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Chapter Six, Painful Interruptions

"Interrupting is rude." Vala told The Master, in annoyance.

"Vala, we'll talk about this later." Daniel whispered. "Don't provoke him." He knew it was a bad idea to make the Master angry. But Vala didn't seem to realize this. Which wasn't good.

"It was rude Daniel! There are no excuses!" Vala argued, as if she was completely unaware of the danger this could cause.

"Vala! Stop!" Daniel cautioned.

The Master just looked amused. "Brave girl. I'll see how brave you are once I separate you from your friends--No. I have a better idea." He said, when he saw her unafraid look, he changed his plan. "I'll take your friend." He looked at Daniel. The Master had that evil glint in his eyes.

Vala tried not to let out a gasp. She didn't want the Master to know that it would affect her more than any the others. But she gave him an annoyed look.

The Master pointed and said, "You. Up." to Daniel.

Daniel looked at Vala and then slowly yet reluctantly got up. He knew this would have resulted in something bad, and now he was a bit annoyed that it had gotten him into trouble.

"No. Wait. I'll go." Vala argued, standing up and stepping in front of Daniel. Which just made him more annoyed. First she had gotten them into trouble, and now she was trying to be all brave and was probably just going to get herself hurt. Daniel had a bad feeling about all of this.

The Master raised his eyebrows.

"Vala. Stop this. Sit back down." Daniel muttered. Hoping she would listen to him, but knowing it wasn't likely.

"Alright. You can both come. Even better." The Master said, delighted. He could do some damage.

They both looked hesitantly at each other. They couldn't back out now. They would both have to go.

Just peachy, Vala thought. She gave Daniel a look that clearly said, "You should have just let me go."

Daniel caught the look, and thought, Yeah right. Like this is my fault. If you didn't have to go and provoke him…

"Master...Don't do this." The Doctor's voice was something like a warning. He had a feeling about what was about to happen.

"I just love it when you call me Master, Doctor." The Master flashed them all an evil grin. Then he shoved the two in question through the door.

"Don't." the Doctor repeated as the door closed behind the Master. A feeling of dread went through the Doctor.

The remaining people in the room all exchanged glances, but the Doctor seemed to be the only one who knew the real threat.

"What's he going to do?" Mitchell asked.

The Doctor didn't answer; he just looked at the door. "We need to get out. Or one of the two of your friends is going to die, and the other is going to want to." The Doctor said solemnly.

"Then it's time for plan number two." Mitchell said, determinedly.

"What's plan number two?" Sam asked. She was pretty sure they had none.

"We… Adria is still out there, isn't she?"

~*~*~*~

The Master led them to a room where Adria was still there, "Sit down and enjoy the show." The Master said, with an evil grin, as he turned toward Daniel and Vala. "Which one?" He asked Adria, without any sort of explanation.

Adria's eyes flickered. She was still dazed by what the Master had done to her. (Forcing some of her few memories out of her head so she would not remember what was happening but she would help him. "Her." She didn't know why she said it, but she was more drawn to Vala

The Master grinned, "I think so too." He said, grabbing Daniel and tying him up. Before he turned to Vala. "It's a shame. " He said over his shoulder to Daniel, though he was still looking at Vala. "That your friend was so eager to stick up for you. Now you'll both have to deal with that."

Vala took a step back as he approached her. "What… what are you doing?" She asked. She looked over him to Adria, who had treated her well up until this point. "Adria?"

Adria was suffering from a terrible headache, everything was confusing. She didn't know who she was. Or what she was supposed to do. Everything was a blur.

"Don't do this." Daniel pleaded to The Master. "You can hurt me. Leave her alone! Please?!"

"Oh I am hurting you." The Master replied quite honestly.

"Don't…" Daniel trailed off, "not to her. Don't. Please."

The Master leaned against a table in the room as he tried to decide how exactly he was going to go about torturing his victim, as he did this he thumped on the table in a persistent beat, Thump thump thump thump.......Thump thump thump thump......Thump Thump Thump Thump.... Finally he stopped, and got a crazed look in his eyes. He shoved her against the wall and started twisting her arm into a position ones arm should never be in.

