When I woke up, that was when I started crying. I could put up with whatever the master did to me, but the kiss had hurt the doctor, and that was what really hurt me. I wanted the doctor, so, so badly. A black lady came through the door of my cell with a tray with some yucky looking food on it and a first aid kit. She helped me up to sit on the tiny cot I'd been given as a bed.
"Are you Martha's mum?" I asked "Has she gone yet? She has to spread the message."
"Yes," She said "I am, and she did go." At that she started wrapping bandages around my arms and everywhere else I had cuts.
"You really shouldn't have bothered; he'll just take them off again." I said when she had finished.
"But we've got to be positive now haven't we!" The master smiled. "You can go now Francine." He told her, she didn't hang around. "Enjoy breakfast?" He asked me. I threw the small tin, still with my food in at his head. It hit! There was a sloppy substance all over is head. I laughed.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed?" He shouted at me. I nodded, and gave him a sarcastic smile. He started to walk away.
"Wait!" I shouted. "The doctor? What have you done to him?" I asked.
"Wouldn't you rather know about Jack?" He asked.
"JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!" I snarled at him.
"Well he's not dead, if that's what you mean. I'll be back later." He said. A few minutes later Martha's mum walked past my cell.
"Francine!" I shouted to her "Can you do me a favor?" I asked her, she nodded "Can you get me some paper and a pencil?" She nodded then left. It only took her a few more minutes for her to come back; I thanked her then drew until the master came back.
"What's this?" He said picking my finished drawings up, he looked at the one of him dying. That was my favorite. He slapped me and pulled my hair so hard I had to stand up. He pulled me into him.
"Do you really think you'll win this? When you die the doctor will be destroyed, so will Martha." He whispered in my ear.
"No! Martha will do what the doctor told her to do, and you will be shot by your own loyal wife." I growled at him. He just laughed.
"I'm going to break you show you off to the doctor then kill you slowly and harshly on the day we go to war."
For the next year I was constantly hurt, broken and tortured, both mentally and physically, occasionally I could hear Jack shouting at the master to let me go. Sometimes I thought it worse than my mum's house, but then I remembered who I was doing this for.
Every day, I was put through near death situations and every day the master reminded me I only had a year to live, "the day the ships sail." As he put it. I couldn't wait to die. I was covered I scars, cuts, scabs and bruises. Then one day the master came to me he broke my ankle and beat the soles of my feet black and blue, and made me walk on them, I was crying and screaming; he opened my cell door and forced me to walk down a corridor, from there he made me walk into a large room (the room Jack had kissed me in) and I saw the doctor, he was so small now, so old and the stupid master had put him in a birdcage. I was going to kill him! I closed my eyes; I couldn't look at the doctor, of all people. I fell to the floor in a crumpled heap.
"Tonight! The ships will sail! And tonight, this child will die on earth to commemorate the occasion!" The master declared.
"No!" Someone shouted I think it was the doctor. But with that the master pulled me up and held out a vortex manipulator.
"That's Jacks, it doesn't belong to you!" I snarled at him, he forced my hand onto his wrist and I closed my eyes. The doctor was shouting behind me. Then everything went quiet. I opened my eyes and snatched my hand back of the master's wrist. He just laughed and threw me to the floor.
"Martha Jones!" He shouted "Come out, come out wherever you are!" There were guards forcing doors down and looking shoving past people.
"No one?" He asked "Just ask yourself Martha, what would the doctor do?"
A few minutes later she slowly and cautiously walked out of one of the houses.
"Give me your backpack. Just throw it." The master ordered. Martha obeyed. Then she saw me, I was still lying at the master's feet.
"Ohmigod!" She screamed started running over to me. The guards lifted their guns. "How could you she's twelve!" Martha screamed at him.
"Actually, she's thirteen from last Monday." He said smiling at Martha, and then he reached into his jacket pocket and brought out a gun.
That's when he shot me.
I screamed, Martha came running over she was crying now.
"Martha," I said quietly. "Tell the doctor, it was him, it was always him." I closed my eyes and went to sleep.
I picked up Ella's dead body, I had already checked her pulse, she was as dead as a rock.
