Its Wednesday again!

And we all know what that means! New Chapter!

I', glad you all have liked how I write the Master so far!

The Master had been coming for almost a week to visit the Doctor every day, for as long as he could, as he still kept his job, even though he had a good mind in just not presenting himself one day and never come back, but for some reason he still hadn't done it.

On his first few days at Grace's house he was able to get answers to his main questions, he managed to fish from the Doctor what had happened to him and how the Time Lock had opened.

Thanks to self-called-Nick's contraption the Doctor's mind had been horribly invaded and all his shields and barriers had been broken down to the ground.

When Grace and Chang rescued him he immediately got a room at her house where she dedicated days to bring him back into consciousness. He had received several blows on his whole body which left him very bruised and with internal bleeding, he had also broken his arm and six ribs. The internal bleeding had made him stay in bed for most of his time at Grace's house, most of his injuries were slowly healing, but his mind was still worst off, even after days that he had arrived he still was visibly unwell.

He had no control over his dreams, he kept having nightmares that kept him awake the whole night and if any other telepath would have been near, however weak, it would have overcame the Doctor easily.

His recovery was slow and even if he had been really happy with Chang and Grace he had become quite depressed after being so long away from his TARDIS and not being sure if she had actually gone to fetch Clara. On his very first week at Grace's house he had told Chang about his dear Soufflé girl that would probably soon appear at the warehouse, but when his third and fourth week at Grace's house came around he began to think that the TARDIS had plans of her own and had gone off somewhere else.

He, better than anybody else, knew that she could sometimes follow her own mind no matter what he had told her to do.

Meanwhile, the warehouse was been monitored constantly by Chang's workers.

The warehouse had been abandoned almost as soon as the Doctor had been rescued, everything had been left just as it had been when they rescued him, with no traces left behind of where they could have escaped to.

Chang had come by almost every day to visit them, a few times he also came with his small child, Chang Hu of four years, which the Doctor befriended almost immediately, telling him about all his adventures and travels around this universe and some other ones too.

Then Grace met the Master under the name of Harold Freeman. For her he looked like any normal guy that came by to help her look after the Doctor, even if he didn't do a thing besides talk with the Doctor he had indeed helped a lot. The Doctor had seized to have nightmares every night and was less depressed than before. Even Chang had got to meet 'Harold' and had to agree with Grace that the Doctor had indeed gotten better.

What they didn't know was that when the Master found out what had happened with the Doctor he talked him into letting him help reconstruct his shields, after much effort and talking he managed to convince the Doctor to begin a sort of therapy which he knew from his younger days back at the Academy at Gallifrey.

Since that day they spend long hours talking, the Master spoke about the drums and his new life he had acquired at San Francisco and the Doctor spoke about how he had regenerated and how he had met his dearest Ponds.

Within a week the Master became one of the people that most came by Grace's house, The Doctor had begun to get concerned on how she would react when she found out that Harold was the Master.

And he was quite right to be concerned.

Almost a week after the Master had begun coming to Grace's house, on a Sunday, they were talking about random stuff.

"Doctor, you never told me what happened with the Ponds", said the Master, he had heard most of the story, but not the end, he knew there was an end because the Doctor had already mentioned his new companion, Clara, or Soufflé girl as he loved to call her.

"And you never told me how you got a wife", said the Doctor, in an attempt to change the subject.

Neither of them heard Grace come up to the door.

"Don't try to change the subject Doctor", he said exasperated.

"Come on, are you going to keep me in the dark then?", he tried again to change the subject.

"Doctor, I'm not asking where you hid your TARDIS, I'm just asking you a normal question", said the Master still exasperated.

The Doctor was silent for a second, "Do you want to know where I hid her?", he asked with fake seriousness.

"By Rassilion, Doctor, stop changing the subject", said the Master angrily.

"I am not, Master", said the Doctor nonchalantly.

"Why did you call him that?", said Grace as she stepped in, her face grave.

The Doctor paled a bit as she asked her question, his eyes darting nervously around the room.

"Grace let me-"

"Keep quite!", she yelled, interrupting the Doctor, furious at the Master.

"Sorry Doctor, but I saw your face the day I brought him here, you knew it was him! And then you kept mocking his name and I thought you were perhaps playing, but no, you knew!", she yelled furious.

