"And I expect that Jackie's managed to gather herself another motley assortment of friends, hasn't she?" he said with a cheeky grin, before frowning suddenly. "Hang on, that was me being rude again, wasn't it."

He was deliberately steering clear of the matter of the other him, the metacrisis. Partly because he was worried that things hadn't worked out... and partly because he was scared that they had. It was another thing he knew he'd have to bring up at some point, but he couldn't quite bring himself to yet.