The doctor is affectionate with the tardis and the master is jealous (Tensimm)
From my Thoschei prompt meme. Still open for requests :D
There’s no such thing as ‘peace’ in the Tardis. Or for the Master.
Naturally, for him, peace would mean to watch the death of a star, to burn a whole world with his own hands, to grab a neck and strangle the life out of a living being and watch the horror of death dawn upon them.
Right now, though, peace for the Master meant reading a true crime book (his latest obsession - the more descriptions, the better), as he had been taken captive by the Doctor and forced to have Pizza Fridays (as if Fridays were a thing in the Tardis).
He wasn’t getting any of that peace.
Right now, as he sat on the couch in the control room, the Doctor had apparently walked in. He probably said good morning, to which the Master automatically ignored, and proceeded to work on the panel. The Master would usually leave the Doctor talking on his own and mute him out of his brain, but this time, there was this annoying noise that kept ringing in his ears.
“You look soooo lovely today! What? Oh silly, of course there’s something different! Did you think I wouldn’t notice your new lightning? Looks so soft. Makes your insides even more beautiful!”
Throughout that - whatever the hell that speech in a flirty voice was -, the Master slowly lowered his book and furrowed his brow, staring at that scene like it was… no, he couldn’t think of any analogy. The scene in itself was bizarre enough. The Doctor’s fingers ran through the control panel as if it were a naked body made out of flesh, a lazy, easy smile on his face and flirtatious eyes, while the Tardis let out soft noises like a giggling school girl.
“What the fuck”, the Master spoke, dumbfounded.
The Doctor turned his head to him, seeming surprised.
“Oh! Sorry, Master, hello to you. Didn’t notice you there. Did you sleep well?”
“Of course you noticed I was here, dumb ass. You said good morning.”
“Huh. Guess I forgot”, the nerve on this man, the Master thought. “Then why didn’t you reply?”
“As if I would ever wish you a good morning. I’d wish you had choked on your cereal instead”, the Master lifted his book again, back to ignoring the Doctor.
The room went quiet again, until the Tardis began making some noises. The Master could pick up a few things, but noticed she was speaking in a language that seemed familiar only to the Doctor, like it was a dialect only they spoke. The Doctor giggled. By what the Master could understand, she was calling him a grumpy bear.
The Master lowered his book again, staring daggers at the time machine.
“Stop it, old girl!”, the Doctor now full on laughed and turned to the Master. “Sorry. She called you a grumpy bear.”
“I know that. I could hear it”, the Master said, angrily, while he shut his book and took it with him to anywhere else in the Tardis where he couldn’t hear the lovebirds. Behind him, the Doctor and the Tardis still giggled uncontrollably.
***
The Doctor was a terrible cook. Always has been. Back when they lived together on Gallifrey, the Master did all the cooking himself because, one, the Doctor once burnt down the kitchen and nearly regenerated in the process and two, the Master was actually good at it.
But he decided that doing that now would be too humiliating, so he just let the Doctor do the work, burn the whole thing, then wait for him to leave the kitchen defeated and make himself a perfectly good and unburnt waffle.
Now, though, he was just starving. He would, of course, attack the fridge, if the Doctor hadn’t made the Tardis lock it, saying he had watched YouTube tutorials and would make him the best pasta he’s ever tasted.
The Master had been too impatient, so he sat on the kitchen counter while he watched the Doctor cook and ramble about whatever.
That moment, in reverse, reminded him a lot about the old days, when he would cook in silence while Theta watched him and talked non-stop. Sometimes, out of the blue, Theta would get down from the counter and wrap his arms around his waist and ask for a spoon. Koschei would deny him, until Theta whined so much he just gave up and fed him one spoonful of broth.
He quickly shoved those memories inside a room in his mind and locked it. He was used to doing so.
“...and I think you’d love Ancient Rome, Master. Wait, we’ve been there, haven’t we? And we got arrested by Nero- wait, no. That was me and the Tardis. He got so enamored with her, and I mean, who wouldn't, right, darling?", the Doctor said as he stroked the kitchen's wall. The Tardis hummed softly.
The Master felt his blood boil.
"He wanted to take her for himself! And I denied, which made him send me to jail. And then I managed to escape, of course, right before he set fire to Rome, and I rescued this big ol' beauty right here – what? Oh, darling, I know, I know, you're no damsel in distress, but there's no problem in being saved once in a while. You've saved me countless times! If anything, I'm your damsel in distress", the Doctor laughed, as the Master watched the heavy smoke come up from the pot. "But- but that's how the story went! I know, I know, baby, I skipped that part, but I'll get there. So-"
"Oh for Rassilon's sake!", the Master shouted, abruptly hopping down from the counter and forcefully taking the pot handle from the Doctor's hand. He opened the lid, only for more smoke to come up along with the scent of burnt pasta. He groaned loudly.
"Well-" the Doctor started, but the Master lifted a hand, closing his eyes as if to hold himself back from killing the other man right there.
