The Doctor was fully aware that the Tardis was actively working to help Missy hide from him by shifting around the interior of the ship, and it was infuriating.
After nearly two hours of searching he finally snapped at the Tardis angrily, "Tell her when she's ready to talk about how stupid that was, I'm in the kitchen."
Meanwhile, with her feet happily dangling in the swimming pool, Missy felt the Tardis' nudge towards the kitchen, the message clearly being passed on for the Doctor.
Sighing, she stood up and brushed off her dress, leaving the shoes discarded by the pool.
When she got to the room, she leant against the door frame, watching the Doctor who was sat at the table, his long fingers curled tightly around a mug of tea. He had made a second up presumably for her, which was sat opposite him, the steam rising towards the ceiling.
Humming to herself, Missy meandered to the table and sat down, reaching for her mug as her eyes examined the Doctor's face.
As he opened his mouth to speak, Missy shook her head, "Don't you dare." She told him sharply.
Paused by the firm warning in her voice, his eyes widened as he looked at her. "What-?"
"Don't you dare lecture me like one of your pets Theta." Missy growled softly, fixing her eyes on the mug she had taken in her hands and was holding up in front of her, "For the last eighty years I have allowed you to hold me prisoner and reshape the way I think. But I am your equal not a child, and if you attempt to treat me as anything less then you won't enjoy this conversation."
"I know." The Doctor muttered softly, trying to appease her.
Smirking, Missy took a sip of the tea before placing the mug aside, "Tell her when she's ready to talk about how stupid that was, I'm in the kitchen?" She repeated his own words back to him. "I am Gallifreyan, I am a Time Lord, just as you are. I evaluated the risks and made a choice, just as you do with every situation you face."
"You put yourself in danger, you got hurt!" He argued with her.
Missy nodded, "I did, and I probably will again. But what I did worked, and no one died. Doctor…Theta, you want something that is impossible, you ask me to do the impossible. I cannot be good if you never allow me to act, you blinded yourself to save your human, you have died again and again. If you cannot guarantee your own safety, then by your standards mine is also not guaranteed, and the only one not ok with that is you."
"I can't lose you." The Doctor admitted painfully, "Not now, we've come so far. All I've ever wanted is you with me and you got hurt because of it."
With a small smile, Missy reached out and took his hand, "How do you think I felt every time you left me locked in the vault and went flying away on your adventures?"
Tilting his head to the side in confusion, he watched her with a curious expression.
"I never knew if you would return, and if you did, whether you would still be this version of you. All your faces are you, but these bodies, these are the faces we were wearing when we became friends again and I wasn't ready to say goodbye to them yet. But we can't afford that nostalgia, we are far luckier than most species, we change but we don't die. I got hurt, but the biggest risk I was taking was possibly dooming myself to daily shaving again for the foreseeable future."
"I've just gotten used to you as a woman." The Doctor chuckled, "It suits you too much for you to go back to a man so soon."
"Well thank you dear." Missy grinned, smoothing down her coat. "I do my best to please."
The Doctor laughed, "No you don't."
"No, I don't." She agreed easily, "But I don't go out of my way to displease anymore and that's as good as you're going to get."
"I'm sorry." He admitted after a long pause, "You're right about you being my equal, I can't expect you to just keep quiet and do what I say. I could probably do with listening to you a little more than I do, provided you're not suggesting murder of course."
"A little bit." Missy said quickly, her eyes sparkling humorously, "Just a little bit here and there, you'll barely notice it, I swear."
Shaking his head, the Doctor crossed his arms over his chest, "No, not happening. Murder is bad, we've been through this, it was lesson one."
Pouting, Missy waved her hand dismissively, "It's ok, we can discuss it later when you're not so emotional."
"I'm not being emotional." He protested, "I'm not going to let you kill people, have you been listening at all for the last eighty years?"
Shrugging, she checked her nails, frowning at the dirt that had gathered under them from her run through the woods, "A little bit, but honestly Thete, you do have a tendency to drone on sometimes. Sometimes I just take a nap with my eyes open, when I wake up you're usually still going."
Smiling despite himself at the teasing wink Missy shot him, he just rolled his eyes at her, "I guess this means I owe you dinner, that was the deal, right? Where do you want to go?"
"It was, and you can surprise me. Maybe somewhere on Earth, you can show me why you love them all so much, despite common sense and sanity." She nodded happily.
"But first a good night's sleep and a shower, I smell like a forest." Missy told him, standing up and walking to the door, before pausing and looking back over her shoulder, "Oh and, no pets allowed at dinner, you'll just have to feed Nardole before we leave."
A/N: Hey guys, just wanted to answer a review because it was a guest one so I couldn't PM them. I was asked about Missy and the Doctor falling in love and I just wanted to clarify that that isn't what I'm trying to do. Although I do get that sometimes it may read like that. I like fics where they're together but this isn't going to be one of them, or at least I have no plans for it to be. Instead I see them as the type of friends who are basically in love with each other but not in a romantic way. It's something I see in the show as well, a push and pull that's based on a deep rooted connection that they couldn't get away from if they tried, but it's something stronger than falling in love with each other as we understand it. I don't know if that really makes sense, I hope it does, but you'll have to let me know if it does or doesn't and I'll try and explain what I'm thinking more clearly. Thanks for reading guys, and please leave a review if you get a minute, it really helps me with writing