"The Moment gathered all of us here." Doctor reminded. "I believe that it is the proper time that we should be enlighten what is really going on."

"You're right." a new voice was heard among trees, which belonged to young blond haired woman.

"Rose?" Ten asked astonished. "Is that you?"

"I'm sorry, but I'm not." the female apparition replied. "I've only taken her form, or rather her other form - Bad Wolf. I'm the Moment and I can do anything."

"You brought us all here." the youngest time lord stated. "I can understand that you wanted to show me that with my other regenerations, we all can save Gallifrey, but I hear that even with our intervention, it's still lost. So why should we even bother?"

"Oh, silly. Why do you ask when you already know the answer?" she glowed.

It was like a hit of supernova, reaching deep inside the brain and they all understood.

"The universe was saved, but there was also the price." Doctor started. "The time war was horrible and impacted so many civilisations, planets, galaxies... to have all in balance, some element had to be created to keep it like that."

"The timeless child." Bad Wolf nodded. "Don't look so confused, I didn't reveal it to you, because I wanted you to be yourself and free of the burden. However, even if you knew it, would it change who you really are, Thirteen?"

"Yes," she said with a pout. "Or at least I had a choice in it."

"You have."

"Me? No, not at all, there are much more 'me' involved into it." Lady Doctor glanced at her reincarnations. "If it was only my choice, you would leave my past self out of this."

"True, but it isn't an easy decision. You need all the support, which you can get." the Moment pointed at Spymaster. "by the way, do you hate him?"

"Huh?" she looked at the fellow time lord with confusion, who was similarly surprised as she. "What does it have to do with this?"

"His life."

"Then in that case, I should be included in this conversation." Spymaster stepped out.

"Don't forget about me and sis." his younger version added.

"Universe can hardy forget about you Masters." The Moment stated with some exasperation.

"Get to the point," Twelve suddenly jumped in. "how can you make Missy survive?"

"By having not one timeless child, but two children."

There was a panic, questions, outrage and somehow a decision.

"No." Spymaster said.

"Propose better option, Bad Wolf." Missy ordered. "because this black ridding hood is not taking it."

"Exactly." Master agreed.

"I think the bargain is fair." The Moment cooked her head.

"Well, I don't want to be dead, but the alternative isn't superb." Missy continued. "Master would surely leave the colony ship, Spymaster would become me some day, I would regenerate, but then what?" she glared at Twelve. "Back to Tardis, back to the vault, back to you (or your female self?) for stars only know for how long or be stranded here. Should I even mention consequences of me being another template for time lords race? Because, there will be. So no, it can't be."

Spymaster sighed mentally, at least with this, Masters were in agreement, becasue he couldn't allow himself for another quarrel.

"Thirteen, you must promise me something." Twelve spoke.

"Huh?" Lady Doctor turned to her younger regeneration.

"If we became the Timeless Child, the timeline would still need to stay intact somehow, which would mean that, I, in this form, would never see Missy again... But you can." he looked at his future self. "Whatever will come, you will find Missy, you will save her and take her whenever she wants. Also, if she wished so, you will let her go."

"That's new." Master raised an eyebrow. "What have happened with 'you're my responsibility' and my resocialization? Ten was quite insistent with it, when I was dying."

"A bad solution." the converse Doctor commented. "I had my reasons then. We were the last of time lords, I couldn't leave you on Earth, but I couldn't let you go as well, but what's the most important, I was lonely... I didn't think straight. Even if I provided you with a more comfortable prison than you gave me..."

"Come on, I feed you twice a month."

"...ugh...it would still be a prison." he finished with a roll of his eyes. "Right, Twelve?"

"...yes... I thought that I could change you in what I wanted to have, but actually it would be pointless."

"Let me guess, would it be a waste of a much much much precious time?" Missy asked.

"No, you would lose those things, which I like in you the most." Twelve explained. "I was your jailer, but what you really needed was a guide. If you will ever require my advise, I will try to help as much as I can."

