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"That's it, you're coming with us!" Before the Doctor had time to protest, Max had grabbed him and twisted his arms, so that the Doctor was pressed face first again the cool, black surface of the car. "Don't try anything" Max snarled and shoved him into the car. "You're coming with us to Torchwood."
Ahhh, it all made sense now, the Doctor thought. These must have been the patrols Rose had warned him about. He was somewhat relived that this was Torchwood, and that these people weren't some crazy alien hunters. He sighed slightly. He wondered how he was going to get out of this one.
The second they got to Torchwood they ran several tests on him, but couldn't identify the species. The Doctor wasn't surprised about this fact, he knew there were no Time Lords in this universe, as he couldn't feel them telepathically.
Once the basic tests were done, he was shoved in a reinforced glass cell next to a Hoix. Max took great delight in telling him that his commander had caught the Hoix single handed, saving their Torchwood medic, Owen Harper, from it one night. The Doctor smiled at this. About halfway through the scans and test he had realised that this team was Rose's team, the way they spoke about their Commander gave it away. The Doctor would have happily told them that he was Rose's "boyfriend" and would get the title commander tomorrow (especially Max. He couldn't understand what Rose saw in the gun happy and aggressive man) but decided not to, simply for seeing the shock on their faces tomorrow.
He spent about half an hour in the cell, being taunted by Max. Eddie had gone away to make a call and returned to tell them that both the Director and the Commander were coming to identify the alien.
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Rose had just finished reading Tony his bed time story when her phone rang. She checked her watch and gasped with surprise. More than half an hour had passed. But if that much time had passed and the Doctor wasn't here then that meant-
Her phone rang again, cutting off her train of thought. She looked at the caller ID and realised it was Eddie. But Eddie had no need to call; it was still her day off. She grinned slightly to herself, putting two and two together. Who is the jeopardy friendly one now? She thought to herself as she pressed the receive call button on her phone. Eddie's voice came through, calm, but with a twinge of uncertainty.
"Commander" he greeted. "Sorry to disturb you now, but we have a bit of a situation here".
Rose grinned to herself. If the Doctor was involved then it was certainly something like that. When she spoke however, none of her amusement came through her voice, instead her tone was clipped and business like. For the first time in almost 6 years however, Rose wasn't using this type of voice as a shield, instead she was using it for her own amusement.
"It must be a rather overwhelming one if you felt the need to call me and not the Director". She replied, playing around with Eddie just a bit.
"The Director is on his way as well. He was in a meeting, but assured us he would come down as soon as possible. "
"I see." Rose said simply. "What exactly is happening?"
"We found an alien life form, about 20 minutes away from your house near the forest. The alien was walking around after curfew, and so we brought him to Torchwood. Unfortunately, we cannot identify the species, and were hoping you could help us out in that regard."
Rose nodded, trying to keep the smile off her face. "Could you describe the alien?"
"He has a humanoid appearance and could easily be mistaken for a human. The tests we conducted showed very high brain activity, a cool body temperature and a double heartbeat. The interesting thing was that we picked up some traces of certain human DNA, which we haven't gotten around to analysing yet, on his body."
"You ran tests on him?" Rose cried before she could stop herself. It made her angry to think of her team (especially Max) poking and prodding the Doctor. She wished that Heidi hadn't chosen to take exactly this day off; she could have immediately identified the Doctor and saved him all this trouble.
Eddie sounded confused, but also slightly apologetic.
"I'm sorry commander. We thought of it as protocol, and we were trying to identify him. And now we have the resulting human DNA to identify as well, although we might ask Heidi to do that tomorrow. You might want to take a look at it as well, Commander." Rose nodded to herself, blushing slightly. She could guess that her DNA was probably all over his body. She bit back a sigh of relief that they hadn't analysed it yet. "Can you tell me more details about his appearance and his clothes? All these things could help identify him."
Eddie didn't miss a beat; although he thought asking about clothes was a bit strange. Of course his Commander knew so much more about aliens than he did, so he pushed the thought aside.
