The Doctor's sonic screwdriver whirred madly, projecting the familiar blue glow onto the trees around them. He and Rose had trundled further and further away from the Tardis, and Rose was still fuming...

"I still don't see why we just can't go home!" she complained

The Doctor released his thumb, and the sonic switched off.

"Because we're on a new planet, and I'm interested. Alright?" he turned back to the tree he was scanning.

Rose sighed, and turned her back away from her Doctor. And for a moment, she thought she saw something...

She blinked, and it disappeared.

Rose sighed, then turned back the Doctor.

He had gone.

"Doctor?" She looked at the ground, and all that was left was his sonic. She picked it up, and held it close to her chest.

She coughed, and started wafting the air in front of her. It was getting foggy again. She zapped the air in vain, and surprisingly, it worked. She smiled...

"Who's there?" Rose yelped in surprise, and turned around slowly.

A few metres away, there was a man. He was kneeling down, with a machine gun in his hands, wearing a brown camouflage outfit.

"Who's that?" the man asked again.

"Err. My name's Rose. Rose Tyler."

"Well then, "Rose, Rose Tyler", how the Hell did you get onto this planet? It's been in lock-down for millions of years."

"Err. I came here with my friend-"

"What friend?"

"Err. He's gone..." Rose frowned. The man stood up, lowered his gun and walked slowly towards Rose.

"Well, I'm sorry. I'm very very sorry. But you'll never see him again..."

Rose gasped.

"...Unless you help us."

"So who else is here? I registered 9 basic humanoids, including the Doctor, and two companions. So that's... one other people on this planet, and you?" the immortal Captain asked the confusing Song.

They were marching down a metal, space-age corridor towards the main control room of the small hub that existed on the planet.

"Well, it's bit different from that..." River replied. "You'd best check your records again.."

Jack held his manipulator out, and pressed a few buttons.

"Two Weeping Angels. ...Make that four. They're multiplying."

"Yes. Keep going." River looked at Jack.

"A million million Vashta Nerada." Jack's eyes scanned his manipulator's read-outs. "Looks like someone hates the metric system." He joked.

"Don't we all..." River turned her head to Jack's manipulator.

"And... the Doctor's disappeared." Jack and River stopped.

River sighed. "One of the Angels must have taken him."

"Or a shadow could have eaten him." Jack replied.

"Well, I don't have any information about the Doctor regenerating from a Vashta Nerada attack."

"Information?" Jack asked.

"I have a book. All about the Doctor's life. All I know is that this Doctor is the Doctor in his ninth body. I never met the Doctor in his ninth body, so we have to avoid him..."

River walked the few steps to the end of the corridor, then turned back to Jack.

"...Hold on. Who did you say you were?"

"Captain Jack Harkness."

"Okay..."

River turned back to the door.

"I don't think I have anything in my book about you. I'll look.."

River placed her hand beside the door, on the door opening panel. The panel glowed a bright blue, and the door slid upwards into the ceiling.

"Welcome, Captain." River said, authoritatively. "Welcome to Operation SAS: Shadows and Statues!" then, with less authority. "Or Statues and Shadows. But I don't think that works as well. Do you?"

"Nope." Jack grinned for the first time since he had met River. And the two walked through the door into the control room.

Yeah, sorry guys. The chapters are a little short. I've got a load of stories all going at once, so it's a bit slow.

But as everyone says, R&R=Love.