.039 [Video] Confession Time (Flood)

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin was going to post a private message to the Doctor (Seven) about Rassilon. What comes out is neither private, nor specifically about Rassilon.]

The irony is, I don't even like most Time Lords.

[Narvin freezes as soon as the words pop out. Then he scrambles to cut the communication, but before he can he finds himself adding...]I do admire

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[alzarian_youth]

I...you tried to overthrow Romana?

[timesbureaucrat]

I...tried to impeach her, through wholly legal means. [LIES. He helped a political rival stage a coup and only changed his mind at the last second when he realized that however much he hated Romana she was the lesser of evils.]

[alzarian_youth]

Why?

Other than that, I fully understand. I may not like most Alzarians, but I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to them, either. I just don't see why you'd want to impeach someone you admire, particularly someone as good as Romana.

[timesbureaucrat]

Politics. [Romana was an alien-loving liberal and Narvin a xenophobic conservative.]

Just because I think Romana is intelligent doesn't mean I agreed with her policies. And she did have a habit of bending constitutional law. [Of course, so did Narvin's old political allies.]

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin thinks that life on this Barge has finally driven him completely 'round the bend. Because he couldn't possibly have heard Romana's voice.

On the other hand, why would his hallucinations include static interference?]

Romana?

[Private]

[timesbureaucrat]

[He leans back. When he first arrived on the ship, he spent months trying to get into contact with Time Lords from the outside world so he could avert the catastrophe at the end of the war that he'd been told was coming. He nearly caused a disastrous paradox trying to break free. He'd all but given up on that possibility, had turned to other ideas. To have Romana of all people show up on his communicator now, when he wasn't trying, was least expecting...left him a little numb.

And of all the network communications, it just *had* to be the one where dimensional leakage caused him to blurt out secrets he'd rather have kept hidden.]

I...you're...alive? [Idiot, of course she's alive. She's talking to him, isn't she? He quickly adds to try to cover the inanity of that question...] What relative time are you from? [When the Rani had surprisingly popped up on his screen once, she'd been too far in the future to do any good.]

[timesbureaucrat]

[It really is. And worst of all is the realization that he actually hates the pre-war incarnations of the Doctor less than he hates most of the High Council. (He hates some of the High Council quite a lot.) Damned if he'll ever admit that, though.]

Well, that makes everything better.

[timesbureaucrat]

Really, Doctor, the universe does not revolve around you. [Just a TV show]

Una permits herself a private snicker at your expense, Narvin.

[mrs_persson]

 

[Private]

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin is perfectly happy to pretend that Brax's exile was the only thing he talked about.]

As much as you seem to try to ignore the fact, you're an inmate, a criminal. I think it would do the people on this ship some good to be reminded of that fact. A criminal on Gallifrey and a criminal here.

[Admire? Oh no. The blurting must have been mistaken.]

[Private]

[timesbureaucrat]

[Brax and Narvin are living proof that often confessions change nothing.]

I tried to get her impeached. It's a perfectly legal procedure.

And speaking of rightfully-elected, since you're so concerned about constitutionality, need I remind you that Lord Rassilon was also the lawful [mostly] presidential choice of the High Council.