Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Doctor Who Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart/Petronella Osgood/Reader, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart/Petronella Osgood Characters: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Petronella Osgood Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Mermaids, mermaid!Kate, mermaid!Osgood, human!POV, Miscommunication, smidgen of jealousy, Smut, (in later chapters) Summary:
The coast holds more life when you look closer, that’s what you’re here to study after all – rockpools and sand dunes teeming with life if one only pauses and leans in to wait for the tell-tale signs.
It’s one thing to see flashes of a tail, as you watch your friends swim. It’s quite another to see it in full, and be confronted yet again by the unassailable truth that you are nursing a crush on someone who is not human.