Sorry it took me so long to get another chapter out. I've been crazy busy today, but I'm putting this one up and I'll have another one up in a couple hours. :)

Rose stepped into the control room. The Master stood at the console. After removing the telepathic barrier she'd made plans with the TARDIS to take down the Master. Although she had to admit that part of her actually wanted to kill him, she couldn't let him change her like that. If she killed him then she'd be no better than him. So, the plan was for her to use her ability to knock him out then they'd leave him somewhere of the TARDIS' choosing.

Are you ready sister? The TARDIS asked reaching into her mind.

Yes, Rose answered.

The Master looked at her and a prickle of fear crept up her spine. Could he hear them? No, she pushed the fear down. He couldn't have.

"Finished resting already? Or did you miss me?" he asked, giving her a smirk.

She took a deep breath and then reached out to his mind, sending the screaming pain that would rip through it. He yelled, grabbing the sides of his head as he doubled over.

"Stop! Stop it!" he shouted.

It was working. As soon as he fell unconscious they would…Then he started laughing. She froze. How could he be laughing? She concentrated harder. Maybe she just wasn't focusing enough.

He stood up, still laughing.

"What's wrong? Isn't your telepathic ability working?" He held up his wrist showing her the device on his wrist. The one he wore after she attacked him in the medical bay back at the compound. "Did you forget about this little device?" He laughed again, taking a couple steps toward her. "Oh, dear, that's really not good is it? That must put a damper on your plans to kill me."

"I…I wasn't going to kill you."

"No? Tell me, what were your plans then?"

He closed the distance between them faster than she expected and in the next moment he grabbed her arm and examined her wrist.

"I thought I told you not to take your telepathic barrier off." He pulled her close nearly crushing her body against his. "You've been a bad girl, Ms. Tyler."

The TARDIS pitched sideways, sending them both to the floor. She was able to pull away from him as they fell.

"So, that's how it's going to be, is it?" The Master yelled, clearly talking to the TARDIS, who pitched the other way as if in answer. "You want to play games with me?" He reached into his pocket and pulled out his sonic. "I can play games too."

Rose scrambled back and then grabbed onto the railing to pull herself up. She glanced at him and noticed he was pointing the sonic at her. What the hell is he doing? He fired the sonic and her body exploded in pain. She cried out as every nerve ignited.

The Master smiled as she screamed. She would learn. They both would learn. It was the only way to teach them to listen. He released the button on his sonic and Rose crumbled to the ground. Dead, but he knew that wouldn't last. Somehow the Doctor's TARDIS changed her.

"How many times do I have to kill her before you'll behave?" he shouted.

The TARDIS calmed…well, calmed wasn't quite the way to put it because he could feel her seething, but she stopped pitching and that was something. Rose moaned, indicating that she'd be waking up soon. He pocketed his sonic and crossed the room to kneel down next to her.

"Hello, Rosie. Back from the dead again?"

Her eyes opened as he brushed a lock of hair behind her ear. She shoved his hand away.

"Don't touch me!"

"That's not very nice."

"You just killed me. You don't get nice," she snapped, sitting up.

"Oh, feisty!" he exclaimed, grinning at her. "Lucky for you I won't have to do it again. You see, the TARDIS and I have come to an understanding."

He stood up and offered her his hand, but when she made no move to take it he grabbed her arm and pulled her up. She still had a stubborn streak, but he'd break that soon enough.

The Doctor piloted the TARDIS, not sure where he was going. He'd been alone for a while. Clara was gone, just like the others and for the first time in a long time he felt tired. River appeared in the control room and he sighed heavily because he knew she wasn't River. Just an echo of the woman he married.

Why was she tormenting him? Even though he said goodbye to her she still haunted him. He ran a hand through his hair and pretended she wasn't there.

"Hello, sweetie," she said, sounding so much like the River he remembered. "I know you can hear me and see me so there's no point ignoring me."

He rounded on her, anger building inside of him.

"What do you want, River?"

"I don't want anything."

"Then why are you here?"

"Blame the TARIS. She's the one who brought me here."

His eyes snapped to the time rotor and then back to River.

"The TARDIS? Why would the TARDIS bring you here?"

"If I had to guess," River said, looking around the control room. "I'd say you haven't opened that envelope I gave you."

"We already said our goodbyes," he replied, turning from her to flip a lever.

"Is that what you think the envelope was for?"

He looked at her. Wasn't it? Why else would she give it to him the last day he saw her?

"Oh, you idiot man," River sighed.

He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and stared at it with apprehension. If it wasn't her final goodbye then what the hell was it?

"What's in it?"

"I told you, coordinates and a date."

"Where? When? And why's it so important?" She stared at him without answering. He narrowed his eyes. "River?"

"Spoilers," she said and then vanished.

He stared at it for another minute before tearing it open and pulling out a slip of paper. Coordinates that he immediately recognized. Torchwood. And a date. May 5th, 2009.

He hadn't seen Jack since he regenerated. Actually he hadn't seen anyone from his past since then. Did River know Jack? And if so, how? Then again, River had been all over. She was a time traveler too, but she never mentioned him. Why would seeing Jack be so important?

He entered the date and coordinates into the TARDIS. The time rotor began to move and as it did his mind turned back to past days. Days he hadn't thought of in a long time and the people he left behind. One in particular that he associated with Jack. A girl they both loved. A girl he left standing on a beach at Bad Wolf Bay. His other half.

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