Null thought about the answer for a few minutes. He could and he couldn't.
"Yes and no, Sort of, not until I started taking the engineering course and got so far in. I had to search both library's, it's all scattered in there, anyway it wasn't adding up and I found the book in the library that explained the process, the hardest part is imbuing the heart of a TARDIS really giving it life that's actually the hardest part and nowhere could I find it explained, also you have to know everything, every nuance to grow a new one and I don't yet. The Tardis growers on Gallifrey must have been well revered, I know she stole the Doctor when he thinks he stole her but she was only in for repair and check over. She was a new Tardis when she started out but even so, the growers had infused Time in her heart and that gave her life as I said. The little problems she was in the workshop for are common, all new ones need to be looked over and brought to full readiness there. She knew he would bring her excitement she could see in his head that's why she bonded with him and wouldn't unbind to him. Oh, if you could have seen the look on the councellors faces when they learnt that, you would have laughed yourself funny like the drums were back."
"She couldn't see the end of time war at first like you all, no one could look at the end no one should have known how that war would end not even time herself could predict the outcome, its why you all hurt trying to look at the end, but this is a TARDIS with time at her centre and when she did she knew what would happen she is one of only a few who were powerful enough to look near to the end of the war but even she wouldn't look how it would actually end as it would also mean her end and as you know she is sentient, who wants to have to die…She never imagined he would have to go through that. That war changed him as much as the drums changed you, he grew into a warrior. He broke his own promise to end the madness. It was the only Generation he wouldn't go by his Timelord name he refused, what he was about to do, what he himself had, had to do like you did in the war. He went against everything he was, but he knew it had to stop…He accepted his punishment to end the war he wanted to rest he had wared for over five centuries of linier time fighting in time and along the timeline growing darker as he did until he could take no more. You know that The Moment is sentient, she imposed his punishment if he went through with it then he would HAVE to live on, he would not be allowed to die to end the war, he would have to live for him to go through with it. On that day he broke his creed and ended the war. If you had met him then he would have put you through every generation you had left. He was that angry with himself he would have ensured another Timelord would not cause the trouble the others did and at the time you had the drums, he loved you too much to see you fall, so he would let you rest, he would have hoped to give you peace but at the same time protect the innocent."
"You've seen the time war all of it?" Asked a shocked Master. Now the drums were gone and he had Null he really didn't want to die but with the drums he could admit he had lost all sense of reason. He was angry at the Doctor for the war never knowing what the war had done to Theta in the end.
"Yes when I was grounded by Theta she showed me why he was upset, why you were as well. I've now been shown everything by father i'veseen all of the time war from certain perspectives, I lived through it all even past the end so I could see why he had turned out like he had and like he is. He was there at the fall of Arcadia. That when he said no more. He has very little mercy left now for others threatening the only other home he feels he has left. You know yourself he would have mercy for anyone and everyone, now not so much, only you, me, his current companion, his previous ones and the human race as a whole. Martha was actually the most help, for the Doctor, Rose loved the idea of the Doctor but not the man underneath the name, it hurt him to see that, he thought he was unlovable he thought somehow this was his punishment. Martha fell for him as he is now, she saw underneath at points, as a trainee doctor I'm not surprised. It why he didn't kill you on the Valiant only why he tried to stop you, he knew what you would do to him and he would have allowed it just to be able to tell you he was sorry, for what was happening to you. He would have used the network you had invented and sent Martha out to pass on his name, the whole of humanity thinking of one thing one person all at once. you intended to age him to near death, the human race would have reverted him. You would have been shot, neither of you saw it in the timeline, you would have refused to regenerate the drums were too much, you would tell him you refused, and you would have you needed your mind clear and after what happened to your plans you wanted peace. But you also had a plan you thought if you passed through death and came back" Null gently touched the ring his dad wore on his finger twisting it letting him know he knew.
"It wouldn't have worked you didn't put regeneration energy into it thinking the drums came from there. It would have given Gallifrey a way back into the universe you wouldn't have a stable body, you are a Lord of Time, with that comes power which is regeneration energy, you would have to eat your body weight in food daily to still remain corporeal, the other option, well let's just say anyone who met you would freak out. So either place some of your energy into it and I will top it up or put it back, I will not lose you and Death knows that." Null told him in no uncertain terms. His father would be making that ring whole or removing it, it was a danger.
