#and not-guy who is jumpy and overvigilant from The Horrors™️ and unlike the doctor keyed into every possibility to the master is there

[quietwingsinthesky]

Drabble 174/366 - Doctor Who

Even flicks through the folder they slid from the shelf.

“Looking for something specific?” O asks. Not unreasonably, they decide. It’s the third they’ve searched.

No.

“Yes,” comes out of their mouth instead. “An old…” O waits, and Even tries to fit any word around it. “The Doctor’s friend.”

“Plenty of those around,” he says, “and I’ve tracked down most of them.” Even wonders if that includes them. “Here, let me-”

What he does: try to take the folder from them, without warning.

What they do: grab his wrist, hard, fast.

They both freeze.

“Oops,” he murmurs over his heartbeats.