Rose let go of Finn who could stand on his own now and walked in front of Julie. "What do you mean, he's dead? The Doctor isn't dead," She spat.

The Master placed a hand on Rose's shoulder, "Rose, it's very possible that he may be dead."

"He's not dead," She chuckled coldly, as if it was a joke. "I'd know if he was dead."

"That's a dumb ape- I mean human superstition that you'd know when the man you love is dead," The Master said to her before turning back to the Officer. "How'd he die?"

"Nobody's sure. He left a death note. Well, we're assuming it's a death note. It's in Gallifreyan, we can't read it. However our best translating machines were able to read a few words of it," Julie explained, reaching into his pocket.

Rose turned around quickly to see that Finn and Cameron were leaning against the door behind her, staring with their eyes wild with curiousity. Her face paled when she saw Julie produce a piece of paper from his pocket with Gallifreyan writing on it. It was a half-slip and torn in a few places, including a fairly large hole in the middle. She stared at it over the Master's shoulder when it was placed in front of him. The Master read the paper then looked up, but Rose continued staring at it.

"It's starting to translate to English..." She mumbled, frustrated. The English letters were just barely beginning to replace the Gallifreyan circles, but entire words would not form.

"The TARDIS translation circuits, they're not working?" The Master asked her.

"They don't work if the Doctor is out of the loop... Like a missing wire," Rose explained, squinting her eyes at the paper and getting closer. "I can see a few letters... I see my name."

"It's not a death note," The Time-Lord turned to Julie and grinned. "Your 'best translators' could use a little work."

Rose looked up at him. "Then what does it say?"

The Master cleared his throat and began to read the words on the note with ease.

Dear Master,

If you're reading this, then you're with Rose Tyler. Keep her safe. The TARDIS let me know you would be coming. It probably won't do me any good to say this, but I should warn you anyways; don't come for me. Don't tell Rose that I wrote this, I'm trying to keep her safe. It's better that she never hears from me again than sees the...

"A lot of it is torn apart, hold on," The Master mumbled. "Could you un-cuff me? I'd like to get a closer look at the paper without looking like a begging dog on my knees. Oh, okay, it continues here."

Remember... Shadow Proc... I wish you the best of luck with this, and hope you won't publicize my location. Attached is the address at which I'm staying, only come if you or Rose is hurt. I apologize for the vagueness of this letter and can only hope you'll take into consideration the words above. Also note the address attached is in the regular universe, not Pete's world, since I can't go back there.

Sincerely,

The Doctor

"Rassilon, his stupid cursive is hard to read," The Master mumbled when he was done reading. "I had to guess a few of those words, since they were gone. But I think I got it mostly right."

Rose took a deep breath and stared at Julie, she whispered quietly, "Where's the attachment? There's only a paperclip on there."

"I don't know," Julie answered honestly. "So it's not a death note?"

"Not a death note. Just a letter to me. Shouldn't have even read it out loud to her," He gestured towards Rose.

Rose grabbed his arm and turned him towards her, "Look, Peter-"

The Master interrupted, "It's the Master, actually." He saw her look of anger and muttered, "Peter... Whatever."

"Look, Master, you're not going to hide any information from me, all right? Now, I need to know, that is everything you could decipher, right? Don't hide a thing from me," She said, staring him directly in the eyes.

He nodded in response without a moment's hesitation. Then he looked back at the note and asked Julie, "Where did you find this? We need to find the attachment to find where he is."

"It was mailed anonymously to our main base in the other universe. I can send you all the information we have on it, but it's not much."

Rose was about to speak but the Master continued, "Wait. When it was mailed to you, was the attachment there?"

Julie blinked several times before tugging at his shirt collar and clearing his throat. "The attachment was present on the paper, yes... It was also written in Gallifreyan."

It took Rose a moment to comprehend what the man had said. "You lost it?!"

"We may have... Er, misplaced..."

