"We have a deal," Smiling, he moved closer to the Doctor and settled against him, yawning tiredly and closing his eyes. Time for bed it seemed and wasn't this just wonderful.

"Up for bed now?" the Master asked with a small curious expression, not sure if the other man was tired or not.

"Surprisingly? Yes. I can definitely sleep right now." he murmured softly. And really? He couldn't be blamed. He was generally warn out by such activities

The Doctor settled down and tugged the blankets up around them, content with the Master being close by. And so what if he happened to be cuddling a bit? He was a cuddler.

The Master fell asleep rather swiftly and lay beside the Doctor as he finally nodded off, glad the other man wasn't going to sit up all night... it was just a tiny bit weird.

He woke up around 5 when he heard knocking on the bedroom door and he sat up, rubbing his eyes, Marnal was outside knockig the still locked door. "John? Your kid is up."

The first thing that John did was look to the clock and groan. Marnal didn't have to be at his nursery until nine and he didn't work until ten. They could get three more hours of sleep easily.

What? If the Doctor was goin to sleep, then he was sleeping properly. That didn't mean that he didn't get up, pulling on a pair of sweats and making himself presentable before he opened the door just enough to slip out, Pest quickly slipping in. "Hey, kiddo, what's up?"

"You locked the door," Marnal whined unhappily before he clambered passed the Doctor and onto the bed with Pest. Marnal usually climbed into bed with his dad this thing to lazily lie with him.

Sadly an overactive imagination like Marnals made everything scary, especially a dark house, and he never did like being locked out. The Master rolled over and moved up for Marnal could lie in the middle with his cat.

Oh boy. They hadn't had this problem until they'd moved away from Iros. Probably because the man would snap at the kid for trying it. There was a reason to lock the door.

"Marnal, I love you dearly, but we need to work on this." the Doctor sighed, getting back into bed and leaving the lad be. He said that every time this happened. He usually wasn't woken up before his alarm went off though.

Marnal didn't seem to care, he just curled up closer. He didn't like locked door, Iros locked him out of everything and that left him more upset than anything, he didn't want Mr Saxon locking him out either.

Pest and Marnal happily slept away most of the morning and the Matser didn't wake up till the Doctors alarm went off, beeping loudly and annoyingly.

The Doctor shared the sentiment, knocking his alarm to the ground roughly. Yeah. Should have seen that coming. He got up careful and left to get ready for the day, taking about fifteen minutes before waking up Marnal.

"Go get in the bath and dress. I'll have eggs for when you get up." he assured softly. With that, the Doctor headed down to cook. He was trying not to disturb the Master.

Marnal got right into the bath while the Master woke up with a yawn and rubbed at his eyes. Oh Monday, the day he got his son back, it was odd really, he was getting used to the lad being away.

It made spending time with the Doctor so much easier. "Doctor? Can I catch a ride to work? I need to see Koschei and make sure he's fine before I head off."

The Doctor returned shortly and offered the other a plate of eggs with toast and bacon. "Hey. Thought you were staying here today and I was going to bring Koschei back." he mused softly.

"Did that change?" the Doctor asked lightly, offering a small smile. What? He was just checking. He honestly just didn't care if the Master did one thing over another.

"Nah, I just worry about him... look, let me know if there's a problem and I'll stay here and pick up Koschei from school," the Master assured, he still had his car with him.

"So it's 12 he finishes? I'll give him dinner then and I'll call of anything goes wrong," which it shouldn't but it was wise to have a plan in action and besides, he needed to be careful

"Alright. I don't expect you to have anything going wrong. And thank you." the Doctor said sincerely, offering a small smile. The Master would be perfectly fine.

The Doctor couldn't help but to worry about this. The other was one of those people that brought that side out in him. "It's going to be fine." he assured softly.

Once Marnal was dressed and ready, breakfast all eaten, he hung back in the kitchen, clearly not wanting to go but knowing he had too. School was never a happy occasion.

Who wanted to sit alone all day and be called names when they tried to join in? The Master stay on the sofa with his laptop, already getting to work on his proposal to the grants office. "See you soon, John."

The Doctor just smiled softly, making quick work of the dishes before lifting Marnal and heading out. He did feel bad for the kid at times. How could he not? Marnal didn't do well with others.

Pulling up outside the school, he looked to his son and smiled softly. "So. Are you okay? I mean, with Harry having stayed this weekend?" the Doctor checked softly.

"I am, Harry is nice," Marnal remarked as he bit his lower lip and looked out into the school yard where all the kids were heading inside with their friends or having a kick around of the football on the tarmac.

"Iros wasn't, I didn't like him. And I don't like being locked out, what if a monster eats me and you're not there?" Marnal pointed out with a very serious expression on his face.