Another update for you. Sorry for the little delay, I tried to upload yesterday, but the site wouldn't let me all evening. So this morning will have to do...

Thanks again to everyone for the reviews. I love you all so much...although I was a bit worried by the death threats for leaving the last chapter as it was...i promise I will never do it again. crosses fingers hehehe

Disclaimer: I own nothing. I am a nobody. However I am working on that...both parts, seriously, how cool would it be to own Doctor Who?

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Her head hurt. Rose Tyler, defender of the Earth, pregnant with an impossible baby, who had seen things that would make grown men cry. And her head hurt. With her eyes closed. In fact, upon coming across this piece of information, Rose decided that maybe she wouldn't open her eyes, but instead she would sleep forever.

However, that 'forever' didn't last long, as her muddled body began to wake up, and remember. Rose shot straight upright, eyes snapping open. It was an action she would've regretted if she hadn't of been so distraught. It was cruel. To have something you had longed for for so long, to have it taken away again in a split second, to not know whether she would ever see him again.

Again.

Her eyes flickered shut and she sank back down to the bed. In her head she went through what had happened, remembering with a remarkable clarity so unlike her. She shook her head, saving that strange observation for a less unstable time, where she could think without fear. It had happened so quickly. Within five minutes they had been reunited and separated. How was this fair?

She was shaken out of her musings by the sound of a key turning in a lock, and a bolt sliding across, signalling the opening of her cell door. Rose stayed where she was, lying on the bed, and she greeted the stranger with a cool uninterested glance. The man smiled cruelly, mocking her slight resistance. He made a gesture and two men in white uniforms entered the room.

Ignoring her protests, they lifted her to her feet, and half carried, half dragged her out of the room (like she was going to give them any help by walking!). The man followed behind, closing the door behind him with a resounding 'click'.

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The Doctor didn't remember much of the hour that followed Rose's kidnap. He recalled vague snatches, like being hauled to his feet by Pete and Jack (Jack! What?) from where he had been kneeling in the road, staring in the direction the vans had gone. He remembered a mug of tea being placed in front of, but he couldn't remember whether he drank it or not.

He knew he was behaving out of character, but to be perfectly and completely honest, he didn't care. To lose Rose once, he could just about barely cope with. To lose her again when he had just found her was inescapable and heart breaking, and so completely not fair!

But then, true to form, Jackie had come into the room, eyes red and puffy from an hour of crying, and slapped him so hard it would've broken mind control. The Doctor spluttered and coughed, a mouthful of cold tea going down the wrong way. As he did so, the chair he was on rocked precariously back and forth, before landing with a clatter on the floor.

Despite the situation, a flicker of amusement passed across Jackie Tyler's face, but it faded, and the Doctor was left looking at a furious woman. Stumbling, he got to his feet.

'Jackie...' he started, but he was cut off, as in pure human style, Jackie went from furious to relieved in a split second and she wrapped her arms around him, sobbing into his shoulder. Tentatively, he hugged her back, wryly wondering why it was Tyler women seemed to like crying on him.

After a couple of seconds, she pulled back, wiping her eyes, a look of slight embarrassment on her face. Silently the pair studied each other. He looked older, more worn, Jackie thought. But then she also doubted he had rested in these past 6 months. She could, no matter how much she had tried to deny it, see how much he loved her daughter. She cleared her throat.

'We need to get her back.'

'I know. I know'. The Doctor sighed wearily, and rubbed his face with his hands. 'I just don't know where to begin.' Jackie looked at her husband as he walked, exchanging a significant look that the Doctor missed, but when he looked back up, he caught her guilty uneasy expression. He didn't even have to ask her to explain.

'We know who took her, and we know why and where. In fact, we know practically everything there is to know about them. But we didn't tell Rose, we didn't want to worry her.' Jackie took a deep breath. 'They want her baby, Doctor. Somehow they found out the baby was cross-race, mixed human and Gallifreyan. They've been trying to get her for months'. The Doctor was horrified.

'They..?' he questioned slowly. Jackie swallowed, her eyes dull.

'Torchwood. Torchwood kidnapped Rose.'

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Rose shied away from the woman as she approached with a large needle. The woman smiled, supposedly reassuringly, and spoke in a fake calming voice as she walked closer to Rose.

'Don't worry Rose. We don't want to hurt you or your baby. We just want to run a few tests.' Still Rose flailed uselessly against her restraints, naked fear visible in her eyes. She wasn't stupid, thank you very much, and no one, not even the Doctor would've been able to tell her at this precise moment that these people didn't want to hurt her.

But her struggling was useless, and she gasped in pain as the long needle sunk into her arm. Almost instantly, she felt the effects seeping through her body, and her eyes became heavy no matter how much she tried to fight the effects. Steadily, the blackness signalling unconsciousness seeped through her vision, and Rose Tyler knew no more.

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After getting over his initial shock, the Doctor had exploded into a flurry of activity. If Torchwood had his Rose, then Torchwood was where he was going. He had a short, if emotional, reunion with Jack, filled with back slapping, and laughter (slightly forced from both sides) and the Doctor promised him when he had Rose, yes when, then they would all sit down, maybe on a quiet planet somewhere and reminisce about the good old days, and think about the good days to come.

Until then, the Doctor had a rescue to plan!

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Well, that's a nicer ending, and not quite the cliff hanger of the last chapter, for which I was severely told off for doing...sorry :-D.

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