Blue Christmas

Part 11:

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Osgood had been pleasantly asleep...had been being the salient point.

One moment her mind had been a fuzzy place, warm muddled with fleeting images of her day passing through her subconscious then next she was being jarred awake with the cold press of sharpened steel pressing against her jugular.

Holding herself very still Osgood tried not to panic. Her attacker was currently just a dark blob straddling her waist. The knife at her throat didn't waver, and other than Osgood's own thready breathing there was no sound....no sound...she couldn't even hear her assailants breathing. Which meant it was either some sort of android or...

"Missy?" Osgood hissed the name, getting her answer when the knife pressed into her soft flesh breaking the skin and causing Osgood to whimper. "Missy stop it, it's not funny."

"It is Mistress to you human." Missy's familiar voice broke the silence and Osgood could hear both wistfulness and barely contained emotion...possibly anger in the tone... "Why Skip, why did you betray me?"

"I didn't...I wouldn't..." Osgood replied, swallowing nervously as that was clearly the wrong answer for some reason, she didn't know how...no she suspected how and that it had something to do with that watch Missy had been handling earlier...yet what was clear was that this was The Mistress holding her captive not human Missy and the Time Lady was clearly pissed about something, something that she blamed on Osgood.

"Don't lie pet; I hate liars even more than I hate backstabbers." Missy replied her voice childishly sing song as she traced the tip of the knife along Skip's jawline allowing a thin line of red to bubble and bloom up over her pet's normally tanned skin. "You know what you did."

"I'm not lying." Osgood pleaded, squirming away from the knife. "Mistress please stop. I'm your friend remember."

"Tut tut Skip I made a mistake in believing that lie before, in sparing you but that won't be a mistake I will be repeating. I warned you once; and I don't give second chances pet." Missy hissed reaching back and grasping hold of Osgood's loose dark hair and wrenching it hard to expose the long slope of her throat.

"Sorry this is going to be a little messy but please do feel free to struggle, I like it best when you fight back it really gets my blood pumping."

Trailing the knife down the smooth column of the human's throat Missy trailed teasing little patterns, light little more than scratches against her skin but they swelled pretty red like a natural tattoo. Reaching the neckline of Skip's ugly t-shirt Missy dragged her knife through the material, like dark star alloy through armour plating, exposing her canvas and the human's pretty full breasts.

"Should I carve my name here pet?" Missy teased digging the very tip of the knife above the trembling girls left breast. "Carve your Mistress's name in your pretty little flesh to remind you just who owns you and just who you betrayed when you teamed up with The Doctor to neuter me? Leave it here for your pretty little Tess to find along with your cold rotting corpse?"

She was really going to do it! Osgood felt herself freeze as first the knife and then cold fingers travelled down from her hair to stroke across her trembling flesh. Her heart was pounding away mere inches from the knife's tip. She knew she should fight back, she should do something yet the very fear of death was paralysing and her brain just wouldn't work.

"Skip it is rude not to answer when someone asks you a question, have you lost all of your manners as well as your good sense? Hmm?" Missy mused raking nails harshly along the cleft between Osgood's breasts leaving long red claw marks before she dipped her head and lapped her tongue against the bleeding wounds her knife had left on the girl's neck. "Hmmm yummy."

"Why are you doing this?" Osgood asked blinking away the tears that now fell freely over her cheeks. "I was helping you..."

"I told you I didn't need any help, I told you to stay away from The Doctor." Tasting her tears that were as salty as her blood Missy explained as if talking to a child or an idiot, which to be honest her little pet was sometimes a bit of both.

"I told you to stay out of it Skip. But no you had to interfere, had to muck up all my plans and leave me stuck as a human. A human! Did you think it was funny, did you laugh? You must have, you and that prissy little boss of yours, did you throw a party, knowing what I had been reduced to. Knowing that my salvation was in reach and then doing nothing to help me when I really needed it? Letting me debase myself like that in front of The Doctor."

"No...No!" Osgood insisted. "I just wanted to help I swear it. I didn't know The Doctor had your watch all this time. I would never have agreed to keeping you imprisoned in the watch Missy I swear it. You are my friend..."

"I told you not to lie to me Skip and I warned you of the consequences." Missy tutted. "What would be fitting punishment be do you think?"

"I am not lying!" Osgood snapped. "Please check for yourself if you don't believe me. We both know you are capable of ripping the truth from my mind with or without my permission. Or heaven forefend you could just try trusting me!"

Surprised...and she had honestly thought her Pet was beyond surprising her Missy sat up blue eyes narrowing as she stared down at the trembling human. "Why would I bother, human minds are such a messy place."

"Because you know me." Osgood spat back her patience at an end. If Missy was going to kill then she should just get on with it, otherwise Osgood had had enough.

"You know I would have stood by you in this." She added taking advantage of the Time Lady's sudden reticence to knock the knife away from her flesh, surprised when Missy allowed it and actually tossed the weapon out of range of them both.

"You expect me to believe that you honestly prefer me like this Skip? Your would be murderer, the destroyer of worlds, to that neutered thing The Doctor was playing house with?"

"Yes." Osgood answered simply knocking the wind out of Missy's self-righteous sails.

Sitting up so they were practically nose to nose Osgood surprised Missy yet again, she wrapped her arms around Missy's waist and pulled her into a hug.

"What do you think you are doing?" Missy all but squeaked as she was all but surrounded by warm human.

"Hugging my friend." Osgood muttered into the Time Lady's shoulder. "Even if she is a terrible friend in return I am still glad she is back."

Hesitating for a moment Missy found herself leaning into the embrace, curling her own arms around the human girl, surprised to feel a bloom of an unaccustomed feeling that she quickly and viciously stomped down. She did not feel guilty. No...not even a tiny bit...she was just a human...a pet kept around to amuse her. Even so it didn't stop her tightening her grip just a little, holding on a little tighter and resting her cheek against her pet's shoulder.

Feeling Missy hug her back Osgood smiled.

"I can feel that!" Missy snapped back yet that only caused Osgood's smile to grow.

It was ridiculous and perhaps it was shock setting in, yet Osgood knew she was no longer in any real danger. Well not of being sliced up...

Yelping as cold hands slipped under her butchered t-shirt Osgood scrabbled to move Missy's hands back to more respectable places, ignoring the amused grin and snicker of the Time Lady against her shoulder.

Well it seemed somethings were back to normal.

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