Off-site Stories
For the Doctor/Master stories that we don't have archived, here's a list of off-site links, organized by pairing. If you have a link we missed, especially for the rarer pairings, please use the Contact Form and send it to us.
Special thanks to x_los, spiritedchaos, and calapine for their masterlist compilations.
Multi-Doctor/Master
- amberite
- The Language of Forever - The language of Gallifrey is exact. Academy, Fourth, and Tenth eras.
- magicallaw
- The Internet Is For Porn - The Master doesn't die and is rather upset he didn't get reaquainted with a younger version of the Doctor. But he has other ideas on how they can keep themselves entertained. Spoilers for Time Crash. Five/Master, Ten/Master
- mireille719
- Two Ways to Fail at Getting at the Doctor - Foiled again. And again. (Ainley!Master/Nyssa, Ainley!Master/Brigadier, Master/Doctor)
- smithy161
- Difficulties on Theory - There are a lot of flaws in the process of evolution; the Doctor learns, slowly, in the dark, that nothing ever really changes. (Nine/Master, Ten/Master)
- Vali
- Nothing But Flowers - There's flowers, sex and breakfast in bed, but the honeymoon's still over. Ten/Master, Theta/Koschei
- vortex_drumkit
- When The Stars Go Blue - The Master walks lonely as a Timelord in the silo. Ten/Master, Four/Master.
- x_los
- Quite Contrary - In a parallel universe the Doctor and the Mistress have been chasing each other around the universe, fueled by sexual tension, the detritus of their past relationship and an ongoing custody battle over their golden retriever which, while only briefly mentioned in this story, has been the pretext of many an excuse to
see each otherbeat off the haunting specter of Lesbian Bed Death with astickTCE. After all this a collision with their male equivalents is not a terribly surprising development. - Spoiled For Choice - In the third year of the Master’s reign, he perfects Laz Labs technology. The Doctor as a box of chocolates.
Theta/Koschei
- briodenebuliser
- Shock - Being friends with the Master was a constant game of chicken.
- calapine (Carmen Sandiego)
- Ecology For Beginners - In which our intrepid heroes are curious, and our amoral heroine finds herself a cause she rather likes.
- First Steps - Theta, Koschei and Ushas at the Academy.
- Love of His Life - The Doctor loves - foolishly, unconditionally, brilliantly - through all his lives. (Doctor/Various)
- crazy_celebrian
- Vicissitudes & Part 2 - Theta and Koschei are the best and closest of friends despite their constant arguments. Tension inevitably rises between them, however shall their friendship endure when they stumble into new territory?
- jeriwho
- The First Doctor Who Story Ever Told - Meet the Doctor before he became the Doctor.
- Joan Milligan (fantasyjax)
- Educating Koschei - A cautionary tale, really.
- The Trouble with Septosyllabics - In which dignified professional pseudonames are chosen.
- Things to Do on Gallifrey When You're Bored - Theta and Koschei (and Ushas) have a lot of time to kill.
- koschei_sigma
- Bird in a Bell Jar - The Master reminds the Doctor of an event during their youth; an experiment.
- The Transmission - "Theta Sigma. In his underwear. In Koschei’s room. Rassilon. This doesn’t add up."
- Your Name & Chapters 2-3 - Exploring the names chosen by the Doctor and the Master, as well as their original, or 'real' names.
- kijikun
- Waking up Theta - From the prompt "wake."
- kiwi_from_hell
- Run - Things were never really simpler, even when they were children. But they were different.
- loneraven
- Sentimentality - "You brought me a rose?"
- The Bell Jar - The Doctor, the Master and the Rani at university skiving off lectures.
- Things To Remember - Theta Sigma and Koschei at the end.
- samyania
- Drabble - The minute Koschei walked into the dormitory, he knew his roommate was going to be trouble.
- smithy161
- A Sketch in Time - The Doctor's most vivid memory of his home is one he will never be able to commit to paper.
- wishfulaces
- Anticipation - Inspired by one line in “Planet of Fire.” See if you can guess which one.
