Sorry to everyone for the wait I've been really busy this last few weeks and I was suffering from a bad case of writers block. lol

any who thanks to those who have R&R...Keep doing it!

Emotimelady

Chapter 10 – Torchwood

After a long day and night the Doctor had finally woke up from his tormenting sleep, he looked at the digital clock placed on the night stand next to his bed 3:34 AM .Pulling on a clean pair of trousers he headed towards the bathroom to sort himself out.

Once the Doctor had sorted himself out by shaving and showering, he returned to his room pulled on a blue shirt and headed downstairs for something to eat. As it was the early hours of the morning the house of distinctively empty and everyone was still asleep leaving the kitchen all to himself as he entered.

The Doctor had made himself a cup of coffee and a slice of toast... A trait that he must have inherited from the one and only Donna Nobel as he had always been a typical tea drinking man he thought as he started into space. The Doctor had thought a lot about how he was going to deal with his new life, but he didn't have a bloody clue what he was supposed to do as he thought that day on the beach Rose was going to start doing the decision making from now on, since after all, she could handle domestics better than himself. Still pondering at the table the Doctor reflected on his five days away, which had slightly helped the dreadful lifestyle that has been forced upon him.

Five days ago

A fuming part Time Lord Part Human meta-crisis had left a hospital in a pissed off frenzy, coursed by no other than the famous Martha Jones... well technically parallel Martha Jones as the one the Doctor knew would have been more sensitive in the current situation. Storming off in the direction of the Tyler's home, he suddenly stopped. A thought had come to mind then he ran off in the opposite direction.

A couple hours later he was standing outside Henrik's store, he couldn't believe it was still there. He'd wondered around the store for what seemed like an age as he recalled the memory of his former self meeting Rose Tyler for the first time, grabbing her hand and running, they had never stopped running until fate divided them...forever.

Leaving the store the Doctor walked around London to see what else was different.

The Doctor returned mentally to the kitchen finished his breakfast and decided to explore the rest of the house, before Peter Tyler led him to his worst nightmare...Torchwood.

Rose's room was quite similar to the one she had on the TARDIS, but somewhat different. This room didn't look like it belonged to a certain adolescent who would just dump her stuff all over the floor and collapse into bed with the Doctor after a long day of running for their lives. They'd grown used to sharing a bed ever since the pair were stuck on Krop Tor and were forced to share a single bed in the sanctuary base and after the events with the Ood and the Devil, Rose decided that she wanted the Doctor to always be there with her and watch her sleep.

By looking at the current state of Rose's new room, he knew that this wasn't the same Rose Tyler. No clothes or mess could be seen anywhere and no family photos could be found next to her bed. This Rose Tyler was more mature and in waiting as she did not belong to this universe, the Doctor turned away from Rose's room with his head hung in shame...he had ruined Rose Tyler's live and now she wasn't even here to share it with him.

A few hours later the Doctor had forced himself into a reality check and made his way back downstairs so that he could find Pete and begin his life sentence of slavery. He was willing to endure this as he had nothing left as his Rose would never wake up again he thought sadly as he approached Pete Tyler who was wearing a similar smart black suit that the Doctor had quickly changed into.

The drive to Torchwood one (or know to the public as Canary Warf) was painfully long as London's roads were heavily congested. They had finally reached the offices after an hour and as the pair exited the vehicle, the Doctor's new found human emotions were eating at him again as he had felt slightly nervous at the idea of trying to accept his new life and being trapped in a job were people only cared about finances and technology. Hopefully when Rose was working for this Torchwood she'd made it better than the one that had separated them in the first place.

A thought made the Doctor smile of course Rose would have improved this Torchwood, so that nobody would have to suffer at the result of an miss use of Power... after all she did stop my old self from killing that Dalek in van Staten's basement.

Pete had led the Doctor to his office and given him the essential details and documents that will enable him to roam around with the name John Nobel and once Pete had finished helping with the Doctor's situation, Pete took him to meet Rose's team.

"Now Doctor, Rose's team and she were stationed at Cardiff because of the increasing rift activities, but as soon as the darkness took over her team came down to London until a problem would be resolved" Pete stated in a business like tone.

He led the Doctor to a similar white room in which he had lost Rose in however this one was flooded with computers and equipment. A young Asian woman lifted her head as Pete and the Doctor entered the room.

"Mr. Tyler! How are you today, I've finished working on the extrapolator"

"I'm fine Miss Sato" Pete remained his business like state "This is the Doctor" he turned to look at the Doctor than back towards the young women "Doctor this is Toshika Sato, you'll get on great...she's very good with technology". Tosh's checks blushed at the remark and whispered a friendly "Hi" towards the Timelord.

"Oh I've met her already" the Doctor smirked to himself as his thoughts on the space ship in London and the Slitheen came to mind.

"Were the rest of the team" the Doctor asked Tosh as the room looked kind of empty when it came to the people aspect.

"Oh Owen and Ianto went back to Torchwood three last week, got bored waiting around for Rose...and where is she?" Tosh looking confused with the lack of Rose in the room.

Pete took the burden of explaining what had happened to Rose as he knew the Doctor at the moment was in a massive emotional state on the subject and Pete also felt as if the Doctor really believed that his precious Rose who'd stopped Daleks and Cybermen would wake up.

That day the Doctor had also met Jack again and many other new people that he'd had to spend the rest of his days talking to. Pete had still not explained what the Doctor's job would be within the institute and to be honest the Doctor didn't have a clue he just wanted to do the same old thing that he'd done for hundreds of years... travel the universe with Rose Tyler.

Once the two men had returned to the Tyler mansion, had tea and did the domestic approach to everything, the Doctor returned to his room to find his blue suit. Finding the TARDIS coral which looked like a piece of fried chicken the Doctor took what donna had said to him and estimated that he could grow the TARDIS within a year... using stuff from Torchwood of course he smiled weakly.