Hope everyone is enjoying my first Doctor Who story, please review, that is the only way I can know how to improve or keep doing as I write this. And as always please keep them polite and professional please. I will remove rude and crude remarks that are offense and not useful. Thank you.

Kerioke

Chapter Three: The New Torchwood pt. 1

They arrived at the Tyler's mansion half an hour later, the light coming from the front den was warm and inviting, the butler opened the front entrance allowing the entrance hall to illuminate the steps leading up into the home. Pete pulled up to the front door and let everyone get out saying he'd meet them in the den in a few minutes. The family moved into the house quietly, Jackie excused herself to go put Toby back in his crib for the night. Rose and the Doctor moved into the den and took a seat on the loveseat, her head laying upon his shoulder in exhaustion. His hand found hers and tangled his fingers with hers, his thumb caressing the skin beneath it in soft strokes lulling her into a light sleep.

Jackie crept quietly down the stairs, as she came in view of the den she stopped and leaned against the door frame smiling at the peaceful faces of the two sitting on the loveseat. Pete came in the front door and chuckled softly at the sight, he kissed her hair and moved them into the room as well and sat down on the couch, the movement woke the Doctor from his doze and smiled at them. After a few moments of comfortable silence the Doctor stroked the side of her cheek gently bringing her back to consciousness.

'Oi, I was having such a lovely dream, why'd ya wake me up?'

'I believe your parents wish to speak to us for the movement, you're not gonna make me endure that all by myself now are you?'

'Oi, what are you trying to say, Spaceman?!' Jackie scrunched up her face in irritation.

Rose gave a soft giggle at her mom's expense and sat upright to show she was awake and listening.

'So the new Torchwood is ready to be activated for real now that the old one has been reduced to rubble.'

'Sorry to interrupt you, Pete, but what do you mean 'activate' the new Torchwood?'

'Well, since the old one was being corrupted by people who don't have an extensive, or more so, a more extensive idea of how to deal with outside life forms, we decided to take some extra precautions in case we were found out while in the process of rebuilding we created a failsafe locking system with four individual card keys, Rose, Jackie, myself, and Mickey; if used alone the keys each can open the main door, but can only unlock the field areas assigned to the card holder. When used all at once, one at each of the four entrances, they will unlock all entrances and areas within the building. The only way to override the locks without using our four keys is to use this key...'

Pete got up and pulled a key from around his neck and unlocked a door beside the crackling fireplace where the Doctor saw a safe hidden. After a few seconds Pete opened the safe and pulled out a clear box where a gold key lay in a center slot; Pete handed the box to Rose who pulled another key from around her neck that resembled the TARDIS key he had given her a long time ago. She unlocked the clear box and took the key from within and held it out to him.

'This is the master key to the whole institute and it belongs to you. Nobody but the three of us know of its existence, not even Mickey knew. The only area within the building that even our keys won't open is the one that contains any form of transportation between universes and worlds throughout this universe as well. None of us felt anyone else had a right to that field except or you. The key is yours if you want it, if not we will lock it back up and keep the keys to it separate and safe.' Pete looked expectantly at the Doctor.

'Well, I suppose that since you went to all the trouble to make me such an important key, it wouldn't hurt to take a look and see what this new Torchwood is all about. But not tonight, we are all tired and in need of a proper rest.' He stood from the seat and pulled Rose up with him, 'Where can we sleep for the night?'

'In Rose's room of course, and if you want to sleep separately the room across from hers is a ready guest room that you are more than welcome to. Rose will show you the way; and don't sleep in too long you two, we are going to go into town in the morning and get Dr. John Smith here a proper wardrobe for this world, can't have him running around in that same suit every day.' Jackie sniffed snobbishly.

Rose took his hand and led him upstairs after saying goodnight to her parents. They went down the East Wing for a little ways until they came to an old-fashioned wooden door with iron hinges, she looked up at him curiously, 'Do you want to stay with me tonight?'

'My dear Rose, as much as I'd like to I think it would be best if I take the guest bedroom for now. Get some sleep, I'll see you in the morning.' He took her face into his hands and kissed her forehead then turned for the guest room across the hall.

Rose watched him enter the other room with only a quick glance over his shoulder at her one last time and flashed his cheesy grin at her before shutting the door, she smiled at his antics then went into her own room. She went to the dresser and pulled out the PJs that she always left over when ever she'd stay the night watching Toby when her parents went out for date night. Taking the sleepwear into the small adjourning bathroom she washed up and dressed for bed. The king sized bed that had been provided to her when she first came to this world felt fabulous after all they had been through since she went after her Doctor, her eyes floated shut and sleep fell upon her the second her head hit the pillow, just like in every cheesy story she'd ever read.

The TARDIS jolted to a halt knocking herself and the Doctor to the ground as usual, you'd think by know they would have thought to hold on better when the TARDIS was grounding herself in whatever time and place they'd chosen as their next adventure, but no they kept on flying into the floor. Standing up she brushed herself off and looked at him expectantly then at the door, impatient as always to see what lie behind it. He nodded for her to go ahead and take a look so she ran to the door and swung them open only to be blinded by bright sunlight bouncing off soft waves of sea water. The strangest thing was though, she saw herself standing on the beach talking to the Doctor much like the time she had many months ago on that beach the first time in Norway.

'I...I love you!' the other Rose cried only slightly stumbling over her words as sobs choked her momentarily.

'Quite right...and I suppose if it's the last time I can say it, Rose Tyler...'

He didn't get to finish his sentence as he faded from view, and her other self clutched her stomach in such agony she thought she was surely going to fall over.

Rose jolted up from the pillow, tears were running down her face; she would have given anything to have just dreamt a different nightmare than to dream about the day her Doctor first left her on that beach. She got up from her bed and crept across the hall and knocked on his door, no reply came so she quietly opened it but didn't succeed as the old door creaked from disuse waking the man in bed who looked up at her with concern.

'Rose, what's the matter?'

'I had a bad dream, I don't want to be alone.'

He motioned for her to join him on the large bed, she moved quickly to his side and crawled under the raised covers and snuggled close to his warmth, her head resting where is shoulder connected to his chest, he wrapped his arm around her and hugged her close to him. He let her breathe him in for a moment, he taking in the lavender scent coming from her hair.

'What did you have a dream about?'

'That day on the beach...the first time. If felt so real, but I was watching everything from someone else's point of view. But I felt the pain all over again like it was happening again, I can't lose you for another time, I don't think I could survive it.' She looked up at his face, 'I almost lost you the other day to that Dalek, I was so frightened then, I'd finally found you and I was watching you die in my arms.'

'I wouldn't have died, just regenerated, it'll take more than Dalek exterminate beam to kill the Doctor.'

'I know, but you wouldn't have been My Doctor anymore, you would have changed. I didn't want you to change.'

'Don't worry, I won't ever change on you, not ever again.' He kissed her forehead and held her tighter in an attempt to reassure her that he would always be there for her.

She closed her eyes and soon fell back to sleep, he soon fell asleep again too and they stayed like that all night, finding peace in each other's embrace.

AN: So I'm bouncing a few ideas around in my head trying to see which way would be more fun to take this story. I want to keep it close to how the real characters act in the series, but at the same time since I'm using the Doctor's duplicate with Rose it can go so many different ways, because technically Rose's story ends with our Doctor on the beach and we never find out what happens after he left. Now, I've read several stories with the Doctor duplicate and Rose, but haven't really enjoyed the ones where they give him a different personality than the one we all know and love from the show, not saying that the stories are bad, actually they are usually pretty good and I like the plot lines, but I just can't get the feel for their versions of the Doctor. What do you say?