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The Deathless by stellar_dust (PG-13)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Jack Harkness/The Master, Doctor/Master implied
Length: 3444 words
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stellar_dust
Author Website: stellar_dust's website or Doctor Who works at Teaspoon
Why this must be read:
An odd little mystery story, or rather an answer to a major mystery about the Master's background that's slowly revealed, as filtered through Jack Harkness's eyes. Slogging his way through the end of the Victorian era, pre-Torchwood Jack watches and unknowingly intrudes upon a game between a Time Lord he hasn't met yet and the one they've both been waiting for.
The summer of 1895, Jack's main (in point of fact, only) competition on the unkillables circuit went by the imposing name of Koshey the Deathless.
Jack attended his first show, purely out of professional curiosity, and not at all on the chance there was someone else in the world like him, not at all. He left disappointed; the act turned out to be a lot of mirrors and flashy lights, and Jack found Koshey's dramatics, flailing and screaming as he pretended to die in agony, entirely too gauche for his tastes. He told his manager later that night that they had absolutely nothing to worry about; then he offed himself half a dozen times with a Colt 45 (much more effective to simply drop dead, let the audience squirm for a few minutes, wondering) and spent a very enjoyable night with the Wolf-Boy and the Tattooed Lady (if you held her thighs together just so, you could make Queen Victoria do something very naughty with a goat, and that just never ever got old).
It's a dark, subtle little piece, full of the best, most painful kind of tragic irony.
The Deathless
Pairing: Jack Harkness/The Master, Doctor/Master implied
Length: 3444 words
Author on LJ:
stellar_dustAuthor Website: stellar_dust's website or Doctor Who works at Teaspoon
Why this must be read:
An odd little mystery story, or rather an answer to a major mystery about the Master's background that's slowly revealed, as filtered through Jack Harkness's eyes. Slogging his way through the end of the Victorian era, pre-Torchwood Jack watches and unknowingly intrudes upon a game between a Time Lord he hasn't met yet and the one they've both been waiting for.
The summer of 1895, Jack's main (in point of fact, only) competition on the unkillables circuit went by the imposing name of Koshey the Deathless.
Jack attended his first show, purely out of professional curiosity, and not at all on the chance there was someone else in the world like him, not at all. He left disappointed; the act turned out to be a lot of mirrors and flashy lights, and Jack found Koshey's dramatics, flailing and screaming as he pretended to die in agony, entirely too gauche for his tastes. He told his manager later that night that they had absolutely nothing to worry about; then he offed himself half a dozen times with a Colt 45 (much more effective to simply drop dead, let the audience squirm for a few minutes, wondering) and spent a very enjoyable night with the Wolf-Boy and the Tattooed Lady (if you held her thighs together just so, you could make Queen Victoria do something very naughty with a goat, and that just never ever got old).
It's a dark, subtle little piece, full of the best, most painful kind of tragic irony.
The Deathless