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Chapter 7
"The Master?"
"The Master!"
"What is it about your people and silly names?"
The Doctor looked at Jackie, aghast.
"Silly names? I have you know that I have a perfectly good name thank you very much"
Rose stifled a laugh at the Doctors indignation.
"You have got to admit it is strange having just one name. No forename or surname."
"My real name is unpronounceable to you but I was known as Theta in the academy"
Both Rose and Jackie laughed at this name but then stopped looking at the paleness of the Doctors face.
"Doctor? What's wrong?"
"I'm sorry. I was just remembering my academy days. Now where was I ? Oh yes, the Master. He was my best friend in the academy"
"and how he pick up the name Master then and you the Doctor"? Rose asked looking interested in finding out a bit more about her companion.
"That's a story I can tell you. But we have more urgent things to worry about then just nominating a name."
The Doctor sat down on the sofa and seemed to go into a deep trance. After a good ten minutes or was it longer he suddenly sprung up, the grin that seem to come naturally to him in its glory on his face.
"Rose, get Mickey on the phone and ask him if he still has that virus disc I gave him?"
"What disc? Why do you need to know?"
"Because if he has that disc I can undo some tinkering that Mickey and myself managed to do and that is the way we can let the Master know that we are on to him?
"And how exactly are we going to do that?"
"Simple!"
Rose looked at the Doctor as if he had gone completely insane.
"How?"
"The Code 9 alert"