okay so hc that thirteen likes to root through charity shops and one day she runs into bill in one.
they bump into each other while looking through tshirts and thirteen just freezes (bill also freezes because oh no this very pretty woman who’s covered in rainbows is very close to my face). bill ends up panicking and saying some awful chat up line and thirteen can’t help it she just like nervously laughs (tbf its really bad) and is like youre……adorable but uh it wouldn’t work ok bye. and she leaves because that’s what the doctor does when they panic.
when they bumped into each other
the sonic fell out of her pocket.
and it’s very clearly something weird & alien, so bill takes it to twelve.
twelve takes one look at it and is like what did he look like and bill’s like um she(?) was wearing like bright colours and braces?
twelve, mentally: oh cool am i female presenting?
also twelve: bRACES AGAIN????? WHY??????
he just puts the screwdriver in his office safe and figures that future him will come and get it when he’s not there and he’s like ehh it’ll be fine bill don’t worry about it which like technically true?
but bill still wants to Know so she hangs around twelve’s office when he’s not there hoping she can catch the woman again when she comes back for it.
and, a couple of weeks later, she does.
i mean first of all she. she falls in through the window
and she like crawls on all fours over to the safe and she probably throws a lil roll in there too and she thinks she’s being super sneaky.
and she gets her screwdriver out the safe and turns round and sees bill sat at twelve’s desk.
thirteen: …..how long were you…?
and the thing is, bill’s really smart okay? she’s smart and she’s quick and she’s had a few weeks to think about why the doctor knew it was a screwdriver straight away and why he knew the person that left it but not what they looked like and why he was so adamant that they wouldn’t turn up while he was there
(and she’s especially been thinking about the look the stranger gave her before they fled the shop. that quick glance of complete and utter loss)
she still wasn’t 100% sure but now the stranger’s looking at her again and it’s the same look and
you’re him, she says the doctor. aren’t you.
thirteen smiles and it’s the same quiet but fiercely proud smile twelve makes whenever bill does something that impresses him
you always were so smart, she says. well. apart from that one essay, but ill let it slide.
it’s not a yes, but then, bill thinks, she wouldn’t be the doctor if she’d given a straight answer, would she?
there are so many things she wants to ask, but she knows that they probably won’t be answered, so instead she just asks one thing
i know you’re a different person now but. are we still friends?
and thirteen just laughs. always, she says, and forever.
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