The Master stood silent and the Doctor tried to say something but she interrupted him again, "Doctor", she said, her face serious, "You told me you were the last one."

"I thought he was dead", said the Doctor, trying to explain how this had happened.

"So when you saw he was alive you decided to let in a murderer?!", she yelled angrily.

"He has changed!", the Doctor tried to reason as he sat up straight.

"He is still a murderer!", she yelled, "Out!", she said in a commanding voice to the Master.

"Look", the Master tried to calm her.

"No!", she yelled and left the room in a hurry, they heard how she searched noisily through her cupboard.

"What now?", asked the Master.

"Run", said the Doctor seriously.

"I'm not going to-"

They heard a loud crash come from her room.

"Okay", he said, left the room and heard her come from behind him in the hallway.

"Look", he tried to calm her again.

She held a golf club in front of her, "No, you'll look if you don't leave my house right now", she threatened him.

"I'm not a murderer anymore", he said solemnly.

"Why would I believe you?!", she tried to deliver a blow but he eluded it quickly enough for her to hit a vase that was just behind him.

She gasped, "You broke my vase!", she exclaimed.

"Me?!", he exclaimed back indignantly.

"Grace", said the Doctor as he came into the hall slowly, holding on the walls to keep himself straight.

"Doctor, you shouldn't be up yet", said Grace concernedly and rushed to his side.

"Please, Grace, hear me out on this", he pleaded.

She seemed to wrestle with the idea for a moment, "Fine", she said eventually, "But he'll stay in the living room and won't try to run away", she said as she pointed to the Master.

The Master rolled his eyes, as if he would run away from her.

He went to sit on the couch in the living room and listened as Grace took the Doctor back to his room and close his room's door.

The Master sat there for quite a while, he wondered what the Doctor was telling her, probably a good enough story to make her let him still come by every day without too many problems.

Eventually Grace came walking back slowly and he stood up, she was looking at him with uncertain eyes.

"The Doctor told me about the drumming", she said eventually.

'Damn.'

He was hoping that the Doctor could make up something rather than tell her the truth.

He opted to nod at her, what else could he do?

"So", she began nervously, "It stopped?", she asked.

"Completely", he confirmed with another nod.

"You helped him with what that machine did to him", she said rather than asked.

"Yes", he confirmed again.

"Why?", she asked.

"Why what?"

"You could have just let him lie there and get well slowly on his own, but you didn't."

The Master stood silent for a few moments, "He was my friend once", he said softly.

"I think he considers you again as a friend now", she said and drew a deep breath, "Look, I will continue to let you come and go as before, but just you give one sign of going back to your old ways and I will snap your neck!", she said sternly.

He grinned at her and made his way back to the Doctor's room.

"You could have just told her a story", he said when he entered.

"Why would I do that?", said the Doctor still on the bed.

"Forget it", he said as he rolled his eyes and sat down.

"So where were we?", he asked sarcastically.

"You were about to tell me how you got a wife", grinned the Doctor.

He rolled his eyes, "Why don't you tell me what you told Grace?"

They spend the rest of afternoon talking about that and related subjects till the Master left.

He came just in time to the apartment to see the mother of the boys go out to work and then get dinner from the boys.

"How is your friend, Harry?", asked Tom.

The children had taken on the habit of calling him Harry out of affection.

"The idiot stood up today", he said and took another bite of his dinner.

"Isn't that good?", asked Tom.

"Not when you risk to reopen internal wounds", he said and finished his meal.

"Is he okay then?", he asked concerned.

"Yes, his luck seems to be coming back", said the Master.

"Are you going to go away Mr. Harry?", asked Danny suddenly.

"Why do you ask", asked the Master with a frown.

"Because you said that you left your home because you had a fight with your friend", explained Danny, "And now you are good again, does that mean you will go back to your home?"

The Master went silent for a moment, would the Doctor take him somewhere in his TARDIS, what would happen once he got the TARDIS back?

"I don't know", he said truthfully.

Danny gave him a hug, "Don't go away Mr. Harry", he said softly.

The Master gave Danny's back a slight pat, he knew he wasn't going to stay there forever and he knew that meant that there would be one day he would have to say goodbye to the small children.

Suddenly Tom stood up, "Bed time story!", he said happily and ran to his room.

"Bed time story!", exclaimed Danny and ran after Tom.

