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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!
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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She had already pieced out that the child was River, Amy's daughter, what a mess.
But how does one turn a human into a TimeLord? Or... as close to it to have regeneration and a TARDIS link and time travel and--
Honestly the whole thing made Rose more than a bit queasy.
Should she be glad she missed it?
Or was it because she wasn't there it happened in ways it never would have if she was?
All of it made her feel sick to her stomach, and she wasn't sure it wasn't the three whiskeys, but she wasn't sure it was either.
"The Doctor is the Doctor," Rose muttered numbly.
Was that true?
Was it though?
She'd always felt so, even if she'd forced his regeneration to prove it to her, not trusting the reckless madman who'd replaced her favorite person in the universe to be, the same, even where it mattered most.
But he'd changed. During his times with Martha and Donna. He said Rose made him better, but she hadn't done a god damn thing except keep him from drowning, same as Donna and Martha. And he treated his other self like an accident. Maybe that was really what he learned from in telling Amy about the Gangers. He'd made the mistake of othering himself once before instead of working together.
Rose spluttered, "He flirts over guns?"
She shook her head trying to jolt it and her eyes just widened, "No, hang on, he flirts?!"
She wasn't sure if she was jealous about that. She chewed her lip raw. "THE DOCTOR?!" She didn't even realize how loud she'd yelled it until she clapped both hands over her mouth, looking scandalized. She dropped to a whisper instead. "If you hadn't said he replaced her bullets and then the gun with the banana I wouldn't believe you at all." She shook her head some more, still very quiet nearly whispering. "He really did threaten to push Jack out the airlock if he couldn't stay hands off the guns. 'm pretty sure he got shot in a past life. And Jack...." Rose shook her head. "Everyone flirts with Jack. Hell, even I swooned when I first met him!" Rose held a finger up and sipped some tea. "Only partly because of him," she held her fingers an inch apart. "Jack must'a flirted with him every chance they got. Most I ever saw back was... 'im, the Doctor, just being clever about how he rebuffed him. That was it."
She shook her head thinking harder. The Doctor... flrting. It was like trying to imagine a really sexy Gandalf flirting. Sure, everyone would want him to but...
No wait. There was the time with Reinette. But wasn't that more... Madame du Pompadour flirting with the Doctor???
Rose rubbed her temples and eyebrows. This was on par for the worst day of her life, but with all the good things it was just winding up somewhere in the bar-none-the-longest even that time she condensed a year, 3 dates and trips, and...
Rose snapped her fingers. "I've got it. Cheem. He flirted with a tree woman once. I mean... I thought that was just accidental though. He breathed on her, because we were at this big fancy ceremony and there was an exchanging of gifts so he was giving out... air from his lungs." Just so much much lineface. Rose wonders sometimes why she stuck by him after that. Well, because he was all alone, of course. Same reason she'd even gone with him in the first place. "Anyway she was all," Rose raised her voice to a falsetto and fanned herself with a hand. "'Oooh, how intimate!'" and dropping to a baritone that Amy would probably not even know was supposed to represent the Doctor, not to mention the Northern accent, "'There's more where that came from!'"
Rose rolled her eyes and then frowned. "She asked if I was his concubine," brows constricted, "Or prostitute." She snorted and facepalmed. "And then they ran off to pollinate or whatever. But I think it was just inspecting the things going wrong. Cassandra, this big ol' flap o' skin considered herself the last 'pureblood' human or some rot, she was setting up her stock competitors for compensation money," an eyeroll, but then a soft frown, "After that I think something happened to the tree woman because I didn't see her again and he was really livid."
She rubbed her eyebrows and forehead with the back of her hand. "Most girls he meets except me and Sarah Jane seem to die. And Sarah Jane he ditched and..."
Ugh.
It was like the entire mountain of feelings and depression she'd been fighting off since the first time at Bad Wolf Bay, when he said goodbye, when he said she could never see him again, all returned in a flood. She'd spent years picking herself up and doing what she wanted, what needed to be done anyway in spite of all that and for what?
Just to get stranded again.
She took a deep breath refusing to cry, just listening to Amy.
Her stomach twinged over how sad he was.
She needed to see him.
She couldn't bear to see him.
He'd stranded her twice!!!!!
"He promised never to leave me like Sarah Jane. I promised him forever," she mumbled numbly and sipped her drink. "I'd rather have died than leave his side."
She slumped head into her arms again and looked to the side.
