last young renegade heartbreak

      was she forced here? yaz figured she had been, since her memory remained hazy. “i think so, yeah. can’ remember much.” her lips curved into a frown; ryan still hadn’t been found. “he’ll be okay, right? ryan? on his own? he’s probably wonderin’ where we all are…” the brunette blinked in surprise when the doctor hugged her, breathing a smile and chuckle afterwards. “at least now i know you’re you and not some sort o’ alien body snatcher,” yaz humored. her eyes flickered towards the guests of the ship, “doctor, do you know where we are? what this ship is?”  

“It seems like we all were. Except maybe not Ryan. I’ve seen some former doctors here too. It’s so weird.” She nods. “He’s gonna be fine until we find him. He’s probably still asleep. If he’s even here. I hope he’s here and not on Earth alone.” She smiles. “No alien body snatcher here.” She shakes her head. “I don’t know much about this ship. Wanna help me explore it? I know it’s called the expanse and houses a ton of people, some chose to be here and, like us, some were forced here.”

it’s been ages since she’s seen him. longer still, since she’s seen this face. she hesitates slightly, unsure if she should approach. is she nervous? without the biological cues sometimes it’s hard to tell, but she is sure she feels silly for all the overthinking. 

sod it. 

“twenty-seven brains and you can’t sort it out without your sonic? you are sooo co-dependent.”

“Clara!” He says excitedly. ‘“I can live without my sonic but i miss it. Life’s easier with it. And I can’t find my TARDIS.” He sighs. “How’ve you been It’s so good to see you. I didn’t expect you on the ship. Did you get forced here too?” He hugs her tight, so happy she’s there.

A God? Castiel wondered who, exactly, he was speaking to, and he narrowed his eyes. He didn’t feel the same as the other gods he’d met, but he didn’t feel human, either. It was incredibly strange. “I can no longer fly. My wings are severely damaged, as are the other angels’.” It was still a sore spot, several years later. The guilt lingered and tore at him, one of his many failures; every angel falling from Heaven due to his own naivety. But he didn’t discuss that. “I don’t eat, but I could accompany you.” He supposed he could try to figure out more about what was going on, this way, find out what the other knew. “A couple of weeks. It doesn’t make sense. I should never have been asleep at all. How long have you been awake?”

“I’m apollo it’s nice to meet you.” He frowns. “Are your wings fixable? Or is it permanent?” He gasps. “How can you not eat? I love to eat. If I wasn’t so concerned about my figure I would eat nonstop.” He smiles. “I literally just woke up. Well not just. Of course I had to go to my room and check my appearance. Make sure I looked good.”

“why were you whispering to your pocket and calling it ‘pickett’?” leia questioned, narrowing her eyes at the man. she was skeptical of him, but her attention is quickly turned back to the fluffy… things… that had been seemingly taking over the ship. “maybe a little cute, but… i don’t even know what they are, or why they’re suddenly all over the place. something weird is going on.”

“Because my bowtruckle’s name is Pickett. Here look at him.” He picks the bowtruckle out of his pocket and smiles. “He somehow survived cryosleep. He’s not a pet he’s my best friend.” He nods. “They are so cute.I can’t wait to study them.”

“No,” Castiel responded. He quite liked the expression, though. He wasn’t quite sure how bees knees correlated with a person being cool, but bees themselves were incredibly interesting. He decided he would try to use it in future. “Heaven. My name is Castiel, and I’m an angel.” He had to stop himself from adding ‘of the Lord’. It was his usual introduction, a title that had felt appropriate up until recently, but he no longer wanted any affiliation with God. He wanted him dead. 

“An angel? I’m a god. So you have wings and all that shit? That’s so cool man. Take me flying sometime.” He jokes. “wanna grab some food? Or do angels eat? I know nothing about angels at all.” He smiles. “How long have you been awake from the cryosleep?”

“Yep, there’s three of us travelling with her. S’pose you’d know her if you ran into her, but I’ll point her out. I’m guessing Amy’s your wife?” Perhaps he’s projecting, but he can imagine Grace would’ve done similar. Come away with the Doc and dragged him along with her and Ryan. “Where to start…she once landed the TARDIS on me good chair, and said it was my fault for keeping chairs in the house. She has a points ranking for us, but forgets who she’s given what points to when. She taught Ryan - he’s my grandson - to fly a crashing plane. With an app. That’s not even the half of it, I’m sure you could tell me similar about your Doc.” 

He’s been around the block enough times to keep at least a vague eye on where they’re going. To try and start making sense of the ship’s layout.

