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[bigbadrose]

"Oh..." Rose laughed sheepishly that it wasn't Rassilon after all, though she hardly seemed cheered up or not worried.

Rose herself is usually a billion times straightforward than even the Doctor, especially after her traveling between the void, but well...

She chews on one of her fingertips in thought, and rocks on her heels. "Rassilon, and Rassilon, again... to answer your questions."

Rose shook her head. Hybrid would never be a go, but... she chewed he bottom lip in thought. "Lady Me wants to protect him from the TimeLords well- Rassilon... sort of it's...." She sighed and huffed quietly, facepalming. "The Doctor does something stupid in his future. Big surprise." He was always doing dumb things.

"I definitely can't tell you why or how Rassilon gets back in power," Rose frowned, narrowing then crossing her eyes temporarily in thought before shaking her head. "But... he wanted to do the trap and used Lady Me to do it, because of the stupid thing the Doctor did. Or does. Will do."

Rubbing the back of her neck, Rose glanced away, thinking harder. "No, we've never met, and he wouldn't know me." She turned back to Romana seriously. "But I know him." She cracked her knuckles, flexing her hands and wrists, and thinking all the harder. Lady Me was bound to tell Romana about the torture, probably. But Rose couldn't. She couldn't even bear the idea of how upset the Doctors there would be if Rose did tell, and she was no longer trying to protect Lady Me from well... that at least. Though there were plenty of other things.

All right, how to explain it. Skipping the Time War entirely--

Rose's brown eyes narrowed darkly again. "He tried to destroy my universe; Rassilon. More than once," honestly, who hadn't? And none of the rest of them Rose held a grudge against. But saying that he hurt Rose's best friends was a bit too much of a giveaway, and while she'd mentioned to Four about the cyber-timeline, it wasn't something she told even the rest of the Doctors, and the only version of the Doctor she could ever imagine bringing up to, would be one so far in the future it wouldn't matter. Still... Rose cocked her head to the side. "My... father," she said hesitantly, still uncertain about using that word for him, or explaining the situation, "Was the head of Torchwood in a -- different universe." All right, that was a good starting place. Especially with Jack and Ianto there, Torchwood was bound to come up. "He chased down cybermen from his universe through the void to your universe, and the Torchwood of that universe had Jack and Ianto working in a different division, in Cardiff, but the London Torcwhood were accidentally bringing the cyberman over; because they're right idiots."

A serious nod.

Lalalala. Skipping all the daleks, because that was TimeWar stuff.

Rose held up a hand, "I know this is really roundabout," an apologetic grin again, "But it's the only way I know to try." She closed her eyes again to think. "I... the last time the Doctor and I went back home," she said carefully, another wolfish head tilt, "You can do that here, you can return to your own timeline, but I don't recommend it until you talk to the Doctor at least, yeah? He and I waited a year to go back." She shook her head. Back on point. "When we went back, I had to go between... timelines that never were." A headtilt again. She knew TimeLords could no longer do that, could they have before? Were there laws against that? She didn't even know what was entirely required in it for anyone but her to have tried. But it hardly mattered. "My father, Peter Tyler, is an inventor, so in his universe, the cyberman originated with his company, not Mondas."

She snorted quietly. It was all random bits of yarn and collecting them into a full ball took some doing, which was a mental image she'd gotten from Four, and instantly wanted to share with him, but FOCUS! "The Doctor and I... became separated at Torchwood. The London branch of your Universe." She cracked her knuckles again.

This was going to be a very weird way of explaining the long series of interconnected events focusing specifically on isolated pieces, but it did all connect at least!

"Rassilon divided us. For whatever reason. Destroying the universe reasons, and in another timeline, for power. And it -- at the time, sealed the Universes off completely, so the Doctor couldn't reach me." 100% true, but with so many missing details, it was nearly laughable.

