Your Lord and Master

The Master and their evil schemes, in textposts. Again. It’s been a while.

Reveal

Ten: Still not ginger?

Thirteen, straight faced: Actually I am, but I dyed it blonde.

Ten, completely betrayed, devastated, already thinking about how to change his choices to escape this cursed future:

This is the moment that really drove it home. It’s the reality the Master has always had to live with. The truth that the Doctor had always denied or tried to avoid.

And in this moment the Master hears her say the words he’s thought a thousand times. He knows what she really thinks of him because in the grand scheme of things, he’s so very small in her life.

It’s why the Doctor left him on Gallifrey to begin with.

He is unimportant, to the Doctor, to his people, to the universe.

That face is not shock. It’s almost resignation. She’s only confirming what he’s known since he was a quiet boy in the academy.

He’s always been the unimportant one, the expendable one.