My deepest and sincerest apologies. I never meant to leave all of you hanging like that. I am so terribly sorry. Lots of things have been happening in my life such as two research papers, plenty of homework, starting a job, getting rear ended... I've been busy, my editor Minx has been busy but here is the chapter. I'm not making promises for the next chapter, but I'm holding myself to before July 20th, a month from today. Oh, and if it's any consolation I still don't own Doctor Who.

Call me...

"Doctor!" Rose cried. He turned to her and she was holding her back. He ran to her and he saw why. I giant piece of jagged glass was embedded in it.

"Rose, just calm down and we'll get this right out. Okay?" The Doctor practically whispered to her. Rose nodded in response. He pulled out his sonic screwdriver and began to examine her. The glass was sticking out about half an inch. However the sonic screwdriver revealed inside there was 2-3 inches of glass. The Doctor slowly pulled on the glass shard. It felt like centuries but the glass eventually came out. Both he and Rose took a sigh of relief and the Doctor used the sonic screwdriver to cauterize the wound.

Meanwhile Martha's mum finally answered the phone.

"Mum!?"

"Yes."

"Oh my God you're there." Relief flooded Martha's veins.

"Of course I'm here sweetheart, you all right?" She said far too sugary.

"I'm fine. I'm fine. Has there been anyone asking about me?"

"Martha I think perhaps you should come around."

"I can't. Not now." God if only she knew Martha thought.

"No but it's your father and we've been talking and we thought we might give it another go."

"Don't be so daft. Since when?" Whatever was going on Martha knew this wasn't the mother who fought with her father at Leo's Birthday. Martha knew that for certain.

"Just come around. Come to the house. We can celebrate."

"You'd never get back with him in a million years."

"Ask him yourself."

A long pause came before Martha finally heard, "Martha it's me."

"Dad? What are you doing there?" The Doctor slowly walked over to Martha, he could tell by her attitude something was wrong, and hearing that Clive was over at Francine's and he wasn't dead put him on an even higher alert level.

"Like your mother said, come around. We can explain everything."

"Dad just say yes or no. Is there someone else there?"

There was a long pause, Martha would have taken that as a yes but then her father shouted, "YES! Just run!" Screaming, furniture flying, people barking orders and Martha couldn't make sense of any of it.

"Dad! What's going on? Dad?" She shouted into the telephone. The only reply was more chaos. She hung up the phone.

"We gotta help them!" Martha shouted to no one in particular

"That's exactly what they want, it's a trap!" The Doctor shouted.

"Do you think she cares?" Rose shouted back. The four crammed into Martha's car and took off for Mrs. Jones' house. "Look," she explained as Martha drove like a woman on a mission from God, "I know this probably is a trap, I set up traps like this when I worked for Torchwood, but right now she isn't going to listen to anyone." Martha swerved dangerously out of the way of an on coming car. "Or listen to traffic laws either." Rose muttered under her breath.

"Everyone be quiet!" Martha ordered. She then tried calling someone. The phone rang a few times.

Suddenly a voice came over the speakers, "Martha can't talk just now. We just made first contact, did you see?" Martha seemed to relax. "What are you doing? Put me down!" filled Martha's tiny car.

"Tish!" Martha exclaimed. She turned around to the Doctor, "It's all your fault. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" She then turned a corner and came to a harsh stop. She saw the most horrible thing in the history of her life. The police had surrounded her mother's home. Her mum was in the back of a police van and she thought her father was in there too. She sat there dumbfounded.

Her mother began to shout, "Martha! Get out of here!" Martha was frozen in terror. She felt like a deer in the head lights. "Get out!" Francine shouted again. Martha saw a shrewd start barking orders.

The Doctor leaned toward Martha and calmly ordered, "Martha reverse." After she saw the soldiers take aim she didn't need to be told twice. But just to be safe the Doctor ordered a little louder, "GET OUT NOW!" Martha turned her car around as bullets began to rip through the air. Panic ensued as she drove away. The rear windshield shattered when it was hit. Rose let out a terrified scream. Aliens she could handle, bullets not so much. Martha sped away with everyone's hearts racing at full speed.