"Tell us another one of the space!", said Danny as the Master sat down on Tom's bed.

"Which planet do you want to hear about?", he asked.

"Tell about the most beautiful planet you have ever been on!", said Tom.

"No, tell about the weirdest planet you have been on!", countered Danny.

"You got to choose yesterday!", argued Tom.

"Most beautiful planet it is then", he said and somehow only one planet came to his mind.

"Gallifrey", began the Master solemnly, "The planet with the oldest and most wise civilization in the universe", he said with a tinge of proudness, "The Time Lords", he said with a small smile.

"With fields of red grass and trees with silver leaves", he began to describe to planet.

The Master went on and on for a long time about the great beauty of Gallifrey, as always Danny couldn't hold out till the end and fell asleep, but Tom was able to be awake till the end, taking in everything the Master said eagerly.

The next few days at Grace's house were tense at their best, they kept fighting and making snide remarks at each other, she would often get angry enough at him to go get her golf club again and threaten him with it till the Doctor somehow managed to step in from his room. He still wasn't allowed to stand up for more than just a few minutes, permission which he got because he had to stand up too many times to prevent somebody from committing murder.

Then, on the Wednesday, when Chang came about after a short business trip Grace told him about the Master. He reacted pretty much the same as Grace, with the exception that he didn't rush to go get the golf club.

The Doctor talked with him and tried to explain as best as he could that the Master had genuinely changed, but Chang still had his doubts.

"I still can't trust him", he said Chang as he sat in the kitchen with Grace drinking coffee.

"Neither do I trust him-much", she began, "But I can tell you that he has changed", she said genuinely.

"But you hate him, there are golf club marks everywhere", he looked around and saw various of them, "And whatever happened to your favorite vase?", he looked over at the stand, which was now empty and had previously held the vase Grace broke on the day she found out about the Master.

"Don't ask", she said grumpily, "But think about this", she proposed, "He could have just left the Doctor here to heal on his own the slow way, or he could have killed him, me and you on the first moment he had us two here unaware of who he was, but he didn't", she said, "And you saw him before we found out who he was."

Chang had to admit that she had reason in what she said, the Master had truly changed. But even with that he still couldn't bring himself to trust the Master-much.

"Draw", said the Master as he and the Doctor where playing a card game one day.

He frowned, "I give up", said the Doctor grumpily.

"You can't keep giving up on every card game we play", said Master exasperated.

"This regeneration isn't good with card games, what about a game of chess?", he proposed with a smile, "I bet I'd win you", he smiled.

"Grace!", he called.

"What?", she appeared at the door.

"Do we have a chess set?", he asked.

"Doctor, you can't start a game of chess till you finish this one", said the Master, determined to make him finish this game.

The Doctor pulled a face and Grace had to giggle a bit at it.

"Right, where were we?", said the Master as he looked back at his cards.

"You were about to tell me how you got a wife", joked the Doctor with a grin.

"You had a wife?!", said Grace, surprised.

"He had a wife?", echoed Chang as he came into the room, also surprised, "How did that even happen?", he asked.

"That doesn't matter anymore", said the Master, now openly glaring at the Doctor.

"What happened?", asked Grace.

"She shot him", said the Doctor.

"Why doesn't that surprise me?", said Chang.

"Is that why he regenerated?", asked Grace.

"Oh, no, that's not why", said the Doctor as he shook his head.

"Then why did you regenerate?", asked Chang.

"You mean from the face you last saw?", asked the Master and Chang nodded.

"The Time Lords revived me so I could fight in the War", he said somberly.

"And how did you survive?", asked Grace, curious.

"Why would you want to know?", asked the Master, not wanting to answer her question.

"So, Doctor, you saw the Master for the first time after the War when he became Prime Minister?", asked Chang, he and Grace had both noticed the Master's resemblance with the ex-Prime Minister of England and had questioned the Doctor about it.

"You told them?!", said the Master angrily.

"They noticed", said the Doctor nonchalantly.

"How nobody else has noticed is surprising", said Grace as she sat at the Doctor's side and took a glance at his cards, "Now I know why you want to give up", she said understandingly.

"You know", began the Doctor, "I actually met him again at the end of the universe", he said with a smile, remembering one of his adventures, man he missed to go on them.

"The end of the universe?", questioned Chang.

