The Doctor caught up with Hope and slid to a stop on the loose rocks under his feet.

Both stared at the psychotic looking blonde man waiting, to see if he would calm down and join them to travel time and space.

A yell so feral, so full of hatred and anguish, resonated around the work yard. The cause of it was the Master. After a brief moment of watching the two beings, a wicked smirk crossed his face, as he jumped high into the air laughing maliciously.

Not wasting a second Hope grabbed the Doctor's hand again and they took off, across the enormous mounds of loose stone, and through a yard full of scaffolding, following the crazed man's laugh.

They came to a halt when the Doctor saw him standing on the scaffold. He was challenging the Doctor to come closer. Hope stood behind the Doctor, terrified of the man ahead of them.

Continuing to laugh, the Master's life force was wearing down and his skeleton became visible for no more than a second

"Please let me help!" the Doctor begged desperately.

The look on the Master's face was not amused to say the least

"You're burning up your own life force!"

The master began laughing again and again his skull flashed before the doctor and hope.

"Brother, please!" Hope stepped in front of the doctor pleading.

The Master stopped for just a few seconds to size her up and glare menacingly at her, while the Doctor gave her a look full of surprise and questions. After deciding he waited too long, the Master jumped from his metal perch and disappeared behind it. The Doctor and Hope took off after only to see he was gone and instead there was a group of old folks.

"Oh I've got to stop you, aren't you a sight for sore eyes!" said one old chap wearing a red hat, jogging towards the Doctor, arms open.

"Wait, wait, wait!" the Doctor said not stopping his run to look over some more metal rods.

"Did we do it?" one of the older women asked.

The man with the red hat turned towards Hope noticing her for the first time, standing in the middle of it all, looking quite sad.

"Who are you?" he asked seemingly upset.

"I'm Hope." she said smiling to ease the tension she could feel bubbling up. "It's a pleasure to meet you sir..." she paused holding out her hand.

"Oh yes," he said snapping out of whatever daze he was in, "Wilfred, Wilfred Mott" he said now smiling back at Hope.

"You never told us he was such a looker Wilfred!" proclaimed one short, white haired woman. Then she looked over to Hope. "Pity he's married."

"Oh! No. No, no, no!" Hope and the Doctor both chanted, wide eyed.

"Oh that's wonderful then! Let's have a picture" she said now walking up to Doctor pushing Hope aside as more ladies followed suit.

"It's been such a long time since I've had a picture with a handsome man"

Hope tried to hide her laugh with a cough when the Doctor looked at her pleadingly.

"I'm Minnie, Minnie the menace." the white haired lady stated whilst the other older gentleman was fumbling with the phone camera.

Hope walked over to him, "here, I'll take that you can go hop in the photo"

The man happily passed the phone camera over to hope and she positioned herself for the picture.

"Is that your HAND, MINNIE!" the Doctor shouted.

Hope took the photo right as the Doctor shouted. And realized what happened,

"Did Minnie just give your bum a squeeze Doctor?" she smirked when the Doctor walked back over to her

"Oh, starting to be cheeky now are we?" the doctor said raising his eyebrow, still maintaining a serious look. "Don't think I've forgotten about your brother." He added dangerously.

Hope looked down ashamed while the Doctor watched her for a few more seconds until Wilfred walked over to them, though he only stared at the Doctor.

"Right, you wanted to talk to me." the Doctor stated and started walking to the bus where the other old folks were gathering, and marched onto said bus, everyone else followed suit.

Wilfred asked the Doctor to have their chat in private. Meaning Hope got to spend some time exploring. Although the circumstances were unfortunate, she couldn't help but be excited at her chance to have a look around this new and fascinating world.

She stayed close to the cafe Wilfred took them to. She went walking down the street to hear a fellow ginger demanding a police woman not to touch her car.

Hope smirked at the woman and her brash nature. As she kept walking towards a building, an unseen hand from the alley between caught her mouth while another grabbed her arm pulling her to the individual whose ligaments these belonged.

As soon as the offender let go of her mouth and grabbing her other arm. Shoving her against the wall hope hocked a loogie into the face of her foe.

"How charming..." a blonde haired, brown eyed man said ridding his face of the snot quite angrily.

"Koschei..."

"I do not go by that horrible name!" the insane man shouted in the woman's face "You will call me Master, Ayla."

Hope straightened up at her real name her bright green eyes getting dark with sadness and frustration.

"Then you will call me Hope, Master." Hope said refraining from spitting out his name as though it were rotted food.

The Master scoffed, "Hope? Ha-ha do you believe you are really the Hope for all worlds?" he questioned angrily.

"First off, get out of my face, your breath smells like death. Second, I would like to be a reason to which more people live."

"Then why don't you go back and save Gallifrey!" his body flickered between life and death, his grip tightened on her.

"I can't and you know that!" Hope yelled back.

The Master slammed her against the wall again, her skull connecting with the hard brick wall behind her.

"You never do anything Hope!" he spat her name in her face "you're just as worthless now as you were during the time war!"

Tears pricked her eyes "It's not like you were there!"

Mustering up any strength she had she shoved her older brother off of her and ran. Knowing that he would not follow, or else be at risk of the Doctor finding him.

Tears streaming down her face, Hope didn't find it a wise idea to go back to the cafe looking like a wreck. So she walked around for a bit longer until she realized that the Doctor had found her. She turned around for her green eyes to meet his brown ones.

"So the Master," The Doctor said calmly, noticing that Hope's cheeks were tear-stained he decided to post-pone the subject so he did not cause unwanted memories for her.

"How old are you Hope?"

"Last I checked I was 678."

"How old were you when you were taken in by the Ood?"

Hope remained silent for a minute and tried to maneuver her way out of this conversation.

"How did you know where I was Doctor?"

"I asked first, though that was a nice attempt to change this conversation." he smirked.

"I was 78;" the Doctor took a deep breath in. "I've wasted so much time being asleep on that planet when I could've been exploring the universe... And I still feel like a kid." Hope frowned, her eyes now turned to the ground.

The Doctor came up to her and hugged her, "I'm so sorry"

Hope smiled sadly and held on to the Doctor as well. They stood there for a few seconds before they realized there was still work to be done.

The Doctor took hold of Hope's hand, for reassurance for her or his self neither knew.

"Let's go find the master" Hope said, her green eyes lit up again with their own natural spark.

The Doctor smirked. "So the hunt begins."