Thasmin - Love Is Always Wise

Chapitre 25: Devil or angel?

The Master, the Doctor and Yaz enter the TARDIS, no one says anything, the Master, following the Doc's instructions, leaves the control room and goes for a walk in the corridors. Jack and Jenny heard what the Doc said to her arch enemy thanks to the scanner. As soon as the other Time Lord leaves the room, Jack explodes in anger.

JACK: You can't trust him and you know that for God's sake! I mean, having to bear with him for three days, trying to find who put him up to this, using him to bring down Rassilon, that's one thing, but keeping him onboard with us?! How can you even considerate this as an option?! After all that he did! You can't just forgive him, give him the absolution and forget! I know I can't!

DOC: Jack, calm down. First of all, I don't forget, I never forget, and just so you know I have no problem forgiving him what he did to me, but I can't and I won't ever forgive him for what he's done to Yaz, and given the fact he hurt me, Yaz and Jenny, I think it's up to all of us to decide. And yes, I consider to give him a second chance, but only if Jenny and Yaz think they can bear it.

YAZ: It'll be difficult, but in my time travelling with you, I've learned that everyone deserves a second chance, even that psychotic bastard.

JENNY: I know you're doing this because you think it's the right thing, so I'm ready to give it try, but I'm warning you, if he tries anything, I'll kill him.

DOC: You won't have to 'cause I'll kill him first.

JACK: I can't believe you all agree to that! He may have not been directly responsible for the abduction of Jenny and Yaz, but he chose to try and steal your regenerations and Yaz's! He's not all innocent! Give me one good reason why I shoud trust him.

DOC: Don't trust him then, trust me. He's changed, I know he has. His previous incarnation, she died because she chose to stand with me. The incarnation you knew killed her, and she killed him in exchange. They both caused the other's regeneration, which means the version of him you knew regenerated while the time streams weren't synchronized, it should have drove her mad, or at least more mad than he already was, but she changed, she became kind of good, she even stood with me in the end, in her own way. Then, she regenerated in the man you see now.

MASTER: Not exactly, you don't know the whole of it.

Everyone turns toward the Master who just entered the room again.

MASTER: Sorry, did I interrupted something?

DOC: What don't I know?

MASTER: Well, as you know, Rassilon sent the drumming signal in the Untempered Schism, so that it creates the link that allows him to bring Gallifrey back. I heard this noise since I was 8, sometimes, I could ignore it for a while, since it was synchronised with my own heartbeat it's like for human's heartbeat, they learn not to hear it, but as my timeline got closer to Gallifrey's coming back, it was getting louder, more and more annoying. In the end, this signal drove me mad, Rassilon controled almost my whole life. When you defeated him, his plan failed and the signal was broken, I was finally free of that noise. I ran away and landed on the cybermen ship, where, as you know, I killed my older version and she killed me. I regenerated into her, but as the time streams weren't synchronised, I couldn't keep memories of what happened, which was very confusing and explained Missy's insanity. Now, the thing you don't know is that Missy isn't my previous incarnation, I lied about it, there's a version of me you don't know, the version that lived between Missy and myself. When my past self killed Missy, she got the full blast, no chance to regenerate after this.

DOC: Then how did you survive?

MASTER: I used an Elysian field, hurt like hell and helped me regenerate. I became the Lumiat, a little bit like your Valeyard, but in reverse. She was a do gooder, all the good in me in only one incarnation.