"Nuh-uh," she mumbled and slightly shook her head as much as the arms would allow. "He can't travel parallel universes. They're sealed off, even from him. Part of the other TimeLords being dead and gone." There was a sad smile that just faded into a frown. Wow. She hadn't even realized it until that second, but she'd been hoping with a TimeLord wife and kids then there was a chance she could see him again...
She barely refrained from crying.
It was so stupid. But she'd worked so hard! And for what? Okay sure, saving the multi-verse was its own reward and whatever, but still.
"Every time he's sent me off... he's been planning to die." She ran the back of her her fist across her face, feeling vaguely sniffly in spite of not crying. "Even TimeLords can die and not come back. That's how the Time War ended, yeah?" She blew her cheeks out in a huff and drank her tea. "Seen him drowned, shot, dragged apart all drawn and quartered, --" She cut off and shook her head, realizing belatedly that revealing the ways to kill a TimeLord wasn't something she wanted to do even to Amy whom she trusted completely. There were still mind readers. "I had too much to drink," she admitted reluctantly. "Forget I said that, so no one can try to get it from you. I had Torchwood and TARDIS training for --" she tapped fingers to her temples. "Mental blocks. Pretty much pity anyone tryin' ta get in my head. Hamster dance on endless loop."
She grinned at the pun, Rose loves puns. Because Rose is terrible, and that's okay. "Mmm, I don't think the one with the tie would get along with nearly any of his other versions..." she shook her head fuzzily. "That's not something we actually gotta worry about is it? Two Doctors, not just my Meta-Crisis one I mean?" What kind of universe or place or dimension, was this?
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Shame Rory wasn't there when she asked that. She even glanced at the door, as though the question might summon him. She held on to hope. Always had, always will. Not a speck of doubt in her mind, she'd see him again. Probably soon. Till then, this was just one more adventure to talk about over tea or wine in the garden. and she intended to enjoy herself.
"Air from his lungs?" someone was bent over with laughter now. "Seriously, that's his idea of a gift, air from his lungs. Maybe I'm glad now he never bought River a ring, could you just imagine what he'd pick out? Some sort of worm or something..." A ring worm. "Alright. Defiantly sticking to tea for now, or he'll take one look at me and know I was up to something." She was still laughing though. "Hey, ever wonder where exactly his room is? I kind of have this impulse like we should put pudding in his pillow case or something, just to see if this face can overreact like mine can, but for all we've looked, Rory and I could never find a room that was clearly his."
Then she stopped laughing as Rose said the thing about them all dying. "Look, the Doctor's like 1200 or something these days. If he keeps taking up with people like you and me and Rory, of course we all die on him. But he's a time traveler who hates endings. Bet you anything he goes back when he thinks no one will notice and watches us as kids from off in the distance somewhere. We may die, and we may get to the point where he can't run with us anymore, but we're always still within reach for him. Besides, my family, we've gotten a bit more easy going about death. Die a few times, and you stop being afraid of your own death. River even told us once, after we saw him die, the time the space suit shot him... she said that the Doctor's death doesn't scare her, nor does her own, all she had to fear in the whole universe would be the day she went running with him to find he's no clue who she is. Never told her or Rory this, so don't you dare tell them either... but I think that for him, that happened before I ever met him. He knew so little about her when I first met her, at the Byzantine. But I've died now... what... twice? I'd have to count it out. At least twice. Rory... forget trying to count how many time he's died or been unmade. And you said you saw the Doctor die as many times as I have, from the sound of it. Nah, death isn't all that scary. And it sounds like you laid in the same ground work we did, made sure he won't be alone. So long as he isn't alone, he'll be fine. He's the Doctor. He'll sweet off some other girl to have mad adventures, he'll miss us, sure. But he'll be okay, and that's what's important, yeah? The Doctor and the Tarids. The Madman and his beautiful blue box. There isn't a think in any universe he can't do, if he truly sets his mind to it, and stops telling himself he can't. That's what he needs us for, I think. Tell him he can when he thinks he can't, and stop him when he knows he can but he really shouldn't."
"Never had training for mental blocks, but if anyone wants to try and root through my head, good luck to them," she said with a laugh. "So many timelines that never were, deaths that un-happened, people I remember that never existed, and cold hard facts that the Doctor remembers that un-happened so I never experienced them. He wanted to know why I didn't recognize a Dalek on sight the first time, spun some story about how there should be ducks in the duck pond and a sky full of Daleks." She shrugged. "Never saw a thing, neither did Rory or Mels." Though she had a theory on why. Too bad her theory didn't work on a fundamental level. She chalked it up to the Doctor being the Doctor, ultimately.
