A/N: I am in two minds of whether I liked tonights episode or not but there is one part that I am reallly having an issue with, and so of course I turned to fanfiction to fix it!
There were somethings you just didn't forget, Missy thought to herself as she heard her demented former self cackling as the lift door closed.
Death is for other people.
Grunting with the effort she pulled herself to her knees and reached inside her pocket to pull out a device that whirred and crackled as she dropped it to the ground hurriedly, hissing as she blew on her burnt fingers.
She hadn't been able to remember where it came from, but the gut feeling that one day her life would be taken by a laser device had lead to certain precautions, one of them being the disrupter now lying on the ground. It's core circuitry fried by the blast from the Master's screwdriver.
Her body had taken an unhealthy dose of the blast, but not enough to kill her as the Master believed, but enough to cause a significant decrease to her strength and agility until she healed.
Which was frustrating but not the end of the world, after all, it wasn't as though she hadn't expected a retaliation. There was no one she knew better than herself, whether she remembered this chunk of time or not.
Reaching for a sturdy looking tree branch, she hauled herself to her feet and began painfully making her way back towards the farm.
She had meant what she said, it was time for her to stand with the Doctor, at long, long last.