The Master laid in the middle of the bed as Lucy and I laid on either side if him, I was on my side wide awake as I scooted as far as I could away from the Master.
Suddenly, the phone rang on the nightstand right next to me and I slowly picked it up to see who was calling…it was one of the guards.
"Hand me the phone", the Master ordered as he held out his hand above me and I placed it in his hand as I heard him flip it open to answer it.
"Ha, ha", the Master exclaimed, before dragging me out of bed as he grabbed his robe and draped it around him, then dragged me off to the lobby.
"Shouldn't I change", I asked as I looked down at the lingerie he forced me to wear, "No…let's see how he reacts when he sees you in this", the Master said mockingly as we went into the lobby.
He forced me to sneak over to the Doctor's cage, as he slowly woke up to look at us.
"Guess what?! We've found Martha Jones", the Master told him, then he looked at me before standing straight, "I'm going go fetch your companion and we", the Master said as he grabbed my hand, "Need to get ready", then he dragged me back to the bedroom as he asked if I saw the Doctor's face.
I didn't want the Doctor to see me in this humiliating state, I thought as I got dressed while my cheeks burned in embarrassment.
After Lucy and I got dressed, he went over to kiss her and then came over to kiss me, but I turned my head away. The Master grabbed my chin and forced me to kiss him anyway and that's when I bit his lip hard, which made him pull away in pain and slap me.
Then he grabbed my throat, pressing his hand against it as he threatened to squeeze, "If I want a kiss, you better give me one", he told me, and I clenched my fists as Lucy just watched.
He lowered his hand as he said, "You two, wait in the lobby until I return", the Master said, before he left and I was seething as Lucy left to go to the lobby, I sighed and followed after her.
When he came back, he had Martha with him, "Citizens of Earth", the speaker said, "Rejoice and observe!"
The Master, Lucy, and I all stood at the top of the staircase; Martha's family stood to the side, the Doctor remained in his cage, and Jack was on the other side covered in dirt.
Soon, the guards came into the lobby through the elevator with Martha and we watched as Martha slowly entered the lobby. The Master held out his hand as Martha stopped at the foot of the staircase.
"Your teleport device, in case you thought I'd forgotten", the Master ordered, and Martha grabbed the vortex manipulator from her pocket and tossed it up to him, which he catched.
"And now kneel", he ordered, and I clenched my fists, I saw that Martha noticed this as she did so.
"Down below, the fleet is ready to launch two hundred thousand ships, set to burn across the universe", the Master told everyone, then he ran over to press the button on the communicator.
"Are we ready", the Master asked, "The fleet await your signal. Rejoice", the voice said back, "Three minutes to align the Black Hole Converter! Counting down", the Master said as a timer went down on the wall.
"I could never resist a ticking clock. My children! Are you ready", the Master yelled, "We will fly and blaze and slice! We will fly and blaze and slice", we all heard the sphere's say in unity.
"At zero to mark this day, the child, Martha Jones, will die….my first blood. Any last words", the Master asked her, and I glared at the Master.
After a moment of silence, he asked, "No", before glancing between the Doctor and myself, "Such a disappointment, this one. Days of old Doctor and Voyager, you had companions that could absorb the Time Vortex! This one's useless", the Master said as he pointed his laser screwdriver at Martha.
"Bow your head", he ordered, and Martha did as he said, "And so it falls to me, as Master of all, to establish, from this day, a new order of Time-Lords! From this day forward…", the Master trailed off as soon as he heard Martha chuckle to herself.
"What…What's so funny", the Master asked Martha as he lowered his hand, "A gun", she asked.
"What about it", he asked her, "A gun in four parts", she asked him, "Yes, and I destroyed it", the Master told her.
"A gun in four parts, scattered across the world…I mean, come on! Do you really believe that", Martha asked him and I couldn't help but smile at that.
"What do you mean", the Master asked, "As if I would ask her to kill", the Doctor told him, "Oh, well! It doesn't matter! I have her, exactly where I want her", the Master told them.
"But I knew what Professor Doherty would do. The resistance knew…about her son. I told her about the gun, so she'd get me here at the right time", Martha told the Master.
