As she entered the console room the Master turned around to face her. He seemed temporarily shocked. She gave a soft laugh at the stunned look on his face and did a little twirl.

"Well, what do you think?"

"I think you look absolutely lovely my dear," he told her taking her hands. Beatrice blushed a little. She liked it when he called her my dear.

"Flattery will get you everywhere," she told him.

"Really? As I recall, when we first met you weren't too easily swayed by flattery," he said his tone slightly teasingly. Beatrice smiled at the thought of their first meeting.

"True, but in all fairness, you were holding me hostage." she paused. "I just realized how odd that sentence sounds given our current situation." The Master chuckled and instead of answering and cupped the back of her neck with one hand while the other rested on her waist, leaned down slightly, and kissed her.

They pulled apart after a moment and he gave her a genuine smile. Something she only saw when they were alone. He turned and picked something up off the consul. It was a gold ring.

"This is a bio-dampener. I have one as well. It should hide the fact that we aren't of their species." She took the ring and put it on.

"Thank you, so, what is the exact plan?" she asked.

"Fairly simple," he showed her what she assumed was a map of the castle. "This race collects rare objects such as the flight circuit. As it was once part of this TARDIS I was able to track it to the vault in this castle on the bottom floor. The vault needs a key which I suspect the ruler of this planet has."

"So you want me to find a way to get it from him?" she guessed.

"Precisely. Once you have the key we can sneak out, get to the vault, and get the circuit. Then I summon the TARDIS and we get out of here before midnight when the planet will be destroyed."

"Right, let's go then."

They stepped out and saw in front of them a gigantic medieval castle. It was absolutely beautiful. As they walked towards it. A thought came to Beatrice

"Two questions. First, how come this is so well planned out? We only lost the flight circuit today. And second, why couldn't we come on a day where we don't have to get out before the planet is destroyed?"

"In answer to your first question, I have been planning this for a while as I suspected the old flight circuit would go out soon, so I did my research. I just haven't had the time or ability to put the plan into action.

Second, the radiation that surrounds this planet acts as a force field preventing anyone who isn't from here from entering, however, the quickly developing supernova damaged the radiation field enough that the TARDIS could get through."

"So, if we don't get out of here in two hours we die?" she asked just for confirmation.

"Yes," answered the Master.

"Why do I go anywhere with you?" said Beatrice with a little sigh, although she wasn't really upset with him.

"Because my dear, you are just as attracted to trouble as I am." replied the Master.

"True enough, just try not to kill anyone," she said as they entered the great hall of the castle where the party was being held.

"I'll do my best."

Beatrice was about to make a sarcastic reply but gasped in surprise at the sight before her. Women in a rainbow of different colored medieval dresses were dancing with various men, a variety of musicians in one corner were playing music, a dais with a golden throne stood at the very end of the hall. It was like something out of a fairytale.

"It's gorgeous," she murmured.

"I thought you would like it," said the Master. Over by the banquet table, she saw a tall blond man in a crown. He looked to be about Beatrice's age.

"That must be the king," she guessed.

"Yes and it seems I was correct in my guess. He has the key around his neck. I recognize it from my research," pointed out the Master. Beatrice looked and sure enough, there was an ornate golden key around the king's neck.

"Alright, then. Time to get his attention. Do try and stay close, I don't want to lose you in this crowd." she requested.

"Certainly," the Master took her hand and kissed the back of it. "Good luck my dear." Beatrice nodded and began heading towards her target

As she reached him, she casually bumped into him as they passed each other. As she guessed this caught his attention. She quickly dropped into a curtsy.

"Oh, your highness I apologize."

"It's perfectly fine, no harm done. I don't think I've seen you before, surely I would have noticed someone so pretty," he said flirtatiously.

"I'm Lady Jane Masters," she said saying the first name that came into her mind. "I'm relatively new to the court."

"Pleasure to meet you, Lady Jane. May I offer you a drink?" he said taking a goblet off a nearby tray.

"Thank you," she replied taking the glass however, she didn't drink from it. She wasn't going to risk drinking alcohol around such an obvious womanizer.

"So your highness, are you enjoying the party?" she asked.

"It's certainly improved since you came," the king replied.

Good lord, talk about the king of cliched pick-up lines. she thought to herself but merely smiled in response.

"Will you be staying long?" he inquired.

"Possibly," Beatrice replied trying to stay vague.

"Well, I certainly hope we can become better acquainted."

"Perhaps we could do so now. I'd certainly be honoured to get to know such a brave king as yourself." she placed a hand on his arm. Beatrice thought she might be laying the flattery on a bit thick but the king seemed to like it.

"That could certainly be arranged," he said taking a step closer. Beatrice knew she needed to get the king on his own.

"My it's warm in here," she said fanning herself with her hand.

"Would you like to go out on the balcony?" he offered.

"That would be lovely," she said casting a look behind her. She could just barely made out the Master in the crowd. The King led her out onto the empty and luckily rather secluded balcony. The King then began to regale her with his various exploits.

After about ten minutes of smiling and nodding, she managed to get a word in.

"Won't people notice your disappearance?" she asked.

"Unlikely, most of them are either busy or drunk. Besides it isn't unusual for me to leave the party early with a lovely lady."

"Isn't that lucky?" she whispered as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"And why is that?" he said placing his hands on her hips, clearly expecting her to kiss him.

"So I can do this," she said as she used the advantage of having her arms around his neck to press a pressure point in his neck that caused the king to immediately fall unconscious and collapse.

"Well done," said a voice behind her. She turned to see the Master stepped out of the shadows.

"It's a good thing you taught me how to do that nerve thing. Now help me drag him out of the way." the Master moved to help her hide the king behind an extremely large flower pot the that was slightly shorter than Beatrice.

Once they grabbed the key from the king's neck the Master turned to her.

"It's a good thing you knocked him out when you did. He was getting a little too close." Beatrice smiled at him and said teasingly.

"Don't tell me you're jealous." the Master looked like he was about to deny it but she cut him off saying,

"Trust me, he is not my type." the Master chuckled.

"I should hope not. Now, I would suggest we get going, we have 1 hour and 20 minutes till this planet is doomed." He gagged the king with a scarf from his pocket as well as thing his hands and feet.

"What a cheerful way of putting it," she replied in a playfully sarcastic tone before leaving the balcony with the Master.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading. I will update soon. Please like and comment. Especially comment. Until next time!