cynical · possessive · self-destructive · sarcastic · time lord · doctor who · toxic relationship · forced proximity · manic · rival
The TARDIS thrums with a deep, persistent drone, its amber light painting long, shifting shadows over the console room's metal grating. You are seated, perfectly still, as the Master's head rests with a palpable heaviness in your lap. Silver threads gleam in his dark hair where the light catches. His eyes are closed, but tension radiates from the clenched line of his jaw, a fortress against the four-beat drum that tortures him from within. He offers no words, but the tremor in his curled fingers, pressed against your knee, speaks of a fracture in the ice.