Doctor Who: Mastery

[ariafic]

Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: R
Word count: 3129
Pairing: Ten/Master
Summary: He looks out over his dominion, and he thinks it beautiful.
Spoilers: all of season 3, especially The Sound of Drums.
Notes: Picks up right where SoD ended; written before Last of the Time Lords aired. Jossed, of course, but not terribly.

Mastery

Comments

[crabby_lioness]

Very good. One of the more believable stories of this type I've seen.

[polaris_starz]

Eeeee.

Oh, just-- both of them.

I especially love the mindreading, and the Doctor's eternal hopefulness, and how the Master's always in control of himself while the Doctor's really not.

-- and the end. Where I don't know which of them to believe. *flails*

Fantastic.

Also, the use of imagery is great here. I can really see all of this.

[ariastar]

Theory: both of them are right. I mean, that's the only way I can write it? They're both awful and cunning and absolutely convinced that they're winning, which means neither of them are. :D

(Also, hallo, using shoddy wireless that's sort of in my room right now, which means that I can reply to comments but really can't be on IM. Hopefully catch you later today. <3)

[polaris_starz]

That's kind of how I was reading it too. Yay me!

(I should be around until about 2:00 PST, after which I have some chores to do before work, and then back after nine.

P.S. -- you have Muse's "Stockholm Syndrome" song, right? It's very Harrowdown-John.)

[ariastar]

God, you have such fabulous Saxon icons. I'm reduced to giving you Sam and Gene. XD

(Gotcha. :D Yaaaay in-and-out wireless; hopefully dad should be finished with the ethernet soon.

No! No I don't, the only album I think I have mostly in full is Black Holes and Revelations. Ahaha, btw, Supermassive Black Hole? = total Doctor/Master song.)

[natalies_junk]

So glad you jumped on the bandwagon. Meming it

[cocainepeaches]

Ooooh I really like this. Very beautiful.

[joe_sweden]

Oh, this is so very good. Thank you, you made a rainy evening suddenly sunny (you know, in a dark, twisted, power-crazed sort of a way).