Title: Maybe I Should
Author: TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel
Setting: Series One of New Who. Spoilers for End of Time.
Author note: During EoT, the Master kept taunting the Doctor and daring him to shoot him. But for all his taunting, you know the Master didn't actually expect the Doctor to do it.
The Master slowly sank to the floor, looking disbelievingly at the hole where a bullet had just gone through his left heart.
"You shot me!" he said incredulously and indignantly, shocked and angry and underneath it all rather hurt. The Doctor wasn't supposed to do this.
"Maybe I should have a long time ago," the Doctor said, his gaze solemn, his eyes dark.
And the Master has something like regret on his face as with his darkening vision he watches the Doctor turn and walk away from him.
The Doctor will have time to think about that later.
He stands and looks across at Lord Rassilon and the other Time Lords, steadfastly not looking at the woman in the pose of a Weeping Angel standing behind the Lord President.
"I just shot my best enemy. What's to stop me doing as much to you?"