[As if you're not already confused enough, have this old girl smiling and babbling at you at a whirlwind rate.]

Different, oh yes, very different, though of course it's all relative-- that aside, I did wonder if... well, I did wonder. And now I know, and here you are, and I'm afraid I can't quite tell if he's listening but I certainly am, and oh! I wonder if I will come to get you now. Should I come to get you?

[That definitely adds to the confusion. Particularly because she speaks like she is familiar with Rose on some level. She follows the whirlwind rate fairly well. The Doctor always did speak quickly, jumping from point to point.]

You know the Doctor? Where are you going to take me to?

Oh, of course, better than anyone. As to where, I can't say I know yet, though it won't be very far-- someone else was meant to tell you this later, but I'll save them the trouble, I suppose. You are in a pocket dimension known as the City, and you won't be leaving here for some time now. I've not explained it quite so well as the other might've, but you'll understand in time. You always were a clever girl, the smiley one.

[She stops, brain whirling frantically. It's not her explanation that puzzles her. Rose understands pocket dimensions in as much as a human ever really can. Not how they work, or how they're created but that they can and do exist. What has her stunned, is that this woman knows her and that she knows the Doctor.]

Someone else? Have we met? [Well if she knows the Doctor, this woman could be from her future.] Do I meet you later?

Perhaps. [She smiles mysteriously.] But it's the past, not the future, that you really mean to ask about. We have met, Rose Tyler. Only last time, I suppose I looked a little less... [She pauses.]

Human.

[Brain is tick, ticking away. Someone who knows the Doctor better than anyone. Someone who talks like him. Someone that knows about dimensions and wasn't human the last time she met her. Someone that's a her. But that's not possible, is it?]

Are you--no. It can't be, right?

[That elicits a delighted grin.] Clever girl with the smiles indeed, I knew you would get it! I'm the-- oh, do forgive me if I can't ever remember the word, I'm called so many things these days. But you know, don't you. I'm... his.

We would meet again, wouldn't we... yes, that all lines up nicely. [And now she waves in greeting-- a bit belated.] Hello.

Doctor Who? There's a whole hospital full of 'em.

He's not that sort of Doctor.

He's probably not here. Lots of people come and go.

[That is disappointment in her voice by the way]

Right. S'pose I'll be goin' soon enough.

Well, you don't get to choose.

How's that work?

.............Rose?

[She starts fiddling with the device when the open audio line comes up, thinking she's done something to it and then the video comes on and it's him]

Doctor?

[It's said with that mixture of awe and disbelief that she often has when talking about him. There's also a tremor of hope. This hasn't worked out the way it was supposed to but if he's here then maybe they'll fix it.]

[She's here for the third time, for the first time. Being the other time traveller is difficult. This time he bypasses the 'but how's and just asks:]

When did you get here?

A few min-[She stops because clearly that's not what he's asking.]

The stars are going out. I helped them cannibalize the TARDIS so I could find you but you won't stay still or M'really bad at just missin' you. Donna...I sent Donna back to turn left. There are Dalaks gatherin' people up.

[That answers his 'when' better than 'a few minutes ago']

[Ahh, he remembers that. He tries to make a sort of 'oh' face but nods a little and effectively undermines himself. Bit too recent to really make a good go at pretending.]

I've been a bit all over the place, yeah. Except recently - I've just been... Here. So-- you cannibalised the TARDIS?

Welcome to hell. [ Well, not quite. But almost. ]