[Whatever she was going to say gets cut off as Rose snaps out of it, like coming out of a trance, shakes her head, and beams all sunny and brightly.]
Look at me goin' on!
[Inwardly she's wincing. It's been a good year of traveling between the universes, where simultaneously everything she said, and nothing she said might stick. It's deeply affected the way she talked to people, and she's only just now realizing that with a kind of personal horror.]
It's not like I'm tryin' ta come back just for him!
[Her eyes get a little flinty and serious. Because as embarrassing as it was to even be so hung up on an alien man, she truly wasn't willing to risk the lives of untold googles on anyone's idea of a fairy tale romance, which was plenty impossible and disastrous, she'd add; since he still had his "curse of the timelords" in which he'd outlive her but was also a thousand years older.]
It's for me. And maybe I won't give up if I find the solution before I get back to him, but it's not like I'm going to stay in a room pining forever if I fail. [She kind of... pouts at that. She means it... but she might also do it out of sheer stubbornness and a refusal to join in on less of a life than what she'd already experienced as the absolute best existence had to offer her. And what good was settling? She'd never be able to in good conscience date anyone else who would have to always compare themselves to the Doctor. Still, it does remind her a lot of the arguments with her Mum, about growing old, not being able to keep up physically, never settling down. Hah. Didn't matter. Rose didn't want to settle down yet even without the Doctor, so if that changed, then she'd deal with it then, but not until. Right? Right!]
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Look at me goin' on!
[Inwardly she's wincing. It's been a good year of traveling between the universes, where simultaneously everything she said, and nothing she said might stick. It's deeply affected the way she talked to people, and she's only just now realizing that with a kind of personal horror.]
It's not like I'm tryin' ta come back just for him!
[Her eyes get a little flinty and serious. Because as embarrassing as it was to even be so hung up on an alien man, she truly wasn't willing to risk the lives of untold googles on anyone's idea of a fairy tale romance, which was plenty impossible and disastrous, she'd add; since he still had his "curse of the timelords" in which he'd outlive her but was also a thousand years older.]
It's for me. And maybe I won't give up if I find the solution before I get back to him, but it's not like I'm going to stay in a room pining forever if I fail. [She kind of... pouts at that. She means it... but she might also do it out of sheer stubbornness and a refusal to join in on less of a life than what she'd already experienced as the absolute best existence had to offer her. And what good was settling? She'd never be able to in good conscience date anyone else who would have to always compare themselves to the Doctor. Still, it does remind her a lot of the arguments with her Mum, about growing old, not being able to keep up physically, never settling down. Hah. Didn't matter. Rose didn't want to settle down yet even without the Doctor, so if that changed, then she'd deal with it then, but not until. Right? Right!]