AN: Here it is, chapter 3! Enjoy!

Chapter 3

Their lovemaking had been absolutely beautiful and amazing, something the Doctor had never experienced before. Obviously it had been ages since he'd last mated with a woman and somehow he had managed to forget how magnificent it felt. Granted, he had better things to do and more important things to worry about, but right now he desperately wanted to make love to Rose again. But she was still sleeping, no doubt regenerating from the intense mating session the night before. How long did humans need after mating before they could go again or woke up again? Weren't thirty hours more than enough? So the Doctor decided to make her some breakfast and wake her up.

A few minutes later he entered the bedroom with a plate of bacon and egg and some milk, all the essentials for a human body.

"Wake up, Rose. I've got breakfast, you need to feed." he whispered and brushed a finger over her brow. She was burning up! He immediately dropped the plate and sat down next to her. No matter how hard he shook her, what he whispered in her ear, she wouldn't wake up. He made the TARDIS do a full body scan, but the Scan failed, the results were inconclusive. There was nothing he could do, medically speaking. Nothing but try to lower her body temperature and never leave her side.

She spent a whole week asleep and with fever. Her temperature never lowered, the Scans never worked on her, but still he dared to hope. And then, exactly one week after that fateful night Rose opened her eyes. He was almost asleep next to her, grasping her left hand in both of his as if he needed something to ground him even in his sleep, when his bed-companion suddenly gasped and sat up.

"Rose? Are you alright?" he asked, also sitting up and framing her face with his hands.

"Doctor, something's wrong. What's wrong with me?" Her tone was pure panic, her eyes wide and unfocused. Quickly the Doctor pushed her back until she was lying down again and put his hand on her chest. On the right side of her chest, to be precisely. And he felt a steady heartbeat. On the right side of her chest. HER right side. Which was…..impossible to say at least. So he put his other hand on the other side of her chest, and there was another heartbeat. Two heartbeats, two hearts. The only species to have two hearts were Time Lords, and it was impossible for Rose to be a Time Lord, right?

"You have two hearts."

"Why do I have two hearts?"

"THAT, my love, is an excellent question. Because humans do NOT have two heartbeats. In fact, they don't have three either."

"Three?"

The two of them stared at his hand that rested on her stomach and was currently feeling a third heartbeat.

"This is going to sound really strange, but have you knocked me up, Doctor?"

The Doctor went really still. It couldn't be possible, could it? Then, most Time Lords didn't mate with humans. His father had, granted, but that was something else. Right? Oh, this was so not good. This was one big complication. But if she was pregnant, why could he feel two heartbeats?

"Oh I have a very bad feeling about this. Rose, my mother was born on earth but I'm all Time Lord. Now, it is possible that I knocked you up. Back on Gallifrey we couldn't get pregnant. Well, the female Time Lords couldn't get pregnant. Long story. But some of us mated with humans, my father included, and bred a new generation of Time Lords. I forgot all about it, but I guess you ARE pregnant now. And the child is a Time Lord. But that doesn't exactly explain why you have two hearts now. Oh God, I have a very bad idea."

Rose grabbed his hand, just staring at him and not saying anything. Clearly this was a little bit too much for her human brain.

"My Time Lord DNA is very superior and dominant to your ordinary human DNA. So the child is Time Lord. But your human body has to take care of the child, and it is very much not strong enough to do that. So the babies DNA has recognized your human DNA and….overwrote it. So to speak. You've been having a fever for the last seven days, I didn't understand why, but I think it was the time your body needed to completely rewrite his entire DNA to Time Lord DNA. Meaning you, my dear Rose, are now a Time Lord."

First there was complete silence. Then a loud slap echoed through the TARDIS when Rose's hand connected painfully with the Doctor's cheek.

"Definitely Jackie's daughter." he mumbled, rubbing his burning cheek and moving away a bit.

"You little space-travelling peace of shit! You knocked me up! I'm only twenty and you. Knocked. Me. Up! Why didn't you use a condom or something! Don't you Time Lords use protection?"

"Us Time Lords don't really mate with humans much. And it's not like I needed much protection these last….few hundred years."

"Yeah, neither did I." silence. "So, what exactly are we going to do now? I mean, we can't exactly fight aliens with me being pregnant and then with the baby being a newborn? Are you going to drop me off at earth and visit all few months? Because that would be very cruel. And low, even for you."

"Rose, I promised you that I would NEVER leave you behind, and I stand by my word. Besides, us Time Lords, which somehow includes you now, don't have long pregnancies. Four weeks tops. And then the child will be an adult in fifteen to twenty years. That's nothing in the life of a Time Lord. We could just go to earth for a few years and wait until our child is old enough and travel with him. We have so many opportunities. Oh, this is scary."

"YOU find this scary? Hello? I'm the human turned Time Lord who is pregnant with your child. This is….so much. Too much for me. I think I might throw up."

She didn't, thanks God, but she started to cry. The Doctor pulled her into him and hugged her as if his life depended on it. Although he had seen many things in his long life, this was something completely new and completely different. He couldn't even begin to understand how Rose must feel. Her whole existence had been turned upside down, only because he couldn't control himself and had to taste the forbidden fruit. Taste was a bit of an understatement, come to think of it. Although tasting had definitely been involved. No, don't go there. Don't think about it. But he couldn't NOT think about it, especially now that Rose was in his arms, her front pressed to his chest, breasts included. And now he was getting turned on again. Which was not good given the current situation.

"Doctor, please tell me that it's your screwdriver that's pressing against my stomach."

"It's my screwdriver?"

"Not very convincing." Rose blushed and tried to move away from him, but he held her firmly in place.

"Rose, I know this is a lot to take in, but please don't get too mad at me. I'm incredibly happy about this, I've always wanted another Time Lord to travel with me, and now I will have two. There has never been anyone else that I would've liked to become a Time Lord more than you. You mean so much to me, Rose, and I want to be with you. With you and with our child. Is that…would that be okay for you?"

Rose didn't even give him the time to say anything else, she flung herself at him and began to kiss him senseless.