Master's point of view
As I walk out of the library after finishing my lesson with the doctor. I told him I needed a drink and headed off down the corridor. Instead I headed in the opposite direction. I wanted to go to my room, were I can be in privacy and think to my self. These past few weeks have been a life changing experience. Being rescued, given a home, getting home schooled and even meeting new friends.
We have been travelling a lot lately and I must say, the doctor is just….amazing. As I slumped onto my bed and lean back against the head board, I think to my self. Every time I see him, my knee's start buckling. I can't help it, its that smile, that face, that hair, that…man. That wonderful, wonderful man!
I cant help but smile at my thoughts. If anyone was here with me, they'd think I was Looney, smiling at my self for no apparent reason. But they can't see or hear what I'm thinking.
The doctor has taught me many things since the day we met. But one subject was stuck in my mind, I don't even know how we started to talk about it, it just came up. I think I read about it in once in a book in the library on a late evening. It struck me as unusual and something that I had never heard of before. So being my questionable self, I ran off to find the doctor and ask him about it. He was in the garden again fixing one of the sprinklers that had bust.
I walked up to him, unnoticeable from his point of view. So I tapped him on the shoulder causing him to jump and the pipe slip. Water burst out and soaked us both within seconds. The doctor jumped on top of the rogue pip to try and block the water with his body. I reached for a wrench and tightened the lose bolt. The water calmed and eventually stopped. The doctor stood up from his position. All the could be heard was the water dripping off us and landing on the path way.
The doctor looked at me and began to laugh. "Again! Such good teamwork" he said before laughing again. I soon joined in before we both calmed down and I said " I'm soaking" I held up both arms and spread my legs so that they weren't touching, the doctor did the same.
"You and me both Ha ha. Come on, lets get dried up"
We walked through the TARDIS, soaking the floors that we walked. Thankfully the TARDIS moved the rooms a bit and made it easier to get to our rooms as our clothes made us both feel quite uncomfortable. As perusal, the doctor's room was opposite mine. I stepped in to my chamber and closed the door unable to see what he did next, I assume the same as me. I walked over to my bathroom and began to strip. Taking out my pyjamas since it was getting late. I put them on and grabbed a towel from the rack and began to scrub at my hair.
Only then did I remember what I really wanted to ask the doctor in the first place. When I was finished, I placed my wet clothes in a pile for to be cleaned for later. I made my way across the hall and knocked on the doctor's door. He answered with a big grin and invited me in. I sat on his bed whilst he began to scrub at his hair with a towel that was wrapped around his shoulders, this made his hair look more messy than before. I began to giggle at the picture.
He heard me and turned around "What's so funny?"
I laughed and tried to speak at the same time "You look like a porcupine"
The turned moved into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. From where I was sitting at his bed I could see him begin to smile at his reflection.
"I do, don't I?"
I looked around the room and found the doctor's sprawled out clothes on the floor. He too had acquired a fresh pair of pyjamas. He come out of the bathroom an turned of the light and shut the door. He then tidied up his clothes and the towel and threw them into a laundry basket.
The question was still in my head and I desperately wanted to ask him. Then it just came out, like I had no control of my mouth. "Doctor what's love?"
The doctor paused and faced me, he gave me a stare before answering "Love. What made you think of that?"
"Well I was reading and in the book, there's these two characters, and it said that they fell in love at first sight. I didn't know what it meant. So I came and asked you."
"Well, its just when too people like each other so much that they have closer feelings to them."
"Is that it" I was disappointed with his answer, until he said more.
"Well" The doctor walked over to the bed and sat down beside me both legs on the bed. "It's a feeling… I special kind of feeling, a very important one too. Love is a strong emotion of affection and personal attachment. There are different types of love. One could be friendship, favourite things and hobbies, how people love their, let say their favourite singer. But really, the most important is to another person. Two people love each other means to have dedication, they trust and believe in one another. They would protect each other through danger even if it means to protect their relationship."
The doctor stared at a part of the bed, not making eye contact with me. I didn't want to say anything so I let him carry on.
"Love is a powerful thing. Sometimes it can let you down, but sometimes it can save the universe. Love is like oxygen, without love is like living your life without a heart. Love is like a caterpillar. When its ready, it will start to change and become so beautiful you just cant let it fly away. "
There was a long moment of silence, I badly wanted to say something to break the tension, I kept looking at the doctor, his face was in a state of thought and confusion, like he was saying to himself, why did he say all those words. But they were so beautiful, like it was as if he had said them before, to someone else.
At that moment, Jack came into the room making both of us jump from our thoughts.
"Hey Doc I was thinking…Is everything ok in here?"
"Yeah Jack, were ok. What's up?"
"Well Martha had the idea of going out for dinner tonight. But it's ok if you don't want to"
"No no no I think it's a great idea, just nothing fancy. We'll start to get ready."
Jack smiled and left, closing the door after him, "Would you like to go to dinner" the doctor asked me
"As long as I can have tea"
The doctor laughed and got up to get his pinstriped suit in his wardrobe. I decided to leave him to it, so that I could get ready too. I had been able to find another pair of trouser, tie and shirt, but could not find a matching jacket to fit. So instead the doctor had found me a black coat that came down to my knees, so I wore it open. When I was finished I headed down to the console room, but I couldn't stop thinking about the conversation I had earlier with the doctor. The way he talked about it, it made me understand, that that's what I've been feeling for the past few days. It was love. I'm falling in love... With the Doctor.
