best_enemies | 4 Fics: Time Passes, Intervention, Regression, and Impossible Things

I come bearing...all of the fanfiction I have written recently enough that I don't hate it yet, which is exactly 4 one-shots. In writing them, I have learned that my actual fandom is “The Rani” and all else is secondary –somehow she makes an appearance in every single fic. Nevertheless, the focus is always Doctor/Master, and that is what unites us, so...hello!

All links go to stories on my Teaspoon account. Er, I hope. It's been a long time since I last used LJ.

Title: Time Passes (3929 words)
Pairing and characters: Theta/Koschei, Four, Ten/Simm. Romana and the Rani also appear for more than a line or two, mostly to be cleverer than the boys, which hopefully means they're in character.
Spoiler Warnings: Very mild reference to what is probably the story-arch of new-new Who, but nothing that'll give the game away. LOOOOOOMS, but reimagined.
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to the BBC and I make no profit excepting the joy from comments recieved. That goes for everything, btw. Um, obviously.
Summary: Throughout the course of his life, the Doctor, ever so slowly, goes a bit mad. Being the Doctor, he manages to ignore significant clues about the role the Master plays in this madness until it's too late to do anything about it. -- This is really just 13 vignettes strung together with some personal canon that I mentioned in my intro comment (hi, two people who read that!), so it's heavily on the character side of character vs. plot.

"Tomorrow is also the day of his looming. He doesn't really understand about looms, but when he looks at books about them he feels a niggling sense of trepidation at the back of his mind, and he can't explain why."

Title: Intervention (2353 words)
Warnings: Possibly a little bit silly, and AU
Paring and characters: The Rani, Theta/Koschei, Five/Ainley, and Ten/Simm, with just a hint of Drax.
Spoiler Warnings: Up 'till The End of Time.
Summary: After witnessing several centuries of the most ridiculous courtship ever, Ushas, Patron Saint of Patience, has had enough.
“At the tender age of forty-two, Ushas considered herself the most long-suffering person in the galaxy, quite possibly the universe.”
Title: Regression (1274 words)
Warnings: Mortality, Sex, AU
Paring: Ten/Simm
Summary: Dark sex, told backwards. Mood piece.
“Supernovas are plain, pedestrian things, thinks the Master, by comparison. Neutron stars pulse weakly; Quasars are joyless and dull things in a universe where such pleasures as the Doctor, helpless and whimpering, exist.”
Title: Impossible Things (1615 words)
Warnings: Brief, florid sex, AU
Parings: Theta/Koschei, brief Three/Delgado, implied Doctor/Romana
Spoiler Warnings: Passing reference to BFA “Master.”
Summary: There are dreams that John Smith doesn't write about in his diary, impossible dreams that hurt him or shame him too much to bear, dreams about a man who somehow merits both the terms “best” and “enemy.”
“Such dreams are impossible, even more impossible than the blue box that is a doorway to other worlds, and he quietly files them away as madness.”