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Sliding Down the Razorblades of Life, chapter 2
Title: Sliding Down the Razorblades of Life
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Doctor Who, I just play with them for fun.
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: River Song, The Master (Delgado)
Rating: R
Complete: 2/4
Summary: River Song's last term at University
AN: I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. I think River Song and the Master would clash a bit and the Master would probably have difficulties in not being devious under any circumstances.
Chapter 1 can be read here.
“Well,” River Song’s tutor said and looked down on the papers on the desk in front of him and frowned.
She looked at him feeling slightly uneasy. After breezing through her education, the past few months she had worked harder than she had ever done before, trying to keep up with the very exacting demands of her tutor. His sharp tongue and a sarcastic wit had put the fear in most of his students, apart from River who appreciated it and felt that she had learned more during this short period than all the years previously. Still, she was used to being able to handle her teachers and she knew perfectly well that she probably had been partly to blame for her former tutor’s sudden departure during the winter break. But her true and tried tricks didn’t work on the new tutor and she hadn’t even dared to flirt with him, which was annoying as she actually found him very attractive. So for the first time she didn’t feel sure that her mid-term review would go down without a hitch.
“Academically speaking your work has been nothing short of brilliant. There is room for improvements, of course and I will continue to expect you to do even better for the remaining term.” The frown deepened and he looked up at her and River actually had to resist an urge to squirm, he did have very penetrating eyes. “However, then there is this.”
He handed her a list and River read it through with rising horror. Everything, absolutely everything she had been up to that she really shouldn’t, were on that list. How did he know? She had never bothered to keep to the rules of the university thinking that if she wasn’t caught, then it didn’t matter. Only now she was and she knew she was in deep trouble.
“How did you find out?”
“I am glad to hear that you are not going to deny any of this. I am very good at finding what I want and your disregard for rules are rather blatant.”
“Of course I’m not going to deny it, that would just be silly .” Her eyes narrowed as the first shock of having been found out ebbed away. “But if you know all this, why isn’t the Headmaster here and all the rest of the stuffed shirts?”
He chuckled. “You are working under the impression that I am an upstanding member of the school staff. I was rather thinking that we could, perhaps, come to a private arrangement instead.”
River began to feel angry. “Oh, blackmail is it? Or my grades will go down the drain.”
“Not at all. I will give you excellent grades, just as you deserve. No, what I am saying is that, as a member of this faculty, I have a duty to report such activities and I might just decide that the honour of this venerable university does matter to me.” He gestured toward the list in her hand. “You know as well as I that your conduct will at the very least suspend you for the rest of the term and set you back a whole year. At the worst you will be expelled and what grades I will give you won’t matter at all.”
River crumpled the list and let it fall to the floor. Then she rose, leaned down over the desk and said slowly. “No. Do your worst but I will not succumb to threats. What do you take me for? There are other schools all over the Universe.”
She was about to leave, but before she reached for the door handle he spoke.
“Excellent.”
“What?” She turned around. He had stood up and was now approaching her, looking irritatingly satisfied.
“I’m very pleased to see that you are the woman of integrity, spirit and independence that I have always considered you to be.”
For a moment or two, River was actually speechless. “So this what just some kind of stupid test?”
“Not really. You are a very attractive woman and if you had chosen to take me up on my offer I would certainly not have turned you down. It wouldn’t have been quite as satisfying, though, weakness bores me very quickly.”
Anger flared up again and she slapped him. His head whipped to the side, but otherwise he didn’t react and River raised her hand to slap him again but his arm shot up and he grasped hers in a grip she couldn’t break.”
“Do not hit me.”
She made herself relax. “I won’t.”
He let go of her and she immediately tried to hit him again. This time she was spun around and suddenly found herself with her back pressed against his chest, with hand covering her mouth. She fought him furiously but couldn’t make him budge an inch which only made her angrier. He spoke softly into her ear.
“I said; do not hit me. I’m both stronger and faster than you are and if you hit me again I will make you regret it. Now, if you don’t scream and don’t try to slap me again I will let you go. If you want to leave, then you are free to go, but I will have you behave or I will turn you over my knee and spank you. It would suit you well for being so naughty. Do you understand?”