Martha began to shout sarcastically, "The only place he can go is planet Earth, great!" then she nearly hit a car.

"Careful!" Rose shouted.

"Martha listen to me." Jack began as he stepped into full captain mode. "Do as I say. We gotta ditch this car. Pull over. Right now!" and with that Martha reluctantly agreed.

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The gang, team, comrades, call them what you will walked under a bridge. Martha was on her phone yet again.

"Leo?"

"Yeah." He didn't sound forced like her mother did and for that Martha was grateful.

"Oh thank God! Leo listen to me. Where are you?"

"We're in Brighton." He said like nothing was going on. "Yeah we came down with Boxer. Did you see that Saxon thing on telly?"

Martha had to give him a chance to save himself, "Leo just listen to me. Don't go home. I'm telling you don't phone Mom or Dad or Tish. You've gotta hide."

"tsch-Shut up." Doubt clearly evident in his voice.

"On my life you gotta trust me. Go to Boxer's. Stay with him. Don't tell anyone just hide!"

And all-to-familiar voice broke through the conversation. "Ooh a nice little game of hide and seek," the Master mused. "I love that. But I'll find you Martha Jones." The Master then switched gears. "Been a long time since we've seen each other, must be what a hundred-trillion years?"

The Doctor, Jack, and Rose hadn't been paying much attention to Martha's phone call until they heard, "Let them go Saxon." The three instantly paused at her words. Martha then began to crack under pressure, "DO YOU HEAR ME? LET THEM GO!" She shrieked into the phone. The Doctor then took the phone.

"I'm here." Was all the Doctor said.

"Doctor." Was the Master sounding reverent? That was just wrong.

"Master." The Doctor began to walk away from the group and Rose followed discreetly behind him.

"I like it when you use my name."

"You chose it. Psychiatrist's field day."

"As you chose yours. The man who makes people better; how sanctimonious is that?"

"So... Prime Minister, then."

"I know!" he began, "It's good, isn't it?"

The Doctor didn't have time for idle chin wagging so he cut right to the chase. "Who are those creatures? 'Cause there's no such thing as the Toclafane. That's just a made up name, like the Bogeyman."

"Do you remember all those fairy tales about the Toclafane when we were kids? Back home..." he suddenly became very dark, "Where is it, Doctor?"

"Gone." The Doctor thought something was behind him and turned around. Thank God Rose knew how to hide.

"How can Gallifrey be gone?"

"It burnt." It became apparent to Rose that whatever they were talking about was something uncomfortable for the Doctor.

"And the Time Lords?"

"Dead." He finally spotted Rose and rolled his eyes, she thought she was so clever. "And the Daleks, more or less. What happened to you?"

"The Time Lords only resurrected me because they knew I'd be the perfect warrior for a Time War. I was there when the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform. I saw it. I ran. I ran so far. Made myself human so they would never find me, because I was so scared."

"I know." He motioned for Rose to come out from behind her hiding spot and sit next to him. She slowly made her way over to him.

"All of them?" Disbelief was everywhere in his voice; then a sudden realization seemed to hit him. "But not you, which must mean..."

"I was the only one who could end it." Rose listened intently, she knew the Doctor must have been talking about the time war, and it was the most she had ever heard. "And I tried, I did; I tried everything."

"What did it feel like, though? Two almighty civilizations, burning. Oh, tell me, how did that feel?"

"Stop it," the Doctor ordered.

"You must have been like a god."

"I've been alone ever since. But not anymore. Don't you see, all we've got is each other." Well the Doctor had Rose, but he wasn't about to tell him that.

"Are you asking me out on a date? Speaking of which tell me did you bring your little girl toy back home?"

The Doctor looked right at Rose and with a straight face told the Master, "No she's not here."

"Good, because if she were here, she'd be dead."