My Subconsious Is A Strange Place ...

[andraste]

Just when I think the part of my brain that comes up with weird Doctor Who stories while I sleep can't top Seventh Doctor/Peri, it throws a High School AU at me. After I'd woken up and finished wondering what I'd eaten the day before that could have provoked this (too much leftover Chinese?) it occurred to me that an AU where the various incarnations of the Doctors - plus companions - are school teachers would actually be highly entertaining.

Of course we already know what Ian and Barbara teach, what with them being teachers in actual canon. Various sources tell us that Seven teaches History, the Brig Mathematics and Ten Physics. Poor Rose is stuck being a dinner lady. Naturally Five is in charges of the school cricket team, and according to Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles 'the Eccleston Doctor dresses like a social studies teacher having a mid-life crisis' which is good enough for me.

Which leaves, er, everyone else. I can see Eight teaching some girly arty subject like English or Music, and being adorably bewildered that his students seem to pay rapt attention to everything he says but retain no information about his classes ...

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[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

One would be the headmaster. Two must teach literature, after "The Mind Robbers".

[misachan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I can see Two and Nine being a killer Lit tag team. Two is a perfect, slightly befuddled Into to Literature teacher, the kind who teaches the fun classes where you act out scenes from Dumas and rewrite the Le Mort d'Arthur from different POVs. Nine would teach the higher level classes; he'd be the teacher all the kids would think was really cool because he didn't care about the dress code, right up until they get back the first writing assignment full of red ink and notations in the margins making fun of their spelling. He'd quote Dickens from memory and have 25-page papers due during finals, because he just wouldn't care how much other work the other teachers assigned.

What about Three? Would he be social studies? He'd probably be a great Current Events/Civ teacher. And One would be the Principal.:)

[honorh.livejournal.com]

I can see Eight teaching some girly arty subject like English or Music, and being adorably bewildered that his students seem to pay rapt attention to everything he says but retain no information about his classes ...

Bwah! His classes would be thick with straight girls and gay boys.

Speaking of which, what *would* Jack teach?

Mickey could double up with Shop and computer classes.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

(We'll not mention that I recently wrote a story in which Alt!Human!Nine taught at a teaching hospital--where his students dubbed him the "Destroyer of Grades"--and Alt!Human!Eight was a literature teacher at a private academy.)

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Five coaches cricket.

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

I'm not normally big on high school AUs, but I would so read that.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I would so read that.

Eight probably teaches music. With her penchant for spouting psychological jargon, Romana I is probably the school counsellor -- the scary one who listens to your vague plans for the future, smirks and says, "How lovely."

[melata-fic.livejournal.com]

This has made my afternoon. *grin* The scary part is, I'd read that.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Other possibilities:

Six: Creative Arts teacher, happiest when spinning pots or slapping paint wildly on a canvas. You wouldn't even have to change his coat.

Seven: Poli-Sci (World Politics) 401. With deadly lectures about the inherent idiocy of all sides in the Northern Ireland/Isreali-Palestinian/Russia-Chechen/USA-Planet Earth conflicts.