Like fire! Hellfire! [this fire in my skin]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[the Master skids to a halt when he appears on the Astral Plane, having apparently come in running. He immediately straightens out his clothing before addressing the Plane]

Right, so! Pompeii: very lacking in Super Soaker outlets. Anyone have a water gun handy?

Comments

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[grins] I'm a temp. It's what I do. I even almost worked for you once. Didn't land it, though, which was all right. Every temp in the city was trying for it, I swear.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I knew who you were already. Chose not to bring you in.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

How'd you know me? I'm not exactly important.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You have very low self-esteem, Donna Noble. I'd get that dealt with were I you.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

Well it's the truth. I'm just a temp from Chiswick who got a lucky break.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

The Doctor lets you travel around thinking that? Ooh, he's been so lax in recent years.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

What's that supposed to mean?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

What do you think it means?

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

That I'm special?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Doesn't he usually give some droll about how everyone is special?

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

He doesn't exactly go around making speeches. He's gotten better about not killing things. I think that Martha he was with did him a lot of good. But he helps people. He just doesn't...talk a lot.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

...That's unusual.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[quickly] Oh he still rattles on. But he doesn't say much. And he does the 'protect life' thing.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

The what?

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

You know! Protecting people, saving worlds, all that. He does that. He thinks life is special.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Quite the madman, that Doctor.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

You don't think life is worth something?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Some lives are worth less than others.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

All right, so what lives do matter?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Mine, of course. The Doctor's, to a lesser extent. Those individuals that show some sort of promise - intelligence or merit or genius thinking. Lucy is one such.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[sort of absently] Your wife's different than I pictured her.

So basically, the people you like matter?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

The people that matter, I like.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

You're just twisting what I said around.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I'm playing with word order to put new meaning into my words.