Chapter Two: That's What She Said.

Rose Tyler woke up on the floor behind a receptionist desk in an office building at around six O'clock in the morning. She had no idea how she had gotten there. It had been a couple days after Christmas and she had been staying with her mom while the Doctor was off on some errand after just changing his face. Then in the middle of the night some guys in swat team gear along with some other kind of sarcastic guy had dragged her and her mother out of their house and then apparently she wound up here.

"Well if this is an office I'm probably not supposed to be here." Rose thought as she got up and her stomach rumbled. Rose reached over on the counter and grabbed some candy out of a dish that sat on the reception counter.

"Well this candy was nice of… Pam Beesley… Yes thank you Pam whoever you are." Rose said as she picked up the nameplate off the reception desk and looked at it. Rose was about to reach for another helping of jelly beans when she heard someone coming down the hall just behind the door to the left of the desk.

"Just another day at Dunder Mifflin. Its Monday so it's gonna be really long and hard. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!" The man's voice said in a distinctly American accent.

Rose panicked and saw a room at the other side of this office that looked like a kitchen. She ran for it and slammed the door shut just as a man with slicked back hair wearing a suit walked in followed by two guys holding expensive looking television cameras walked into the main section of the office. Rose hid in the kitchen next to the window and peaked through the closed blinds every few seconds to see what this man with the two camera guys following him was doing.

"Well… its six fifteen and Dwight's gonna be here any minute so it looks like its time for my morning sugar and cream." The Man said and began to head towards the kitchen.

"Oh crap." Rose said and panicked again. It would be really great if the Doctor could come in any minute and get her. Since she didn't already hear the groan of the TARDIS and the man was over half way to the kitchen where Rose was currently hiding.

"Yes the Loo! He can't go in there!" Rose said as she quietly ran over to the Women's bathroom which she thought was kind of odd to be placed in the same space as the kitchen.

Rose listened as the Man made various crude jokes and things that could be taken as grossly sexual and generally talked like he was getting ready to leave until the sound of the door opening interrupted again.

"Michael! Michael! They didn't… They didn't listen about my fire safety lecture!" Another voice that was not the greasy haired man said while panting like crazy.

"Dwight! It's too early for this…" The greased haired man who Rose inferred must be named Michael groaned. "Just like do that thing you did when you had to give that speech a couple years back. Add some flair to it."

"Alright!" The second voice who Rose inferred must be named Dwight and she also inferred based on his over the top tone might be slightly unstable, said. "I shall make them all remember the day they chose to ignore proper fire safety procedure!"

"Whatever Dwight… Just don't do anything… Weird…" Michael said and walked out of the Kitchen.

Dwight then proceeded to walk out the door on the opposite side of the kitchen from the one both men had entered. He put three wooden doorstops under the door and then proceeded to walk down the hallway to take care of other things that would most likely obstruct any attempt to get out in the event of a fire.

As Dwight did whatever it is he was doing Rose began to think he was more and more unstable. She could also hear more people coming into the main office which she had been in just minutes before.

"Well looks like I'm in this till they go home or something." Rose sighed and walked over to one of the bathroom stalls closed the door and sat on the back of the toilet with her legs on the main seat hoping that no one who came in would notice her.

Rose's wait for people to leave however would be shorter than she had expected. About half an hour later she heard a feminine voice from very far away yell "Oh My God Fire!" and then the sound of people shuffling around to try to get out was heard followed by the voice that belonged to the man she inferred was Michael yell "Everybody stay calm… just stay calm… EVERYBODY STAY FUCKING CALM!" with no one really responding.

About ten seconds later after the employees of Dunder Mifflin had figured out all the doors were warm or locked the real sounds of chaos and screaming started with the voice of the man known as "Dwight", calmly shouting out instructions about fire safety over everyone's panicking.

Rose knew she had no chance of waiting it out till everyone left for the day anymore. The local police and fire department would most likely be here any minute. She would have to sneak out, but how. Rose looked up and the ceiling and noticed the usual lower roof you would expect inside an office building. She figured that she could probably sneak through the ceiling and get out that way. Rose lifted a tile up and hauled herself up through the opening. She began to crawl through the ceiling climbing over wires and ventilation pipes until she got to what she estimated must be half way through the main office. Rose was about to lift another tile and look down to get her bearings when the tile just in front of her lifted up and a Hispanic man in a lavender shirt climbed up through the hole he had made.

"Oscar lift me up there take me with you!" A feminine voice yelled up at the man.

"You're too heavy! You stay here I'll go get help!" The man who Rose inferred to be Oscar yelled before turning around and climbing off into the dark twisted mess of the ceiling. After Oscar had moved on Rose, climbed over and was passing next to the hole in the ceiling Oscar had made when the Female voice yelled "Here take sprinkles!", and Rose was blindsided by a cat being thrown up at her. Rose threw the cat off her and it fell through the ceiling about ten feet away.

Rose crawled another five feet in the other direction before she felt the ceiling tile under her give way as she grabbed onto a heating pipe to avoid plummeting with the tile. She looked down as she flailed her legs and saw a grizzled old man with thinning grey hair get a look of extreme surprise on his face and quickly jog away.

"Oh well what goes up must come down eventually." Rose said as she let go and fell through the ceiling and onto the desk the man she had startled had been standing next to.

Rose looked around at the utter scene of chaos. A tall young man in his early thirties with brown hair and a fat man with almost no hair were attempting to use a copier to ram a door on the opposite side of the office from where Michael had entered earlier. Michael himself was in a conference room attempting to bash open a window with a projection machine. The man with the voice known as Dwight stood at one corner of the room on top of a box of paper.

"Use you're heightened state of awareness to sharpen your thinking!" Dwight yelled and reached into his pocket and pulled out a small string of firecrackers, lit them, and threw them over to the corner of the room behind him.

