scarfman | Finally 1/1; the Doctor/Peri; R (Reply)

Title: Finally 1/1
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: Doctor Six/Peri
Rating: R for graphic but not explicit sex
Setting (spoilers through): Revelation of the Daleks - starts the instant after the freeze shot
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
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Summary: Sequel to Redefined Image and Clueless; coda to Revelation of the Daleks. Peri and the Doctor begin a sexual relationship, which winds them both down enough that they finally begin talking.
crossposted scarfman dwfiction couldbeplatinum thesixthdoctor loves_them_all

"I don't want to go anywhere with you," Peri interrupted. She tromped off in the direction where they'd left their coats and hat.

"What are you talking about?!" demanded the Doctor. Peri responded with stony silence, pulling her blue coat and beret on and throwing his cape at him. He repeated the request, varying the phrasure to no avail, until they'd slogged all the way back to the TARDIS in the snow. Then she rounded on him just as they entered, nearly causing him to walk smack into her.

"I've been coming on to you when I have adrenaline to burn off ever since you groped my hair with your nose in the elevator that time -"

"'Elevator'? Oh! You mean 'lift'!"

"Shut up! -and you haven't paid me any attention! I've been screwing strangers when I wanted to screw you."

"Wha - You never said anything like that!"

"I shouldn't have to! You started it!"

The Doctor threw his hands in the air. "Why don't you just once say what you mean!!"

Peri grabbed the collar of the Doctor's cape and pulled his mouth down to hers. The Doctor kissed Peri back just as hungrily and demandingly.

They began an awkward four-step toward her room, pushing each other's clothes off in a trail through the console room and TARDIS corridor. Of course even with both of them in their blue winterwear the Doctor had more clothes on than Peri, by mass, number of separate articles, and variety of fastenings. Peri was still working on his when she was already naked, which gave the Doctor some time for pure groping at the edge of her bed while she finally worked his trousers off.

Finally naked, the Doctor pushed Peri onto her back on the bed, manually verified that physically she wasn't in need of further foreplay, and skipped it. The Doctor seemed just as badly in need of burning off adrenaline as Peri had ever been, and she met his thrusting with her own - first for the pleasure itself, then for the need of release. By chance or intent the Doctor's release came just after hers.

Afterwards they lay shoulder-to-shoulder on a bed that wasn't really wide enough for them both, bare chests heaving as they panted for breath. When she could speak, Peri said, "Is this going to change things between us?"

"I've no idea," gasped the Doctor. "It's different with all you girls."

"Do you sleep with all your traveling companions?"

"Some. You weren't the first and you shan't be the last."

"Planning to get rid of me already?" Peri tried to sound put out, but it was too difficult while breathing was still interfering with talking.

The Doctor turned on his side and looked at her. "Peri, you joined me on my travels as an alternative to a summer spent backpacking across Europe with two 'guys', whom you'd only just met, because they were 'cute'. Before I regenerated you thought I was 'sweet', and don't think I don't realize that was a large part of your reason for staying aboard the TARDIS. You have some maturing to do, and I've no doubt one of the things you'll outgrow is Peter Pan in a police box."

"Oh, you're not just Peter Pan."

"No, I'm a Time Lord, and that means my current life expectancy is about seven more lives than you have, even if you stayed with me as long as you lived. When I say there'll be girls after you, it's the simple if unfortunate truth."

Peri rolled onto her side next to him - there was room for both of them this way - and changed the subject. "I think this is the longest we've ever spoken without shouting at each other. You do like me, don't you?"

"Peri, I do not share the TARDIS or my semen with people I don't like. As for the shouting, I may be less inclined - or able - to keep my temper since my regeneration, but you're not half prickly yourself, depending on whether you've remembered to have self-esteem from one moment to the next."

"Why, you -!" Peri gave the Doctor a nudge which almost knocked him off the bed.

"Further on the subject of not shouting, it's also true that the post-coital humanoid body experiences a sort of lethargic state of comfort that -"

"Good grief, Doctor, if this is your idea of pillow talk, maybe I'll go back to the strangers."

"Perhaps you'd better distract me, then. I mean, you only have to look at me to see that, despite my previous orgasm and ejaculation, I'm not entirely sated."

"Fine. I'll reduce you from six-syllable words to mere vowels in minutes. Oof. Roll on your back, dammit, it's my turn to be on top."

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