It's all AU.

He had settled in. Slept at the hotel. Noted that day and night were distinctly odd here. Decided to stay in uniform, since he didn't want to be potentially dropped back home out of uniform and on duty, and was surprised to find duplicates in his closet. He mentally shrugged, cleaned up and changed, and went down to the dining room for breakfast.

"Jake, it's just a performance review, I'll be just fine!" Rhiannon laughed, rolling her eyes as she reached for the door to Jack's office. "Really! If things don't go so well, I can always call the Doctor for a lift off-world."

She turned, stepping through the doorway... and closed her eyes, tilting her head back to look up at the starry sky over her head. "This is going to turn into a psych review instead of a performance review, you know that? Really not how I planned to spend the next week in real-world time."

She looked back at the street, and gave the person there a smile. "Sorry. Just having an argument with fate, or whatever it is that dragged me back here." She waved a vague hand at the town around them. "It's been long enough that I was beginning to think I wouldn't come back at all."