A/N-Okay… wow. This took a lot longer than I thought it would… Ummm… I don't really know what to say. I'm very sorry though, and anyone who has stuck with me this long deserves a medal. And I love you if you have stuck with me, because it means a lot. :) Anyway! That's about all I think, hope you enjoy, and please review! :D

The Doctor had spent most the time while Rose and Jehb were asleep putting the planets he had narrowed the search to in order of likelihood that they would find Jehb's father there. He'd also secretly worked out the odds of him still being alive when they found him. They weren't looking so good really.

After about 6 hours of sleep, Jehb and Rose padded out to the console room, both still looked tired but the Doctor knew they weren't going to sleep any more than they had, so he set the co-ordinates for the most likely planet on his list.

Verdwyn was a planet which was controlled by bounty hunters and used for trading and hiding anything they didn't want found, but it was also very popular for people who wanted to disappear for one reason or another. The Doctor had explained that the planet had originally been a very peaceful one, but over time, the bounty hunters had taken over, and that was when it really started living up to its name.

"Verdwyn used to be a safe haven for anyone who just wanted to get away from the rest of the universe and leave the rest of their life behind. It was sort of like a retirement home for those in the universe who knew they would never be left alone. Either because of what they did or in some cases, what they didn't do and were getting hunted for." The Doctor explained as they walked through a rundown market place, that seemed to be getting taken over by pubs and clubs.

The Doctor had been hesitant on letting Rose out of the TARDIS, because of the sorts of people they could run into. The Doctor had explained that women got sold as slaves into all sorts of trades, and they could only be brought with a considerable amount of gold. Rose had been revolted at the thought of what some of the women on Verdwyn were being forced to do, but she thought of Jehb (who the Doctor hadn't let out of the TARDIS) and she was determined to get his father back first, then worry about everything else.

Rose followed the Doctor through a couple of winding alleyways to the place where they were meant to meet the Doctors 'guy'. When Rose had asked where the Doctor had gotten a guy on a bounty hunters planet, he had simply replied that he had guys everywhere. Then when she had asked, if he had a guy everywhere, why did they get captured so much, he had looked at her and answered, "because Rose Tyler, for every 'guy' I have, there are at least five guys that hate me. Which is why I'm very dangerous to be around." And that was where Rose decided to leave that conversation.

"Doctor?" Came a voice from behind them. Rose spun around, startled, but the Doctor just smiled and turned around slowly. The voice belonged to a man of average height and build, who somehow didn't seem like the other men Rose had seen already on Verdwyn. He was wearing a hood over his face so she couldn't make out his features, and he was looking around them as if he was waiting for someone to be following him. When he was convinced he wasn't being followed, the man took off his hood and shook the Doctor's hand, "I hear you're looking for a kidnapped Deltan."

"Yes, we are. Any chance you can help us out?" the man seemed to notice Rose for the first time then, because he looked her up and down, then smiled at the Doctor as if he knew who she was to him. Rose took the chance to look at him properly, he was pretty handsome really. He had brown eyes, much like the Doctor's, but they lacked the spark that Rose saw in the Doctor's eyes. His hair was closely cropped to his head, and he had a tattoo which Rose couldn't make out running from behind his ear down his neck. All in all though, in Roses opinion, still pretty good looking. That was when the Doctor coughed loudly, gave her a look, and turned back to the man. "That's enough looking, thank you. I know Rose is nice to look at, weeellll, more than nice, pretty brilliant actually."

Doctor. Focus. Rose thought, but this time the Doctor knew the thought was directed at him.

"Right. Sorry. Can you help us or not?" The Doctor asked the man, getting back to the issue at hand.

The man scoffed, "'course I can! Thought you knew that Doctor."

The Doctor looked at him, he practically had confidence rolling of him in waves, yet something didn't feel right. Something was off… But before the Doctor had much time to think about it, the man spoke again, "I can take you to where the Deltan is, but only if you get me and my family off this rock and somewhere safe. Please."

"Okay," the Doctor nodded. "Let's go."

"Right." The man pulled his hood back up and started walking with the Doctor and Rose in tow.

They walked through twisted alleyways and small streets with drunken people either stumbling around or passed out on the side of the road and Rose could feel the Doctor pulling here closer and closer each time they passed someone who eyed her for too long. Not that she minded. It wasn't a pretty sight, and it was only made worse by the thought that the man, whoever he was, was bringing up a family there.

"How many kids do you have?" Rose asked in an attempt to relax both men slightly.

"Two. My boy just turned ten last week, and my baby girl's six soon. They grow up fast don't they?" he said, not really expecting an answer, but at the same time waiting for one.

"Wouldn't know." Rose replied quietly, not sure how the Doctor would react. She knew he'd had kids before they met, before the war, but she wasn't sure if he wanted them again. They hadn't really talked about it, she realised. She looked up at the Doctor. He must have been too busy with his own thoughts, because he didn't seem to register hers. And she was okay with that, for now.

The man stopped suddenly, and hung his head, and straight away the Doctor knew something was wrong. He pulled Rose behind him as the man spoke to them. "I'm sorry Doctor. I really am. I never meant for this to happen, but they took my baby, and my wife. What was I meant to do? They said they would kill them if I didn't bring you to them. I need to protect my family Doctor, no matter what. They're all I've got."

Rose must have had a fleeting image of her Dad at that moment, because Pete's face was the last thing the Doctor saw before everything went black.

Verdwyn means disappeared in Afrikaans. In case anyone cares about why the planets called that. That's all, I'll try and be faster with an update next time, 'cause I'm back on track, just hope that my teachers don't decide to give me a mountain load of homework and we'll be right!

Also, Martha will be showing up again soon, don't worry. It's just getting very hard to mess with the flow here.