Something
That crazy, insane, mad...!
The Doctor had thought he was dead. He couldn't still, after a year (a blink of an eye for them) belive that he was here. That he saw those eyes glaring at him once again. That he heard that voice.
That voice that isn't the same, those eyes, that are now your eyes...
The other Time Lord had changed so much, so many times that there wasn't anything left of who he was then. When he was his own. When they were two rebels against the universe, against everything!
But he couldn't deny that he had changed himself. He had lost things, people. He could not help them. They had all slipped right through his fingers, his children, his little birds, people who had loved him and people who he had loved back in his own way.
But he was not going to lose that man. That was the only thing he couldn't stand, wouldn't stand, he would not let that happen again, not ever!
Like Rose let go of my hand...
He saw those eyes staring...
The Doctor stared back the best he could, searching, hoping to find something, even a little, tiny sign that there was something good left in him. Something that could help him convince the Master that he didn't mean any of this to happen, that all he wanted, all he needed right now was him.
But he didn't find anything.
Nothing. All blank. His eyes were empty, void of any kind of emotion apart from cruel amusement.
And it was tearing his mind apart.
Please. Please, don't slip away from me, not now, not when I need you the most, not when I have finally found you, when you have finally found me!
The Doctor never begged. And the Master never listened. They were far too proud, too much the same, even though neither of them would never admit it to anyone.
He wanted to pull the other Time Lord closer, so close he could feel those hearts beating, two hearts... They were the only ones left now...
In a blink of an eye, just when I had forgiven you...
The Doctor hardly understood that it was Lucy standing just a few meters away, pointing a gun. He was all dizzy and he just wanted to have back his everything, everything that he had loved, everything that was his.
Don't desert me now.
Not now, when I have lost everything else.