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Title: Preserve Your Memories (They’re All That’s Left You)
Character(s), in order of appearance: Ten, the Master (off-camera)
Rating: U
Summary: The Doctor remembers Gallifrey
A/N: The title and text of the cut are from Old Friends/Bookends as sung by Simon & Garfunkel.
Disclaimer: Not Mine.
Setting: During the Season Three finale.

I haven’t asked you yet
If you ever could forget
How the setting suns could turn the sky to flame.
Or if the unique light
From the copper moon at night
Fills your memories and fills your hearts with pain.

Since you almost got me killed
You can see why I’m not thrilled
That you like it when I call you by your name.
Since I know it’s not in jest
You can quit acting distressed
For you are the only one there is to blame.

If you think it’s been for ever
Since you last saw Wild Endeavour
And there’s part of you that’s missing, now it’s gone;
If it doesn’t feel quite real
Just imagine how it feels
To go through it all and think you’re all alone.

For I did not forget
And they’re carried with me yet
Although Gallifrey’s now nothing but a name.
And now everybody’s gone
And we are the only ones
I have better things to do than play your games.

No; I haven’t asked you yet
If you ever did forget
How the Gallifreyan suns turned skies to flame;
Or if the shining light
Of the copper moon at night
Haunts your memories and fills your hearts with pain.