"But, you're still gonna die", the Master told her, "Don't you want to know what I was doing? Traveling the world", Martha asked.
"Tell me", the Master said annoyed as he sat down on the staircase, "I told a story, that's all", Martha said as flashes of memory from a missing year entered my mind. A flash of her face telling my younger self, my siblings, and my parents a story…a story about the Doctor.
"No weapons, just words. I did what the Doctor said, I went across the continents and everywhere I went, I found people and I told them my story. I even stopped by Acacia's house", Martha told him, and the Master glanced at me.
"I told them about the Doctor, I told them about the woman who traveled with him. I told them to pass it on, so everyone knew about the Doctor and the woman", Martha told the Master.
"Faith and hope? Is that all", the Master asked, "No, I gave them an instruction", Martha told him as she stood back up.
"As the Doctor said, I told them if everyone thinks of one word at one specific time- ", "Nothing will happen! Is that your "weapon" prayer", the Master asked, cutting her off.
"Right across the world, one word, just one thought, at one moment…but fifteen satellites", Martha exclaimed.
"What", the Master asked as he frowned, "The Archangel Network", Jack replied, "And everyone in the world will be connected by a single word", I said.
"Exactly, a telepathic field binding the human race together, with all of them, every single person on Earth. Thinking the same thing at the same time and that word…is Doctor", Martha finished.
Then a light began to illuminate from the Doctor, causing his cage to evaporate, "Stop it", the Master ordered, "Stop it. No, no, no, no you don't…"
You could see everyone in the room close their eyes as they said, "Doctor", and the feeling of hope filled the air.
"Stop it right now! Stop it", the Master ordered as he was losing control, I saw Lucy in the corner of my eye look at me as I smiled at the Doctor.
She didn't have anyone to tell her what to do, it was her choice and when she whispered the Doctor's name I smiled at that.
"I've had a year to tune into the psychic network and integrate with its matrices", the Doctor said as he stood, a little younger than he was before.
"The one thing you can't do, stop them from thinking", the Doctor said as he was engulfed in light and returned back to his old younger self.
"Tell me the human race is degenerate now", the Doctor said as he floated up in the air, "When they can do this", wind whirled around us as Martha ran to hug her family happily.
"No", the Master yelled as he tried to shoot him with his laser screwdriver, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry", the Doctor told him.
"Then I'll kill her", the Master said as he tried to shoot me, before the entity and I lifted our hand to shield ourselves from the blast with a shield of light.
"What?! Then I'll shoot them", the Master said and then pointed his laser screwdriver at the Jones' family. The Doctor raised his hand and caused the screwdriver to fly out of the Master's hand.
The Master looked back at the Doctor, "You can't do this! You can't do this! It's not fair", the Master exclaimed.
"And you know what happens now", the Doctor told him, and the Master suddenly had a look of horror on his face.
"No…no", the Master exclaimed as he quickly walked backwards away from the Doctor as he floated towards the Master.
"No! No", the Master yelled, "You wouldn't listen", the Doctor told him as the Master back up against the wall.
"No", the Master said shielding himself, "Because you know what I'm going to say", the Doctor told him as he floated down.
I walked forward and looked down from the railing as I watched the Doctor hug the Master who was crouched down on the floor.
"I forgive you", the Doctor told him through his pain, then the Master looked up at me.
"My children", he suddenly said, "Protect the Paradox Machine!"
"Captain! The Paradox Machine", the Doctor told Jack, "Right! You with me", Jack ordered the guards as they ran out of the room and I felt the entity jolt within me.
They tried running after him, but I stood my ground. The Master then took out the vortex manipulator and when the Doctor tried to stop him from using it, they both vanished.
We all ran to the computers and concluded that the spheres would be here in approximately five to eight minutes. Then we looked out the window and watched as the spheres descended upon the Earth.
Suddenly, I felt the entity within me writhe in pain as they screamed, and the spheres disappeared as I fell onto the ground when the entire ship shook.
"No", the entity and I screamed, then I felt the Doctor run to me as the Master watched what was happening.
