Fic: Lady in Red 4/10

Sep 29, 2007 23:52

Title: Lady In Red
Summary: Lucy Saxon's story. Warning; contains themes of violence, non con etc. You have been warned! Very adult.
Rating: Adult
Characters: Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, The Doctor (10th), The Master (Simm)
Genres: Angst, BDSM, Graphic Sex, Graphic Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Missing Scene, Non-Con, Romance
A/N:  OK for this chapter I have totally ignored what the Doctor said in TSOD about the TARDIS being locked between the end of the universe and 2008. So, for this story, that didnt happen, ok?

Chapter Four

Then he had shown her exactly what the TARDIS was capable of. By taking her around time and space Harry gave her the honeymoon that he had promised. For months they travelled, visiting planets the like Lucy could never have dreamed of. He took her to Woman Wept and together they walked underneath frozen waves one hundred feet high. They went to Abydos in its prime and laughed like children running along a deserted beach. On Deva Loka the couple made love in the moonlight of the tropical paradise and on Florana together they swam in the effervescent seas.

He took her back in time to ancient Rome to visit the Coliseum. Lucy had marvelled how her husband roared with delight at the bloody spectacle of the Gladiator battles. Once she would have cringed at the thought of so much blood letting but here with him, everything seemed so right. Next they visited the British Empire Exhibition in London in 1924; it was there he told her of his plans for the next great British Empire with the pair of them at the helm; ushering in a new era. Then they went and spent time on the Titanic; waltzing around the dance floor and dining with the ship’s captain, before escaping breathless and laughing as the ship sank to the depths of the Atlantic.

Finally, almost six months later, they returned to Earth. Lucy had been astounded to learn that just two weeks had passed since they had left. But all the excitement of the time they had spent together was suddenly torn away from her, when just two days after they had returned, Lucy’s mother had been found hanging from the grand staircase of her family’s home. Lucy was distraught. After losing her brothers, this latest tragedy almost destroyed her. She clung onto Harry at the funeral; grief etched on her face. The investigation concluded that her mother had committed suicide; a note had been found on her stating that she was unable to live without her sons. Somehow she had climbed over the oak banister, tied the rope and thrown herself off. Her neck had broken instantly. She had been found twenty four hours later; it had been the nurse’s day off and her mother had been the only one in the house apart from her invalid father.

A few days after the funeral of her mother, her father passed away. Finally succumbing to the dementia, he had wandered out of the house in the middle of the night. His nurse had found him collapsed on the front lawn the following morning. At the inquest she testified that she had heard him calling to his dead wife, not realising that she was no longer there. The nurse had checked on him and had left him tucked up in bed. She had administered the prescribed sedatives and retired to her own quarters, finding him missing the next morning. He had died of hypothermia.

Lucy had taken her fathers death calmly, though those around her were worried. It was as though she wasn’t processing what had happened. But Harry was a blessing, he tended to his grieving wife with the sensitivity that stemmed from the love that everyone could see that he felt. Gradually Lucy recovered, as she clung to Harry even more, he was all she had left in the world. After that the couple moved into her family home and Harry announced his plans for the 2008 General Election. ArchAngel was launched and was a resounding success. All the telecommunications companies signed up for the network and shares of the company and of SaxonInc went through the roof.

The couple became the darlings of paparazzi. Never too busy to pose for a photograph, the couple were everywhere. At all the right parties and restaurants, the rich, famous and influential queued up to be photographed and therefore associated with them. Their lives were in all the glossies; from Hello to OK they graced the covers. They were the perfect couple; young, good looking, influential, intelligent and in touch with the nation. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Yet behind closed doors, it was a completely different story.

the master, fic

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