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[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

I guess this is goodbye. Tenth, thank you for the wonderful evening. It meant a lot to me. It meant more than a lot. Ah, well, you know.


Rose, you keep Theta (both of him) safe, alright? And a tip - keep a pair of dark sunglasses on you. If the Master can't see your eyes, he can't hypnotize you. Even if he pulls them from you, thats a few extra seconds to do something - and sometimes, that's all you need. Another thing: you know how when you kick a male human between the legs? What happens to them happens to Gallifreyans too. Use that knowledge if you have to.


Nataku, after this, don't talk to me anymore. It hurts to write that, but it's important. If I start talking to you, don't listen to me. Don't do anything I tell you to do. Don't tell me anything more about yourself. I don't want you to get hurt simply because I talked to you.


Well, I [the pen tip is violently ground into the paper. There is the sound of something snapping. Splotches of black ink drip and ooze across the area.

Dictated, calmly, though a somewhat strained calm.]

It appears I've broken my pen. No matter. I can always get a new one, can't I?

[The calm ceases, becomes more manic.]

My dear, dear Doctor - did you have fun? You should have known better. Koschei is DEAD! What you were talking with was a hobbled connection of synapses and memories, nothing more! The man I was died centuries ago! There is nothing left of him, nothing!

[Sounds of violence. Things thrown, smashed, destroyed, along with what could only be described as an enraged sort of inhuman growl.]

He's DEAD! Whatever is left of him, I will get rid of!

Comments

[oneto-one.livejournal.com]

And we didn't even get a kiss.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

And still you waste paper.

[oneto-one.livejournal.com]

Cranky as always, we see~

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

You would be as well if you had been trapped behind an inferior version of yourself.

[oneto-one.livejournal.com]

Throwing yourself a pity party, then?

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

No.

[oneto-one.livejournal.com]

Oh, so is it a self-delusion party?

The castle doesn't pull these things out of nowhere, you know.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Again, no.

[oneto-one.livejournal.com]

Sure.

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

That 'hobbled connection of synapses and memories' was more than you can ever hope to be.

Welcome back, Master.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Hah! More pathetic, you mean. He could do nothing. He lacked spine, drive, and ambition!

And it is wonderful to be back, my dear Doctor.

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

And he also lacked insanity, hatred and your disregard for life.

[so going to write something hateful, but... doesn't.]

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Oh, he didn't lack hatred, Doctor. He had it in spades - but it was all reserved for himself. If anything, I was amused with his own self-hate.

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

Really.

... Even still, that's not solely what caused you. A man can live with self-hate and still be a better man than you are.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Completely, my dear Doctor. He hated everything he was.


Oh, yes, there was the guilt too. Being unable to reconcile with what had happened. Never forgiving himself even for an instant. It ate away at his soul and his hearts until he finally snapped.

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

[very long pause, and then dictated quietly]

Damn you.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

[dictated as well; calmly, collected, purposely charismatic, even magnetic - and quiet]

[dreamwalkerdee.livejournal.com]

Just like the turning of a page, as quickly as it began it is ended...

Are you alright, dear?

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

I am now, Dee. I'm absolutely perfect.

[dreamwalkerdee.livejournal.com]

She is very happy to hear so. ♥

[notsomuchakitty.livejournal.com]

Welcome back, Trem.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Glad to be back, Ruby.

[notsomuchakitty.livejournal.com]

I figured you would be. Do you remember your week?

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Completely. I was who I used to be. It was almost like being forced to watch a terrible movie with a main character you can't help but hate.

[notsomuchakitty.livejournal.com]

I understand.
I had no idea you could play the drums.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Yes, little skill of mine I picked up in my youth.

[notsomuchakitty.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd heard Lana squeal with glee before.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

[a chuckle]

Well, I doubt I'll make her squeal with glee again. That's simply something I don't do.

[notsomuchakitty.livejournal.com]

luckily it wasn't you who did so, then. Still going to drum for her?

[aegistwisted.livejournal.com]

I missed you, dear Master. ♥

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

You haven't gone and caused too much trouble without me, have you, War?

[aegistwisted.livejournal.com]

I wait for no one. ♥ But as it so happens, I did get involved in a tussle over a certain angel... all quickly forgotten, of course. You might want to flip back in the journal a few days, I believe a good part of my little adventure was recorded~

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

If you did, well, so many battles would have never happened.

I've seen. I'm... a very fast reader. I've already gone through the entire journal some ten thousand times now.

[aegistwisted.livejournal.com]

In this castle, I've never felt more alive~

Useful.

[fragmentedangel.livejournal.com]

[taps pen about to write that would ask if he was all right, ... worried that Koschei, no wait, The Master hurt himself or was upset as much as he sounded, but does as told and rips out response instead]

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Always did enjoy making a dramatic entrance, didn't you?

[pause]

I prefer his nothing to your madness any day.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Would you have prefered I calmly address the fact that I was so forcably 'shut away'? [a hard, derisive laugh]


You always did enjoy the pathetic ones, didn't you? Ones you could lead around and lord over; ones that made you look so good when you stood by them.

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

No. I enjoy the not-a-murdering-sociopath ones. Funny, it seems to be a common preference.

[sinister-charm.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, then why were you ever friends with me to begin with, my dear, dear Doctor?

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

You didn't start out that way.