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[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin's in his own cabin instead of Kay's and *furious*. And speaking in Gallifreyan.]

Which one of you thought it would be funny to break into my room, go through my papers, and deface my copy of the Gallifrey constitution? ...Doctor? [The name has a Gallifreyan suffix added to indicate something in the past. In this case, he uses it to

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[timesbureaucrat]

Of course you don't. [All sarcasm.]

No idea about the scribbles in the margins in Old High Gallifreyan? No idea where the crossed out lines came from? No idea of where the ripped out pages might be?

[Narvin hasn't actually looked to see what the annotations say. (Partly because his Old High Gallifreyan is mediocre and it would take time and concentration.) He just went straight to suspecting the Doctor of vandalism.]

[championoftime]

Actually... it was me.

But it wasn't me.

I was affected. I was someone else.

[So hesitant. The Doctor's actually kind of nervous about this.]

[timesbureaucrat]

Oh. [That deflates Narvin's righteous anger. And he was so enjoying having a good reason to be furious at the other Doctor. But this new information is more important.]

I don't believe I saw you during the flood. [Said carefully. It also means "I hope you didn't see me during the flood."]

[championoftime]

I don't suppose so. [Nope, didn't see him.]

Did you actually read what was written? [He's not depressed. Or upset. Or happy. Just "huh". Like his little Time Lord brain can't decide what to feel.]

[timesbureaucrat]

I haven't yet. It's in Old High Gallifreyan. [Pause.] Not one of my academic strengths, I'm afraid.

[He looks at the annotations to the text, really looks at it, not just the cursory glance he gave it before. It'll take him some time to translate it well, but he can see immediately that it's not bad limericks, or whatever other vandalism he expected, but rather legitimate commentary.]

Oh.

[And there's a seal, a lesser-known one, as a signature.]

Oh.

Do you...remember anything about your flood self?

[championoftime]

I remember a great deal about him.

[And it made some things make sense. Made other things make less sense.] You had a familiar door and items he recognized, so he let himself in. He was used to having the authority to do so.

Unlike me, had he known you would have taken offence he would have apologized.

[timesbureaucrat]

There's no need to...

[Private]

I wouldn't have taken offense at his presence.

I thought it was a joke at my expense. It isn't.

...

He wasn't power mad or dangerously insane, was he? [Given the history of the other Founders, this is an important question.]

[Private]

[championoftime]

No.

No more than a man who could no longer endorse the dream that he'd been working for. That felt as though he did wrong by both of his friends, and found no way to cope with the death of one.

In fact, he didn't recall any of them as being power mad. Rassilon was on his way, but he merely saw the beginning. When he was still a noble and determined figure, but increasingly misguided.

I don't know what to think of him.

[Private]

[timesbureaucrat]

At least his memory has never been tainted, what little history remembers.

[Private]

[championoftime]

Rassilon told him to his face that no one recalled his name because he was erased from history.

The miserable part is he chose to accept it. Miserable to me, anyway. He was proud of his loyalties.

[Private]

[timesbureaucrat]

Loyalty is an admirable quality. When it's given to the right person or cause.

[Private]

[championoftime]

It wasn't loyalty to an ideal, so much as it was loyalty to personal friend.

Giving up that sort of loyalty- [He wonders if he could have given up blind love in the Master if the Other's warnings hadn't been there.]

[timesbureaucrat]

Suspecting you was a perfectly logical deduction. [And also wrong. But he'll ignore that bit.] It had to be someone who knew Old High Gallifreyan and who had no compunctions about changing the oldest traditions.