Louder Than Sirens and Bells (2/2)
Title: Louder Than Sirens and Bells (2/2)
Author: avaritia_90
Spoilers: None
Word Count:2201
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Community
Summary: Ficcy Friday request from eleventhimpala with the prompt of a Doctor Who/Community Master!Jeff and Annie confront each other. Master!Jeff realizes that he still has feelings (probably not as strong, but still there) for this plucky little human.
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He stalks from the room, intent on leaving everything behind, happy to leave all that made him human. The crappy apartment, the odd assortment of friends and even weirder enemies.
He doesn't need those things.
He walks a bit faster, turning a corner and rushing to the outside.
He doesn't want those things either.
Taking out his blackberry, he unlatches the front and fiddles with the wiring, then snaps the top back on and pushes down on send harder than necessary.
In seconds, the air around him swirls as a grinding noise starts.
His Tardis, a simple, long framed mirror, lands directly next to him.
Of course he has a remote control for his Tardis. Duh.
"Oh, I've missed you." He rushes forward, straight into the mirror that allows him to pass into the inside. The Tardis hums in his mind in response, but it's nothing compared to the whirlwind of thoughts in his mind. He can still feel her, on his skin, her voice in his ears and see her blue eyes every time he closes his.
He take a moment, to calm himself, and stare up at the glowing column.
He hates that even with eons of history of every single subject across numerous galaxies and worlds, she's still consumes his mind. Even his own madness dims in comparison.
The Master falls into a near by captain chair, head in hands and wonders what's wrong with him.
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Annie stands, still as stone, trying to force herself to function.
Jeff wasn't real. Not human. Gone.
Nope. It was no good. Her brain refused to let her think of anything else.
I'm not human, and I never was.
She believed that. That fact is branded into her mind. She's constantly thinking there should have been signs, she should have noticed. She should have known the difference between man and alien when they locked lips.
He did love you.
Annie doesn't know what to make of his last parting words. As much as she wants to believe, she can't help but become guarded. She doesn't understand. Doesn't know if these words, that sound almost cruel and hopelessly sad, if they should make her happy. For all they do at the moment is remind her once more that the Jeff she knew no longer exists.
Love, isn't suppose to go hand in hand with a declaration of death.
So no. the world didn't explode or burn, but her world. Her life, was shaken to the core by one call.
whirl whirl whiiiirl crash
Annie turns her head slowly, to see a blue police box suddenly appear next to her. It's at this point, she realizes she's probably still going into shock because she doesn't react, or at least not in the way any normal, functioning human would respond when a huge blue box appears out of no where.
"Huh."
Out pops a man with floppy brown hair. Followed closely by a young red head, who is eating a bagel.
"Doctor!" The girl, pretty and freckled, but furious. She screams at a man, not short, not tall -somewhere in between (average her mind quips after a second). He's not particularly handsome, or not in Annie's opinion, but he isn't horrible either. He's also wearing a lot of tweed and a bow tie, something she can only assume he stole from an elderly man.
Really, who wears a bow tie now a days?
"Bow ties are cool." He stops to answer her. She hadn't realized she said it out loud.
The girl next to him bites into the bagel, and munches on it happily.
"-correction, you think it's cool."
"Amy, I know you don't get my awesome, and frankly, amazing style, I accept that about you. It's sad, and unfortunate, but I accept it."
"I accept that you're mad and clearly haven't looked in a mirror. Ever." Amy, grins and her eyes light up. Clearly enjoying poking fun at the man.
It's all too much of a bitter reminder, of her and Jeff. This friendly atmosphere, and inside jokes between friends. Of love, loyalty and friendship. It makes her insides turn, her heart clench and her eyes burn. She wants that back, so desperately.
Tears fall down her cheeks without her even really noticing. Here she is, surrounded and flooded with aliens, machines and hints of adventure. All she can think of is how much she wants Jeff back.
"Oh, Doctor look, she's crying! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" The girl, Amy shoves the half eaten bagel onto the Doctor (who looks disgusted) and goes to her, concerned. Annie responds with a half hearted mewl of sadness, tries to breath but chokes a little instead.
Then she starts sneezing. Over and over again, in rapid succession.
As she sneezes twice, she realizes that it weird that she's crying this much. She feels like her eyes are pouring. She sneezes three times more in a row.