Vala cried out in pain. She was sure that this would leave a mark…

~*~*~*~

"Stop it! Leave her alone!" Daniel called out to the Master. "You can do anything to me. Just leave her alone!"

The Master just grinned. This was perfect.

A knife sliced down Vala's arm. Vala bit her tongue to keep from letting out any sort of yelp.

Daniel couldn't watch. He couldn't bear to watch him hurt her. His teammate. His friend. His best friend. She meant more to him than anyone had in such a long time. She meant something different to him, then anyone had since, well, since his wife. Not that he'd admit it. But because of all this, he could not bear to see her being hurt. He could not watch her die while he was helpless.

~*~*~*~

The Doctor paced. He knew the Master well enough to know that whatever was going on beyond their locked door was most defiantly more horrid that any of them needed to think about. He needed to stop the Master. No, more than that. He needed to save the Master. Why the Master had to be so… so evil, he would never understand. But he would do the best he could to save him. Whatever he could.

Mitchell, Sam, Donna and the silent Teal'c were sitting watching him pace.

"We can't just sit here and let this happen." Donna said, jumping to her feet. She'd tried to hold it together before, but this was just horrible. She knew the Master must be doing something horrible.

Mitchell wasn't far behind her, "I know that, but what do we do? We can't get anywhere with out the door open. I mean, Vala couldn't get the door open! How are we supposed to?" The situation seemed rather hopeless, but Mitchell had been in a lot of hopeless situations, he was ready to face this one.

"Well, if we had a sonic screwdriver…" The Doctor muttered, in frustration.

"A what?" Sam questioned.

"Nothing…" Donna muttered inspecting the door. "I suppose we'll have to find our own way out."

~*~*~*~

Vala was curled on the floor. She couldn't take any more. If the Master took more than a step for her she surely would not be able to handle anymore. She looked over to Daniel and saw he was trying not to watch while still being very concerned, she thought she could almost see his eyes filled with tears. She glanced over to Adria and noticed the flicker in her eyes. The unsure demeanor caused Vala to have hope that perhaps Adria could save them. But when Adria made eye contact with her, clearly showing she didn't know what to think of Vala, she lost that hope as quickly as she gained it.

~*~*~*~

Adria stared at the woman with dark hair and gray eyes, full of pain. She didn't know where she had seen the woman before. Her mind seemed to be spinning. The gears trying to work out what exactly was happening. The Master was hurting this woman and she felt some force pushing her to help her. But as their eyes met, she couldn't think clearly any longer. She would not be able to help. She didn't even know who she was…

~*~*~*~

"Adria! You need to help her!" Daniel called, hopelessly. "That's your mother! He's killing your mother! Please help her! Please!" He pleaded, he wasn't used to begging Adria. But Adria didn't know who she was. And Daniel thought begging her to save Vala was the only thing he could do for her at this point. He needed Vala to be okay. He couldn't sit here and watch as The Master killed her.

~*~*~*~

Vala closed her eyes and cringed waiting for the Master to cause her more pain. She heard a thud and realized that it wasn't her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the Master pinned against the wall. Adria was taking step after step towards him. She then leaned down and helped Vala up

Vala cringed at the pain that just standing brought but pointed to Daniel and looked at Adria. Adria nodded and thrust a hand in his direction releasing him from the ties. "Adria." Vala croaked, her voice weak. "Please, help my friends. They're locked away in a room that way. Just open the door. We can make it from here."

Adria looked hesitantly in the direction of the door then back at Vala. She was clearly becoming weaker by the second. She wouldn't be able to help them for much longer.

~*~*~*~

As soon as the ties that bound him were cut loose, Daniel rushed to Vala's side, he put an arm around her to help her stand steadily. She was bleeding badly. He was worried about her.

Authors' Note: Hope you liked that chapter. Don't worry, another chapter is on its way. =)