- No Consideration for Others - “What is that infernal racket?”
First/Master
- professor pangaea
- Infinite Improbabilities - "Our most glorious experiences are a kind of regret. Our regret is so sublime that we may mistake it for triumph. It is the painful, plaintively sad surprise of our Genius remembering our past lives and contemplating what is possible." -- Henry David Thoreau
Three/Master
- amberite
- Predicament - Three, the Master, and permission.
- bagheera-san
- A Mutually Satisfying Agreement - The Doctor, Jo and the Master fight the Daleks. Eventually.
- calapine (Carmen Sandiego)
- Envy - The Master envies.
- ilama
- An Over-Complicated Plan - The Doctor always did say that the Master's plans tended to be far too complicated. Now, if only the Doctor could figure out what it was.
- jeriwho
- Blood Dimmed Tide - The nation is terrorized by unearthly storms and natural catastrophes. The Doctor himself goes mad and has to be restrained. And out in the desert in Jordan, a living Sphinx rises from the sands. Everything points ot the fulfillment of William Butler Yeats' prophecy of a terrifying new era of bloodshed. Is the world on the edge of apocalypse?
- Influx of the Array - The Doctor and Jo become suspicious when electronic equipment fails from brief, powerful, and mysterious magnetic pulses. The mystery leads them to the Master, who has taken the young and brilliant Diana Wilmer under his wing. Confined to a wheelchair, Diana has secrets of her own---including an intellect that can comprehend time travel. An unearthly alien is sucked into the Master's plan, as well as the latest technology from the Strategic Defense Initiative of the US military. The Doctor must save the earth from being engulfed by a deadly, non-sentient alien who can destroy the atmosphere, while at the same time rescuing the volatile and yet helpless young girl in the Master's power.
- Killer Bees - Not knowing that the Doctor hasbeen killed and regenerated, Jo Grant returns from the Amazon and her failed marriage. Grieved and estranged from everyone she has ever cared about, she finds herself alone, plagued by inexplicable gaps in her memory, and haunted by strangers who seem to dog her footsteps. She bumps into Mike Yates, and the belated romance between them nearly blooms, but is he truly the sane and stable Mike Yates she remembers from the past? He presents himself as a dedicated agent of the Crown,but the Brigadier and Sgt. Benton warn her of a darker side. When Jo is caught up in the Master's web, she learns what it means to have transgressed into the realms of the Timelords,and now the Doctor cannot protect her. Or can he?
- The Dangers of Exceeding the Blinovitch Limitation Effect - Made restless by his long exile on earth and frustrated by his failure years before against the megalomaniac Professor Stahlman, the Doctor determines to change the history of a parallel earth. Not realizing that his first journey into that reality did not provide him with enough information, the Doctor has many tragic surprises awaiting him. His reckless venture endangers not only himself and Jo, but also the desperate citizens of this alternative earth.
- livii
- literally, stars in their eyes - The universe isn't big enough for the two of them. AU after Claws of Axos.
- tati24
- A Matter of Control - A small “lost scene” during The Claws of Axos.
- Contact - The Second and the Third Doctors at the end of "The Three Doctors."
- Temptation - A small scene between Terror of the Autons and The Mind of Evil.
- x_los
- Killing the Groundhog - In which the Master does not enjoy time paradoxes, Jo's opinions on fashion, Agatha Christie's later works or the Doctor's proclivity to resort to date-rape drugs to get out of talking about their past. In which the Master does enjoy pungee pits, Pimm's Cups and winning.
Four/Master
- astrogirl2
- The Mind of Death - The Master after "The Deadly Assassin."
- Jai
- A Priori - It was a funny thing, regeneration.
- Zela
- Party Games - The Fourth Doctor and the Master engage in a few games.
Five/Master
- alzarian
- The Web of Bondage - Five/Master/Adric.
- biroid
- Pain (Live And Let Live) - Drabble.
- Kitty Fisher
- Dreaming Of England - What happened after Turlough went home. Five/Turlough/Master
- Senryc
- Courting Shadows - The Doctor awoke from a drug-induced sleep to find himself immobile, and with little recollection of the past few hours.
