I know, I haven't written for this disaster of a threesome in a while, but to be honest I have no idea what I'm doing at any given time, ever. BUT, I did recently re-watch some Doctor Who and felt inspired to at least do this lil one.

This was planned out before Revolution of the Daleks, and will take absolutely nothing from that episode in to consideration. Not even Jack (though I did write a post ROTD one shot of 13/River/Jack you could go look for). Timewise, this is set between my two fics, Jailbreak and Harmony.

-DW-

It was very, very tempting for the Doctor to go and join the other two. Her body was in two minds about it - on the one hand, she was a little sore and pretty roughed up. On the other, the thought of what was going on was still a new, novel thrill that made her hearts quicken in her chest.

Focus. Find the fam! The Master isn't going anywhere... and by the sounds of it, nor is River right now!

The engine room lurched slightly as the TARDIS took off, console making all those noises that sounded like home to her. Still so happy to be out of the Stormcage and back on her TARDIS, the Doctor sighed as she felt the familiar rumbles beneath her feet. Her wonderful blue box soon found the right place, and it wasn't terribly difficult to track down the only other TARDIS on Earth. It was fairly new, not fizzing with much 'void stuff', but the Gallifreyan technology was pretty damn distinctive.

Once she realised the time, the Doctor sighed and plopped down on one of the steps. Sure, she didn't think they'd mind her waking them up, but it was four in the morning and if she skipped outside and made too much noise, she might wake up some neighbours and the less humans that might interact with the Master, the better.

Of course, she'd forgotten to account for the fact that the TARDIS materialising made a lot of noise, and apparently enough to stir those who recognised the sound. So before the Doctor had decided how she was going to pass the time - other than rejoining River and the Master, because then her fam probably would have found her in there - there was a rap at the door.

"Doctor! Are you in there?"

Yaz! That was Yaz's voice! The Doctor leapt up from her perch, racing over to the door and pulling it open. Yaz looked stunned and ecstatic all at once to see her, jumping in through the door between dimensions to throw her arms around the Doctor, squeezing her tight.

"You're alright!"

"Of course I'm alright! Alright, maybe you did have a little reason to worry... but I'm fine!"

"I called Ryan as soon as I saw the TARDIS outside. He didn't appreciate being woken up but said he and Graham would be here soon..."

Yaz trailed off, expression shifting. Confused, the Doctor looked behind her, wondering if River or the Master had walked out. No sign of either of them. She turned back to Yaz, and realised Yaz was staring at her. More specifically, staring at her neck. And that was when the Doctor realised she hadn't used any healing balm on her most recent batch of lovebites from her rather feral bedmates.

"Are those..."

"Ah. Long story. I'll explain it all when Ryan and Graham get here! Then I only have to tell it once."

Yaz nodded, turning away and the Doctor heard her mutter something that sounded suspiciously like "booty call", but opted not to say anything. Otherwise she'd start explaining, and have to do it all again when the rest of the fam arrived. Yaz kept throwing furtive glances at her neck, but otherwise she just meandered about in the console room, smiling at the ship as though simply enjoying that she was seeing the inside of the TARDIS again. The Doctor could relate.

The next set of knocks at the door didn't take too long to come, followed by Graham's voice.

"Doc! Let us in, it's freezin' out here!"

Grinning, she bounded over to the doors and pulled it open, finding Graham huddling in his coat and an expectant, grinning Ryan. She let them in, still smiling as the two men took turns hugging her. Ryan even spun her around a little bit in his enthusiasm, then dropped her down a little heavily but she hardly minded when faced with such joy.

"Oh, it's so good to see you! We were so worried!"

"Ah Doc, I knew you'd make it out!"

Graham patted her on the back, obviously tired after being roused in the early hours but still smiling. He and Ryan both seemed to notice her neck at the same time, but unlike Yaz they weren't want to pry into her sex life.

"So how did you survive? What happened?"

"Ko Sharmus. You must have noticed he didn't join you."

Her fam all shared a look of realisation, then nodded.

"Yeah..."

"Wow, that must have cut it close!"

"It did. I barely got out of there."

"So the Cyber... things, they're all gone?"

The Doctor nodded, knowing a pulse of sadness for the loss.

"They'd have to be. All organic life..."

So much of Gallifrey had been alive, and now there was nothing. Her hearts ached in her chest, but she forced it aside. There was time to dwell and mourn later.

"So that means the Master is gone too?"

Ah. The Doctor opened and closed her mouth a couple of times, unable to formulate an answer. Unfortunately, someone chose that exact moment to answer for her. In probably the most awkward way possible.

"Did someone say my name?"