"Everyone get down! Time is reversing", the Doctor yelled as I writhed around, "I won't die", the entity and I yelled, but it almost sounded like a growl.
By the time it stopped, I felt something faze out of me and into existence, we all slowly stood up to see a woman standing with her back facing me. She had long blonde hair…she was naked and when she turned to face me…she looked exactly like me.
"Hello dear", she said flirtatiously, "Oh…what was it that you did when you found yourself naked in that chamber", she asked me, referring to when I woke up on Galifrey as a new Time-Lord.
"Oh…that's right. "Oh my"", she mocked and covered herself, I soon realized she was some kind of version of myself.
"Who are you", I asked her, then I looked over to the Doctor who seemed like he already knew who she was.
"It's like I told you before", she said as she placed her hands on her hips, clearly not bothered by the fact that she was naked, "Too soon."
Then she glanced over to the Master, before walking up to him, "Dearest Master, thank you ever so much", she told him and just when you thought she was going to kiss him, she slapped him.
"Well", she said as she came back over to us, before grabbing her head in pain and she sighed, "It would seem I can't stay here long…there's a trial", she told us and then she shrugged, before walking away.
"You know…I think I'll take the long route. Ta-ta", she told us, before she faded out of existence in a ball of light.
"What the hell was that", I asked as the Doctor ran over to a computer, "We've reverted back one year and one day. 8:02 am", the Doctor told us, changing the subject.
"But, Doctor- ", then the Doctor turned on the communicator, "This is UNIT control, what's happened? We saw the President assassinated", we heard the voice say and I knew he wasn't going to answer my question, so I let it go.
"After the President was killed, before the spheres arrived. Back to normal, planet Earth restored, and none of it happened. The rockets, the terror, it never was", the Doctor told us.
"What about the spheres", Martha asked, "Trapped at the end of the universe", the Doctor told her.
"But, I can remember it", Martha's mother told him, "We're in the eye of the storm, the only ones who'll ever know", the Doctor told her.
Then a big grin grew on his face as he walked up to Martha's father, "Oh, hello! You must be Mr. Jones, we haven't actually met", the Doctor said excitedly while shaking his hand.
Then the Master took this opportunity to try and run away, "Master, stop", I yelled as we all ran after him, before Jack stopped him at the elevator.
"Whoa, big fella! You don't want to miss the party", Jack said as he grabbed the Master, "Cuffs", Jack ordered one of the guards, before I walked up and gave Jack the cuffs the Master forced me to wear.
"Here Jack", I said and was relieved he was alright, but he was a bit taken aback by that, "Voyager", he greeted, and I frowned.
I remembered when the entity went on more than on one occasion to torture Jack along with the Master.
"I'm so sorry…it wasn't me…it was the Paradox Machine, I- ", then Jack chuckled, which caused me to stop talking.
"You're back", he told me and then shrugged, "That's all that matters", I smiled sadly at him. "So, what do I do with this one", Jack asked.
"We kill him", Mr. Jones said, "We execute him", Tish, Martha's sister, added.
"No, that's not the solution", the Doctor told them as I narrowed my eyes in concern and then Mrs. Jones raised a gun at the Master.
"Oh, I don't think so…because all those things…", she said as the Doctor slowly walked up to her, "Because all those things…they still happened, because of him. I saw them."
Martha looked up at me for some help but stopped when she noticed I had the same look as everyone else and the Master noticed this.
"Go on then! Do it", he told her, "Francine…you're better than him", the Doctor told her as he slowly lowered her hands.
She dropped the gun and they hugged as she cried, then the Doctor looked up at the rest of us, and then he looked at me as tears rolled down my cheeks.
They all walked to the staircase as the Jones family hugged each other while the Doctor and I turned to walk towards the Master.
"You still haven't answered my question. What happens to me", the Master asked us, "You're our responsibility from now on. The only Time-Lords in existence", the Doctor told us as he glanced between the Master and I.
Then Jack walked up to us, "Yeah, but can you trust him", he asked, "No", I told him, "Which is why he's going to be kept in the Tardis", the Doctor added, and I looked back at him.
"You mean…you're just gonna…keep me", the Master asked us, and I glared back at him, "Mhm, if that's what we have to do. It's time to change", the Doctor told him as he looked over at me.