"Oh...oops." The Doctor, says awkwardly before grabbing Amy and tugging her away, "-eh, you know how we just came from the planet Marrrrrararrrak?"
Annie looks up at him, barely able open, but still enough to look confused. "What?"
"Marrrrrararrrak is a planet, full of these special, rare flowers called the Starbuckies."
"I didn't believe him, so I had him take me there," Amy explains more quickly, "Turns out that Starbucks the company owns the planet and that's where we got the bagels. Absolutely out of this world! Literally!"
The Doctor leans in closer to Annie and runs a sonic screwdriver over her face, Annie leans back because she doesn't want some weird alien device in her face.
"Actually, that's not such a good thing. The Starbuckies, while beautiful and tasty also cause allergic reactions in some humans with it's pollen, which we probably are covered in. Sorry." He puts down the sonic screwdriver. "-but congrats on being the first human ever to be allergic to it."
He smiles delighted at her, like this is an amazing discovery, and not a horrible act that makes her sneeze like she's dipped her head into a pepper pot. Annie would glare at him, if only she could.
She settles for sneezing on his weird sonic device.
"Hey!" he whips it away from her and then looks at Amy, "Why are you lot always so unhygienic?"
"Don't look at me, she did it!"
"What the hell is going on?" All three pause, Annie squeaks and sneezes again. Amy blinks repeatedly and the Doctor turns white.
"It...can't be." He mumbles to himself.
He's changed his outfit is the first thing she notices. It's now a suit with a dark blue shirt under a black coat. His face is clean shaven, and hair still exactly that perfect amount of bed-head. In his hands, a newer more complex phone. He also looks furious.
"What the hell did you do to her?"
"How did you survive?" The Doctor asks, completely ignoring the previous question.
The Master smirks, "I just clicked my red sparkly heels three times and thought of home."
"Answer me, how did you survive!"
The Master's brows furrow, gaze turning to Annie, "Is she having an allergic reaction? To what? What did you do to her?"
The Doctor blinks, completely and utterly confused, "I didn't do anything to her."
"Liar! Look at her, she's all red and puffy and sneezing! I only left half an hour ago!" He moves towards Annie and cups her head, it isn't gentle like before. His hands sweep across her face, poking and prodding, his thumbs pull back her eyes lids. He lets her go, and turns to the Doctor.
"You're an idiot. A really big one, with stupid hair and the 1950's called, they want their bow ties back."
The Doctor's mouth hangs open a bit, Amy looks like she's about to pull some thing in just trying not to bust out laughing.
"Now hold on just a minute, first off bow ties are always in style, how many times do I have to tell everyone. Second, what do you care about the girl? She'll be fine if we just give her a quick shot."
The Master stands up to his full height, which in this current regeneration is quiet a bit more than the Doctor's. He admits to himself, that he likes this regeneration more than the others because of this, and the fantastic hair...and the strength isn't a downgrade either.
"None of your business, Doctor, and did you give her the shot yet?"
"Well, no-"
"-then she's not fine." He grabs Annie's hand and nearly drags her away. He doesn't care about The Doctor or his reaction, he has literally all the time in the world to deal with that, but unfortunately Annie only has a short window before her sneezes start to effect her brain and he won't be the cause of her sneezing out her brains.
He of course, isn't at all comfortable with his body's autopilot reactions to want to protect and comfort her, but it appears he has a little choice in the matter. He gives into the desire and finds that it actually calms him. Weird.
He pushes her into his Tardis, not even giving her enough time to be confused of why he was pushing her into a mirror that seemed to float in the air. He follows and then grabs her hand again, intent on walking as fast as he can to the medbay.
"This is my Tardis, and a yes it's a time machine, and yes it is in fact bigger on the inside. We can laugh about that later, after I make you stop sneezing to death so that I don't have another reason to throw that idiot into a black hole."
Annie sneezes out a soft, "Sorry."
He grips her hand a bit tighter, as his two hearts speed up. Just a little bit. Not much...just a little.
"It's his fault. Everything always is because he's such an idiot." He makes her sit down in front of him as he searches for the cure and readies a needle, "Honestly, sometimes the things that come out of his mouth could probably make Pierce look like he sprouts out poetry with every sentence."
Annie cracks a smile.
He smirks and injects her with the needle.
"Ow!"
