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[Jack is standing in the square, looking up and around at the City and then back down at the Vortex Manipulator on his wrist.] Oh, come on. You had to malfunction now? I mean you've done it before, but...

[Another few brisk taps at the wristband.] Work! If you don't work, a lovely second in command named Bernard is going to be very disappointed when he's stood up. And seriously, of all the places...

[Another sigh as he looks around him again. No way had he wanted to come back to Earth yet. It had been a couple of months but all that guilt he carried still felt as if he'd only acquired it yesterday. He wasn't ready to be here on Earth again. At least it seemed Earth-like...]

Well isn't this nifty? And convenient... [He spots the device and eyes it for a few accessing moments before picking it up. It's rare that Jack shies away from alien technology so he he instantly begins to fiddle with it. The video comes on to a brightly smiling Jack.] Ah, there we go. Captain Jack Harkness here. [And since he knows his smile is impressive, he nods his agreement with what others obviously must be thinking at the sight of it.] I know.

Seems I'm a little bit off course from where I intended to materialize. Malfunctioning Vortex Manipulator. Anyone care to put me up for the night while I work on repairing it? [A glance to his left at the coffee shop and then an arched brow back into the video screen.] I'll be sure to con you a cup of coffee for your trouble.

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[See the blonde girl not wearing a Union Jack that's running toward you full speed? Yeah she's not slowing down so brace yourself.

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[For as distracted as he is at the moment, new place and all, he does see the blonde running at him full speed. And the closer she gets, the wider his eyes get.] Rose?!?

[By the time she gets to him, his arms are open with a broad smile on his lips. He's practlically rippling with excitement, not only at seeing Rose, but at the possibility that the Doctor might be here too. He lifts her up off her feet in a tight hug and twirls her around.] Rose Tyler if you you aren't a sight for sore eyes, I don't know what is.

[She giggles, burying her face in his shoulder as he twirls her around. Once he's set her back down, she pulls back a bit, hands still on his shoulders.]

Ought to be sayin' that 'bout you. Captain Jack, it's good to see you again.

It's always good to see me, isn't it? [And she doesn't get away that easy. He puts a hand to either side of her cheek and pulls her in for a nice little kiss on the lips. It doesn't last long, just a hello kiss, maybe a second longer than a hello kiss should be.]

Let me guess, world's in great peril and you're here saving it. And now you have just the man here to help you do it. [He's talking about himself mostly, but that doesn't stop him from looking around for a blue police box.]

[She expects as much from Jack. Really it's quite nice. It's confirmation that it's 100%, totally, him.]

Yeah, it's always good to see you. [She tilts her head a bit.] World doesn't need savin' so much, but it's usually in some sorta peril.

[And that settles it. He doesn't remember anything about being here before. She sees him looking around and sort of guesses what he's looking for.]

This is The City, sorta stuck here for the mo' but the Doctor is here. Three of him actually, both the ones you and me know and the one after them.

Two Doctors in the same place? [And then he feels the need to clarify that because he's actually seen two Ten's in the same place before. Both he and Rose have.] Three Doctor's in the same place, three incarnations of... wow, he's getting around, isn't he. You know it's bad when I'm the one who's impressed with the getting around.

So explain this City to me. If even the Doctor can't get out then there's no hope for the rest of us to. [He gets that. But saying it out loud makes it more real to him. If something's holding the Doctor in? It has to be pretty powerful.]

[His clarification gets a grin out of her. She takes his hand and starts to lead him inside the coffee shop. They might as well have coffee or tea while she explains. She starts when their in line.]

Sorta...one way sealed pocket dimension? Y'know how in most dimensions, you find a crack. You shove somethin' through that crack to the other side and...every time you do that, the crack gets bigger 'til the dimension collapses in on itself? This one doesn't work that way. The crack isn't there or...they're gettin' us in and out some other way, which makes more sense to me then anything else. [She'd spent a very long time studying dimensions, cracks and how to rip through them. She knows this place doesn't play by the normal rules.] TARDIS is here, but she's a woman, 'stead of the box. Definitely still the TARDIS though, she just can't go anywhere. Doctor said she couldn't really go anywhere when she was here as a box though. She could fly 'round but no gettin' out of here.

[She stops in the middle of this explanation to order a coconut latte and let Jack order. She'll pay for it since he's a bit moneyless right now.]

