FIC: The Agent's Tale (Valiant Tales)

[lindenharp]

Title: The Agent's Tale
Series: Valiant Tales
Rating: PG
Characters: The Master (Simm), other characters
Genre: drabble
Spoilers: Minor spoilers for The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords.
Summary: A series of drabbles about the people who lived, worked, and suffered on the Valiant during the Year That Never Was.  100 words according to MS Word.
Disclaimer: The sandbox belongs to RTD and the BBC. I'm just playing here, in the corner, making little sand-TARDISs.

 

 I’m the Secret Service Agent who let President Winters be assassinated.  Afterwards, I tried to kill Saxon, abiding by my oath to defend the Constitution “against all enemies”.

He played the genial host.  “Where are you from?”

I lied.  “Grafton, Idaho.”

Blue eyes froze my soul.  “Denver, Colorado,” he corrected.

You know what happened.  The Valiant hovered low for an excellent view.  An audiolink let me hear the screaming.  I mumbled, “Merciful God,” over and over, and hoped my execution would come soon.

Saxon said, “There is no God, but I am merciful.  I’ll spare your life.”  And he laughed.

Comments

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

I don't have any problem with the idea that the Doctor and the Master may have been lovers at one point, or that the Master's interest in the Doctor may still be that of a jilted lover (as one of my writer friends describes it) - perhaps I should have made that clear :) It's more that I've stumbled on rather too many stories where brutality and rape are portrayed in a way that's clearly intended to be erotic. As a result, for the most part I've given up reading anything that has the Master's name in the character list, unless it's by an author I trust absolutely not to do that.

(It's not peculiar to the Master, either; even when they involve my favourite pairings, I avoid other stories where violence is glorified or where sex comes close to rape - they're just not to my taste as a reader).

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Okay. I see where you're coming from, and I agree. Those kinds of stories don't appeal to me.