"Had to distract you." he explains, placing a futuristic band-aid on her tiny wound.
"Thanks? I think..." Annie pokes her arm where the needle hit her, "-but really, who comes to planet where you know the inhabitants could be allergic to the pollen that you're covered with?"
The Master can't help but laugh, "I know, right?"
"Is he even really a Doctor?"
"No."
Annie makes a face that expresses her offense. He smiles and knows that without a doubt, there's more of Jeff Winger in this regeneration then he cares to admit. Or maybe, there was just a lot of the Master in Jeff. At this point, who cares?
"That's sort of creepy."
"You think that's creepy? You should see what he really would look like for his age. I'm talking, mini-yoda. With a skin condition."
"Ew...is that what you all look like...?"
"No. It was just a, er a sort of thing I did to him. Still, even if it were, I would never let myself go like that."
They fall into silence, both unsure how to proceed.
He breaks it, "You could come with me."
"What?"
He falters ever so slightly, "To travel, any where at any time. It could be a great learning experience." He hates that he sounds so desperate.
"Are you trying to tempt me into traveling into time and space with you?"
"It was either this, or just kidnap you, but I figured you'd punch me in the face. I don't really have any experience with asking people to come with me."
He's rewarded with a small smile for his efforts. "Your offer does need work."
"What if I threw in a real unicorn?"
"Really? Like on here? Can you have a horse on a ship? Is that even legal?"
"Annie, I'm not having a horse on my ship." she deflates a bit at his words.
"Than you shouldn't offer it."
That Master rolls his eyes, "If you saw how big they were in real life you'd understand."
"Okay."
He blinks.
"Show me some real unicorns."
She's smug, with her answer, back straight and head tilted up to look into his eyes. He knows that this isn't really about showing her unicorns, he can tell that she's agreeing to much more than that.
She continues to surprise him when she leans up places a chaste kiss against his cheek.
No, he's not exactly the same man, and no, he's not even human any more; but in the end he still knows her better than anyone else, just as she knows him.
-and frankly, he's tired of being lonely.
"Come on then, let's go see if unicorns fall for your Disney eyes too." he jokes, grabbing her hand once more, tugging her back into the control room. She follows him, and squeezes his hand back.
She can't wait to see the stars with him.
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Author: avaritia_90
Spoilers: None
Word Count:2201
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Community
Summary: Ficcy Friday request from eleventhimpala with the prompt of a Doctor Who/Community Master!Jeff and Annie confront each other. Master!Jeff realizes that he still has feelings (probably not as strong, but still there) for this plucky little human.
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He stalks from the room, intent on leaving everything behind, happy to leave all that made him human. The crappy apartment, the odd assortment of friends and even weirder enemies.
He doesn't need those things.
He walks a bit faster, turning a corner and rushing to the outside.
He doesn't want those things either.
Taking out his blackberry, he unlatches the front and fiddles with the wiring, then snaps the top back on and pushes down on send harder than necessary.
In seconds, the air around him swirls as a grinding noise starts.
His Tardis, a simple, long framed mirror, lands directly next to him.
Of course he has a remote control for his Tardis. Duh.
"Oh, I've missed you." He rushes forward, straight into the mirror that allows him to pass into the inside. The Tardis hums in his mind in response, but it's nothing compared to the whirlwind of thoughts in his mind. He can still feel her, on his skin, her voice in his ears and see her blue eyes every time he closes his.
He take a moment, to calm himself, and stare up at the glowing column.
He hates that even with eons of history of every single subject across numerous galaxies and worlds, she's still consumes his mind. Even his own madness dims in comparison.
The Master falls into a near by captain chair, head in hands and wonders what's wrong with him.
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Annie stands, still as stone, trying to force herself to function.
Jeff wasn't real. Not human. Gone.
Nope. It was no good. Her brain refused to let her think of anything else.
I'm not human, and I never was.
She believed that. That fact is branded into her mind. She's constantly thinking there should have been signs, she should have noticed. She should have known the difference between man and alien when they locked lips.
He did love you.
Annie doesn't know what to make of his last parting words. As much as she wants to believe, she can't help but become guarded. She doesn't understand. Doesn't know if these words, that sound almost cruel and hopelessly sad, if they should make her happy. For all they do at the moment is remind her once more that the Jeff she knew no longer exists.
Love, isn't suppose to go hand in hand with a declaration of death.
