Thinking about a “War!Master travels with Ten, Jack, and Martha” AU that I may or may not do something with so please just enjoy a snippet of a plot idea:
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“You realize why the Doctor hates having you around, don’t you?” The Master asked Jack from where he had been sitting silently at the kitchen table, simply watching the fall out of the fight he had just witnessed with a, supposedly, disinterested gaze. “It’s because you’re too tempting.”
“I don’t think the Doctor finds me any kind of tempting.” Jack replied, voice still agitated from the fight but quickly slipping towards dejection. “Don’t think he ever did.”
“Oh don’t be crude.” The Master snorted, sitting back up in his seat, the front two legs clattering back down onto the vinyl floor as he stood. “The Doctor isn’t tempted like that. No no, it’s what you are. The power you hold.” He spoke, almost reverent in tone as he moved around the table seemingly towards Jack before moving past him for the kettle instead, his back to the once-human man as he flipped it on. “You see, there are powerful objects, machines, well weapons really, that exist. Only they require powerful temporal energies to use and you, you are the most powerful temporal energy there is!” He exclaimed, turning to look at Jack again now that the kettle was on and waving an expletive hand at his whole body, “An abomination of course, but an abomination of the greatest kind!”
“Gee thanks.” Jack mumbled, watching the Time Lord with the same weary skepticism he always seemed to direct towards him. If the Master was affected he didn’t show it, instead he simply went on.
“With you the Doctor could power a machine strong enough to bring back all of Gallifrey! All of the Time Lords! And that terrifies him.” The man smiled widely, his eyes twinkling in that way that always made Jack feel uncomfortable, “I can see it in his eyes, you know, when he looks at you. All those possibilities running through his mind. He wouldn’t have to be alone any more. He could have everything back. His home. His people. His family.” He emphasized and Jack swallowed, unable to tear his gaze away from the other man. “Did he ever tell you about them? No? What a shame, I suppose he didn’t want to upset you. He was quite attached to his granddaughter you see. She was the whole reason he ran away to begin with. Well, no matter.” And then the Time Lord was turning away from him, humming a small tune as the kettle whistled. Jack blinked, feeling like he was trying to awake from some kind of dream. “Tea?” The Master offered.
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Yaaaaaa…honestly it’s mostly just an excuse to write the War!Master because he is genuinely one of my favorite Masters after listening to the audios.

















