Chapter 37

The Doctor and the Master's sex scenes have a lot of layers to them. Seriously. I don't know whether all of them come across on the page, but when I write them there's a vast amount going on, and not all of it is about the sex itself.

Normally, when the Doctor and the Master are... intimate, it's almost about recapturing something they've lost (the shower scene is an excellent example of this being actually shown). While that's still true here, this is more about who they are now - who they've become since the Doctor ended the Time War, and the Master became... lost?

I don't just write sex scenes for the hell of it - this scene had a point which hopefully you picked up on. If not, then let me remind you of something the Doctor said to Jack just before the first sex scene:

'Like opposite poles of a magnet, we attracted.'

Obviously, there are more layers to what just happened than that, but that is a main point of the scene.

Lots of what I'm writing is subtle - there's a very delicate balance between the two of them which I hope I've been capturing adequately. Even the small facial expressions - the flickers in the Master's eyes, or the twitch of his lips - have a huge significance. They all come with an internal dialogue (that I'm not going to share... unless you ask me).

Let me also make something clear: the Doctor is not your cliched, 'average' bottom. The only reason he ends up there is because the Master by this point would never let him top. It doesn't really make a difference to the Doctor which position he's in, but the Master has... well, to call them control issues would be a bit of an understatement.

 Both of them have issues, some of which will be addressed very shortly. The next chapter will be the last before the interlude. It will not take us to a happy place, but it will (hopefully) give a few more hints as to the Master's incredibly twisted mind, his feelings towards the Doctor, and just how emotionally stunted he is (sometimes I hate him as much as I love him).

Also, let me just remind you of how much of a hero the Doctor is being: he's been confused, pelted with insanity and mass-murder and trauma and his brain is still actually functioning enough to care about the Master, the Earth, and Martha.

Bravo, good sir. Bravo.