There was only so long Rose could manage a hide-n-seek game with a girl whose parents weren't coming. Anxiously, she bit her lip. The little girl was adorable, with pigtails and light brown hair. The sort of child Rose herself wanted someday. Imagine raising a child on the TARDIS. The Doctor would flip!
"Let's look around," Rose said quietly. "Maybe we can find them." Oh, Rose Tyler, you were going to hell for lying to a six year-old. A white lie, certainly, one of those fiblets told to make a child happy. But it was a lie, giving the girl false hopes. "Never know what you'll find here," she amended. "You could even be dreaming! This is, after all, a magical sort of place, like the kind in your dreams."
Was that really the best she could do? Well...yes, actually.