[Jack nods as he listens, his hands in his pants pockets. Honestly, it sounds like the rift to him. But he isn't avsolutely sure about that theory either. Jack orders a black coffee, simple and to the point.

It's her description of the TARDIS that gets and holds his attention. He arches a brow and gets that grin that he sometimes gets when his mind is in places it probably shouldn't be.] The TARDIS is a woman, huh? She pretty? Course she's pretty. She's the TARDIS.

[It is a bit like the rift but Rose doesn't know much about the rift other than the Doctor uses it to charge up the TARDIS. Once they get their coffee, Rose sort of nods toward a table where they can sit down. She grins at Jack's question and nods.]

Bit odd but she's beautiful.

[He follows her to a table, waits for her to sit down and then he takes a seat too.]

Can't wait to meet her. And by the way, how did the TARDIS become a woman? This one of those curses I'm hearing about?

Don't know, somethin' the Doctor after ours did. Never did get a real explanation for it 'cause my Doctor doesn't know. Curses do that though. Me and the Doctor were little kids for one weekend. Then I was tiny and he was normal.

Rose Tyler as a little kid... [Yep, she was an adorable kid. He'd gone back in time to watch her grow up a few times. Jack winks at her over his cup of coffee before he takes a sip.] Bet that was a sight to see. Bet you were all pigtails and pink.

[Someday, Jack needs to let Rose know that. She'd be delighted and somehow feel safer despite the fact that it's already in her past. She's figured out that the Doctor came to see her before he met her when he regenerated and that he was responsible for the red bicycle on Christmas morning. She loves those things and it makes her adore her boys even more. Honestly, there's no way she's ever going to want to leave the City.]

'Course. Couldn't be anything else. I sat on the Doctor's shoulders and got finger paint in his hair. Blue.

[Neither one of the Doctors have any power whatsoever against tiny!Rose. It's not as if their willpower with her is real strong anyway.]

[Jack can't help grinning at the image of Rose paints of herself as a child and the Doctor.] You know that that doesn't sound much like a curse to me. There's gotta be a better word for it. Spell, maybe? Sounds like magic to me.

[Rose ducks her head around a grin a bit and nods.]

That one was lotsa fun. Some of 'em aren't. The other day I was trapped in a bubble sorta thing. I couldn't touch anyone. It was horrible. No hugs, no holding hands.

Now that one, that one sounds like a curse. [Everyone knows that Jack is big on the touching. Personal space means nothing to him.]

So these curses, they affect everyone? Any way to get out of them?

[She agrees with an enthusiastic nod of her head. Rose never really had a very big bubble of personal space, but the Doctor with the hair, and her time here with him has made her personal space bubble practically nonexistent.]

It was awful. Everyone thought I was bein' ridiculous 'cept the Doctor with the hair. Sorta the Doctor with the jacket. He got it. Just tried to cheer me out of it, y'know?

[She contemplates that and shakes her head.] Seems sorta random. Doctor didn't have a bubble of space that day. Neither did Jenny or Donna but Amy did. 'Far as I know, there's no way to keep 'em from happenin'. I try sometimes, when it's been a coupla days without a curse, I'll stick extra close to the Doctor, thinkin' that maybe it'll keep the bad ones from us. Doesn't always work.

Randomly affected. Some people get it some don't with no logical selection process to it. Hmmm...

[His look turns thoughtful. He doesn't like the sound of curses at all. In fact, it worries him a lot, that he might get affected by one without his consent. But then he guesses being brought here and kept here wasn't with his consent either. Neither was his being here before without his knowing it.

He purses his lips together, shakes his head and takes a sip of his coffee again.] I get it. I'm a very tactile person, you know. Even when I've been imprisoned or anything like that, I found a way to make a connection somewhere and somehow. If I'd been unable to touch anyone, my imprisonments would have been less happy experiences.

[The City isn't big on consent here. She nods and sips at her tea then reaches out and puts her hand on Jack's arm.]

'Least most of the time, that isn't a problem.

Being imprisoned or not touching? [He places his hand over hers and smiles. Cause he knows which one she means, just trying to make a joke.]

One of 'em is a constant. [She smiles back at him and nods.]

The imprisonment part isn't so bad though. I've got both my Doctors and you here. Lookin' brilliant right now.

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