"I've been starving for hours. I will throw this radioactive garbage away and prepare something for myself. Why don't you go, take off your pants and fuck yourself on the Tardis propulsion lever so I don't have to listen to this bullshit, huh? Sounds good?", he opened his eyes again to look at the Doctor with a sarcastic smile, and found the other man staring at him wide-eyed, face red like an angry Dalek.
The Doctor's face contorted as he frowned and opened his mouth to say something. Before he did, the Master murmured with a threatening tone: "Out."
Unfortunately, despite using the right ingredients and leaving it on the stove for a reasonable amount of time, the Master still burnt the dish. Throwing the whole pan on the trash out of anger, he knew exactly who had burnt it.
The one who was the fucking kitchen itself.
***
You may ask yourself, how could the Master, specifically this incarnation, act so well-behaved and controlled under circumstances like these, that would draw violence out of less murderous men?
Well, it wasn’t the Doctor’s attempts at giving him therapy (he had given up on that long ago) or spending hours in a hot tub with zen music playing in the background. The Master had his hobbies.
Often, he would play FPS games on the Doctor’s console to let out some steam and get to kill people (even if they were not real); sometimes, he’d punch a wall, but he figured the Tardis was smart enough to make her walls so solid they’d actually hurt his hand; he even tried sabotaging the time machine a couple of times, only to get caught by the Doctor, who had been warned by the Tardis. And that would lead to punishment. Not the fun kind, no. Just getting to spend a year inside a prison cell, which just made him even more bored.
So the Master came up with a new, complex game. Every time the Doctor would take him out on a trip, when they were away from that tattletale bitch, he would try to kill someone.
It was risky, but it was exciting. Good lord, what had he been reduced to? Being excited just because he was going to murder someone? Before being trapped inside the Tardis by the Doctor, that was a normal work day for him.
He always managed to escape from the Doctor’s sight, come up with an elaborate plan to find a victim and dispose of the body in secret. But then, he got bored, because nothing else happened. So he started trying to bring the Doctor’s attention to the disappearances, and the Doctor was sent on that wild goose chase he loved so much while the Master managed to pull the strings so that every time he got close to finding out who the real culprit was, he got colder again.
Gods, he missed that.
He missed the adrenaline, the control, the glint in the Doctor’s eyes whenever he thought he’d solved another clue, the frustration when that clue turned out to be nothing, the way he clutched his hair and left it a mess, the way he turned to the Master desperate for his help and his brilliant inputs, the way he said ‘please…’
That was fun, but of course, like everything in the Master’s life, nothing good ever lasted for too long.
One day, after they came back from one of those trips, the Tardis spoke, inside his brain, somehow louder than the drums:
“I know what you’ve been doing.”
The Master jumped in surprise. He wasn’t one to let his guard down.
“How-” he thought, before being interrupted by her again:
“I figured we’d have this little chat in private. You wouldn’t want the Doctor to know, would you?”
The Master looked briefly at the Doctor, who worked on dematerialising the Tardis. He knew his enemy had poor mind reading skills compared to him, but could still hear loud thoughts, so he kept it down.
“What don’t I want him to know?”
“About your little murderous treasure hunts."
A cold chill ran down his spine.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Of course you do. I know everything that comes inside of me", at that, the Tardis made a giggly noise inside his head. Great, the time machine made dirty puns now. "And you brought in the smell of the blood of your victims. I know you washed your hands. But I can still feel it. I can feel your hearts beat like the sea after a storm. You're less cranky. You look exactly like you did after you tortured me. Satisfied. Blissful. Was it good?"
The Master turned away from the Doctor to hide his ominous smile.
"Delicious."
"And the Doctor looks so disgruntled", the Master took a brief look at the other Time Lord, and the Tardis was right. "You've deceived him."
"He needed this. Something to take him off his feet. He gets bored, and I am the one who brings in the fun."
"People die when you two have this kind of fun, Master."
"Meh."
"Do you really believe the Doctor is having fun?"
The Master sighed, rolling his eyes. He sat on the control room's couch, resting his arms on the backrest, watching the Doctor's back as he operated the controls.
"I've known him for longer than you. He gets upset when people die, sure, but he moves on quickly. He's a Time Lord, you can't change nature! Imagine if you were a humanoid and stepped on a butterfly. You're upset, because oh, it's such a pwetty little colorful thing! But is it going to ruin the rest of your day or your life? No, because you know that, in the end, it's just a small, useless, stupid creature with a one month average life span."
The Tardis went silent for a few minutes, and all the Master could hear were the drums. He preferred it like that.
"You are jealous", the Tardis spoke again.
The Master scoffed out loud and laughed, which made the Doctor turn to him. "Nothing", he said, and the Doctor raised an eyebrow but chose to ignore him again.
"Now you're taking yourself too seriously", the Master said arrogantly.
"I have been with him for centuries, sacrificed myself for him many times because I knew he'd put me first every time. I think I can take myself seriously."
The Master rolled his eyes, but didn't reply. Let her have it.
"And yet, you stole me, tortured me. And he still brought you inside."
"As his pet."
"As his prisoner."
"He thinks he can heal me."
"Do you agree?"
