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From:

atraphoenix.livejournal.com

Susan Foreman had the same ridiculous capacity for hope as her Grandfather.

She was desperately willing to believe that she could find some trace of the person he’d once been. Little Susan - no longer that little, actually - was all too happy to kiss the same man who’d bounced her on his knee when she was a Time Tot, trying to draw out the less than savoury memories as if she was sucking poison from a wound.

The Master had seduced her, luring her into his bed and away from her husband and her life on Earth, yet she refused to consider him a true villain. She was still so deliciously naïve, and it was rather nice to know that some things never changed.

They’d been rather close, back on Gallifrey. He’d never had children of his own, let alone grandchildren (although he’d had high hopes for the future, back then), and had invested a great deal in her upbringing. He’d given the young Gallifreyan her first set of Röntgen blocks to play with, and told her stories of the founding Time Lords, mixing together facts and legends until he came up with a combination that never failed to make her smile.

She’d been so promising. She’d always been intelligent, in fact, and, with her induction into the Academy – all those rules and restrictions! – many years away, she’d been a fresh piece of clay, just waiting for someone like the Master to come along and mould her. Perhaps into his own image, or perhaps into something more.

His little prodigy.

He had told her all about the Prydonian Chapter, stirring her into an excited frenzy while her Grandfather occasionally chipped in with stories of old tutors and childish antics. They’d both agreed that she would be a perfect Prydonian, and little Susan had been all too happy to go along with it. She’d loved them both more than anyone else in the world, after all. She hadn’t even considered contradicting them, preferring instead to drink in their words like a flower soaking up the sunlight.

But then the universe changed its course. It denied Susan her life on Gallifrey, and it denied the Master everything he’d been working towards. His future family. His best friend. Even his beloved prodigy…

Although he hated the Doctor most of all, the Master eventually came to hate her as well. He hated her for creating an unexpected void in his chest with her departure, and maybe, just maybe, because she’d been so happy to leave with her Grandfather while he remained behind.

Susan. Such a ridiculous, such a human name. A character from a children’s book – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, or some such nonsense – when she’d always been anything but a child! She could have been so much more! The Doctor had stifled her potential. Allowing her to christen herself so ignominiously was only the beginning. Enrolment in an Earth school had soon followed, along with human companions onboard their TARDIS. What could Theta have been thinking?

The Master came to hate his former friend for that as well. His poor little Susan. She’d always deserved more than the Doctor could give her, and the Master often wondered why he had never noticed as much back on Gallifrey.

He’d been grimly satisfied – and horribly delighted – to learn that the Doctor had eventually left his granddaughter behind as well. It righted the wrongs of their initial separation and, more importantly, left behind a vacuum just waiting to be filled by a knight in shining armour. Although their reunion came many centuries after his reunion with the Doctor, it still wasn’t too late to fix things. The Master had always been good at bidding his time.

He had found her on Earth, with a silly human husband and silly human children. She’d rushed out on to the lawn of her ramshackle little house, eager to see her Grandfather again.

“You came back,” she’d breathed, burying her face in his neck, “You kept your promise!”

“Not exactly, my dear,” the Master had replied, “But don’t worry. I’ll put everything right. You can trust me…”

She could have been so much more, but it wasn’t too late. They were Time Lords, and Time Lords had all the time in the world.

Next: Liz Shaw/Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw ('Inferno'), Suzie Costello/the Rani, Suzie Costello/Toshiko Sato

From:

settiai

When Suzie opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was Toshiko staring at her with an expression on her face that looked like it fell halfway between embarrassed and terrified. "Morning, Tosh," she said with a yawn.

"Good morning," Toshiko replied softly. She ducked her head, not quite meeting Suzie's gaze.

Suzie smiled, amused at the other woman's behavior. "Is something wrong?" she asked, reaching out to cup Toshiko's face with her hands. She leaned in and gave her a quick kiss, barely holding back a laugh when Toshiko meeped in surprise.

Toshiko managed a weak smile, her face slightly red. "What about Owen?"

"What about him?" Suzie asked, raising an eyebrow. Then she took a closer look at Toshiko's face and shook her head gently. "I thought you had moved past that crush on him."

