Author's Note: Welcome to chapter 6! Again I apologise to anyone who didn't recieve a thank you PM from me when they favourited my stories or put them on alert. I got another windfall and got confused. XD

The Master's POV:

"Where did you get these things?" We're weaving through crowds of people. I've tried to find a landmark to tell me which planet I'm on, but the only headway I've made is that we're not on Earth. Even though I was ready to kill to get out I now wish that we'd stayed in the TARDIS. The crowd is so thick, and the Doctor is moving so fast, that every few minutes I have to grab hold of his coat so I can keep up with them and not get zapped into oblivion. He seems oblivious and I'm pissed off… I wish we'd stayed in the TARDIS.

The Doctor ignores me, side stepping around a young couple. They're laughing, and I have a sudden urge to blow something up. I tell the Doctor this and it gets his attention long enough for me to repeat my question.

"Jack got 'em."

I snigger. "What did you and the Freak get up to in them?"

The Doctor scowls at the use of the word 'Freak', tugging me through the middle of a group of teenagers. "We kept a…" I knew he had been about to use the word 'prisoner', but thought better of it. "…Slitheen."

"As a pet?"

The Doctor rolls his eyes. "No! We were taking her back to her home world to be imprisoned."

"So you tied yourself to a Slitheen? On purpose?"

"Yep." I crash into his back as he stops suddenly, letting what looks like a cross between a monkey and dog cross our path.

"Did she fry?" I grin, expecting a moody silence.

"Uh…" the Doctor says. "Kind of."

I raise my eyebrows. "You killed something… on purpose?"

"No!" The Doctor turns so he's walking backwards, facing me. Somehow, he doesn't hit anyone. "She just got… de-aged to childhood."

I stop, staring down at the bracelet. The Doctor stops a few paces from me. "What?"

I look up at him, a meaningful expression on my face. I mean, it's all very well and good, but not even I can live up to the universe's expectations of escape, domination, and murder, etc, if I'm a kid again.

"Oh!" The Doctor grins. "It wasn't the bracelet." He reaches out, grabs my arm, and continues to pull me through the crowd. "It was the TARDIS."

"Clever TARDIS!"

"Yeah, she saved me, Jack, and Rose."

I shake my head. "Bad TARDIS!"

Owen yawned loudly, which earned him a look of barely disguised hostility from Toshiko. She was showing them a slideshow that summarised all they found out when they had been in the Himalayas. Seeing as it had been nothing, Owen didn't see the point of this exercise. Ianto and Gwen, however, were listening with rapt attention, as they had been stuck on the other side of the mountain when Owen and Tosh had found the cabin that had apparently held a man eating reptilian parrot.

Needless to say, the cabin hadn't, and Owen was bored.

"So we found this cabin." Click. A beaten-down, wooden cabin appeared on the wall. "Where there was a reported sighting of a rengnewaala bina samjhe boojhe doosron ki nakal karne waala."

"Uh!" Owen buried his head in his hands, so Tosh wouldn't see him laughing. Even Ianto and Gwen were smiling.

Tosh, however, wasn't. "I hardly see what's funny about the rengnewaala bina--"

"Stop." Owen was now shaking with laughter. "Just tell 'em we found nothing and be done with it."

"Oh, for heaven's sake." Tosh crossed her arms.

Before she could say anything more, though, there was a great crash from the hub below them. All four of them rushed out, flying down the steps to the main area, drawing their guns as they went.

Standing in the middle of the hub was Jack, looking guilty. Myfanwy was standing next to him, and the remains of one of the bird's feeders lay at their feet.

"Jack!"

"That's me." Jack grinned uneasily.

When Ianto started forward, Jack stepped back. Ianto stopped, looking hurt. "Jack?"

Jack smiled again, swallowing. "You're not going to hit me, are you?"

Ianto shook his head wordlessly, stepping forward again, this time enveloping Jack in a tight hug, burying his head in Jack shoulder. "No. I might kill you, but I'd never hit you."

Jack grinned, this time a proper smile. "Good to be back."

"Where have you been?" Toshiko asked. Her voice was unusually high pitched.

"Well…" Jack disentangled himself from Ianto. "Ya know the President?"

"He got killed," Owen piped up.

"Yep." Jack nodded. "I was up there."

"You've been gone for three months!"

"Yeah," Jack replied slowly, quickly changing the subject. "Need your help."

Gwen, who was the only one who hadn't holstered her gun, frowned. "With what?"

"UNIT need some help setting the world to rights… and there's someone we need to find."

"Who?"

Jack's face darkened. "Harold Saxon."

Martha stood at the window, looking out at the street. It was empty, devoid of cars, people, and, most importantly, the TARDIS. She has expected him to come and say goodbye. She had wanted to be able to hug him and tell him she would see him again. But she supposed it must be too painful for him.

She turned back to the living room with a sigh, seeing her family gathered around Leo, her brother. All of them were talking at once, telling him that everything was okay, that nothing had happened, etc, etc.

Martha sighed, turning back to the street. There was no point in telling Leo the truth. He would just think they'd all gone mad.

"You've got to be kidding me."

The Doctor's smile disappeared, being replaced with a pout, which the Master was not looking at. "Oh, come on."

"That's the Judoon High Command… I'm not walking in there."

"That's where there the signal came from, so that's where we're going."

"I'm wanted on what…" The Master began counting on his fingers. "Amanopia, for trafficking livers, Bouken, for stealing their planet's mantle, Kolkokron, because the stupid brain-dead locals thought I'd stolen one of their holy rocks, Mondaran, cos I pissed off some high and mighty Cyberman, Pheros, because I stole all their fusion reactors, and Terioli, because of a major misunderstanding with the emperor and his daughter. And those are just the ones I can remember!"

"They won't recognize you." The Doctor began walking confidently towards the Judoon High Command.

The Master remained stoically where he was, even when the Doctor turned around and waved his bracelet in the air. The Doctor, true to form, stopped before he moved out of range. "Come on!"

"No. There is nothing is this universe that would make me walk in there." The Master crossed his arms across him chest.

The Doctor raised his eyebrows, a mischievous look appearing in his eyes. He walked forward a few steps, until he was within a metre of the Master, who had a wary look in his own eyes.

The Doctor's then transformed into puppy dog's eyes. "Please."

He turned and walked away, leaving the Master standing with his mouth hanging slightly open. Grumbling about 'taking advantage', the Master followed.

Author's Note: Sorry for the total fan-girl moment at the end there, but I dare anyone to tell me they didn't like it! XD

The term 'rengnewaala bina samjhe boojhe doosron ki nakal karne waala', which I apologize for now, means 'reptilian parrot' in Hindi, which would have been the language spoken in the Himalayas. These are the translations:

Rengnewaala - reptilian (male noun).

Bina samjhe boojhe doosron ki nakal karne waala - parrot - (noun) mindless mimic (because the creature wasn't actually a parrot).

I'm sorry if I've confused anyone, because I've sure confused myself!

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