"I don't want to be healed. I know he's not talking about the drums. And I know he doesn't mean to heal me. He wants to rehabilitate me. Turn me into something I'm not."
"And why haven't you left yet?"
The Master looked up to her, confused, with his brow furrowed.
"I have left the door unlocked so many times. Open, even. Never saw you walk out. You did try, in the beginning, I remember."
An image came up in his mind. He'd escaped after knocking the Doctor on the head and forcefully dematerializing the Tardis, resisting the electrical shocks she gave him. The time machine ended up taking him to a completely deserted planet.
It didn't matter. The Master ran as far as he could on the sandy soil, panting, grunting, as he heard the Doctor call out his name. He didn't stop. He didn't look back.
Until he felt a pair of arms grapple him and tackle his body to the ground.
The Doctor had always been faster than him.
The Master struggled as the Doctor held him down with surprising force, his elbow hitting him on his spine, and the Master let out a grunt of pain. The Doctor laid on his back, completely nailing him to the ground.
"I am not letting you go!", the Doctor barked into his ear.
"Where are your friends now, to keep you company?", the Master barked back, trying to turn his head so he could see him. "Where's Martha Jones? And the freak? How about Rose?"
He let out a laugh as the Doctor pulled his hair and pressed his cheek to the ground. "Don't", he said in a low, threatening voice.
"Go get your fucking pets, Doctor! Hand me over the Judoon. Leave me here alone to rot on this planet. Or just end me", his voice sobered up, and he stared into the vast, empty land.
There was silence.
The two laid there, piled up, listening to the sound of the wind, their breathing, and the drums.
The Master felt the Doctor's breath on his left ear as he spoke: "I am not giving up on you."
The Master knew what it meant. The Doctor would not give up on trying to change him, shape him into his own image of goodness, to sanitize his morals.
He shut his eyes tightly. There were strings pulling at his hearts and an oddly familiar feeling he hadn't felt in so long, that made tears prickle at the corner of his eyes. It hurt. It angered him. It felt wrong.
Hope.
It was hard to resist.
The image dissolved, and the Master stared into nothing.
"I see", the Tardis commented, carefully.
The Master felt something constricting his chest, his breath gradually coming out in bursts, fire running through his veins.
Upon hearing the Master's rapid breathing, the Doctor turned around. "Are you alright? You seem odd tod-", only to be met with the sight of the Master striding across the room and pushing his body against his, grabbing the back of his neck as he kissed him, hard.
The Doctor let out a surprised yelp that turned into a soft moan as the Master ran his tongue through the roof of mouth. His eyes closed and he wrapped both of his arms around the Master's neck, pressing his own body against him as if the Master could leave him at any moment.
That’s it, the Master thought. No more thinking, no more hatred, no false hopes. Fuck his human friends. Fuck his junk of a time machine. No one else in all of time and space could ever make the Doctor feel what he felt with the Master; bodies and tongues clashing like a stellar collision. The beauty and the violence and chaos they made out of it had always fascinated the Master more than what the Master could do with his own hands, alone.
The Master's hands slid down his torso by his sides, grabbing his waist and groaning as he rolled his hips into the Doctor's, who panted loudly inside his mouth.
They parted from the kiss, breathless, a string of saliva attaching their mouths and the sight in front of him made the Master’s mouth water.
The Doctor was flushed, his eyes hazy and filled with lust. His lips were red and swollen, begging to be bitten - which the Master did, leaning in to suck deep on those lips as the Doctor moaned like a whore, sounding heavenly in the Master’s ears.
When the Master let go of his lips, the Doctor panted: “Were you jealous?”
A flash of anger crossed the Master’s expression, but he managed to restrain himself.
“You assume I care about you.”
“The Tardis. You always get in a bad mood when I’m talking to her. You know that what you and I have is different from what I have with her, right?”
“Mmmm”, the Master buried his face in the Doctor’s neck and bit it, drowning himself in that smell of fresh mint.
“Oh, Master”, the Doctor attempted to not let it sound like a moan. He failed horribly. “You are jealous! You’re adorable”, he buried his fingers into the Master’s hair as he heard the other mumble some word of disagreement into his neck. He whispered: “Yes you are. So beautiful.”
The Master groaned and grabbed the back of the Doctor’s tights, hopping him up on the control panel and proceeding to make out with him once more, hands running through bodies.
“That’s gross. Can you not?”, the Tardis spoke into the Master’s mind.
“Shut up. I win.”
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Hey anon! Sorry this took me so long! I did not calculate how busy I'd be this week so I had to write like, 70% of this story on my phone, on the bus on my way to work. Came home, did a quick read and some editing and ta-da!
This was supposed to be waaay more wholesome than it is, sorry. I'm just so addicted to thoschei angst right now, but hey, it has a happy ending.
Hope you liked it! And to everyone else: still taking requests. I haven't felt this inspired to write in forever. It might take me a while to write things, this has been a very busy week for me, but I'm having fun writing whenever I have some free time. Still have some on my list and I'm working on them <3
By the way, I'm going to add a 'my fics' tag on my tumblr so I won't loose these (even though I'm publishing it all on AO3 lol) and you'll know where to find them!
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