"Three weeks, love. I give him three weeks," Jackie pulled her over-jacket from around around her shoulders and tossed it on the stuffed chair in front of the window overlooking the courtyard of the hostel the finally found.
"Wha?" Rose asked a bit dazed and distracted in her rummage in of the hostel freebie basket. It wasn't the ideal location to spend the night, but it was a good stopping place until they could arrange transport to a major city.
"Just remember that I'm predicting three weeks, you'll understand when it happens," Jackie retied the pony tail on her head.
"Three weeks til what?" Rose whispered back. She knew this conversation was about the Doctor in blue who had just stepped down the hall to use the loo. Which was an oddment to her. The 'declaring he had to use the loo', was typically Doctor-speak for having a look around and not actually using said facility. It's not that he didn't ever use the loo, he just didn't go around advertising the fact unless he was actually having a look around. But she had watched him walk down the hall and open said loo door and enter said facility, so she had to give credence to his declaration that he was going to indeed use the loo.
"Mum, if this conversation is going where I think you are takin' it, I'm not going to participate," Rose was ready to stand her ground.
"Jus' sayin', love," Jackie ignored her protest, "took Pete and I three weeks to …. Well ya know."
"Mum, I told you we weren't like that," Rose protested weakly.
"Weren't like that...not for much longer, love," Jackie tisked back. "Way as I figure it, both of them feel the same, and if there is one thing I've learned about that Doctor, he's the jealous type. You couldn't keep them both, love.."
Rose recognized the language and the intent of the title, three years traveling to and from Brazil helped. The annotation in the English based tradespeak of the 42th century would help through the harder parts. Jack's notes in the margins..priceless.. as she removed thin booklet from her jacket pocket.
Sedução do Gallifraês: Uma tretise acedemic sobre as interações entre espécies cruzadas entre os seres humanos e Tempo Lords, por Professor Bernice Summerfield, Universidade Santo Oscar, março 2603. (Updated en gean foar de moderne leeftyd troch Dokter River Song, Luna University 4157)