They'd ended up on the roof of the hospital after a small fight, Nadrole had run off and Raven wasn't sure if that was him being a coward or if he had an escape plan.

The Doctor had been knocked out, she was pretty sure Missy had hit him with her umbrella, sending him into the monitor as the Master tied him into a wheelchair and led them up to the roof to get away from the Cybers downstairs.

None of them seemed to concerned about having no way out.

It wasn't like the Cybermen could upgrade them.

At least until Nardole had arrived with a shuttle he had stolen from a lower lever of the ship, a plan the Doctor had already thought off, and hadn't told Raven about.

They'd gone to escape when realising the Doctor was still in control despite being tied up and it was two versus one (Raven was refusing to get involved) when Missy had hit him he's quickly managed to change to Cybers controls, instead of hunting one hearted humans, they were coming after them with two hearts.

Luckily Nardole had arrived in time and the two Masters and Raven quickly got on board as the Cybermen reached the roof, one of them grabbing the Doctor, knocking him out and triggering the beginning of a regeneration.

Bill, still a Cyberman, had somehow managed to break out of the Cybers basic programming and got the Doctor on the ship.

All of them breaking down to a lower level, away from the Cybermen.

For now, safe.

~.~

They had found a few local farmers on a higher level, they had given them a few spare rooms, allowing them to rest, Nardole quickly got to work informing them of the upcoming attack, helping to defend them. Nearly two weeks had passed, the Doctor was still unconscious fighting of regenerating in his sleep.

Raven still couldn't understand why he refused to regenerate, but then again, until she regenerated for the first time, she couldn't really say anything bad about it. Nardole had been very busy, trying to keep both Masters out of trouble and as far away from each other so they couldn't cause chaos, he had also been helping the locals defending their home for when the Cybermen eventually caught up with them. Raven helped a little bit, mostly just a little bit of tinkering on the few bombs and explosions they had out. Raven had for the most part of their time on the farm, avoided the Master, the man surprisingly contempt to either keep in his small room and take walks around the area, perhaps he was looking for an escape. She hadn't wanted to see him, surprisingly for his own safety, she hadn't been sure how she would react, she had snapped at Missy when they first saw her again, she thought she may do the same with him.

The Master sat up from here he had been laying on his head, hands tucked behind his head.

"Ah," he smiled, "I was wondering when you'd come to see dear old dad."

"Shut up," she said, surprised at the confidence in her voice. "You will stay silent and listen until I say you can speak, understand?"

His eyes widened slightly but he mimicked zipping his lips and throwing away the key. That action itself made her blood boil, remembering how he had done the same to the president before the Toclafane came.

"A first I enjoyed it."

Feeling that power running through your blood. Taking down another planet because they had lost their she felt she will always enjoy it. That feeling of power, control, being unstoppable. Watching life dance in the flames of the fires that burn everything.

"But you kept going," Raven continued, she turned and pulled the chair up to the desk, breaking apart the small old music box that either belonged to someone in the house, or didn't, she didn't care, they had left it here with him. "Never stopping, never slowly down, so...volcanic." she needed to keep her hands busy, tinkering was the best distraction there was. "You started to scare me. That's when I realised it was wrong, never because a part of me knew it was, but because you terrified me..." she swallowed, her hands busy on the box. She had to admit, well done dad for keeping quiet and listening, "you hit her, you hit Lucy, despite her help and constant loyalty and that was your downfall." she tossed the broken music box at him, not looking over. He managed to catch it, despite his surprise, "open it."

He looked at her, a look of distrust on him face, also debating not to but the look on her face. A look he knew she got from him. He flicked the small knob she had put there instead of the small spin needle, flicking it and the small box opened, the small ballerina jumping from the spring and hitting him in the eye. Like a Jack-in-the-box.

"Ow!" he exclaimed, dropping the box on the ground as he covered his eye from the stab, "Saska, you little..." he looked at her with his still good eye, "I'm so proud of you."

"You never saw...never noticed..." she turned to face him again, "I was hurt and broken. You fucked me up. But now, now I'm in control. And you will obey me." she finished, glaring at him a moment more before turning, leaving him alone. She wasn't going to help fix his eyes, it'd be fine in a few days. Who cared if it messed up the timelines.

He deserved it.

