#also it would make thirteen-as-a-father-figure-for-ryan so much funnier. granddad thirteen twice removed

[quietwingsinthesky]

sorry. sorry. i am still living in the 'the first face thirteen saw after regenerating was graham's' world that i constructed earlier, and in this world where thirteen is having a weird flirtation/doomed from the start lovers/we're just friends or found family we swear dynamic with graham after getting his wife killed, it would just make this entire scene so much funnier:

JAKE: I was supposed to come out and see him launch. Say goodbye as he went off to the ISS. GRAHAM: And you didn't go. JAKE: He knew what he was taking on with me. I don't do emotions. And I'm really not good at sticking with things, you know? Commitment. Also, I really don't like foreign travel. GRAHAM: Wow. So you were quite the catch, then. JAKE: Yeah, he's a lucky, lucky bloke. My husband is an astronaut. Do you have any idea how hard it is being married to somebody that impressive? It sort of sends me the other way. I wallow in being unreliable. Like I'm punishing him.

like. SORRY. but alternate universe where we got a companion sort-of romance for these seasons and it was graham. play with me in this space. do you have any idea how hard it is being married to somebody that impressive, graham. graham, who are you thinking of. your late wife. or the doctor.

take my hand. imagine it. the tragedy of it. thirteen should get to fuck that old man. but not really, they need to never consummate this relationship ever, or acknowledge what's happening. as is good companion romance tradition.