"To get back to the Doctor, I used my father's inventions, and I had to follow a trail of ehhhhhh.... glitched timelines. Fifth dimension. All the maybes around mortals around the Doctor trying to," she mimed her fingers as if this would help. "Make a bridge." A huff. Good enough. "One of the timelines, I was turned into a cyberman and shot my Mom, and Jack died trying to save me in all of them--" Again, true, but... with ridiculously less details than reality. Not the least of which was that Rose turned Jack into a fixed point which gave Timelords the heebie jeebies, but whatever! Rose was also aware that TimeLord senses were dulled or flat-out nonexistent here and had to be specifically bent back, and if the Doctor thought Romana was in danger of doing that around Jack, he could warn her himself. "It's not 100% Rassilon's fault, mind ya, I mean it's all kind of..." She closed her eyes and made a bunch of ball and explosions hand gestures. "Complicated." Rose turning herself into the weapon and channeling it in Nautilus and fusing timelines she wasn't supposed to remember; complicated.

"But I told the Doctor, all of 'em here, if I ever see any incarnation of Rassilon and --" Rose closed her eyes and counted on fingers, "I've seen like 4 or 5 of him in--" dreams. Reality. Visions. Things that never were but could have been, would have been if she, Jack, and/or the Doctor weren't there stopping them from being. "A way." Hahahaha. Well, it was true again, just not a normal physical one. "But if I evar see 'im, I'm gonna kick him in the face. And mess him up with Bending before he can even get his bearings!" Huff!!! And Rose folded her arms.

"An' I don't even know what all Jack and Ianto had to go through on their end of Torchwood, but I know a lot of it was stupid Rassilon's fault." The rift, the displaced aliens, the -- well, Rose hadn't asked them, and there were certainly things that weren't Rassilon's fault, but still. Anyone at all making life harder than it needed to be on Jack and a huge chunk of Earth's timeline was someone Rose held a grudge again. "Imma kick his stupid face!" Growl growl.

Davros, daleks, and cyberkings didn't faze Rose. And she only barely remembered she was supposed to fear the Master, not try to befriend him (she wanted to anyway just because), Rassilon though... Rassilon she was going to kick in the face. And 8 getting stuffed full of anti-time by Rassilon and turning him into Zagreus had definitely sold Rose on the concept, long before she knew anything about cyberman timelines and only just that he had been willing to destroy the universe and ascend the timelords into beings of higher consciousness, like a Jim Jones Kool Aid drinking cult. Although finding out about him torturing the Doctor had been the real start. Luckily this was a much more restrained Rose who no longer violently fantasized about ways to stab him.

[abitshort]

If Rose weren't so serious about this, Romana would laugh at that. Something stupid, indeed-- it'd be far more surprising if she learned that the Doctor makes well thought-out and competent choices in his future. Still, it must have been more than just a simple mistake to get the Time Lords collectively against him. Although Rassilon would hold a great deal of power and influence.

More than she first thought, if he was able to manipulate all of that. Even if Rose said it wasn't entirely him, it certainly seemed to come back to it. It's more complicated than anything, and Romana isn't going to pretend that she can puzzle it all out immediately, not with so many pieces missing. But she more than understands why Rose has to beat around the bush like this. Annoying as it is, some things she just isn't meant to discover, not at this point in time. She'll shelf them for now.

And she certainly plans on going back to this conversation in her own time, to work out... well, not exactly a timeline of events (that's far too complicated in and of itself), but a more solid picture of what's happened.

But she does understand that there was a great deal of unnecessary suffering involved for all parties.

Romana reaches out a hand and very briefly rests it on Rose's shoulder before withdrawing it. She's not given to be incredibly emotional, not when it's simply business as always for her, but she understands that no matter how acquainted a human is with the going-ons of Time Lords, it's never quite the same. She can't imagine how hard it must have been to handle all of that, and to be without the Doctor and uncertain of how to get back. She's very much beginning to appreciate how clever this Rose seems to be-- clever in the same way she is. The good way, not the Doctor's 51% grade at the Academy way.

When she speaks again, it's for the first time while Rose was talking. She hadn't felt it right to interrupt, and she'd been busy thinking, anyways.

"I'm very sorry. It isn't the first time an extraterrestrial has intervened with Earth's timeline, and it very likely won't be the last, but it was... cruel." She can't pretend to know the full details of what happens in the Doctor's future, but what she's heard is more than enough to fear for how he copes with it. The Doctor... isn't always fluent in emotions, but then, she isn't either in most cases. Perhaps that's why they'd initially gotten off on the wrong foot.