~.~

"So you've moved on from sitting on roofs to stone walls, now then?" the Doctor smirked at Raven, finding her sitting on the old low wall just outside the front of the house, one knee to her chest, with the over hanging over the ground, watching as Nardole helped the locals prepare protection for when the Cybermen reached up to their level.

She looked over at him, a tall stick in his hand to help keep him steady, "still not regenerated yet?" she wasn't sat on the roof before she honestly couldn't find a way up without finding a ladder, and that was too much effort, so the wall would do for a bit.

"I'm fine." he waved her off. She didn't say anything so he continued, "I'm going to see Bill, want to come?"

"Why not?" she shrugged, getting up, "it's that or..." they both looked over at the small explosion to see Nardole running over to help put the small fire out, "watch them die even before the Cybermen get here."

"You think we're going to die here?"

"You think we won't?"

"One must always have hope."

She snorted, "You can't take down them all and save everyone."

"We know one of us we survive." he reminded her.

For the Master to become Missy he would have to survive this. Somehow.

"And when that time comes...stay with him, with them. Self-preservation is very strong with your family."

They all knew the Master survived, he had too, or his future as Missy, or whoever came after him, their time with Missy would all be rewritten, somehow none of them could believe so much could change from being here. He survived. Somehow. And through him, he was their escape.

She noticed his stick quiver from the soft ground, "need a hand." he shook his head, but she still linked her arm through his.

"Thanks." he grumbled. "Where are mum and dad, anyway?" he asked as they headed to the barn, he hadn't seen nor heard either of them in the house. For the past few days he hadn't really seen anyone.

"I've been sending them looking for the lifts. Reckon they're hidden."

"You sent them together?" he gaped.

"They're clever and I wanted them out the way."

They found Bill was already awake at the barn, scaring poor Alit, the young girl who had seen their ship crash, she had gone to see Bill, either curious or sad, they didn't know, showing Bill her true self, as a Cyberman, had set her off and she had blown up most of the barn. Of course everyone stared in fear, but Nardole quickly got them back to work.

"It's okay." the Doctor assured Bill, her mind had blocked out the horror of what had happened to her, until she had seen her reflection she had been unaware of what she had become. "They're just frightened."

"People are always going to be afraid of me, aren't they?" Bill the Cyberman asked, "Aren't they?" the Doctor stepped closer to her, wiping a bit of liquid that ran down her metal cheek, "What is that, engine oil?"

"No." the Doctor frowned at his finger, "It's an actual tear. But it shouldn't be."

"Doctor." the Master called, heading over from the woods, his hands in his coat pocket, a black patch over his injured eye, "Right, while you've been here chatting up Robo-Mop, me and me have been busy. We've found it. As Raven requested." he turned to Bill, smirking, "Oh, hello, my dear." he said in a voice he used as his disguise while Bill trusted him, "My God, you were so boring for all those years. But it was worth every day of it, for this."

"Ignore him, Bill." Raven murmured to him, "He's just mad I stabbed him in the eye."

The Master ignored her, apart from the light eye roll, "Though, didn't you used to be a woman? I'm going to be a woman, fairly soon. Any tips? Or, maybe, I dunno, old bras?"

"I am not upset." Bill stated.

"Oh. Well, doesn't that take all the fun out of cruelty." he pouted, "Might as well rile a fridge. Come on, this way."

They followed him through the trees, Bill questioning the Doctor as to where they were. He quickly caught her up with their upcoming Cyberman invasion. With Bill crying actually tears, he believed there was still hope for her yet.

"Found them, then?" Raven asked as they approached the clearing where Missy was standing with her umbrella, still scanning around, trying to reveal the lifts to them, managing to get them into a column of light, to show where they were.

"You know," the Master began, eying Missy, "Weird, how you don't remember any of this."

"The two of us together puts the timelines out of sync." she replied simply, "You can't retain your memories, so I don't have them." she glanced back as the doctor and Bill caught up, "You absolutely had to bring her, did you?"

"Her?" the Master scoffed, "It's a Cyberman now."

"And her name is Bill." Raven added firmly.

"Becoming a woman's one thing, but have you got empathy? The pair of you." he looked between them, "as bad as each other. You've let him," he jerked his head at the Doctor, "corrupt you."

