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Also, I am sorry if this is not the reaction you wanted Rose to have. I know some of you put requests in about how you wanted Rose to react, but I already had it written out. Hope you enjoy it anyways xxx
Rose marched into Torchwood in her usual style-strict, business-like, a cold expression on her face and no hint of a smile anywhere. Her posture was straight and not at all carefree. It was with this demeanour that she marched down to the holding cells.
She studied her team's expressions as she marched into the cell area. Max looked…well fairly pissed off, really, but his face showed self-importance the second she entered the room. Eddie looked slightly frustrated, and was glaring at Max and Olivia simply nodded at her and then turned right back around to the Doctor. Rose frowned. She knew Olivia was a huge flirt, but somehow she had never thought about the possibility of her trying to hook up with the Doctor. But it was entirely plausible. Well, Rose couldn't have that. The Doctor was hers and in this case she was very unwilling to share.
"Commander" Max greeted, puffing out his chest slightly. Rose nodded at him. Eddie stepped forward.
"The alien is back there" he told her, gesturing to the end of the corridor. Rose nodded and walked forward until she was right in front of the Doctor's cell. There she stood and surveyed him, her eyes narrowing slightly. She looked him up and down, a slight frown on her face.
Max could only watch with glee as Rose looked at the alien. He had no doubt that she would set the bugger straight and that he would never return to earth once she was finished with him. He decided to help her along a little. "The alien has been rude, aggressive and impertinent." Max voiced loudly, smirking at the Doctor. "Furthermore he has insulte-"
"Thank you Max" Rose said, trying to refrain from rolling her eyes. Max looked rather put out.
"Do you recognise the species?" Eddie asked her with interest.
Rose nodded and looked at the Doctor, who could only stare back in shock. Rose had told him she was different at Torchwood, but he had never imagined that she would behave like this to him. So far she hadn't even spoken to him, she just stared at him, almost as if she was criticising him. Her face showed no recognition. Her gaze was cold, there was no smile on her face, and her eyes didn't twinkle. They were just cold and black.
He wondered whether or not she was angry at him, or whether or not she had been drugged. The way she behaved was so horribly strange and wrong, it made him want to jump in front of her and ask her what was the hell was going on and whether or not she felt all right.
Rose saw the shock in the Doctor's eyes and it didn't surprise her. She turned back to her team. "Well done team" she told them.
To Eddie she replied. "He is a Time Lord" She smirked very slightly. "And they can be rather hard to pin down".
Eddie had no idea what a Time lord was but looked at the alien in front of him with new interest. He was surprised at the emotions he suddenly saw in his eyes. They held shock, pain, fear and something that looked like anger. But mostly they held hurt and confusion. Eddie wondered why. Was he scared of the Commander?
Rose continued talking to her team. "So" she said, now half facing the Doctor. "You managed to catch yourself a two hearted, rather sexy and very kissable Time Lord, with absolutely great hair and a huge ego. A Time Lord who has the cheek to call me jeopardy friendly, and has told me not to wander off...how many times?"
Max, who had been smiling the whole time, thrilled at seeing the shock and fear in the alien's eyes when facing the Commander he had seemingly ridiculed just a few minutes ago, was suddenly very shocked and certain he had heard wrong. What had Rose just said?
Eddie and Olivia's faces were also utterly shocked. They had never heard Rose talk like this. And Rose was smiling. Really smiling, all pain in her eyes suddenly gone.
As for the Doctor, he was thrilled. He realised the game Rose had been playing now, and had almost had to laugh. Especially when he saw Max's face.
"To many times to count!" he told Rose joyfully, answering her question about wandering off. Rose grinned back at him.
"I thought you went for a walk around the mansion?" she asked. "How did you end up so far away that the patrols found you?"
"I got lost" the Doctor admitted. "Sorry".
"Not your fault" Rose said, still smiling. Realising he was still in his cell, she immediately punched in the code to let him out.
Max, meanwhile, was seething. "How the hell do you know each other?" he spat, jealousy and fury building up inside of him. He couldn't believe this.
Rose frowned at him, not caring for his tone. "Calm down!" she told him, feeling like snapping herself. She had a feeling that Max had probably taunted the Doctor a lot.
She also realised she had some explaining to do and opened her mouth. But, at just that moment the cell door slid open, and she ran to hug the Doctor, thrilled that she could finally touch him. He laughed and returned the embrace, kissing her head gently, which only incensed Max more. His fingers went right down to his gun and made to take it out. Rose saw this immediately.
"Don't even think about it Lieutenant Rogers!" she snapped, her voice like ice. The Doctor turned to stand beside Rose and grasped her hand. Shooting the Doctor wouldn't help Max much anyway.
Just then the sector doors slid open and Pete Tyler stepped into the room, taking in the scene before him, several different expressions crossing his face. When he stepped in his expression was grim and ready, prepared to deal with an illegal alien. Slowly however, his expression changed to surprised and finally to amused. The second he saw Max's hand on his gun, his expression once again turned cold and grim. "Put the gun away Lieutenant Rogers!" he boomed, echoing Rose's statement. "I expect to see you in my office tomorrow so that you can explain your behaviour!"
Max stared at the ground and fumed silently, imagining the smirk probably growing on the alien's face. He had only been trying to protect Rose. Clearly the alien must be brainwashing, manipulating or controlling her in some way, otherwise Rose would not be behaving like this. This was not the rose he knew.
Max at least expected the Director to take proper control of the situation but to his utter shock the Director simply smiled and walked over to the Doctor and Rose. "How on earth did this happen?" he asked, gesturing round him. Rose simply grinned.
"We had a full day and needed a break. I read Tony a bedtime story and he went for a little walk around the mansion."
"But I got a little lost" the Doctor added with a slight smile, hearing Rose quietly muttering "Superior Time Lord senses" under her breath.
Pete nodded, already having guessed how the rest of the situation had played out. He turned around and saw Rose's team's astounded and shocked faces. "I gather you have some explaining to do" he told her. "Unless you want me to do it?"
Rose shook her head. "It's fine. I'll explain it to my team now, and we'll have the conference tomorrow."
Pete agreed. "Tell Jacks I'm going to be a while. I have some paperwork to finish."
The Doctor and Rose nodded and Pete departed, shaking his head in amusement. Rose turned back to her team and steadily held each member's gaze for a second so that she had their full attention but also their trust. Olivia looked surprised, Eddie looked shocked and Max looked angry.
"This alien you brought in is a good…friend of mine" she started, deciding that boyfriend was an insufficient term to describe hers and the Doctor's relationship. "In fact this here is the Doctor."
There was a shocked silence. Eddie was the first to react. "Your Doctor?" he asked his voice full of disbelief and shock. "The one from the other universe, who you travelled with and who stopped the cybermen in this world? The one you always talk about?" He stopped himself saying the one you love.
Rose nodded.
"You didn't ever care to mention that your big, lifesaving hero was an alien?" Max almost shouted, not caring that his tone lacked respect.
Rose gaze was suddenly cold. "I hardly thought it mattered" she countered.
Max was about to open his mouth again to retort, but Rose's expression silenced him. "He's living with me and my family" she went on. "And he will be working with us here at Torchwood from tomorrow on".
"He's going to work here?" both Olivia and Max cried. Well, Max sputtered, utterly unable to believe what he was hearing, while Olivia sounded extremely pleased. Rose didn't want to think of why, although she already had a good idea.
"Yes" she said calmly, smiling at the reaction her team was about to have.
"In fact, say hello to your new Commander".
Thank you for reading! I hope you were pleased with this reaction. I kinda wanted Rose to play around a bit, and be a bit cheeky. Hope you all liked it.
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