"Erm, do you know HOW I pull that off? Reabsorbing this ring?" Asked the Master sheepishly he would do as asked but he needed help.
"Oh…for Rassilon's sake tell me you know how to do it, you created it!" said the Doctor in exasperation.
"I created it along with a ritual, that would give me a body back I had no intention of pulling it out."
"Could we destroy it? Would it do any damage to the timeline or dad?"
"It will be destroyed! A neutron star will do it, then we will make proper ones, ones like you were given from the matrix when they pulled you out."
"I ran because of that doctor I ran as far and as fast as I could, I'm no fan of humans but I made myself one to hide because if it, I couldn't see the end or if there was one in sight."
"And that was the problem dad, that was why you went to the end, but as soon as you noticed your watch you realised if the Doctor was there then the Time War was over, you felt your purpose had no meaning, you killed Chantho not out of madness but out of kindness you were told you were at the end of the universe near the end of time itself. They didn't have a hope and you knew it, when you fully released your watch you felt your purpose was still war, with the drumming back you couldn't imagine the Timelords gone. But you knew how much the Doctor loved Earth and you wanted to make the Timelords pay for your original resurrection you wanted to make the universe burn! But when you found out you were determined the Doctor would watch you unable to help what the Timelords created you into. They twisted you more as they pulled you out of the matrix. It was only when the drumming was stopped that you could think for the first time, and you saw what you had done. But as I pointed out even without the war you were still a good man at times. It was the war that affected you as much as it did the Doctor, I said earlier opposites attract but you do both have a lot in common as well. You both hold the burden of that war, and you always will unfortunately, but neither of you are alone, there is no need for destruction just for its own sake. You both make this universe a better, brighter place, without you in it, it would be a more desolate universe."
They all remained quiet after that thinking on what had been said, the Doctor had moved up the bed and was on the other side of Null both of them had their arms around him but were looking ahead, just thinking, eventually the Master broke it.
"Okay so we destroy that ring, then make new ones that can be shoved into a new clone body and turn us back into ourselves. We leave the rings in the TARDIS in a secure location just in case. Then we update them regularly if we are killed then you can take the TARDIS to the future grab a clone body for us and make us release the rings, without the need for a ritual." Spoke the Master with a firm idea in his head. Null watched the timeline play out and saw that the rings would work but would need some finesse.
"It might be better to use something other than rings, without something to hold the energy inside of it something I don't think the rings will actually do now, we will need another way for you two, what if you download everything with a chameleon arch but stop at the halfway point, then sacrifice some of your energy into it and I can pour more into that. Would it work better? It should, it would mean the clone could release the watch and hey presto you're back with all life intact." Spoke Null after thinking about it.
"Would that work?" Asked the Doctor but it was the Master who answered.
"Actually yes, we would need to keep updating them or we would only be up to when we did it, not even the clone memories would copy over for the few seconds it would take from birth to releasing the watch and Null is right, you did it but went the whole way, to human as I did but the watches held our memories and power. These would to in a sense." Spoke the Master after thinking about it Null had just nodded.
"You know I hate clones AND dead bodies, that was your worst behaviour when you did that." Spoke the Doctor after shuddering.
"DRUMS" is all the Master said.
After another few minutes of silence, they all decided to get up and have breakfast Donna was sat in the kitchen with a cup of coffee talking to Sirius. The Master had checked for a listening spell as had the Doctor and the room was clean although it was only two months since he had threatened to crack the spell if he applied it, and it would make him deaf for about a week. So, Null didn't think it was likely he would put a listening spell on his room anytime soon. They made their way downstairs after straightening their clothes
"How are you feeling?" Were the first words out of Sirius' mouth as he saw Harry enter the room
"Better than I was, but we need to talk." Harry replied and Sirius just nodded.
