Voice ---> Video | Life handed us a paycheck and we said, "... We worked harder than this!"
[There's the sound of rustling far too close to a microphone, as if a thumb is being rubbed across it, mixed with ambient noise. The thudding of heavy footsteps and heavier breathing, the clatter of a glass bottle, the squeaking of some unholy thing in the dark. In fact, it sounds suspiciously like the Master is butt-dialing you
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He doesn't even need to reach for his NV to know which Time Lord it is, but he does it all the same. And there he is just as he remembers him. Frantic. Broken. Urging him to get out of the way as he brought down the Time Lords' last hope of salvation. Their last hope for the end of time.
Well. ...Leave it too the Master to ruin a perfectly good date. ]
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He even remembers how he (unintentionally or no) saved his life. And that's something he cannot quite forget.
When he turns on the NV, he's composed as he can be, even if he's probably going to break out into a frantic run any second. ]
I should have known that not even the end of time would stop you.
[ It never has. ]
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[Of course, he's never seen or heard this incarnation of the Doctor before, but it doesn't take much of a stretch to guess this may well be the other one Rose Tyler spoke of. He peers at the projected image, scrutinizing with a critical frown.]
I guess you could say time itself hasn't been kind to either of us.
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After everything...
He'll just reply as normally as he can. ]
Oh, I don't know about that. Apart from almost being erased from existence, I'd say I've had a good go at things.
Comparatively speaking.
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I can fix that.
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And the Doctor trying to save. ]
The first thing you should fix is yourself, Master. How much longer can that body last you, after using up all that energy on the Lord President? A week? A month?
There's more to worry about here than just me.
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[Sullen. Stubborn.]
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I suppose I ought to thank you for your rather ambiguous possibly saving of my life. Of course, I still died, but I didn't die.
[ You know the way he says it. That second "die". It's a way that only Time Lords understand.
That the master probably understands all too well. ]
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It wasn't for you.
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[ But that didn't change the fact that he still could have waited. ]
But you still saved me, after all those years of promising to finally be rid of me once and for all.
[ This... It was almost like old times, wasn't it? Back when the Master was a little less mad, and the Doctor cared a little less for humanity.
But, he still had to be wary. This was the Master, and he was more dangerous than ever. ]
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Why let Rassilon have all the fun?
When you die, Doctor, I'm the one who's gonna make it happen. And it'll be glorious.
[He winces as he fluctuates again, blue energy washing through him and threatening to tear him apart. Getting a little ahead of himself, perhaps.]
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