He smiled and nodded his head, definitely not the Rose he knew. That was clear now, he just wished it had been clearer earlier. "I know. But you came back and it was brilliant. You were brilliant. You got away and you came to help, to warn us. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be here! Oooh, you don't even know how wonderful you were, you missed out on it and I'm sorry."

And that was really all he could offer. Because she deserved to of experience it. Rubbing at his eyes, he wondered if he could escape the blame from the Doctor, he may have done these things in his head but not personally. It was like having all the bad parts of being the Doctor and sorely lacking the good parts.

"But I'm not him. I don't have a TARDIS and one heart. See, one. I'm a metacrisis, half him and half of another companion, her name was Donna. Remember Donna? Probably not. Wrong time line, yeah? You never met me either. Timey-wimey gets very annoying sometimes."

She didn't know how he came to be, she didn't know that the Doctor asked her to watch him and she didn't even know that she'd named him John. Smiling sadly, he couldn't do much else but try and explain. Thats all he could offer.

"I'm sorry. I really am, I wish I was him for so many reasons but I can't really make anything right any more. Not exactly as brilliant but I'm still kind of brilliant."