"He is wearing a blue suit, has dark brown hair, standing up in all directions, he is skinny but rather tall."
"I see" said Rose, now completely certain that this was the Doctor. "Where is he now?"
"We put him in an examination cell".
This didn't please Rose at all. She silently fumed to herself, and decided to get to Torchwood as quickly as she could in order to release him. She sighed to herself and took a deep breath.
"Do not examine him anymore under any circumstances. From the things you've told me I already have a fairly good idea of what this species could be, and I know that they are rather easily offended but very clever. The alien is to be kept there until I come, but he will not be questioned, harassed or examined under any circumstances. And for god's sake, please keep Max away from him."
Eddie nodded in understanding. Max had been taunting the Doctor the whole time, but he always had a reply at hand. It had actually almost been amusing seeing Max put down so quickly, especially since Max could generally be rather witty (often in a sarcastic and sometimes negative way. Not to mention that Max thought aliens were stupid-though Eddie certainly couldn't blame him after the whole cybermen incident-and this alien seemed a lot cleverer.)
With a sigh Eddie hung up the phone and returned to the main area where the Doctor currently was. The Doctor and Max were at it again, and Olivia was eyeing the alien up appreciatively. Eddie sighed. Typical Olivia-he wondered if she wouldn't have him seduced by tonight. If the commander let him go that is.
The second Max heard approaching footsteps, he quickly turned around. "Where were you?" he asked Eddie, sounding almost angry.
Eddie held up his Bluetooth phone device. "Calling the Commander" he answered calmly. She said she's going to be here soon. I suppose she will come down at the same time as the Director."
"Why didn't you tell me you were calling the Commander?" Max demanded. Eddie tried not to roll his eyes. Max had a huge crush on Rose and sometimes showed off to others that he was so close to her (he was never too specific of course, he didn't want to make Rose angry, but he took great delight in telling people that he had gone to a café with her and such), and he saw himself as the automatic leader of the team when Rose was absent. Max was a good agent, but sometimes Eddie truly thought that he could do without the snobbish and standoffish behaviour.
"I saw no reason to Max" Eddie said calmly. "You were busy talking with the alien, and you didn't even notice I was gone". He knew Max was about to say something and so he hastily continued. "Like I said the Commander is coming over, and she has asked us not to agitate or test him anymore. She already has an idea of what species he is and will know what to do."
The Doctor tried very hard not to laugh while the conversation took place. The only reason he still hadn't said anything (and he had wanted, very badly, when he was talking to Max. In fact, right now he also very much wanted to punch Max in the face. He honestly couldn't understand what Rose saw in him.) was because he couldn't wait to see the look on their faces when Rose came in.
"Max however decided to go and talk about Rose some more. He turned to the Doctor. "You see-I told you our Commander was brilliant. All she needs is a basic description of the alien and she already knows the species. I can't wait what she does when she sees you. She'll know how to shut up that smart mouth of yours".
"Max" both Olivia and Eddie said sharply. Eddie mostly because Rose had told him to keep Max away from the alien and not taunt him and Olivia because she thought this alien was extremely sexy and was there for his defence.
The Doctor rolled his eyes. "You seem extremely fond of your commander Max. The way you speak about her I would almost say you were a couple."
Olivia snorted. "They are not" she informed the Doctor, smirking. "Although Max most definitely wants to be a couple. But he's been trying for five years, and no luck so far".
"Shut up Liv!" Max snapped. "That's none of your business! And you-"he said to the Doctor. "You can wipe that stupid, smug look off your face before I do it for you!"
"Calm down Max!" Eddie interrupted again.
"Yeah, not so hard to notice why your beloved Commander hasn't taken such a huge fancy to you if you speak like that Max" the Doctor said calmly. Max whirled around. "Shut it!" he hissed, just as the doors slid open. Everyone turned around as Rose entered the room, a cold expression on her face.
I'm glad you are still enjoying this story; I am having huge fun writing it. The next chapter should be posted in the next few days, possibly even tomorrow.
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