- wishfulaces
- Bohemian Rhapsody - There's Five. And there's the Master. And there's Tegan's underwear and Turlough's blazer, but that's a slightly different plotline.
- Miscommunication - It all began when they met.
Seven/Master
- astrogirl2
- The Wild Life - Seven/Master/Ace.
- professor pangaea
- Lifetimes - Once again, the Rani discovers why she should avoid associating with the Master. The Master discovers that there seems to be one subject he is not very logical about. The Doctor discovers how good the Rani is at programming her security system.
- redstarrobot
- Waiting - There's leather against his wrists.
- x_los
- Survival Take One: Failure Rate - Crack!Response to Survival. The Master employs amazing long-term pick-up strategies, at the expense of the Doctor's sanity and Bernaz the Sentient Muskrat of Woe.
- Survival Take Two: Short Time Horizons - Serious response to Survival. "A man is the sum of his memories, you know. A Time Lord even more so." A bitter-sweet peace for the Doctor and the Master.
Eight/Master
- ClocketPatch
- The Game - A missing scene from the TV movie explaining where that weird bondage-type thing the Master used on Eight came from.
- Joan Milligan (fantasyjax)
- Strange Bedfellows - Love makes war strange.
- vandonovan
- Still Alone - Only during the quietest hours of the night did the Doctor find himself wandering the halls.
- x_los
- No, Seriously, The Enemy Within - Eight/Goosnake!Master, drabble.
Nine/Master
- draegonhawke
- Coil - The end of the Time War left two Time Lords alive. Alive, but not unbroken.
Ten/Master
- 11nine73
- Not the Last of the Time Lords - "No suns, no stars; just blackness, forever and ever. Everything dies."
- amberite
- Phlogiston - Sex and death: two great tastes that taste great together.
- The Persistence of Memory - It is easier to be a kept man, when you are a Time Lord.
- animagiblender
- Domestication - AU where the Doctor 'keeps' the Master, and is slowly driven crazy by him.
- Killing Time - The Master kills the Doctor, forcing him to regenerate during sex.
- Nightmare - The Master’s inside his head. No, he’s really inside his dreams.
- Power Trip - 'The Master could only wonder at what the Doctor had done. To have destroyed both those races was to have wielded incomprehensible power.'
- Vanity Publishing - The Master has a little trouble finishing Harold Saxon's bestselling novel.
- Young Master Saxon - Just your run of the mill AU fic where the Master de-ages himself and goes back in time to seduce John Smith.
- Aria
- Doctor Who Season Four - An alternate Doctor Who season four. In which the Doctor and the Master have dysfunctional adventures in time and space, Martha becomes a fully qualified doctor, Leo Jones wonders what all the fuss is about, the Torchwood team recounts Himalayan hijinks, and Lucy Saxon refuses to let the averted end of the world sideline her.
- Life On Mars - Sam Tyler can hear the drumming.
- Mastery - He looks out over his dominion, and he thinks it beautiful.
- astrogirl2
- Eclipsing Binary - The Doctor and the Master in a psychological power play, with smut.
- La Petit Mort - The Master has a fantasy.
- Paleolinguistics - On the subject of the Doctor and language.
- B C Draygon
- Solare Maerorem - TARDIS!Master/Doctor. “Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us.” – Alan Hale.
- bistokids
- Intermezzo - Seven months shouldn’t have been any kind of trial. But then, he hadn’t had to endure seven months quite like these before.
- Power Play - An eternity passed as the Doctor waited, confined in a holding cell at the Master’s instruction.
- by_starkiller
- Master and Servant - Anthony Stewart Head!Master/Ten
- calapine (Carmen Sandiego)
- The Pandora Project - At the end of series three, the Doctor and the Master end up travelling together and totally manage not to destroy each other or the universe. More or less. Meanwhile, Martha gets a job offer from UNIT, Jack fails to realise his team are a bit useless, and there's a giant squid for no good reason whatsoever.
