Title: Variations on Forever (1/12)
Author:
janeturenneWord Count: This chapter: 9,000. Fic total: 120,000-ish
Fandom: Doctor Who (both old and new)
Pairing: This chapter: One/Koschei!Master (post-Academy) and a soupçon of Ten/Simm for spice. Later chapters: name any chronologically sensible Doctor/Master pairing, including the Shalka boys, and it's probably there.
Rating: This chapter: R for not-overly-explicit sex and the occasional naughty word (some later chapters NC-17)
Warnings: Roughish-but-consensual sex? That's about all for this chapter.
Beta thanks: to the marvelous
blackletterSummary: Some things are fixed. Some things can be changed. But the true nature of permanence isn't an easy lesson, even for a pair of Time Lords. A Master-POV take on the first fifteen hundred years of their lives—together, apart, and every state in between.
AN: Okay, so, this fic only really becomes an AU in chapter 11 of 12. However, I feel no shame entering it in the Big Bang, as alternate universes, of a sort, happen to be a major theme of the story itself (tricksy, that). Chapters will be posted twice weekly, on Thursdays and Sundays. I've tried to make this accessible to those who haven't seen all the Old School serials, though it does cover the tenures of all of the first ten Doctors.
To a Time Lord, 'forever' is a perversion...