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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.

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"Uuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm........" Rose laughed at the idea of the Doctor telling her off for flirting with... anyone. "Nooooo," slow and drawn out and more giggles. "If anything..." He spoiled her rotton and she loved it. "I mean I don't know you could do what he calls flirting back, but probably?" She scrunched her face up. "I don't really know how to explain it. But..." she's never doubted he loves her. Just that he couldn't say it. And literally couldn't, twice now in an absolutely last chance situation before parallel universes divided them forever. "I mean, no matter how much he can blend in, which isn't well, mind, he's still pretty alien, yeah?" She shook her head. "More like push'n'pull, yeah? He'd do thinks like bring my ex on board, but say he missed when it was just the two of us, him and me the way it should be." She shrugged. "Complicated."

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.

(OOC: Accidently started a new sub thread here.
Not sure how I did that. Want to just continue there?)

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