A/N- Requested on Tumblr "Doomsday AU babyfic"
"There's five of us now; me, mum, dad, mickey…and the baby"
"You're not…?"
"No, it's Mum…"
She hated herself.
'Why had she lied?' She thought.
She asked herself every morning, every time she looked in the mirror or saw her reflection in a window, every night before she fell asleep. It was worse after her baby was born. She couldn't look into her deep brown eyes without feeling the stabbing pains of of guilt. She loved her daughter more than she thought was possible, but the love was tinged with sadness.
Her daughter was 3 when she asked about her Dad.
"Do I have a Daddy?" The little girl asked innocently over dinner one night.
"Of course you do." Rose said brightly, trying to mask the guilt that had suddenly arisen. "Where is he?" The girl asked, her eyes sparkling with inquisition.
Rose took a deep sigh, and counted to 3 before replying, "He's far away, very far away. If he could be here he would be, I promise."
That's all she could manage without crying.
"What's he like?" The girl asked, determined for answers.
"He's…he's the most important man in the universe. In all of them. He's The Doctor, and he is…absolutely fantastic." Rose said with a genuine smile, "And one day, we will be with him again." She said with a new found but absolute confidence. She had no idea where it had come from but she liked it.
The next day at work she was summoned to Pete's office, where he told her with a smile, "The dimension canon has started working, it's time for you to go and find The Doctor."
When Rose went to pick her daughter up from nursery that night she swung her round and placed a big kiss on her nose before telling her with pure, unadulterated joy "We're going home!"