"All I'm saying," says Emmie. "Is that with all the others, there was maybe a way you could explain it, but with you - she had to understand an entire television show."

"So? She's waking up, right? That's the whole thing. Every loop she's more awake. Maybe she can understand TV now!"

"Right - but that's not what I'm talking about."

"What are you talking about?"

"Why? Why like this? If she understood you, why this way?"

"What way? Emmie, seriously, you're not making any sense?"

"In all your time watching Dr. Who, writing fanfiction, going to conventions, imagining over and over what you would do if the TARDIS landed in your backyard - in all that time, did you ever once imagine yourself here, in the rain, waiting?" asks Emmie. "Or were you over there -



- doing that."