Alison’s quest for the Master -- this time: Alison tells the Doctor a thing or two about consent
Another Scream of the Shalka fanfic is up at AO3. This one’s called [[Hold Me Fast,]] and it’s about what happens to Alison, the Master [known to her as “the Magister”], and the Doctor after they encounter a psychic vampire. Alison gets mind-fucked again [too much mind-fucking! D:], and the Doctor rescues her, but…uh…what happened to the Magister, Alison’s robot? The Doctor won’t give Alison the full story, so she teams up with Scintilla, the Master’s loquacious and extremely perky TARDIS, to discover the truth.
In this excerpt, Alison tells the Doctor why she ran away from them and into the refuge of Scintilla’s walls.
“Nothing at all goes inside my head without my permission!” Alison’s skull throbs. “No Shalka, no psychic vampire, no Magister, no Doctor. You and him agreed to respect my limits, and one of those limits is you staying out of my head. It was in the contract that we all signed!”
“I know. But your vertigo -- your headaches -- your exhaustion… I could -- “
“Fuck no!” Alison makes fists, closes her eyes, and yells again. “Tace and just listen for once. I don’t care if you think you’re helping me or healing me. If you go inside my head without my permission for any reason whatsoever, that’s a violation. And, just in case you didn’t get it the first time,” she says, hitting each phrase with slow emphasis, “you don’t -- have my permission -- to go into -- my head.”
“Violation! Oh…” The Doctor finally understands her. “Um…” Their mouth hangs open for a second. Then they close it and repeat their first word: “Oh… Um, Alison, oh no...I’m so sorry; I didn’t -- “
Alison has no patience for this right now. She puts her right hand on her hip and keeps rubbing her head with the left. “So...do you want to be the alien who fucking mind-rapes me for the third time?” she asks. “That wasn’t rhetorical! That was an actual question.”
“Alison, I’m so sorry. I understand; I see what you mean; I don’t want to hurt you; I’d never -- “
“Answer the question!” Alison snaps. “Would you like to be the alien who mind-fucks me for the third fucking time, Doctor?”
The Doctor shakes their head as if they’ve just been asked if they want to be the next to die.
