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[bigbadrose]

Hey so, bit of a weird question. Anyone here ever heard of Torchwood, and could maybe point me how to get back to contacting the local branch? That'd be really handy, yeah?

Year and star system coordinates would also be fantastic, but I'm not holdin' my breath waitin'.

[Bites her bottom lip in thought.]

[She doesn't even know which universe this is. Much less how she got here without a dimension cannon or where everyone she was with went. Maybe they're here. But then maybe even saying their name depending on the universe is dangerous. Luckily, she's had 5+ years (give or take for literal dimension rewinds and time in the vortex) of experience in learning how to do codes.]

Here's a fairytale you've probably never heard before.

Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf. She wandered a city of metal filled with metal men. [Too dangerous to even say the world cyberman until she learned more!] She thought she was on a mission to hunt down her lost prince. But she was actually on a mission to find home. Bit like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz if you know it. And one day she met a man who wasn't a prince at all. He was a very brainy professor. There was even another man who started off as a mouse but turned into a lion full of courage, saving worlds he never even knew existed. And a really flirty captain who was probably too pretty for his own good. They weren't off to find a wizard. Just a blue box.

The big bad wolf ran away from home and her pack over and over and over again, but no matter how many times she ran, and how many new friends she made or which universe she fell into, something was always calling her back. 'Pparently you can't escape your family that easily. That or the Big Bad Wolf's mum was seriously terrifying and would fight a werewolf for diamonds and totally win.

Thanks for listening, Ta!

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[bigbadrose]

Mm. Yeah. He's a different species. Can't say it out loud until I know this place is more secure or it'd show up in all kind of search engines and I don't have the equipment -- or Mickey -- to deal with that right now.

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[corruptedsave]

O... kay.

That's a weird thing to be worried about.

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[bigbadrose]

It's happened before.

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[corruptedsave]

Aaaah. So it's a learned lesson then, huh?

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[bigbadrose]

A hard one, but yeah! Exactly!

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[corruptedsave]

Hah, well it may have been a hard one but at least no one died?

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[bigbadrose]

[.....]

[Congrats Chara: Have a quiet demeanor change out of the bubbly and cheerful.] No. Someone did.

That's why it was hard.

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[corruptedsave]

[Jackpot, nerve hit.]

Just one person? That's unfortunate.

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[bigbadrose]

[She needs drinks.]

No. Not one. [Sigh.] Are all kids like this or just you?

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[corruptedsave]

More than one? How many?

[They're oh so curious!]

And I dunno, not a lot of kids have gone through what I've gone through, Miss.

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[bigbadrose]

I stopped counting.

I've seen that kind of thing a drive a mad person even deeper.

What have you gone through, kiddo?

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[corruptedsave]

That many, huh.

[But counting is so much fun.]

I died.

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[bigbadrose]

And you remember it?

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[corruptedsave]

You don't?

It was a pretty remember-able death, mine I mean.

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[bigbadrose]

I haven't died yet. I don't intend to ever. But even when I fixed deaths so they didn't happen, the people who died couldn't remember 'em. Sort of the point.

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[corruptedsave]

Everyone dies, eventually, Miss.

... So what, you can reset timelines?

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[bigbadrose]

Nah. Think I'll skip it.

No, believe it or not, I'm just passin' through.

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[corruptedsave]

... That's not what I mean. You said you prevented deaths, did you do by res-- RESETting or some other way?

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[bigbadrose]

[She's never had to explain or dismiss this before, never been allowed to say even as much as she did.]

[Rose is quiet for a bit, thinking around in circles how to best brush it off but still answer.]

No.

Butterfly's wings.

You ever hear that the beat of butterfly's wings cause monsoons and tyhphoons on the other side of the globe?

I just move butterflies. Then in another universe, the butterflies are in the right place and time to offset each other. No monsoons, no typhoons, people who would die from them live until a later date.

When you died, it was... reset?

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[corruptedsave]

Oh so... simpler than back home.

And no, I stayed dead. Time moved on, I just found someone as determined as I was.

[This is all some pretty heavy stuff to be talking about, especially for a kid.

But then again Chara isn't a normal child.]

I made a deal and took their place, in a way.

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[bigbadrose]

Determined? What kind of deal?

[Donna? Is that you Donna? IS THIS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ROSE PLAYS TOO MUCH WITH TIME AND PARALLEL UNIVERSES? KARMA?!]

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[corruptedsave]

Determination, in my world it's a powerful thing to have.

And it was a trade, a world for something of theirs, that's all.

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[bigbadrose]

A trade?

You make it sound simple, but there's no way it's that easy.

And I've met anyone who can out-determine me. Much less Fate.

[YEAH. Fate and destiny have no sway over her, so like hell is she gonna sit here worrying about why she wound up back in the "wrong" universe, and now here. She was just gonna keep rolling and do whatever she wanted. Fate be damned.]

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[corruptedsave]

It wasn't that simple, I'm just avoiding using big words as to not confuse you more.

[The briefest of pauses before they speak again.]

No, not fate. Just a demon.

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[bigbadrose]

Uh-huh.

What did they trade?