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?

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[savagestime.livejournal.com]

And are you still the man who watched me burn to death?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I would've saved you. I always try to save you!

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You did not! Did you develop a selective memory after you destroyed Gallifrey? That fire wasn't the first time you left me to die! Or did you forget the missile strike on the Keller Machine and the time loop with the Axons? What of abandoning me to the Matrix after I saved you at your trial?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

And you, causing me to fall off that tower, trying to drain my regenerations, kill me in Event One---and that's not even the beginning of the list!

And I'm supposed to feel guilty for not managing to save you from situations you created yourself?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You're supposed to stop pretending that you've always held an open hand out to me!

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

You don't want to be saved! Even after everything that happened, I still tried to take your hand to save you from falling into the Eye of Harmony!

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

After about nine hundred years, yes.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

You certainly haven't changed. Still all talk and cruelty. I'm beginning to think you can't change.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Then give up. Run away. You always do; why bother changing that now?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

While you cower and hide when your plans don't work out?

And you call me a coward.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You are one.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Then I suppose I'm in excellent company.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

No, you're not, Doctor. You're still all alone.

[smiles at the Doctor briefly before walking past him, away]

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[oh, that was not nice]

And you're still ultimately completely predictable. Tossing a jab while you walk smugly off?

At least you don't deny your own cowardice.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[stops, turning back to look at him]

I don't. But I'm happy with that.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[right, so maybe he was wrong about the predictable]

You're happy with that? How can you be happy admitting your own fears?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I thought you were supposed to be? You know, face your fears, bravely march on, accept your weaknesses and work around them. That sort of thing is your department, isn't it?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but since when did you make it your goal to become me?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Well, the thing is, you're not that, are you? You don't face your fears. You can't accept your weaknesses. And you've been trudging your feet, not marching on.

Not very healthy, is it, Doctor?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

And you didn't answer my question.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Not obviously, but it's a bit depressing that I need to lay everything out for you, Doctor.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I don't even know why I bother trying to have a conversation with you. All I feel is pity for that other self of mine, having to deal with your nonsense.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Why do you keep bothering, then? I was leaving. You stopped me. Why don't you just let walk away?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Go on, then.

I'm not stopping you now.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You know what? I can believe you're stubborn enough to let me.

[again, he turns his back on the Doctor and starts to walk away]