Chapter 2! Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and please if you read it do reveiw! I love you all.
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Rose's eyes widened. "Your mother?!" she gasped. All he could do was nod. "But… But… Surely… but she's human! Isn't she?"
"Yeah," he said quietly. This made no sense to Rose.
"But… you're a Time Lord! Your parents can't be human!"
"My mother's human, my father's Gallifreyan. I'm half human." Rose's mouth fell open. Before she could answer, Jack came running into the room.
"Here you are!" he gasped, "I've been looking all over for you! Sorry I'm late, I tried flirting with her but turns out she's married and pregnant… oh well. Anyway, what's happening here?" Rose looked at the Doctor, who looked as if he was about to be sick.
"You… flirted with her?"
"Yeah!" Jack said it almost proudly. "Why? Who is she?" He noticed the photo the Doctor was holding, and walked up next to him and looked at the photo. "What the… is that her??" The Doctor didn't answer, and walked back over to the table and picked the box up. "But… who was the guy? Wait, is she you're girlfriend or something??" The Doctor rolled his eyes.
"She's my mother," he said. Jack blinked.
"But you're an alien! How is she you mother?!"
"He's half human," explained Rose quickly. The Doctor put the photo back in the box and closed it, and the lock clicked into place. He walked back to the bookshelf and put the box back behind it, and started replacing the books.
"Ok…" said Jack, running this through his mind. "But what's so surprising about her being here? I mean if she's human then she's going to be on Earth." The Doctor turned to them and started explaining.
"After the Time War, the Universe was split in two: the universe before the Time War, and the universe after the Time War. I tried to get back before the Time War but I couldn't 'cause it's impossible to travel between the two. Anything or anyone that had anything to do with the Time Lords was pretty much wiped from time and space after the Time War, and since she's my mother, she shouldn't be here. She shouldn't exist!" he took a deep breath. "But she does. She got somehow thrown into this universe. She's the disturbance. And I've got to take her back or I'll never be born and it'll all get very confusing." He paused.
"But if it's impossible to go back to before the Time War," said Jack, "how are you going to get her back?"
"She's got a connection to that universe, I may be able to get through. If she knows her husband's an alien…" he thought for a second, then looked at Jack. "Did you say she was pregnant?" he nodded. "Oh great, she's pregnant with me." He tried to think back to what his father had told him about when Deb was pregnant, which was very little. "I don't know if she knows that he's an alien yet. Let's hope so, it'll make it a lot easier when she finds out what's happened."
"So are you going to tell her you're her son?" asked Jack.
"No!" he answered quickly, "of course not! What am I meant to say? 'Hi, my name's the Doctor, and by the way I'm your 900 year old alien son.' Somehow I don't think that'll go down very well."
"So what are you going to tell her?"
"That I can get her back. She'll know something's happened. Shouldn't be too hard."
"Let's go then," said Rose.
"Yeah, let's go." The Doctor didn't move. They stood there for a few seconds, waiting.
"So are we going?" asked Jack.
"Yeah." Said the Doctor. He still didn't move.
"That usually involves something called walking," said Jack sarcastically.
"Shut up," the Doctor snapped. He looked at the door, looking terribly worried.
"You ok?" Rose asked, walking up to him.
"Yeah, fine," he said, but she knew he wasn't.
"What's wrong? She's only your mum, you grew up with her! It's not like you've never spoken to her before," he turned to her and gave her a look she wasn't altogether sure she liked. "Doctor?" she whispered. He shook his head.
"Yeah, you're right. It's just been a long time. Let's go!" He walked out the door, and Rose and Jack followed him.
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The Doctor took a deep breath, before knocking on the door of the flat. They waited a few seconds in silence, before Jackie swung the door open.
"There you are!" she yelled, "Where'd you go? You can't just go running off like that, it's rude!"
"Something happened… I need to speak to Deb," the Doctor said quickly.
"Why? What's going on now?" asked Jackie, annoyed.
"I just need to speak to her!" the Doctor insisted. Jackie was still for a second, before moving to let him past her. He walked into the living room, closely followed by Rose, Jack and Jackie. Deb was on the sofa, and quickly stood up when they came in. The Doctor gulped. "Hello," he said in a high voice, but quickly shook it off. "Hello," he repeated, sounding slightly more normal. "Right. Um. This may sound slightly weird, but… I can take you back. I'm not human, I'm a Time Lord, like your husband. You do know he's an alien… don't you?" He looked at her uncertainly, as she stared back at him. Suddenly her face broke out into a grin.
"You can take me back??" she asked excitedly. He smiled, relieved, and nodded. She let out a laugh, ran up to him and threw her arms around him. "Thank you! Thank you!" she cried. The Doctor stood, completely startled.
