That anyone that alone, for that long, would want anything other than a friend.
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She doesn't tell him, but he knows.
Not the man she meets in the laboratory, not the one who visits America. Not these versions, not these Times; but the Doctor, her Doctor, the one who lied and lies and will lie — he knows.
What she's done. What she will do.
It won't matter when she's through; when it finally comes to a head. When the last shot is fired, it could all be undone, she knows. But even if it does, they're smart. They'll remember. And they'll know she won; their little warrior child. All grown up.
They'll know.
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