THE MASTER AND MISS GRANT - Part 1 "I am the Master, and you will obey me" He watched with satisfaction as his hypnotic gaze took effect. Miss Grant's had proved a stronger will than he had expected, but there were few humans who could resist the power of his focused domination, backed as it was by centuries of practice and a Gallifreyan brain. "All is well, Miss Grant. Ah... Jo. You are safe. You are safe and with the Doctor. I am your friend the Doctor. I have saved your life and there is no danger any more." To his astonishment the young women threw herself at him, sobbing in gratitude. "Oh Doctor! It was terrible, I was captured by that awful Master and I thought he was going to kill me!" She glanced up at him as if made uncertain by his lack of response. Gritting his teeth slightly the Master returned her hug. "There, there... Jo. Everything is all right now." He patted her head with one gloved hand. The girl tilted back to look up at him with wide trusting eyes. For an instant he felt an strange urge - a physical response quite alien to his nature. Firmly he pushed it aside. "Now Jo, I wonder if you would do something for me." Jo stepped back. "I know," she said brightly, "You could do with a nice cup of tea." "Er... not just yet. Thank you. What I want you to do is to lead me back to the TARDIS." Jo frowned. "But you know where the TARDIS is, Doctor." The Master smiled. "It's a little test of your memory, my dear. And you do so want to pass my test, don't you?" "Of course I do. Right-o then." He followed Jo as she led him through the corridors of the ancient temple. No doubt he could have built a device to track the time ship down, but minutes were precious. Besides, he savoured the delicious irony of being handed the Doctor's precious vessel by one of his own companions. Miss Grant's inane chatter was ignored as he considered his approaching triumph. At last, the Doctor would be defeated! His own superior nature would be proven beyond all doubt! And then it was there. The TARDIS; still locked in that absurd disguise. He paused, rolling the feel of victory around his mind. Slowly, majestically, he pulled the stolen key from around his neck and approached the door. He touched it, reverently. It was real. (Actually it was a mathematical construct of reality, chipped in the logical part of his mind.) The key slid into the lock. He paused. And turned. The doors opened. Trailed by the still babbling Miss Grant he stepped into the brilliance of the console room and threw wide his arms in triumph. "I have won! After all these years, I have won!" The elation of the moment flowed through every fibre. He laughed. He felt drunk with success, with power, with the sense of an unattainable goal accomplished at long last. He felt an unfamiliar stirring in his loins as barriers built carefully and painstakingly over many, many decades were allowed to fall at last. This was his moment. Total domination over his hated rival! But it meant nothing unless others knew of it. He had to share it. Turning he pulled the unwary Jo into his arms and bent to kiss her. "Mmph!" The surprised girl tried to pull back at first, but as the embrace lengthened she stopped her struggles. Her lips parted and her tongue eagerly pushed into the Master's mouth, toying with his own. Finally he broke the clinch. "Doctor!" She met his eyes with a gaze that was more amused than shocked. "You are in a good mood!" The Master stretched luxuriously, "Indeed I am, my dear. In fact, I believe that my mood as never been better." He ran an eye over Jo, from head to toe. She blushed bright red and looked down at her boots. "A celebration is in order, I think. Come with me." Jo looked up doubtfully. "But, I don't think..." The Master looked into her eyes. "Come with me! You want nothing more than to please the Doctor. I am the Doctor. You will come with me." Jo shook her head a moment and then her bright smile returned. She held out one be-ringed hand and the Master took it in his gloved one. * * * It had taken a while to locate a suitable chamber. The Doctor's taste in TARDIS decor was lamentable, and he resolved to reconfigure the ship as soon as he had a spare few days. Jo was spread-eagled on the antique four- poster bed, her wrists tied to the top two posts with scarves. She seemed unworried by his actions as yet, but he was unsure whether he could maintain his control over her when he gave his desires free reign. He peeled off one glove and ran his bare fingers over her cheek. She turned her head to kiss his hand and then smiled at him. He caught himself returning the gesture and paused for a moment. Astonishing. The other glove followed the first, and then he moved onto the bed, kneeling upright between Jo's legs. A human being at his complete mercy. He resolved to taste every moment as if it were fine wine, to etch every experience into his memory so that it could be relived later. He traced the features of her face with his fingertips; her cheek bones, the curve of her fair eyebrows, the bow of her lips. He held her head between the palms of his hands and stared into her wide, brown eyes, fixing them like an insect's wings pinned to a display. He continued to probe as his hands slid to her shoulders, but the windows that are said to look onto the soul (as if such a thing could exist!) were closed even to him. He brushed her blonde hair aside and felt the outline of her collarbones through her pullover and the striped blouse underneath. His hands moved lower still and he saw Jo's lips part slightly. He cupped the slight mounds of her breasts, delicately brushing against them until he could just feel the firmness of hardening nipples under the cloth. Her pupils widened