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Why is that?

I think your wish is highly overrated.

I'm realizing I missed a lot of signs over the past six years.

I know. I'd probably go back in time and realize things happened for a reason. But it's the not knowing that's making me wonder.

That's how things tend to happen, there's always a reason for them. And, would knowing make things any easier on you?

It might. On the small off chance I really did mess things up, it'd be nice to see that I could've changed for the better.

[He held a hand up in the air and waggled a finger in the air. ] There's rules about meddling with the past, and there's even bigger rules about meddling with your own past.

Not like it's possible anyway. (She chuckled, shaking her head.) It's just knowing if I'd had any courage and asked my fiancee out when I wanted to, we'd probably have been together a long time by now. Maybe even have started a family. It's all that time lost that I miss.

[The Doctor dropped his arm back to his side, and he did nothing more but gave her a smile when she brought up impossibility of time travel.] Aaaaah, it's all about love and domestics. It could of gone the other way, what if you were unhappy with one another?

It's sappy but I don't think that would happen. Doug and I have always just meshed together. There's hardly been a day in the past six years we haven't somehow been in contact. (She's blushing a little as she continues.) And now that we're getting married it makes me super conscious of just how special of a guy I have in my life.

[The Doctor should have kept his mouth shut, at least that was his train of thought at the moment. With a crinkled brow, he pondered how to just play nice. He was always a bit rubbish when it came to domestic things. He still understands how friendship works, and the rules should be all the same.] You still ended up falling in love, just cause all of that domestic nonsense came later, doesn't make it any less important, cause you decided to wait.

Yeah, true. Just - I had a crush on him when I first started working here - and I convinced myself he'd never share those feelings. I know now he did. So I feel like a fool for not having the self worth to speak up.

You still have a future to share with one another, so take that for all it's worth, and enjoy it.

Sometimes it is best to let go of regrets. What's been done has been done, focus now on what can be done.

I will. He's really just the most perfect guy I could've ever asked for.

I'm trying. Just wondering how many other memories we could've made.

Well you have time now, make all the ones you can.

That's the plan. I'm gonna grow old with this guy.

I know a guy who has one . . .

Those things aren't real.

And neither are aliens, right?

Not that I know of, though I think it'd be pretty weird to have a big giant universe and just us in it.

So you do have half a brain. Now come here, would you? Feel this.

Uh, what?

[The Doctor smiled, while he was rubbish about relationships, it's these tiny little things that remind him about why he fell in love with humanity.] I'm sure he's saying the same about you... I don't believe, I got your name.

Oh, I'm Kellie. Hi.

My hearts.

...Plural?

I'm an alien, why else would I have a friend with a timeship?

Uh. I really don't know what to say here.

A pleasure, Kellie. Name's John Smith, I know it's an ordinary name for a bloke.

No? Why not?

Nothing wrong with that. My roommate's Jack Parker. That's pretty average too.

I was not aware that aliens existed.

Well, now you are.

Course there isn't, nothing wrong with having a normal name that doesn't stand out. [He laughed. ] It makes it easier to hide, knowing there's going to be a room full of Johns.

Heh. I suppose it does.