Chapter 5:

Lucy was quiet for a long while, she was trying to process and understand everything the Master had said, but no matter how much she thought about it it still sounded like the insane ramblings of a madman. She wished she could understand, he seemed to need someone to understand. Something about him made Lucy believe him; believe he wouldn't hurt her, believe he wasn't a bad person. Different he definitely was but bad she didn't believe. He seemed so misunderstood to her.

After a while of allowing her to sit completely lost in thought, the Master spoke "Tell me, little Lucy, do you want to go home" He asked "I want an answer now, one you can't take back. If you choose to go home now I'll leave and you'll never see me again and that is a promise. If yo stay here, though, you stay here permanently. Clear?"

"I- I don't want to make that decision straight away. That's a big decision" Lucy told him. "Is that how it is with you? You want something you order it to be so, no time, no grey area?"

"Oh lovely, little Lucy" the Master laughed "I would've thought that much was obvious. I told you, on Gallifrey we pick titles to be known as depending on what we most want. My name is the Master. Now answer me, Lucy"

"I want to see the universe…" Lucy started.

"So you're going to stay?"

"I didn't say that. I want to know what I can go home at any time if I want to ir if I have enough" Lucy reasoned.

"That would be good wouldn't it? To be able to know your planet, your home was there waiting for you to return at any moment" the Master said and Lucy nodded "That's not one of the options. Earth or the TARDIS. Home or away. Go or stay. It's a black and white decision, little Lucy. Like you said, no grey area"

"No, it's not" Lucy disagreed. "It's anything but black and while. It's the biggest decision I've ever had to make"

The Master rolled his eyes "It's not that hard" he was clearly starting to get agitated. "You either want to go home to your boring, pointless, human life in London of having no job and no income and because of that no end of stresses. Or you want to stay with no money or income stresses at all but the wonder and destruction of the entire universe just outside of those doors."

"I can't see the universe the way you do" Lucy told him.

"How d'you mean 'can't'?" the Master asked.

"Can… not?"

The Master laughed but it quickly turned into a frown. "No, I meant do you mean 'can't' as in you want to see it but you can't see it with me. Or do you mean you want to see it, here with me, but you don't have the same perspective as me?"

"Um…" Lucy didn't reply properly. She was half tempted to say both but she was worried the Master wouldn't take it the way she meant it. Mostly because she wasn't sure how she would mean it.

"Come on, Lucy" the Master pushed "It's one or the other. I'll make the decision for you in a minute and just take toy back to earth."

"No!" Lucy said sharply and quickly. Too quickly. The Master raised an eyebrow and Lucy realised then she had made her decision "I- I don't want to go back to earth."

The Master grinned wildly "Good."

A/N: Sorry it's so short, it's a complete filler chapter. Annoying but necessary. R&R

Carly. x