"I should start at the beginning, so you fully understand…..I guess it all starts with the entity known as TIME, she saw mum and dad that night but Timelords are infertile well only to everything not another psionic Timelady, mum wasn't one though she wasn't a full Timelady in that sense, she couldn't read time. My father agreed to my conception this way but ensured the night I was born I was blood adopted by James. It was his DNA that was actually burnt out, human DNA can't stand up to Unspeakables, its why they normally took partners of the same, trying to create their beginnings again…. When James died, the cloak passed to me through adoption, as soon as I owned that cloak a paradox came into affect, by claiming that hollow I claimed them all that night, they were tied to me, DEATH and whoever had them had a really weak connection to them. Nothing can Master DEATH, he is absolute. When I claimed Malfoys wand I claimed the elder wand as well, the power to kill with a thought a truly unbeatable wand, never taking into consideration that there were other things a wand is used for. When I walked willingly to my death, that is when the paradox broke I had finally come into all my powers of a son of a deity…..HE spent a long time teaching me to control the power as well as additional powers I didn't know I had…I'm a full elemental Sirius the whole ten are open to me." He stopped here and just looked at Sirius with a sad smile on his face Sirius didn't surprise him he looked like he went into shock.
"They were extinct, hunted because of their power Harry, no one wanted to mess with one they killed them quickly even children to stop them using their powers against others."
"I'm not stupid Sirius no one knew back in the old universe, not even the other Unspeakables were told. Because of that fear, but I have to come clean with you I've been told."
"Okay so you have full control and you obviously use occlumency to keep you temper in check as you've never hinted at showing them. So what else do I need to know."
"I can use the Black family magic as often as I need without it affecting me at all, the taint just passes into Deaths powers. Which are not as powerful as you think I have to grow into them and that could take millennia, however if pushed there feels enough power to wipe out a solar system, maybe if really pushed an entire galaxy within me before draining me dry of all of his power until it recharged, and that power will grow as I do but again, I was taught how to use it and precision. The only other thing is that what you talked about last night was near the mark. I thinks that all."
"So not much to tell me then? You knew what would happen didn't you?"
"Somethings, Death told me I wouldn't stay in the other old universe, but I thought I would be able to save the others when I came through. I knew I would find two fathers here, I thought at first maybe Jack he flirts all the time with you. Then I found out who my father actually is, and after seeing into their minds I realised he meant them, I was to stay your godson so I could come here and just relax with you as a godchild should. I knew I would eventually be able to see time HE had told me that I would need it for my future duties but I actually thought at first, Time the entity would do it, especially after gaining SATURN, not expecting to see any Timelords on Earth. The idea had been to get them here then use SATURN to contact the Timelords to come and collect us, after I was born they thought that they could have children with the other Timelords. When they realised it didn't work, I would have suggested that every tot was loomed with enough of our DNA to make them all psionics so they could have children again. I tried to find our home planet while I was here, not knowing it had to be destroyed, that the Timelords had gone too far even for TIME to forgive them…..I only learnt a lot of this recently, I didn't know dad had been resurrected and twisted during the war, I didn't know what it had done to the Doctor or what it would do to him if I hadn't come into their lives. What he would go through because of that war or what dad would do because of the Timelords. It was a fixed point me meeting the Doctor, I caught his attention and was a mystery and that's something he can't resist. When he found out who I was all he wanted was for the Master to then find peace, he knew I would help somehow where he couldn't, but not what. I know they said they would never try to look at my timeline in full ever again, but I have so many possible futures because of who I am that he couldn't see how. When he found out, he crashed back to himself, his need to help the Master, his love for him and the fact he felt the joy of a time tot he could help raise. It made him realise how dangerous traveling for children is, so he continued to follow the timeline. Only occasionally unable to resist that itch for adventure, to feel alive and useful more that just as a stepdad, it made him occasionally ensure the timeline had a better outcome. We could turn the navigator off, and the TARDIS would take us everywhere she felt we were needed for the rest of time, we would have all of space and time open to us and we would travel it all. But as I said its dangerous for a tot and that is built in biologically, they can't help it, if the Doctor and the Master had loomed me, they would both have full control over me. I can go against the Doctors orders however he knows I would never do that and that is because of the adoption, they both need to be able to ground me if I do something that their biology is telling them I shouldn't. lucky for me I can hold dads tongue now and explain and then we can decide on a course of action, even if it means the Doctor grounds me again."
