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A/N: Okay so I loved writing this chapter! There are a few twists I hope you like and some you might not. Happy 4th of July! I'm a little late on that since it's technically the 5th here but oh well! I still mean the same. Tell me what you think when you're done!
Enjoy!
By the time Rose left UNIT she was exhausted. After the Doctor testing her Rose left for the medical wing of UNIT. They wrapped up her leg, threw on a sling, and gave her some pain medicine. She went to see the Brigadier in his office where she gave him some help on different cases. He decided that once Rose was better she would be able to work in the field. She was surprisingly excited to be able to get back out there. Now she was walking back to the flat that she calls home for the time being. She went to the bathroom immediately to take a long, relaxing bath. After she got out she ordered some pizza. She was watching the telly while she waited for the pizza. Her phone rang. She answered nonchalantly. "Hello."
"Don't trust anybody." A sing-song voice rang into her ears.
"Sorry?"
"They are coming for you, be careful." The voice blinked out and the phone died. Rose stared in shock for a minute. She looked up at the telly while she thought it over. 'Bad Wolf' popped on the screen. She was staring at it trying to figure it all out. Her doorbell rang and she jumped. It took her a minute to calm herself. She opened the door. It was the pizza guy. Nobody else. She smiled and paid the man. He gave her the pizza and left. She plopped herself back on the couch and enjoyed her pizza.
"Ah, Rose, there you are." The Doctor gave her a smile. Rose smiled back but it didn't reach her eyes.
"Hey Doctor."
"I've a way to charge your manipulator." He held out the manipulator in front of him and passed it to Rose.
"How?" She asked as she examined the device.
"We are taking a trip to Cardiff to charge it on the rift." His smile widen. Rose's heart skipped a beat. Last time she was there was with Jack and her first Doctor.
"Sounds good."
"Excellent, we shall leave now." He walked past Rose towards the doors. Rose followed him smiling to herself, he really doesn't change all that much. The drive to Cardiff was rather uneventful. Rose and the Doctor kept small talk the entire time. She tried not to tell too much about the future whereas the Doctor was saying everything. Rose smiled thinking to herself how she was so going to use this against him once she got back to her Doctor. This Doctor seems so carefree. It must be because the war hasn't happened yet. When they arrived in Cardiff they went to the same café Jack and her Doctor went to all those years ago.
"It shouldn't take too long. Especially since you are just needing one jump." The Doctor explained. Rose looked down at the vortex manipulator. There was a loud scream from down the street. Rose and the Doctor looked at each other before grinning and running off. Well, for Rose it was more of a limp run. They arrived down the road where a woman was weeping loudly.
"What's the matter?" Rose asked.
"It was terrible. They took my child, my Tommy. They have him." She was crying.
"Who took him? Where are they?" Rose questioned the lady while rubbing her back in comfort.
"I don't know, I didn't get a look at them. They ran that way." She pointed a trembling finger at a nearby alley. Rose wasted no time in running to the alley. The Doctor trailed behind her. They left too quickly to see the smile that graced the woman's face when they ran off.
"Wait, Rose we don't know-" She didn't hear him finish the sentence. A large, metal gate slammed shut and deadbolt itself between Rose and the Doctor. She heard shuffling on the other side. Out of the corner of her eye she saw movement.
"H-hello?" She cursed herself for stuttering.
"Hello." A man in a full black suit with slicked down black hair and dark eyes stepped under the light in front of her.
"Who are you?" She stood defiantly even though she was trembling inside.
"I'm not the one you need to worry about." He took three strides until he was standing right in front of her.
"What do you want?" A sinister smile broke out on his face. He let out a deep chuckle.
"Enough with the questions." Before Rose could respond he put both of his hands to her temple. With a single scream darkness descended upon Rose.
The Doctor was still banging on the side of the gate when he heard one scream. The Doctor worried more as the scream was cut out. He turned to walk out of the alley. The Doctor walked to the nearest phone booth and called the Brigadier. He requested a UNIT team be sent to Cardiff. Until the Brigadier could get here, the Doctor was on his own. He began searching the area. The gate shouldn't be there. He began searching franticly for an answer after hours of searching he finds himself two 'Bad Wolves', five broken bottles, a pile of trash, several angry locals, banned from a shop, dirty shoes, and a stray cat. He was patting the stray cat in his lap when the Brigadier arrived.
"You're here finally!" The Doctor exclaimed jumping up. The cat let out a meow and scurried off.
"What happened?" The Brigadier looked in front of the Doctor at the gate.
"We were eating when we heard a scream. We went to investigate only to find a young woman crying. Someone had taken her son. Rose ran after the person and a gate dropped in between us. She screamed and then it was silent." To say the Doctor was worried was an understatement.
"Where is this young woman?"
"I've no idea."
"You didn't question her?" The Brigadier looked at the Doctor with slight disbelief.
"Of course I talked to her, do you take me for some fool?" The Doctor huffed his disapproval.
"You didn't talk to her did you?" The Brigadier gave him a half amused smile before turning back to his stern expression.
"I might have forgotten to do that one small task." The Doctor sniffed.
"Brettfield." The Brigadier yelled.
