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Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Title: Off to Save the Universe
Series: A Good Old Normal, Human Life (13/13)
Word Count: (total) 17,113
Rating: PG-13
Summary: What happens after the Doctor leaves Rose and his human counterpart behind on Pete's world?
Pairings: TenII/(Alt)Master (bit of TenII/Rose & Hart/Jones)
Character/s: The (Human) Doctor, Harold Saxon/Master, Rose, Tish Jones, Ianto Jones, John Hart
A/N: This fic is now COMPLETE! PHEW!
Most screen caps from the sonic biro site and the power of google-fu
The complete fic is available in PDF on request
Catch Up: Prologue, Welcome to Number Ten Mr Smith, Saxon and Smith, Enter the Judoon, A Good Expositional Explanation, Extreme Pictionary and a bit of Snogging, Not the Slow Path, Observation Station, Mend Your Ways, Banished to Eris, Dangerous Driving, Universes Collide
OFF TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE
“What are they doing?” Suzie Costello, the only permanent employee currently stationed at Torchwood Three had come up to the Rhoald Dahl plas where Rose was watching the Doctor and the Master run around the Tardis where it was parked with various unrecognisable pieces of technology and a palpable sense of frenzied excitement.
“They’re taking readings of the rift,” Rose told her without looking away. Suzie had nodded along to the explanation they’d provided on arrival, and on Ianto and Rose’s word had let the Doctor fumble around with the Torchwood Three equipment in the hub.
“Well, we’re getting some very interesting readings. What they mean I’m not quite sure,” she laughed. “But they’re interesting all the same.”
“Good,” Rose gave her a tight smile. The Master and Doctor had darted back inside the Tardis and the plas was quiet again.
“The upgrades Mr Smith did have enabled us to scan to the edge of the solar system,” Suzie told her.
“The ships?” Rose asked, attention finally focused on the woman next to her.
“Just one now, the Judoon are nowhere to be seen. I suppose the Time Lords must have frightened them off.”
“Keep an eye on that ship. Let us know if it does anything,” Rose told her.
“Will do,” she smiled. Rose watched her disappear as she stepped onto the lift and then turned and walked toward the Tardis.
She pushed the door open and stepped inside. The Tardis was surprisingly quiet apart from the background hum or the machine itself.
The Doctor and the Master were standing by the centre of the ship. Rose almost stepped back out again as she took in the close press of their bodies against each other, but curiosity kept her still.
The Master had the Doctor’s face in his hands, their foreheads pressed together. He was whispering something too quietly for Rose to hear. He took one of his hands away and reached in to his pocket. The Doctor’s eyes snapped open as the Master pulled out the fob watch.
“Now?” he asked. The Master grinned and took a step back, the Doctor’s hands clutched air for a minute before they fell to his sides.
“Oh yes,” the Master replied and flipped the watch open. Bright, blinding light that Rose had seen twice before consumed him. The Doctor was thrown to the floor as the light burned brighter.
Rose wondered briefly if she should have stopped this. The Doctor said the Master in their universe had been completely mad, what if this man was only more stable due to the chameleon arch> What if the change unbalanced him and he became the man the Doctor’s eyes had described far too clearly even where his words hadn’t?
As the light dissipated the Master drew up straight and gasped, hands on his chest. He seemed to be searching for his double heart beat. Presumably successful he turned to the Doctor and laughed happily as he pulled him to his feet.
He pulled the Doctor to him sharply and kissed him. This wasn’t the more tame press of lips she’d witnessed earlier at Number Ten. This was tongue, gasped breaths and the Doctor’s hands under the Master’s shirt; Rose resisted contemplating where the Master’s hands had disappeared to.
She stumbled backwards and out of the Tardis, the door snapped shut behind her.
***
Quick footsteps on metal caught the Doctor’s attention and he pulled away from the Master enough to watch Rose flee out of the Tardis door.
“Rose,” he murmured.
“Should I be insulted?” the Master said into his neck and followed it up with a press of lips and the slightest nip of teeth.
The Doctor groaned and let the Master pull him more fully against him, the Time Lord double heart beat thundering in the Master’s chest reverberated against the Doctor’s own single racing one.
Regretfully, the Doctor pulled the Master’s wandering hands away from his person. “Rose was here, she saw us.”
“So?” the Master said grumpily, his hand had snuck back to rest on the Doctors hip. “It’s nothing she doesn’t know about, or hasn’t seen before.”
“She deserves better than this,” the Doctor told him. “I’ll be right back,” he said, pulled away completely and walked towards the Tardis door.
“You’d better be, if you expect me to still be here!” the Master shouted as the Doctor closed the door behind him.
“Rose!” he called as he jogged across the plas to where she was standing. She looked up at him with a weary smile. “I’m sorry Rose-”
“Don’t its fine,” she said shortly.
“It’s not okay, or fine Rose. I know that,” he paused to gauge the look on her face. “But I’m going to stop apologising now,” he said with a small smile.
“Are you going?” she asked a moment later.
“Soon,” he nodded.
“The Time Lord ship is still nearby,” she told him.
“Very soon then.” He looked at her for a long moment. At the sound of footsteps behind her Rose turned to watch Ianto walk toward them. When she turned back to face the Doctor she was smiling.
“I’ll be fine, I’ve managed without you before,” she said. “Come here.” She pulled him into a bear hug that reminded him of her and the Doctor’s travels past.
“Everything’s set up on our end,” he said as she pulled back. “You should be able to communicate from Torchwood Three to the Tardis through the rift if you need to.”
“Take care of yourself,” she said, her eyes serious. He glanced over his shoulder when her gaze shifted and saw the Master stood in the doorway of the Tardis.
“I’ll be fine,” he assured her. He pressed a quick dry kiss to her cheek before he turned round and jogged to the Tardis.
The Master ducked inside as the Doctor reached the door. He turned round one last time; Ianto and Rose stood shoulder to shoulder. Ianto raised his hand in farewell and Rose smiled. He waved back and said goodbye with them to the Doctor; he stepped into the Tardis John Smith.
***
The Master stepped back from the engine controls and gestured for John to step forward. He put his hand on the lever that would send them spinning through the rift.
“Are you ready?” John asked with raised eyebrows.
“For what?” the Master asked.
“To save the universe!” John threw the switch. The Master’s groan and John’s own laugh of delight were drowned out as the engines jumped to life and propelled them together into another universe.
END
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What a great way to end this brilliant fic! This all worked out so well, the human Doctor and the newly regenerated Master off to save the Universe! Oh, but will you be writing a sequel to this, pretty please? I would love to read more of their adventures together. :D
Thanks so much for this, I loved it to bits, it was spectacular!! :D
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Thank you! I love the idea of them going off the save the universe together. Sequel planned, I've already made two pics for the first one :) It just needs writing. Maybe in a month I might have something up?
Thank you for your wonderful comments! Glad you enhoyed it :)
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/bemused/ Well.
Loved it! Hoping for a sequel, too? Maybe? Please? :)
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There probably will be! Got about half of it in my head and pics made already! Nt for a bit though, watch this space!
Thank you for commenting!
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