“Three. We had Amy and me and sometimes River, the doctor’s wife and my daughter. So I guess she’s my daughter in law now. That’s a whole complicated story. Amy is my wife. She got pregnant on the TARDIS and it caused River to become part time lord. So she looks like she’s older than us. She was sent to kill the doctor but he thwarted the plans. She didn’t want to kill him she was just forced to. We ddn’t get to watch her grow up and she gave up her regenerations to the doctor after trying to kill him once. It’s complicated.” He leads him to his room and hands him a box. “Jammie dodgers just for you.”

“’Course I didn’t! Last I remember, someone hit me in the head and when I woke up here they’d taken all my snacks, but not my phone or anything?” The Doc and her promises…had worked out so far. Mostly. “Right. Right. Where’re we gonna start?” 

“Your snacks? That’s not nice. Who do you think sent us here. My hunch is the master. He is always doing crazy things.” She shakes her head. ‘I have to do a bit of exploring. Figure out all the nooks and crannies. Search high and low for my TARDIS.”

✰ it’s time to wake up,THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR, you’ve been in cryosleep for too long and the people of DOCTOR WHO miss you. when you went into slumber you were 900 years old, your pronouns are HE, and you WERE VOLUNTEERED for the expanse program. now that you’ve awoken, your position as a PILOT is waiting for you. remember, the expanse thanks you! 

Castiel tilted his head in confusion, staring the man down as though trying to figure out a complicated puzzle. “I don’t see any bees, or their knees,” he stated. Was he missing something? “I don’t understand. In what way are you a bee’s knee?” 

He laughs. “It’s an expression. The bees knees means you’re cool You’ve never heard someone calling someone else the bees knees?” He asks curiously. “Where are you from? I’ve heard a lot of sayings as I’m immortal.”

“…you get lost on a spaceship and you meet someone else who knows the Doc. Or, another version of the Doc. What’re the chances, eh? She’s a woman now, but the mystery-life-saver thing never changes, I suppose. Great! Take me to your biscuits.”

“You know the doctor? She’s a woman? That is so crazy. I must meet her. I bet she’s brilliant. I always wondered if he could be a woman. This is so cool. Amy’s gonna flip.” He nods and leads him to his room. “Tell me some stories about your doctor?”

“The circumstances could be better, Doc, but if I’ve got to be trapped on a spaceship I’m glad you’re here too.” Cryo meant frozen, didn’t it? He was pretty sure Grace once spoke about it, with them cold caps that let cancer patients keep their hair. “You know when you tell people not to worry? Does that ever actually work?”

“They could be. Did you volunteer yourself here? Because I didn’t. I just remember being forced in and then waking up here.” She shakes her head. “It doesn’t but we’re gonna be fine Graham I promise. I’m gonna get to the bottom of this.”

UHURA DIDN’T KNOW WHAT he meant about a suitcase, not that she was going to question him. “i do know what they are—- they’re called tribbles, and if are left a l o n e and not dealt with they will SUDDENLY reproduce— this entire ship will be F I L L E D with them. we will be flooded with these creatures.” brows pressed together, “perhaps you have the answers as to why these creatures DO THIS ?? is it to assure that they’ll all have a STRONG LINEAGE ?? very many questions with so little answers…”

He smiles at her. “Tribbles. They’re quite adorable. I’ll take this one and exam it. Don’t worry I won’t do anything bad like using them as a guinea pig. Just studying them.” He shakes his head. “I don’t know anything about these things.”

“YOU NEED TO BE REFORMED ??” mary question him, face filled with concern at the mention of it. “what does that mean ??” wondering who this guy was ?? “who is jack then ?? friend of yours ?? parole officer ??” mary could not rule out that he had been in prison !! “come along then—- shopping, it is !!”

“My boss tried to kill santa clause. He’s mad because I work for my boss. But he’s not all that bad.” He sighs. “Jack is a skeleton although i’ve seen his human form and it’s not bad.” he claps. “I love shopping yes.”

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“THE THIRTEENTH DOCTOR— you m e a n…” mouth fell agape with a funny little laugh of pure excitement. “hello doctor, you are a woman— and wow, i am so HAPPY to meet you !!” giving the doctor a hug, still laughing as she did so. pulling away moments later to look the doctor over again, “if my doctor was eleven then there must be a twelve ?? i wonder if t h a t doctor is here as well ??”

THe doctor smiles. “It’s so nice to see you again. I didn’t think I would see you anymore! I’m thrilled to see you Amelia Pond. Yes there’s a twelve. He’s pretty grumpy but I loved being him. We got through some great times together. You would have loved twelfth me.”