"Oh, it's happened. Was amusing in hindsight, less so at the time. Basically, lesson learned. When the Doctor lets some bloke - in this case, my husband at least - help fly the Tardis, remember the floors are made of glass before deciding to wear a short skirt. Rory wound up parking the Tardis inside the Tardis. Doctor had to go into the inner Tardis to pop back in through the main doors to tell him which lever to use to keep us all from blowing up when he controlled an implosion or explosion, or something. Sorry, ran that look maybe a half dozen times, still doesn't make sense to me. Early days of running with him. I s'ppose I'd be better able to follow it now. Not sure."
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"Yeah! I'd love to see Jack again, ask 'im more about Torchwood and the rest. If I'd known the Doctor was gonna just dump me in the other universe, I'd have tried to take more outta Jack being there. " A small facepalm, "The Doctor and Mickey aren't the only ones locked a universe away from me now." Donna, Martha, seriously what was the point of everything she went through?
Well.
Saving multiple universes, yes. She'd been prepared to die... just... not to come back. Ironically.
"Ummmm," was Jack a good kisser? "Well, he kissed me and the Doctor right before he left to go die versus the daleks. Um, that was before I saw the Doctor regenerate into the tie and fluffy hair version here? But I was kind of too surprised to make a lot of it..." Meta-Crisis Doctor was a much better kisser, but the contexts were completely different. And Jack was... She didn't have words for Jack, that's why she just called him a flirty Captain. Jack was Jack. He was to be experienced onto himself. "But I'd say so." Then again Rose was a soft judge, especially for people she loved. She fell over into giggles, "The last time I did see him, just a few hours ago, mind," more giggles, "The Doctor wouldn't even let him say hello to anybody! Just every time he tried, the Doctor was all," attempts to be serious and Doctor-y again, "Stop it." A grin, "So I guess he must'a adventured with him when I was still a parallel universe away. Shame I missed that. He, the Doctor, left Jack in the future when he regenerated. Said he, Jack, wanted to stay behind and clean up the mess there from the daleks and stuff."
She drank some tea. "I really missed him. I wonder how he found 'im again. He dropped 'im off in the 20th century with Micks and Martha, and Sarah Jane. Before Bad Wolf Bay." Her face still fell at the name.
"Yup! Air from his lungs!" Rose giggled. And chewed her bottom lip. Nah, the Doctor knew about Earth customs enough for rings. He...
Her face fell over again and she debated the alcohol but she was beyond as numb as she could get at this point so, just stirred a chip in salt and pepper and asked for vinegar to go with 'em.
"No. He had a ring when I... when we got separated the first time." Her face was stoic, numb. But inside she could rewind every milisecond of that day. "He sent me to Pete's Universe with my Mum and Micks, and I came back even though he told me not to and my Mum was gonna kill me and I wouldn't be able to see her again." She clenched her jaw.
Why didn't he get it yet?
Or did he?
Maybe he did, and this was just his way of sacrificing what he wanted, and just wanted to trick Rose into wanting something different which still made her just as mad, but what was she supposed to do?
Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
At least, again the rage and fire helped quench the pain.
Her voice was still numb. "He was sucking daleks back into the void. That's why you should'a seen 'em. They were all over the world. The ghosts which were cybermen from Pete's World, and the daleks which got opened up, um, it was a TimeLord prison of them, so... millions." Deep breath. "I helped him, the Doctor close the gates, but I couldn't hold onto the lever so I was gonna get sucked into the void too, but at the last second, Pete knew to catch me. I don't know how I knew, if just Mum made him go back or it was Bad Wolf. Think it was Bad Wolf probably."
She waved a hand, and stuffed some chips in her mouth, feeling slowly better about the whole thing. "But he -- the Doctor yeah? -- still had his ring in his pocket from when we...." She gulped down air, closed her eyes, looking up and just... gods she hated him.
She couldn't finish the thought. Explain the importance. She'd never told anyone. Not even Mickey. Certainly not her Mum.
She just left it there and focused on everything else.