With his hair ruffled, no clothes on and just a towel hung around his waist, the Master strolled in to the console room and leant against the side of the doorway out. Of all the times he chose to be so... him! Yaz looked over at his state of undress, then back to the Doctor. It was clear where her mind was going.

"Ah!"

"Oh my god!"

The Master looked around, as though he didn't know what Graham and Ryan were reacting to. Then he looked down. And, because things weren't awkward enough apparently, he gripped the towel and whipped it off, standing there stark naked with the towel held out.

"Sorry, did you want this?"

"Will you go and put some clothes on?"

The Doctor hissed, resolutely ignoring the part of her brain that was enjoying the view. Graham was covering his eyes with one hand and holding the other out defensively, still making a half-strangled noise. Ryan looked torn between shock at the Master and amusement at his grandad, though he too was looking away. Yaz... actually, Yaz looked like she was shocked and enjoying the view a little bit.

"I can't. River tore my bottoms. Quite keen, that one."

She was going to kill him. He definitely had other clothes, and had done what he'd done just now entirely to annoy her and throw a shock value return in for the benefit of her human companions.

"You know where the wardrobe is!"

"I do. I was about to head that way when I heard my name. Thought I'd pop in."

"Just... go and get dressed."

"Suit yourself."

He didn't even wrap the towel around himself again, slinging it over his shoulder and sauntering off, lines in his back left by River's nails fully visible until he turned a corner. Rubbing a hand over her face, the Doctor shook her head before turning back to the others. Graham was still hiding, and Ryan and Yaz were both sniggering at him.

"You can look now, he's gone."

Graham peered out, his face a flaming red as he lowered his hand and exhaled sharply.

"So... he survived."

"He did. It's a long story, but basically the Cyberium dumped him out in an attempt to escape. River found him. Oh, and I didn't come find you right away because I was arrested by the Judoon and sent to prison. Then River broke me out, and she had the Master with her. Which is how I found out he'd survived."

"Wait, wait. Who's River?"

"Oh. Doctor River Song. Archeologist. And, well, she's my wife. We got married when I was still a man."

There was a long, silent moment as her fam just stared, only blinking occasionally.

"Your... wife? You're married? So, you and the Master... what's going on there?"

Considering she'd been thinking about this, the Doctor supposed she should have come up with an explanation or something.

"It's... complicated. We are complicated. But you remember Krasko? He was that horrible man who tried to stop Rosa Parks?"

The humans nodded slowly.

"What's he got to do with the Master?"

Ryan asked, frowning.

"He had an implant. The neural inhibitor. Stops him harming and killing. I put one in the Master. He wasn't thrilled about it, but he wasn't getting the cuffs off until he agreed."

"The cuffs?"

Yaz quirked an eyebrow, and the Doctor didn't need telepathy to know where that thought was going.

"Not like that! River cuffed him when she found him."

"Never underestimate a woman who carries handcuffs!"

Her hearts rose a little just at the sound of that beautiful voice, and the Doctor turned to find River gliding toward them. She'd cleaned up, but not bothered dressing and had on only a long black and red dressing gown, her curls still in a wonderful disarray. She stepped up to the Doctor, sliding their fingers together.

"Hello sweetie."

The Doctor grinned; that line would probably always work on her.

"Guys, this is River Song. River, meet Yaz, Ryan and his grandad Graham. This is the fam."

"Lovely to meet you all. Is she regaling you with tales of prison breakout?"

"Only my own."

River chuckled, leaning against the Doctor's arm with a smirk that promised mischief.

"Well, I am something of an expert. Why don't I go and put something on, and we meet for tea?"

River leant over to kiss her, leaving the Doctor grinning goofily as she watched River leave, hips swaying teasingly. Her hearts fluttered happily before she turned back to the others again, nodding slowly.

"So... tea!"

"Hang on. The Master said something about... and they were both-mmph!"

Ryan was cut off by Yaz placing a hand over his mouth, followed by her glaring up at him.

"Let's go get tea. Give you something to put in your mouth other than your foot."

Ryan frowned, but stayed quiet. Graham was rather silent himself, seeming to need a minute to process it all. They headed to the nearest kitchen, where Yaz volunteered herself and Ryan to make the tea. The Doctor sidled up to Graham.

"Everything alright?"

"I uh... just... he tried to kill all of us. And you two..."

The Doctor sighed.

"It's complicated. Our... friendship started long before any murder attempts. And the way he is isn't all his fault. The Time Lords did something to him when he was just a child, and they've hurt him more than once since. I'm not making excuses for him, but... he survived. I'm not going to be the one to make myself the final survivor of Gallifrey."

Again.

"So you couldn't press the button on Gallifrey?"

