"He's never let me down. He's not always right about the time. He'll say, 'Oh I'll be back in a few seconds,' and then he isn't for hours. Like I said, he messed up the hours for months once. And one time when he thought I was dead, he left me with this creepy tentacle alien, and I had to work as a box-girl for eight days," Grrr Grrrrrrrrr.

"But he always comes eventually."

A soft smile. "So I'll just enjoy myself and get into as much as trouble as I can handle, so that he has to deal with the massive headache of it whenever he shows up late, yeah?"

She knows it's kind of unfair, that Rose gets to wait for the most important person to her, when others can't be sure of the same, but -- "And then he always sets the whole world right. Don't worry."