Writing meme (it looked pretty)

[thisbluespirit]

This probably really isn't the moment for this, but I'm kind of driving myself crazy today, so let's see... Taken from a_phoenixdragon:

Give me a pairing and pick a prompt from this list, and I'll write a drabble/ficlet based on that combination.

1. roaming the forest - Ian/Barbara (newmoonstar)
2. pretending to be married - Sam Briggs/Jamie McCrimmon (john_amend_all)
3. lowered lashes - Adam Adamant/Georgina Jones (liadtbunny)
4. a lost childhood memory
5. middle of the night in a castle - Brigadier/Liz Shaw (doreyg)
6. tell me a fable - Sapphire/Steel or Silver/Steel (spikesgirl58)
7. a drop of lilac
8. the dark things you fear - Doctor/Master (phoenixdragon)
9. entwined at dusk - Silver/Liz Shaw (Pers)
10. underwater
11. a long time ago - Doctor/TARDIS (Clocket)
12. blackest night - Avon/Cally (jaxomsride)
13. wraith
14. a cruel illusion
15. wicked truths

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Doctor/Master, the dark things you fear, 160 words

[thisbluespirit]

I apologise for the three month wait for this, but... better late than never?? You left choice of Doctor and Master to me, and I was going to go old-school with Three and Delgado, but somehow Ainley and Five took over when I wasn't looking.

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The deepest and darkest of fears aren’t always the obvious ones – not the monsters, nor the defeats, nor the vastness of time and space, but hidden, insidious things that live coiled inside. The Master will never admit, even to himself, that with the Doctor what he fears the most is not losing, but winning.

What would there be left for him after his enemy’s death at his hands? A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about; it’s hardly worth conquering.

He pulls his enemy back from death – again – letting him out of the rapidly flooding dungeons. “You mustn’t die, Doctor,” he says. “Not yet, not before I’ve finished with you!” He always has an excuse.

And the Doctor – the Doctor fears both forgetting and remembering. As the Master hauls him out, it might be too easy to forget the evil he’s caused, to remember what he once was.

A cosmos with both in alliance doesn’t bear thinking about, either.

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Re: Doctor/Master, the dark things you fear, 160 words

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Well, considering how I leave people hanging with my own fic *sheepish grin* I am of the mentality that it is always worth the wait (and that is even truer when it comes to the delights you bring forth!)

Ohhh, this was a delight! And how perfect is it that it is Ainley and Five!! The dance these two performed...and this is perfect. You nailed their personal (inner) fears gorgeously.

And how you can create such perfection with so few words is beyond me!! Brava, sweetie!! And yes...definitely worth the wait!

*Happy!Dance!*

*Squishes you*

Re: Doctor/Master, the dark things you fear, 160 words

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! ♥ I'm glad you enjoyed it! :-)