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Title: Corruption
Author: tromana
Rating: T
Characters: Zara/Zinc, Zara/Pargrave, Amy
Summary: Zara was corrupted within the first two days of her life.
Disclaimer: My handbag may seem TARDIS-like, but it's not big enough for Doctor Who, unfortunately.
Spoilers: For all of Key 2 Time.
Prompt: Hope
Notes: Some sexual themes. No details.

Corruption

Zara was corrupted within the first two days of her life.

"It means, nothing, right?" Zinc had asked her.

Zara, though she hadn't even had a name yet, agreed quite happily. She was still malleable, didn't have a personality, an identity of her own yet. It was still quite easy for Zinc to subject his wills and desires onto the young being. And he did strange, wonderful things to her body. Gave her pleasure that she never thought physically possible. He told her that it was called 'sex'.

They had a lot of 'it means nothing sex' during their short time together. But his personality rubbed off on her in more ways than one. She'd grown to have a relatively short attention span. She was already bored with Harmonious 14 Zinc. It didn't bother her much as he fell quite spectacularly to his death. Zara knew she might miss the sex, though. At least he'd stop distracting her from the task in hand.

The Doctor had corrupted Amy in other ways. He'd given her a name, a title, a label. And labels could lead to disastrous things. They can be used against you, give people knowing them a sort of power over you. They can make you feel stronger than you actually are because of what your name, your title says about you. The Doctor labelled Zara, too. And she wasn't entirely sure that that was a good thing.

It was a while until Zara saw her sister-but-not again. And that time, Zara found herself to be jealous, jealous of Amy. She was still filled with all those good qualities like honesty, fairness and hope. Amy still believed that there can be a future - a good one. One where they can both flourish and survive somewhere, anywhere. Even with the Key to Time being destroyed before their very eyes. Zara was corrupted so long ago. Well, 4 weeks is a long time when you're only 5 weeks old. Now, all she wants is Pargrave to just notice her. See her as more than just the job she procured to get closer to him.

She's had sex with Pargrave all of once. She thought it meant something, but she cannot be entirely sure. He was very torn up about his family and was probably 'on the rebound', as some might say.

Still, she has stopped fighting for the Grace. She wants this for Pargrave. For herself.

So, when she trapped Amy in the satchel, along with the Key, that is destroying itself and it's surroundings, she knew she had to find the Doctor. To manipulate him the way Zinc had manipulated her. For if she didn't, she would have no hope left at all.

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