Missy and Raven glanced at each other behind his back. Neither saying anything but knowing exactly what the other was thinking. Back on Gallifrey people always said you had a regeneration you regret. The Doctor had the body who fought in the war. The Master, well, he was the worst one, the regretted one.

"Where is it?" the Doctor asked, cutting the Master off from trying to annoy or hurt anyone one else as he spoke to Missy.

"Lift shaft? Right here." she said, still scanning with her umbrella.

"Hologram." Raven murmured.

"Mustn't ruin the pretty forest." the Master sneered, "It's a wonder more people don't turn to genocide."

"And the doors." with the push of a button, the metal door revealed themselves before them.

"This is how we evacuate the children." the Doctor determined, "There have to be more lifts, quite close." he flashed his own sonic around, revealing two more lifts besides the first. "We know Operation Exodus is ready. We can't hang around here." Missy pointed her sonic umbrella at the call button summoning the lifts, "What are you doing? You just called the lift!"

"Yeah, well, we're going to need them, aren't we?" she defended.

"The lift was downstairs, and quite possibly not empty."

"So we hide." Raven shook her head, "when the Cybermen come up, we hide and once they're all out we head down."

"What's going down going to do?" Missy questioned. "The TARDIS is on a higher level."

Bill stomped forwards, "Stand aside."

"Do as she says." the Doctor said.

"Stand aside."

"Do as she says." The Master repeated with a scoff, "Is the future going to be all girl?"

Raven stood a step towards him, unsure what she would do, but Missys hand grabbing her wrist and pulling her back as Bill stepped up before the lifts stopped her. She thought she would be swallowed with fear being near him again but all she found was herself encased with anger. Angry at him, at herself for never having stood against him before. She just felt so angry, at everything. It wasn't like he would kill he? He wouldn't be able to bare know he had kill her. She was his heir, following his footsteps or not.

The Doctor shot his head to the Master, "We can only hope."

The three older Time Lords readying themselves behind Bill, sonics and lasers aimed to fire for when the lift doors opened and the Cybermen stepped out. Behind them, Raven stood, her laser lipstick out to help, as well as her sonic cuff.

"Fire!" the Doctor yelled as the doors opened and a Cyberman stood before them.

"Kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it!" the Master yelled, the four Time Lords and Bill all firing at the metal man in the lift, "Kill it, kill it. Kill it."

"Missy, sonic the lift." the Doctor told her once sure the Cyberman was finished, the fire and smoke and broken chest plate was a clear way to show it was dead, "Keep it here."

"Why's it different?" Bill asked, noticing the difference in armour between hers and its. It was far more advanced that hers. "Why does it look like that?"

"It's evolved." the Master said.

"Exactly." the Doctor agreed, "Since we left, they've built a weapons-grade version to come after us. And we just gave our position away."

"Well done mum and dad." Raven sighed, running a hand down her face.

"It doesn't matter." Missy shook her head, "We can still get out of here. We go take the lift right to the top and escape in your TARDIS. We could evacuate the Waltons back there, if you're feeling ridiculous."

"We can't go back to the bridge." The Doctor argued, "We can only go four or five floors up at the most. The further we move up the ship, the slower time moves for us and the faster it moves for the Cybermen. By the time we get to the bridge, they'll have had thousands of years to work out how to stop us. There is no safe way to get back to the TARDIS. It's a mathematical impossibility."

"What if we went down, anyway?" Raven supplied, "if we go down and all the Cybermen are up here, it'll be safe."

"And then what?" he asked, rubbing his head.

"Use their weapons against them," she suggested, "everything they've used to create Cybermen, make it destroy them. They've been downstairs with the upper hand, so we go down to get the upper hand."

~.~

They'd gone back to the farmhouse at the sound of the sirens blaring, the Cybermens warning call, they were coming, and the humans and Mondasians should be scared. It seemed to work to scare them. The Doctor sent Nardole to defend the area, while he and Bill tried to find an escape route, anything that could help, even just hiding out in another level.

Neither Missy, the Master, nor Raven wanted to get involved, instead the three were huddled in the attic room. Missy sat by the window, staring out, not quite focusing on the people running around outside despite her gaze was following them. The Master was sat at the desk, before a small mirror, reapplying his eyeliner, only to accidently poke his eye.