"The end of time itself", explained the Master, "The whole universe had run out of its time, the skies were black and without any color since all the starts had died", he continued, "The end of everything", he finished somberly.

"Where no Time Lord had ever gone before", added the Doctor.

"And what took you there, Doctor?", asked Grace.

"Oh, nothing, just a friend of mine clinging on the outside of the TARDIS", he began, "She tried to shake him off and ended up there accidently."

"She doesn't like him, huh", said Chang as he remembered how they had said that the TARDIS liked him.

"A TARDIS would never normally like-", he saw the Doctor's warning look, "Like - that", finished the Master.

"That, how?", asked Grace curious again.

"That's a long story for another day", said the Doctor and shifted his position in the bed, "For now I'd like a game of chess", he smiled at the Master, trying to convince him.

"I want to see this", said Chang, who had confidence in the Doctor winning, "I'll go for the chess set", he said and left the room.

"I'll go help him find it", said Grace and also left.

"Thank you for not insulting Jack", said the Doctor sarcastically.

The Master just shrugged, "Whatever happened with him after the Valiant, did he finally stay dead after somebody tried to kill him?", he wondered.

The Doctor only shook his head, "On another note, have you ever heard of the Face of Boe?", asked the Doctor with a grin.

"Oldest being in the universe, yes", affirmed the Master, "Why?", he asked, wondering where this was going.

"You would never guess", said the Doctor and began to laugh uncontrollably.

"What happened?", asked Grace as she and Chang came back into the room.

The Master's eyes widened, "No", he said unbelievingly, "You're lying", he said but the Doctor only laughed harder.

"It can't be", said the Master softly with a smile and began to chuckle.

The chuckle soon turned into an uncontrollable laughter.

The Doctor and the Master spend their afternoon laughing till they couldn't continue and then had their chess match, with Chang openly rooting for the Doctor to win, and Grace, somehow felt that it wouldn't be fair if she also rooted for the Doctor so she rooted for the Master - discreetly.

At the end the Doctor won, much to the Master's chagrin, who demanded a return match for the next day before he went back to the children's apartment, the day had ended well. It was one of the rare days in which he didn't have any serious arguments with Grace or Chang, pity the next day wouldn't be the same.

Everything started with an experiment the Doctor was doing in his room in his spare time, he had been working for weeks trying to make some sort of homemade sonic screwdriver since he had lost his one.

"Hand me the wrench", he said as he held a morphed old lamp on his lap. The Master handed him the wrench and he grasped fast a few loose parts. He began to look around, searching, he needed new parts, he suddenly saw the lamp on his bedside, grasped it, examined it and handed to the Master.

"Unwire it, we can use the wires for something", he said and went back to examine the morphed lamp on his lap.

The Master began to open it up and take out the wires, but the Doctor had forgotten to unplug it. As soon as he touched the wires with the normal screwdriver there flew out spark from the lamp.

"What the-?!", yelled the Master the noise attracting Grace who gasped when she came into the room.

"My aunt's lamp", she said softly and her face began to look furious, the Master had seen her enough times like that to know that it was a good time to run as fast as he could.

He flew up from the Doctor's bed where he was sitting on and out of the room into the hallway. By the time he arrived at the hallway she was hot on his heels.

"Lamp breaker!", she yelled at him and rounded him, preventing him from running out the door.

He made a U turn and accidently knocked over a crystal ornament that was near the end of the hallway.

'Damn.'

"I will kill you!", she screamed and ran after him into the kitchen where she knocked over an ornamental plate that was on the wall when she ran in.

She grabbed his hoodie before he could run further and didn't hear how they kicked open her front door.

"Wait", he tried to push her away and accidently made her knock over a plate that was on the board behind her, he was sure he was hearing something.

And all too sure, the next thing they heard was somebody gasp.

They both turned and saw people standing there.

"Who are you?", asked Grace as she let go of the Master's hoodie, frightened.

"You!", said Jack angrily as he looked at the Master and Grace was sure she heard the Master say something under his breath in a strange language.

What was happening?

Again I tried my best when writing the Master, hope it came out as well as last time.

For those who have watched the Doctor Who movie will notice how I've tried to include several stuff that happened there. Also, I made Chang have a small kid because according the the TARDIS Data Core Wiki he had a child named Hu, so I wanted to stay true to that.

Oh, well, guess that's everything for today, till next time!