"AHHH THE FIRE IS SHOOTING AT US!" A medium build man with short brown hair yelled and ran to help the folks attempting to copier ram the door.

Rose decided to just hide under a desk behind Dwight as she had determined that there probably was no fire, and wait for everyone to get out before sneaking out herself. Then the sound she had been waiting for finally happened. Rose heard the groaning of the TARDIS' engines as it fazed in somewhere just behind the door in the corner that Dwight had thrown the firecrackers into. Fortunately everyone else heard the sound as well.

"The Building is falling down!" The short haired man who had previously accused the fire of shooting at them exclaimed in response to the TARDIS which was a completely foreign sound to him.

"I got the door open!" Yelled Michael would had climbed out the window and run back up to open the main door as he opened the door and motioned for everyone else to hurry out after him.

Rose heard them all leave in a panic and then there was silence. Two seconds later she heard the familiar sound of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver behind the door in the corner and saw the Doctor come bursting in the door.

"It's you!" Rose said with the most relieved tone the Doctor had ever heard in her voice. "Now let's go home!"

"Not quite yet!" The Doctor said. "How much have you been on camera here at Dunder Mifflin?"

"I haven't I've been dodging these cameramen trying to remain hidden till I figured out a way to get in contact with you." Rose said.

"Well you see Rose, this event is fixed in time. That's how I was able to find you. You showed up in this documentary about a small paper company in America when I did a search for you. It seemed you had really upset this woman… Kelly? Have you run into her yet?" The Doctor inquired.

"No… I have run into someone named… Oscar, and Michael, and this one guy Dwight, who seemed really unstable but the closest I've come to any girl was when I stole some candy out of a dish on some lady named Pam's desk." Rose said. "More importantly how did I wind up here in the first place?"

The Doctor knew that to keep things in his own timeline intact so he couldn't tell her anything about the Master or the void as she wouldn't learn about the void for another six months.

"Oh some type of timey wimey… thing… very difficult to explain but perfectly harmless as long as we keep things intact. To do that though you have to wind up in this documentary and it would help if it were by making this Kelly person very upset." The Doctor said.

"Okay well isn't it a little late for that? I mean they've all kinda run out into the parking lot." Rose said.

"Nonsense Rose. From what I've watched of this little documentary they never stop running the cameras. Just look at them over there." The Doctor said and pointed to two camera men who were still in the office for some odd reason. "They never stop rolling those cameras. So now get out there are make Kelly as angry as you can! I want you to make this lady as generally uncomfortable as possible."

"Okay then…" Rose said and paused as if to ask what exactly she was supposed to do.

"Okay so here's the deal I'm gonna park the TARDIS across the street from this building you're gonna run out through the crowd find a way to draw the attention of this Kelly and then we'll be off back to your own time." The Doctor said. "Now good luck."

"Thank God I lost that Dawight guy… He wanted to drag me down to the local police station." Rose said while she leaned against the TARDIS door panting.

"Yeah I saw. Here's the aftermath." The Doctor said and pulled up two chairs from inside the office and motioned for Rose to sit in front of one of the Consoles with him.

A tall man with flippy brown hair who went by the name "Jim" was sitting in a chair talking into the camera.

"So… Apparently after the fire that Dwight and not Ryan started things got even more interesting when our building got a… visitor." Jim said with an odd kind of half smirk on his face.

A clip then played of people standing around in the parking lot and then turning around when a commotion caught their attention. Rose was running out into the crowd asking who Kelly was.

A very talkative Indian woman introduced herself as Kelly and then decided to introduce the large black man standing next to her as Darrel her boyfriend. Rose then saw this as her opportunity to upset Kelly. Rose then very obviously winked at Darrel so that Kelly could see. This sent Kelly into a rage and she decided to start chasing Rose around the parking lot for two minutes while Michael made comments about feisty cat fights and a man with a sad face and thinning hair, named Toby tried to encourage them to break up the fight, only to be told by Michael to shut up because he was "lame and from HR."

The clip then went back to Jim sitting in the chair, who then got a slightly dumbfounded look on his then nearly laughed when he said. "And then things got even more interesting when Dwight got involved."

The scene then cut to Dwight chasing Rose through the parking lot but failing to catch her.

"All I gotta say is when I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be seeing Dwight chase his crazy blonde British twin around the parking lot. I wonder if we'll ever see that again?" Jim said as he came back on Camera.

"If I see that little Blonde Hussy again I'll gut her!" Kelly said as she appeared on the screen with a scowl.

"Yep that's how it was the first time I watched it. Now let's get you home." The Doctor said and flipped a switch and the Tardis engines roared to life.

"Now here's what's going to happen. I am going to have to leave you right outside your house and come back five minutes later." The Doctor explained as He and Rose hurtled back through time to shortly after the Master had kidnapped her. "There's something I have to take care of real quick and it's kind of dangerous and it would be better if you stayed here. When I get back you can't ask me about it though and you can't talk about anything that happened in Scranton. Just in case something odd happens with my memory you know might not remember it and don't want to accidentally cross my own timeline you remember what happened the last time we did that."

"Got it, don't let you mess up your own past." Rose said and walked out the door after they landed.

As the Doctor watched Rose walk out that door he wanted more than anything to go after her and take her away so that she would never get sucked into the alternate dimension a year from when he had just dropped her off. He considered for a few moments that it might almost be worth it. Every possible scenario though would have one unknown variable in it. The Master would be involved, which meant that now his best bet would be to go back to TORCHWOOD THREE and see if he could find out what had happened to Jackie Tyler and Capt. Jack, or if anyone else he knew had been removed from his history.

The Doctor's musings on this topic were interrupted however when one of the screens at the controls to the TARDIS sprang to life. Capt. Jack's face was on it.