Disclaimer: I don't own Dr Who. I'm just someone who keeps being hit by plot bunnies.


Soon as the engines stopped wiring, the Doctor motioned for Adam to step outside the Tardis.

"Where are we?" Adam looked around alley way they were in.

"It is New Years Eve roughly 30 years ahead of when you were last here."

"What about Evee?" He gestured back to where the little girl napped in the Tardis.

"Soon as I drop you off I'll take her to her parents. She will be safe and sound." The Doctor leaned on the Tardis's door way.

"What do I do now?"

"Go inside, eat, live life for once." The Doctor shrugged.

"This is the third time I've been dropped in a world where I know no one." Adam laced his fingers behind his head.

"You have friends inside."

"I don't know." Adam looked apprehensive.

"Oh go on." The Doctor motioned for him to go, "It is much nicer in there than standing out here in the snow, muck, and cold.

Shrugging Adam started to walk away but got about 3 steps before her turned back around, "Thank you, for everything."

"You are welcome. Now get, I have to take Evee to her parents." The Doctor stepped inside and closed the door of the Tardis. It wasn't long before it faded from sight.

Turning his jacket's collar up in the cold, Adam made his way around to the front of the building. It was a nice restaurant that had a sign hanging from the door that said "Closed for Private Party". Adam almost didn't go inside but remembering the Doctor's advice he opened the door.

"Name please" asked a burley man just inside the door.

"Adam, Adam Morris." Adam rubbed his arms to get circulation back.

The man looked down a list, "Sorry not on the list. This is a private party."

"I was told I would find my friends here." He tried to look into the main room but the man blocked him.

"Not on the list, now leave." The man made a move toward Adam, but stopped at the sound of a woman's shriek.

"Adam!"

Before he knew what was happening a woman with graying blonde hair had him wrapped in a fierce hug. Obviously she knew him, so he returned the hug if a little stiffly.

"What are you doing here?" She asked him.

"Well I…"

"Madame he isn't on the list..." the doorman started to say.

"Oh bugger the list. He is an old friend who we haven't seen in years. Let him in, besides he is half frozen." She brushed the snow off of Adam's cloths, and patted his cheek.

"But Mrs. Smith..."

"No buts…" She tugged Adam into the main area of the restaurant. Once they were away from the door man Adam could get a good look at the woman before him.

"Rose?" He looked confused.

"Don't tell me I look that bad. Granted I know it's been 30 years, but there you have it." She smiled one of her bright smiles up at him.

"It's wonderful to see you." He wrapped her in another hug.

"How did you get here? And you haven't aged a day." Rose teasingly pinched his cheek.

"The Doctor." He gave Rose a sad smile.

"That's all the explanation you need my boy." She smiled at him. "Come, I'm sure you have a lot to catch up on."

Rose led him though the crowd towards a group of tables. As they passed the dance floor Adam couldn't help noticing the pretty blonde dancing in the middle.

"Doctor, I believe you remember our 'old' friend Adam." Rose said to an older gentleman who had his back to them as they walked up.

"Nice to meet you Adam…" then the realization hit him, " Adam...ADAM!" He gave him a big hug.

"I'll leave you two to catch up." Rose laughed, and kissed the Doctor's cheek before she made her way back across the room.

"I take it things went well since I last saw you?" Adam asked as he snagged a beer off a passing waitress's tray.

"Evee dropped off in a local park near her home by her captors, un harmed four days after she disappeared. The Tyler heiress returned to her loving family safe and sound. Tragically her kidnappers were never found." The Doctor smiled.

"How is ever one else? Brother Cristopher must have been worried sick about me."

"Oh he was until Evee crawled up into his lap one day. All I know is after talking to her for a couple minutes she hopped down and he was happy as a lark. He still occasionally has boughts but he is a lot better than he was when you left. He chose to remain here in London. He became a custodian for some of Torchwoods relics. Still a bit batty but he has kept his faith. He is around here somewhere actually." The Doctor indicated the crowd around them.

"And the rest of the family?" Adam continued to look around the room hoping to see a face he knew.

"James is married, with three children, and teaches at the same school that I did." Aside he said, "This is my 'retirement' from teaching party by the way if anyone asks."

"I'll keep that in mind." As Adam looked around his eyes kept coming back to the girl from the dance floor. "Hard to imagine James married. It was just a couple days ago he was playing with toys in the back garden."

"You should see Verity now. She is married, with three daughters – heaven help her- and works for a top of the line engineering firm here in London. I tease her that she is still tearing apart all her toys."

"And Evee?"

The Doctor followed his gaze, "I'd say not bad considering you haven't taken your eyes off her since you walked in." He smirked.

Adam choked on his beer, "What?"

"That..." The Doctor pointed at the smiling girl, "Is Evelyn Tyler Smith-Cook; now thirty three years old, and director of team alpha at Torchwood. She is one of our top operatives. Some even say she may take over Torchwood someday."

"She turned into quite the beauty ." Adam smiled and he took another drink.

"She certainly got her looks from her mother and not me," the Doctor watched as a little boy ran up to Evee and hugged her. Eve grabbed the boy's hands and started 'dancing' with him.

"That is her son." The Doctor pointed at the little boy. "He's seven. She also has a daughter named Gretchen, who's 10. She is usually playing with James' daughter."

