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Exile 06: Ferment

Fermentby Red Wolf

The Doctor groaned as he tried to sit up. He'd spent the past day fighting his body's attempts to expel all forms of sustenance by any means available. Just as it was getting to the point where he was wondering if he'd ever be able to eat or drink anything again, it stopped and he'd passed out in exhaustion.

Sleep had helped, but he'd woken to discover that his balance was shot. Settling back in bed, the Doctor waited until the waves of dizziness passed.

The medical resources of the TARDIS had lessened the virus' effect and dealing with the reduced symptoms was not particularly pleasant, but as the virus had killed thousands of people at their last stopover, he should probably consider himself fortunate. He was just lucky Wolf appeared to have missed picking up the bug, as she'd been left with the unenviable task of getting him back to the TARDIS and looking after him.

When he thought about it, Wolf had proved surprisingly resistant to any number of diseases they'd encountered in their travels. No coughs, colds or hideously itchy rashes. She'd also managed to survive being poisoned (unintentionally or otherwise), shot, stabbed, burned and throttled. Her talent for misadventure, especially for causing the trouble that got her into the predicaments in the first place, made her look like the most troublesome companion he'd had aboard the TARDIS.

He laughed to himself, gripping the bed firmly as he felt his head swim again. Not long after she'd joined him, the Doctor had referred to her as his companion and Wolf had vehemently denied the role. It seemed she saw herself more as the TARDIS' pet, which may not have been far off the mark with the way she roamed about the place. As far as he knew, she'd never settled on a bedroom and he never even knew where she was half the time.

"Feeling better?"

The Doctor looked up from his musings to see Wolf standing at the foot of his bed. As usual, he hadn't heard her approach. "What have you found now?"

Wolf held a shiny, plumb bob-like device in each hand. The spindly legs of one device began to twitch and Wolf shook it vigorously by its thick tail until it stilled. "Some kind of nanobot parasite the TARDIS invited along. They were supposed to perform small maintenance tasks, but found a spillage they liked and started to get a little bigger than they should. I've been hunting them." She grinned in delight, her green eyes flashing brightly.

The Doctor smiled. One more mystery of what she got up to on her own was solved.

"I'll just go and feed these little buggers into the metal recycler and see if I can find something for you to eat."

"As long as you don't try to cook anything." The Doctor shuddered. He'd spent enough time throwing up of late, and he didn't feel the need to repeat the experience any time soon.
15 Minute Ficlets — word #120: fever
pheral — challenge: whumping

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Published fanfiction.net — 31.08.2005

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whooooooooo! he's all groggy and sick and yummmmmmmmm. hoorah! WHUMPING!!

and i absolutely love the idea of Wolf being the Tardis' pet almost, it's really a fantastic idea and just the relationship she'd take on — via LiveJournal — posted by Pheral at 20.10.2005 17:00 AEST | #
It made sense. She's not the most sociable of creatures and, I would imagine, the TARDIS would love the chance to poke about her head, DNA, in exchange for shiny things — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 20.10.2005 17:01 AEST | #
that's an intesting thought, the Tardis kinda snooping around in Wolf's head and Wolf not minding too much as long as she gets what she wants. hadn't thought of it that way. Cool — via LiveJournal — posted by Pheral at 20.10.2005 17:01 AEST | #
I'm sure the TARDIS would be fascinated by Wolf being able to block things she doesn't want touched. She isn't telepathic, but the people who made her are so she was trained to deal with unwanted telepathic intrusions — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 20.10.2005 17:01 AEST | #
she's kinda fascinating simply because she has a lot of secrets and skills but she's obviously not bothered whether people know about them or see them. She's got a long complicated history, and i kinda like that i seem to only know 1% of it.

I just saw someone on one of the Gaelic Translator forums called RedWolf!

And i really, really should be asleep. I think i shall go rectify that directly — via LiveJournal — posted by Pheral at 20.10.2005 17:02 AEST | #
The Doctor shuddered. He'd spent enough time throwing up of late, and he didn't feel the need to repeat the experience any time soon.

I really like the overgrown nanobots, and Wolf as a companion to the TARDIS rather than the Doctor — via LiveJournal — posted by Elizabeth Culmer at 20.10.2005 17:03 AEST | #
Thanks for your kind words and the grammar catch — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 20.10.2005 17:04 AEST | #
Wow! What a jump. I feel like I missed a few chapters, but I didn't have any problem following along with where we were in the story. More secrets about Wolf revealed ... — via fanfiction.net — posted by Mark at 20.10.2005 19:52 AEST | #
I really like the way you write them relating to each other. This relationship is intriguing — via LiveJournal — posted by Chessie at 20.10.2005 20:01 AEST | #
This is Wolf before the stabilising influence of Declán, so hopefully he'll knock some sense into her — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 20.10.2005 20:01 AEST | #
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