Chapter 6

The Doctor was loosening up more than he'd like, kept letting things slip, like talking about his brother. He sniffed the contence of his almost finished pint of coke then poked the sonic screwdriver in it and activated it, then looked up at Jack, "this is diet!"

"I swear I asked for regular," Jack exclaimed and got off his chair to go check with the bar.

"Oh well it's not as if I took a lot of it... though it does take a while to take effect."

"It would be fun though to see u drunk," Sarah added. "Kind of like that guy on the dance floor over there," she added and pointed over to where a man was dancing topless, tie over his head, longish black hair, and a thin goatee beard, while singing in some language no one but the doctor seemed to recognise.

The Doctor promptly fell off his chair laughing as he somehow got hold of a traffic cone and was using it like a megaphone.

Jack ran back to help the doctor up who bent over double with the stitch that was now present in his side from laughing so hard. "What is it?"

"That man--" the doctor pointed and tried to stop a bit, "recognise him?"

"No," Jack claimed as looked as the man was now facing away from them and showing some tattoos of symbols.

"I've seen writing like that in the TARDIS," Martha claimed as she looked at them.

"He's grown and died his hair, and a beard, so typical of him, wearing contacts to change his eyes and he's masking his telepathic signature, but that song's a dead give away, not to mention the identity tattoos telling me who he is." The Doctor explained. "Doesn't want to be recognised, probably has had too much coke."

"It's not..." Sarah trailed off and looked at the Doctor.

"The bartender apologises but it seems the pipes got mixed up for diet and regular coke," Jack explained.

"Probably been drinking to concentrate on whatever it was he was scheming," the Doctor added.

"But what is he singing?" Martha asked.

"Well he was singing a rather funny song we made up when we where kids about our parents, some of the school bullies and my older brother... now he's just singing the lion king song circle of life, in Gallifreyian." He looked to Sarah, "Can I borrow your camera?"

"Sure, but why do you want my camera? Shouldn't we do something before he sobers up?"

"That's exactly why I want your camera for when he sobers up." The Doctor took the proffered camera and went up to the dance floor, and took a few pictures.

The Master continued to sing,

"Well I woke up today,
And your on the other side,
Our time will never come again,
But if you can still dream,
Close your eyes and it will seem,
That you can see me now and then."

Well that was until the flash from the camera startled him, "THETA! Wat ya doin' takin' picturesh! Com on join in! Shhow theshe shtupid apesh how te party"

"Oh come on you know I hate that nickname," the Doctor grumbled.

"Haha well that's the fun ishin't it, ushe shtupid nicknamesh from collage," he laughed then took the camera and gave it to a nearby person and flung his arm around the doctor, "here you, take a picture!" The Doctor played along and flung his arm over the master's shoulder and posed for a picture, and let him prattle on. "I mean I wash shcheming a good one to kill all'f you for revenge, and was takin' a little shomethin' to help, but then shomone shpoiled my cleaver plan by mixing up the shoda pipes at the bar."

"Always helps to take a little something," The Doctor replied. "Come on lets get you somewhere comfortable to sober up."

The Master hugged the doctor tightly as he was lead of the dance floor, "I love you bro," he stated drunkenly.

"Yea I'll remember that next time you try to kill me."

He then pushed off the doctor and looked at him fiercely, "YOU STARTED IT!!"

"How did I start it?!" The Doctor argued back, the effects of the diet coke starting to set in.

"You killed her!"

"I did not kill her!"

"Yes you did! She wouldn't have ever been there in the first place if it wasn't for you!" The master claimed tears coming to his eyes.

"I didn't make anyone go anywhere! SHE wanted to go, sure I may have recommended her for the program, because SHE asked ME to. AND that WASN'T up to ME for the selection! I was rather junior after all!"

"You save people! You save everyone! But you didn't save her!" The Master shouted and shoved the doctor in the chest.

The Doctor swallowed a lump, "Dam it Koshieshi, I wanted to take her place, I'd have done anything to have back then. I may have helped everyone get out, but she was the real hero, gave her life to hold back the radiation." The Doctor ended and shoved him back.

"You don't know what it's like to loose someone you love, so don't talk about it like that."

"Yes I do! I lost the one person I've ever truly loved, while you where hiding as a human. My Rose, my true soul mate, she was the Bad Wolf. So much for happy ever after! She's lost, where I can't get to her, she's in a parallel universe and the gateways have closed. My hearts ache, I cry when I think about her, I could be vengeful, but she wouldn't want me to be, and neither would Karriena want you to be."

By now they where both fallen over sitting up on the ground sobbing, no fight left in them. The Brigadier arrived with a platoon of unit solders and had heard the whole thing, not that anyone in the room could fail to hear it. "Take the Master away have him locked up, and take the Doctor as well until he sobers up. Make sure they are in separate cells."

"I'll see to it personally sir," Benton replied and helped the doctor up. "Sorry about this Doc, but at the moment you could hurt yourself or someone else. We'll get you sobered up."