...Ever read that one really long Doctor/Master fic that starts out with them being married and almost but not quite unrealistically happy together and then it's just a long, gradual spiral to madness? For both the Master and the reader 8'3 (which had a soort of happy ending but Things about it bugged me so it also wasn't).

Also there was one shalka!verse not-quite-shippy fic where I checked it for an unhappy ending (so I could get away before I got too invested) and then in the end what I thought was a happy ending was actually a flashback to happier times and the real ending was super heartbreaking... why???!

Ah well. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger or just mildly deranged. *twitch*