fandomhigh | History in Living Colour - Friday, Period 3 (Week 2)

"Okay!" the Doctor said, bounding into the room when the students had gathered. "No time for chatting, let's get to it. Get to what you might ask? If you are, you didn't read your syllabus! Ask Peyton or Dick for one if you missed out. They're you're TAs and in case you've forgotten, I'm the Doctor."

There were three doors in the room. "Pick a door, any door! Well, except the one leading out of the Danger Shop. One of these three doors, which will lead you to a turning point in history. This week is all about not messing with the turning points, the important stuff, the moments in history that make today the way it is. We're going to learn by doing the wrong thing. Do whatever comes naturally to you once you're on the other side of the door. When you're done, we'll talk about what happened as a result of your actions.

We're all a part of history in some way, shape or form, and there's a lot you can get away with when you're outside of your home time period - by the way, time travel happens, get used to it - but there are some things you should never tamper with. You'll see why. Or, if you read a lot of alternate history fiction, you'll already know. Go on, pick a door." He nodded towards the doors, then commented quietly to himself, "guess we did have time for chatting after all."

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Deciding Inara wasn't a threat, the woman darted for the tree line. This time, the movement caught the guards' attention. They sounded the alarm and started after both of them.

"Wait!" Inara threw herself between the woman and the guards, arms outstretched, hoping to give her more time to get away. "I'm the one you want, not her."

Perhaps this was not her brightest move ever.

"She has an accomplice! Get her, get her out of the way. After the Queen!" Two of the men went after Inara and the others, slowed down but not dissuaded, continued after Mary, Queen of Scots.

No, not her best decision. Inara ran away from the guards and into the woods, not sure she'd improved the situation in the slightest by intervening.

The men chased after her, but with two women to chase, they became confused in the woods. They weren't trained for tracking a woman in the woods in the dark. The men held back for further orders for a few moments, to try to regroup and rethink their approach.

In the meantime, the woman hissed at Inara to beckon her over.

It took a minute to hear the hissing over her heartbeat, but Inara carefully made her way over to the other woman, being as quiet as she was able. "Yes?"

"You are either with my men or are a very daft girl in a very dangerous position."

She winced. "I'm afraid I must admit to the latter, unfortunately."

The woman nodded. "Then you do not recognise me?"

Inara shook her head. "I don't, I'm sorry."

"I am Queen Mary, known as Mary, Queen of Scots. Rightful heir to the English throne. If you assist me in escaping my captors, your actions will not be forgotten."

That didn't sound bad. Still, something about it made Inara's shoulders itch. "What would you need me to do?"

"Cause a distraction. Go that way and I will go this, and I will send one of my men to retrieve you if you are not captured."

What went without saying was that if she was captured, she was on her own for the torture and death. She sighed. "I'll need your cloak, then."

She hesitated, then handed it over. "Go with royal blessings."

"Good luck." Inara bobbed a curtsy, then draped the cloak over her head and shoulders before heading much more noisily in the opposite direction from Mary, Queen of Scots, trying to draw as much attention as she could.

The simulation stopped and the Doctor appeared. "Job well done. Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped to live another day. Of course, she went and organised the assassination of Queen Elizabeth the First, then killed William Shakespeare and irrevocably changed the course of literature, the arts and Western society as a whole. All because of one woman."

Inara facepalmed, and even though she knew it was a simulation, she was properly horrified. "Point taken."

"Point is," the Doctor went on, "be careful when time travelling. Be aware that you're a part of something that may have to be the way you don't want it to be."

History in Living Colour - Friday, Period 3 (Week 2)

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