It's all AU.

Rose flopped in a chair in a lobby and announced to no one in particular, "Bored Time Lords are a whole new level of strange."

Like she was talking about hyperactive toddlers. Well. Close enough.

The Doctor spied a familiar figure in black - as opposed to the less familiar ones around - and said, conversationally, "You're still here."

He was, frankly, grateful for someone here he actually felt he knew.

The Doctor didn't want to crowd Jamie, or make him uncomfortable. Really he didn't. He also was a still worried. He stayed away long enough to be fairly sure Jamie had slept the worst of regeneration sickness off, and went looking for him, not sure if he's find him in his own room or John's.