- Vortexworld - John Smith and Harry Saxon live quiet, sensible lives, until the day that Harry decides to bring home a corpse and things suddenly take a turn for the worse. Meanwhile, the TARDIS is found, abandoned on Earth, and Martha sets out to discover what's happened to the Doctor, assisted by Lucy Saxon.
- Casira
- A Laugh Like Thunder - On the eve of destruction, the Prime Minister tied his wife to the bedposts and began to think of another man.
- Chelle
- The Definition of Light - Set during "The Last of the Time Lords." We always did have our best conversations in the dark...
- Cherryice
- Tabula Rasa - 400 words of Doctor/Master creepiness. Spoilers for The Sound of Drums.
- crazy_celebrian
- Avoidance Never Lasts - Post-LOTTL, the Doctor and the Master have been on the Tardis together for months. Avoiding each other. Clashing now and then. Tense and snide and bitter and full of sickening pity. The Master is bored bored bored and challenges the Doctor to arm wrestle him. The Doctor accepts.
- Danvers
- Freak on a Leash - Sometimes, he just sits there and stares off into space. It's like someone has an off switch and they flip it and he just... stops.
- Time Is My Everything - "Or maybe it was you. The precious Doctor, sniffing around to find a way to save the day. Destroying people with hope. Infecting them." The Master was quiet for a long moment, frowning at the Doctor before murmuring, "It's always you."
- darthneko
- Relentless - The Earth is burning before their eyes.
- draegonhawke
- And From Thy State - Sometimes the Master wants the Doctor to die. Sometimes he wants him to live. The problem is, most of the time it's both.
- Who Have And Have Not Sinned - On the Valiant, late one night, the Master comes up for a chat.
- dunkle_feuer
- Kings, Gods and Jesters - The Master ponders his new kingdom and the Doctor's possible place in it.
- Shades of Insanity - Maybe the Master isn't the only one who is insane...
- The Games We Play - Two Time Lords, one game.
- elliptic_eye
- Round the Prickly Pear - He knew what the Doctor wanted. He knew why he wanted it. He understood it more clearly than the Doctor ever had or ever would.
- emeriin
- Corruption - A bit of corruption never hurt anyone.
- The Master and the Drag Queen - 'I'm bored and I want entertainment. So you're going to play dress up for me.'
- faeryfroggy
- Save a Horse, Ride a Time Lord - The stone of the floor was cold beneath the Doctor's bare knees as he knelt in front of the throne.
- The One You Serve - It was a fitting end for the Doctor.
- Fionnabair
- And TARDIS Makes Three - “It’s like living with your mother-in-law”[1] A sequel to RTFM.
- Humanity - The Master shows the Doctor his own reasons for liking humans. Spoilers for The Sound of Drums.
- RTFM - The Master learns the wisdom of always reading the manual. Especially when the TARDIS is involved.
- ilama
- Christmas Presents - The Master is in a good mood.
- Resist - Wherein the Master hits the Doctor around a bit, the Doctor is hopelessly desperate not to be alone, and the Master tells the Doctor exactly what the rewards for surrender are.
- Joan Milligan (fantasyjax)
- Abide With Me - He doesn't really want the Master, but it's too late for that.
- Justwolf
- A Chink Too Wide - Everyone keeps turning to dust, and in a world like that, everything is tarnished and drab. The Doctor remembers the Master.
- kalinda-99
- The Price of Usage - A certain Time Lord being ensnared by Colony 9's newly-formed oppressive regime leads to some dangerous possibilities, while the Doctor may have arrived too late to stop it.
- katrina87
- Disturb You In The Dark - The Master returns, having taken over Lucy's body.
- Let Me Violate You - The Master is bored. Smut ensues.
- kiwi_from_hell
- Illusion is the First of all Pleasures - Last of the Time Lords AU. A prayer cannot save the world.
- Whiplash - "Drop the rebellious act; there’s no one left to rebel against."
- livii
- More Amnesia - It looks a bit like dying, making contact.
- mellaithwen
- Caught In A Moment - The Sound of Drums: That touch, that memory ignited within a lonely soul.
