Title: Him
Rating: K
He remembers overhearing Jackie talking to Rose- the warning that if she continued to travel with him she would be lost- just another alien on a foreign planet, all that made a human a human lost.
What did that make him? An alien, so far from his home, for years living among others similar only in appearance. He had picked up habits, attitudes from these humans- the Master had seen them all too easily. Had he lost what it meant to be a Time Lord? Was that now just his biological status- a name for his species, of which he was the last?
The planet of the burning orange sky and the red plains that stretched on as far as the eye can see. That 'daft old planet' he speaks so rarely of; his home. He is so far from it; so far from his family. His Mother and Father are but memories now- his own wife and children but a fleeting moment in his perhaps too long a life. Perhaps it is better this way- better that he has moved on, or at least, pretended he has. It hurts less, this way.
"You would have loved it Rose."