Can't Fake It

by acatalepsy

“Doctor, I …” She clears her throat. “I’m bisexual.”

The words hang in the air.

She doesn’t know what she’s expecting. The Doctor is an alien after all — and at that one who seems to not to abide by any real anthropocentric ideas of gender or sexuality. In hindsight she probably should have anticipated what comes next.

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After getting into a fist fight with a bigot while taking a day trip to a leisure planet Yaz ends up coming out to the Doctor who offers some words of comfort.

Words: 5154, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

• Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
• Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
• Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
• Categories: F/F, Gen
• Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair
• Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor & Yasmin Khan
• Additional Tags: Coming Out, Bisexual Yasmin Khan, LGBTQ Themes, Homophobia, Hate Speech, Team as Family, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Surprise Ending, Lesbian Thirteenth Doctor, Mentions of River/Thirteen, Space Dad Thirteen, Gratuitous Depictions of Thirteen in a Hawaiian Shirt