"WHAT? When did this happen, you took a grounding and behaved?"
"It was after the Adipose incident with the TARDIS, lucky dad and the Doctor decided the Doctor would ground me, they were very upset at the time and so I did as the Doctor asked of me, I'm still doing it actually, I'm going through the full engineering course, eventually I will be able to completely repair the TARDIS giving her, her full capabilities back after over a thousand years stuck as a police box!"
"That police box is known throughout the universe we are not changing her shape unless she does it herself, she has been thorough a war like that, she is use to it, only if she changes herself for some reason is the chameleon circuit to be used and only by her!" Spoke the Doctor with some heat.
"I never said it was I'm just saying she is being repaired, I don't honestly care what she looks like outside I'm more focused on sorting out her insides. If she wants to stay as a police phone box then she can, we all know that if she could have, she would have assisted us as dad pointed out she is the most formidable ship in this universe, she would have helped us protect Procule!"
"We didn't need her to, we came up with a solution that put them under some serious protection for a long time. Something we couldn't do unless we stayed around to protect them for all the years it's going to take them to fully recover."
"I know and I agree, you showed them all compassion that day, you asked them to ensure no deaths when destroying their fleets, you asked them to help them with natural evolution with them watching over their shoulder so they behaved, you took it onto yourself to be indebted to them something that could come back to bite us in the future, yet you still did it. I said earlier about it, but you do have it there, you just don't show it to us as you use to. That was what I trying to make you understand earlier. As I said you and dad really need to talk, you would both be better showing each other's your life from start to finish with all your feeling open through the link like you both did with me, it doesn't need to be permanent just see, understand and talk to each other after some thought."
"We are not ready for the Harry we are still learning to be friends again."
"Yes you can Doctor you are just scared, as scared as dad is of you seeing his full life, but this is needed, you need to become my parents. If you commit you would also have the power to control me but like before you could change your mind where dad couldn't, but I would still have to do what you demanded of me, I would feel that pull from you as well." Rebuked Harry with firmness in his voice he had to make them look into each other's life.
"Okay, but we can't do it right now though Harry, it's just not the right time." Spoke the Doctor gently. As Harry had pointed out he was scared, scared of what the Master would think of him when he found out what he had done himself in the Time War.
"Actually you can, Donna wants to pop and see her mum and grandfather, The Library and the talk last night has left her shaken she just needs to see they are alright. I will take her with SATURN and you two can go in the TARDIS and park her in the vortex or go to a holiday world maybe back to that one we visited first together, while you spend time together, then you just come back two hours later from leaving, depending on how much time you take if you stay in the vortex you may need to refuel her and walk back here or I can bring us to you once she's recharged, it would only mean jumping forward a few hours for us and it will be as no time passed, from our perceptive and we can be off on our travels again."
"Anyway breakfast, what does everyone want? Sirius can burn toast, he lived on takeaway and eating out before I showed up. Cooking actually allowed us to get a bigger house, as you two know we had a two-bedroom flat at first when I arrived."
After getting their orders they all decided on an English breakfast as Harry was cooking, anything he made was tasty and enjoyable. But both the Doctor and the Master had seen how he had learnt to cook, they had told him at first he didn't need to do but he asked them to let him, to be able to make food and eat it with family, was all he had ever wanted out of learning to cook, so they did but the Doctor usually made breakfast and occasionally the Master would make the evening meal, when they were outside of the TARDIS during lunch times they ate what was available and edible.
An hour later they were hugging each other, Sirius had to go into work, the Doctor and Master were going to do as he had asked and he was taking Donna home.