"Maybe we've been wandering for too long…", he told me, "You mean…you want to settle down", I asked him.
"Well, if that's what you want", the Doctor told me, and I narrowed my eyes in confusion at him and smiled a bit, at least until we heard a gunshot.
We both looked over and saw the Master fall onto the floor, before we ran over to him.
As we both held the Master, we looked down at him, "Always the women", the Master told us, and I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Maybe I should just drop you", I said annoyed, "You're really gonna drop me? Someone who just got shot", the Master asked me.
"I'm thinking about it", I told him, "Stop it", the Doctor told us.
"Well, I'm dying in both of your arms. Happy now", the Master asked us, "You're not dying. Don't be stupid, it's only a bullet. Just regenerate", the Doctor told him.
"No", the Master told the Doctor, "You need to regenerate", I told him, "Do I "need" to", the Master asked childishly.
"Yes. Now come on", the Doctor said, "Guess you don't know me so well. I refuse", the Master told him.
"Regenerate, just regenerate, please, please just regenerate", the Doctor pleaded, "And spend the rest of my life imprisoned with the two of you", the Master told us.
"But you've got to! Come on! It can't end like this! All of us and all the things we've done. Auxons…remember the Auxons and the Daleks…we're the only ones left…just the three of us. Everyone's gone…regenerate", the Doctor yelled. I looked up at the Doctor with tears rolling down my cheeks as I realized how lonely the Doctor really was.
"How about that?...I win…will it stop Doctor…Voyager? The drumming? Will it stop", the Master asked, before he closed his eyes and died in our arms.
Then the Doctor pulled him close as tears rolled down his cheeks, "Doctor", I asked as I gently touched his cheek, he looked up at me with tear filled eyes, before pulling me in as we both hugged each other and the Master's body.
Later that night, the Doctor and I wrapped the Master's body in a blanket and tied it up with a rope. Then we placed his body on top of a stack of logs that we had set up during the day, we lit up a torch and as the Doctor was holding my hand we set it on fire in an ancient Galifrien burial ritual.
We turned and walked away, I noticed that the Doctor held onto my hand tightly...afraid that I would fade away as well as we walked down the path.
The next day the four of us, the Doctor, Martha, Jack, and I, returned to the place where it all started; where Jack ran after the Tardis and we went all the way to the end of the universe.
"Time was, every single one of these people knew your name. Now they've all forgotten you", Martha told the Doctor.
"Good", he replied, "Back to work", Jack said as he began to walk off, "I really don't mind though. Come with us", the Doctor told him.
"Yeah", I agreed, "Had plenty of time to think that past year. The year that never was…and I kept thinking about that team of mine. Like you said Doctor: Responsibility", Jack told us.
"Defending the Earth, can't argue with that", the Doctor said before grabbing Jack's wrist that held his vortex manipulator.
"Hey! I need that", Jack exclaimed as I laughed a bit when the Doctor broke it with his sonic screwdriver.
"Can't have you walking around with a time-traveling teleport, you could go anywhere. Twice. Second time to apologize", the Doctor told him.
"And what about me? Can you fix that? Will I ever be able to die", Jack asked, "Nothing I can do. You're an impossible thing, Jack", the Doctor told him, which made Jack laugh.
"Been called that before", Jack said and then winked at me as I gave him a confused look.
Before he walked away, he turned around again to solute us, "Sir, ma'am, miss", Jack told us, and I scoffed and narrowed my eyes at him calling me "miss."
Jack just smiled, and I couldn't help, but smile back, "I keep wondering", Jack said as he lowered his hand, "What about aging? Because I can't die, but I keep getting older, the odd little grey hair, y'know? What happens if I live a million years", he asked us.
"I really don't know", the Doctor replied, and Jack looked over at me, I shrugged, "I'm sorry", I told him.
"No, it's alright. Vanity, sorry…yeah. Can't help it. Used to be a poster boy. When I was kid living in the Boeshane Peninsula, tiny little place, I was the first one ever to be signed up for the Time Agency. They were so proud of me. The face of Boe, they called me", he told us.
