White Lies

Summary: She had planned to tell him, really she had. But then she saw the hint of fear that flickered in eyes and she knew the truth would hurt him too much and so she lied.

Chapter 1

Louise was hurrying down the street, trying to ward off the cold and rain with only an umbrella and the thin jacket she had chosen to wear that day, when the blonde haired girl and dark skinned man suddenly materialized in a flash crackling light right in front of her on the darkening street. Both were quickly drenched in the down pouring of rain that had been occurring for most of the day though neither seemed to notice instead the man seemed completely focused on his companion. Louise watched as the man tightened his arm around his friend and turned his head to ask her something, at her nod he turned to scanned the area around them, barely taking notice of Louise. Finally deciding on a direction to head in, the pair set off slowly with the man clearly supporting the fair haired female. Louise continued watching the strange pair until they were out of sight, and with a shake of her head she continued quickly on her way, clearly she needed to get home and warmed up for she must be seeing things.

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Sarah Jane was enjoying one last cup of tea before she retired to bed for the night when a knock at her door surprised her from her musings. Wondering who would be crazy enough to be out in this weather she cautiously checked who was at her door before swinging it wide open when she saw the familiar faces of Mickey Smith and Rose Tyler.

"What are you two doing here? Quick come in before you freeze" she greeted as she quickly ushered the pair into her living room where she had a fire going. It was only has she took their wet coats did she notice Rose's swollen stomach.

"You're pregnant?" she asked in a shocked voice.

"Yeah" Rose replied in an exhausted voice.

At this point Mickey stepped in to save Rose from the questions he could see forming on the older woman's lips.

"We need to warm Rose up and make her comfortable and then we will explain everything we promise"

"Alright, how does a hot shower sound" Sarah Jane asked directing her question towards Rose

At Rose's small nod Sarah Jane begun giving her directions on where to find the bathroom and clean towels until Mickey stopped her.

"She is going to need a hand; she'll feel more comfortable if it was you that helped her"

At Sarah's confused glance, he continued

"We will explain soon. While you do that I'll make us all some tea okay?"

And without waiting for a respond he turned and headed for the kitchen.

Glancing after him Sarah just shrugged her shoulders and turned towards Rose.

"Alright then let's get you warmed up then"

"Thank you Sarah Jane" Rose replied with a small smile. Before slowly following the older woman towards the stairs.

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Once in the bathroom Sarah Jane got the shower going while Rose got undressed. So it wasn't until Sarah turned around that she noticed the state Rose was in, there were large bruises covering her stomach and arms and Sarah could see more of Rose's ribs then was healthy. It was clear that the young woman had lost a great deal of weight very quickly.

"Oh my gosh Rose, what happened?" Sarah asked in shock.

"I'm having a bit of trouble carrying the baby, thankfully she is a strong little thing or I probably would have lost her already" Rose replied with a small smile before stepping under the warm water and effectively ending the conversation.

Sarah Jane took the hint and busied herself with just assisting the exhausted mother-to-be with her shower, it was quickly apparent that Rose was exhausted and had very little strength, how she had even managed to get this far Sarah wasn't sure.

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Soon Rose and Sarah were back downstairs with Rose rugged up and in front of the fire. Mickey had made the tea he had promised and Sarah was ready for some answers.

"Alright what is going on?"

"It's a bit of a long story, promise not to interrupt until we are done?" Mickey asked placing his tea down on the coffee table.

At Sarah's nod he sat back and begun speaking

"Remember when we had that trouble with the Daleks and Cybermen at Canary Wharf about six months ago? Well Rose and the Doctor were there and they eventually saved the day but not until Rose nearly got sucked into void between universes, her father from one of these other universes saved her at the very last second but it meant she was stuck in that world. The doctor couldn't reach her but at least she had her mother and me.

But what no one, not even Rose realised at the time was that she was pregnant. Everything was okay at first, she was fairly sick but everyone ensured us that that was normal, it wasn't until she entered the second trimester that the doctor started to worry. It turns out carrying a time tot isn't that easy if you are a human"

"Time tot as it in Time Lord? The baby belongs to the Doctor?" interrupted a shocked Sarah Jane looking at Rose only to find she had drifted off to sleep.

"Questions at the end remember but yes the Doctor is the father" Mickey reminded their host before continuing with his story.

"As Rose got sicker and sicker, everyone grew more worried. She couldn't keep anything down and was losing weight at an alarming rate even once she was hospitalised. She needed a IV continually just to keep her hydrated and the only thing she seemed to be able to stomach at all was bananas and then only in small amounts. Then the baby's growth started to fall behind, of course no one has any experience with a human/time lord pregnancy so we were even sure if this was normal or not. They didn't even know how long until the baby would be considered full term. The only person we knew of that would have any idea was in a parallel universe, luckily for Rose her dad was now the director of that's world's Torchwood and he had his best men working on finding a way of jumping dimensions again.

Of course the best course of action would have been to bring the Doctor to Rose but we were running out of time and our scientist couldn't guarantee a return trip so in the end it was decided to bring Rose to this world and hope we could find the Doctor once we were here".

Here Mickey paused and waited for Sarah's response, but the journalist was still trying to process everything she had heard. Parallel universes she could understand, the ability to jump between these worlds she could understand too but it was the knowledge that Rose's baby was part time lord that she struggled with. So many questions surrounded this piece of information that she didn't even know what to ask first so instead she just asked.

"What do you need from me?"

"We need a way to contact the Doctor, you're the only person we know of that may know how to do that"

Sarah mulled over this request for a moment before replying.

"I don't, but I know someone who might. Come with me" and leaving Rose sleeping peacefully on the couch they made their way upstairs.

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Upon entering the attic Sarah Jane announced to the room

"Mr Smith, I need you"

It was Mickey's turn to be shocked as he watched music sounded and the wall parted to reveal a large and complicated looking computer.

"Yes Sarah Jane" asked a computerised voice.

"Can you contact the Doctor? It seems we have a situation on our hands" Sarah asked

"Of course Sarah Jane, just a moment please" the computer answered politely.

There was quiet with only the computer quietly humming in the background.

"Message sent Sarah Jane, it may take time for him to receive it though"

"Thank you Mr Smith, that will be all" Sarah replied, dismissing the computer.

Turning to the still shocked Mickey she said

"Now we wait" and with that she lead the way back downstairs to the sleeping Rose.