DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE DOCTOR WHO FRANCHISE NOR WILL I EVER ACHIEVE THE GOAL OF OWNING SAID FRANCHISE, HOWEVER, I SHALL CONTINUE TO PLOT AND SCHEME TO BECOME OVERLORD OF ALL THINGS WHOVIAN AS SOON AS A POSSIBLY CAN.
AN: HELLO READERS OF THE WHOVIAN KIND THIS IS YOUR FELLOW WHOVIAN AND WORDSMITH THE LONE TRAVELLER HERE, I DECIDED TO RE-WRITE THE SECOND CHAPTER BECAUSE I REALLY DIDN'T LIKE IT, THAT MADE ME NOT BE ABLE TO WRITE ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS STORY, SO, VOILA, HERE WE GO, SEE YOU AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER, ALLONS Y
The doctor backed away from the master and leaned against the console of the TARDIS, his head held up slightly and looking down on his old friend, his old enemy.
"So your going to keep me here, like a pet" The master asked.
"Not a pet, a friend" the Doctor replied.
"I'm not your friend Doctor"
"You were on Gallifrey"
"Then you ran from the time lords, gallivanting through time and space, meddling with it all."
"so that's why you hate me Koschei" he said, shaking his head sadly. Even though the time lords were dead and gone it seemed that the one person who he ran with through the orange grasses of his homeland .
"No" the Master snorted. Then the doctor saw it, the anger burning behind his old friends eyes, the pure envy and pain that rage through him, "I hate you because you think you are so right and high and mighty, I hate you because you made me what I am, But Doctor you want to know the one real reason I detest you, why I would fight you across the stars and back" the master said, standing up now and striding toward the doctor, who was only just managing to keep himself composed. "Because I DON'T" he screamed, a tear falling down his cheek he weakly hit the Doctors chest, the blow barely connecting due to the level of his fatigue from regenerating.
"Remember what I said on the Valiant" the Doctor said, pulling the Master into a hug, "I forgive you" The master began to sob into the Doctors chest, his mental state already weak from regenerating had been completely destroyed by this.
"Every TARDIS has a Gallifrey room" the Master murmured, braking the hug and moving away from the Doctor, "Take me there" he said.
The Doctor nodded and walked past the master with his hands in his pockets, his head buzzing. The master didn't hate him, he hated himself for hating him. It was hard to make sense of but now that it was clear to him the Doctor was sure that he could help him, and then things would be just a little be brighter in his life.
The pair walked down different intersecting corridors in the TARDIS, the tension between the two almost cuttable with a knife. They eventually reached a large circular door, it's frame golden with intricate bronze patterns swirling around it like veins. The frame slipped into the door at the centre and created two handles and a seal in the middle with the mark of Rassilon in bronze seared into it. The Doctor placed his palm on the door, feeling the door unlocking at his touch and the psychic touch of the room within. He hadn't been in the Gallifrey room since the war, he couldn't take it, this would be hard for the both of them.
The door sank into the ground quickly, disappearing into a groove in the TARDIS floor, an orange glow flooding the hall way. The Doctor's and the Master's eye both became wet. They stepped into the room.
Red grass stretched as far as the eye could see and a single silver leafed tree atop a small hill, it's leaves rustling slightly and reflecting the light of the two subs overhead.
"It's beautiful" the master muttered. The Doctor gave a small smile before replying,
"Yeah, it is"
The Master walked ahead of the doctor, reaching his hand out and gently stroking the tree before him, it had been lifetimes since he had seen such beauty. Then a drumming started in the depths of his mind. One-two-three-four. Knocking on his head, trying to get in... Or out. He swayed on his feet and leant on the tree for support.
"Are you okay" the doctor asked, but the master didn't respond, instead he tapped on the trunk. One-two-three-four.
"Was it good?" the master asked, spinning on his heel, insanity flickering in his eyes. "Did you enjoy it when you did it" he spat venomously.
The Doctor looked at the master perplexed, this was not the man he had seen mere moments ago, he had been replaced by something vile, something beyond redemption with a dead heart filled with hatred and contempt.
"What do you mean" the Doctor asked cautiously, wary of the masters change in tone and stature.
"As Gallifrey burned and the screams of the time lords and the Daleks mingled, did you laugh" he giggled, "oh that power, I bet you did" he chuckled
"Stop it" the doctor cautioned
"Do you wish you could do it again, seal something else in a little bubble" he chuckled, swaying slightly. "But the thing is doctor" he snorted, "Bubbles can pop" he laughed and the began to sway more violently, ending up in him passing out and collapsing to the ground.
The Doctor shook, using as much effort as possible to keep the building anger within him from boiling over. It was apparent to him now, something lingered within the master, something deep in his head. Something that changed him, warped him, broke him down from the inside out. The Doctor knelt down by the Masters side, his hands sinking softly into the Gallifreyan dirt. He then raised his hands and placed them on the Masters temples and rested his forehead on the masters.
One-two-three-four
One-two-three-four
The doctor gasped and scrambled away from the Master, the sound of the drumbeat echoing in his head. A pattern of four, the never ending drumbeat, it was real.
POST CHAPTER AN: SO IT WAS PRETTY SHORT AND THAT WAS BECAUSE I WAS PUSHED FOR TIME, WHAT WITH REVISION CLASSES AND IT BEING 6 MONTHS TILL ME GCSE'S AND 3 WEEKS UNTIL MY MOCKS THAT DECIDE WETHER I GO TO SIXTH FORM AND CONTINUE MY EDUCATION, YOU KNOW, THAT SORT OF REAL WORLD STUFF THAT I TEND TO CARE ABOUT A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT, SORRY FOR LETTING THAT TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER MY FANDOM, IT SHANT HAPPEN AGAIN, IF YOU DIDNT LIKE THIS NEW CHAPTER TWO TELL ME AND I'LL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, MAINLY BY ADDING THE CYBERMAN ADVENTURE IN ELSE WHERE (IM GONNA DO IT ANYWAY) BUT I HOPE YOU LIKED THIS, IF YOU DID A REVIEW WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED AND HERE IS THE LIST OF MY THANKS, THESE ARE ALERTERS, FOLLOWERS AND REVIEWERS OF THE STORY, I LOVE YOU GUYS.
REVIEWERS:
INVISIBLE BLADE X2
LOKI-VAINGLORIOUS
DARKANGEL1992
FAVERS :
INVISIBLEBLADE
COLIRYA
ALERTERS:
ASHENA-ILUIK
BLACK CAT OF ARDA
INVISIBLEBLADE (THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPORT BTW)
LOKI-VAINGLORIOUS
RYN 14
STAIRHOPPER
DARKANGEL1992
WHYISTHEREANALLIGATOR
okay that is all, i must go write for my other zombifiying story, peace guys
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