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[sets down various weapons as stolen from Minato's under-the-bed armory. It is worth noting that he's chosen to relax at the bar, and that there is an opened bottle of whisky on the counter]

House fire in Kingston upon Hull, six-year-old boy dead. It's considered an accident.

Ethics in altering the past you know as a fact while back in time: discuss.

[drinks from his glass of whisky]

Or don't.

[and another drink!]

A word, Guv.

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It could save lives.

It's a very alcoholic year, 1973. Particularly when you work with Manchester's finest.

...yeah, but you still shouldn't do it.

Sounds exciting.

But if I can make a difference, how am I supposed to just stand by?

Oh, yeah. Helping your coworkers to not get sick on their clothes, helping them home when they keep shouting, "Get off me, I'm not a faerie!" and of course, those wonderful post-binge hangovers that put them in such fantastic moods for the next day, I don't think.

It's hard, but you still have to do it.

Sounds like my friends and I on the weekend.

Or the Reapers will come and attack the growth? --Doctor suggested that one. And then sort of jumped topics.

Mine, too, when we were nineteen. Not some twenty years later.

Er, yeah. I've seen it happen. It was my fault.

Oh, well, yeah, there is that.

Not a good experience?

Bunch of grown men... [sighs] Sorry, it's just, sometimes, I wish they could be a bit more... professional. But I'm done now.

Er, no. Involved my dad. [Obligatory emo moment]

Nah, that's good wish.

[a pause] I'm sorry, Rose. It's not... [words are inadequate] Not fair.

It's not, no. But it's best to leave things as they were, I think. Otherwise you have a whole new mess to fix, and that usually just ends up with more sadness.

Yeah. Yeah, I guess it does.

It's up to you in the end, though.

Mm, it's...

--Have you ever spoken to yourself? Your younger self? I half expected the Blinovitch Limitation Effect to kick in when I did.

Not really spoken, no....but I did hold myself as a baby.

How'd that work out?

Er, I sorta may have....accidentally weakened the time stream even more, and the Doctor, he, um....well...

It all turned out all right in the end.

'In the end' being the key part of this, I'd guess.

It probably is, yeah.

Was that the, the time with your father?

When I held myself? Yeah.

When... when I met my dad, I tried to change things. I tried to make him stay. But I... I couldn't change things. Couldn't change anything. And that...

I wouldn't blame you a bit for what happened with your father.

No? I do, but only because I knew I shouldn't have saved his life.

You couldn't have not.

Yeah, I guess not. Still, though. Almost ended the whole world.

The world made it out okay in the end.