"Gallifreyan," Rose whispered, "It's written in Gallifreyan. Mum, that's his language. He's out there, Mum! He's here somewhere!" Rose's shock turned to excitement and she bounced up and down.

"Sweetheart..." Jackie began, not knowing how to phrase the words. Why did the Doctor have to come back into his daughter's life again? Wasn't one heartbreak enough? Mind him, this new version of himself wasn't so bad. But still, what was he thinking re-breaking her heart? Didn't the daft sod love her? "It might not be him. It could be a very rude prank."

"Mum, nobody knows his handwriting but me. I bet you and Dad don't even know it. Not to mention his language, I don't even know that! But the circles... I recognize them... Words that could burn stars, raise empires, and topple gods," She remembered him saying that once. Rose ran her hand over the circles that she could now see, since she concentrated very hard. Rose. That meant Rose, those beautiful circles. How it worked she would probably never know.

Unless he taught her.

"Topple gods? A bunch of circles could topple bloody gods? I'd love to meet them," Jackie muttered, watching as her daughter cherished the gift from the Doctor. Not from the Doctor, she reminded herself. The gift from... Whoever.

"How will I find him? I don't even know where to start..." Rose paced the room back and forth, her hands on her temples now, rolling lightly.

"Maybe Torchwood could help you," Her mother suggested. Anything to get Rose into the job.

"You're right! Torchwood! They work with alien stuff! But why didn't the Doctor just come and say something?" Rose sat back down and buried her face in her hands, bewaring the oncoming tears. "I'll go in first thing tomorrow and work on it! I'll find him, Mum, just you wait."

Rose marched back up to her bedroom and got into her bed, turning the lamp off. "I'll find you," She repeated quietly to the sky. "Doctor, I'll find you."

The following morning Rose's alarm beeped off and she whacked it with her hand sleepily until she remembered what was happening. She was going to find the Doctor again. Practically jumping out of bed, she quickly got dressed in a formal suit and ate half a bagel. Rose walked out of the door with confidence, picking up the suitcase she had packed with anything she might need for the day, and more. She was prepared for a zombie apocalypse, not just her first day at work. Anything could happen at Torchwood.

"Rose, darling, hello!" A man with a name-tag reading 'Hello! My name is Hunter.' said to her, smiling brightly. He was African-American with a nice gray suit on, and an army cut like her old Doctor used to have. Great. Her thoughts shifted back to the Doctor, as usual.

"Hello," Rose replied politely, shaking his hand. She had already put on her name tag, and the man seemed friendly enough. Not an alien, then. Blimey, not an alien? She had spent way too much time with the Doctor for that to be her first thought on Hunter.

"I'll be your advisor for the first week or two, but don't worry, all of it is pretty simple really. You're Pete's daughter, correctamundo?" Hunter said, smiling and walking forward, causing her to hurry after him.

The room they were in was large, about the size of a football field with high roofs. There were two floors, on the second floor a balcony surrounding the perimeter of the walls looked down on the first floor, and there was a large fountain in the middle of the bottom floor. The room was very well decorated, and it was blatantly obvious that this was the main hub. Several halls branched off of both the floors, and the one large door at the end of the room was hidden to look like a part of an average building in London. Some sort of perception filter, according to her father.

Hunter led her down the room, and they walked past hundreds of busy people with suitcases, on the phone not paying attention to where they were walking. They sat down at the edge of the fountain. "Yeah, Pete's my dad," Rose answered shyly. She didn't want a reputation for being his daughter here, if she could help it.

"Don't worry I'll keep it on the down-low," Hunter practically read her thoughts, "We have the children of many famous people here. It's a top-secret organization, but you know that, of course. You musn't tell anyone about this place, or you'll lose your job immediately."

"I know that. But I am curious, what exactly will I be doing here?"

"Well, what do you know about aliens? Ever had an encounter of any sort? Even the slightest one is a huge deal here, so don't be shy," He rested his suitcase next to him and stared at her expectingly.

So Pete hadn't told anyone here about the Doctor. Good. But what would she say? She probably knew more about aliens than anyone here. "Um... I don't exactly like to speak about it." She definitely wasn't lying with that statement, after all, she probably wouldn't be able to say his name.

"Ah, okay, that's fine too!" He said backing off immediately to her joy. "But, we have tons of different lines of work here. See, you probably won't believe this, but running through this earth is what we call a 'rift.' Basically, it's a tiny little gash in our universe. Certain things bleed through sometimes, and we just kind of make sure that it doesn't get public or cause a mess."

The Doctor had spoken of the rift in Cardiff many times, he used it to power up the TARDIS a lot. But, if things could bleed through... The Doctor's messages could, too? Then again, could the rift also place the message on her bed? What was doing this? Torchwood was obviously the best place to find out, and she would start by learning everything possible about that rift. "Interesting. Well, I do know a lot about aliens, different species and their defenses and all that."

"Great, good, that's fantastic," Hunter said. He was very positive about everything, Rose noted. She liked him. "Well, we do have a bit of a test for you if you'd like. Don't worry, you didn't have to study!" He joked, standing up and nodding her towards a hallway. "I'll take you there, it'll just tell us where you'd be best suited. Is that alright?"

"Sounds great," She smiled back brightly.

As she walked down the hallway towards the test she had one thought on her mind.

'Doctor, here I come.'