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The Legacy of Gallifrey
If it had been anyone else in this position, he had little doubt that he would have been annihilated long before now; the buffeting of the Time Winds in the Vortex would have torn anything apart if he had still had a body to be damaged...
It wasn't exactly comfortable even in his current state, but he persevered; if he was going to achieve vengeance, he had to find what he was looking for...
Finally, after a search that seemed so long even he couldn't be sure how long he had been at it- the fact that time didn't technically exist here wasn't exactly helping him keep track of things here-, he finally found what he was looking for, floating in the further reaches of the Vortex, drifting on the outskirts as though looking for somewhere where even the Doctor had never been.
Whether they were doing it to avoid his foe or simply out of a desire to see something truly new, he didn't know and it didn't matter; all that mattered was that she was there.
Tensing himself, he dived towards his discovery, penetrating and enveloping it before anything else could react, smiling as his target became aware of his presence just when it was too late for her to do anything about it...
He wasn't sure what was more thrilling, really; the moment he found her, or the moment when she saw him and 'remembered' who he was.
You?! she screamed, 'staring'- for lack of a better description of what she was doing in the current environment- at him in horror. But-
He killed me? He replied, scorn transparent in his voice as he looked at the woman. I am beyond such concepts, my dear pet; I have become something that not even my creators dreamed I could be.
You are an abomination to everything in- she began.
Don't act like you're anything different, tool, he spat, cutting her off as he neatly penetrated whatever petty walls and defences she was already frantically trying to establish, so secure in her safety in this place that she had lowered her barriers to better enjoy the experiences that only she could ever fully understand. You were never anything but a means to an end, no matter what my dear Doctor tried to pretend otherwise. You've always been nothing but a puppet; the only thing this changed is the scale of the people interested in pulling your strings.
NO! She screamed desperately as he burrowed into her, spreading through her and eradicating all that she was, locking her away from herself-
He froze.
It couldn't be...
He grinned.
Just when he thought that his discovery couldn't be more perfect...
Not only would she provide him with the means to contact those he sought to perfect his new plan, but she would even allow him to regain some semblance of what he had lost in his last confrontation with his enemy.
It wouldn't be the same as what he really wanted, of course- only one would ever be exactly what he was looking for-, but it would definitely hurt his enemy, and that was what really mattered right now.
Once that was done, all he needed to do was find the old rifts that he was looking for- they might have been 'relocated' since the Time War, but you couldn't destroy things like those-, and then the fun could really begin...