"Yeah, I know his room." That wasn't helping. At all. "He doesn't sleep much though." But she grinned anyway at the idea of putting pudding in his pillowcase. "The TARDIS won't let you find it unless she wants you to," she explained quietly, stirring the silly straw in her tea. "Which was how I found it..." she winced and laughed, "That sounds really dirty!" she held up a hand quickly, "But I swear it's not! He was just having a bad night one time." Counting the children lost on Gallifrey. Something Rose would never tell a soul.
"1200, yeah?" She smiled softly, and melted onto her arms with a happy sigh. "That's... wonderful," she explained, "'e was only 900 when I met him. I thought maybe somethin' bad 'appened to Donna. I mean yeah, he'll outlive us but that... it usually gets cut way even shorter than that. I was only with him a few years," a quiet admittance. She gulped quietly though. Maybe he didn't even remember her now. Wouldn't have the faintest idea why she was mad. Ack. She needed to find out when the sad Doctor here in Genessia was from timeline-wise.
Rose shook her head though. "No, him dying still scares me. Even after all those times. Because there's a lot he can't regenerate from, and... worse." She bit her bottom lip so hard it began to bleed, her voice dropping to a whisper. "I'm scared he'll give up. Or become what he hates most of all."
"You've died?" Rose was shocked, and tilted her head, wondering how the Doctor undid that. "I nevar have. Close shaves, yeah. Even closer with the void thing," a wince. "The nothingness between the universes... no time no air, no thought... I did... fall into the vortext once, but I was fine because, I didn't know it at the time, but Bad Wolf. But not even TARDIS's or timelords can navigate the void and Bad Wolf... only barely worked in Pete's universe. Enough to connect the two universes, and I hope... enough to work the new TARDIS if that works. Maybe enough to call me back if he really needs me. Or can use me again.... though probably only if all the universes are dying."
Rose listened to the rest and just trailed off quietly. "More the stopping I've found." But she giggled at the end. "He told Micks to hold down this button and then him, the Doctor and I, got all distracted talking about things and he forgot to tell him he could stop holding down the button, half an hour later, we wound up outside the universe, and in Pete's world."
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"I caught the Doctor with a ring once. But it doesn't count. Turns out it was mine. My stupid husband was always afraid if I wore my ring while we were running around I'd lose it, always fretting about how expensive it was. Moron. Course when he fell through a crack in the universe, ring only survived because it was in the Tardis, probably. I didn't understand why the ring made me feel so sad when I found it, like a great big hole had been cut out and I didn't know why or what was missing."
Forget the tea. She poured herself another glass of wine and offered the bottle to Rose wordlessly. Conversations like this needed the distance wine gave, even if it was making her words come out a bit odd and her memory a bit of a jumble. Jumble of memories.... She might be missing some, but other things she usually forgot were in her mind. Or... were they?
"Got a marker?" she asked, looking around the bar, suddenly very still and afraid. Something she should remember but shouldn't. Were they there? Had she seen one and just forgotten? Or was the wine messing with her stomach? She knew she wasn't pregnant again. But she also knew she shouldn't have had so much wine when she'd skipped lunch. And, well, breakfast.
She shook her head, trying to clear it. "What? Oh, I don't mind you knowing where his room is. I'm his mother-in-law, not his wife. And my guess is you're either before or after River's time, or River made her peace with you in her own way. Gods know she's not the jealous type. I mean, I marry one monarch by accident on my anniversary, does my husband ever let me live it down? Nope. But River and the Doctor? She told me once they wound up marrying the same woman at different points. She certainly didn't get that from her dad. But tell you what, if it doesn't bother River," she sipped her wine. "Not going to bother me, just glad he had someone when he needed you." She stopped, considered. "Might feel different when I'm sober though," she warned in fairness.
Oh. Rose thought that was how old he was when she met him. Whoops? 900 when she knew him? Whoooooboy. Okay, she wasn't going to correct that mistake. She hadn't lied. And misleading her had been accidental, so nothing to blame, yeah? And what could would saying that he was 903 at Lake Silencio the second time do but upset the other girl. God. This must be what it's like to be River. No wonder she was always shooting people. amy took another long drink of her wine.
"He won't give up, not so long as he isn't alone. And he won't be. Universe is full of people almost literally dying to run with the Doctor." She remembered the soldier, took another sip. "Forget the almost."
"Yeah, I've died," she said with a shrug, considered how much wine was left in the bottle, and the two of them. And then thought about how bad it would be if she told all of this to the Doctor cause she was too drunk to remember why that was stupid. She'd only ever gotten really drunk two or three times in her life. And last time she was this bad... was when she thought he was dead, well and truly dead. She sighed and called out for a pair of coffees, and then some food after another moment's thought.