So no. the world didn't explode or burn, but her world. Her life, was shaken to the core by one call.
whirl whirl whiiiirl crash
Annie turns her head slowly, to see a blue police box suddenly appear next to her. It's at this point, she realizes she's probably still going into shock because she doesn't react, or at least not in the way any normal, functioning human would respond when a huge blue box appears out of no where.
"Huh."
Out pops a man with floppy brown hair. Followed closely by a young red head, who is eating a bagel.
"Doctor!" The girl, pretty and freckled, but furious. She screams at a man, not short, not tall -somewhere in between (average her mind quips after a second). He's not particularly handsome, or not in Annie's opinion, but he isn't horrible either. He's also wearing a lot of tweed and a bow tie, something she can only assume he stole from an elderly man.
Really, who wears a bow tie now a days?
"Bow ties are cool." He stops to answer her. She hadn't realized she said it out loud.
The girl next to him bites into the bagel, and munches on it happily.
"-correction, you think it's cool."
"Amy, I know you don't get my awesome, and frankly, amazing style, I accept that about you. It's sad, and unfortunate, but I accept it."
"I accept that you're mad and clearly haven't looked in a mirror. Ever." Amy, grins and her eyes light up. Clearly enjoying poking fun at the man.
It's all too much of a bitter reminder, of her and Jeff. This friendly atmosphere, and inside jokes between friends. Of love, loyalty and friendship. It makes her insides turn, her heart clench and her eyes burn. She wants that back, so desperately.
Tears fall down her cheeks without her even really noticing. Here she is, surrounded and flooded with aliens, machines and hints of adventure. All she can think of is how much she wants Jeff back.
"Oh, Doctor look, she's crying! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" The girl, Amy shoves the half eaten bagel onto the Doctor (who looks disgusted) and goes to her, concerned. Annie responds with a half hearted mewl of sadness, tries to breath but chokes a little instead.
Then she starts sneezing. Over and over again, in rapid succession.
As she sneezes twice, she realizes that it weird that she's crying this much. She feels like her eyes are pouring. She sneezes three times more in a row.
"Oh...oops." The Doctor, says awkwardly before grabbing Amy and tugging her away, "-eh, you know how we just came from the planet Marrrrrararrrak?"
Annie looks up at him, barely able open, but still enough to look confused. "What?"
"Marrrrrararrrak is a planet, full of these special, rare flowers called the Starbuckies."
"I didn't believe him, so I had him take me there," Amy explains more quickly, "Turns out that Starbucks the company owns the planet and that's where we got the bagels. Absolutely out of this world! Literally!"
The Doctor leans in closer to Annie and runs a sonic screwdriver over her face, Annie leans back because she doesn't want some weird alien device in her face.
"Actually, that's not such a good thing. The Starbuckies, while beautiful and tasty also cause allergic reactions in some humans with it's pollen, which we probably are covered in. Sorry." He puts down the sonic screwdriver. "-but congrats on being the first human ever to be allergic to it."
He smiles delighted at her, like this is an amazing discovery, and not a horrible act that makes her sneeze like she's dipped her head into a pepper pot. Annie would glare at him, if only she could.
She settles for sneezing on his weird sonic device.
"Hey!" he whips it away from her and then looks at Amy, "Why are you lot always so unhygienic?"
"Don't look at me, she did it!"
"What the hell is going on?" All three pause, Annie squeaks and sneezes again. Amy blinks repeatedly and the Doctor turns white.
"It...can't be." He mumbles to himself.
He's changed his outfit is the first thing she notices. It's now a suit with a dark blue shirt under a black coat. His face is clean shaven, and hair still exactly that perfect amount of bed-head. In his hands, a newer more complex phone. He also looks furious.
"What the hell did you do to her?"
"How did you survive?" The Doctor asks, completely ignoring the previous question.
The Master smirks, "I just clicked my red sparkly heels three times and thought of home."
"Answer me, how did you survive!"
The Master's brows furrow, gaze turning to Annie, "Is she having an allergic reaction? To what? What did you do to her?"
The Doctor blinks, completely and utterly confused, "I didn't do anything to her."
"Liar! Look at her, she's all red and puffy and sneezing! I only left half an hour ago!" He moves towards Annie and cups her head, it isn't gentle like before. His hands sweep across her face, poking and prodding, his thumbs pull back her eyes lids. He lets her go, and turns to the Doctor.