"Listen, if you let me go, I won't be 'good'." Missy clarified, not believing what she was hearing. "I will be praising children for not doing their homework and skipping classes. Moreover, on Christmas, I would snatch all presents and leave coals instead.

"School is useful, if they teach interesting subjects." he shrugged. "If it's only for naughty children, then it's fine."

("Is Twelve all right?" Eleven asked his youngest self, but was shushed immediately.)

"If I saw a poor sick kitten on the way," the time lady continued. "I wouldn't nurse it back to health, but would give it a knife, gun and teach it how to hunt dogs."

"Is it even possible?"

"Try me." she raised her head confidently.

"You see now?" Twelve jumped up and somehow his back wasn't painful any more. "That was my mistake. You would stop being Missy and I would deeply regret it."

"What do you think, Master?" Ten asked the other time lord with a small smile. "Sounds quite promising, doesn't it?"

Ex-Prime Minister shook his head and glanced at Missy, truth to be told, he could hardly refuse her, plus - those brown optimistic eyes of that Doctor occasionally could become his soft spot. However as few of them already decided their fate, they still had some obstacles on the way.

"No." Spymaster repeated.

"I've thought that you wanted to live." Thirteen turned to him.

"Thanks to you - I don't care."

"Do we have to have this conversation over again?" she asked upset, then the time lady charged on him with a renewed strength. "OK, fine, you want me to hate you? So hear me - yes, I hate when you delight in killing, when you mock everything what is good. I loath your lack respect on all what isn't to your liking, but above heavens and hells - I hate that you can't see that you could be something more! Are you glad now?!"

"Barely." he answered and only removed an artificial dust from his suit.

"Ugh! Do you want to compare the pain, which we have felt during our life? Thanks to Rassilon, your role was planed from the beginning and you have no influence in that." she grabbed the lapels of his coat making him come closer. "Mine, too! It seems that I was born millennia ago and it dreads me to think who I was then or what I did."

"Exactly!" he freed himself. "You have realised it just now, I have to experience it for all those years. Drums were always with me, just like sneering, ignorance, loneliness..." Spymaster stopped in the middle, noticing that he should have never used that word aloud. "One such life is enough. If I die, then at least it will end. Furthermore, I won't choose this option, only to give YOU a companion."

"It hurts you too. Why are insisting on such future?"

"Can we stop this?" he glanced at Bad Wolf. "It's boring and it clearly isn't working. As middle child in Masters family with different opinion for the outcome, I don't understand what is the fuss all about."

"Let me." Eleven stepped out. "It seems that my regeneration will never meet you. But somehow Thirteen, Ten and Twelve believe in you. Reincarnations may disagree with some things, but... I trust them in this, do you know why?"

"Enlighten me." he spatted.

"Because, if you bury something deep down, it still will be there." Eleven said with trembling hands. "Some feelings existed from a long time, even if they were forgotten."

"We have a chance on happier ending." the youngest Doctor joined. "Doctors, Masters, Gallifrey, we can end the war... Why not to take it now?"

"I told you, Spymaster." Missy added. "It was there from the beginning. It's in you as well."

"You have done many cruel things." Thirteen glanced at him weakly. "Haven't you realised why I was able to forgive you every time?"

"Now is my turn!" Bad Wolf shouted cheerfully making all of them jump. "I will give you two some privacy."

Suddenly, she vanished and the whole forest froze, leaving only Spymaster and Lady Doctor as the only conscious beings.

"As usual, when I have the most fun, you always need to end it." the time lord complained, while glancing at other paralyzed time lords.

"I promise you, Missy won't die, I will find you and save you."

"I don't want your help." he growled. "You are an annoying part of my life and I've told you - if it ends, then at least you won't be there and I will be free."

"What? Free?"

"And you dare to ask?! You were popping up only if it suited you or to save some pitiful civilisation. And for what? To reprimand me and leave me to rot!"