River tensed against his body. She could feel her own heart beat in her ears and she could feel his heartbeats as well and there was something not quite right with it. She forced herself to stop struggling and when she succeeded she nodded against his hand. As soon as he let her go she swiveled around so she could face him, backing away from him as she snarled.
“You! You are the Doctor!. You are another version of him and you have come to spy on me! How dare you!” She hadn’t felt this angry in a long time, but she also felt bitterly disappointed that she hadn’t recognised him. She thought she always would be able to sense him no matter what he looked like.
He held up both his hands to placate her. “I am not him. A Time Lord, yes, but not him.”
“It can’t be! There are no other ones.”
He made a stopping motion with his hand. “Please, don’t say anything more. I am not in my natural time-line at the moment and this present is far in my future. I don’t want to know.”
She breathed heavily, her thoughts scrabbling in several directions at once. Another Time Lord, yes, that made sense and still not, but then, well, Time Lords and time travel. She nodded, curiosity winning over anger.
“I won’t say more then, but who are you?”
“You will find out, eventually. At the moment it isn’t important.”
“Why are you here.”
“Oh, you sent me.”
“I? Why?”
He looked very smug. “Miss Song, I can’t tell how utterly and completely wonderful it is to be the one in the know, for once. I can only say, though, that it was my irresistible charm and your future self’s knowledge of what will happen now that prompted you to invite me into your future past.”
She arched an eyebrow at him. “Really?”
“Do you doubt it?”
Oddly enough she didn’t. “So you consider blackmail a suitable seduction method? Or manhandling me?”
He shrugged and looked completely unrepentant. “I wanted to see how you would react, that’s all. And I wouldn’t have restrained you if you hadn’t attacked me first, although it is a very alluring idea that I would relish in discussing further with you.”
“You honestly believe that I want to have sex with a self-satisfied, arrogant man who won’t even tell me his real name?”
He smiled and vexed her even further with looking quite charming. “Why, I thought that was exactly your type?”
Annoyingly enough she couldn’t deny that “So, what will happen now?”
“That, my dear, is completely up to you.”
River looked at him for several long minutes. She considered storming out and slamming the door after her, which would probably be the best thing to do. Instead she went up to her tutor and kissed him, enjoying every second of it. Then she slapped him again. Hard.
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Doctor Who, I just play with them for fun.
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: River Song, The Master (Delgado)
Rating: R
Complete: 2/4
Summary: River Song's last term at University
AN: I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. I think River Song and the Master would clash a bit and the Master would probably have difficulties in not being devious under any circumstances.
Chapter 1 can be read here.
“Well,” River Song’s tutor said and looked down on the papers on the desk in front of him and frowned.
She looked at him feeling slightly uneasy. After breezing through her education, the past few months she had worked harder than she had ever done before, trying to keep up with the very exacting demands of her tutor. His sharp tongue and a sarcastic wit had put the fear in most of his students, apart from River who appreciated it and felt that she had learned more during this short period than all the years previously. Still, she was used to being able to handle her teachers and she knew perfectly well that she probably had been partly to blame for her former tutor’s sudden departure during the winter break. But her true and tried tricks didn’t work on the new tutor and she hadn’t even dared to flirt with him, which was annoying as she actually found him very attractive. So for the first time she didn’t feel sure that her mid-term review would go down without a hitch.
“Academically speaking your work has been nothing short of brilliant. There is room for improvements, of course and I will continue to expect you to do even better for the remaining term.” The frown deepened and he looked up at her and River actually had to resist an urge to squirm, he did have very penetrating eyes. “However, then there is this.”
He handed her a list and River read it through with rising horror. Everything, absolutely everything she had been up to that she really shouldn’t, were on that list. How did he know? She had never bothered to keep to the rules of the university thinking that if she wasn’t caught, then it didn’t matter. Only now she was and she knew she was in deep trouble.
“How did you find out?”
“I am glad to hear that you are not going to deny any of this. I am very good at finding what I want and your disregard for rules are rather blatant.”
“Of course I’m not going to deny it, that would just be silly .” Her eyes narrowed as the first shock of having been found out ebbed away. “But if you know all this, why isn’t the Headmaster here and all the rest of the stuffed shirts?”
He chuckled. “You are working under the impression that I am an upstanding member of the school staff. I was rather thinking that we could, perhaps, come to a private arrangement instead.”
