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The Master (cantyouhearit) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2011-12-27 23:52:00

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lucy saxon, the master

WHO: The Master & Lucy Saxon
WHAT: Gremlins are attacking, and the Master is about to transfer his TARDIS to help build a safe zone. He wants to make sure Lucy gets there in one piece.
WHEN: December 27th
WHERE: Tony & Pepper's flat
RATING: PG
STATUS: In Progress

After their initial conversation, it hadn't taken the Master long to figure out where Lucy was staying. All he'd had to do was keep his ears and eyes open and occasionally explore the other areas of the housing complex until he managed to narrow down the options. Then, it had only required watching her return and departure to gauge exactly where she headed to and come from. From there, a quick confirmation with the nameplate had given him all of the certainty that he'd needed. He knew where Lucy was, and he'd keep that information safe for whenever it became necessary. It was a good thing that he'd found out early, really, since it had become necessary a lot faster than he ever expected it would.

When Christmas had came and went without so much of a hint of something from their reality dropping in for a surprise, the Master thought that they might get off easy this year. It had taken them so long to recover from the Toclafane that it was possible Asaph had reconsidered leveling the city once more to have them struggle to rebuild it come new year again. Sadly, he'd been wrong, and as the Gremlins had poured into the city, all the Master could think was that Asaph had decided since he was going to attack them with something not so Doctor Who, that he'd save it for the day after.

While they might not be as vicious or as deadly as the Toclafane, at least in the Master's view, they were just as plentiful, and plentiful could quickly translate into deadly in the right circumstances. So when the Rani had suggested setting up a safe zone out of their TARDISes, the Master had done something that he didn't do often. He'd volunteered to help. Of course, helping random strangers was not his cup of tea. It was simply the idea that he could keep those that he had a certain concern for safe that had motivated him.

Turning Lolita's knobs and dials, winding the old girl up despite her protests after being left to sit for so long, he shifted her, calculating a quick jump between his flat and the one that Lucy was staying in, landing her carefully in the living quarters right between the sofa and the fireplace, her look quickly transforming into a nice turn of the century armoire, just before the Master stepped out into the room and cast a quick look about.

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neverthatbright
2011-12-28 07:27 am UTC (link)

Lucy knew she was quite possibly making the biggest mistake of her entire life by agreeing to go with him. Unlike when she'd agreed to marry him in the first place, when she could at least claim that love had blinded her to some of his more negative aspects, this time she had no such excuse to fall back on if things took a turn for the worse. No, she knew exactly what the Master was capable of doing and yet she was still willingly going along for the ride with nothing but his word to assure her that it wasn't some sort of cleverly contrived trap. Honestly, if she wound up in over her head because of it, she really would have no one to blame but herself and she knew it.

Yet despite all of that, she still found herself taking his hand with only a brief moment of hesitation. Perhaps it was because he had admitted that his own TARDIS wasn't pleased with him. Perhaps it was simply her own inability to believe she truly deserved a fresh start and relative clean slate after all of the things she'd done. Whatever the reason, she followed him into his ship and found, even as the doors shut behind them, that she didn't regret the decision she'd made. In fact, if anything, she was a bit excited and rather looking forward to what was likely to be a very short, and to the point, trip.

"Why is she upset with you?" she asked almost without thinking, gaze flickering about the control room of his ship before she finally turned to look at the Master with a somewhat curious stare. She had her own theories as to just why the ship might not be happy with him, of course, but she wasn't nearly so bold as to think she could ever truly know what a TARDIS might be thinking. She was nothing more than a mere human, not even very bright by her own species' standards, after all.

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cantyouhearit
2011-12-28 07:44 am UTC (link)

The Master felt a small thrill at her taking his hand. Even if it was a tiny thing, her agreeing to go with him was something that the Master couldn't help but assume was a stepping stone on repairing their lost relationship, and that gave him a certain hope that he wouldn't have been able to achieve anywhere or with anyone else. As they stepped into his TARDIS, the door closing behind them as he stepped over to the console and swiped his hand briefly over it, holding up his fingers that were streaked with dust, the Master offered Lucy a sheepish smile.

