Y/n POV:
My vision was blurry but I could tell I was waking up. And not from passing out but waking up from our memory comas as well. That was the last thing I remembered at least, holding the doctor's hand while fake memories flooded our heads.
My head now felt like it was going to explode, the throbbing came from the back of my neck.
I went to feel for a knot but then realized my arms were tied behind me. I started to panic. The room was pitch black, rummaging I scooted the chair. "Hello? Anyone hello?" No answer.
"HELLO HELP! I'm trapped!!" More Silence, I started to panic. "HELP! HELP DOCTOR, ARE YOU THERE? DOCTOR HELP ME! Help me please." I screamed till I was hoarse.
"Tsk, tsk," came from the dark corner of the room, followed by slow claps. "Sweet y/n. The Doctor isn't here to save you this time."
"Who are you? Where's the Doctor?" The man walked out of the darkness and into the light. He wore a black suit, no tie, he wasn't too tall and his hair was a sort of dirty blonde. But all I knew is I could smell his ego across the room.
He planted his hands on the chair arms. "Let me show you," he placed both his hands on the sides of my head. Visions of memories filled my mind.
The quick visions stopped, and my mind went still. I looked around the new planet, red dirt ground in between my toes. A red sky and air filled the atmosphere, the suns glistening. A huge glass dome sat in the foreground, a sort of city. "My home, Gallifrey." I heard the man whisper. Blinking more visions, of pain, captivity, extensive training, "a soldier they made me." He said. Two young boys running across red mountains, "my best friend, you know him well." The doctors' faces all 10 played across my mind. "We betrayed one another over and over. Throughout all space and time." The infinite purple and blue ribbons of time filled my eyes like a deep pool. "They made me look into time, the untempered schism. The drums would follow me."
More visions of the man standing over the red mountains and traveling to other planets. Fighting against the Doctor killing anyone in his way. "Eventually that's how I got the name, the master."
I gasped for breath. The mind presentation is over with finally. All the Doctor and master's history in my head. Like a new permanent puzzle piece in my mind. The master stood back from me waiting to say anything.
"Well now don't you see," he held his hands out.
I nodded no, sweat falling down my forehead. "No, no I don't! I don't know I'm sorry." I was starting to panic.
"How can you not see who you are? Did all that time flirting with the Doctor make you soft!" He threw something across the room. My heart started racing in fear. "I'm sorry, I'll leave you. Over time you will see."
I hung on those last words.
Over time.
-Doctor POV-
"Doctor you have to calm down!" Jack chased me around the Tardis console. For days we had tried everything to find y/n.
"COME ON YOU KNOW HER!" I yelled at the Tardis, slamming the console with my mallet. "Why won't it ping her location? Your stupid bloody machine!" The tardis wheezed in the argument back at me. Jack walked over to me and instead of placing his hands on my shoulders. Unexpectedly he palm up and slapped my cheek. "Whot?! Whot did I deserve that for?"
"We're not going to find her if you keep squabbling with the bloody Tardis!" Jack yelled. I never thought about how he would react to y/n being taken.
"I'm sorry, your right."
"We will find her, I promise." We sat for a while in the library reading up on ways to track her down. The Tardis wheezed and wheezed like without her presence something was off. And I agreed with her, without y/n I felt wrong, almost empty.
"I guess I'm just angry at myself. I knew this, I don't know..." I remembered that day in Venice, in the garden I ran into the future y/n. Her hair is different from her clothes. But behind her eyes, that was what scared me what if this was how the future happens? What if I could never stop it?
"Doctor what do you know?" Jack said. I decided to keep that interaction a secret for now. If I told Jack it had the potential to become a set point in time.
"I know it feels wrong," I closed a book shut.
"What?" Jack looked up from the pages he was reading.
"Her not being here, in the Tardis. Jack, she brought something back to this place. I didn't know if I could risk forming that again...And then most of all after months of."
"Being married?" Jack laughed and I back at him. "Never did I think I'd see you even be pretend married Doctor. Not after, well you know." Jack stopped. I knew who he was referring to, Rose.
I ran my hand threw my hair and took off my suit jacket. "Me either if that makes up for it. I never thought after being on that beach that I would find someone else. Someone who made me feel," I nodded my head.
"Doctor, tell me this. Why haven't you taken it off yet?" He pointed to me. I shot him a confused glance he nodded down to my hands. I raised my fingers to see a gold band wrapped around my ring finger. That was all the proof I needed. But then suddenly a thought occurred to me.
"OH! OH I'M SO THICK! SO THICKY THICK THICK!" I banged my head and ran off back to the Tardis console.
- Y/n POV-
When I was finally released I was able to rome around the planet freely. The master and I had come to an agreement, I would meet with him every day in some form for my freedom. Now I walked the unknown planet that was ravaged by all the different alien creatures me and the Doctor ever encountered. Each and every one of them passed me with looks of rage and anger. Me and the Doctor had angered them. I missed him... the image of his face danced across my mind. Thoughts of all the things I wanted to say to him, to confess to him...
All I could do was sit here in the master's garden and wait for him to sit and tell me more stories about him and the Doctor. And listen to him try to pry some "secret" from my brain.
He kept saying, "how can you not see who you are?" And honestly, at this point, I had no idea who I was or what he needs from me.
-Doctor POV-
"What Doctor? What's your plan? How can we find her?" I took off my ring and placed it into the Tardis console. She wheezed and wheezed but eventually came up with a location.
"Bingo! I found her jack look!" Jack ran over and grabbed the monitor.
"But Doctor that's not possible," the master had y/n on a dying planet on the outer ring of the untempered schism.
"It's possible to exist but it's impossible to land the Tardis on the planet. The only way we can get on the planet is to go back to when the master created it. Then somehow hang out and scour the planet until we find her."
"That sounds like a very dangerous trap," Jack said leaning against the Tardis.
"It is. Typical master plan, we just need a way to get ahead of him." Grinding my teeth together, I pulled the Tardis leaver into gear and we headed off. "Allonsy!" Straight into the masters' trap. But it was the only way, to find y/n.
- Fast forward -
"Jack I could use some help you know!" Holding the sonic out I tried to fight off the multiple cybermen blocking our path. "Hurry up!"
"Which gun is it?" He shouted from inside the broke down Tardis. "Dammit I can't see anything!"
"Not a gun the Displacer!" My sonic was running out I could tell. "Now would be a great time to." Jack came out shooting each cybermens head exploding one after the other. But they kept multiplying. All I could think was all these months we fought to even make it on this planet. Months with a Tardis that didn't work. Months of scouring the maze-like planet for the master and y/n, nothing. Now we were cornered, the cybermen pushing us against a wall, no way out.
"We never got to her!" Jack yelled at me.
"Y/n!!!" I screamed. "Y/n!!! We're here!" Jack yelled out with me. We both in unison screamed her name. Over and over.
Just then the cybermen stopped, frozen. Then each of them exploded one by one. Golden sparks flying out from their heads. I heard another sonic device noise And then from behind them came a familiar voice. "Funny, I came when you called..."
And then out from one of the spaceship hallways, she stepped out. And I knew the moment I saw her it was y/n, but that y/n from Venice, from the garden. the long hair, the clothes, the now faded scar above her eye.
But she had aged.
I had no time to react because my body was running to her, before I even knew it I was embracing her.
But she wasn't embracing me.