Far away from the Torchwood hub is a man. He sits on a cold, hard floor, but he cannot feel it. Tears fall from his eyes and onto his body, but he cannot feel them. His mind focuses on his grief, over and over again, until he's completely consumed. He stands up from the floor and throws everything around him to the ground in a pitiless rage. Glass crashes and shards are scattered around where he steps on them.

"Not fair... Not fair... NOT FAIR!" The Doctor screams, falling on the shards of glass and holding his knees to his chest, eyes tightly screwed shut. "It's never fair..."

"Awh... Now that's just not fair..." Finn whined as Rose and Cameron tossed his Egg back and forth over his head while he jumped pointlessly. "Give it!" He begged not unlike a five year-old.

Suddenly, in the midst of being tossed, the Egg buzzed and Cameron flicked it open. "Oh, a message. It from your girlfriend?"

"What girlfriend?" Finn snapped back, grabbing the Egg and reading. "It's from Violet."

"So it is from your girlfriend," Cam said, pointing his manic grin at Rose who giggled.

"I thought Torchwood would be a lot more serious than this," She noted, opening her own Egg and reading Violet's message which Finn had already forwarded to her.

"Oh, it is," Cameron explained, "We're just the fun side. Trust me, go somewhere else in this hub and you'll be with a bunch of stuck up snobs. Guaranteed."

"I believe you. Back in my un-" Rose stopped herself immediately, remembering that Cameron and Finn didn't know about her full background.

"Your what?" The two boys said simultaneously, looking up.

"Uh... My university. I went to... A er, university," She ran her hand through her hair nervously, a habit she had picked up from the Doctor.

"Oh, what university?"

"The university of... Univeriso. You wouldn't know it, it was a small place."

"Was?"

"Is, I meant is. Sorry, I'm just going to uh, go over... To my office," She said shyly, pointing towards her door and backing up into the wall next to her door. "Ow."

"But we have a job, did you read the message? Another scaley," Cameron said, staring at her curiously, as if trying to discover what she was hiding.

"Is Violet coming this time?" Rose asked them, trying to get off of the topic of her universe/university.

Finn gave a look to Cameron silently then looked back at Rose, "Er, no, she's not. Maybe next time. Anyways, let's go! My baby needs a spin anyways."

Rose was used to Finn calling his car his 'baby' by now. Honestly, it was a little creepy, the love he had for that vehicle. Whenever he wasn't sleeping, eating, or working, he was with the car. The three friends walked outside the Torchwood hub to the parking lot, Finn driving, Cameron standing up and holding a gun, and Rose sitting next to Finn tracking the lizard on her Egg.

For the entire duration of the lizard hunt, Rose didn't even give a thought to what would be on the camera back at her house. Although as soon as it was over, her thoughts drifted back to it. She was itching to get back home, even though working with Torchwood honestly wasn't as bad as she had expected it to be. For the second time, she killed the lizard creature by shooting it in the head. This time they kicked the body a few times to guarantee it was dead, as to not have a repeat of the previous time.

"Oh no no no be careful!" Finn exclaimed as Cam carelessly threw the lizard's body into the car.

"You can wash out lizard gunk. Probably," The other man returned, walking towards Rose. "Good job again, really glad we have you on the team." He stared down at his shirt and noticed the lizard slime all over him. "Want a hug?"

"Uh, I'll pass," Rose replied, backing away when Cameron tried to get closer to her. Suddenly, he started chasing her and Rose squealed, running in circles around the car while Cameron ran after her.

"Get a room you two," Finn said when Cam had finally caught Rose and she was squirming in his filth-covered arms.

"Oi!" She said, slipping away from Cam and jumping into the car.

Back at the Torchwood hub, it was still only 2:00. Rose was filling out more paperwork for her new position (it seemed like it would never end), when she got another message on the Egg.

'My office. -V.'

Rose got up and stretched a little, not used to working on paperwork for so long. She walked out the door and saw Cam and Finn leaving their offices to go to Violet's as well. They all walked in without a word and she looked up, feet on her desk and papers still scattered about. Her black hair was frizzy and she was wearing casual sweatpants with a T-shirt for a band Rose had never heard of. She looked a bit young for her age at the moment.

"Alright, listen you guys," Violet began, "There's some new activity from the rift. It's a pretty big spike in the graphs, and they sent two teams in there who haven't returned. Torchwood is getting a bit scared, so of course they call in the professionals." She said with a wink.

"7673 rules," Finn added.

"What's the threat?"

"No clue, the other teams didn't give in any data before, well, you know."

"We're on it," Cameron said confidently, turning around and exiting the office.

Unlike him, Rose and Finn thanked Violet first then left. They all hopped in the car, which had already been scrubbed free of lizard slime. How Finn had had the time to clean it, the other two had no idea. "You really should name your car," Rose suggested, breaking the awkward silence on the road.

"He does have a name for it," Cameron said, and Finn blushed a little, turning his head away from them.

"Shut up, no I don't."

"Go on, tell her Finny. I dare you."

"I don't have a name for her," Finn said defensively, keeping his eyes focused on the road.

"Ohhh. Her," Rose purred before bursting into laughter.

"In private he calls it 'sexy'," Cameron explained, laughing harder when Finn whacked him on the head.

But Rose wasn't laughing anymore. Painful flashbacks hit her hard, like a baseball bat to the head. Her eyes widened and her breaths got a little faster, and before she knew what was happening she was having a full-fledged panic attack. The Doctor with his TARDIS. The Doctor with Rose and his TARDIS. Them traveling together. Sarah Jane Smith and Rose talking about him stroking the TARDIS. Sarah Jane speaking about how the Doctor left her. The Doctor leaving Rose. Oh god, the Doctor, where was he? Why wasn't he here?

Cameron and Finn were still laughing for another minute before Cameron looked at Rose. "Rose, are you okay? Bloody hell Finn, stop the car. Rose! Snap out of it!"

Where was the Doctor?

A/N: Reviews make me smileee. Sorry this is late, by the way, I had Homecoming yesterday! It was super fun! Anyways, next chapter you'll see what was on the camera. I promise. And just for the record, none of you have guessed it in the reviews. ;)