Deadlock

Chapter 21

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"I am not dying again." Missy insisted, crossing her arms over her chest as she turned to glare up at The Doctor. "I am not; do you have any idea what I went through the last time?"

"But Gallifrey..." The Doctor countered reaching up to tug on his silvery curls before retrieving his sonic from the console and with fumbling fingers adjusted the settings. If he could just destabilise the polarity then the reactor would go critical and explode. "We have to do something we can't just..."

"Thete." Missy whispered his name, gently resting her hand on his shoulder, bringing The Doctor's actions to a halt as he startled at the sudden contact.

"Gallifrey is lost to us and even if we could go back it wouldn't be the same, you know it wouldn't love. The war changed too much; do you really think they would welcome us back? But we could stay here, just you and me..."

"And a few thousand offspring." The Doctor muttered shaking his head. "Forgive me for questioning your maternal instincts Mistress."

"To be the mother of a new race of timelords?" Missy questioned a manic grin spreading across her face. "Who wouldn't want that honour?"

"To be revered the same way we once spoke about Rassilon, Omega and The Other?" Missy added stepping closer her fingers tightening on The Doctors jacket as she pressed their bodies together and there was something so hypnotising about her that The Doctor barely winced as her chest brushed against his still open wounds. Her blue eyes so bright they seemed to glow with some internal fire.

"I don't want to be re..." The Doctor began only for her delicate fingers to press against his lips silencing his objections, staining his lips red with the lingering traces of Rassilon's blood.

"We could do it right this time Thete, none of those stupid rules they made us follow...We could create a new race of timelords and we could teach them and lead them."

"I told you I don't want to rule, I never have done." The Doctor whispered doing his best to avoid her gaze and the temptation in those blue eyes of hers.

"But isn't that the role of a father to guide and teach his children?" Missy's seductive words were tempting him, and the tender touch of her fingers on his face spoke of unexpected gentleness, as she stroked his cheek and brought his eyes back up to meet hers. "We could do it together, you and me just like you always wanted."

"I never wanted this...I just wanted to see the universe I didn't want to be the one to have choose." The Doctor insisted his blue grey eyes almost bloodshot as he pleaded with her. "You don't know what it is like to have to live with that...to think that you are responsible for the death of your entire race...I can't go through that again."

"Shush it's already done Thete and you've tried your best. You've done more than anyone else, more than anyone could expect. It won't be like last time you won't be alone and you won't be responsible, that's all on Rassilon. You can't be expected to create miracles...we just have to make the best of things."

The Doctor could almost picture it in his head, the two of them together guiding a new generation of timelords, showing them the wonders of the universe...never to be alone again...

Timelords once again spread throughout the galaxy only this time doing good instead of merely observing the passing of the ages.

By The Other it was tempting.

Oh love you have no idea

At the brush of The Mistress's lips against his own The Doctor faltered, he wrapped his arms around her and clung to her as though she were a lifeline, her lips tasted of sunlight and hope and darkness and sin all rolled into one package. Part of him wanted this so badly, he craved it like he desired her and he couldn't help but linger on her lips...teetering on the cusp of this new world.