River began to feel angry. “Oh, blackmail is it? Or my grades will go down the drain.”
“Not at all. I will give you excellent grades, just as you deserve. No, what I am saying is that, as a member of this faculty, I have a duty to report such activities and I might just decide that the honour of this venerable university does matter to me.” He gestured toward the list in her hand. “You know as well as I that your conduct will at the very least suspend you for the rest of the term and set you back a whole year. At the worst you will be expelled and what grades I will give you won’t matter at all.”
River crumpled the list and let it fall to the floor. Then she rose, leaned down over the desk and said slowly. “No. Do your worst but I will not succumb to threats. What do you take me for? There are other schools all over the Universe.”
She was about to leave, but before she reached for the door handle he spoke.
“Excellent.”
“What?” She turned around. He had stood up and was now approaching her, looking irritatingly satisfied.
“I’m very pleased to see that you are the woman of integrity, spirit and independence that I have always considered you to be.”
For a moment or two, River was actually speechless. “So this what just some kind of stupid test?”
“Not really. You are a very attractive woman and if you had chosen to take me up on my offer I would certainly not have turned you down. It wouldn’t have been quite as satisfying, though, weakness bores me very quickly.”
Anger flared up again and she slapped him. His head whipped to the side, but otherwise he didn’t react and River raised her hand to slap him again but his arm shot up and he grasped hers in a grip she couldn’t break.”
“Do not hit me.”
She made herself relax. “I won’t.”
He let go of her and she immediately tried to hit him again. This time she was spun around and suddenly found herself with her back pressed against his chest, with hand covering her mouth. She fought him furiously but couldn’t make him budge an inch which only made her angrier. He spoke softly into her ear.
“I said; do not hit me. I’m both stronger and faster than you are and if you hit me again I will make you regret it. Now, if you don’t scream and don’t try to slap me again I will let you go. If you want to leave, then you are free to go, but I will have you behave or I will turn you over my knee and spank you. It would suit you well for being so naughty. Do you understand?”
River tensed against his body. She could feel her own heart beat in her ears and she could feel his heartbeats as well and there was something not quite right with it. She forced herself to stop struggling and when she succeeded she nodded against his hand. As soon as he let her go she swiveled around so she could face him, backing away from him as she snarled.
“You! You are the Doctor!. You are another version of him and you have come to spy on me! How dare you!” She hadn’t felt this angry in a long time, but she also felt bitterly disappointed that she hadn’t recognised him. She thought she always would be able to sense him no matter what he looked like.
He held up both his hands to placate her. “I am not him. A Time Lord, yes, but not him.”
“It can’t be! There are no other ones.”
He made a stopping motion with his hand. “Please, don’t say anything more. I am not in my natural time-line at the moment and this present is far in my future. I don’t want to know.”
She breathed heavily, her thoughts scrabbling in several directions at once. Another Time Lord, yes, that made sense and still not, but then, well, Time Lords and time travel. She nodded, curiosity winning over anger.
“I won’t say more then, but who are you?”
“You will find out, eventually. At the moment it isn’t important.”
“Why are you here.”
“Oh, you sent me.”
“I? Why?”
He looked very smug. “Miss Song, I can’t tell how utterly and completely wonderful it is to be the one in the know, for once. I can only say, though, that it was my irresistible charm and your future self’s knowledge of what will happen now that prompted you to invite me into your future past.”
She arched an eyebrow at him. “Really?”
“Do you doubt it?”
Oddly enough she didn’t. “So you consider blackmail a suitable seduction method? Or manhandling me?”
He shrugged and looked completely unrepentant. “I wanted to see how you would react, that’s all. And I wouldn’t have restrained you if you hadn’t attacked me first, although it is a very alluring idea that I would relish in discussing further with you.”
“You honestly believe that I want to have sex with a self-satisfied, arrogant man who won’t even tell me his real name?”
He smiled and vexed her even further with looking quite charming. “Why, I thought that was exactly your type?”
Annoyingly enough she couldn’t deny that “So, what will happen now?”
“That, my dear, is completely up to you.”
River looked at him for several long minutes. She considered storming out and slamming the door after her, which would probably be the best thing to do. Instead she went up to her tutor and kissed him, enjoying every second of it. Then she slapped him again. Hard.