Frontline

[vail_kagami]

Rating: PG
Prompt: #022 - Enemies
Claim: The Time War
Table: Here
Spoilers: None
Characters: Master, Eighth Doctor
Summary: It's time for the Master to leave the sinking ship.

There was no frontline in this war. The enemy was everywhere and everywhen, with a little oasis of peace in the middle of it all, shrinking by the second. Gallifrey was lost

Comments

[elfgirljen]

Great fic!

[vail_kagami]

Thanks.

[teastainedbird]

Oh, great as always! I love your Time War fics!

[vail_kagami]

Thank you!

[evilawyer]

Very nice! Somehow, I can't imagine the Doctor wouldn't at some point always know the Master (although I've never believed the current convention that he knows him instantaneously) I like your Master's determination that the Time Lords are still his enemy --- it does seem quite likely that the Time Lords would dispose of a resurrected renegade once his (or her) usefulness had exhausted in the war effort.

[vail_kagami]

Exactly. While the Time Lords liked to claim the moral highground, they didn't come across too turstworhty in the classic series, much less in the EDAs.

[anonymous]

Loved it! Seeing through the Master's eyes in your stories always gives a reader an interesting and quirkily selfish take on events. Which is great to read. He is a fantastic character and you write him beautifully, making him very believable if totally self serving.

"Eventually he found his target: A lone TARDIS, fighting two Dalek ships at the edge of the battle zone, the one thing between him and freedom. It was old, probably the oldest around, its shields no match for his weapons. On top of that, it was already malfunctioning, its shape stuck forever in an impractical form…

No. Not that one.

He chose another one ..........."

Ahhhhh. That sent a shiver down my spine.

Arithon

[vail_kagami]

Thank you! I like writing about these two, and the Master never confronts the writer with moral dilemmas* of any kind, which is a nice change from the more friendly characters.

*) Kill or don't kill the Doctor is not a moral dilemma for the Master. It's not even a question.

[nightrider101]

As someone else said, I love all your Time War stories. They paint such a vivid picture of what it must have been like. You can also feel the relationship between the Master and Doctor shining through.

Putting on my beta hat now: you use gab several times throughout the fic. I think you mean gap?

Great job as always, my friend!

[vail_kagami]

Uhm. Yes. I corrected that. The Ps and the Bs, always the same with me.
Thanks for the beta, and I'm glad you like the story!