"How do you do this?" he grumbled.

Raven ignored them, laying on her bed, staring at the ceiling. They were going to die, and soon, and the only one of them who they would survive was the last one any of them wanted to. That wasn't fair. Why wasn't life fair?

"I've been thinking," Missy began, turning her gaze over to them, "it's like you said, Raven, we need to go down. We can't go up, but we can go down. Down to where your TARDIS is."

"Well, I suppose..." he mused.

"Your TARDIS," Raven realised, sitting up. "Of course, its downstairs."

If his TARDIS was down at the bottom of their ship, then that is their escape.

"It's my TARDIS." He didn't want the Doctor in his TARDIS.

"Our TARDIS." Missy corrected. "And it's right in the middle of a city full of Cybermen."

"Which are all coming up here." Raven countered

"And it doesn't work!"

"Because?" They rounded on him.

"When I landed here," he seemed to struggle to get the words out, "I had trouble taking off." he admitted.

"The black hole?"

He nodded, "Too close to the event horizon."

"And you screwed up. You went too fast."

"I blew the dematerialisation circuit."

"Great." Raven sighed, flopping back against the pillows, "you've doomed us all, thanks dad."

"I didn't bring you here." he rounded on her, "if anyone is to blame it's the Doctor."

"You know you've just reminded me," Missy interrupted, there was a look in Ravens eyes, she couldn't place it, but even she knew it was best to cut in, to stop Raven from planning what she was planning, "A funny thing happened to me once." she lunged at him, grabbing him by the lapels of his coat and pushing him against a pillar, "A very long time ago, a very scary lady threw me against a wall and made me promise to always, always carry a spare dematerialisation circuit. I don't remember much about her now but, she must have made quite an impression." she smiled, pulling out the circuit they needed from her own pocket.

The Master smirked at it, "You know you basically have me to thank for this."

"You're welcome."

"By the way," he coughed, "is it wrong that I er..." he glanced down and Missy followed his gaze.

"Yes." Missy said slowly, "Very." she turned to Raven who had turned onto her stomach to avoid the sight. She was being quiet, too quiet, Missy was sure she had a trick up her sleeve. She just wasn't sure if Raven herself knew it.

~.~

They didn't care to learn the Doctors plan, they weren't planning on sticking around to see all the Mondasians die, just like they expected. They were leaving today, as the Doctor finished of the final parts of his plan, just waiting for the Cybermen to arrive.

All of them were outside waiting, almost like a family, almost. The Doctor was waiting in a chair on the front porch, a gun in his hands, as though he would use it. The Master and Missy were mimicking each other positions, back to back as they lounged on the wall, waiting to head down to the Masters TARDIS, waiting for the lifts to be empty and the Cybermen downstairs to be heading up to avoid them. Raven, usually being the one to sit like that, was leaning against the wall, standing between them, arms crossed as she watched the Doctor.

Surely he must know that he couldn't save them all.

"Listen," the Master called to the Doctor, "me, the baby bird and sis are off now, but we were kind of wondering, what's your plan, Doc?"

"Because whatever you've got, you can't save them." Missy added.

"There's another solar farm five levels above us." he explained, "If I can get all the children up there, and most of the adults..."

"Then they'll live for a couple more weeks before the Cybermen find them again," Raven sighed, "and you'll keep going up level by level, slowly losing more and more people until eventually it's just you, the lone survivor, one level below your TARDIS."

"It's the best I can do," he reasoned, "so I'm doing it. Do you have a problem with that?"

"You're giving them false hope."

"You can't win." the Master said.

"I know!" the Doctor snapped, "And?"

The Master laughed, "Come on, kid, Lady Version. I honestly don't know what you see in him." he didn't look back as he headed off towards the lifts.

"Likewise." Missy muttered, moving to follow.

Raven hesitated a moment, almost debating to stay but turned and followed her parents in silence. A coward, that what she was, first way of escape and survival and she was running right towards it, away from the danger.

"No!" the Doctor yelled after them, "No! When I say no, you turn back around!" he hurriedly caught up with them near the end of the woods, "Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long." he through his arms up, tired, "Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?"

The Master stepped up to him, "See this face? Take a good, long look at it. This is the face that didn't listen to a word you just said." he smirked and headed off again.