"Well, let's see, there was the time Rory shot me dead. Didn't mean to, he was kind of plastic at the time. I mentioned that, yeah? The Nestine or Nequick or whatever. Then there was the time the Doctor accidently abandoned me in a place where plague victims went to live out a life time in the day it took them to die. Horrid place. I mean, probably really lovely if you had the plague and were from that world, but all the handbots - these medical robots - They were sure I needed a shot to cure me of being, well, human. Was there 40 years by the time the Doctor and Rory found me. They used the communications glass that split the times to see back to the past, to when I'd just gotten there. Old me didn't want to save me, said that when she was me, the old me then had refused. But the Doctor says there's this thing, where I always get what I want, yeah? Well, I talked her into helping me, but the deal was that we both come in the Tardis. Rory... could have looked a little less happy about the thought of two of us, honestly. One of the handbots got me, this me, and I passed out. Woke up in the Tardis, all I know is the other me died. Not sure how or why. they wouldn't tell me." she scowled at that. "Oh, not sure if it counts when I drove us off that cliff or we crashed into that negative star. I wonder if Rory counts those as deaths... Not sure, since the Doctor died with us and didn't even try to regenerate. Felt real enough at the time, though. Oh, and the Doctor killed my Ganger. Felt that. I think he tried to be gentle, felt it all the same."
She laughed. "Oh god, he did that to Brian. Told him to watch the cubes, then we wound up dealing with Unit, and things were a mess, and finally the Doctor decided he couldn't handle sitting in our lounge one more moment. Quick trip to restore sanity, he said." she thanked the person who brought their coffees and sipped hers. "Ugh, going to have to get a job at this rate, we stay much longer." she shook her head. "Anyway, Doctor said that he had to pop off for a brief jaunt, and we followed him into the Tardis," as you do "and there was Brian. The Doctor asked him what he was doing, and Brian said that the Doctor had asked him to watch the cubes. Doctor pointed out, or...maybe it was Rory? Maybe it was me? Can't remember. Anyway, one of us pointed out it was four days. Brian hadn't even noticed. We made him stay with us after that, so we could keep an eye on him, you know. And he spent every day watching those cubes. I think if Rory and I hadn't taken him food and tea he'd never remember to eat. Need to talk to the Doctor about being a bit more careful what he says to Brian in the future."
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Rose took the wine bottle and dug into her jeans pockets for a felt tip pen. "Best I got," she offered quietly. Just don't ask why she has it. Mostly for grafitti-ing "Bad Wolf" places.
She didn't pour herself anymore though, nor Amy who seemed at least as fuzzy as her too. Good drinking partner, but probably not enough like Jack to remind her to be in her own proper bed at a proper hour. Or at least... the Jack version of those both.
"I dunno, the Doctor and I never really..." she gestured feebly and sighed. "That's how the Metac-Crisis got me to stay. In my -- Pete's Universe, with my Mum. The worst day of my life, even worse than all the times watching him die because I knew what to do then, was when he actually said goodbye. He nevar says goodbyes. Hates them and endings maybe as much as I do." She held her fingers apart slightly and sipped the whiskey swirling it in her mouth before the burn was too much and she swallowed. "Almost. Probably less for him." She nodded. She really hated them more than him, she was sure. Because he was older and had to deal with them more often, and for Rose it was so larger than life in the moment, and she couldn't see into the distant future, everything was just right then and there. "I told him I loved him on that beach, even though he was just a hologram and told me I couldn't see him again without destroying two universes."
Ugh.
Ugh.
She finished off the third whiskey sour and completely cut herself off, napkin over the glass, and then just upending it, just in case.
"He started to--" She shook her head. "But he ran out of time. On the beach again, when they wanted me to stay, Meta-Crisis said the words, and the Doctor ran away." She shrugged and rubbed between her eyes.
As for millions of people dying to run with the Doctor... Rose just shook her head. "He only takes the best. And I don't know about yours but he doesn't sound that much more social than the ones I met. He wouldn't deal with most people if someone didn't drag him out there. Just hide away grumpy in his box for a couple hundred years tinkerin'. Pete, my sorta-Dad, is like that too. But my Mum's a real force of will. You'd either hit it off smashingly or tear each other apart. I think I'd wanna be there for that one too." But... "But thanks. Yeah. You're right. No sense in doubtin' him until he does something' stupid and then just deal with it when it happens right?" After all, before seeing him drown and the rest, Rose would never have expected that.