"I'll put it back, I didn't realise I still had it, perception filters are handy, how did you see through it?"
"We invented the filter dad I can see straight through them…..Oh I'm sorry" And Null actually cringed.
Suddenly there was heavy banging on his bedroom door. Null moved out his father's hold and sat up next to him.
"Come in Doctor." Null said in a weary voice looking apologetic at his dad.
"What was the plan Harry, I knew they would try to come back, I just thought we had held It off for a long time since the drums were gone. And why do you still have a chameleon arch on you?" Demanded the Doctor slamming the door shut he really wasn't happy. then again neither was Null with him, he didn't speak for a minute
"Truthfully I don't know, the drums were a Timelords heart beat the reason dad didn't notice is because they were out of time of his own hearts, the seer gave them the code to send to him, the diamond and dad are somehow meant to be able to pull Gallifrey out of the Time Lock. But every time I try and look how they intend to do it, it doesn't make any sense to me. Plus time wanted the war stopped you were ripping HER apart here, it why SHE let you use The Moment. SHE knew HER children that SHE favoured had already one bad tick against them, we were supposed to be an enlightened race, but still started the witch hunt. But the war. No, you had gone further than you should. SHE wouldn't let that go, the Timelords had tried to go above even what they were meant to be, you were once such a peaceful race, Gallifrey was beautiful, once upon a time. She had chosen you all to protect her in this universe and instead you went to war and warred in time itself you were tearing HER apart, SHE didn't give you a choice they had gone through every weapon and still it wasn't enough. Some of those weapons were beyond horrifying but The Moment, none of them would even consider using it knowing it had grown a sentience the more it aged as it sat in their most secure vault. I mean really think about it …..Do you really think you would get at a sentient weapon unless you were allowed to never mind actually use it? SHE made you live on not as punishment but because of your creed and the fact you would give it all up everything that was you so you could help HER, you used the power of TIME, TIME herself decided that you would protect the timeline from then on, you would see it as your own responsibility, so you didn't have to be told. Dad looks through space and time but you are one with it now, soon dad will be as well, but it will still take him time, believe it or not River was right all of us are very young but we have time to grow and age with family back beside us. Until I came along…. You would have fell Doctor, you would decide as the last Timelord it was your right to rule time not be ruled by it, you would try to alter a fixed point just to prove you could do what you wanted time would be yours to command. You would grow so high and fall so low and you would keep on falling and nothing could be done about it. You would give up eventually after you went too far to the point you sent dad your last confession dia. Your timeline is so different to how it was meant to be, you are needed to stay level-headed, now it's time for you and dad to properly talk to each other and be there for each other, to see all the stars you said you would. It's time for Theta to emerge again and for you to remember running through the field together they don't need to be red to run together again. you also need ot listen to me more, we lost a family member because of that" Harry started out so sad and it just continued he had seen Thetas original timeline before he came into their lives, it was so sad to see him like that compared to how he is now.
"I am so sorry Null, you will never know how much I'm Sorry, I doubt I will ever be able to properly make this up to you I didn't listen to you or even check your longer timeline to see if you would be okay, it looked in the timeline as though you had passed out as we would expect if you lost your memories, I thought I had a better chance in the timeline of surviving, I wasn't looking at the timeline when River hit me i was working on an interface. But Null no matter what I can't give in to mercy again I've seen where that gets me!" Spoke the Doctor with conviction
"It gets you a family again, loved ones to help you keep the timeline intact, it doesn't mean you need to show more mercy to your enemies I'm not saying that but you do need more compassion, the war took that from you the most, your compassion is what is the real you, the man who would try to save another species by as little blood shed as he could withthe Sycorax. You did nothing wrong, you placed the blame where it was due, but you showed her no compassion and that will cost her and us." Null spoke quietly he didn't know what it was, but he knew when he saw that the look in her eyes the tone of her voice.
"She showed no mercy and so you gave her no compassion no thought of you knowing best, you never explained you just went at her and then ruined her whole life."
"Null she had just ordered a retreating ship shot down killing thousands without a thought. She had no compassion herself I was not showing her any."
