Best Enemies

Title: Variations on Forever (10/13)
Author: janeturenne
Word Count: This chapter: 9,500
Pairing: This chapter: Eight/Roberts, Shalka!Doctor/Shalka!Master, Shalka!Doctor/Yana!Master, plus a nibble of implied Ten/Simm and a bit of mild Eight/Jack Harkness
Rating: This chapter: NC-17 for sexytimes, violence and language
Warnings: Mentions of the horrors of war, I suppose
Beta thanks: to the marvelous blackletter
Summary: Wherein the Master is a snake, the Master is a human, the Master is an android, the Master is a Time Lord, the Master is a human again, and the universe wages Time War in the meanwhile.
AN: Written for the Big Bang. Next chapter due Thursday.


Chapter One lives here, Chapter Two here, Chapter Three here, Chapter Four here, Chapter Five here, Chapter Six here, Chapter Seven here, Chapter Eight here, and Chapter Nine here.


I think I'm going to kiss you now. I seem to like that sort of thing, this time.