#eightroberts

Oooh, I have not written about this actually! The Doctor is far too proud, I think, to let the Master win in this way, especially permanently.

However, I have thought of scenarios in my Mantle AU where the Master is still basically jaegering his new Time Lord body as the Deathworm Morphant (as this was technically the form where the deal with Death became fully realised, whoops).

SO, if the body ever becomes compromised (read: utterly fucked) the Master could slither out and escape, but an exposed goo snake does not last very long and needs a new host to jump into if it doesn't want to become basically comatose... and Eight would be right there. They can't let him die again, not like this...

So it's more a case of Eight letting the Master borrow their body as a life raft until they can repair (?) his proper body. It takes a whole lot of time and repeated instances of the Doctor's trust not being thrown back in their face to get to that level though. Because by that point, the Master prefers being in their own body and being able to interact with the Doctor in their own body. Separately.

!! Hello and thank you~

Because I am deeply intrigued by EightRoberts at the moment, there is one fic (or kind of an AU really), thats constantly on rotation in my head, called Sleepwalker.

Based on the episode of Buffy where she starts to wake up in another life, different to the one she knew where she was never a Slayer and demons don't exist, and starts to doubt which is real and which is the dream. and which she wants to be real

The first fic is the Eighth Doctor waking up in the body of John Smith, who has been in a coma after being shot in the last days of 1999 on his way to the opera. He wakes in a hospital and there is a husband waiting for him, a husband who has the Master's face.

In the mad scramble of returning memories after their regeneration, the Eighth Doctor remembers some things they perhaps shouldn't have been able to. Namely, the deal they made with Death.

More Mantle AU stuff