A/N: Merry... (checks calender) Five days until Christmas! OH YEAH!!! Happy Holidays to the rest of you too, guys. Here's the second chapter.
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"How are we doing?" Rose asked.
She and Mickey were staring at the monitors with video from the trade negotiations between the Camels (pronounced Ca-meels) and the Queets ('Who named them?' thought Rose), who had been having interstellar war for over thirty years. They had finally agreed to make a trade negotiation on neutral territories.
"Pretty good." Said Mickey. "No fists, no cursing… they're actually negotiating."
She sighed with relief. "Finally."
The two head aliens in the room seemed to nod and walked out of the room. A few seconds later they barged into Rose and Mickey's actual view. "We have come to a decision!" The lead Camel spoke dramatically.
Rose and Mickey held their breath.
"We will sign." Said the Queet, less dramatically but still full of enthusiasm.
The two members of Torchwood smiled.
Rose had always been told, "Expect the unexpected" from both her mum and the Doctor. It probably explains why she can sit and watch a movie and predict what happens next. So if this was a book or movie or… if she had just been thinking about her life in general, she could have predicted what happened next.
The alarm went off. But, it was different. It was an alarm of course, shrieking with a fury towards something but Rose had never heard this one before. The sound was thicker and deeper but the sound was as sharp as ever.
She ran over to Mickey, with the computer. "What is it?"
He shook his head. "I don't know." He looked back at the screen. "It looks like an older protocol, like, before we were here."
"That doesn't help."
All of a sudden, a worker, Rose's right-hand man, Jerry ran towards them. The reason Jerry had been hired as Rose's advisor is because he was one of the original Torchwood workers. Before it folded and then came back to life. He did not want to be completely in charge but still wanted in on the action.
"Ms. Tyler!" He was obviously flustered, carrying his laptop close to his chest.
"What is it?" she asked calmly.
He laid down his computer. "The alert! I know what it is!" He dramatically flopped open the laptop and two big bold words in red immediately caught her attention.
"DOCTOR ALERT!"
"How…?" Rose mumbled, shocked beyond any point. A herd of rhinos could have done the can-can right then and there and then done an Elvis imitation of Hound Dog and she wouldn't have been more shocked.
Mickey was almost about as shocked as she was before a certain realization hit home. He turned to Jerry. "How was this Torchwood started?"
Jerry drew in a breath. "In 1879, the Doctor had a mishap with a werewolf… and Queen Victoria. She started this organization to get prepared for more people, or things, like that."
Then it clicked. That was exactly how the Torchwood had been started back in her own universe. And thye had searched for a long time until they had finally found him, via scanner and cameras.
"But, the Doctor loves earth. Why haven't we noticed on our scanners?" She asked Jerry. After all a man with two hearts was bound to stand out.
"The scanners only work every three months." Jerry explained. "The Doctor could easily have missed the scanning days."
Rose nodded and went back to the alert on the laptop. "What did we pick up?"
"The TARDIS." The answer was just so simple. Rose smiled as Jerry pulled up the TV network cameras and the blue form of the TARDIS appeared on the screen. It was absolutely the same, from the posting on the door to the large letters of "POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX" on the top.
She looked over to Mickey who had obviously recognized the significance. "The Doctor…"
"Oh." Jerry had more to say. He pulled up another screen, a schematic of London. On the map was a little blue dot. Jerry smiled. "Two-hearts. Kind of stands out." He said, nearly repeating what Rose had thought a few seconds ago.
"Let's go get him." Rose said, and Jerry nodded before rushing out of the room to get recruits.
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A/N: (Bum)(Bum)(Bum) A bit dramatic but Beethoven generally does dramatic. Reveiw but please don't flame people!
