*walks over, setting down a wrapped parcel, a wax-sealed card, and a small red velvet cake*
*takes a red rose from an inside pocket and tucks it into his lapel*
*hugs him warmly* Happy Valentines Day, Dad. *sits and starts looking between him and the card topped parcel, nodding all giddy* Open the things! *hands flapping all excited like*
(The card is wax sealed a deep red with a lavender flower seal and a gold powder. The card itself is painted with purples and reds, with galifreyian flowers across the paper, and gallifreyian writing stating ‘Happy Valentines Day’ and the front. The inside follows the same pattern stating ‘No experience, no memory, no action will ever make me not love you. You can’t get rid of me that easily. The fact that you will work through the crossfire is enough. You are loved, as I will always love you. Happy Valentines Day, Dad.’
The parcel holds a painting of a photo of the Doctor and the Master from the Academy, the first photo that the doctor ever showed Emily of the master, and a small stuffed dragon, not unlike the one that one Harold Saxon gave their child on the Valentine’s Day during the year that never was)
Upon reading the letter, first with haste and then with care, the Master sits forward and closes his eyes tightly. He presses his mouth into folded hands, the better to control his emotions.
“ . . . . I dunno what I did to deserve this, but . . . . thanks, Em.”