i don't own Dr who or the Sarah Jane adventures so don't send the Daleks after me! Thanks for all the reviews it really inspires me to update , did anyone else we ever wonder where that clock in Sarah Jane's Attic came from? Well wonder no more .
The master stares at the tin dog and wonders if the last thred of his sanity has snapped. Who would want to build a robot shaped like a dog?
"Please remain still while I scan you,or you'll disrupt my sensors" it chided the master when he attempted to shove the metallic canine out of his face.
Ignoring the tin dog the Master shoved back the covers and nearly fell over before he caught him self using the bedside table for support till the dizziness subsided.
As the master put his hand on the doorknob it started to turn from the other side and opened to reveal the women from last night.
For the first time the master got a good look at his savior nothing remarkable about her he could see just an average female human, slim,late 40s, brunette, brown eyes , expected he had the feeling he had seen her before.
She smiled at him like she picked up sick aliens every day maybe she does the Master thought he flashed her a sheepish grin and wiggled his fingers in the air in a wave .
"Hello" the master could kick his self for acting like an idiot.
"Good morning, I see you're doing better today, breakfast is ready come and eat before it gets cold".
She gave him another compassionate smile and othered him her arm for support. The master reluctantly allow her to lead he in the dining room where he sat down to the first real meal he had in mouths!
Another human a teenage boy was already eating he smelled different not like most humans smell which puzzled him the women walked behind the boy to put a hand on his shoulders, "this is my son Luke Smith and I'm Sarah Jane"
"Hi" Luke gave the master a friendly smile.
The master sighed they were expecting him to tell them his name as well so he said the first one that came to mind.
"Nice to meet you my name is koschei"the Master mentally kicked him self for using his real name the one he used before the drums had come bringing madness and death into his life.
"Who did you lose?" The question surprised the master not just that she somehow knew he had lost someone but the white-hot pain it caused in his hearts to think about losing amy.
"Amy,her name was Amy pond a group called the silence kidnapped us I barely escaped myself I don't know where she is or even if she's alive" he averted his eyes from her so she wouldn't see the grief he was feeling.
The human child left a few minutes later to go to school leaving Sarah Jane and the master alone making the master uncomfortable which was weird because he never got uncomfortable before .
He set in the living room while she made tea for them both.a framed photograph caught his interest. A teenage girl smiled back at him probably Sarah when she was a girl standing beside her stood a tall man Wareing a ridiculously long multi colored scarf his hair was a mass of brown curls and was grinning like an idiot. It was the doctor!
Just a then Sarah interned the room carrying tea for a moment he was quite.
"You were friends with the doctor?" The master asked still studying the picture Sarah blinked in surprise.
"Yes we were friends I travelled with him for a while, were you friends too?"
The master replaced the picture to the table and turned to face Sarah Jane he understood why the doctor choose her as a companion she was kind smart well smart by ape standards a great friend.
He should tell her a lie so she would continue to help him , manipulate her for his goals like he used to do but that was before amy pond the girl who gave the master a human heart and a second Chance at life, no he couldn't lie to her.
"We used to be friends a long time ago, we grew up together,at school I was picked on by the older boys and the doctor would always be there to stop them even though he was smaller than them and we both would end up running to my fathers estates to hide till they got bord and left mum never said anything when we came rushing in the back door with fresh bruises on our faces and torn clothes she would just give us something good to eat and find us some clean clothes so the school headmaster wouldn't punish us"
Sarah Jane looked shocked" you grew up with the doctor on gallifray? I thought only time lords were allowed to live there?"
"That's right, so what?"he grumbled.
"That would make you a time lord and he told me that they're all died just the doctor's left." She said slowly.
"Yeah and the doctor is never wrong is he?" The master snorted. At that Sarah rolled her eye's and gave a little laugh , probably thinking about all the times the doctor had made a fool of his self.
"Does he know you're alive?"
The master found it hard to look her in the eye it didn't help that she reminded him of his mother. "No not anymore "
Sarah Jane gave him a reproachful glare "why not he's your friend I'm sure he'd be happy to see you, maybe he could help you find amy if anyone can help you it'd be the doctor"
"No it's better he thinks I'm dead I've hurt him enough , I have no right to ask him for his help, not after the things I've done to him" the master sighed
He wasn't expecting the hard slap she gave him ,he stared at her too shocked to say anything.
"How dare you! What right have you to let him think he's the last of the time lords just because it'd would hurt your pride, god how could you be so selfish ,stop feeling sorry for yourself and be a man and do the right thing!"
The master took a deep breath to keep from falling apart it didn't help that she was right he had avoided facing the doctor because there was nothing he could ever say to make up for the horrible things he'd done and he didn't want the doctors pity.
"What am l to say to him sorry, forget everything I've ever done to you, help me save my wife yeah that's so not selfish now is it!" Was his sarcastic reply.
"Besides the silence the people who tortured me and have my wife prisoner want the doctor dead ,if he helps me I'd most likely be leading him into a trap!" He resound.
"All the more reason to go to the doctor now before the silence try to kill the doctor!" She was right and the master know it if he wanted to save his wife and best friend he would have to swallow his pride and face the doctor.
" and how am I supposed to do that he isn't the easiest person to find you know?"he shook his head tiredly .
Upon hearing this Sarah stood to her feet with a conspirator smile and pulled a reluctant master to his feet "come with me I just might be able to help you out with that" she said dragging the master up the stairs and into the attic.
