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So It Begins
She was standing on an edge of a cliff and watched as men were buldins gigantic missiles. The Master was laughing, he had a walkie-talkie in his hand.
"Japan is down and so is Martha Jones!" he proclaimed. A scream cut the air.
The Doctor was sitting on the floor of a whitewalled room.
The Master fell backwards and hit the floor.
"Regenerate!"
There was so much blood. In her hands.
After what felt like just seconds Rose opened her eyes. She was laying on a bed in a white walled room. A blue blanket was speard on top of her. She moved it away and stood. She felt quite alright, though she had no idea how she ended up there. She looked around, saw a window and walked to it. She moved the curtain away and looked out. The breaht was stuck in her throat as she saw what was happening outside. She was still on the Valiant, high in the air, but the world beneath her was different. It was a full of chaos. Smoke was rising from the buildings and thousands of those spheres were flying around, fireing around. Rose started to feel sick. How long had she been out? What had happened since the Master -. Suddenly she remembered that the ageing ray had hit her and her hands rised to her face. They felt quite normal. She looked at her reflection from the window. She looked still young, although quite tierd. How was that possible? And where was the Doctor, what had happened to him? She rubbed her eyes to calm herself. The Doctor was alive. He had to be. She shook the thought out and walked to the door. It wasn't locked.
"Shall I open it?" she muttered to herself, then pushed the door open. The hallway behind it was empty. Rose stepped out, looking both ways but seeing no one.
"Doctor?" she tried. No answer. But it didn't mean anything, Valiant was a huge ship. He was propaply held somewhere else. And Jack. And Martha and her family. They were all there and the world was coming to its end. She wasn't able to stop it. The Doctor wasn't able to stop it. She shook the thought away again, picked a direction and walked forward. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, they were up in the air so there was no way out. Maybe a weapon, or a prove that the Doctor was alive, or anything really. Because the Doctor was alive, she was sure of it. She was sure she'd feel it if he was dead, that they had some kind of connection to feel things like that. She smiled as she thought what the Doctor would say to that.
"You just don't get it, do you?"
Wait, no, he wouldn't say that. And still Rose was sure she had heard the Doctor's voice use exactly those words. She turned around the corner. A new hallway opened in front of her. But in this hallway there was a door slightly open.
"I have nothing to say to you."
The Doctor's voice came behind that door! Rose's heart jumped rapidly as she approached the door and peeked in. The room was empty and dark. She felt dissapointed until her eyes met a large window. And behind that window she saw the back of the Master. He was sitting on the chair backwards, leaning his arms against the rest. The Doctor was tied up with his wrists and legs by duct tape. Rose stepped in to the room and closed the door. That was two sided mirror, she gathered. And this was the observation room, or what ever it was called. There was microphone somewhere and she was able to hear what the people on the other side of the glass were talking. Did they hear her?
"Doctor?" she said, unsurely. Nothing.
"If I were you, I would be very careful what I said", the Master said. The Doctor stared at him and Rose stepped closer to the window, placeing her hand against it.
"I'm here", she whispered.
"What do you mean?" the Doctor said after a long pause. Rose didn't see Master's face but she knew he was smiling.
"I have Rose", he said simply. "And if you're not behaveing, I will make sure she knows it."
The Doctor's eyes went dark and Rose felt shivers clim up her spine. The Master stood up slowly and walked behind the Doctor, placeing his hands on his shoulders and leaning down.
"Do you ever think of it, Doctor?" he whispered into the Doctor's ear so silently that Rose hardly heard his words. "Do you ever think how she would kiss? What her mouth would taste like? How her warm, bare skin would feel against yours? How her fingers would run throw your hair?"
"Stop it", the Doctor growled.
"How she would sigh under you, yell your name in -"
"I said stop it!" he shouted, his hands wrenching in the ties, the uncoming storm changing into a one rageing. His teeth were bare as he spit out the words.
"Let her go! You can do anything to me but let her go! She's innocent! There's nothing she can do!"
"Oh I think there's a lot she can do", the Master said, straightining his back. "I think she just might be the best way of getting words out of you."
"No!" Rose yelled ang hitted the window. She hoped that if her voice didn't carry into the room the bang of glass would. It didn't. Doctor looked straight at the Master, and even though Rose could tell he was fighting against the growing fear he couldn't help some of it to leak throw. The Master sat back down.
"Are you ready, Doctor", the Master said, turning on his radiophone. "To answer my questions?"
"I have nothing to say to you", the Doctor repeated. The Master shook his head.
"Let's say that every time you decline to say anything, she will feel the consequense. How'd you like that?"
Rose could see the fear in his eyes but he remind silent.
"Okay then", the Master said. He raised the walkie-talkie to his mouth. "Do it", he said. Few seconds after his command the room filled with a scream of agony. It was her scream, she realized. She remembered that time in the TARDIS when the Master had tried to enter her mind. But the Doctor didn't know that it didn't happen right then, and Rose could see pure horror on his face. She banged the glass, shouted at him that it wasn't her, that it was a hoax, but he didn't hear.
"So... what do you say? Where is Martha Jones?"
"I don't know", the Doctor answered.
"Not good enough."
Again the scream came, the exact same voice, and Rose wondered whether the Doctor noticed it too or was he too much in shock to do so.
"Tell you what, Doctor. If we keep going on like this she will die before this week ends, and you can't even recognize her body."
To this Rose hit the glass so hard it hurt.
"Let me see her", the Doctor said.
"Oh hoh hoo, I don't think so!"
"I answer only to her", the Doctor said, his eyes fixed into the Master. He looked back, madness shining in his grey eyes.