Null breathed out heavily the Doctor was right, but it would cause problems he just couldn't see them
"I know, but as you once said you use to have so much mercy in you, you would help all you could until it was spat in your face that 'You were casing enough trouble she didn't need you to cause her more'. That was the day you said enough, that was the day you became a warrior, the longest life you have lived out in one go, you were old the first time you regenerated and then again at the end of the war you were old, once the Time War passed again you returned to being young, from there you just ensured the safety of the timeline, you had company and you felt that was enough, but you have family now, you're like my stepdad in reality, I have my father I have my biological dad and I have you, you showed me compassion you always show me that, you even have compassion for dad, you do have it, you just need to show it more to other, just becasue you can see time you are not all knowing but it's not a weakness, it's a strength. If you weren't worthy TIME would not have allowed you to use HER like that, you only remember agreeing to use HER and remember HER punishment you don't remember anything else you said to HER that day though. You talked a lot, before she allowed you to use HER. She looked through you that day and saw into your soul. Time favoured you above everyone else on or fighting for Gallifrey."
"How do you know so much?" Asked the Doctor sitting down on the end of the bed.
"Death knows everything, HE after all is the one to collect your soul. He showed me some of your timeline showed me others and the TARDIS filled in the rest."
"What else can you tell us?" Asked the Master gently placing his arm around Null and pulling him closer.
"We have trouble coming I think, I've been searching the timelines to try and see but as you've witnessed looking at my own timeline is off putting, but your two keeps changing on me it depends on something doing something in the future I just don't know what. But the fact I now have full access to my father domain, I'm slightly worried. The power we have is immense, why would I need that power now? Especially with you two beside me? Also I keep seeing Rose but don't know why? But the two of us in the same place?" explained Null then very worriedly asked his questions.
"Null stop looking into the timelines so far, look only at a week at a time not building on it just seven days ahead constantly. That will help calm you down. As you said we are here with you, even if you have to use that power for some reason, we will still be with you to help you cope. When do you see Rose turning up though?" Reassured the Doctor
"I don't know I just keep seeing her appearing on a street but then the timeline is different and she's not there, there's no problems I can see yet in some timelines, she appears in others though, some she doesn't, it will happen at night though, that much I do know if you are to see her again. It looks like a few years away maybe?" Explained Null as best he could.
"Well, we will deal with it as it comes, you said Rose would be able to cross over without damaging the dimensions and if we have a few years, it gives you time to prepare the TARDIS for her arrival. What if she uses a universal hopper? Spoke the Master knowing what had gone on.
"Then there is the possibility of cracks appearing, but they can be patched and strengthened if needed." Explained Null
"So, you really think she's coming back?" Asked the Doctor with a little hope
"Maybe, as I said the timelines are to jumbled and it is a while away anyway she has aged slightly but if she left this dimension so long ago, why does she look the same as she left. Time must have something to do with it…..Oh…"
"What?" Asked both the Dcotor and the Master
"Rose gave up all of or most of Time, you said it was hurting her, but they don't work like that, normally it's an all or nothing as I've said, but TIME allowed herself to leave a vessel, you said it hurt her when she looked at all of time, but if she just wanted a connection for then. Then Rose would have divested all of her, but maybe there is still a hold over if she saw all of time as you said then the subconscious could hold all of that information, mine does with Death's powers. And she could pull that information out if she really needed it, TIME would allow her to use it as she used her to save you. Timelords might have been an ancient civilisation and nothing comes close to it but there is still advancement out in the galaxy and throughout time, which she could use to universe hop without breaking the barrier and still use a universal hopper only one much more refined. It's on a chain silver with a big yellow middle its round."
"Yes, I never explained what they looked like though, and I know you have seen a lot but the TARDIS wouldn't have shown you Torchwood one, it's was where I lost her." He spoke the last quietly.
"No father did, that is what she's using but it's much more refined, it can move her from place to place from her universe, they even have communication somehow. If it comes to pass. As I've said there is a jumble in the timeline a fixed point isn't one yet but could become one."
"You mean Rose returning?" Asked the Doctor again with a little hope, he cared a great deal for her but he could admit Null was right she didn't see behind his name.