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“I want to tell you everything.”
“I’d like that.”
The Doctor looked about as close to crying as Yaz herself felt.
The Flux was over, they had saved the universe. They sent Dan back home and afterwards the Doctor did the last thing Yaz had expected her to do, which was apologise. For running, for not telling her what she was doing, for snapping and for shutting her out; practically everything Yaz thought she deserved an apology for.
And now she got it. Plus a statement from the Doctor, an invite to the conversation she wanted to have for a long, long time by now.
But now was not the time for that. Soon maybe, but not right now. Not when the adrenaline from the past few hours hadn’t worn off yet, and not when the first time she saw the Doctor again after the Weeping Angels was so recent.
So, she broke the silence that had fallen.
“Let’s take some rest first though, please. We just got back.”
The Doctor snapped out of her gaze and looked away, before walking towards the console with a swirl of her coat.
“Yeah, of course, yeah. Good idea. Been a long day, hasn’t it?”
Yaz couldn’t tell if that question was directed at her, the Doctor herself or the TARDIS. She smiled anyway.
“See ya in a couple of hours then, yeah?”
The Doctor was lost in thought again, and absentmindedly waved her goodbye. Yaz walked up the steps, outside of the console room, and headed towards her room.
***
After she heard the door close behind Yaz and her footsteps grow quieter, the Doctor took a deep breath and sighed. The words told to her by Time still ran through her head. She reached into the pocket of her coat and pulled out the fob watch. This object had all her lost memories stored. Every memory that was unfairly taken from her by Division, every life she once lived. It was everything she wanted, everything she had worked towards. It was the end of her long search, her reward for completing it.
But ultimately, it was also the object that had made her lose sight of the present. She had been so focused on the past, she forgot what happened around her. Because of her... obsession with finding what she never knew, she had hurt the person who she cared about most.
But she remembered now, Time’s warning made sure of that. And she would not lose herself again.
“Do me a favour.”, she mumbled. “Keep this safe somewhere deep within this TARDIS. Somewhere I can never find it.”
The bronze chain slipped through her fingers as the watch fell down into the endless.
She hadn’t even realised she had started crying until she tasted the salt of tears. She moved to wipe them away. It was time to fix her mistakes. She decided to start by checking in on Yaz. See if she was alright after everything that happened.
Determined, the Doctor jumped up the hexagonal steps and went to follow her friend.