hello guys, thanks for all the reviews and thanks to Roazhonad for helping me with this chapter ,I don't own doctor who so Moffitt keep your shirt on! Awhile back I watched doomsday and the run away Bride and I thought it would be fun to have the master show up instead of Donna anyway I hope you like it, please review!
The TARDIS was quite except for the song of time that the TARDIS constantly hummed to sooth her poor doctor.
He was so sad his wolf was trapped inside another dimension ,and he didn't believe there was a way to get her out without destroying both worlds.
A sudden shift in the time lines made her shudder time was being rewritten!
The doctor felt it too, that and something else , something old and familiar to him he just couldn't place it.
A small presence in the recesses of his mind that hadn't been there before if he had been himself he would have recognized it for the consciousness of another time Lord but all his thoughts where on a certain pink and yellow human he could never see or touch or even talk to ever again!
It was times like this the TARDIS wished she had a corporeal form so she could wrap her arms around her grieving time lord and comfort him or slap him for being such an idiot she wasn't sure which.
As if losing her was not bad enough he never really told her how much he loved her. The brooding time lord was rudely interrupted from his self-torture as the TARDIS shuddered in obvious discomfort.
The doctor looked up from the console dropping his jaw in shock at seeing someone standing on the other side of the console
The doctor stared at the stranger trying to decide if his grief over losing the love of his life was affecting his brain because surely he was hallucinating.
The intruder was painfully thin reminding the doctor of a prisoner who had been tortured ,the fresh bruises on his long face seemed to confirm this. He had short-cropped chestnut-brown hair and grave brown eyes which seemed to mirror the pain and loss he felt , he had well-defined full lips, indents highlighted his sharp cheek bones the result of being malnourished , his ragged appearance was only saved by his well-cut black suit and matching black tie and crisp white dress shirt.
"What?" The doctor squeaked.
The master grinned at the shocked look on his old friends face.
"did you miss me?"
"What but...what?" The doctor continued to babble totally confused.
"You can't do that I wasn't...we're in flight! That's physically impossible!" The doctor practically shouted at him .
The master sighed and leaned against the TARDIS for support obviously this was earlier in the doctors time line since he didn't recognize the master.
"Doctor! Tell me where you are?".
"Inside the TARDIS" the doctor mumbled looking dazed.
"Whare?" The master shouted exasperated.
"The TARDIS". He replied again.
"Where?!" The master growled through clenched teeth.
"It's called the TARDIS".
"I know what a TARDIS is doctor,I mean where are you in you're time line" the Master explained rubbing his face trying to ward off exstotion ,for a great genius the doctor could be incurably thick at times
"How did you get in here?" The doctor demanded.
The Master rolled his eye's "well obviously I telaported by this vortex menipalater" he said tapping his wrist sighing heavily he wasn't getting anywhere with the doctor.
"I Know it's hard but please try to concentrate! I need to know where you are in your time line! Have you met Martha yet?" The master said in a patronizing manner.
"Who the hell is Martha?"
"Your best friend"
"Hold on wait a minute what happened to your face" the doctor asked indicating the deep black bruises that marred his hansom face and ran down his jaw mixing with several cuts on the way Down his neck. The master brought a hand up to his cheek brushing the tinder skin with his forefinger as he caught sight of his battered reflection on the shinny surface of the time roader column.
A side from the dark bruises and cut's his face was as white as a sheet making him look even More pathetic, the master felt a surge of red-hot rage run through him with the indegndy of his situation a handful of stupid apes had captured him and for a year had tortured and staved him striping him of his dignity and self-respect till he screamed for mercy.
And instead of plotting his revenge for the misery they caused him he goes running to the one man who he tried to destroy all his life simply because he cared, his only friend whose life he made a living hell .
Somehow he was always there when the roof fell in on him ,he was like a disapproving big brother stopping him from 'wining' he would smile appalgeicly and offer his help.
The Master was struck by the irony of how he had refused the doctors help in the past a help he so desperately needed, despite this the master was still a very proud man who didn't want to appear weak and sentimental so he tried to hide the truth behind the mask he's hidden behind for 900 years the mask that is the master .
"Nothing my face always looks like this ,what do you think stupid! An alien cult abducted me and tried to turn me into their little robot assain" he hissed angrily
The doctor rubbed the back of his neck trying to make sense of the situation " I don't understand this and I understand everything! This this can't happen there's no way a human being can lock it self onto the TARDIS and transport itself inside!"
"well that explains it then I'm no bloody human!" The Master smirked at his very confused friend.
At that the doctor gave him a dubble take as a shiver ran up his spine ,the stranger know him ,called him by name and there was something in about him that was familiar the way he rolled his eyes when the doctor was talking and the sarcastic answers he gave. The more he looked At the intruder the more he felt he should know who this was.
The doctor stared at him his ancient eyes burning into the Masters very soul exposing his brokenness and fear making him feel transparent, the doctor continued to stare at him till the Master averted his eyes.
"Who are you?" The doctor asked quietly after a long pause his hearts in his throat already knowing the answer.
"The Master" his old friend replied holding his head up a little higher momentarily regaining some of his swagger.
The doctor looked at him blankly for a minute trying to come to grips with the fact that his oldest enemy and best friend who he had thought long dead was alive and standing in front of him!