"You're an idiot. A really big one, with stupid hair and the 1950's called, they want their bow ties back."
The Doctor's mouth hangs open a bit, Amy looks like she's about to pull some thing in just trying not to bust out laughing.
"Now hold on just a minute, first off bow ties are always in style, how many times do I have to tell everyone. Second, what do you care about the girl? She'll be fine if we just give her a quick shot."
The Master stands up to his full height, which in this current regeneration is quiet a bit more than the Doctor's. He admits to himself, that he likes this regeneration more than the others because of this, and the fantastic hair...and the strength isn't a downgrade either.
"None of your business, Doctor, and did you give her the shot yet?"
"Well, no-"
"-then she's not fine." He grabs Annie's hand and nearly drags her away. He doesn't care about The Doctor or his reaction, he has literally all the time in the world to deal with that, but unfortunately Annie only has a short window before her sneezes start to effect her brain and he won't be the cause of her sneezing out her brains.
He of course, isn't at all comfortable with his body's autopilot reactions to want to protect and comfort her, but it appears he has a little choice in the matter. He gives into the desire and finds that it actually calms him. Weird.
He pushes her into his Tardis, not even giving her enough time to be confused of why he was pushing her into a mirror that seemed to float in the air. He follows and then grabs her hand again, intent on walking as fast as he can to the medbay.
"This is my Tardis, and a yes it's a time machine, and yes it is in fact bigger on the inside. We can laugh about that later, after I make you stop sneezing to death so that I don't have another reason to throw that idiot into a black hole."
Annie sneezes out a soft, "Sorry."
He grips her hand a bit tighter, as his two hearts speed up. Just a little bit. Not much...just a little.
"It's his fault. Everything always is because he's such an idiot." He makes her sit down in front of him as he searches for the cure and readies a needle, "Honestly, sometimes the things that come out of his mouth could probably make Pierce look like he sprouts out poetry with every sentence."
Annie cracks a smile.
He smirks and injects her with the needle.
"Ow!"
"Had to distract you." he explains, placing a futuristic band-aid on her tiny wound.
"Thanks? I think..." Annie pokes her arm where the needle hit her, "-but really, who comes to planet where you know the inhabitants could be allergic to the pollen that you're covered with?"
The Master can't help but laugh, "I know, right?"
"Is he even really a Doctor?"
"No."
Annie makes a face that expresses her offense. He smiles and knows that without a doubt, there's more of Jeff Winger in this regeneration then he cares to admit. Or maybe, there was just a lot of the Master in Jeff. At this point, who cares?
"That's sort of creepy."
"You think that's creepy? You should see what he really would look like for his age. I'm talking, mini-yoda. With a skin condition."
"Ew...is that what you all look like...?"
"No. It was just a, er a sort of thing I did to him. Still, even if it were, I would never let myself go like that."
They fall into silence, both unsure how to proceed.
He breaks it, "You could come with me."
"What?"
He falters ever so slightly, "To travel, any where at any time. It could be a great learning experience." He hates that he sounds so desperate.
"Are you trying to tempt me into traveling into time and space with you?"
"It was either this, or just kidnap you, but I figured you'd punch me in the face. I don't really have any experience with asking people to come with me."
He's rewarded with a small smile for his efforts. "Your offer does need work."
"What if I threw in a real unicorn?"
"Really? Like on here? Can you have a horse on a ship? Is that even legal?"
"Annie, I'm not having a horse on my ship." she deflates a bit at his words.
"Than you shouldn't offer it."
That Master rolls his eyes, "If you saw how big they were in real life you'd understand."
"Okay."
He blinks.
"Show me some real unicorns."
She's smug, with her answer, back straight and head tilted up to look into his eyes. He knows that this isn't really about showing her unicorns, he can tell that she's agreeing to much more than that.
She continues to surprise him when she leans up places a chaste kiss against his cheek.
No, he's not exactly the same man, and no, he's not even human any more; but in the end he still knows her better than anyone else, just as she knows him.
-and frankly, he's tired of being lonely.
"Come on then, let's go see if unicorns fall for your Disney eyes too." he jokes, grabbing her hand once more, tugging her back into the control room. She follows him, and squeezes his hand back.
She can't wait to see the stars with him.
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