1Hey! I decided to get this chapter up before my classes start tommorrow... After that, things may get slower...

"Mickey and Martha, how are you?" Rose cried, jumping up from the battered old couch and putting them both into a tight, rib cracking hug.

"Fine." Mickey grumbled, and Martha nodded her hand in agreement.

"Whoa. Who forgot to take their happy pill this mornin'?" Rose joked, but her smile fell into a frown when Mickey scowled at her.

"What's wrong?" she asked, noticing that the two had not yet stopped holding hands.

Jack burst into fits of laughter and called, "You have to tell her 'cause I'm not."

"Fine." Mickey grumbled, giving Jack his best death stare and causing him to laugh even louder. "Well, Martha was testing her new no stitches sealing glue and, umm..."

Martha nodded angrily at him to continue and Jack was in tears.

"And I tripped over the container and it combined with some powdery stuff."

"Mickey, did it explode?" Rose asked him innocently, trying her best not to laugh.

" Yes, Rose, it exploded and Mickey Mouse and Martha were covered in the stuff." Jack called happily. " And of course Mickey the idiot had to help her stand up, so now they're stuck holding hands because my amazing glue remedy couldn't fit through their oh so loving embrace."

Martha looked like she was about to explode in anger, but all the same, kept her mouth shut.

"But why can't Martha talk, then?" Rose asked curiously. "Did some of the glue get into her mouth?"

"No." Jack laughed again. "That was part of a bet."

"When can she talk again?"

"Two weeks!"

Jack left the room to go to his office, and loud shouts of laughter could be heard from all over the hub.

"Hey Mickey." called a dark haired woman, walking over to stand beside him. "Who's that?"

"Hi! You must be Gwen." Rose said to her and she looked confused. "I saw you on the broadcast with Ianto."

"Gwen, this is Rose." Mickey said gruffly. He then pulled Martha through the door with the gear and out of the hub.

"Nice to meet you, Rose." Gwen said, shaking hands with her.

"Nice to meet you too." Rose replied, distracted by her thoughts. "Could you point me to where Jack went?"

"Of course, he's in the room up the stairs and through the door. Ya know, his office."

"Thanks."

Rose walked up the stairs and through the door, to find Jack in fits of giggles on the floor.

'Man, he takes things too seriously,' Rose thought, becoming annoyed. 'I'm surprised noone's decided to put 'im in a straightjacket!'

"So, Rose." Jack said, composing himself and rising to sit in the large leather chair behind his desk. "I guess you want to try to find the man who, and I quote, 'Ruined your life?'"

"Yes." Rose said quietly She had no idea how to locate him, but suddenly remembered something important. "Has he come to refuel recently?"

Jack looked surprised that Rose knew about the rift activity in Cardiff, but he shrugged it off and began to rifle through the papers on his desk. She did work for Torchwood once, right?

"About six months ago." he said to her, and glancing down at his records, his face turned white. "And before that, three years."

"WHAT!" Rose yelled, and moved to stand in front of the desk. "I HAVE TO WAIT THREE BLOODY YEARS TO SEE HIM AGAIN!"

She collapsed in the little wooden chair opposite the desk and put her face in her hands. Jack put the papers back into their original spot and stood up, walked over to Rose, and wrapped his arms around her in a consoling hug.

Rose suddenly stood up and left the room, causing Jack to fall backwards and Ianto, who was standing (or more like eavesdropping) behind the door, fell down a couple of stairs. She just walked over him and started making her way through the hub.

Back to the huge gear, which opened for her and let her into the secret passage. Further back into the receptionist's room where she'd met Ianto.

She walked all the way to the stone statue (or pillar, whatever you want to call it) and leaned against it, not caring when she slid to a sitting position and broke into tears. A, sort of, wailing song interrupted her thoughts, and the big blue box appeared in the middle of the street.

'Great,' she thought sarcastically. 'Now I'm seeing' things.'

Just when she thought her hallucination couldn't get any worse, the Doctor himself stepped out of the TARDIS and looked around. Then he focused his gaze upon her for a moment and turned tail and ran back into the blue box.

"Doctor?" she whispered, and then the box disappeared.

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