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The Doctor, The Monster, and The Count by Illuminescence
Fandoms: Taskmaster (UK TV) RPF
08 Jan 2024
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1890 and a troubling new syndrome has struck patients of the Royal Bethlem Hospital of London, England. Doctor Alexander Jeffery, of the newly named science of psychiatry, has a special interest in curing these patients afflicted with visions, nightmares, and overwhelming desires of a deviant sexual nature. Indeed, he's close to a breakthrough - a medicine to suppress the hateful id - an idea that catches the attention of the tall, exotic, European noble who asks such probing questions and who Jeffery seems unable to get out of his thoughts.
Jeffery turns at last to the stranger in the front row, the man he’d felt a strange tightening in his stomach to address. He’s regarding Jeffery with amusement, seemingly entertained by the discomfort of his fellow audience members.
“And, sir, if you will permit me, have you not heard the whisper of its voiceless desires goading you to ever greater excesses? Ever darker extremes?”
The large gentleman, still smirking, responds immediately. “Oh, more than you’ll know, Doctor.” And it twists within Jeffery, sounding like a promise whispered in his ear rather than called out clarion like, across a crowded, muttering, hall.Series
- Part 1 of Taskmaster Gothic