Arising From the Fall [4] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The End of Time, Part Two

"Are you there?"

"Find her. Trace the call." The Master ordered.

"Are you still there?" Donna asked. "Can you hear me?"

"Say goodbye to the freak, Granddad." The Master ordered.

"Donna, get out of there!" Wilfred shouted. "Just get out of there. I'm telling you, run!"
He ordered. "Run, sweetheart, that's all. Run for your life!"

"There's more of them." Donna cried.

"Donna?" Wilfred asked. "What's happening? Are you still there?"

"They're everywhere."

"Look, I'm telling you to run, Donna." He begged her. "Just run, sweetheart. Just run."

"It's not just them. I can see those things again. Those creatures." Donna cried. "Why can I see a giant wasp?"

"Donna, don't think about that." Wilf pleaded close to tears. "Donna, my love don't!"

"And it hurts. My head. It keeps getting hotter, and hotter, and hotter, and hotter, and hotter!"  She cried out before a loud scream could be heard. "What did I..."

"Donna?" Wilf looked in panic. "What was that? Donna? Donna, are you there? Donna!" He shouted. "Donna! Donna!"

The Stone started to chuckle as the Master stared over at them. The Doctor smiling looked right at the Master and winked. The mad Time Lord stormed over and removed the gag.

"That's better. Hello." He grinned. "First please don't talk about my wife like that, really?" He raised a brow. "But really, did you think we'd leave our best friend without a defence mechanism?" He raised the other.

"Doctor? Stone? What happened?" Wilf questioned.

"She's all right." The Stone spoke up nodding. "She's fine, I promise you. She'll just sleep."

"Tell me, where's your TARDIS?" The Master whispered looking at them.

"You could be so wonderful." The Doctor looked at him.

"Where is it?"

"You're a genius. You're stone cold brilliant, you are. I swear, you really are. But you could be so much more. You could be beautiful."

"With a mind like that, we could travel the stars." The Stone cut in.

"It would be my honour. Because you don't need to own the universe, just see it." The Doctor cut in. "To have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and space. That's ownership enough."

"Would it stop, then?" The Master asked. "The noise in my head?"

"We can help."

"I don't know what I'd be without that noise." The Master murmured.

"I wonder what we'd be, without you." The Doctor looked at the Stone who nodded before he looked at the Master.

"Yeah."

"What does he mean?" Wilf asked. "What noise?"

"It began on Gallifrey, as children." The Master stepped back. "Not that you'd call it childhood. More a life of duty. Eight years old. I was taken for initiation, to stare into the Untempered Schism."

"What does that mean?" He asked.

"It's a gap in the fabric of reality." The Stone answered.

"You can see into the Time Vortex itself. And it hurts." The Doctor added.