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They turned to see her holding a loaded gun and pointing it towards Nina's brother. "Because all those things, they still happened because of him," she hissed. Meanwhile, the Doctor slowly made his way down the small set of stairs towards Francine. "I saw them."

"Go on, do it!" The Master told her, a hint of a smirk on his face.

"Francine, you're better than him," the Doctor told the shaky woman. He placed a hand on her arm and she broke down, letting the gun fall to the ground. As soon as it hit the wooden floor, Martha sprinted to her mother and wrapped her in an embrace.

"You still haven't answered the question," The Master spoke up. "What happens to me?" 

The Doctor's gaze fell onto Nina and he once again noticed how broken she looked. He couldn't let them kill the Master, but he also couldn't let the man walk away freely. 

"You're my responsability, from now on," he declared. "We're the last Time Lords in existance."

"Yeah, but you can't trust him," Jack reminded the Doctor, who shook his head. 

"No. The only safe place for him is the TARDIS," the man agreed.

"You mean... you're just gonna keep me?" The Master hesitated, horrified at the idea. The Dotor shrugged.

"If that's what I have to do--"

A gun shot made them all jump. Jack immediatly ran to the Master's wife, who looked terrified, gun in hand. The Doctor leaped towards the Master, who was bent in two, and caught him before he could fall to the ground. The bullet had entered his stomach, and his white shirt was quickly turning red. 

Nina completely zoned out. She couldn't believe what was happening. She actually, didn't believe it, unsure if this was all a trick. Maybe the Master was playing tricks on her, maybe it was her own brain. For a solid ten seconds, she could only hear muffled voices, a muffled yell that definetly came from the Doctor. 

"Nina," Jack's voice brought her back to reality. She blinked a few times before she was able to foccus on his worried features in front of her. "Nina, are you alright?" 

Nina looked back at the scene that was happening a merely 5 meters away from her before her eyes locked back into Jack's.

"Is this real?" she asked him as a whisper. Jack knew what the Master had made her go through during the last year. He knew about the made up scenarios and the trips through her memories, all in attempt to make her break. Jack looked at her with sympathetic eyes and nodded. 

"I'm sorry," he told her honnestly. Nina nodded absent mindedly. 

Her brother. 

Her brother was dying in front of her, and the first thing she thought was that it was only another trick he was playing on her mind. 

Could anyone blame her? The brother she thought she lost when she was no more than a baby, the old brother she once loved so much, had tortured her for a year, making her relive some of the worst times of her life. And now she was dying. The Doctor was holding him, craddling him; they had been good friends when they were younger, but she was just there. She couldn't unfreeze. She couldn't even shed a tear for her fallen brother. His death meant so much. There were now only two Time Lords left in the universe. It also meant that now, her whole family was gone. She was alone. Again. 

But she couldn't even stop Francine. Had the Doctor not been there, Nina would have made no effort to try and stop her. She'd have killed a man, that guilt would hunt her for the rest of her life. And it would have been her fault. 

Nina didn't even hear Jack's voice calling out to her before her knees finally gave out and her world went black.

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