"Oh," Adam couldn't hide the bit of disappointment in his voice. "I'm glad she has done well for herself."

"She has come a long way from the days of her guardian angel."

Adam looked back to the Doctor, "Guardian angel?"

"When she came back," he took a sip of his wine, "she blocked out most of what happened, except for one thing, her guardian angel."

Adam leaned over and whispered, "The Doctor?"

"No actually." He smirked, "You."

"Me?" He looked confused.

"Up until she was about seven she believed she had an angel looking after her." The Doctor watched Evee 'dance' with Travis. "Her descriptions of him sounded a lot like you."

"What made her stop believing?"

"Our housekeep Ellen passed away, and he wasn't there to save her." The Doctor turned and snagged nibbles from a passing tray.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be, Ellen had been ill for a couple years. " He said sadly but looked away and smiled, "Granted I think she needed her guardian angel more after that."

"Oh really?"

"Rose blames her for most of her gray hairs." The Doctor laughed. "And I'm inclined to agree with her. Evee got into more trouble from the age of 8 to the age of 18 than I thought possible."

"Like what?"

"When she was 14 she got tired of being told to stay at home each time Rose and I would go out to investigate a Torchwood issue, so she stowed away in one of our trucks."

"Oooo not good." Adam cringed.

"Well, it wasn't all bad, but she and I had a little chat afterwards." The Doctor cleared his throat.

"And now she is working for Torchwood." Adam went back to watching her with Travis.

"And director of her own team." The Doctor couldn't help a proud smile.

"Good on her." Adam continued to sip his beer in silence next to the Doctor as they watched the festivities around them.

"Doctor?"

"Hmm…" The Doctor turned to Adam.

"I wanted to say Donna was right about one thing."

"Which was?" He looked to Adam.

"She is her father's daughter."

"Well, I don't know. When her husband died I saw a lot of Rose in her." The Doctor cleared his throat and looked away from Adam.

"She is a widow?" Adam's head snapped back to the Doctor.

"Did I not mention that earlier?" The Doctor looked sideways at him as he smiled behind his glass. "He died 7 years ago. She was left alone with three year old Gretchen, and 3 month old Travis. She has done well for herself; but has been quite lonely since he died."

"No, I can't say that you mentioned that." Adam smiled behind his glass as he watched her.

"You do realize if you hurt her…"

"I promised I wouldn't let anything happen to her when she was 3 years old. I'm not going to stop now."

"She doesn't remember you."

"Hmm"

"She doesn't remember what happened in those 4 days. She won't remember you." The Doctor sat his glass down and made sure Adam knew how serious this was. "She knows she was kidnapped when she was little but she doesn't know you or what happened there. She doesn't know you as her guardian angel."

"I can live with that."

Travis came running over, "Grandpa, can I have some money for the candy machine."

"Travis, you just had a piece of cake."

"I'm a growing boy." He grinned up at him and then turned to Adam, "Who are you?"

Adam squatted down so he was nose to nose with the boy, "I'm an old family friend. My name is Adam." Adam offered his hand to shake with the boy.

"Nice to meet ya." Travis shook his hand firmly. Adam laughed at the boy's antics.

"Travis!" The boy cringed at the sound of the woman's voice. "Don't go running off like that."

"It's alright he only wanted another piece of…" As Adam stood up and came face to face with familiar brown eyes, "…cake."

"If you are hungry there is plenty of fruit and cheese over there; but if you are bored go play with Chelsea and Amy." Travis grumped off to play with two ginger hair colored girls in the corner. "I hope he wasn't bothering you." The woman turned back to Adam.

Seeing Adam standing there speechless the Doctor cleared his throat, "Please forgive me, Adam, this is my daughter Evelyn,.. Evee this is Adam…"

"Oh sorry," Adam offered his hand to her, "Adam… Adam Morris."

"Nice to meet you." She smiled at him, but she looked confused for a moment, "Are you sure we haven't met before?"

"Uh…" Adam didn't know what to say, but the Doctor stepped in for him.

"He lived near us when you were very little." The Doctor looked back and forth between them, "He just returned from an extended assignment out of the country. I was actually thinking of taking him in as my assistant."

"You? With an assistant?" Evee looked at him disbelieving.

"Well, you are always telling me how old I am…." The Doctor teased her.

Evee rolled her eyes at her father, "Adam, where are you staying?"

"I just got back into town and haven't really found a place to stay yet." Adam gave the Doctor a look of 'Help me'.

"If you are going to be working closely with my father you could stay in the guest room. The house has 5 bedrooms, what is one more person, especially one that will be keeping my father out of trouble." She grinned mischievously at her father.

"That sounds like a wonderful idea," The Doctor looked from his daughter to a slack jawed Adam. "What do you say Adam?"

"Uh, sure, sounds… sounds like a wonderful idea." Adam tried to process what just happened.

"I am sure Rose has found someone I must talk to so I will leave you two alone to work out the details." The Doctor winked at Adam. He went a few steps and then turned around, "Oh and play nice. "

"Oh shut up…" Evee laughed and waved him away.

Smiling the Doctor turned away and walked over to where Rose was standing grinning at him. "Playing match maker are you?"

"Well… sort of. " He took a drink of his punch, "Besides I think she has been waiting 30 years for him."


Author's Note: Hope you liked the story. I've got one other that is bouncing around. We shall see what happens from it.