The Doctor glared at his back, turning to Raven and Missy, both of them had stayed, they had listened to him. "Please," he whispered to Raven.

"I don't want to die." she admitted quietly, "not surrounded by people I don't know."

"Then die around those who love you, care for you," he tried, "Missy," he pleaded with her. Just one of them, if one of them stayed with him, the other would too, he knew it, neither one wanting to be the first to say it. Please, one of them. "Missy. You've changed. I know you have. And I know what you're capable of. Stand with me. It's all I've ever wanted."

"Me too." she offered him a sad smile, "But no. Sorry. Just, no." she took his hand in hers and patted it, "But thanks for trying."

"Thanks for everything." Raven added before the pair turned and followed the Master through the trees.

They moved through the trees slowly, using them as shields to prevent being spotted by Cybermen as the battle began.

"Right," the Master said as he opened the lifts doors. Surprisingly glad it had been the Doctors idea to keep them on this level. "Right. Come on, then, hop in. Straight down. TARDIS." he turned to see Raven hanging back, still looking back to the farmhouse, where the major battle was taking place, where the doctor was fighting to help people. The Master scoffed, "you're not seriously thinking of going back, are you? I won't allow it." Raven didn't looked to him, didn't move, standing still, her eyes scanning around, "Raven. Saska! We're going."

"Quiet," she shushed him, "they're spreading out."

They were looking for the cowards who had tried to run away, looking for them. She didn't want to be a coward anymore.

"Come here," Missy smiled at the Master, her eyes were not quite as sweet as her smile, cold, calculating, every bit the Queen of Evil.

He frowned at her, "I'm sorry?"

"Come here." she held her arms out to him.

"Seriously?" he raised his eyebrows at her, "are we really going to do this?"

"Oh, I loved being you." Missy sighed as she held him in her arms, "Every second of it. Oh, the way you burn like a sun. Like a whole screaming world on fire. I remember that feeling, and I always will. And I will always miss it..."

The Master gasped, reaching back to his neck, blood on his fingers, "now, that was really nicely done."

"Thank you."

"Glad to know I haven't lost my touch." he muttered, slowly moving himself in to the lift, "How long do I have?"

"Oh, I was precise. You'll be able to make it back to your TARDIS, maybe even get a cuppa, although you might leak a little."

"And then regenerate into you."

Missy curtsied, neither denying nor agreeing she was the next one after him, "Welcome to the sisterhood."

"Missy? Seriously, why?"

"Oh, because he's right. Because it's time to stand with him. It's where we've always been going, and it's happening now, today. It's time to stand with the Doctor."

"No." he sneered at her, "Never. Missy! I will never stand with the Doctor!"

"Yes, my dear, you will." she smirked, turning her back on him to Raven, "I love you."

Raven was confused for only a moment, before she realised exactly what Missy knew, a moment too late. So close to the end Missy remembered exactly what happened her, and she accepted it.

"No!" Raven cried out as the Master hit Missy with his laser screwdriver, knocking her to the ground with a faint gasp.

They knew they were going to die, but not like this. Please not like this.

"Don't bother trying to regenerate." he smirked at her, "you got the full blast."

"Please no." Raven pleaded with him, dropping to her knees, besides Missy. She wouldn't die alone. She deserved better than that.

Despite themselves, despite what they were doing, they both laughed. Shooting themselves in the back, a perfect ending for them.

"You see, Missy," the Master called to her, "this is where we've always been going. This is our perfect ending. We shoot ourselves in the back."

"It's alright," Raven soothed, "I'm here."

"I know," Missy smiled her hand, her hand stroking her cheek. Her hand was cold, dying fast, her life fading. "I love you, Saska." her last words, her hand went limp besides her, taking her last breath, her eyes going flat, staring at nothing.

Raven stood to face the Master again.

"I'm not waiting." he told her, "come here. now."

A command, a command she used to follow instantly, no matter how it hurt.

She shook her head, "no."

"Raven!"

"See you in a few years," she offered, shutting the lift doors on him and turning her back despite his yells.

What would you die for? That's what the Doctor asked. He was right, she would die for those who loved her, cared for her.

And he did.

She would stand with him. Willingly.

Even if it killed her.

atrhoads05: Im glad yours enjoying the story :)

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