The Master took a step back as Rose approached Julie, now only inches away from his face. "You lost the only possible chance I had at getting back to him?! You're going to pay you filthy, stupid, und-"

"I think she may go on like this for a while," The Master whispered to Cameron and Finn, who were still watching the scene.

"What the hell is happening right now?" Finn asked without even looking at the Master.

The Time-Lord laughed, "Isn't it obvious? Rose is about to kick his butt."

"JERK!" Rose finished her speech and slapped the Officer square across the face. He clutched his cheek and made a tiny whimper at the impact.

"It wasn't my fault!" Julie insisted. "Taking a letter through parallel worlds is messy, parts of it were bound to go missing."

"Then why did you even take it?!" She spat at him.

"We needed the Master to translate it. And, well, he has a habit of getting away from us. We didn't want to take any risks."

"You know," The Master began. "You keep saying 'we', where is the rest of the Shadow Proccies? Am I that intimidating?"

Julie looked away. "Er... Well, the trip through worlds, like I said, is messy..."

Rose's eyes widened, "They're dead?!"

"Yes. That or lost throughout time and space. But, it is getting late here, what do you say we all get a good night's sleep and tomorrow we ca-" Julie smiled a little and tried to convince them, only to be cut off by Rose.

"You want to sleep?! I'm not sleeping when there's a chance that I could find the Doctor right now!" She exclaimed.

The Master sighed, "Rose, it is late, and I'm exhausted. Traveling through parallel worlds is tiring."

"But, the Doctor is-"

"Oh, go to bed," The Master pulled a tiny syringe out of his pocket and put it into Rose's shoulder, causing her to slump unconscious in a few seconds.

Cameron caught her and pulled her into both his arms, carrying her wedding-style. "What did you give her?" He demanded to know.

"It'll just make her sleep for a while. Trust me, she wouldn't have gotten any rest otherwise. Now..." The Master looked at the Shadow Proclamation Officer. "I don't know about you, but I have no place to rest. Er, Cameron, was it? Do you know where Rose lives?"

"Uh... I'll drive you there, I guess..."

A/N: Hi guys! I understand that this story is starting to get a teensy bit confusing, so I'm going to put a short summary right here. I hope it helps anyone who may have questions about what is happening so far. :)

Summary:

The Doctor left Rose in 'Pete's World' a.k.a. a parallel world since he said he couldn't travel back there for her. Both of her parents, Pete and Jackie Tyler, live there with her, and she quickly becomes depressed because of the Doctor's absence. Soon she accepts a job at Torchwood, an institute that fights aliens that leak through the Rift, a crack between dimensions. At Torchwood she meets Cameron and Finn who are members of her team, along with Violet who is her quiet and mysterious team leader. Also, Rose discovers a brown package on her bed containing a single rose. On the outside of the package is her name written in Gallifreyan, a language only known by the Time-Lords. She suspects that the Doctor is leaving these flowers and continues her job at Torchwood while getting a mysterious flower a day. Her mother, Jackie, suggests they set up a camera to see how the package gets there, and when Jackie checks the footage she sees that the flowers appear with a flash of blue light. Rose doesn't see what was on the camera because she's busy at Torchwood, since there was a strange jump in rift activity. On the way to the source of the rift activity, she has triggered panic attacks because of things that Finn and Cameron say that remind her of the Doctor, like 'Allons-y' and 'I call her sexy.' When she and her team finally investigate the activity, she discovers the Master, an insane Time-Lord who is out searching for the Doctor as well. The Doctor and the Master are revealed to have a very strange relationship, in which the Master hates him yet looks for him because he is worried sick about the Doctor's welfare. Soon they find that another man also entered Pete's World, an officer from the Shadow Proclamation sent to hunt down the Master. The officer, Julie, has a note from the Doctor but can't translate it since it's written in Gallifreyan. The Master translates the bits and pieces from the note and informs them that the Doctor is gone and left Rose for her own good. However, pieces are missing from the note such as the Doctor's location. The Doctor begs the Master and Rose not to come looking for him unless there is a major emergency, though as soon as they find the missing location they plan to find him anyways.