"I have!" Toshiko protested quickly.

Suzie raised an eyebrow in reply.

After a few seconds, Toshiko's face fell. "Maybe I'm not completely over him," she admittedly, rolling over so that she was staring up at the ceiling, "but that's not what I meant, and you know it"

"For the last time," Suzie said, sighing, "it's just sex. Owen and I have both been with other people. Obviously."

Toshiko let out an unladylike snort, but she didn't say anything.

Shaking her head, Suzie sat up. Then she straddled the other woman before Toshiko had a chance to react. "You have to admit," she murmured, leaning down so that her mouth was beside Toshiko's ear, "I kept my promise."

Toshiko smiled wryly up at her. "I will give you that much," she admitted. "I don't regret not spending the night alone in my flat like I'd planned."

"You didn't do too bad yourself," Suzie said teasingly, nipping at Toshiko's ear. "All things considering."

"Considering it was my first time with a woman, you mean?" Toshiko asked lightly.

Suzie laughed. "If you hadn't told me, I never would have guessed."

Toshiko paused for a moment. "It was odd," she said slowly. "It was like my body knew what to do. Like it wasn't the first time."

Despite her best intentions, Suzie stiffened slightly.

"Still, it was nice," Toshiko continued, apparently oblivious to Suzie's reaction. She gave Suzie a hesitant smile. "I could get used to it."

Suzie managed a weak smile of her own. "That makes two of us," she said softly. "But first, some of us didn't get clawed by a Weevil yesterday and actually have to show up for work at some point today."

Toshiko groaned. "Can't you call in?"

"I'm afraid not," Suzie said, teasing tweaking Toshiko's nose. She doubted her smile reached her eyes, but Toshiko didn't seem to notice. "Cardiff is the garbage bin of the universe, remember?"

"I know," Toshiko said, closing her eyes tiredly.

Laughing softly, Suzie rolled out of bed. "Want me to make you some coffee?"

Toshiko murmured her thanks.

Suzie let her smile fade as she headed toward the kitchen. She couldn't keep this much longer. With Owen, it was just sex . . . nothing more and nothing less. Neither of them had any expectations. But with Toshiko, there was the possibility of things becoming much more complicated very quickly. And Suzie couldn't afford for that to happen.

She glanced at the clock as she started the coffee. There was just enough time for her to drop Toshiko back at her flat and still make it to the Hub on time without anyone being suspicious. Letting out a tired sigh, she reached up and opened the cupboard door. A small bottle sat on the top shelf, completely innocuous unless a person knew what it was.

With the careful precision that come from experience, Suzie put several drops of retcon into one of the cups that she'd pulled out. Then she hesitated. One more drop would mean that Toshiko wouldn't remember anything from the night before. It would be like it had never happened. But if she stopped there, then Toshiko wouldn't forget everything. She'd think it was a dream, a fantasy created by her mind, but she'd remember.

"Maybe next time," Suzie murmured.

Without giving herself time to hesitate, she put in one more drop.

Requests: Astrid Peth/Tenth Doctor, Barbara Wright/First Doctor/Ian Chesterton, Jack Harkness/William Shakespeare,

From:

doreyg.livejournal.com

“That was a crime” Suzie breathes staring at the woman calmly holding a gun and then at the body on the ground and finally back at the woman “why?”

The woman shrugs “he was being threatening towards you.”

“While I appreciate your...”

“And he had been following me, I don’t like people following me.”

“Ah” a brief silence in which Suzie’s eyes creep back to the body and her thoughts turn to the knife in her bag, she was only planning to use it of flies… But that body does look rather tempting… But…

The woman smiles at her coldly and takes a step forward, placing something into Suzie’s hand “here’s my card, I think that we may need to compare notes.”

And then the woman is gone.

Suzie waits for a moment and then takes a step towards the body….. Waste not, want not after all… As mother used to say.

She’s so caught up in her fascination that she doesn’t even notice the soft sound of a skip in the next alley over fading away.

Requests: The Rani/The Master (Simm), Alan Jackson/The Tenth Doctor, Romana I/Victoria Waterfield