[bigbadrose]

If Rose was ever told about the Doctor's grades at the Academy, she would laugh too. None of her would have been all that surprised either. The amount of times that the Doctor actually seemed to know what was going on and what they were doing, Rose could probably count on one hand.

She beamed instantly at Romana's overture of friendship and hand on shoulder, even if the TimeLady had mostly learned from the Doctor how to act and react to things, she was already leagues better than even Fluffy who was prone to licking things and freaking humans out, or 9 who insulted all species when frustrated. Rose instantly ran with her instincts and decided that Romana was definitely a friend forever, no matter what the Doctors or Lady Me told her. -- Though it should be noted, Rose was not always the greatest judge of character, having picked up Jack as a conman, ran off with the Doctor himself, and felt sympathy for Davros and daleks and still wanted to befriend the Master.

She laughed at the comment, truly heartily giggling, and nodding her head enthusiastically. "That's an understatement!" SO MUCH GIGGLES. "First time the Doctor took me back home to my Mum? We wound up a year late, I argue, because the TARDIS knew we needed to stick around and gave us just enough time ta do it, but -- OH! Right!" Rose slapped herself in the forehead. "That's the other thing! Lady Me absolutely hates me! She--"

Oh wow, Rose was definitely sure the Doctor in the future had broken all sorts of TimeLord laws in bringing Lady Me back to life. Especially since his third life had been a forced regeneration and exiled to Earth on account of his 'meddling.' She chewed her bottom lip in thought, and winced. Might as well go for broke. If Romana was going to do something on account of it, she'd find out at some point, it was much too difficult to hide unlike the TimeWar. "That's the stupid thing the Doctor did." Rose giggled again and held up a finger, rolling her eyes, "Well, one of. His future self, beyond 10, made Lady Me immortal. I can't exactly read him the riot act over that though, because," Rose gestured feebly and wince, "I might'a done similar to Jack on accident. Which is where he got the idea."

She sucked in both lips, her expression as childish as to match any of the Doctor's. Even the 4th's most exaggerated reactions. "Don't ask," Rose laughed and shook her head, rubbing her forehead. "But Lady Me was with my Mum during the year I was missing and knows my ex-boyfriend, and about Jack, and sometimes I purposely needle her and call her by her given name which she hates." Rose held up both hands, "So she really hates me. That aside though..."

Another laugh. This is why Four and Rose couldn't run around Nautilus together without getting distracted by... everything. They spent all their time together joking and being ridiculous. Good luck Romana.

"So the Doctor's like, "'ere we go! Returned 12 hours later, safe and sound!" an' I go upstairs to my Mum's flat and I'm all, "I'm home! Spent the night at a friend's, no biggie!" and she breaks a dish and starts sobbing and crying, and he runs up right after me holding a Missing poster of my face, and he's like, "So sorry, 12 months not hours."" Rose grinned cheekily and shook her head. "So then my Mum is all freaked out, and thinks he's some sort of pervert from the internet." Be fair, first time meeting the Doctor, that's an easy impression to get. "And he's like "I am a real Doctor!" and she slapped him!" Rose practically roared with laughter. It still tickled her to no end.

She waved a hand. "So the reason the TARDIS -- least I think it's the TARDIS, not just his bad drivin' -- Didja knows there's a Manual for the TARDIS?! I was so mad!" A headshake, "Anyway, so I think she got us back so late an' put him and my Mum, an' Lady Me, and Mickey -- that's my ex-boyfriend, my Mom had him arrested and investigated for my murder four times that year--" If you got the impression that Rose and the Doctor together never shut up and kept babbling back and forth, you'd be very much correct, Romana. "Was because this family called the Slitheen were fakin' the first alien crash landin' ta Earth. They were going ta instigate World War Three and sell off the nuclear slag of Earth for cheap recession fuel. Later on, Blon Fel-Fotch from the family escaped and was gonna blow up the Earth from Cardiff to try to use a space surfboard to get out, and Jack stopped her, and that is how we all got to go to--" DEEP BREATH. "Raxacoricofalltrickle-down-economics." She had it once. She will get it again. Someday.