<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c3/Ninth-doc.jpg)   </div>A comment about his ears caused the Doctor to frown, he placed his fingers around them for a moment whilst he looked genuinely hurt. Rose came up behind him and asked who the strangers were. The Doctor turned abruptly round to face her, so his full attention was on her.<br/><br/>"You know how a leopard can't change its spots?.. Well a time Lord can. Only it's not just spots..." He turned his head to look over at his other selves. He smiled at his second, fourth, and sixth incarnations as though they were old friends. "Sometimes it's a stripy scarf, or a colourful coat, or a... bow tie?" He raised his eyebrows momentarily at one of his future incarnations as if to say<em>You must be joking?</em><br/><br/>He turned back to Rose again. His tone was gentle and he placed his hands on her both her upper arms. "All these men are me. Different face, different clothes, different personality, but still all me. The thing is were not supposed to be here together like this. Whoever has pulled us all here is breaking every rule my people ever wrote."