(Continued from Ask)
drapetxmaniia: 12) ‘ you could stay here. with me. ’

The Master sits grandiosely slackened, legs crossed, arms behind his head, lounging defiantly in the personal space of the Doctor’s TARDIS, all a calculated maneuver of appearing independent and invincible.
All a facade, for a mind as permeable as soil to water. He could not stand apart from the only true friend he ever had if he tried.
But he will try, anyway, because the Master tilts at windmills.
“I robbed you of your latest human pet in the most violently cruel way possible, all to foil your plot to convert Missy into some diluted goody-goody version of herself, and you still come back for more? Doctor, I never knew you to be a masochist … persecution complex, maybe. Savior complex, definitely. But this? How d’you know I won’t exact excruciating vengeance upon you, eh?”
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The doctor is stood, facing away from his oldest friend, Fiddling with buttons and dials, as he thinks about what he wants to say.
“Yes, i guess you did… And as upset as i am about Bill, because im very upset about that, she was a girl with massive potential and and was getting good grades under my tutoring….” He sighed “As upset as i am about that, im also a sentimental idiot, who desperately wants his best friend back…”
“Call it what you will, but Perhaps i am a masochist…” He shrugged, knowing full well that he didn’t really want to even regenerate when the time came.
“Tho, what you did do, was open my eyes to the fact that i was going about it compleatly the wrong way… I shouldnt have had her in the vault all this time, people DONT learn through isolation, you just wallow in it… no… Traveling would have worked much better, practical lessons, where she would learn by herself… learn from her own mistakes and change on her own… Because… im not god and neither you nor Missy need FIXING…” they were perfect the way they were and it took him TOO LONG to realise that.
He was angry at himself that he didn’t realise what he had been doing to the woman, that he had been unknowingly cruel and un-doctor like.









