fic: Give Up the Ghost [Doctor/Master, 4000 words]

[fromthesabrary]

Title: Give Up the Ghost
Author: Sabine iamsab
Summary: The first four months, the next four months, and the last four months.
Category: Doctor Who, Doctor/Master
Warnings: NSFW
Note: For deborah_judge, who requested this through Sweet-Charity, though the story sort of spun off from her request and I didn't quite fulfill it in the end.
Spoilers: Through "The

Comments

[jadekirk]

That was lovely.

(sorry, I didn't get back to you by email, but my computer went a little screwy)

[iamsab]

No prob, thanks for offering to help! I should head over to ficfinishers and see if I can pay it forward...

[tabula_x_rasa]

I really liked the connections you drew and the way you had the Doctor changing over time. Really interesting! I especially loved I'd forgive him, and I'd love him, because he is me. Now, he is more me than even I've ever been. Very powerful.

[iamsab]

Thank you so much! It was a good challenge to try and show the way the Doctor changed/got more scared/lost himself over the course of the year, so it is GREAT to know it came across. Srsly, thank you for the note.

[evilawyer]

The foreshadowing (I guess it's reverse foreshadowing) about the Doctor's rising up instead of staying in his cage until the countdown is finished (thereby truly forgiving the Master) is fascinating. And a bit heartbreaking, too, because for all the change you show the Doctor undergoing, he snaps right back into the unrelenting (and unforgiving, perhaps?) being he is. Very nice.

[iamsab]

Oh, thank you so much. It's really the thing about the Doctor, he always bounces back, always all right. And of course Martha shows up to remind him.

I had a hard time, as many people did, with the whole Doctor-reborn-because-people-said-his-name of the finale, so I tried to flesh that out a little and show that it was really just the egoboost that he needed. And he survived the destruction of Gallifrey, so he can survive this, and forgive himself. I mean, I think! But I like to think we see this in season 4 too, with the Doctor very genuinely realizing he needs someone to support him, someone to stand in awe of him (and therefore is kind of disappointed when Donna fails to marvel and therefore needs Martha and a daughter and..., but that's another story. *g*) to make him the Time Lord he is.

Like, if a Time Lord falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it, is it still awesome?

Also, sorry, I got distracted there.

Thank you so much for the comment, and that's precisely what I was trying to show. BIG GRIN!

[evilawyer]

Like, if a Time Lord falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it, is it still awesome?

***laughs uproariously***
Too funny!

Also, that sounds like a fair assessment of what I've heard about S4 (I shall see later this year) and the Doctor in general.

[iamsab]

YAY! I am so, so glad, and relieved, and thrilled to hear that. *faints*

[projectcyborg]

very interesting to see how this turned out! all your issues and theories and kinks about being a Time Lord and their epic, horrifying love are beautifully arrayed. it's gentle and haunting and awful.