REC: Burning Ground

[biichan.livejournal.com]

Story: Burning Ground
Author: Bagheera
Rating: Adult
Word Count: 2389
Author's summary: The Doctor and the Master play gods in Vedic India.
Characters/Pairings: Third Doctor/Delgado!Master, Fourth Doctor/Delgado!Master, Fifth Doctor
Warnings: Goes AU somewhere near the end of the Third Doctor's tenure.

Recced because: It's good. It's very, very good. Which is probably damning with faint praise, but I've been staring at the computer screen for the past half-hour trying to figure out how to describe why I love this fic so much and that's really all it boils down to: it's very, very good. There's a relentless dream-like logic to Bagheera's prose and her alternate Fourth and Fifth Doctors are so very familiar despite the fantastic setting we find them in. It's perhaps my favorite Doctor/Master fic of all and I'm so very glad she wrote it.

Comments

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

ahhhhh i love this fic! and yes, it is just... so good.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much I needed something to cheer me up right now. Perfect timing and thanks!

[kaffy_r]

This was a remarkably good piece of work. There are stories that I understand immediately, and there are stories that I feel immediately - sometimes without having to understand them entirely. This was a combination, and I suspect I'll be coming back to this one many times, to uncover new meanings, feelings and understandings.