This chapter turned out completely differently than I planned, and I am really sorry, but there is no conference in this chapter. I could have made the whole chapter longer, but seeing I promised I would update today, I decided to update this without the Torchwood conference. I hope that's okay. Enjoy!

Rose and the Doctor woke up at about 4 in the morning, completely refreshed. They only needed about 5 hours of sleep, and were perfectly to have a movie marathon (the Doctor wanted to watch Lion Queen-this universe's version of Lion King). So Rose made hot chocolate and they sprawled themselves out on the sofa, cuddling and giggling and simply talking (while Simba sang his heart out). They were roused by Tony coming in at around 6 in the morning, poking his head cautiously around the door. "Why aren't you asleep?" Rose asked her brother affectionately, as he crept onto her lap (which was fine with her, but the Doctor sighed inwardly at the added weight; Rose was already on his lap.)

Tony grinned wickedly. "Ran away from Mummy" he said. Rose raised her eyebrows.

"Why's Mummy up?"

Tony shrugged. "Said she wanted to see the Doctor go to work and laugh at him for being so domestic. But she said I wasn't meant to tell you that". He said seriously, as Rose struggled to hold in her laugh. The Doctor looked affronted, but rolled his eyes good naturedly.

"Whatcha watching?" Tony asked with interest, making himself even more comfortable.

"Disney movies. We have to start getting ready in half an hour and you have to go to kindy, but you can watch with us for a bit."

Tony grinned happily at his sister and watched the movie with them, occasionally singing along. Ten minutes later Jackie burst in.

"Have you seen T-"

She stopped and smiled at the sight before her. Rose had his arms around Rose's waist, and she was sprawled comfortably in his lap. She, in return, held Tony, who was leaning his head against her shoulder. The three of them looked perfectly content and peaceful, watching Disney movies at 6 in the morning. Her barging in the room caused a disturbance and the perfect image was finished. Tony jumped of Rose's lap; and Rose entwined herself from the Doctor.

Tony jumped up and hid behind the Doctor, who laughed and picked the little boy up. Rose grinned, touched by the image of the Doctor holding a little boy on his shoulders. He looked so very much like a father.

"Get down from there mister, It's time for kindergarten" Jackie scolded good naturedly. Tony shook his head. Suddenly Jackie had a thought. "How long has he been here?" She wondered if tony had said specifically what she told him not to say.

The Doctor raised his eyebrows. "Enough to tell me that you couldn't wait to see me go completely domestic" he told Jackie dryly, but there was unconcealed mirth in his eyes. Jackie smiled slightly.

"I told them you told me not to tell anyone" Tony piped up, and Jackie groaned theatrically. Rose laughed and walked over to pick Tony of the Doctor's shoulders.

"We should get ready" she told the Doctor. Jackie took the hint.

"I'll leave you two to it. Pete's leaving at the usual time." She took her son by the hand and exited the room with a smile.

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Breakfast was actually quite fun; there was no tension in the air and no nervousness either. Pete, Jackie Rose and the Doctor joked about aliens and outer space and Tony added the random detail when he felt like it. It was almost disappointing when the meal ended, the atmosphere had been so bright.

Rose however, didn't mind too much that breakfast was over; she was excited about getting back to torchwood with the Doctor. She was somewhat surprised that he seemed excited too, because she had thought that something as domestic as a job wouldn't seem very appealing to him.

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The atmosphere as Pete drove to Torchwood had been the same as at the breakfast table. Pete joked about his job, and about the things for the Doctor to expect. As soon as they parked, they took Pete's private lift up to his office, to retrieve the Doctor's Torchwood pass that he would need. He had already been scanned into the Torchwood security systems, and that only left the conference to cover. Pete, however, needed to see Max in his office first, to talk about yesterday and assure him that the Doctor was no threat, but the opposite. Rose and the Doctor left and decided to stop by the lab and say hello to Heidi.

Heidi greeted them with huge enthusiasm, thrilled to see her two friends. She had heard all about the incident the day before, Eddie had called her and filled her in. She knew that Max was in deep trouble and that the doctor would probably shake up things at Torchwood quite a bit, but couldn't hide the fact that she was extremely excited to work with him. Rose told her that the doctor would also be a Commander, and she wondered whether or not he would have his own team or work with Rose. Either way she couldn't wait.

Her excitement grew as the Doctor wandered over to her shelf and started looking at some alien artefacts, which she had been trying to identify. He picked up a small oval shaped board, which seemed to be made of Styrofoam. When Heidi had tried to pierce through it with a sharp kitchen however, it had been the knife and not the object that had been dented. He had studied it for weeks, and still couldn't figure out what it was.

But the Doctor picked it up with intrigue. "Amazing!" he said as he looked over it, turning it around in his hand.

"You know what it is?" Heidi piped up with interest.

The Doctor nodded confidently. "Of course I do! This is an optical techno field from the planet Cartzua in the J-x565 system of the pod 5 universe. One of their best inventions."

Seeing that both Rose and Heidi had barely understood anything, he sighed. "It's used as a healing instrument" he explained. "Everyone on Cartzua has quite bad constitutions. It's strange, because you would think their bodies would adapt to environmental over thousands of years, and I suppose they are, slowly." He looked up, and realised that Rose was grinning. "Am I rambling again?" he asked her, his voice seemingly innocent.

"Yup!" Rose said simply. The Doctor smiled slightly and continued, trying to narrow as much down as possible.

"But their bodies aren't evolving and adapting quickly enough, which make them prone to all sorts of infections, diseases and disorders. But also fairly common thing that have to do with appearance and eyesight and such. This is a surgical instrument, meant for the population, to correct eyesight…a bit like glasses I suppose. Only in this case it's made up from lots of tiny little computer chips, which start functioning when programmed with a single cell gene or strand of DNA. They are operated into the body, and ensure perfect eyesight for whoever has it."

"What do the people there look like?" Heidi asked. She couldn't help thinking that people must be huge on that planet, if that was what they called a teeny computer chip.

The Doctor smiled at Heidi's question, already guessing what she was thinking.

"The people there are tiny" he said. "Maybe about the size of your arm…they have a basic humanoid appearance, but have huge black eyes and puffy faces. The big eyed soft toy dogs they sell here remind me of them".

"But then how das that chip fit?" Heidi persisted.

"Ah, you see, this isn't a chip; this pod contains about a billion of them. That's why the packaging around it is so secure, they didn't want people stealing them…that could have caused the planets downfall. They can only be opened by a specialised code. This must have somehow fallen through the rift."

Rose nodded. "That's how we found it." She said. The rift was suddenly extremely active and all this random stuff came through. Most of it was assigned to our tech department."

The Doctor nodded and was about to open his mouth again, when Rose interrupted. "Listen, you'll have plenty of time to chat later. Right now, we have a conference to go to."

Heidi nodded. "All of Torchwood is talking about it" she said. "Somehow it got out that Torchwood would get a new commander, and that's major news for absolutely everybody. Even the secretaries are talking about it."

"Typical." Rose said, rolling her eyes. "Wonder how they'll react this time." She opened the door and the three of them walked down the corridor.

"It doesn't matter how they react" The Doctor told Rose quietly. He wasn't worried, but sensed that Rose was starting to get a little nervous. He could feel it, literally. They had bonded that night they had made love for the first time, and her presence was now always at the back of his mind and he could feel faint feelings come through. He understood why Rose was so nervous-not only for him but about her behaviour now. The way she acted at Torchwood was completely different to the way she actually was, and she was worried how people would react when they learned that the Rose Tyler they thought they had known was actually a completely different person inside.

Well however Torchwood reacted, the two of them would get through it. They always did.

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