How Master meet someone and I nearly lost my soul (part1)

It was one of these days, you know, always cleaning the endless rooms of the Tardis.

I just came back to get me a nice hot cup of tea with milk and sugar and some cookies from the huge biscuit tin. Only to find Master in kitchen sitting at the table, staring into a very fare distance.

I thought: “Keep calm and put the kettle on” and said: “Care for a cup of tea too?”

His eyes turned back from the far, far away and rested on me, like I was something, that came from under a stone and was not very nice to look at. I sighted.

“It’s the broomstick, you know! Its too old and shabby now. Need a new one, a funny one!”

“A FUNNY ONE?!” His voice was so icy, I swear the tea in my cup caught a cold.

I took a deep seep.

“Yes, I think something charming, a pink one would be nice. Tea?”

His mouth opened, then he closed it and nodded. I gave him a cup of tea in his favourite bone china cup.

I opened the tin and put some biscuits on a plate, some with chocolate, icing, some with strawberry filling and glumieds, my favourites. You get them in huge packets of planet of Odd.

I put them between us and took seat.

“Did you ever wonder why the Tardis is so huge?” Master asked with his special smile.

The one I like and NOT the one you see and want to run and hide in the cupboard.

I shook my head. “I am a cleaner, you know, never ask, never tell, like you said.”

”Fine bye me”, he laughed silent and took a slip of tea and took a cookie, one with choc.

He hold it between his fingers and let it twist.

“Good thing you don’t get the choc on your fingers doing that”, I said and get me a gloomy one.

“It went back to a time Time Lords love to forget, Tardiscleaner. It was in what we used to call the old days, the time before the great Timelord Rasillon took control. Great, indeed”, he grinned and took the cake into his mouth.

”Oh, that guy, Rasillon, you mentioned him sometimes. I thought he was a pain in the ass, did try to kill you, the Doctor Who and the rest of the universe?”

”Indeed, that was his purpose but way back, in the old days before he was the great ruler the Time lords used to catch beings from all over the universe, store them as captives in the Tardis and then”, he tipped at his cup and I filled it again, burning with interest to hear more. It was not often Master was in such a mood of talking about things.

“Then they put them in a place on my home planet, our homeplanet Gallifrey, in a place named the danger zone. There they has to fight for their live against enemies from their own race or other beings, the choose was very wide ranging. Like the game they used on the planet Earth in the times of the roman empire.”

I put down my cookie. “They did? Never thought that. That’s evil!”

Master smiled. “Indeed, evil. But then Rasillon took command of the high counsel and forbid the games. After his death his tomb was placed in the middle of the now forbidden ground.” “Tomb, but I thought..” He raised his hand. “Yes, they were always rumours that he was still living, inside his tomb, inside the so called tower of Rasillon.

I once was there, with the Doctor, no”, he hesitated for a moment, “with nearly ALL of the doctors. Someone had collected them like toys, to resolve the riddle inside the tower, the idle of Rasillon. So we learned that he was still alive, more ghost then Time Lord but not dead and that his power was still very great. In the end the collector got what he wanted, immortality. He ended as a figure at Rasillons tomb.

I must admit, I nearly fell for the riddle and if the Doctors hadn’t stopped me, it would have me whose face would decorate the tomb. And therefore a Tardis is so large.”

“I would either think she is so huge to collect nice things, like I do in my room.”

He turned his eyes around. “Oh I know. Each time we set foot on a planet you always found something you want to take with you. Think about all that Christmas stuff from earth.”

I shrank. “Yes but you must admit the Christmas tree WAS nice to look at, all those shining balls and ornaments, even a little Christmas dalek!”

Master made a face. My smile froze and I stood up. “Okay, time to start cleaning!” 

"I just was thinking about our next stop", Master said in a strange voice.

“Yes?” “It will be a place the Doctor told me about, that he discovered by accident, a place between the threads of space and time. A place strange things are waiting. You can call it a place like the danger zone I told you about” Master eyes begun to shimmer.

I placed my hand around the broomstick. “Oh that sounds enterprising!”

“The only problem is, it is not easy to find but I think I just try. Meet me soon in the control room!” “I will!”

I went to my room and scratched my head. Danger means that it would be a good idea to bring some things with me.

I put several things in my backpack and went to meet Master.

Suddenly the Tardis seems to turn upside down. I swear I had the absolute strange feeling as if my feet were where my head had to be and that everything around me went twirling.

“Seems we are on our way”, I thought.

Then everything was normal again and I run to the control desk, Master was already standing at the door.

“Let’s take a look”. He opened the door, I behind him, only to stare at a wall of fog.

“Great, looks like we have landed in a boring foggy land”, I muttered.

“Silence”, Master hissed. “Did you don’t felt the Tardis behaving strange! I am sure, I have found the right place.”

“Okayyyy…” I took a deep breath and stepped into the fog.

Only one moment later I remembered the problem about fog, you can’t see and you can not hear very clear.

Now I was out of Tardis, right into a very strange land and where was Master?

I stood still and tried to see something? Nothing, only a white wall. I called: “Master?” Nothing! Oh great, I was lost.

But I am not a good cleaner for nothing. I reached into my backpack and took out a special thing to get rid of spider webs. Which is very short until you draw it out.

I did and turned around until I felt a resistance, that had to be Tardis.

I pushed it until I saw the black stone of Tardis and in the door Master standing at her door, arms crossed.

“Tardiscleaner, didn’t I tell you not to run off on your own?” “Yes”, I put the spider web cleaner back to small size. “Sometimes I am a little bit overhasty!”

Master smiled. “Then let us now go together.”

We started wandering through the fog, side by side.

“I wonder, what do we expect here?” Master sighted. “Strange things, as I told you. We are now in a place where the beings exist, which came from the mind of writers, the realm of imagination, you can say!”

“Really? Oh, I wonder what we will meet here?” “Not we but I want someone to meet here and try if I can get from him something.” Master flicked it’s fingers. “Don’t know if it would work but it’s worth the danger.” “I hope you had your screwdriver with you?”

“Did you take my for an idiot, I always got it by my side!” I laughed. “Like an musketeer epee!”

“Don’t say…”Master stood still. I looked at him and suddenly the fog opened before us like a curtain.