The Doctor left the room in an agitated state; how dare he question his feelings for the Master.
How could he not love the father of his children? How did that make him a monster?
By the time he reached their quarters his head was pounding with the headache that had come back with a vengeance. He virtually fell onto the bed and closed his eyes as the headache seemed to keep time with his hearts beat.
He eventually fell into sleep and found himself in a hellish nightmare.
The humans were screaming insults and abuse at him as he was dragged towards his death. He could see the gallows up ahead and as they approached it he straightened his spine and squared his shoulders.
He wasn't going to give them the satisfaction of seeing his fear.
He frowned when he was stopped at the steps of the gallows and then his hearts lurched when he saw his children being carried up another set of steps.
They were screaming and kicking and biting but to no avail.
"No!" he screamed and struggled against the two men holding him and received a blow to his head for his struggles.
He could only watch in growing horror as they were lifted onto wooden boxes and their heads covered by cloth bags.
Time slowed down to a crawl and the roars of the crowd became distant as the executioner...no murderer moved towards them.
"No!" he screamed and tried to turn away but was forced to watch as the coward raised his foot and...
He woke screaming for his children.
The Master who had returned from finishing the last adjustments to the power feeds for the Doctor's machine was washing off the dirt and grime when he heard the scream.
He wrenched the bathroom door open, expecting to see an assailant.
Instead he found the Doctor clawing at some unseen terror and the scream had turned to a keening wail, one that he'd only heard once and it cut through him like knives.
It was the sound the Doctor had made in another time line...it was the sound of utter desolation...it was the sound of a mother grieving the loss of a child.
He was over to the bed in a couple of strides and grabbed hold of the Doctor and had to use more strength than he wanted to hold him still.
"Efi, Efi Si'arila," he said and held the Doctor until he ceased struggling and stopped that awful noise and was replaced by body-wracking sobs, until eventually exhaustion forced him into sleep.
The Master never slept, watching over the Doctor as he fought some unseen horror...dear Rassilon the Doctor was a damaged soul. The sooner this world was gone the sooner he could return the Doctor to the glorious Time Lord his bloodlines entitled him to be.
The morning came quickly and the Master watched the sun come up...the last time this sun would rise.
Jack and the now conscious Ianto were dragged along a corridor that was lined with pipes and wiring; they must be in some kind of factory.
They passed through several doors and Jack caught fleeting glimpses of what looked like generators.
As they approached another door Jack almost reeled back as he felt an energy that shouldn't exist on Earth...Artron energy.
The room inside was way bigger inside than the doors suggested and it smacked of Time Lord Science.
But Jack's focus was taken by the machine at the other end; it was huge and took up one third of the room.
It hummed with unseen power...the Artron energy was coming from the machine.
The door opening distracted them and the Master, the Doctor and the twins walked in.
"The Master grinned at them. "Do you like it? It's not my design, you can thank my wonderful husband for that," he said and put a arm around the Doctor's waist.
Jack noted that the Doctor looked tired and subdued and there were dark circles under his eyes.
"Whatever that machine does you can't use it, the Artron energy is too unstable...explosive."
"Oh I think I can...in fact Artron energy is just what the machine needs. But as pretty as the machine is, it's only a means to an end."
Jack was ignored then as the Doctor detached himself from the Master and they walked towards the machine and began flicking switches and turning dials.
The Doctor stopped what he was doing and turned to the Master. "I have a confession...I wasn't sure about this, but last night my nightmare, it showed me that this has to stop, they have to be stopped."
The Master said nothing but nodded in understanding and finished what he was doing.
The Doctor stepped into the machine.
"Are you ready?"
The Doctor nodded and the Master placed a tender kiss on the Doctor's lips and said. "Don't forget me."
"Never," the Doctor replied.
"Power it up!" the Master ordered and the whine of the generators that Jack had seen filled the air.
Jack could feel the energy building like others felt static...did they really believe they could control all that energy and why was the Doctor inside the machine?
The Artron energy cast an eerie glow as it built inside the machine and it crackled and flashed with unnatural life.
The Master moved away from the machine and stood next to the twins, who were showing more curiosity than three year-olds should.
"Is this it?" Tejhan asked.
The Master looked down and said. "Oh yes and your mother is about to change everything."
"What do you mean, change everything?" Jack asked, raising his voice to be heard over the increasing whine of the machine.
The Master looked at him and Jack could see the maniacal gleam in his eyes.
"The machine is just a tool to aid the change. But the Doctor...oh the Doctor...he's going to change it all...my Beautiful Storm."
The machine suddenly changed pitch and sickly green fingers reached out and wrapped themselves around the Doctor.
The Doctor began to shake as the machine changed pitch again and the floor vibrated with the power coming from the machine.
A flash of white light shot from one side of the machine and struck the Doctor in the chest.
Jack was expecting the Doctor to fly backwards but the green tendrils held him in place but he let out a cry of pain and then fell silent.
The machine changed pitch again and the green tendrils turned to a hellish red and for the first time since the machine started the Master moved forward.
"Eresh'ala?" he said slowly and cautiously.
"Ni'ala...I see it...I see it all, so beautiful...so much power," the Doctor said in a voice almost too faint to hear.
"What do you see?"
"I see the world that was lost and I see the world that will change," the Doctor replied, his voice getting stronger and started to take on an unearthly echo. "I see the stars and the planets and I see the stars that gave them life."
The Doctor's eyes had been closed but they snapped open and his eyes glowed with the same red light.
"I change it all," he said.
The machine once again changed pitch and the decibels began to ratchet up and the Master turned away from the Doctor.
"Screen up!" he yelled and what looked like multiple pictures of different locations on Earth appeared.
Jack frowned when he saw the screen, but Ianto spoke first. "They're all volcanoes and fault lines."
"What is he doing?" Jack said as he watched the screen.
The floor beneath them began to vibrate again but this time it was not with power from the machine.
Ianto looked at Jack, his eyes wide with shock and realisation. "That's not from the machine...that's an earthquake."
Jack turned to the Master. "What are you doing!"
The Master turned from the screen. "Haven't you guessed yet or hasn't it been made simple enough for you to understand."
The Master turned to the Doctor. "Tell them my Storm."
The Doctor flicked those hellish eyes towards Jack and Ianto and said. "Skies once blue will become like the burnt skies of a world now lost and the mountains shall fall and others shall rise and red shall be like the green."
Ianto frowned and looked at Jack, hoping for an answer.
But Jack was looking at the screen as one of the volcanoes erupted violently...Etna!
The Doctor's words whirled round in his head as he tried to make sense of it and then with mounting horror it came to him.
"No...Master, you can't!"
"Oh but I can and we have," the Master crowed.
"Jack, what are they doing?" Ianto said.
"They can't, they can't," Jack breathed.
"Jack!" Ianto said again.
"The Earth...they're changing Earth...changing Earth into Gallifrey."
Efi- easy
Si'arila- beloved
Ni'ala- Master
Eresh'ala- Doctor