Unspoken (Drabble Project, Day 332)
Nov. 29th, 2012 02:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
were_lemurWhat if the Doctor had captured the Master at the end of "Keeper of Traken"?
"I ought to take you back to Gallifrey, let them deal with you."
"So why don't you?" the Master asked, lidless eyes boring into him.
"It would be kinder, an execution would, than this ... existence you're so determined to cling to."
"And yet, here we are, hanging in the vortex."
"Here we are," the Doctor agreed, because he couldn't say let me help you. Not that there was any help he could offer that the Master would accept.
Let me be there for you, when the end comes. Let me help you face it. You don't have to be alone.
"I ought to take you back to Gallifrey, let them deal with you."
"So why don't you?" the Master asked, lidless eyes boring into him.
"It would be kinder, an execution would, than this ... existence you're so determined to cling to."
"And yet, here we are, hanging in the vortex."
"Here we are," the Doctor agreed, because he couldn't say let me help you. Not that there was any help he could offer that the Master would accept.
Let me be there for you, when the end comes. Let me help you face it. You don't have to be alone.