"You were killing people! You...!" she raised her voice then became silent for a moment only to speak again. "...you were thinking about me all that time. Whatever you did, wherever you were, I was there in your mind. You probably were able to mute it sometimes, but it was returning back, wasn't it?"

"How can you even agreed to be the Timeless Child anyway?" Spymaster changed the subject. "Your life will change into a lie in a second."

"Because it is the right thing to do and my other selves already chose it." she explained. "Rose... or Bad Wolf was right, it isn't an easy choice."

"You haven't hesitated much."

"WE haven't, because there are lives at stake. What's more, she was talking to you as well."

This made him listen and he quickly realised that the Moment wanted a happy ending for everyone, including him. Spymaster didn't care, the bad one was always an easy choice, the other - he stopped dreaming about it centuries ago. Unfortunately, Bad Wolf provided him with all encouragement, which she could get. Not only Doctor, but also his future and past.

"I content with my fate now," the time lady took a deep breath. "but I would like to have you in it, because I lo..."

"Don't! If you use that 'L' word, I promise I will kill you on the spot." he threatened her.

"I don't want you dead."

"I warn you."

"I don't want you to be lonely any more."

To Spymaster disgust, she would not shut up, as usual. Doctor could also cut deep into his hearts when needed, as usual. And when she said that ILU phrase, the time lord was not able to control himself, because those feelings where there from the beginning. Spymaster should have probably grabbed her neck and twist it, but he could only think about pulling her closer and kissing as never before.

ooo

The happy end was coming and Bad Wolf clapped with enthusiasm.

Doctor, Ten and Eleven would go back to Elizabethan England and save their home planet. Twelve, Missy and Master would stay on the colony ship and follow their story. Spymaster and Thirteen would teleport, but to quite different places. The time lord to 21st century Earth with some erased memories, he obviously would have a few adventures before he would became Missy. Thirteen would never leave Ko Sharmus, she would need to find her Fam, stop Cyberman and find Cyberium, but the time lady was sure that she would manage. As for the future of Gallifrey - it wasn't certain, but there was still hope.

However, there was still one problem.

"How would you find Missy, Thirteen?" Twelve asked. "It's difficult to land on a ship near the black hole. You would need some kind of link, like DNA?"

"I can give you some of my hair." Missy proposed.

"Huh? No, no need." Thirteen said. "I already have it. What?... Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Oh, you devil." Master patted his future self, who only rolled his eyes.

ooo

"Missy!" Thirteen shouted while ruining through a familiar forests on the memorable colony ship. "Where are you?"

The coordinates weren't exact, but the time lady landed on the correct deck, however Doctor was conducting her search for almost an hour and there was no track of her friend.

"Missy! Please, if you hear me, say something! I can't leave without you, I promised him that I will...!"

"Fine! Fine, I'm here. Just strop screaming, oh, my head." a female voice appeared behind her and to Doctor's joy there was Missy sitting on the grass.

"You are alive!"

"Of course, I am... ugh... but if it is a hug...air... you are squeezing too hard."

"Sorry." Doctor let her go. "Are you all right?"

"I think so, but the Bad Wolf girl could have warned me that I would have an awful headache afterwards." she rubbed her temple. "But most importantly - How do I look? How is my hair? Am I still a high-cheeks blue-eyes femme fatale?"

"... umm... actually, you didn't regenerate..."

"What!?"

"Let's go back to Tardis. I will be easier, if we all would explain it to you."

"Who is 'we'?"

ooo

"All of us here?"

Missy couldn't believe what was the first thing, which he saw when entering the Tardis. As well, as that Twelve gave her a strong hug, just as his female self. Unfortunately, it lasted only five seconds and he quickly moved away with a red blush.

"Yeah, sis." Master greeted her after Big Eyebrows Doctor. "It seems that some conscious machines have a strange sense of humour."

"In that case, shouldn't we be expecting a new time crisis on the way? Again."

