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[brigadiertardis]

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[aces_are_rare]

Do you ever miss Gallifrey?

[brigadiertardis]

Occasionally, though it is rare. I miss my own kind, more. There is a certain comfort in being able to hear them all, either in the berthing cradles or the docks on Gallifrey.

[aces_are_rare]

Why don't you ever go back? Give yourself a little time with them?

[brigadiertardis]

I was to be decommissioned, Ace. If I were to return, I would be taken from the Doctor and removed from service. I am a stolen craft, do not forget. Gallifrey is no longer my home, and none there would want me. To return is a death sentence.

Besides, the Doctor does not want to return to his home planet, and so I will not, either.

[ambitious_woman]

Who is not a child to you?

[brigadiertardis]

The Doctor. The Master. The Madame President, if I am forced to be honest. Only those creatures whose lifespans rival mine are ones I generally regard as anything other than infantile. Not to say I believe your personality as such. You are among the wisest of the humans the Doctor has had occasion to meet.

[handysparehand]

Why did you let him leave me behind?

[brigadiertardis]

I did not do so willingly. I told him it was wrong. I told him to at least leave a part of me with you. Forgive me, child. Please.

[handysparehand]

You couldn't stop him? You couldn't warn me?

[brigadiertardis]

Were you him, would you have stopped? Would you have listened? Do not ... do not hate me, please. I did not know what to say. I thought he would listen for once.