“Your hair needs cutting.” Yaz comments, two days after the Dalek invasion. The Doctor is sitting on Graham’s sofa, more than a little shell shocked, a blanket wrapped round her small frame.
“Prison didn’t have a barber, besides it’s all knotted and matted.” The Doctor murmurs her fingers brushing the long strands out of her face.
Yaz sits down beside her, gently rubbing circles on her back. “Would you like me to cut it?” Yaz asks, stroking the back of her hand along the Doctors cheek. The Doctor doesn’t speak, she just nods her head leaning into Yaz’s touch.
“It needs cutting pretty short, is that okay?” Yaz says quietly, assessing the matted dreadlock the Doctor has going on.
The Doctor shrugs her shoulders and nods, pointing to the magazine on Graham’s coffee table. “That’s pretty cool, can I have that?”
Yaz peers over the Doctors shoulder smiling, planting a firm kiss on her clothed shoulder “An undercut would suit you I think, we’ll have to get you some hair product if you like that style.” Yaz giggles enjoying the Doctors wide smile.
“Would you mind telling me what you’re gonna do before you do it? Just feels safer that way.” The Doctor murmurs catching Yaz’s eyes. Yaz swallows but nods sincerely offering her hand.
“Come on space girl, let’s get that mop chopped eh.” Yaz grins taking her hand, guiding upstairs to Graham’s bathroom.
10 minutes and a few custard creams later the Doctor is sitting on the edge of the bath, a towel tight around shoulders and neck. The top of her hair clipped up into a raggedy bun, a lollipop in her mouth.
“Okay so I’m going to start by cutting your hair short with the scissors, then I’ll clean it up with the clippers okay.” Yaz explains handing the clippers to the Doctor to hold.
“Mkay.” The Doctor murmurs around her lollipop, looking back at Yaz in the mirror smiling. Yaz begins to gently separate each lock of matted hair from the clump, cutting down to a inch off her scalp, placing the cut hair gently into a plastic bag.
“They should make silent scissors, maybe I’ll invent them.” The Doctor mumbles.
“Sounds like a good plan, I never liked the noise they make too.” Yaz agrees moving quickly but gently through the rest of the Doctors hair.
“I feel lighter already.” The Doctor jokes as Yaz bins the last lock, chuckling.
“You’ve got some of the thickest hair I’ve ever seen, right can you hold the scissors and I’ll take those clippers and clean you up.” Yaz hands the scissors over handles first. “It’s going to whir a bit Doctor okay, just the mechanism inside, let me know if it’s too much.”
The Doctor nods biting her lip as Yaz turns the clippers on and they whir to life, gently lifting some hair with the comb guard she moves the clipper up through her hair. After a few seconds Yaz notices the Doctors eyes close and a deep purring rumble erupt from her.
“Feels nice?” Yaz asks gently, grateful that something is relaxing the Doctor. The Doctor leans more into her body as she glides the clippers through her hair the whirring vibration massaging as they moved.
“Feels amazin’ Yaz.” The Doctor croaks groggily, her eyes flickering open briefly before closing again.
“Just you wait till I wash your hair, my head massages are legendary.” Yaz promises, beaming as the Doctor flashes her dimples in a wide smile.
“Okay, you’re all cleaned up and even space girl. Just need those scissors back to cut and style the top okay.” Yaz says, turning the clippers off and setting them aside. The Doctor hands the scissors back to her handle first her eyes blinking awake again.
“That were amazing Yaz, I can see why people use those to cut hair, so relaxing for such a noisy machine.” The Doctor chuckles, taking the clippers into her lap sonicing them for their manufacturing history.
The Doctor geeked away the next 20 minutes as Yaz lifted each lock of hair and measured them between her fingers before snipping away as efficiently as she could.
“Right space girl you’re almost done, ready to sit down on that little stool and lean your head back over the bath we’ll get it washed and ready for your next adventure.” Yaz promises her heart warming at the sight of the Doctors eyes close again, her next adventure will probably be a 12 hour nap Yaz thought.
“Nothing with lavender in it please Yaz, the smell makes me nauseous this go round.” The Doctor explains as Yaz starts the warm shower, wetting her hair.
“That’s okay Doctor, we’ve got Graham’s Head and Shoulders or Ryan’s Star Wars shampoo, my word he’s a big kid sometimes.” Yaz jokes plucking Graham’s shampoo and squeezing a dollop of shampoo into the palm of her hand. She lathers it up between her hands before gliding them into the Doctors warm wet hair taking care to gather the suds up around her hairline massaging them into her scalp.
“Feel good?” Yaz asks gently, the weight of the Doctors head resting in her hands as she grew more and more limp.
The Doctor doesn’t respond, she just inhales deeply and let’s herself feel vulnerable and relaxed for the first time in a long time. She’s safe here in this bathroom with her trusted companion. She’s safe to just feel herself again.
Yaz knows she can’t massage away the last ten months, but she can endeavour to give the Doctor some rest for the next ten minutes, after all she’s done for all of them it seems only fair. So she continues to massage the shampoo through her short curling locks and rinsing with warm water, taking care to shield the Doctor’s ears and eyes from the spray of the water.
It’s only when she comes to towel dry her hair that she notices the Doctor looking up at her, green and golden orbs shining with such gratitude.
“Hey there.” Yaz whispers smiling as she dries her hair carefully.
“I think I need a nap.” The Doctor yawns holding her hand to cover her mouth. Yaz smiles before hanging up the towel and holding out her hand.
“You deserve it come on, I’ll make you up a bed on the sofa.” Yaz ushers her through the door, tucking her into her makeshift bed her hair drying and curling every so slightly.
“Sweet dreams.” She bears Yaz whisper before she lets the tide of exhaustion pull her under.
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