"You're alive " the doctor said slowly still staring at him like he was a ghost. the hatred he had seen in the Masters eyes the last time wasn't there any more .Instead he saw the old friend he thought lost to him forever, consumed by the drums destroying everything good in him till one day the last ray of light in Koschei's soul died and the Master was born. Every time the doctor met the Master he would search his former freinds face in the hope that Koschei was still alive ,and every time he saw nothing it was like looking into the face of a corpse all life gone leaving the doctor feeling cold and hopeless.
sure the master had Koschei's memory's but he didn't care about another living soul except for his self. Unable to stand the sight of the Master the doctor shut him out trying to forget his best friend ,years later after the doctor had been exiled to earth and the master showed up he had actually been pleased to see him, the Master would try to take over earth and the doctor would stop him. The Plots where extravagant and imaginative reminding the doctor of the games they had played back on gallifray as children. Every time he lay a trap for the doctor he'd leave a flaw so the doctor could escape he was clearly just as lonely as the doctor was since he couldn't be the doctors best friend he settled with being the doctors best enemy. As time went on the Master grew worse with each defete blaming the doctor till he clearly hated the doctor.
The doctor bit down on his lip afraid to say more if he was wrong about the change in the master for fear it would send him over the edge of sanity him self and who would protect the universe from the master thin? Hell who would protect the universe from him, he had a dark side in his self that kelped him up at night for fear he would awake a worse monster than the master ever was.
The doctor stayed silent waiting for the Master to speak if he wanted to reconcile fantastic! But on the other hand he might try to fool the doctor and have universal domination on his mind if so he would have to stop him the doctor thought tiredly he was really sick of playing intergalactic cops and robbers with the master.
The Master couldn't tell if the doctor was happy about his survival or not "yeah well the bad penny always turns up" he laughed nervously his eyes pleading for a sign that the doctor didn't totally hate him.
The doctor gave him a grin at that, obviously he was glad he wasn't dead any minute the doctor was bound to go all mushy on him so the master quickly changed the subget.
"So who are you traveling with now?"he asked casually picking up a dinem jacket off the dealing feigning interest.
The doctor fixed him with an icy cold stare "that's may friends".
The Master rolled his eyes he found the doctors trait of stating the obvious irritating "where is she then?popped out for a space walk?"the master replied sarcastically, which he instantly regretted after he took a look at his old friends face the doctor looked like a whipped puppy.
"She's gone l..l lost her" the doctor replied sadly.
The doctor had expected the master would make fun of him for getting all emotional over losing one of his 'pets' instead he smiled sadly at him like he understood what the doctor was going through.
"You where in love with her weren't you?" The master said giving the doctor a knowing look.
The doctors breath caught in his throat the master had been here for less than 10 minutes and he had already guessed the doctors deepest secret he'd fallen in love with a human. It was unnerving the way the master could read him like a book .
"No..no I wasn't in love with her we were.. Freinds" the doctor denied not wanting the master to know how broken he really was over Rose even if The master had changed he would never understand how it felt to lose the love of your life and he didn't need the masters ridicule.
"Theta don't lie to me, I've been around long enough to know the difference between friends and a' friend' one walks by your side and you miss them when they leave, the other walks in your hearts and takes one of them when they leave ,and you my friend are definitely missing one! The master said pointing a finger at the dejected time lord.
"It hurts doesn't it? Exspecily when you know it's all your fault she's gone , when you should have been able to protected her from harm" the master muttered bitterly his sorrowful eyes staring vacantly through the doctor like he wasn't there at all.
Something was terribly wrong with the Master the doctor realized he'd been so Wrapped up in his own heartache he hadn't realize how ill his old friend was.
The master felt like his insides were on fire and he was finding it hard to think coherent thoughts he then realized he had spoken he was now unclear what he had said but whatever it was seemed to worry the doctor.
"What happened to you Koschei who did this to you? Please tell me I can help!" The doctor said concern written all over his face
The masters vision was blurring over if he didn't tell the doctor now it would be too late he didn't have much time left.
The silence.. They want you dead ..their dangerous theta more dangerous than you can imagine they'll do whatever it takes to kill you even if it destroys the entire galaxy..when...when I escaped I downloaded their computer files onto this" the master told him weakly handing him the computer chip with a shaky hand.
"They have my wife.. Couldn't find her...I don't know if she's even still alive ...you gotta help her ...please!" The master was now begging but he didn't care as long as the doctor saved amy he'd do any thing .
The doctor had never seen the master like this before, years back he'd run into his current incarnation who said that the master had a wife but he never thought the Master could actually love her, he was clearly wrong the Master was bearly standing he was so weak and yet all he could think about was his wife's safety.
"Easy now calm down its gonna be okay we'll find her I promise" the doctor said reassuringly the Master looked relieved then his face twisted in pain the last of his strength gone he lost consciousness
He would have hit his head on the console if the doctor hadn't caught him in time he shook his unconscious friend gently trying to wake him .
He needed to know what the 'silence' had done in order to help him ,the Master didn't respond at all he seemed to be in a deep sleep the doctor scanned him with his sonic screwdriver fear creeping into his hearts .
It was worse than he had first thought his friend was close to death his tempature was dangerous high his breathing was ragged and the doctor could only detect one heart beat!
If he didn't do something soon the master would die!