He went through lives quickly. Too quickly, in fact, far faster than all the other warriors who went out to battle. Was he careless? Stupid? Or had he realised that the High Council would give him as many new faces as he needed to win the War?
Leela thought it selfish and vain. She had fought in as many battles as he, and often with him, but she still wore her own face. She did not act so foolishly, so cruelly, so madly.
Watching him in battle, she understood: he could not control his recklessness. The hatred and the fear had consumed him. Wild and rabid, he would hurt and kill until he was put down.
And yet, when she asked him of his new faces, he merely said that it was strange, strange as Leela could not understand. To wake up in a body that was not your own yesterday, to speak and hear the voice of a stranger. That's what caused regeneration sickness. That's why so many Time Lord minds could not handle any more than thirteen forms.
He added, then, that each new body needed breaking in. Exercise, battle, a full exploration of the new form's facets. And as she was a warrior, he asked her to assist him in this exploration. He even offered for this battle to be on her terms.
And so, each time he died, she battled him in bodies to learn what man he had become.
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Requests: Leela/Torvald, Narvin/Torvald, Romana II/Pandora
Leela/Master
Leela thought it selfish and vain. She had fought in as many battles as he, and often with him, but she still wore her own face. She did not act so foolishly, so cruelly, so madly.
Watching him in battle, she understood: he could not control his recklessness. The hatred and the fear had consumed him. Wild and rabid, he would hurt and kill until he was put down.
And yet, when she asked him of his new faces, he merely said that it was strange, strange as Leela could not understand. To wake up in a body that was not your own yesterday, to speak and hear the voice of a stranger. That's what caused regeneration sickness. That's why so many Time Lord minds could not handle any more than thirteen forms.
He added, then, that each new body needed breaking in. Exercise, battle, a full exploration of the new form's facets. And as she was a warrior, he asked her to assist him in this exploration. He even offered for this battle to be on her terms.
And so, each time he died, she battled him in bodies to learn what man he had become.
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Requests: Leela/Torvald, Narvin/Torvald, Romana II/Pandora