Title: Different
Author: thisflowerisscorched
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Missy
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Warnings: slight spoilers for Dark Water/Death In Heaven


The last choice... well, it hadn't been one really. It had been more a desire for younger. Young meant less pains in the joints and a better memory. It meant having a life, rather than a mere existence. But then there'd been a limit imposed. This time...

This time there was home and a chance for something more in every way.

This time the choice was for something different.

This was very different indeed.

The old name, chosen so many lifetimes ago, no longer applied. Something else to change then. Another choice. There was an obvious solution. Maybe too obvious.

"I think," she said, and her voice was different, too. "I shall call myself 'Missy'."