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Who: Rose & Jack
Where: Outside the mansion
When: Shortly after Rose's arrival
Rating: PG/PG-13, maybe?
Summary: Jack goes to welcome Rose to the Mansion.
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Jack all but ran from his room down to the doors of the Mansion. Rose was here. He knew he shouldn't be so happy about that, especially since he still had no idea how to leave. He just couldn't help it though. After the Doctor had told him she was trapped on an Alternate Earth, Jack had thought he'd never see her again.

He pushed open the doors, before stepping outside and looking round for her.

"Rose?" He called, hoping she could hear him.

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Jack didn't look convinced by her sudden cheeriness, but he decided to let it slide for now. “Sure. I haven’t really been here long, but Martha’s already shown me round I shouldn’t be too bad a guide.”

“Alright,” Jack agreed, he stayed quiet until they were in the foyer, trying to decide where to start. “You remember I told you we had a Torchwood in Cardiff?”

Rose looked around the foyer as soon as they entered. It seemed a bit too homey. Strange place. Did anyone charge a fee to stay here? She’d have to ask later, right now there were more pressing matters to attend to. Like catching up.

"Yeah, right under our feet." She acknowledged, rocking on her heels to look back at him. Or rather their feet, though how could anyone run a Torchwood from underground? But of course Jack wasn’t just anyone. So it shouldn’t have surprised her as much, however it didn’t stop her from being curious. "Was your team involved?"

Jack looked surprised for a moment, before shaking his head. "No... I mean... well, no," he paused, trying to remember where he'd been going with his explanation.

"The Rift there.... that's the reason I decided to run that branch. I knew that if I waited there long enough, he'd come back to refuel his TARDIS. And he did... eventually," Jack glanced away before speaking again.

"He was already taking off when I managed to get to the TARDIS. The Rift had been active, so it didn't take long... I jumped onto the shell, and the TARDIS tried to shake me off. She was out of control, and we ended up at the end of the universe," he cut himself off there, looking back at Rose to see how well she was following.

She heard his explanation, finding it clever in a way. Very clever. It must’ve been some wait though. Her thoughts were soon interrupted as she caught his next bit of words and tried to imagine the whole situation, him clinging to the TARDIS as it ripped through the vortex.

"...At the end of the universe?" Her expression was both a mix of surprise and wonder. There was such a place? And she hadn’t seen it yet. "Really? He must’ve been surprised to see you."

"The end of the universe..." Jack confirmed. "It shouldn't even be possible to get there."

Jack laughed a little, but it was empty and tinged with bitterness. "I think he was more upset than surprised to be honest."

Realizing they were still in the foyer, he wrapped an arm around her shoulder, and started walking again. "Do you want to continue this in the kitchen? We could sit down there, and get a drink."

"Lots of things shouldn’t be possible." She stated as a matter of fact, though just because they shouldn’t be didn’t mean that it didn’t happen. Still the end of the universe, it must’ve been some place. "Just like getting to parallel Earth." She said a bit sadly averting her gaze to the fireplace. The TARDIS and her way of getting to some places for whatever reasons was a mystery.

She picked up on his tone easily. Upset? Why would...unless he knew. Unless he had known even as they were leaving the game station. And he hadn’t even told her. He...So then was he mad at her for it? Did he hate Jack? She felt guilty all over again, "I’m sorry..."

She attempted to give him a small smile, "Sure that’d be lovely." And she started to follow, contemplating what to have. "They don’t charge here do they?"

Jack inwardly kicked himself as she said that. "I'm sorry, Rose..."

He shook his head as she apologized. "It wasn't your fault," he told her gently.

He laughed slightly at her question; he honestly hadn't even considered that before. "Not so far as I know."

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