For the Child

Hielalmwana

The Doctor froze for a second when Nardole told him the truth. Everything inside of him seemed to scream, like Missy when she got taken away.

"Doctor!" Bill entered the office, breathing hard. She had been sitting in his lecture and decided to look if everything was alright.

"No...", the Doctor muttered, not even noticing her. "No!", he squalled and rushed into the TARDIS, closely followed by his two companions.

"You have to help me." He rested his hands on the TARDIS controls. "Missy is gone. You must get me to Gallifrey to save her. Help me find her. I beg you."

"Who is he talking to?", Bill asked quietly.

"The TARDIS." Nardole looked up at the ceiling where the engine had started without the Doctor doing anything. It was spinning faster than usual. The ground was shaking, and Bill almost fell. Then it suddenly stopped.

The Doctor hustled outside immediately. The TARDIS was standing in the middle of a long white hallway.

"Missy?!", the Doctor yelled.

"Doctor!" She screamed. It was dull, but she was close enough to hear him. He ran down the hallway, following her screams.

"No!" She sounded hysterical, panic-fuelled and was screaming with all her might.

The Doctor kicked open doors as her voice got louder, desperately wanting to reach her before it was to late. Then the Lady President was stepping out of a room, guarded by four soldiers.

"Where is she?" The Doctor asked breathless. "What are you doing to her?"

"She is having an abortion." The Lady President ran a hand through her straw blonde hair. "Too many people have gathered knowledge of the child. We can't allow her to keep it."

Missy was still screaming in the background.

"Please, I beg you, you don't have to do this." The Doctor shook his head.

"We can't allow the Master to raise a child."

"Then don't. That's fine, that's okay, I get that. But don't kill the child. Let her have it and then take it to an orphanage. It doesn't have to know their origins." The Doctor kneeled on the ground. "Please. I'm begging you on my knees. Don't do this."

"I'm sorry." The Lady President closed her eyes. "This isn't my decision. People all over the universe are scared."

"Scared of a baby?", Bill asked who caught up to them, together with Nardole. "How does the universe get safer with murder?"

"Simple humans like you wouldn't understand." The Lady President looked down at the Doctor who was still kneeling on the ground. "You know it, Doctor. You know that this is necessary."

He was silent for a few seconds, then he looked up, right into her eyes. "No." He stood up again. "No. Murder is never right. And murdering an innocent baby is a horrible crime. Doing this makes you just as worse as her. Missy is regretting. She is getting better day by day, she is starting to understand the difference between right or wrong. And you're destroying her. You're killing her baby. The baby she wanted to die for. How many mothers would do that?"

"She wanted to die for the baby?", Bill asked quietly.

"Yes." The Doctor turned around to look at her. "There is one other way next to the vortex to get a child. When it's time to give birth, you can give all your regenerations to the child. It will kill you and your child won't be able to regenerate... but it will live one life. That's what Missy wanted to do. She'd rather sacrifice herself than her child!" He turned back to the Lady President. "So, get out of my way. Let me stop this before it's too late."