I don't own Doctor Who, if I did Romana and the Rani would return.

The Granddaughter and the Clone.

Considerations.

Jackie held on to her son as the doctor - no, not THE Doctor, but a medical doctor - went over her son and already, she was appalled.

Her son had been beaten with a belt and the police were adding that to the charges.

She still couldn't believe…..

She hadn't wanted to believe that Rose, her own daughter would do that to an innocent little boy, a boy who'd never done anything to her.

But Rose had gone and proven her wrong.

That wasn't all. Rose had used him like a boxer used a punching bag, there were bruises all over his body, Susan had offered to help heal them, but decided against it. She said it was too suspicious, that a woman as violently unstable as Rose had apparently become would not hurt a little boy.

Jackie was also grateful for Susan.

Susan had contacted Pete like she'd arranged, told them where Rose was and told him to send the police, she'd untied the boy and made it look like a vigilante had come to help. She'd taken the boy back home to the manor, fortunately, she'd left before the DCI, who was more than a little suspicious and had come back to the mansion, even knew she was gone.

Sometimes time travel baffled her.

The next morning.

The Tylers - Pete, Jackie and Tony, along with John and Susan were sitting at breakfast the next morning, celebrating Tony's safe return. After the doctors had checked him over, Susan did a check up of her own and found that the boy was recovering, but she'd decided to accelerate the process slightly.

John looked at him with concern, " Are you ok Tony ?"

Tony looked up from his eggs and bacon, when he saw his uncle John he smiled, " Yeah, Auntie Susan was really nice."

Susan smiled.

" Yeah, she sure is," John smiled at his granddaughter.

Pete finished his meal, swallowing some coffee before wiping his mouth with a napkin and looked directly at Susan.

" So, Susan, what are your plans ?"

Susan understood the question and paused as she thought it over, " My TARDIS is still preparing its energy for the next dimensional jump, about a couple of decades or less. I'm not sure."

" You said 34 years," Jackie pointed out, confused.

" As a guess, it all depends on the time vortex or as you call it, the fifth dimension. The energy needs to be calibrated properly and fed into the alternate drives of the TARDIS. Sometimes it takes 4 minutes, 2 days or in this case, 34 years." Susan explained as best she could.

Pete got down to business, " Susan, I want to hire you for Torchwood. John has already proven that a Time lord or half a Time lord, in his case, is a remarkable resource. More than that, if you're going to be here a while I don't see any reason why you shouldn't share your expertise."

Susan looked at Pete, " Pete, I've had some experience with Torchwood and not all of it was good. In my travels to other universes, 1 out of 56 Torchwoods are friendly and don't try and sell the planet for some mad ideal. I have been giving it some thought about what to do in this reality while I wait for the TARDIS to power up."

Susan looked around the table, " Ok, I'll join Torchwood. On one condition, at some point, I want to be able to travel this universe, make observations and note down the differences, and I want to take my grandfather here with me at times. I can bring him back at the same instant I left, so then there'd be no noticeable absence."

Jackie frowned, remembering the time when Rose had been missing for 12 months. But she was more than certain that Susan's machine was more reliable than the TARDIS used by the Doctor.

Pete had no trouble accepting the terms, he'd been noticing his new head of research and development look like he hadn't slept for weeks. Ever since Susan had arrived, both he and Jackie had noticed that he seemed younger than he was.

" ok, deal."

Susan smirked, " 'K, I've got to know, what exactly do you want me to do at Torchwood."

Pete looked at John, " I want you to work with John, take some of the pressure off him," the Tyler patriarch held up his hand at John's " I'm fine," " No, John, you're not fine. Me and Jackie have noticed you look exhausted. Its not just us, lots of Torchwood have expressed concerns and offers to help out."

Pete stared hard at Susan, " I want you and John to take half of Rose's blunders each and work on them each. With one of you the task would've taken a while but with two of you…" he trailed away and then carried on when both of them understood.

" What do you think ?"

The Two Time lords nodded and smiled at one another.

A/N One more to go.