"Yes sir?" A man with sandy brown hair and a straight face stepped forward.
"We need you to look for a woman who has lost her son. The Doctor can explain her for you." The Brigadier and Brettfield looked to the Doctor expectantly.
"She had long, black hair and brown eyes. Her son's name is Tommy." The Brigadier looked to Brettfield who nodded and walked off in search of the woman.
"Now to deal with Miss Tyler." The Brigadier turned his attention to the gate. He put one hand on it and muttered something under his breath. He turned back to the Doctor. "We can have this down in no time." He assured the Doctor. The Brigadier walked off to get some men to bring the gate down. The Doctor followed him out of the alley and waited for it to be opened. They brought in a small bulldozer to push it over. They didn't fully push it over for fear of what's on the other side. One it was dented enough the Brigadier opened it. The Doctor and the Brigadier walked in first followed by a small group of about five or six men. There was a single light over the entrance other than that it was dark. The group stepped out of the light and into the darkness.
Rose let out a deep breath. She was surrounded by darkness and silence. For a minute she thought she was back in Torchwood before reminding herself that wasn't possible. "Hello?" She yelled into the darkness. She felt better by just interrupting the long silence.
"Ah, you're awake." The voice from earlier.
"Who are you?" Rose struggled to get up.
"You're repeating questions from earlier." He clicked his tongue.
"You're still not answering." She said in an annoyed tone.
"I could tell you who I am but that's half the fun." He jumped forward and slammed his arm down on her already broken right leg. She screamed out in pain as she felt the leg break further. Tears pooled behind her eyes but she refused to show them. He let out another round of laughter.
"Why are you doing this?" Rose's voice was a little bit more strained then she would have liked. He fisted his hand and connected it with her left shoulder. With a sickening pop it was dislocated once again. Rose whimpered. A tear fell down her face but she quickly wiped it with her left hand. He put his hand below her chin. She was looking him in his impossibly dark eyes. All she saw there was hatred. She couldn't help but pity somebody who had nothing. He was living but he wasn't actually living. After searching her eyes for a time he brought his hands up to her temples. She tried to jerk away but he kept her head still.
"Since you helped with my resurrection," He said with disdain, "I will show some form of kindness." He gave her another sinister smile. She knew his kindness was most definitely not kind. Her brain felt like it was burning from the inside. She writhed and screamed under his hands but he still kept them against her temples. The pain was unbearable. She was freely crying now. She screamed until her voice was hoarse and burning almost as bad as her mind. He continued with this until she lost consciousness.
The Doctor quickened his pace. There were five different light sources from the flashlights various men were carrying. They were all following behind the Brigadier who took the lead. The Doctor knew that he really did care for the girl. The Doctor cared for her too and wanted her safe. This only made the Doctor move faster yet again. The darkness seemed to go on forever. They heard screams in the distance. They all sprinted in the direction of them. They followed them all the way back out. What?
"This doesn't make any sense." The Brigadier said.
"Someone is messing with us." The Doctor replied. They all began searching around the area again. Nobody could find any sign of Rose. Brettfield made his way back to the Brigadier.
"Report?" The Brigadier asked gruffly.
"I haven't seen any sign of her. I've asked around and nobody knows anybody by that description with a son named Tommy." Brettfield said and then joined the other soldiers in the search.
"I don't understand." The Brigadier stated clearly.
"I think this might be a very different situation than we thought." The Doctor said simply.
"Need some help?" A voice with an American accent called out. The Doctor and the Brigadier turned to look at the owner of the voice. Standing in front of them was a man with jet black hair and blue eyes. He gave them his most charming smile. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart looked at him with confusion. The Doctor looked at him with absolute disgust. He was wrong. The Doctor wanted to be as far away from him as possible but he was different. Maybe he could help with Rose or maybe he's what did this to her. The Doctor decided to go with the latter and decided it best to pretend to believe this guy.
"Who are you?" The Doctor grunted. The Brigadier turned his confusion to the Doctor. He sounded disgusted just to be greeting this man. He turned his attention back to the man in front of them. He looked like a soldier. If the Doctor thinks it best to allow this guy to help then he should listen. Who knows maybe the Doctor has a reason to trust him or maybe, just maybe, the Doctor is playing him. The Brigadier looked back to the Doctor for a second. He knew exactly what his old friend was doing and he was going to play right along.
"Captain Jack Harkness." He gave another one of his devilish smiles.
A/N: Just give me a minute to freak out. I looooooooooooooooooove writing Jack. I couldn't resist the opportunity to write him in since it was in Cardiff. I'm also very sad hurting Rose like that. But Jack! Okay since the Doctor didn't get along with Jack all that well in the beginning while he was Nine just imagine Three with Jack! Anyways for the future we have Rose meeting Edgar Allan Poe. I was wondering who else you might like her to meet for adventures she will be having with one of the Doctors. Speaking of Doctors, is there any particular one you would like to see? I'm most definitely doing the fifth Doctor since I love the idea of Rose and Five. Wow, I ramble on more than Ten. Let me know what you thought of this chapter and what you might like to see! Thanks for reading! New chapter will be out tomorrow.