- A series of drabbles and oneshots exploring the relationship between the Doctor and the Master. -

AN: The first series in my 100 prompts project. No idea if I'll get through them all, but here goes nothing...

Characters: 11th Doctor & The Master

1. Beginnings

In the beginning there was light.

That same light, filled with the laughter of children who don't yet know the meaning of time, keeps you awake at night. It blinds you whenever you close your eyes and think of the void in time and space and eternity where you grew up. You have come to fear the light; fear it in all its splendid glory. You fear the world it reveals to you; the world that is no longer. The world that, perhaps, never was.

And there are two boys running together in that light and neither understands the other but both are too young and too ready and too free to care.

Those boys are what scare you the most.

Because in the beginning they are friends and neither knows it will end in darkness.