They had emerged from the underground facility and were sitting in the sun, one on either side of Rose, trying to piece together what had happened without her having to tell them too much of what would happen in the future.

"You mean," Ianto asked, "that Rose can't tell us what's going on, because for us it won't 'go on' for twenty years?"

"Yeah." Jack and Rose both smiled at him, evidently she'd inherited his flexible attitude to time

"This is so confusing." He buried his head in his hands and groaned

"Imagine if she's told us you were dead…" Jack swallowed hard as the usual fear gripped him, he noticed that Rose stayed carefully silent and prayed that it meant she was just being careful, not any of the other possible explanations, "She could tell me where and when and how, but I'd try to stop it, I'd do anything to stop it. Or even if I didn't know the details, I might get so over protective that you divorce me after a week and we never have kids at all." He wanted to take Ianto's hand, he wanted to hold him and never let go, but with Rose between them he couldn't. She seemed to realise this and shifted uncomfortably.

Ianto broke the discomfort by sighing deeply and dropping his head again, "Oh I know why, doesn't stop it giving me a headache though. Are you as good with tenses as he is?" he asked the now grinning girl

"Better." Rose nudged the affronted captain, "Because I actually paid attention in English Language."

"Definitely his daughter then…" Jack laughed.

"So what's the edited version?" Ianto asked, wrapping an arm around her shoulders as she started crying again, "What's up?"

"It's like…" she leaned into him and sniffed as he rubbed her back gently, "God, I haven't done this in years." She laughed through tears, "You're not my dads. You're like them, but you're not them yet, it's really strange. Wibbly-wibbly…" she paused for a moment as if expecting a response, and her face fell when there wasn't one, "Timey-wimey indeed. Anyway, this morning you sent me to go down there to look at the files. Said there might be something you'd missed. It was the first time you let me out on my own, so when I found you down there…"

"You thought we were checking up on you." Jack smiled, "If it had been, it would have been his idea."

"Saying nothing." She smirked, "But I couldn't find anything, just pigeons. Turned to leave, went a bit down the corridor, heard you, came back, yelled at you."

"So somewhere after we entered the room you must have entered our timeline." Jack groaned, "Let's get back to the Hub and check for rift activity."

"Good thinking, can I drive?" She asked cheekily.

"Not a chance." Jack winked at her

"No change there then." She muttered