Martha and the Doctor seemed to be in shock when he told us that, which left me confused. Still I smiled as he waved goodbye and left.
"No", the Doctor said, "It can't be", Martha added as I looked between them in confusion, "No, definitely not, no", the Doctor said, "What", I asked.
"Oh! Well, long…ah, too soon to tell you", the Doctor told me as I crossed my arms as I lifted a brow at him and the Doctor just smiled.
"Come on", he said as we all entered the Tardis to bring Martha home. The Doctor and I waited inside of the Tardis for her to return as the Doctor's hand watched me from inside of the jar.
I've grown quite used to it by now though, then I looked down at my hands, it was almost time for me to go and the Doctor noticed this.
"Almost time for you to go", the Doctor asked me from his chair, "Yeah", I told him, before Martha entered the Tardis and I hid my hands behind my back.
"Right then! Off we go", the Doctor said as he stood up and went over to the console, but something seemed off with Martha.
"The open road! There is a burst of star fire, right now over the coast of Mega Sigmafolio, the sky is like oil on water- ", "Doctor", I said cutting him off.
He suddenly stopped talking to glance over at me, before he looked over to Martha and the Doctor straightened as he frowned, it was obvious that he knew that look.
"Okay", he said, "I just can't", she told him, "Yeah", he replied as he looked between Martha and I, then looked down.
"Spent all these years training to be a doctor and now I've got people to look after", she told us as I glance back at the Doctor before looking back at her.
"They saw half the planet slaughtered, they're devastated. I can't leave them", Martha told us.
"Course not", the Doctor said, "I understand", I told her, she looked over at me and smiled sadly. Both the Doctor and I smiled as the mood became light once more.
Then she came over to hug us both which we returned, "Martha Jones, you saved the world", the Doctor told her.
"Yes, I did", she told him, "Don't forget it", I told her, "I won't", she told me, and we smiled.
Martha laughed, "I spent a lot of time with the two of you…thinking I was second or third best. But you know what? I am good", she said happily.
Martha looked over at me knowingly, before looking back at the Doctor, "You're going to be alright", she asked him, "Always, yeah", the Doctor told her.
"And you", she asked me as I looked back over to her, "Will you be alright", and I smiled sadly, "Yeah", I told her.
"Right then, bye", she said, before kissing the Doctor's cheek and then walked out, before she came right back in.
"Because the thing is, it's like my friend Vicky. She lived with this bloke, student housing, there were five of them, all packed in, and this bloke called Shaun and she loved him. She did, she completely adored him, spent all day long talking about him", she told the Doctor.
"Is this going anywhere", the Doctor asked her, "Yes", "Doctor", Martha and I exclaimed, he was a bit taken aback but he listened.
"Because, he never looked at her twice. I mean he liked her, but that was it…and he already had someone he loved, and she didn't want to get in the middle of that…but she still couldn't help loving him. She wasted years pinning after him, years of her life, because while he was around she never looked at anyone else. And I told her, I said to her, time and time again, I said, "Get out"", Martha told the Doctor and he nodded as he understood what she was saying.
"So, this is me…getting out", she told us and then tossed him her cell phone, "Keep that, because I'm not having you disappear! If that rings, when that rings, you both better come running. Got it", Martha told us.
"Got it", Yeah", the Doctor and I said as she headed towards the exit, then she stopped to look back at us, "It's like what the Voyager always said, "I'll see you again, mister"", she told us, before she left, and we smiled.
Before we dematerialized, I walked over to the Doctor as his hand hovered over the lever, "Doctor", I asked, and he sighed before lowering his hand.
"Yeah", he asked as he looked over at me, before I gently kissed him and when we separated I opened my eyes to see that he looked a bit apprehensive as he looked at me and then back at the lever.
In an effort to lighten the mood I said, "I'll see you again", I told him as I had already forgiven him for not telling me about Galifrey and I knew he already knew that.
The Doctor smiled at that, "Until then…Acacia", he told me as he pulled the lever that sent us into the Time Vortex and I felt my whole body being engulfed in light as I closed my eyes, before my whole body was pulled through time…I didn't want to leave him.