It's all AU.

Spike wandered out of the sewer and into the hotel basement. He'd finally found the sewer access on his second day, which had relieved him no end as it meant he could get about in daylight rather than being trapped in just one building.

He headed for the stairs, and then paused, listening. As a vampire, he had extra good hearing, but he wouldn't have needed it to hear whoever was coming down an intersecting corridor towards the one he was in. They weren't making any attempt to be quiet.

Spike struck up an indolent pose, leaning back against the wall with his arms folded, and waited. It'd been a couple of days since he'd drained Jack, and he was getting a little peckish.

Jack settled beside John at the bar, studying him out of the corner of his eye before saying casually, "You're late, you know. Buy me a drink."

The Doctor looked around as he stepped out of the TARDIS, a small frown of consternation on his face. Anne was going to slap him when she saw where he'd landed the TARDIS this time. Though it wasn't as if he'd planned to end up in men's loo. It was just where the old girl had landed.

He turned around to warn his companion of the issue, raising his eyebrows when he saw nothing but blank, tiled wall. At least he didn't have to worry about her stepping out into the loo. He'd like to know where his TARDIS had gotten off too, and who'd managed to deposit him in a twenty-first century men's loo instead of Torchwood's underground lair, though.

Shaking his head, he turned back, pulling open the door, and stepped out into a pub, looking around with interest. It looked like a nice British pub, maybe one in Cardiff if he was lucky. And not too far off from where his TARDIS had landed, in space and time. Though he'd still like to know how that had happened, him stepping out somewhere and possibly somewhen other than where his TARDIS had landed.

He stepped up to the bar, leaning against it, and watching the bartender. Not human, which meant his first hope was out the window. They didn't have robotic bartenders by the time he was aiming for.

"Excuse me," he asked the person next to him, "you wouldn't happen to have the date?"