Thasmin - Love Is Always Wise

Chapter 14: Kidnapping

Yaz gets up before her fiancé, she opens the door of her room, it has been only two hours since she left the kitchen. She goes to the console room, without any particular purpose and it's empty. She assumes everyone else is in the bed, so she goes to the TARDIS door and opens it. They're still on Florana, and she wants to walk a little bit, of course, the others will surely understand, but to be sure, she left a message on the console. Once she's outside, she goes and walks around the lake, right forward. After a few kilometres, she turns around. Since she left the TARDIS, she's got this uncomfortable and unpleasant feeling of being followed. She stops and looks around, but she sees no one else but her. She decides to continue, assuming she's imagining things. Suddenly she hears a voice, a little, whispering voice.

...: Please ... Help me ...

Yaz looks around her and sees nothing. It's only when she looks down that she sees a little shape behind a tree. It's a small but all wrinkled creature, like an old man in a baby shape.

YAZ: Sorry, do you need help? What happened to you? I don't want to offend you, but what species are you, I don't think I've ever met anyone like you before.

The small creature whispers something that Yaz can't understand, so she approaches him and she gets down to see him eyes into eyes. Suddenly, he speaks louder, pointing a gun at her, she recognized the gun immediately, the Master's gun.

...: I said, Time Lord. I'm a Time Lord. You tried to destroy me remember? I'm the Master! Yeah, look at me now! You tried to prevent me from stealing the Doctor's regenerations! I shot you, but you survived! How is that possible?! Oh don't tell me, the Doctor succeeded to give you regenerations, hasn't she? She's so selfish! She gave it to you and she refuses to give it to me. I'm going to make her pay for that, but first you will come with me, in this tree quickly!

Yaz follows the Master into a door that just opened in the tree, and she understands it's a TARDIS.

YAZ: How did you find us? And why do you look like this?

MASTER: Oh it took me a while. When the Doctor tried to destroy my body with an overload of regeneration energy, it nearly killed me, the explosion took away every single drop of energy I had, I aged, hundreds of years in a second and not enough regeneration energy to hold it back, I couldn't hold back the aging anymore. My body wasn't regenerating anymore, he was degenerating, and I was decaying. Of course, all your team get back in your TARDIS, you haven't even wondered if I had survived, no one came to see my body. I entered in my TARDIS, quite by chance, I had parked it a few metres away, making it invisible. It took me weeks to recover a little, to have enough life force to move around the console. As soon as I could, I searched for the Doctor everywhere. I knew she would come back to Earth so I waited. I followed you in the Time Vortex, I even created turbulences, trying to send you out of it, in the void. She left me there! I've been left for dead, like a piece of dirt, worthless. But today, I will take my revenge! Now give me regeneration energy!

YAZ: Never! I won't give you immortality!

MASTER: Oh but I don't seek for immortality anymore, I want to take revenge! I just need one or two regenerations, enough to have a proper body. Anyway, you don't have a choice, either you do it on your free will, or I kill you, I wait for you to regenerate and I take everything, but then you can be sure your precious fiancé will suffer! Oh yes, I saw your little ceremony, how touching!

She lets the Master speaks and showing off while she thinks of a plan. And she found something, an idea that could save her life.

YAZ (thinking): The ring, of course, if I try very hard, I can send a message to the Doc! I need to concentrate, come on! Doctor, please help me! I've been captured by the Master, he's still alive, please, help me! He wants to steal me regenerations.