Chapter 6: The Stand Off
Lucia began to back away from her father. But then she felt the barrel of a gun in her back.
"Take it, Lucia," whispered Lucy, her eyes on her deranged husband, the frail old body of The Doctor clung onto her, desperate to hide.
Lucia took the gun and stored it in the back of her boot, then proceeded to talk to her insane father.
"Daddy, please stop. Just let us go. You never loved us, you never cared."
As he watched her, her crystal blue eyes filled with tears, the light of the sun reflecting off her pale face and dancing on the floor.
Her deranged father took a few small steps towards the terrified group, his eyes showing destruction, fire and death.
"I love you," he said, his eyes hanging open and red.
Lucia shook her head in disagreement.
"You never loved us; you're just abusing your power. People are so afraid of you because of the Toclafane. But it's taken them a year to realise what you really are. Now they have something to say."
She smiled as millions of Toclafane surrounded her, her mother and The Doctor. A few moments later when the Toclafane flew away, to laugh at the Master, the trio had gone.
As the Master stood confused, looking around to see where his family had gone, Lucia and Lucy were running across the other side of the Valiant, disguised by the long grass of the Gardens of Eden.
They were running away from him. Running from him with all his little metal guardians. They'd all betrayed him.
He scrubbed a hand through his hair. Adjusted his tie. His very black tie felt hot in the heat of the sun. His fingers reached for it again, undoing the knot before his brain could protest.
What was it he wanted?
The answer to that question had been Power ever since he could remember. Ever since the Doctor had saved him from that bully by casting the first stone. If he could have enough power, he would make them see. Make them suffer like he had.
He had wanted… wanted to make them suffer the Drums, the beating call to War.
And he was insane.
As his feet took the last steps down from the platform and sank into ground and soft tall grass, he said to himself, "What am I going to say when I catch them?"