"Martha come with me now!" The master said, I did as I was told, still carrying Ella's body. He held out his wrist with Jacks vortex manipulator on it I placed my hand on it and clutched Ella's body even tighter. The travel normally horrible but I was to busy concentrating on getting Ella to the doctor one last time than to concentrate on the pain. When we landed, we were in the masters main room and the doctor, Jack and my poor, poor family where there to but I had to be strong. I placed Ella's broken body on the table and walked over to the doctor. I gave him Ella's message and I saw a tear in his eye, but I shouldn't have been too surprised, I had been watching when he had kissed her. I wish he had kissed me like that, but sometimes it was like he never even knew I existed, especially since Ella joined us.
"Martha come here." The master ordered "now kneel." I did as he said "Down below the fleet are ready to launch two hundred thousand ships, set to burn across the universe. Are we ready? The fleet awaits your signal, rejoice!" The master said into a microphone on the wall "Three minutes to align the black hole covetous" He continued, checking his watch "Counting down! I never could resist a ticking clock! My children are you ready!" He shouted.
"We will fly and blaze and slice!" Came the reply of the spheres through the microphone.
"At zero to mark this day," The master said "The child Martha Jones shall die. Any last words?" I kept silent "No?" The master looked around at us all "Such a disappointment this one, days are old doctor. You had companions who could absorb the time vortex," Stupid rose! "This one's useless! Bower your head." He said to me pulling out a knife. I did. "And so it falls to me as master of all to establish from this day a new order of time lords from this day forward-" He caught me laughing.
"What? What's so funny?" He asked.
"A gun?" I asked
"Yes?" He answered
"A gun in four parts?" I asked again
"And I destroyed it." He declared.
"A gun in four parts hidden around the world? You actually believed that?" I asked him.
"What do you mean?" Said the master.
"Like I would ask her to kill." Said the doctor
"Oh well it doesn't matter I have her exactly were I want her!" The master was getting happy again.
"But I tried to get here!" I told him.
"Oh, but your still going to die!" He said.
"But don't you want to know what I was doing? Traveling the world?" I asked
"Tell me." He sounded really annoyed now.
"I told a story that's all, no weapons just word, I did just what the doctor said. I went across the continents all on my own and everywhere I went I found the people and I told them my story, I told him about the doctor, and I told them to pass it on, to spread the word so everyone would know about the doctor." I said.
"Faith and hope is that all." The master was found this funny again.
"No." I said standing up "Because I gave them an instruction just as the doctor said, I told them that if everyone thinks of one word at one pacific time-" I started.
"NOTHING WILL HAPPEN! Is that your weapon Prayer?" He asked.
"Right across the world, one thought at one moment, but with fifteen satellites." I said grinning in spite of everything.
"What?" He asked
"The arkangle network." Jack said.
"A telepathic field binding the whole human race together, but with every single human being on earth thinking of one pacific word and word, is doctor." The clock struck zero, and the old man in side the bird cage started glowing! Glowing so bright it was hard to look at. The master was shouting at the doctor to stop it, because the doctor was getting younger and younger until he was back to his old self again. The TV screen the master had on the wall was showing thousands and thousands of people shouting his name all in unison, then jack and my family and me. Even the master's own wife. The doctor was lifted up in this mass of bright blue light, as I ran over to join my family. The master tried to shoot the doctor down but couldn't, then he aimed for me and my family but the doctor took his weapon without even touching it. When he landed he walked straight over to the master.
"But this time I don't know if I can forgive you" Said the doctor, as he walked over to Ella's body. "Because you killed someone I liked." He stroked Ella's cheek. "Jack the paradox machine." Ordered the doctor, Jack ran out of the room some other guards followed. The doctor lunged for the master and they were teleported out somewhere, so that just left me and my family.
"Martha what's going on?" My sister Tish cried.
"I don't know." I said "Just wait for the doctor." And right on signal, the doctor and the master appeared; the doctor had the master in a headlock! He let the master go and ran over to Ella's body and then the ship started shaking violently. He picked Ella's body up and ran over to me.
"What's going on?" I shouted above a noise that I didn't know what it was.
"Time is reversing itself!" He shouted then started laughing, so did I, Ella started gasping. She was still in the doctor's arms, lucky bitch. But you couldn't help love Ella; she looked up at the doctor and started laughing to. She sat up and kissed the doctor, just as Jack walked in.