- Meredith
- The Second Least Organized Sport - "Amnesty International would kill you for this." "Isn't that against their mission statement? Now stop trying to kill yourself. We're going to have a wonderful time."
- misscam
- The Art of Not Having Sex - They're definitely doing it. It's just not sex. [Ten/Rose, Ten/Martha, Ten/Master, implied Barbara/Ian]
- moogle62
- A Different Sort of Need - It is certainly control, but it seems control is not enough for the Master any more, not this way.
- Nostalgia
- A Very Civil Partnership - "Let's get evil curtains," said the Master, hope springing eternal.
- Comment Fics - The Master liked sexual practices that made sure the Doctor couldn't talk.
- Timecock Not Supplied - The Doctor and Donna versus the cliche of Alien Sex Pollen.
- Omphalos
- New Dawn Fades - Set after most of the events of Last of the Time Lords, in a little pocket AU where the funeral pyre never happened. A fantastic epic.
- parrotfish
- Waiting for the Phone to Ring - The Doctor and Martha Jones move on -- but the Master has a contingency plan. When the call comes, the Doctor will answer. He owes it to Martha.
- pforte
- Home Sweet Home - "So that is my punishment? I’ll live as a tramp in there for all eternity?”
- quazonic
- Four Is Company - The Master takes the Doctor out for dinner. Crack!fic.
- sarkywoman
- Corruption - “You’ll regret it, you know.” The Doctor smiled through the tears. “I won’t. I know I won’t.”
- Just Say Master - Once he’d finished his tea, the Doctor would go down to the room where he kept the Master.
- Prime Minister's Pet & Mistake - It was a bit of a thrill to work for the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- selskia
- The End of All Things - What the Master offers is the forbidden fruit, the balm to heal all aches, the purest sin to ever exist. Partial-and-post-313 AU.
-
Shaggydogstail
- Crazy in Love - Individuals with Factitious Disorder may be trying to repeat a satisfying childhood relationship with a doctor.
- Cake or Death - It is Doctor/Master and has snark and silliness and CAKE.
- How To Tell Your Time Lord That He's Gay - Martha and Donna decide it's high time they resolved the question of the Doctor's sexuality once and for all. Well, when they aren't busy practising their own, that is.
- I Dare You To Wear White - The Doctor's all ready to settle down but the Master would rather die than marry him. Seriously.
- It Happens to Every Time Lord - 'C'mon Doctor,' said Donna, tossing her hair back. 'Penetrate me with your mind.'
- Love's Paradox - The tragic tale of how the Master stole the TARDIS, and how she was reunited with her Doctor again at last.
- Precious Little Space Dumplings of Love - ‘If I’m going to pose as your overly-demonstrative homosexual love-bunny, I ought to get something out of it myself.’ Post-LotTL AU.
- skyglass
- There, In The Corner Of Your Eye - How did the Tardis feel, after such a time?
- smithy161
- Basic Physics - Insanity isn't something to acquire, it's something you mustn't ever lose.
- Choice - Sometimes we pay for our choices before we even know we have made them.
- Fairytale - The Master tells a bedtime story, and the Doctor tries to work out how much of it he should believe.
- Starkiller
- My Will Shall Shape the Future - The Master and the Doctor have a chat.
- th_esauraus
- Antonym - He dismantled the cage around the TARDIS like a watchmaker.
- Going Steady - The Doctor had a history of run-ins with state leaders, but he had never been invited to tea at Downing Street before.
- Metric - n the beginning, they don't see much of each other during the day – or what passes for day here.
- Untitled - The Doctor imagines what could have been.
- Vali
- Parallax - The Doctor and the Master have a mutually revealing encounter on a very strange planet.
- x_los
- Less Subtle - Ten/Laser Screwdriver, drabble.
Shalka!Nine/Master
- calapine (Carmen Sandiego)
- The Shalka Legacy - A series featuring REG!Doctor, Jacobi!Master and Alison Chenney from the BBCi webcast The Scream of the Shalka.
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