"You can imagine that she's not exactly thrilled with being left to sit for weeks, months on end with me only popping in every once and awhile to make sure all systems are in running order. She's a restless traveler stuck in a place where there's so little to travel to," The Master said, even if there were the outlands to explore, he hadn't been like the Doctor in a very long time. Pointless exploration, especially by himself, didn't really interest him the way that it used to.

"I haven't been giving my girl the attention that she deserves, and she wants to make it clear to me that she knows it," He said, twisting another set of knobs and dials and frowning at the noise of protest that issues from the console. "Very clear. Yes, yes, Lo. We know. I'll do better next time," He said, flipping another set of switches and exhaling with relief as the center console lit up and they started moving. "Thankfully, she's always been brilliant enough to know when we do need to get moving, all the same."

Brushing his hand over the console again to rid it of some more of the caked on dust, the Master spared a brief glance around the TARDIS interior, slightly darker and older in fashion than the Doctor's TARDIS had been, and glanced briefly back at Lucy with a curious gaze in his eyes, "So. What do you think?" Not that he figured much of a judgment could be made based on the console room alone.

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neverthatbright
2011-12-30 07:50 pm UTC (link)

A Time Lord and his TARDIS. Once upon a time, what felt like very long ago, he had tried to explain to her the bond that existed between the two. Granted the explanation had been made far more giddily and as a means of trying to get her to realise just how very much he'd hurt the Doctor by stealing his, but the general concept was the same. Lucy still didn't quite understand it but, then again, when it came to things concerning the Master that was typically the case.

Still. Even if she didn't true grasp just how close the two could be, even if he'd never even tried to explain it in the first place, it was quite obvious to her how much his TARDIS meant to him. And while a small part of her really did wish that he could ever be as fond of her as he was of his ship, she was hardly going to let her own mild jealousy cause her to say something deliberately hurtful.

So after taking a moment to truly look around, she met his gaze with a small smile. "I think she's lovely," she said. "And you really should take better care of her." There was likely some sort of symbolism to be found there. A clever parallel of how he'd treated her as his wife compared to how he treated his beloved TARDIS. However, Lucy was hardly the sort to attempt such a connection intentionally. Besides, even if she was, she was much too absently worried once the ship started to move that she was about to find herself in some carefully laid trap of the Master's and that they weren't going somewhere safe at all.

Not wanting to dwell on such things, Lucy lightly grasped the railing to keep herself upright and cast a glance back to the Master. "Are you certain the creatures haven't found their way on board?" she questioned with just a touch of anxiety. Gremlins were notorious for messing with mechanical things. She really did not want to be inside a TARDIS, of all things, if they'd managed to get inside and poked about.

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cantyouhearit
2011-12-30 08:47 pm UTC (link)

"Not yet," The Master said, knowing all too well that it was probably arrogant for him to think that his TARDIS was impenetrable to Gremlin invasions. But he'd made sure to sweep it before leaving his flat, make sure that the only life sign inside had been his own before leaving. Even if he couldn't assure that they weren't going to crash and burn in the middle of the vortex, he managed the best he could. "She's usually pretty good about keeping out anything that I don't want in here," He said, patting the console with a certain affection as the course was stabilized. It wouldn't take long for them to get there, not never like the last trip that they'd taken together, but he figured he could step away for at least a moment.

"Would you like to take a closer look around?" The Master asked, nodding towards the door to the deeper rooms in the TARDIS. He didn't want her to go by herself since he was sure she'd get lost if she did. But he wouldn't mind showing her around some of the closer areas as Lolita managed to align herself and land. "I'm sure we have time to nip back and check out the library and the study."

Those were the closest to the console room, of course. Well, the closest rooms that weren't rather disturbing or for things that he'd rather Lucy not have to deal with knowing he did in this state.

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