"Well, we had some doubts." he admitted. "There was a bang and suddenly we woke up on Lady Doctor's Tardis. All expect of you, Eleven and Junior."

"It took as a while," Ten joined to the conversation. "However, it seems that Rose gave us more that we thought. The history is still intact, Thirteen and you are still yourselves, more or less... only our four was 'picked up' from the time stream to be put here. But... " he smiled with his huge optimistic grin. "Listen carefully, because this is the fun part. We checked as much as we could and it seems that we aren't some aberrations in time, we are actually a new kind of entities. Very unique, but still a natural being in time and space. Therefore, we don't have to worry about breaking any of our timelines, we can have a normal life as everyone else."

"Describe 'normal' to me."

"We can... we..." Ten scratched his head. "It's difficult to say..."

"Stop now, if you want to stay sane." Master advised.

"So we all are like a new race? Timeless Children?" she mused. "We need to get a new name, because seriously - 'children'? One more day and they would say that I couldn't buy any alcohol."

"I propose: Master race." Ex-Prime Minister said.

"Here we go again..." Ten sighed and shook his head.

"I vote for that." Missy raised her hand. "But where is Eleven and Doctor? Not that I'm worried, but I'm curious."

"We don't know." Twelve answered. "We tried to find them with Tardis' scanner, but with no results."

"I wonder, why do you even bother?" voice of Spymaster was heard from the far corner in the chamber. If not for Missy's cunning sight, she wouldn't even notice that he was there. "It's clear that they weren't 'picked up from the time stream', as Ten said."

"Huh?"

"Yeez, isn't it obvious?"

Silence.

"Really? Not even a slight idea? Will you dare to ask why?"

"Fine, why?" Thirteen humoured him and leaned next to her favourite Master, what disturbed him a little, but soon Spymaster was his composed self again.

"Have you heard about 'an unfinished business'?"

"Yep, so?"

("I think that it's for ghosts, right?" Ten asked. / "Shush." Master quieted him.)

"They didn't have it." Spymaster explained. "Doctor wanted to end the time war. Eleven - solve the mystery, save Earth, go back to his companion, whatever... but, we have."

There were exchanged some shy glances and no one had spoken for a very long while. Moreover, they all prayed for some kind of distraction, even a Cybermen / Dalek / any monster attack suddenly seemed as good proposition. Lucky, heaves or hells heard their calling and Thirteen's stomach growled.

"Ops, sorry." she apologised. "I've forgotten that I hadn't eaten anything since breakfast."

"Don't worry, they served only the same plain porridge. Yuck." Missy commented. "OK, whom should a hungry girl have to kill to get a delicious dinner?"

"Oh, I know! There is a great restaurant on Alpha Genesis VII." Ten proposed. "They also have great milk shakes!"

"You will change your mind, when you will see from what they are made of." Master informed. "But I've heard that the rest of menu is fine. So, yes, we can go."

"Milk shakes, you say..." Twelve's eyebrows twitched, already thinking how to break into the milk shake factory.

"No, at first - dinner." Missy woke him up from his planning. "You can save the planet later."

"Are you coming?" Thirteen nudged Spymaster.

The time lord resited the urge to roll his eyes. It was a total mess. Three Doctors and Masters in one Tardis, each group with different attitude for life. Logically, nothing like this should have happened, but here there were and he wouldn't change it for anything else.

"Sure." he replied.

My wonderful readers:

1. Happy 2021

2. thank you for sticking with me in 2020, your comments really made my day and I was so happy that anybody liked it

3. I hope that you like the ending and I didn't make Spymaster too whinny. But I do regret that I didn't have a true villain in the fic. Maybe next time I will resurrect Rassilon ;)

4. yes, it is the end, but maybe I will write some short fics with adventures of our six time lords, for now, I would like to finish my other fic "Doctor Cinderella" and "Cinderlock"

5. thank you again for readding my fic