The Law of Gravitation

by MayFairy

Bill Potts, one fourth of the biggest band of the century, falls for a girl with a star in her eye who keeps turning up in the front row of their shows. Meanwhile, her bandmates, Theodore and Missy, are sitting on a secret about their dangerous past with their ex-bandmate Harold Saxon, which only River Song knows - and a reporter named Kovarian is determined to unearth it. Band AU

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Renegade Baby: Masters' Secret Pregnancy Reason For Split?

by Maeve Kovarian, for Silence Media

For over eighteen years, the general public of Britain, or at least those who have ever had at least a mildly friendly relationship with their radio, have wondered what caused the demise of vastly popular rock band The Renegades. Given the refusal to shed any light on it from all three members, though some more than others, many have given up on any kind of answer.

Now, however, someone very close to Smith and Masters has let slip some intriguing new information.

Both Theodore Smith and Melissa "Missy" Masters went rather quiet after the band's split, with Masters especially more or less not seen in the public eye at all for over six months afterwards.

According to the inside source, Masters was pregnant. Whether the baby was Saxon's or Smith's, it is impossible to say, but definitely one or the other, which comes as no real surprise to anyone even remotely familiar with the band.

With this possible lead into an intriguing secret of one of the country's most well known celebrities of that decade and now our current one, deeper research led to, perhaps unsurprisingly, Masters' infamous fleeting cocaine bender and long rehab spell.

Confirmation of this suspicion came from a brief interview with Frederick Chang, a once long-term patient of 3W, the same drug rehabilitation clinic where Masters was also a patient, a bit over a year after the break up of the Renegades. Chang, apparently the only friend that Masters made while in the clinic for the first time (Masters would return a few years later), recalls a singular instance of Masters mentioning her baby, only to deny it later. Chang maintains certainty that the instance was a slip up revealing the truth she so clearly was determined to hide from the world.

If this is the case, it may explain why no one has seen so much as a glimpse of any such possible child, over the years.

It does however, raise some questions: where is this child now, and exactly what has Masters been trying to hide along with him/her?