He didn't have time for this. But something made him pause - more than the hand attached to the pretty blonde.
Pause long enough to grab a pointless magazine even when there was cleanup to be done and the whole world to save.
Pause long enough to pick up an envelope. "Rose Tyler."
Pause long enough to check out the new look. Not bad.
Pause long enough to forget the war, if only for a fraction of a second, because of that surprising hand pulling him in.
Pause because of a second chance meeting when the universe didn't deal in coincidence.
