“Yeah,” the Doctor said, and he was surprised to find it was entirely true. He was happy, without any ifs or excepts clogging up the emotion.

He grinned slowly, widely. Silly, simple emotion, happy. So why was it so utterly elusive to him until now? Well, he supposed it didn’t matter, did it? Or maybe it did matter, and he just refused to allow it to matter.

“Are you?”