Once everyone had made it to the console room. After a very long and decisive argument, everyone had decided on where to go. So it had been concluded that they were to go to central London and visit and Italian restaurant that's not too fancy but serves tea.
The doctor kept in mind that this was in fact the master's first time on earth, so he made sure that he brought his phone and told him to stay by his side.
In an empty alley at the side of an unopened club. The wide began the blow and was accompanied by a strange warping noise. A blue box began to take form before all was silent and still. The doors opened and the master made the first move. By the look of his face the doctor could tell that the first thing the master would have wanted to see or smell, was anything apart from an overflowing dumpster.
Once everyone had reached outside, the doctor pulled the door shut and followed the group to the end of the alley way. Bright lights and the sound of cars and people grew louder and louder at every step. The doctor had to run up to the master and hold him back as he was attracted by a shop window, only the window was on the other side of the many cars that past them.
Once the master had settled, Jack to the lead of walking up the path toward their destination. They had past many restaurants on their way. Some full some not. But they did agree on one type of food, and Italian it was. Even though the doctor did mention that if they wanted Italian, he could have brought them to Italy. But then he thought better of himself and decided he would rather start of by showing the master earth London, since it did have much to offer.
Secretly he thanked Rassilon for the master's change in hair colour, without it, many people would soon recognise who he was and start a riot for what he did, before mysteriously disappearing.
The restaurant was awfully crowded but the waitress was able to fit them in at a six seat, round table near the back. The master had taken the liberty of taking of his coat and hanging it on the back of the chair before the doctor ever so kindly pulled it out for him and showed him to sit. Once everyone was settled, they ordered their drinks. The master of course asking for tea. When they had received their menu's, the master had to receive a little help from Donna, still unable to read the huge and fancy words.
In the end both Martha and Donna had order soup, whilst Jack fancied a 10inch deep based pizza. Rose order a lasagne with a portion of chips. The doctor had went for the Tagliatelle pasta and the master had asked for the spaghetti Bolognese and garlic bread. By now the doctor had become quite parched and tried to hold in how much he wanted to start complaining on how long it was going to take. Just before he was about to crack, two young woman came over holding several and placing them down in front of them. One woman had to leave quite quickly after an unsuccessful hello/flirt from the captain.
Soon enough everyone had tucked in to enjoy their meal. Well almost everyone. Due to the master's unsteady hands and shaking fingers, was unable to keep the pasta on his fork, he moaned many times as the pasta was mere inches from his open mouth before it resulted in him having to scoop it up again. He had tried bending closer to the plate, but that just gave him a sore back and an orange mouth. In the end he had given up and started to pick at his bread.
The doctor was so enchanted by his pasta the he didn't realise until he heard the clang of a fork and plate. He looked up to find the master sulking and nibbling on his garlic bread.
"What's wrong master, is it not nice?"
"It is, it just wont stay on my fork" The master sat up slowly on his seat and leaned forward to look at his food and then the doctor, the doctor soon caught on to his plan.
"Doctor, can I…."
"Yes you can eat with you hands"
The master smiled before tucked in to his meal, finally getting to enjoy the deliciousness o f Italian food. With his face bent down over his food the master was unable to realise the many eyes that were on him now.
The doctor was enjoying his food until he felt an elbow nudging at his ribs, he looked over to find rose looking around her. The doctor still had a long string of pasta hanging from his mouth an decided the he should slurp it up, causing the end to hit his nose and leave cream sauce in its tracks. The doctor then whipped his nose and turned back to Rose,
"What's wrong now?"
"Doctor everyone's staring at him"
The doctor and everyone at the table looked around them, many people in the restaurant were in fact having a stare off at the master eating his food, only the master wasn't competing. The doctor frowned when he discovered that even some of the waitresses had stopped to look at what he was doing.
When the master lifted his head to take a drink, only then did he discover why there was a sudden silence in the room. He looked upon the restaurant at the many eyes that kept glaring back whilst eating their own food in their mannerly way. The master grew uncomfortable and nervous, he began to slowly sink down in his chair, not wanting to eat any more.
The doctor frowned even more and began to stick out his jaw. He said he was taking care of the master and that what he gonna do. He's now letting him travel the universe with him, just to make him a laughing stock or an even bigger freak that he never was.
The doctor, enraged, through down his knife and fork, making them clatter across the table. He then gave his hands a quick rub together before dipping his fingers into his own pasta an stuffing it into his mouth. The master, Jack, Donna, Rose and Martha all began to smile at his protest. The doctor swallowed his pasta and whipped his mouth before shouting out to everyone.
"If you've got a staring problem, deal with it!" Everyone jump on their seats and resumed to their food and loud conversations. The doctor then changed back to his talky mood and pointed to the master's plate " You know there's Spaghetti found on 32 different planets that taste exactly the same"
The master laughed as the doctor again stuck his fingers into is food and began to hold laces of pasta above his head before dropping them into his wide open mouth. He looked forward to desert.
Hope you enjoyed. Next chapter is the revealing of the doctor's and the master's feelings toward each other. But how will it go down? Stay tuned.