Yaz asked softly. The Doctor dropped her eyes, shaking her head.

"No. Ko Sharmus didn't just save me... he probably saved the universe."

If she had, and the Master still escaped... she wondered how River would have handled that, with no Doctor to come and find. Actually, now she thought about it, the Master probably would have got himself shot by River, taunting her about the Doctor's death. He'd seemed oddly ready to die that night. Not just resigned to it.

"How does River take her tea?"

"Fizzing in a champagne glass."

River's voice entered the room just before she did, tipping Yaz a wink before she reached in to a cupboard and pulled out a glass bottle of dark liquid.

"Don't worry, it's only Earth whiskey."

"As opposed to?"

Graham asked, blinking when River smiled over her glass at him.

"Oh darling, you've clearly never had Hypervodka."

The Doctor sat feeling incredibly grateful that her wife was being so charming and personable, helping offset the shock to the system the others had taken from seeing the Master bold as brass on the TARDIS. It took her less than five minutes to have the fam laughing about her various escapes from the Stormcage, and under ten minutes before she was regaling them with all sorts of stories about the Doctor.

"So, wait a second. You're not human?"

River shrugged at Graham's question, formulating an answer.

"Well. Not all human. Human plus, I think. Standard human double helix, with the extra bit of Time Lord wrapped around it."

"How did that happen?"

Ryan quizzed, tea in his cup spilling as he leant forward in his eagerness.

"Well, it's a little personal. My parents used to travel with the Doctor, and they spent their wedding night on the TARDIS."

"She got exposure to the Time Vortex... very early."

The Doctor added, sipping her tea. Ryan made great tea, even if he spilled stuff sometimes.

"Oh. Oh. Right. Does that always happen?"

The Doctor shrugged.

"No idea. Haven't tried testing the theory. I mean, we're only in the Vortex part of the time, you'd have to really try to-"

"Yes, thank you sweetie. That's quite enough thinking on how I was conceived for me."

"Oh. Right. Sorry."

There were poorly concealed snickers from the humans. The Doctor hid her face in her tea, slurping noisily to try and drown their giggles out. It didn't work.

"Well Doc, I think we're gonna go finish getting some sleep. Let you... deal with things here. We'll come back later yeah? You're not leaving, right?"

"I shouldn't think so. You know you can sleep on the TARDIS though? Your rooms are all still here."

"Yeah but I left some washing in the machine at home, better get that sorted in case you can't get us back the same day."

"And maybe while you're here, get the Master some clothes."

Ryan quipped, cheeky grin on his face when he saw Graham wince at the reminder.

"Yeah. That too."

The Doctor saw them out, and they all hugged her before they departed for their homes and beds with promises to see her in a few hours. She closed the door behind them and turned to lean against it, slumping slightly with a deep exhale.

"Well, that could have gone worse. Though I'm not sure how, after the stunt the Master pulled."

"If I'd known he was going to walk into the console room like that, I'd have tied him down!"

Knowing River was being entirely genuine, the Doctor laughed, nodding as she pushed herself back to standing upright. River gladly held her hand as they walked through, locating the Master in the wardrobe. He'd put on a pair of boxers and nothing else, and was digging through the piles and racks of clothing.

"What are you doing?"

"My suit got ruined. You have your coat and your rainbows. I need a new outfit. Shirt and trousers alone gets ever so dull."

River was probably more of a help than the Doctor, but they all went looking anyway. The Master found a couple of shirts, waistcoats and ties he liked, grumbling about finding trousers that fit him - he was quite stocky, but not terribly tall this time around. He pulled out a black jacket with gold epaulettes, but the Doctor was cringing before he'd even had time to consider it.

"No. You're not wearing that."

Because she said no, he obviously wanted it and protested.

"Why not? It's just gathering dust here."

She wrinkled her nose.

"Reminds me of when you were dressed as a Nazi."

River looked up from where she'd gotten sidetracked sorting through some dresses, perplexed.

"Why were you dressed as a Nazi?"

"I was undercover, the Doctor got herself dumped in that time zone and I was trying to kill her. Easiest way to get around was with the Germans. I used a perception filter, obviously."

"Obviously. Still... that's low. Even for you."

The Master rolled his eyes, appearing to shrug off River's comment. He did discard the jacket though.

"Because you are such a paragon of goodness."

"Of course not. I might be a murderer, but I've still got standards. And besides their appalling behaviour, I am allowed to bear a personal grudge. Hitler shot me!"

-DW-

And now I must go and re-watch Let's Kill Hitler.

I know I didn't mention the other survivors from the Cybership... but neither did the show, last I checked. So idk what happened to them.