"Um… that's ok…" he said shakily, raising his arms to put around her waist and return the hug, but she pulled away.
"How did you know?" she asked, and for a second the Doctor didn't seem to know what to say.
"I could feel the baby," he said quickly, "all Time Lords can sense each other, I could sense the baby." She nodded and smiled at him, and he smiled back, but before either could say anything more, Jackie walked in between them.
"Wait!" she demanded, "just wait! What's going on?" She looked between the Doctor and Deb, stepping back, waiting for an explanation.
"Deb isn't from this universe, she's from another one. Well, it's the same universe essentially, but… well, it's very confusing. But basically I can get her back," the Doctor explained quickly. Jackie looked at Deb, who nodded. Jackie let out an annoyed grunt, folding her arms.
"Why can't anything ever be normal when you're around?" she said, sounding sad and annoyed. She walked through them and sat on the sofa on the other side of the room. "Why does everything have to be to do with aliens?"
"Hey, be thankful that you're not being attacked by aliens this time," said the Doctor, "besides, it won't take long to take her back. Nothing will go wrong, promise!"
"Something always goes wrong," moaned Jackie.
"Well if it does I'll try to make sure it doesn't include you. Now, Deb, if you would like to come down to the TARDIS, I'll see about getting you back," he gave her a quick smile, before turning round and heading out the door. Deb, Rose and Jack followed him out.
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"So you're from Gallifrey, like my husband?" Deb asked as they walked down the steps from the flat.
"Indeed I am," replied the Doctor.
"So what are you doing on Earth? He said that his people hardly ever leave their planet."
"They do hardly ever leave, but for me they made an exception," he gave her a quick smile, before looking forward again.
"Right…" she muttered, pausing for a second, before following him again. The Doctor walked through the doors and was met by a cold wind that blew his coat outwards, making him look rather heroic. He smiled to himself.
As he got nearer to the TARDIS, he ran the last few steps and began fishing in his pockets for the key. The others caught up with him, and Deb looked at the TARDIS in wonder. "I thought those ships were meant to blend in with their surroundings?"
"Yeah, they are supposed to, but the circuit on my ship broke years ago, so it's stuck like this. I rather like it, don't you?"
"Doesn't it stick out a bit?"
"Not really." He pushed the door open and walked in, Rose and Jack following him. Deb stepped in a second later, and looked around in awe. "Never been in a TARDIS before?" the Doctor asked.
"I went inside my husband's… it was very different to this."
"They're all rather different," he said, moving to the control panel and fiddling with some buttons. He watched the screen as it light up with words and symbols. "Right," he said after a few seconds, "Can't take you back straight away, the TARDIS needs to charge up. It'll only take about a day or so, you can stay here if you want." He looked up at her and smiled for what seemed like the thousandth time that day.
"Thank you," she said sincerely. "I think I'd better go up and talk to Jackie, she didn't seem to take that too well…" the Doctor laughed and turned back to the consol.
"She's used to it," he said, switching some dials. "She'll probably still want to go shopping, though. If I know Jackie, which I do, I know she'll want to go shopping. It's her favourite hobby, next to hating me," they all sniggered, and he looked back up, "go on then, better not keep her waiting. Oh wait…" he ran up to her, fishing for something in his pocket, "here, have this. Use it to get back in when you're ready to go," he handed her over a TARDIS key, and stepped back to the consol as she looked at it in her hand. "See you later then. Bye!" he waved, and she waved back and said bye to each of them, and walked out of the TARDIS. As she shut the door behind her, the Doctor let out a long sigh. "That was the weirdest thing ever," he said.
"You did great!" said Rose, running up to him. "I know how weird it is to do something like that – I met my dad and I never even knew him!" The Doctor smiled.
"Yea, I know how you feel now," he said. There was a beep from the screen and he looked down at it. "Ah, I need to do some repairs," he said, flicking some buttons, checking various read-outs. "The buffers aren't looking too good, and the temporal destination input has never been too accurate," he walked round the consol, knelt down and removed some of the grating from the floor and lowered himself beneath the controls. Rose knew that he probably wanted to be left alone, and walked out of the room. Jack quickly followed her.
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Once they were in the corridor, Rose and Jack turned to face each other, each looking as surprised as the other.
"Did you know he was half human?" asked Jack.
"No! Did you?"
"No! What I don't understand is why doesn't he just tell her he's her son? If she knows she's going to have an alien child, then it won't be that much of a surprise for her."
"I know, exactly. Maybe he'll tell her later."
"Maybe." The was a pause, until:
"Jack?"
"Yeah?"
"We're going back to before the Time War, when the Time Lords were still alive. You know what that means?"
"What?" a grin crossed Rose's face.
"We get to see Gallifrey."
