She learned it the hard way. Some people were never meant to exist. Not even the Doctor wants her as a companion. But then the Master saves her from certain death and discovers that this human girl might be of more use to him than he expected.
Ranki...
A/N: Here we go again. It's the night of Yule. The longest night of the year, followed by two more nights where it seems as if the sun isn't moving much. And when we hit the 24th the days will start to be noticeably longer again.
Did you also know that many old cultures treated the sun like a god?
Or... to make it short: God (the sun) dies during the winter's solstice, to stay dead for 3 days and then rise from the grave and ascent to heaven.
Sounds familiar? 👀
Aaaaaaaanyways.... this chapter might mark an extremely important moment. Also, there is #fluff!
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His arm held me a little tighter and, gradually, we sunk deeper, thoughts blurring, borders vanishing. I felt his soft breath in my neck, felt his body wrapped around mine. Possessive, protective. There was a glimpse of... memory. Faint murmuring. The rustling of many clothes. All sounds echoing through a wide space that wasn't visible.
A half transparent screen with orange glowing letters on it.
Laws of the Time Lords.
"This is so boring," said a young blonde boy next to the hands that held the screen. "I thought we would grow out of it anyway."
"Doesn't mean no one will do something stupid afterwards." The voice came from the one holding the screen, the owner of this memory.
"Mhmmm..." The boy sighed and started reading in a murmur. "It is not forbidden to engage in sexual acts, although the council reminds that this primitive desire other species retain is erased from Time Lord from an early age on to prevent the spread of impure blood." A disgusted grunt followed. "This sounds like propaganda, Ko."
There was a chuckle from behind the screen, muffled by the faint sounds of the classroom.
"It is further forbidden to engage in any involuntary act, as it is considered the most primitive of crimes one of a higher species can commit. Therefore a crime as such would be punished with the highest sanction." The blonde boy stopped reading, rubbing his neck. "Why would you want to do that anyway?"
"Not everyone is a nice as you, Thete. Now shut up, I want to finish this before we get into trouble."
The other boy mumbled something, but kept it to himself.
The images smeared apart into an indiscernible mass of colour, then slowly faded into blackness. Had that been a memory?
You saw it?
I startled awake again, vaguely aware of my... our surroundings, minds still tightly woven together. The question lingered in my head, as did the knowledge - in us both - that I had, indeed, seen it.
Yeah, I saw it, I still responded, more out of habit than necessity. He knew my thoughts. You learned that in school?
The answer was in my mind before the Master's voice spoke. Mhm. We had a whole subject on laws. But the Doctor was right. It was boring as hell.
