Susan's Diary (short story)

 was a short story released in The Doctor: His Lives and Times.

Summary
Susan and her grandfather have recently been to Tiaanamat, to see the Long Song. Susan bought the 500 year diary for him, but he dismissed it as silly. She resolves to fill it in herself as a record of their adventures.

The Doctor does not let Susan help him pilot the TARDIS, and repeatedly checks the fault locator. She recalles meeting geese, sailing the metal seas of Venus, singing with the thought plants on Ecto, getting lost on Quinnis, and winning an election on Dido. She enjoys travelling, but is disapointed that the Ship frequently lands on Earth, which she finds boring. Her and her grandfather have visited The Blitz, been locked up in the Tower of London, and met several kings which have all tried to excecute them. She notes that they are now stuck in 1963, and resolves to attend a local Academy.

Susan writes that she does not like school, as she is constantly mocked by the humans there. She finds it hard to be a 'teenager', but does enjoy reading, even if she finds it difficult to differentiate factual books from fiction.

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Characters

 * Susan Foreman
 * First Doctor
 * The Monk
 * Dodo Chaplet
 * Ian Chesterton

Continuity

 * Susan's diary would eventually become the Doctor's Five Hundred Year Diary. (TV: The Power of the Daleks)
 * A Constable Oswald filed a missing person report on Susan. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
 * Susan writes about her trips to Tiaanamat, (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) Venus, (TV: Marco Polo) Esto, (TV: The Sensorites) and Quinnis, (TV: The Edge of Destruction, AUDIO: Quinnis) and the Zeppelin air raid, (TV: Planet of Giants) before returning to 1963. (TV: An Unearthly Child)