#hope it doesn't seem lik monologuing

[moonshine-nightlight]

Thank you as always for the Dale update! I always look forward to Sundays because of them ❤️ Your writing style and stories are my absolute favorite on Tumblr, thx for sharing them with all of us!

aw, thanks! i always love to hear it!

somehow this next chapter is a few more words than even the last, pushing ti to b the longest part so far - i hav no idea why this keeps happening, but that is why this is being posted today and not last sunday

i'm editing now, so please stay tuned for the next Dale to be posted in a couple hours!

[kinglivv]

Hi just to say I truly love your work and if requests are still open this is one, if not just take it as an admirer telling you how much they love your work.  So the reader has had a ‘troubled’ past and one day while in the TARDIS with the master and he’s angry or something and hitting things and throwing things and he makes the reader flinch. (Not that he would hurt her ) I know that gonna be a fair bit of angst, end it however you want x 

Flinch

Dhawan!Master X Reader

Summary: The Master unintentionally scares the reader, leading to them slightly opening up and The Master reassuring them.

Warnings: Implied abusive past

A/N: This was a really quick fic which I only proof read once so sorry if it's shite

The Master got angry sometimes - you'd known that before you'd even started travelling with him. He'd never lay a finger on you, of course - he loved you far to much to ever so much as leave a mark on your skin (unless you wanted him to), but still, he had a temper.

Most of the time it didn't bother you - you'd just wait for him to get it out of his system and move on. Despite this though, ever so often, when his temper flared, you couldn't help but be slightly aprehensive and anxious.

He doesn't know this. Whenever he's angry or throwing some sort of temper tantrum, he's too caught up in himself to notice you. That works fine - you'd rather deal with you inner demons by yourself without having to talk to him about them.

He thunders into the console room one night, and you can tell he's properly angry. His latest plan has just fallen to peices, courtesy of The Doctor of course, and the planet he was hoping to take over is now very much out of reach.

"Bloody Doctor." He hisses as he marches up to the console and begins to turn dials and switches. You simply watch on from your chair where you had been reading your book.

"Always fucking up everything!" He thumbs his fist on the console making sparks fly and you jump instinctively.

He continues his angry monologue, cursing and spitting explicatives, storming around the room doing this and that. You curl further in on yourself, hoping he isn't going to punch anything again.

He does worse though, and angrily lashes out, knocking some ornament to the floor where it smashes into a million different pieces. You can't help the squeak of fear escape you as you practically jump out of your skin and tears form in your eyes.

The noise you make seems to pull him back to the present, and he looks to you, anger changing to worry in his face when he sees how shaken up you are. He rushes over to you, grabbing your hands and kneeling so he's level with you.

"Y/N, are you all right?" He asks, concerned. "Are you hurt?"

"No, no," You try to keep your voice level, but its not really working.

"What is it?"

"You-" You stutter. "Just you're shouting and smashing stuff..."

He looks at you confused. "Y/N, you've seen me do much worse than that."

"I know," You shift uncomfortably in your chair. "It just scared me a bit."

His hand goes to your cheek as he stares up at you, sadness painting his face. He never wants you to be scared of him - other people sure. He loves to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies and those lower than him, but never, ever you. The idea makes his stomach churn and curl horribly.

"You should have said something, love," He says softly, wiping a tear away with the pad of his thumb. "I never want you to be afraid of me."

"I know, I know, I just..." You bite your lip. "There were some not so nice people in my life a few years back."

He squeezes your hand, signalling for you to continue.

"They would get angry with me a lot and violent, you know. Because of that I sometimes I get a bit nervous when people shout or get loud..." You shrug, trailing off, getting the point across that you didn't really want to talk about it.

"I will never, ever hurt you like they did, okay?" He tells you. "If anyone hurts you like that again, I'll kill them slowly and painfully."

You smirk. That sounds like The Master.

"And you can talk to me, you know?" He continues. "If something's bothering you, or it's too much for you you can tell me."

That sounds less like The Master, but you nod silently, surprised, and he tilts up to press a soft kiss to your lips.

"I'll never be angry with you." He promises. "I will only ever be angry with you if you die. And that isn't going to happen, so you have nothing to worry about."

You huff, laughing. Feeling much more relaxed now, you lean back down to kiss him.