeremy agreed, as Antimony sat and Katarina came over to take his order.  "Some of us go years between story appearances."

Grant nodded.  "Uh-huh.  And some of us would kill just to get into a pointless drabble."

--DBK
8 August 2001

NOTE:
Jeremy Fitzoliver is from the BBC Radio 3rd Doctor radio dramas "The Paradise of Death" and "The Ghosts of N-Space".

Grant Markham was originally set to replace Peri as the 6th Doctor's companion in the original version of Season 23 (the season which was eventually replaced by "Trial of a Timelord").  He appears in the Virgin MA's Time of Your Life and Killing Ground.

Antimony appears as a 7th Doctor companion in the pilot episode of the new BBC radio drama "Death Comes to Time".

Waiting for Doug - The Sequel
A TTR Drabble

*****

Katarina was bringing Antimony's drink when Sharon and Olla arrived.

"Hello, guys." Sharon said.  The two took their seats.  As they did so, Jeremy and Grant introduced the newcomer to them.

"A radio pilot?" Olla said.  "That sounds like you might have a good shot at a return."

"Assuming the rest of the series gets commissioned." Antimony pointed out.

"Been there.  Done that." Grant sulked.  "Still waiting."

Sharon pointed a thumb at Grant.  "Don't mind him.  He's been brooding ever since they yanked his intro season out from underneath."

"I could'a been someone." Grant grumbled.  "I could'a been a contender..."

--DBK
9 August 2001

NOTE:
Sharon was a companion of the 4th Doctor from the very early Doctor Who Monthly comics.

Olla was the companion of the 7th Doctor just after Frobisher in the Doctor Who Monthly comics.