Back with Part Two! This one's fairly short, sorry. I had a long, drawn out plan and completely changed it last chapter. But then, you go where the muse takes you. And currently, mine doesn't seem to be doing much talking. But anyway, here it goes

Lorna pointed the gun at River. The Master went wide-eyed, and tried to grab it out of Lorna's grasp. She turned and glared at him.

"Go sit down, honey," she said to him, a slight edge in her voice. She turned back to River. "You take everything for granted! This man! He deserves better than prison rats" she said with spite. River sat there with a small smirk to cover up her fear. The Master moved slightly closer to River but Lorna warned him. "You touch her, I shoot!" he backed away quickly.

"Lorna. Put down the gun. You don't want this"

"You're right," she said. "I don't want IT" she said, putting the gun right up against River's head. River dropped all pretenses she had of calm collectedness, and allowed herself a small whimper. The Master sat on his spinning chair, and seemed to relax. River threw him a terrified look.

"You always chose her over me. I was being kidnapped and what were you doing? Staying with HER. Helping HER!" With this, she pulled the trigger.

Master Who

It was a blank. Lorna stared at it in disbelief, and kept trying to get it to go off. River laughed, and she sent her a furious look.

"Why would you carry an unloaded gun with you?" she screeched. River shook her head.

"Thought it was loaded. Ask that lunatic!" she said, laughing. The Master shrugged, now lounging across the chair.

"Almost forgot I'd done it! I keep all your real guns in a hidden room" She looked at him affronted for a moment, before sighing.

"Well, I guess it helped this time. But what if there was a Dalek that got in?" she yelled.

"I'd pop up the room and let you pick out your favorite"

"Thank you sweetie"

"ENOUGH!" Lorna cried out. "What are you lot thinking? Honey," she said, turning to the Master. "I thought you loved me. We could be together" He shook his head

"Right now, I don't even want to look at you." He said in disgust. River came up to him and tried to calm him down.

"It's not her fault," she said to him "She saved me, why would she kill me right after? Kovarian had her. What did you expect?"

"I expected her to go after ME! She can kill me; that's fine. But no one hurts you and gets away with it!"

"Sweetie, if she went after you, I probably would have beat her over the head" she said with a smirk. She looked over to where Lorna had been standing. She was on the floor in a heap now, twitching slightly. They ran over to her, surprisingly, River in the lead. A buzzing sound started up, and then a woman's came through on the TARDIS speaker.

"Stage Two commencing"

"What've you done to her?" she cried out.

"Don't you remember, Melody, the price of failure?" Kovarian laughed over the speakers.

"Only one way to save her now, Melody. You know what it is." She slumped. The Master grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her.

"What do we have to do?" she gave him a sad look.

"Open the weapons room. The REAL one" The TARDIS complied, and a door swung open behind them. She pulled out a small hand-held gun and put it to her temple. "This is what has to be done. Make it so she's not a failure" she pulled the trigger and collapsed to the ground.


Madame Kovarian gave a look of surprise from her computer screen where she was monitoring that TARDIS. Melody had actually done it. She had expected her to let Lorna die. The woman had just tried to kill her. Something ached within her. She'd say it was regret, but that would require a heart and probably a soul. Neither of which she had, right? Right? She got back on the intercom.

"Is she truly dead?"

Her only response was a lot of blubbering coming from the Master. But that was answer enough. She said two words she'd never said before, and then left the communications room. "I'm sorry"


Lorna woke up to the sound of crying. She looked around. She was against the rail in the control room. There was a throbbing in her head. She saw the Master crying over a body. What had happened? She went over to him and saw the mass of curls that identified the body. River. He turned on her, furious, and slapped her across the face. She was thrown to the ground. She looked at the corpse on the floor, and thought she saw a twitch of the head, but realized she must be mistaken. The Master picked up the body and took her outside. Lorna followed him sheepishly. They were at a cemetery. An old man walked up to them.

"Mrs. Song, I presume?" he said, nodding to River's body. The Master was slightly shocked, but nodded his head. The man took them to a tall monument. "She bought it years ago. Said you'd come here now. Said you'd let something slip. I'm not sure what she was talking about, but she was a lovely woman. Here we are"

They were inside the monument, and there was a glass casket draped in silk in the center of the room. The Master placed her there, but couldn't put down the top. He left it open. He and Lorna went outside, but he shut the TARDIS door on her. This was her fault, and he would never let her near anyone he loved ever again. He'd make sure of it.


He was brooding, planning on flying to Ylinia, planet of the tears. He heard a knocking from a room behind him. Bewildered, he whipped the door open. A little boy fell out, probably only 4 years old.

"Dadda? Can I come out now?"

Alright then! Not as bad as I thought it'd be, but not nearly as good as it should have been! Right, down to business. Any ideas on who the boy is? Any suggestions at all, and you can have your name/character in an upcoming chapter! Get reviewing! Next chapter will be up on June 13.