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Title: Prevarication
Author: [livejournal.com profile] order_of_chaos
Pairing: Fifth Doctor/Ainley!Master
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 198
AN: Written for the [livejournal.com profile] best_enemies Table Challenge; prompt: closet. My table is here.

His celery’s missing, there’s dust clinging to the red and beige of his coat, and the rough wood of the closet door is unsympathetically and implacably locked behind him.
He’s not breathing; hasn’t been since the first touch of the Master’s hand on his shoulder, a hungry curl of fingers that stops short of demanding only by the barest of fractions.

Now is the time to run – tumbling himself helter-skelter into another adventure and not thinking about the Master until the next time he needs thwarting.
This time, he can’t do that.
Now is the time to feign surrender – to let the weight of the Master’s hand drop him to his knees, to steal back the upper hand by sapping the Master's control with teasing so endless it borders on cruelty.
He’s good at cruelty, sometimes. Far better than he likes.

The closet is small and dark and there’s no away to move to.
Now is the time to wait.

The Doctor shivers, the Master’s smirk heavy in his imagination; too close, too dangerous, too affectionate.
Maybe the TARDIS will let them out soon, and maybe she won’t. By this stage, he doesn’t know which he’s hoping for.


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Date: 2008-08-23 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kayliemalinza.livejournal.com
EVIL TARDIS IS EVIL.

My favorite lines:

His celery’s missing

the Master’s smirk heavy in his imagination; too close, too dangerous, too affectionate.

Date: 2008-08-23 08:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kayliemalinza.livejournal.com
P.S., I was looking at an icon post (http://gogo-didi.livejournal.com/23840.html) by [livejournal.com profile] gogo_didi and found one that I'm tempted to use, or perhaps you should use it:

Image



P.S. it's been a long time since you've used your fractal icon, and I miss it. :(

Date: 2008-08-23 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Lo, I am anon, for I am shy and sort of between LJ names, but I couldn't resist TARDIS-ing up your fractals. Two versions, because I couldn't pick.

Image Image

Date: 2008-08-23 12:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] aralias.livejournal.com
excellent. i like this a hungry curl of fingers that stops short of demanding only by the barest of fractions.
particularly, because it suggests that the master would let him go if he wanted and that's my favourite kind of doctor/master, particularly if the doctor realises it and lets the master think he's won, but only a bit. love regaining the upper hand. and the description of the master's smirk :)

Date: 2008-08-23 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
OMG, closetsex. I liked the bit about him being too good at cruelty, lovely Fivey insight there.

Date: 2008-08-31 10:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
Yes!

Shit, I should get to reading your latest Sparrington fic... could you link me? I'm woefully behind on my flist.<3

Date: 2008-08-31 11:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com
I did/do indeed. And I have some ancient Jack/James manips on my LJ somewhere. I think they're all under my Pirates tag, here:
http://snowgrouse.livejournal.com/tag/pirates

Skip back to =20 and you'll find more. I've also got icons of my manips in there somewhere, some kissy and snuggly ones:).

And I also wrotede Barbossa/Anamaria somewhere, but can't be arsed to look it up now. If that piques your interest, let me know.

*goes off to read*

Date: 2008-08-23 01:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dirty-smudge.livejournal.com
I still can't get over how fluffy Five is. I hear his celery is missing and I want to ruffle his hair.

This fic makes me go mmm.

Date: 2008-08-24 01:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bewarethespork.livejournal.com
Epic, epic win. Every time I think I'm over Doctor/Master, I see a fic like this and decide that maybe I'm not quite over it after all...

(Why, oh why do I not have any Ainley!Master icons?)

Date: 2008-08-26 12:11 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bewarethespork.livejournal.com
I have a couple of Ainley!Master icons saved on my hard drive, but no icon space left. Clearly, it is time for an icon reshuffle.

Date: 2008-08-31 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teaji.livejournal.com
General shivery goodness.
LOVE this line: Now is the time to feign surrender – to let the weight of the Master’s hand drop him to his knees, to steal back the upper hand by sapping the Master's control with teasing so endless it borders on cruelty.

Would you consider a followup?

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