A/N: So warning, yes WARNING. MASSIVE, MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE Spoilers for Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars but also AU seeing as the Master (yay Master!) is tagging along as captive!Companion. Brilliant, yes? Onto the story! Also? Major MAJOR character death.

( Some things are fixed. )

Warning: Dark. Character death.

A battlefield. A desolate wasteland of blood marred and muddy trenches that they've both stumbled through these long, lonely centuries. Time Lords can cheat death by regeneration and on more than one occasion he's sought to extend his own existence by stealing from another such as himself.

( Blood makes noise. )