Owl from the Master to the Ninth Doctor

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Doctor,

I'm sure you've noticed that your gung-ho boy Jack is on the premises. You might want to let him know he just doesn't have the talent to be a sexual predator; I'd never be able to let him down easy.

Do I really need to sign?



((ETA: NSFW!))

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[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

The blow knocked him backwards, he tasted bllood on his lips. "Atone for their misdeeds? I killed them! I killed them all," he nearly screamed.

[theregothedrums.livejournal.com]

"Yes," he shrieked, grabbing the Doctor's shoulders. "All of them. All dead. Tell me. Tell me what that makes you!"

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

"Death! Not the Oncoming Storm, I was Death! I killed them all.." his words trailed off into a half-choked sob. "I didn't want to."

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"Didn't want to," the Master taunted, with another punch to the stomach. "Really? Really? Tell me you don't think they should be dead! Can you? Can you say that and not be lying?"

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

He groaned, doubling over again. "No. Not after what they did. After what Rassilon did.. I had to stop them."

[theregothedrums.livejournal.com]

"All that power," the Master murmured, leaning close again, resting his cheek against the Doctor's shoulder. "Everything of them that survives. Yours now, isn't it? What does that make you?"

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

"A criminal," he rasped, coughing. "A killer."

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"Strongest," the Master countered softly, trailing his fingertips up the Doctor's chest with obscene gentleness, caressing his throat and cupping his cheek. "A warrior. Victorious." The Master kissed him eagerly, wanting to laugh.

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

The Doctor shuddered at the touch, eagerly welcoming the kiss. A low groan of desire escaped him. He craved that touch, needed it.

Victory. Only he could think of the War in such base terms.

"I can't do it alone. I never could."

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"But you did," the Master reminded him. "You brought it all down. Brought down your judgment on Gallifrey. Executioner of the Time Lords. Has anyone ever tasted such power?"

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

"No. No one ever should. It was too much," he rasped, grimacing at the sharp pain in his side. If a rib hadn't been broken, it was certainly cracked.

[theregothedrums.livejournal.com]

"All that power," the Master continued blithely, "and you had it in your hands." In a counterpoint to his words, he pulled the Doctor into his arms, cradling him gently. "The ultimate destruction. The crowning height of our civilization. And it will be inside you forever."

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

He turned his head, seeking the Master as he gathered him near. "Yes. All that death. All I wanted to do was create, to build and all I did was destroy."

The Master was right. It was something that he would carry inside him, but unlike the Master, he would take no dark joy in that. He simply couldn't.

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"Our heritage," he said mockingly, rocking the Doctor in his lap and stroking his hair. "All that destruction. It's in our blood and bone. The very epitome of our people. Monsters. We're monsters."

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

"Yes. Monsters. The War reawakened the Monster. And when it woke, it couldn't be containted - it destroyed everything, it consumed everything." He was trying so very hard not to shake as the Master held him.

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"It was in you all along," the Master crooned, as if consoling a child. "All that destruction. You hide it, but when it slips its leash, oh, Doctor, you're just so good at it."

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

"I don't want to be! You love your monster, you've embraced it and made it your own. I hate mine. I don't want the destruction or the death!"

[theregothedrums.livejournal.com]

He slapped the Doctor hard across the face for that. They were sharing a moment. Hardly the time for protestations, and an even worse time to try and cling to their differences.

"And you're as good at it when you're trying not to be as I am when I make a hobby of it. Why do you think that is?"

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His head rocked back with the blow. "Because of who we are. What we are."

[theregothedrums.livejournal.com]

That was much more like it, and the Master rewarded him with a deep, lingering kiss.

"It's part of us. Part of you. You can try to ignore it, or repress it, or channel it for 'the greater good'. Where we walk, worlds tremble."

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The Doctor groaned into the kiss. His body ached, a strange blending of pain and desire.

"Tremble? They burn. Everything we touch turns to ash, even our home."

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"Yes," the Master murmured against the Doctor's lips, with an ecstatic shiver of his own. "And you still taste so beautifully of ashes. Anyone who isn't afraid of you is too ignorant to realize they should be."

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

"And the ones who realize it, they always die. They find out too late and they die. Because of me." His body shifted against the Master, wanting more, needing more.

[theregothedrums.livejournal.com]

"But everything dies, Doctor," the Master murmured raptly. "Goldfish and galaxies. Every light goes out. We could have danced in the flames." Another kiss, slow, deep, and seductive,and he raised his mouth to the Doctor's ear. "Imagine that."

[fantastic-nine.livejournal.com]

A low, eager moan escaped him at the intensity of his kiss. "I couldn't.. even if you had asked me. It all fell in fire and all I ever wanted was life. Even when I brought death."