It's not every day the universe just hands you opportunities like this.

[allons_y_alonso]

I have two important questions. Absolutely vital. Critical. Urgent, even, really.

Donna. Do you have any idea who just arrived in town?

Second, and absolutely every bit as essential:

Rose Tyler. May I have this dance?

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[chronosexual]

But you two and Jenny are the last of your people. That's gotta count for something, right?

[allons_y_alonso]

I was the last once. In a worst case scenario, the Time Lords are still one-up now from what we were.

[chronosexual]

Well, except for the whole 'repopulating' part.

Which begs the question, would you let him? I mean, if Jenny's the last...

[allons_y_alonso]

Jack, do I pry into matters relating to your personal repr...

Well, all right, I do.

Time Lord reproduction is... complicated. But regardless, there are more relevant questions.

Are we, as a species, really worth continuing? Our time has passed.

Besides. There was just one. Now there are three. Who's to say, scattered across all space and time, there aren't a few more? I can think of at least two names I never saw on any roster during the Time War. Conspicuous names, if you're a Time Lord. Good ones, too. If either of them...

Well. There's still plenty of time to sort all that out. Suffice to say, it doesn't enter into the question right now.

[chronosexual]

Your time as has passed? Come on, you can't really mean that. No one wants to see an entire species of anything go extinct. And especially not you. I know you better than that, Doctor.

[allons_y_alonso]

Oh, Jack.

It's less a matter of wanting it to happen, and more a matter of having seen the alternatives. The Time Agency may have heard about the Time War, but you didn't see it. Not the way I did.

[chronosexual]

It was mostly something we learned about in books. Sounded awful...

But don't you dare for a second think that the universe is better off without you lot. Especially not you.

[allons_y_alonso]

Jack. You ought to know. It's not... something that I like to talk about. Or that I do talk about, at all. But it's relevant here. The end of the War...

[chronosexual]

It doesn't have to end that way. Not if it means losing people like you.

[allons_y_alonso]

[Locked to Jack//High security designed to give Donna a migraine if she tries to crack it]

'People like me' are why it ended, Jack.

The Time Lords... reached back in time, and implanted the Master's madness in him. They made him suffer so he could become their weapon in an hour of need. All of his crimes... they go back to that root. Nothing absolves him of his guilt... but all of it is shared. His instability now came because he finally discovered the truth. If I hadn't chosen to hide it from him...

...and that's far from the worst of it.

My people, the guardians of Time since the universe was young, decided that in order to win their war they had to betray that sacred trust, to warp and destroy time itself and ride out Armageddon as creatures of pure consciousness. Never mind that all reality, all history, would simply cease to be. They would win. That's what mattered to them.


And I... I couldn't let that come to pass.

The end of the Time War, the sealing of Gallifrey outside the universe, and the extinction of my people... my doing, Jack. All mine.

When I say that our time is past, Jack, I don't mean it as a regret. It's a blessing.

[chronosexual]

[Still locked]

But with you guys as the last of them, who's to say that you can't change it all? Start over! You know that time can be rewritten more than anyone. And if anyone can rewrite it and make it better, it's you.

You've done that.

Time, and time, and time again.

[allons_y_alonso]

Maybe. But who am I, really, to make a decision like that, Jack? What makes it so that I have the right to re-order the universe at my whim?


The last time I tried...

[chronosexual]

And that's where Jenny, I think, could really help you...

She's sweet and pure. And genuine. And I think that you could teach her to be just as well.

[allons_y_alonso]

Jenny. She is... everything a Time Lady ought to be. Better than I ever was, without my meddling, Jack. And the only one unstained by the War.

If there is to be a Renaissance, Jack, it ought to come from her. It's not a matter for old men to muck about in.

[chronosexual]

Then there is hope. You've just said so. See? It doesn't have to end like this.

[allons_y_alonso]

Either way, it's not my choice.

I'm glad that you trust me, Jack, but there are still many things I shouldn't have entrusted to me.

[chronosexual]

I trust you more than anyone else I've ever met.

Even if at times I feel like I shouldn't... well, that's not the point.

The point is that I'm not the only one relying on you, here. That's a lot for someone to carry.

And you don't have to carry it alone.

[allons_y_alonso]

Well, that's a relief to hear, at least.

Thank you, Jack.

[chronosexual]

Anything for you, Doctor. It's my honour.