"Just let me see her", the Doctor repeated.
"What are you doing in here?"
Rose whipped around. A young guard entered the room.
"The door was open", Rose said.
"You're Saxons prisoner."
Rose gave him a halfhearted smile.
"If you say so", she said dryly. The guard didn't seem amused.
"You're coming with me now", he said, took a step forward and stopped when a scream once again filled the room. He looked at the room behind the glass and back at Rose.
"Now!" he said loadly, came to Rose, took a thight hold of her arm and pulled her with him.
"Hey!" Rose yelled. "Let go of me!"
She struggled and it seemed to annoy the man, who stopped, pulled her closer and twisted her arm behind her back. She cried of pain as he handcuffed her.
"Now, I have a gun right here", the man said tapping a leather holster on his hip. "So you better move."
Rose glared at him for a moment, nodded and turned around, heading back to the room she had left. The man pushed her violently to the floor of her room and shut the door. The lock clicked and Rose was left alone.
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It took about half an hour for the Master to come to her. She strugled up from the floor as the door opened.
"Oh, you're up!" he said cheerfully as he saw Rose. "Good, because you don't believe what I -"
He paused.
"What do you have behind your back?" he asked suspiciously.
"My hands", Rose said.
"Show them to me", the Master ordered. Rose arched a brow.
"You think I have a knife or something? No, I don't. And what use would it be to kill you now that you're already caused the end of the world you wanted?"
"Stop being my moral guide and show me your hands", the Master said impatiently.
"I can't", Rose snapped. "I'm handcuffed."
The Master looked amused.
"You are? Who handcuffed you? And why?"
Rose shrugged as the Master walked behind her and opened the cuffs. As her hands were relised she rubbed her wrists.
"Some young bloke. He found me from that room next to the one you were talking with the Doctor."
"Oh."
Rose grinned at his surprise. It seemed that he needed to take some time to figure out what exactly had happened. But he recovered rather quickly and gave her a villanic smile.
"So, what did you like? Wasn't that just great? He honestly believed it all. I never thought he would be so ductile."
"Let me see him", Rose said immidiately.
"Oh, not you too", the Master groaned,
"Please Master. I ask him what ever you want. Just let me speak to him."
"Why?"
Rose considered her words a short while.
"Because I want to", she said then. The Master raised his eyebrows.
"Because you want to?" he repeated. "That's the best you can say? I was waiting one of those Rose Tyler -lectures about how good always wins ecetera."
"You once said I was free from your commands", she said calmly. "Maybe that was a lie, I don't know. Seems all you have done is lie to me. I honestly thought there might be something good in you, some reason to stand up and defend you. So maybe I was wrong. But it doesn't mean that you shouldn't do this. You know you should. You know it's the only way to get anything out of the Doctor."
The Master looked at her up and down.
"I will think about it", he finally said. Rose smiled warmly and stepped a bit closer, laid her hand on his arm.
"Thank you", she whispered. The Master stared at her hand and pulled off.
"I didn't promise anything", he snapped before leaving the room.
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"Good morning, mr. Huston", Rose greeted her guard. "It's nice to see that you still haven't let your master down."
He didn't even look at her.
"You've seen what he had done, right?" she asked. "Your family is out there, you ever thought of that? They might be dead. I know that you at least have parents, otherwise you wouldn't exist. Unless they're already dead."
Still no answer. Huston was leaving the room.
"It was nice to chat with you!" Rose shouted cheerfully. After the door was closed she stood and went to the window. What had happened after she had passed out, she didn't know. Martha had escaped, that was all. But where and what to do she didn't know. Was it Doctor's plan, she didn't know. Where Jack was, she didn't know. And she hated not knowing. The Doctor had been always exited not to know, unless someone's life was in a thread. And right now everyones lives were in a thread and she had no idea what anyone could do.
The worst thing was that the Doctor was helpless. Without his TARDIS or sonic screwdriver he was in the exact same situation as she was. No, worse than that, as he thought she was... that she was... and what would he do while thinking so? Would he start talking? Would he break in front of the Master? Or would the Master bend and let them see each other? Rose's head was so full of questions she couldn't finish one before the new one formed. What about Jack, where was he, what the Master was doing to him? If he couldn't die... was the Master really killing him over and over again? What would that do to Jack? Did it hurt, dying? Did he feel it? She tried to stop thinking, tried to focus on one question at the time, but it all was so blurry and horrible and her head started to ache once again.
Blood. So much blood. In her hands.
She startled violently and looked at her clean hands. What was that? Why was this happening?
"Stop it", she ordered herself. She needed to talk to the Doctor, tell him what was happening. Maybe he knew. Maybe he could tell. Maybe...
The door opened and the Master stepped in.
"Let me see the Doctor!" Rose said immidiately.
"You could at least say hello before starting to demand things", the Master said dryly.
"After all you've done after you were elected I really don't care saying hello."
He pouted and crossed his arms.
"I was just coming to take you to meet him but if you really start acting like this again..."
"What do you want me to do?" she yelled more than asked. "To beg? Kneel down in front of you? Kiss your ring, call you my lord and master?"
"Not that I wouldn't like all that", the Master said coldly. "Maybe not right now. You want to see the Doctor or not?"
"Yes."
"Well, come on then."
He geastured the door.
"You're not going to tie me up? Put the handcuffs on?"
"Nah, I think you should look lovely and fresh so he doesn't think I've been mistreating you lately."
She glared at him before walking to the door.
"You're better not be lying", she muttered.
"I have never -", he began and fell silent. "Come on."
