When she came downstairs in the morning the table was covered in paperwork in his circular handwriting. He heard her come into the kitchen and looked up and smiled at her.

"Morning," He said cheerfully as he reached over and grabbed one of the papers and crossed out a section.

"Morning," She replied. "Thank you for not listening to me last night."

"You're welcome, and about that." He took his glasses off and leaned back in his chair as she sat down across from him with a cup of coffee. "You are welcome to come into my room anytime you want to Rose, you can stay however long you want and go as far as you feel comfortable. I won't push you or force you to go any further then you are willing. But you come into my room drunk, I can guarantee you that I will only stay long enough to make sure you are asleep and then you will wake up alone."

"I'll hold you to that," She smiled at him with her tongue sticking slightly out.

"Have you told anyone what happened?" He asked her seriously.

"No."

"I thought not, you should have talked to somebody Rose."

"Oh yeah and tell them the man I am trying to get back to forced me. That would have gone over well."

"What was that?" Pete said coming into the kitchen.

"N-Nothing," Rose stammered.

"No, I heard what you said. You said he forced you." Pete replied angrily.

"It was a misunderstanding Daddy, I swear. He told me he was going to and I didn't believe him."

"And you just made things worse," He said quietly. "Rose, I think me and your dad should talk alone, okay?"

"All right, I'll just go and get ready for work." She stood up and hurried out of the room.

Pete sat in her vacated spot and stared him straight in the eye. "Explain, because I am not a violent man Doctor but right now I could kill you and not think twice about it. In fact from what Rose tells me, I would be able to kill you several times."

"You know Rose was traveling with me," he began and Pete nodded. "I took her to this beautiful planet. I meant to get there at the actual harvest festival, I swear I didn't go to the spring festival on purpose. The Harvest festival is a lot more fun, there are games and always a lot of exotic fruits to try. They grow food for most of the planets in their system."

"You're rambling," Pete interrupted him.

"As soon as we landed on the planet and stepped off the Tardis. They chose us to participate in their rituals. Every year they choose two off worlders to consummate to celebrate the upcoming harvest and if the two refuse then their blood is spilled to preserve the harvest instead. We couldn't leave because we were being guarded, and I couldn't let her die."

Pete just stared at him as though he were trying to figure out whether or not he believed him.

"I tried to explain what they wanted us to do. She just didn't believe me. I swear I wouldn't have otherwise."

"I believe you, this time." Pete said finally. "But I can guarantee you if I hear it has happened again, I won't hesitate to kill you."

"I would let you." He muttered. He leaned forward and grabbed one of the papers on the table and scratched out part of it.

"So what is all this," Pete asked gesturing at the table. "Jackie will be down soon with Tony for breakfast and won't be happy the table is covered."

"I'll clean it up. I was just trying to figure out how to accelerate the growth of the Tardis without damaging her integrity. Donna's idea will work to speed it up, but the first time we go out, she'll destroy the earth, if I don't fix this." He picked up all the papers and stacked them neatly in front of him.

Jackie came into the room and saw them staring at each other. "What's this all about. You two fighting all ready. I told you to be nice Pete." She chuckled.

"We were just discussing the Doctor coming to work for me at Torchwood."

"Were we." He asked surprised.

"You're going to be here for awhile. You are going to need a job. You can stay here for as long as you would like but if you want anything you are going to need money to buy it."

"You want me to work for you?"

"It will be fun," Rose said coming back into the kitchen. She was wearing black jeans and a light blue blouse with combat boots. She had pulled her blond hair back into a loose ponytail. He stared at her open mouthed for a moment before pulling himself together.

"You work for Torchwood too?" He asked her.

"Yep." She replied," Come on at least give it a try before just saying no."

He just nodded at her as the full weight of his decision came crashing down. He was going to be domestic.