As soon as the master stepped in the attic he felt something brush against his mind ,it was familiar and gentle like a lover's kiss.
He was still trying to figure it out when walls slide back to revil a giant alien computer upon seeing it the master forgot about the psychic signal he had always teased the doctor about how his insatiable curiosity was his greatest flaw but deep down the Master was just as cuorise especially when it came to advanced technology.
"Hello Sarah Jane how can I be of assistance?"the supercomputer asked in a deep monotone.
"I need you to locate the doctor for me" she commanded the monster machine. The computer who she called Mr Smith started analysing data.
The master walked around the room while the computer searched for the doctor, the room was full of alien artifacts from Sarah's adventures with the doctor. Sarah Jane told him about them and the master listened politely as the presence in his mind continue to tug at the corners of his consciousness.
Then he saw her,she was standing in the corner of the room a grandfather clock cover in dust looking out-of-place among all the exotic alien artifacts.
But is wasn't a grandfather clock at all, it was the masters tardis!
"How did you get this?"the master breathed touching the iridescent green clock face of his ship.
"The old clock?the doctor asked me to keep it safe for him I don't know why though it doesn't even work" she shrugged.
"That's the perception filter it keeps you from noticing anything odd "the masrer grinned madly moving the hands of the clock to unlock the door.
" why would the doctor put a perception filter on his clock?"she asked frowning a little.
"In the first place It's not his clock it's mine and and second its not a clock" he answerd her as the door open letting out light as the master slipped in side leaving the door ajar.
The old time ship whine as the lights came on like an old mule would who didn't want to work.
Sarah Jane froze in the door way of the masters time machine .
"It's a tardis!" She wisperd still trying to comprehend the fact a tardis had been in her house for years.
"Yep " the master replyed cheerfully as he started pulling apart the console as his ship complained about the introdusion .
Sarah crossed the room and looked over the Masters shoulders curious .
"What are you doing?"
"I'm discounting the quantum circuit from the mainframe"
he answered iratblely the pain had returned and was inching up his left arm and into his shoulder he blinked trying the clear his vision his skin burned and he had the insane desire to claw his face off. if his body was not stabilised within a few hours he would die! The silence had given him injections to keep his regeneration from failing.
He remembered the Rani had once attempted to create a formula which would allow time Lords to regenerate into their present form. Her expements where disastrous and all the time lords who volunteered either died from the experience or the pain drove them to commit suicide. The high council banished her because of it .
He knew it was probably too late for him ,a part of him was glad that he was dying he deserved it for the things he'd done maybe if he died he would finely be free of the drums and be at peace.
but the other half of him wished to live to see amy again to try to right a few of the thousands of wrongs he had done. It pained him to know that by going the doctor to warn him of the silence and ask him to save amy he would probably die within an hour or two forcing the doctor to watch him die again.
it'd be worse this time because it wouldn't be the insane psychopath that hated the doctor who was dying but his old friend who would rather allow his hearts to fail in order to save his wife and friend than save his self at their expense.
The quantum circuit finely came loose and he was able to pull it free. Sarah Jane had a puzzled look on her face she didn't understand what the master was doing.
"The doctor's tardis has shields around it the vortex manipulator can't penatrate ,that's where the quantum circuit come in" he explained holding up the small gray and black gadget for her to see.
By the time the master had installed the circuit into the inferior time hopper Mr Smith had found the location of the doctor's tardis, for some reason the doctor was burning up a small star in the Sirius star system.
"Perfect that should make it easier to lock onto his tardis" staded setting the supedup vortex manipulator on the table and disappeared back into his tardis sarah decided not to follow him she didn't relish the idea of getting lost in one of the tardises infantant corclothing.
Sarah Jane was starting to worry about the absent time lord he had been gone so long she had just decided to go check on him when he santerd through the tardis door's in an almost cat like manner. Gone was the tattered prisnenor clothing.
he was now wearing a black suit with matching tie and a crisp white shirt . he's clean shaven face Boure fresh bruises and was thinner than it should of been the result of the silence ill treatment she raised her eyebrows.
" the silence is after you and the doctor they're holding your wife captive...and you take time off to change your clothes?"
"I always drezz for the location"
The Master grinned and turned around slowly to show off his outfit . he always felt better wearing his favorite black suit it was like a secirty blanket .
he felt giddy like he had one too many hyper volkas it was a familiar feeling it was usely brought on by the drums in his head and followed by a few deaths. This time it wasn't the drums no it was just the side effect of his regeneration failing .
"Well I've wasted enough time " he said straping on the vortex manipulator back on his arm. He then took Sarah Jane's hands in his own smiling cheerfully
" goodbye sarah Jane Smith thank you for everything".
His happy fasode didn't fool her though it was a mask to hide the fear and pain he was feeling and she was struck by how much like the doctor he really was.
" why not use the tardis instead"
" oh the tardis is too big the doctor's tardis would detect it but one little vortex menipuater would go undetected no my tardis is safer here I don't want the silence getting their hands on it"
The master explained to her.
"Well then I'll keep it safe till you return for it"
sarah Jane assured the master.
"I'm sure you will"
The master stepped away from her as he entered the corodents that would take him to the doctor's tardis he hesataed a moment the thought of him asking for the doctors help made him sick.
the image of sweet amilea in some cold cell alone overcame his foolish pride he pressed the final button and he disappeared from the Attic leaving sarah Jane to worry for his and the doctors safety.