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quietwingsinthesky · 2 months ago

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crow doctor at more of Kate’s events as a child than her actual parents. The other parents are concerned.

her parents are busy! but the doctor! also is, technically, but is also immortal and has a time machine and will, eventually, get to kate’s school play even if he does so after a hundred and fifty years of forgetting he was supposed to go. and then he claps at all the wrong times and no one wants to stand too close to him because he puts people on edge with how little he blinks and kate comes trotting down in costume afterwards to be taken on a trip in the tardis like he always lets her. (NOT brigadier approved.)

it’s only when she gets older that she realizes that some of the doctor’s faces that showed up when she was a kid are faces she’s seen also standing across from her in UNIT. and she’s not entirely sure which Kate he sees when he looks back at her.

#v disorienting to have the doctor around and be constantly reminded that he exists outside of time in a way that you can’t #that you virw yourself as a linear creature going forwards but he is here at your adult work today and is also going to your birthday party #when you were six in a few hours and is also picking you up from prom the night you scared off your date a few hours after that.#and you wonder and wonder and wonder why he never visited your father before he died. if he has time for all of your childhood.#and you try not to wonder if you will be on your deathbed someday waiting for a man who won’t come.#you like to think that between the two of you. at least one of you must know better.#you know that you’re wrong.#you keep a photobooth picture you took with him at the mall once when you were 13.#you don’t recognize the face in it yet.#something like that you know #ask

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