Here's the next chapter! Thank you to Ayjah, again! Much love!

DISCLAIMER: I'm just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world…not someone awesome like Davis or Pratchett.

"Well, here we are!" The Doctor glanced around the room, "Why are you all on the floor?"

Jack stood and helped Susan to her feet as Vimes and Carrot pulled themselves up. "Ever heard of a fair warning, Doc?"

The Doctor's look of total incomprehension made Rose, weakly clutching the rails of the console, start to giggle.

Vimes brushed himself off a bit, "Carrot and I will have the Art Museum cordoned off and closed. It's not popular at any rate.

"Pity. There's good works in there." The Doctor commented, "Rose and I will go explore a bit more. Jack?"

"Where are you going?" Jack asked Susan in turn.

"I'm going alone." Susan frowned at him, her eyes flashing.

Jack stepped back unconsciously, "I'll go with Carrot. Learn a bit more about police work, yeah? I'm sure it's a very interesting job. You must have learned a good deal from Mr. Vimes here, right Carrot?"

"I became a man when I joined the watch."

The roguish grin that spread over Jack's face as he raked Carrot's body with his eyes alerted everyone except Carrot to lack of innocence in Jack's next statement, "Really? I'm surprised that didn't happen before. I 'became a man' pretty young."

"The city watch helped me grow into myself."

"It certainly would have helped me become a man," Jack threw his arm over Carrot's shoulder, "Tell me, are there women in the watch?"

Rose and the Doctor turned to face Susan. She seemed to be able to glare at Jack through the closed door of the TARDIS. "Is he always like that?"

"Pretty much, yeah." Rose answered.

"I need to go." She left abruptly, her demenor only a step away from her appearance as Death's Granddaughter.

"Nice girl." The Doctor said with a smile.

"Jack likes her." Rose commented. A glance was all it took between the two of them before they started laughing.

The Doctor recovered first, "So, Rose, are you ready to go see the town?"

"Do you think it'll end like the last few adventures?"

The Doctor turned his head a bit, and scratched his cheek. "Well…Maybe."

"I couldn't ask for more." Rose kissed him lightly on the cheek before stepping out the door.

"The Shades? Harmless name, I'm sure it's fine." Rose whispered sarcastically in The Doctor's ear.

"So I take it you've heard of Rule One." The Doctor repeated.

"Yeah." The largest of the street thugs said, "And it don't apply to you."

As they backed into the wall of the alley, Rose took the Doctor's hand. "No matter what, promise me you'll be okay."

"You'll be okay." He whispered back with a bit of his goofy grin.

"That's not what I meant."

"I know." The Doctor looked over at the leader of the thugs, "Forgive my ignorance, but what is rule one?"

"We're Rule One." A voice said from the entrance of the alley. It sounded old, but to Rose's and The Doctor's surprise, the thugs all straightened up and ran out around the figure.

Another figure stepped into the entrance, sending a shadow down towards where The Doctor was holding tightly to Rose's hand and attempting to shield her from whoever blocked light from entering the alley.

The new figure reached behind it's ear and lit a cigarette. "Good dramatic timing there, Soto. I'm impressed."

"Thank you. Now, who are you, where are you from, and how have you not have heard of rule one?" The figures seemed to shrink as they approached the two.

"I'm the Doctor, and this is my friend Rose. We're from out of town. And I know lots of Rule Ones. Just not this one. Always willing to learn though."

"I'm Soto, and I'm a History Monk."

"And I'm Lu-tze. I'm just a sweeper. Came down to visit my friend here, saw you two, thought we might be able to help. Isn't it written 'there is a time and place for everything?'"

"Yes." The Doctor answered. History Monks, you say?"

Rose looped her arm though the Doctor's as they left the Alley, following the two old appearing men. "I'm confused. What is rule one?"

"Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man." Soto replied, "Lu-tze got it established here, but I've been making sure that people around here remember it."

"Good. Can't have people forgetting the rules!" The Doctor grinned, "So...History Monks. I was just wishing for History Monks."

So…what do you think? Like the Soto and Lu-tze? Want me to make them leave the same way that Vetinari did? Or keep them around for a bit longer? Please drop a review! Fanfiction is being weird and won't update my traffic page, so I won't know if you read if you don't review!Tea, crumpets and ice cream to reviewers!