Chapter 8
The Master pulled Lucy into the TARDIS so quickly she almost tripped. There was a crazed, almost possessed look in his eyes which scared her. As soon as he let go of her arm to run to the controls she stepped around the console and sat on the nearby chairs, watching as the Master tore around the controls, wildly pressing buttons as if it was the most important thing in the uniderverse, and Lucy could tell that for him it was.
The Master stopped suddenly and stared at the screen with his back to Lucy. Lucy watched him, and noticed that he was tapping the drumbeat against the console excitedly, "Come on, come on," he muttered, impatience clearly growing in him. He waited another moment, "COME ON!" the sudden change to anger shocked Lucy so much she gasped in shock but the Master didn't notice, he was too busy thumping the console to try and speed it up. "Finally!"
Lucy turned her attention from the Master to the screen but the writing passing across it was moving too fast for human eyes to make sense of. Almost nervously, as though unsure whether she should interrupt him, she whispered "What is it?"
The Master turned to face her, his expression suggestion he had forgotten she was there. It cleared after a quick moment though and he grinned at her, "This? Lucy this is so brilliant it's crazy. C'mere"
Lucy got up and stepped towards him, he wrapped one arm around her waist and moved to stand behind her, leaning his head on her shoulder and pointing at the screen, "You can't understand it but this is my TARDIS tracking the only other TARDIS left in existence. That of the coward that is the Doctor," he spun Lucy around to face him, a grin fill his face, "This is it, Lucy. This is really it, this is my payback, this is my vengeance," he kissed her quickly and ran around the TARDIS. Once again wildly pressing buttons, unaware of her staring after him dumbstruck.
The Master laughed slightly, the sound both amused and bitter, "He's on earth, what a surprise."
"We're going to Earth?" Lucy asked, her voice filled with shock and hope but the Master didn't even hear her.
"He always loved your pathetic excuse for a planet, guess we have to return there to find him," the Master pressed a few more buttons, "What is it they say on that oh so popular show? 'Locking coordinates'," he hovered his finger over the final leaver, "engage," and pulled it down shocking the TARDIS into movement.
Lucy stared for a moment before muttering, "You've watched Star Trek?"
V
The Doctor was walking hand in hand with Rose Tyler along a mountain. It was Earth, although Rose had taken a lot of convincing before she believed it, "But it's too pretty to be Earth," she had argued, to which the Doctor had told her that she was underestimating her planet. Once she had finally believed him the Doctor had gone into a long ramble about the history of the mountain, which Rose had decided to ignore preferring just to stare around in awe.
"And basically, they all died a terrible horrific death." The Doctor concluded.
Rose turned and stared at him, "What did you say?"
"Oh so you were listening?" the Doctor said, a smile growing on his face.
"Of course I was listening, Doctor, I always listen to everything you say," Rose replied with a hint of sarcasm, causing the Doctor to roll his eyes.
"You should," he told her, "This place, it's just fantastic."
Rose laughed slightly, "To be fair, Doctor, we could be in a deserted, wet, dirty back street and you'd probably say it was fantastic."
The Doctor grinned, "Because it would be. Open your eyes, Rose, see what everyone else misses. There's amazing things everywhere you look."
"And you never know what's right behind you, do you, Doctor?"
The Doctor spun around to find the Master standing right behind him. Lucy and Rose regarded each other, both remaining quiet, Lucy aware that she was too big for a human to comprehend and Rose trusting the Doctor to sort out any problems that might occur.
"Master," the Doctor said, quietly. His voice made it perfectly clear how shocked he was to see the other Time Lord. Without moving his eyes from the Master gaze he said, "Rose get out of here now."
"Why? Who is he? What's going on?" Rose asked.
"Aw but Doctor," the Master replied in fake shock, "You don't want your human blonde missing out on the fun. I mean I'm not going to make Lucy miss out, why should… Rose, you called her? Why should your pretty English flower have to?"
"Rose. TARDIS. Now," the Doctor insisted.
"Or you can just ignore me and I'll just stand here patiently waiting for the English flower to make up her mind," the Master rolled his eyes.
The Doctor turned to Rose, "You trust me?" Rose nodded, "then go now. I'll be there soon, I promise."
"Aw, that's sweet, that's real sweet," the Master laughed. He looked directly at Rose, "He won't be there soon, he won't be there ever." His laughter turned maniacal.
"I'm not leaving you," Rose insisted, ignoring the desperation in the Doctor's eyes.
The Master grinned. "the English flower has spoken, she's staying, more fun for me," he pulled what appeared to be a yellow and grey screwdriver out of his pocket, pointed it at Rose and a moment later a yellow laser light shot out of it and killed Rose on the spot.
The Doctor screamed in horror, and stared at the Master with sadness written in his eyes but only anger in his voice, "That was unnecessary."
The Doctor took a threatening step towards the Master which the Master instantly turned to his favour. He grabbed the Doctor's neck with both his hands and quickly tightened the grip around his throat, squeezing the life out of him as he struggled. He only let go when the Doctor stopped struggling.
A/N So in this chapter I killed Rose Tyler and the ninth Doctor. Who hates me? The Doctor bit was planned, that's been part of the plan since I started Vengeance. Rose however, was supposed to run to the safety of the TARDIS, but no she had to be loyal, she had to amuse the Master. Sorry Rose fans. R&R anyone?