28-Grease

[x_losfic]

Title: Maintenance
Rating: PG
Author: x_los
Pairing: Three/Delgado!Master
Prompt: 28-Grease, from best_enemies' table challenge
Beta: aralias hates the word complimented. Why? No idea, ask her yourself, she's lovely.
Summary: Think of it as an Axos AU ending, only without Earth-death. Utter fluff. The Master is not annoyed by the Doctor's choice to spend all his time

Comments

[bagheera_san]

LOVE IT. How odd, I think D/M is the only slash couple where I'm ridiculously fond of fluff.

morphing into half of one of those nauseating couples that even looked like each other.
I bet this happens to TLs all the time.

This necessitated arching his hips and sort of wiggling them to reach something. The Master glared at their obscene jauntiness and forced himself to look away.
This was inspired by that insanely hot cap of Three in a white Tshirt lying under something and fixing it, right?

[x_los]

I think they're my only fluff couple, too? Maybe its the dearth of fluff fic for them that makes the examples of it fun, or the fact that they're so deeply fucked up that you just want to give them a breather, b/c even when they're cute they're lurkingly issues-ful. Or how ridiculously twee they can be in canon.

Ahahaha, oh that frigging cap which made me Uncomfortable even after having written pr0n with him. Why does he even have those arms? I'm /sure/ it subconsciously was inspired by that, now you mention. Man, he should don the Tshirt in this, the buttons line is not worth the simple awesomeface/canon in-joke of the Tshirt.

[aralias]

If he started lying to himself on a regular basis he and would become that much more indistinguishable from the Doctor, and he had no intention of morphing into half of one of those nauseating couples that even looked like each other.

it's so true, and so funny, and particularly when you consider that with regeneration being a handy trope in the universe, this could well happen and hello there simm!master, did you steal your dress sense and your voice from the doctor? yes, i think you did.

also the idea of re-doing the TARDIS console room makes me surprisingly happy. re-making it with them both in mind: lovely :)

p.s. the ending? is good, so that's all right. some of the earlier sentences get a bit confused sometimes, but i worked them out eventually .

[x_losfic]

simm!master, did you steal your dress sense and your voice from the doctor? yes, i think you did.

That's always been funny to me, because Ten regenerates to match Rose? Aaaaand then Simm!Master out-regenerates him by matching Ten Even Better than Ten matched Rose. I mean, I don't write much Ten/Simm? But I can see that they're /designed/ to be freaky degrees of perfect for each other, in an ideal non-endless-torture-fic world (sometimes, certainly! But that's like, nearly every fic for them) where they actually have some opportunity to hang out and banter/enjoy each other as people.

Boo @ confused sentences. Can I chuck it to you in its shortness? So I can show it around without shame after you tell me where coherence flees before me like I were Moses and it the Red Sea?

[aralias]

i'd be delighted, though there's nothing to be ashamed of really :p

p.s. noticed the lack of ten actually. any reason? are you just not as fond of him as you are of three and five, or is it just that canon tells us that the doctor was old and boring for year and then teh master died?

[x_losfic]

That reply sounded unnecessarily bitchy, so now there isn't one. Bah.

[x_losfic]

IAWTC, there needs to be 10x more fic for them.

[marah_sarie]

Ooh, I liked this a lot. Fluffy Three/Delgado!Master fic makes me ridiculously happy. :)

[x_los]

I feel a little guilty every time I end up writing fluff for them, b/c really, fluff? But I can't seem to stop, they're just so cute it's sick.

I /have/ to write something besides that Sea Devils ficlet where D!M's not neurotic in the least, and is Vary Mansome, and wins and blows up shit, just to give him his groove back.

[zauberer_sirin]

The Doctor laughed. “Oh you poor, poor shut in. Well, are there any other cruelly neglected systems I should start working on now that I’ve finished?”

You do really excel at writing these two, their voices.

This makes me happy. Fluffy but good. Soemtimes I want to smacks these two for being so emotionally retarded but hey, look, you've fixed them!

[x_losfic]

Aw, thanks! I'm always really relieved to hear the voices sound okay (especially Three-people have commented on D!M, but not Three, so thanks for reassuring my nagging worry that he sounded like, I don't know, Lawrence Ollivier on smack or something :p).

They do indeed have Downes of the Emotions. And yes! Fixed! Now they can be married like they so clearly are! They can go forth and bitch about how each other make the tea wrong and whose turn it is to land somewhere life-threatening, and stop making us all question when they'll stfu and get a room...

[zauberer_sirin]

I think I have quite an accurate radar to detect when the voices are done well (I am very sensitive to speech patterns in actors, maybe because English is not my language) and I can tell you, your Three is impressive.

(though Lawrence Olivier on crack would be fun)

It's weird, I think fluff fits Three/Delgado for some reason. Just like angst fits Five/Ainley and fuck up-ness & utter heartbreak fit Ten/Simm. There's something about Three and the Master makes me want to see them domestically bitchy but relatively happy, even in their own dysfuncional terms.

[x_los]

Oh, yay!

As for Olivier on crack, did you ever suffer through interminable Khartoum? 1) Olivier is on such drugs. 2) What is Heston even doing. 3) What is Unexpected!Arabic!Delgado doing?! For being so full of the wtf, that movie manages to be surprisingly boring.

That is another thing I want to read more of: Five/Ainley angst. Mm. Tasty.