Get Out Of The Way
Characters: Doctor; Master (Rassilon mentioned)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for End of Time; Slash (M/M)
Notes: This is what I imagined the Master's thoughts were during That scene. It may seem slightly OOC for some, but I believed that deep down, the Master was a good person who was being controlled/manipulated as part of the Time Lords' plan. This is the Master that I present here. I hope you enjoy it.
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I try to remember how we got here.
We haven't always been like this, him and me.
There was another life, another time when we were so close; closer than brothers; completely inseparable. There was no Master. There was no Doctor. There was only Theta and Koschei.
Long ago, in that other life, Theta and Koschei would dream together. They would lie upon the grass and stare up and the stars and just – be. They were happy just to be a part of it; part of the wondrous thing that is the universe – infinite and incredible.
Now Theta and Koschei are gone and all that's left is us. We stand here amongst the wreckage, facing the end of time itself, still together but never further apart.
He told me I could be beautiful. We were both beautiful once.
How did it come to this?
I understand it all now. I can finally see the whole picture. We have been bound together since childhood but it was not love; it was not innocent, childish affection. It was them. I can see in his eyes that he knows it too. The final piece of the puzzle has slotted into place. All along, it was them.
We are the lost sons of Gallifrey; only we weren't lost – we were abandoned. We just never realised it until now. We have both been taken for fools. We did not realise; we did not see.
But I did love him once and now he stands with a gun pointed at my head. The gun is the thing that will end this. No amount of pleading will change the course of history. It has to end; we both know that. It has to be this way. It has to be this violent end.
Even as those two innocent boys, lay beside each other upon the red grass, exchanging lazy kisses – it was always going to come to this; it is so because they planned it so. They were using me, even then and he cannot allow them to destroy the universe, the whole of creation that Theta and Koschei observed. He cannot. He will not.
So now he is going to kill me. He is holding the gun to my head and the weapon not wielded in anger is somehow the most chilling.
'Get out of the way.'
For a second I do not understand, but I acquiesce and in an instant it is all over. Rassilon is going back to the time lock; back to hell.
The link is broken.
It is so quiet.
'You will die with us Doctor.'
'I know.'
Sometimes I think a time lord lives too long. I knew one of us was going to die today. That much was obvious; I don't want it to be me. But how can I go on without him?
I've always known that I could not continue alone. If I could, I would have killed him by now. I had enough opportunities – opportunities, I realise that they engineered. They decided that this would be my purpose. They wanted me to stop him. They wanted me to be the one to bring about his destruction; to give the Judas kiss.
I can see that now and I did it. I brought them to him. I brought the guards to his door. I gave them the means to escape the time lock; but I will not let them take him.
'Get out of the way.'
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