slightly. Her breathing was faster and more shallow. He fancied that her skin temperature, feverish already to Gallifreyan sensibilities, had risen just a touch. Lower still now, and he measured the narrowness of her waist, tested the smooth resilience of her stomach. His hands slid over the flare of her hips and onto the tight denim covering her thighs. Her lips were parted further now, swelling as blood rushed to the capillaries near their surface. His hands could go no further unless he broke his gaze. He tried to analyse his own feelings, but the cool detachment that had been a necessary part of him for so long seemed to have fled. He felt powerful. He felt aroused. He felt like a Lord of Time. He felt that the human girl beneath him was, in some strange way, closer to him now than any entity had been for very many years. (And what of her feelings? interrupted the voice of calculation. Would she be so passive without your mental trickery to alter her perceptions?) He looked away. He had to, so that he could explore further. It was necessary. Easing back he slid his fingertips lower, over the cuffs of her denim shorts and onto the smooth bare skin of the knee, exposed above the high boots that she wore. The boots were made of animal skin. The idle thought that he needed to remove the skin of an animal in order to explore the skin of another animal made his lips twitch appreciatively for an instant, before other, less amusing thoughts replaced it. Straightening, he attempted to smother the need and the emotional responses that were affecting his thought processes. What was he doing? He was considering a liaison with an animal. A creature as far below Gallifreyans as they themselves were above the crawling things of their Earth. Being, for a Gallifreyan, both extremely cosmopolitan and accustomed to thinking the unthinkable, he considered the matter more deeply. Had he ever considered slaking his desires with an alien before? Had he ever had such desires before? The answer was no. There were plenty of humanoid species in the universe, many of them outwardly all but identical to Gallifreyans, and yet the thought of taking one as a leman had never even crossed his mind. So what was different here? He stared deeply into the eyes of the girl. She was no Gallifreyan, that was certain. A mental adept could perhaps have suppressed her mind signature from casual notice, but not from the concentrated attention of one as skilled as himself. He willed himself into a self-diagnostic trance and began to probe his own body chemistry. The air passing through the walls of his lungs was uncontaminated. His bloodstream was without any trace of toxin or psychoactive chemical. His brain chemistry was... ah! He spiralled deeper still, becoming one with the substance of his flesh shell, merging his thoughts with the non-flesh ones of his bio-temporal organ. There it was. No poison. No alien chemical. He was absorbing pheromones that were a primitive analogue of those given off by Gallifreyans themselves. Scent traces that were so near to being natural that his body had not even registered them as alien, but which were subtly influencing his own body chemistry so that he was reacting with sexual arousal. It was puzzling and yet fascinating. If he were more experienced in the appropriate areas of genetics, bio-chemistry and comparative xenomorphology he would be tempted to do an analysis of the creature. -- Rutan ******* Doctor3/Jo: Day of the Daleks "You simply don't realise the danger we're now in, Jo! All because you disobeyed when I told you not to mess with the time box," "I'm sorry Doctor. It's just, you know, I though that those guerrillas..." The Doctor sighed. "That's the trouble, Jo. Even after all this time with me you don't think." Jo hung her head and shuffled slightly. "Come here, Miss Grant." Jo looked up anxiously. She knew what it signified when the Doctor addressed her like that. "But, Doctor..." He simply remained seated, looking at her patiently. Jo reluctantly got to her feet and moved to him. She was about to make another protest, but the Doctor placed one finger to her lips and she resigned herself to what was to follow. Placing herself across the Doctor's knees she screwed her eyes closed and waited. "I'm only doing this for your own benefit, Miss Grant." She felt the Doctor lifting the hem of her skirt. "Every time you deliberately disobey one of my instructions you are putting yourself and perhaps others in great danger." His hand slapped her vulnerable rear hard. The thin red panties provided little protection and Jo yelped at the shock of the contact. "I understand, Doctor - really I do..." She was cut short by the second blow, which struck the already sensitised area and sent a lightning flash of pain shooting along her nerves. "Aah. Please, Doctor. Someone could come in. No more, please. I'll be good in future..." The third smack set her tender behind aflame, and she squealed and squirmed. Her movements were to no avail; the Doctor's strong left hand pinned her formly in place. He paused to adjust her skirt, which had fallen back over her panties due to her movement. "Doctor. No more. I won't again. No need..." Jo was babbling now - a stream of words and meaningless phrases that were pleas for clemency, promises of good behaviour. The Doctor was implacable, but considered that Jo's lesson had sunk home. The final three smacks were delivered with a rapid staccato, hardly giving Jo time for more than a single additional cry before the punishment was complete. She stood somewhat unsteadily, readjusting her hemline and sniffling a little. "Now, Jo," said the Doctor quietly, "let's concentrate on getting back to our time."