Thasmin - Love Is Always Wise

Chapter 23: The escape

YAZ: There's no way we work with this guy and you know that!

DOC: I'm sorry darling but we have to ...

YAZ: I SAID NO FUCKING WAY! You know what I think of the man, so I understand you want to help him, even after what he's done, you think it's some sort of redemption, but it's not.

DOC: It's not only that, me and him, we were friends once. A long time ago, we were running through the fields of red grass of Gallifrey, we were just children, and we wanted to travel through the skies together. We were so young and so innocent at the time.

MASTER: Yeah, I remember. So, it's not that I don't like childhood nostalgia or a good domestic dispute but we'd better find a way out, and quickly.

YAZ: DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!

MASTER: Do what?

YAZ: Coming in my back without a noise, waiting for us to notice you!

MASTER: Oh, right I'm sorry.

DOC: You should be resting for now, you're very injured.

YAZ: Oh, so, me having a heart attack because of him, alright, but him being injured, and now you're worried!

DOC: Babe ...

YAZ: No, I see how this is! I need some fresh air, you know what, why don't you flirt while I go for a walk, eh? You're supposed to be supporting me, but now you're a bleeding pain in my ass!

Yasmin walks away, more angry than ever, while the Doctor looks down. When she's about to talk, the Master goes away.

DOC: Great, even he doesn't want to talk to me now ...

Meanwhile, outside the cave.

MASTER: Yaz, wait.

YAZ: Get out of my sight, after the Doctor, you're the last person I want to see by now!

MASTER: Yaz, don't blame her for that ...

YAZ: Oh, that's new, because I could swear you were saying the exact opposite a few months ago, when you abused me!

MASTER: I'm sorry for that, but –

YAZ: Sorry?! You're sorry?!! Sorry's not enough for what you did! Sorry is barely enough for kidnapping me, so imagine what you have to do if you want to apologise about a rape!

MASTER: Okay, hit me, I deserved it.

YAZ: I SAID BUGGER OFF! Wait, what?

MASTER: Come on, punch me in the face, right here, on my cheekbones.

YAZ: You're mad!

MASTER: No, I just want you to go on about this, because if you don't, we all might die here.

YAZ: Go to hell!

MASTER: Oh, I will, I know that ... But before I go, I want to help you survive this.

The Doctor comes to them, in silence, and none of them see her.

YAZ: Yeah, but you don't know how to escape this place.

MASTER: Actually, I do.

YAZ: What?! Wait a minute, if you know how to get out of this hell, then why did you stay? Were you waiting for us? Is it another trap of yours?

MASTER: Not at all, I swear. I didn't know you were coming, actually, I thought this Time Lord would let you and the Doc alone after I did everything he told me.

YAZ: Then, why haven't you tried to escape?

MASTER: Because I didn't want to ... I had no desire to survive this ... How do you think I've been injured?

YAZ: You told us you've been attacked.

MASTER: It's not quite true ... I told the truth about the creatures and what they did to me, but they didn't come after me, I surrendered to them.

DOC: You did what?! That's suicide! Why would you do such a thing?

MASTER: After what I did to you, what I did to Yaz, I decided the universe would be better off without me, and I still believe it, I just simply can't let you here on your own, you wouldn't last a week. See, Doc, this place is hell, but you're too kind for this, you wouldn't make it.

DOC: Wait, you said it was a Time Lord, but how can you be so sure?

MASTER: I never met him, but he contacted me ... with a Hypercube, a Tesseract, or whatever you call it.

YAZ: It's only used by Time Lords!

MASTER: Precisely!

YAZ: But you said you know the way out, so what is it then?

MASTER: This place is out of time and space, out of the entire reality, someone opened a portal to this place and sent us through it, this kind of portal uses a massive quantity of energy, and this energy must still be here, but the only thing we don't have is a link between our universe and this one.

DOC: Yeah, I know all of that, and?

MASTER: What if we had this link?

DOC: Well that would be lovely dear, but we don't!

MASTER: I do have it. I kept the Tesseract

DOC: You're joshing me! If we have it, we can be able to trace back the signal.

YAZ: We can go home!

A few hours later, on Apalapucia.

JACK: I told you I'm a friend of the Doctor, where is she?

AVA: Calm down sir, please wait while I deal with the other customers.

JACK: My friend is missing, you're gonna tell me where she is now or I swear you won't even be able to talk to your customers after I'll be done with you.

JENNY: Jack, please, calm down.

AVA: Fine, but first, stay calm and brace yourself.

JACK: Brace myself? What are you talking about?!

AVA: Someone hacked our servers, the Doctor and her wife have been teleported through a portal, but they vanished, they have been teleported to an unknown place, I tried to track the signal, but I didn't find a clue.

All of a sudden, a portal opens in the middle of the corridor and the Doctor, Yaz and the Master fall through it and appear in front of Jack.

MASTER: I hope it's the right planet this time, or it would only be our 45th failure.

Jack runs towards the Master, but surprisingly enough, Yaz puts herself between them.

JACK: What the hell is he doing here?!

MASTER: It's good to see you too, captain. Handsome Jack himself to rescue, lucky me!

DOC: Koschei, enough!

YAZ: What did you say?

MASTER: How dare you?!

DOC: You were accepting a terrible death when Yaz and I arrive on Arfeliosogrefft, so this isn't very much, you deserve a lot worse.

MASTER: Yeah, okay, you got a point.

JACK: Koschei? Is that your real name?

Yaz smiles and laughs.

MASTER: What is it? What's so funny?

YAZ: I was just thinking ... It looks like Koshey, in old Turkish language, it means "slave", this is pretty ironic for you, Master!

MASTER: Mock me if you will, but we still have to find the Time Lord who's behind all of that!

DOC: Back to the TARDIS then, time we're off!