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Chapter 5
Delgado had just finished talking to the ex prime minister. That tiresome woman Harriet Jones. He had never found out why she had resigned. He only knew that something had changed from her being the strongest prime minister in British history to being someone who looked tired. But she had still been very interruptive. His charm that worked so well on others did not work on her. He had to admit that it was surprising to him. But he would find a way to make her succumb to his reasoning. He hadn't failed before. Anything to stop her saying her name and what seat she currently held. What was it she said? Oh yes "Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North" or something like that. He had heard she introduced herself when she was PM as "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister" even though everyone knew who she was. Bloody woman.
But now he had other things on his mind.
The red LED that he had installed on his desk was flashing away intermittedly. He cursed the humans for having red as a colour for danger when mauve was such a better colour. But he could not find a mauve LED anywhere on this damn planet. That was something he would have to fix once this little problem was sorted out.
He had asked to be left alone as he had some papers to work on. Once the final adviser had left he stood up and walked to the bookcase that he had brought in when he became prime minister. He walked behind it and got into it.
He went to the console and pushed down the black handle and double doors behind him closed. Then he went to the computer screen and saw the mauve signal. That was a sign he thought he would never see again. He had visited Gallifrey or tried to not that long ago and found it a ball of ash. He didn't know what had caused it and He didn't really care either. All he knew now was that there was no one left to stop him. Not even him.
He remembered the last time he had met the Doctor. Had actually done something that had made him shake to his very bones. He had helped the Doctor. All because the Doctor had brought him back from the living hell he was in when he fell into the Eye of Harmony in that damn TARDIS of his. But the Doctor insufferable as he was had seen fit to bring him back. He had been in the Doctor's debt then. Which he had repaid when he delivered the vial. He didn't ask why the Doctor had needed the vial of the most powerful explosive ever devised but he had achieved his task. He somehow thought that it maybe had something to do with Gallifrey now being ash.
But still he didn't care.
With Gallifrey ash, and not even a feeling of any other time lords' presence or even his, he set his plan in motion. But even he had a feeling that there was no one left to stop him.
But now? He wasn't so sure.