Video [001]

[shoesncandles]

[At first it's audio only, a slightly groggy voice]

Lucie...? Lucie, are you out there? Can you hear me? I've been rather conveniently provided with this... starfish thing... I can only assume you have too...

Lucie? Come on... It's me--it's the Doctor, I--

Wait a minute... agh, I'm soaked...
[Some fumbling with the device, and an image appears:

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[video]

[bringslife]

.....Did you say you're the Doctor?

[video]

[shoesncandles]

[cue grin, here]

That's right! You've heard of me, then?

From whom, may I ask?
Girl about your age, perhaps? Northern accent, lots of attitude...?

[video]

[bringslife]

You're the Doctor, Time Lord Doctor? But that's impossible, you're-- I was just talking to you, just earlier. Even if you regenerated, you can't have forgotten me.

[forgetting to consider the backwards possibility]

[video]

[shoesncandles]

I'm afraid it is. I am the Doctor... and I don't remember you, no--
[half a second to realize that's probably an upsetting idea]
b-but that doesn't mean I've forgotten! Not necessarily. If you knew another me, for instance? Or some kind of paradox, perhaps, or--well, what's the last thing you remember? Of me--what did I say, what was I doing?

[a few more seconds to get past the puzzle and process everything she's said]

Wait, what do you mean Time Lord Doctor? What do you know about the Time Lords? Are they behind this?

[video]

[bringslife]

The Time Lords can't have done anything, you told me yourself, you're the last--

[stop. okay, dawning revelation.]

...You haven't even met me yet.

But I was just in the TARDIS, how could you have-- can Time Lords-- regress?

[video]

[shoesncandles]

They can do a lot. And I may be the last person who'd get involved in it, but they don't really give me a choice.

Regress? What--regenerate in reverse? No, we can't... We can, however, exist in multiples simultaneously in a single place in time without being actually paradoxical. Just so long as each one of us is a separate incarnation. It's confusing, but it happens--happens entirely too much, in my case.

I'm the eighth of me. The me you're familiar with ...has the TARDIS? [noticeably excited; it's the first good news he's had so far] You're sure? I've--we've--got her here?

[video]

[bringslife]

[lips twitch at his excitement despite her utter confusion] The TARDIS is here, yeah, but the Cloister Bell won't stop ringing, and the Doctor-- er, you-- said she hasn't been able to go anywhere since showing up here.

So-- there'll be two of you here, now, then?

[and she's so, so curious to see what he was like in the past. warning. :| ]

[video]

[shoesncandles]

[bit of a damper on the excitement, there; he actually looks worried for a moment]

Oh... Well, that's never good. Any activity in the Cloister Room usually spells disaster...

It seems so. Oh! I'd forgotten to ask: what's your name?

[video]

[bringslife]

I'm Rose Tyler.