As for the deaths... Rose's eyebrows just arched. Weird. So weird. She shuddered slightly. "Still think I owe you cake for all that," she giggled finally. "We had the glass walls refracting time too once. But it was all focused on Madame du Pompadour. No idea why." She chewed her bottom lip. "That was another who died he couldn't bring with him, like Jabe." More headshakes. Sad things. All of them.
At the story of Brian, Rose fell apart into giggles. "Poor man," she murmured quietly. "He must have incredible focus. What happened with the cubes?"
Sipping her own tea, Rose held up a finger, "I wanna Torchwood some more... I was gonna... at least I was trying to decide on that in the hour since I got left in the wrong universe," a quiet snort. "But seems like theres a lot of nonhumans and amalguous -- amalga-- Amala???" Rose whined and rubbed her eyes. "Lots of tech from total culture clashes. Worse'n Krillitanes. I gotta remember to ask the Doctor about that!" She grabbed back the felt pen, and wrote 'Krillitanes' on the top of her hand, and then after a small hesitation doodled 'Bad Wolf' in there as well. For good measure. "What'd you do between travelin' with the Doctor? Anything? I mean. When I was with him I didn't. But I had just as many years in between when I was searchin' for him so yeah." She snorted quietly.
"Nestene Consciousness, yeah? Living plastic? That's how he and I met. He blew up the store I was working at, and was gonna die when the Nestene Conscious captured him and the TARDIS so I had to rescue him. Fair turnabout really. I didn't actually... I said no the first time he asked me to go along. I was still seein' Micks at the time, and Micks has been kidnapped by the Nestene Consciousness to use him for puppetry and so he was really freaked out, yeah? But he came back a second time and just.... I could see how lonely he was, and all my life all I ever wanted was adventure and runnin'." She laughed and shook her head. "I ran away from home once before, yeah? When I was sixteen, missed my A-levels to join a deadbeat rocker I thought would make it big in the grunge scene." A quiet snort and an eyeroll before she put her fingers over her lips.
"Shhhhhh. That's secret in Pete's Universe. Pete's like this multi-million-billionaire, invents all kind of stuff, Vitex marketer, think like Steve Jobs in the Doctor's Universe, yeah? But with soda pop gatorade-powerade to fund it. S'why he took over Torchwood. My alternate universe Mum, they never had kids in that one, but the Jackie there got turned into a--" she falters slightly, scrunching her face up to analyze the danger and rummages through her pocket for anti-scanner-bug. She doesn't know if it'll work here, but it makes her feel better. "Cyber-person." Because most people keyword searching weren't clever enough to account for similar variations. "Micks hijacked the emotional override codes, but we couldn't save her." She chewed her bottom lip. "And then that incident with the daleks in the sky that you shouldn't have missed, my Mum ran into that Peter Tyler and barely a few months in the world," Rose snapped her fingers, "She up and gets pregnant with the baby brother I always wanted." A small snort. "You'd have liked it. I messed with the Doctor's head for a little bit, let him think I was the pregnant one." She rolled her eyes.
"I don't much fit in there though," she chewed her bottom lip in thought. Finally confessing the biggest part weighing on her personally. "I'm really really really happy for 'em. All of 'em. But 'm still mad at my Mum too. She went world travelin' with Mickey's help even though Pete and the Doctor forbade all o' us." She knuckled her eyebrows. "But since I'm the one who broke the rule first, even to save the universes, I'm the one gettin' punished for it. I'm supposed to be some big heiress there, and well... Look at me!" Rose laughed and shook her head. "I mean luckily, I could keep my history mostly the same, they just had to pretend to find me, that I was takin' care of my Mum between the Cyber-attack incident and then. But I basically had to get written into their lives. TW has the access at least to make up all the right paperwork, but it wasn't even like Mickey. At least he had a real life there. Family, and his counterpart's friends."
Rose shook her head and burrowed it into her folded arms on the table. "The only thing I ever was good at was that job. And I basically created it for myself." She chewed her bottom lip more, but refusing to feel sorry for herself, "Still wanna make Pete proud if he shows up like Rory and River. I don't want him askin' what I've been doin' myself here or thinkin' I could'a done better if I was so boy-crazy or whatever." Huff.
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Not sure how I did that. Want to just continue there?)