Cordelia was crying again. The Doctor had quickly realized that Cordelia was louder than her brother. She cried almost constantly. She cried because she was hungry, or tired. She cried because she was bored. She even cried because Kiam had tried to read her mind. Okay that one was a good reason that resulted in both of them having headaches and the Doctor lecturing Kiam on not entering minds without permission.
He had agreed to watch their daughter tonight and let Rose get a few hours of peaceful sleep. So far it wasn't going well. He lay down on the bed in their room and placed the crying child next to him. Laying down she held the bottle he offered her and stared at him with sleepy sad eyes.
"You're suppose to be sleeping," he said playfully as she watched him. Laying down next to her, he laughed when he felt her foot on his arm. He took her foot in his hand and moved it back to the bed tucking it under the blanket. He closed his eyes and pretended to go to sleep. Soon enough he felt her foot again. He took it and kissed the bottom of it before tickling it.
"That's not sleeping," he chastised. She grinned at him from around the bottle and milk dribbled down her cheek. He wiped it with the corner of the blanket. Cordelia lifted both her feet up this time and stuck one on his arm and left the other where he could see it. A smile formed on her face as he tickled both of her feet. He moved them back under the blanket and she immediately kicked out of it again.
He gave in and tickled the child until she was laughing. She dropped the bottle and grabbed his hair as he blew raspberries on her stomach.
"Ow," he whined pulling her little fist out of his hair. She laughed and kicked at him. Realizing at this rate he was never going to get her to sleep he decided to go with a different approach. Picking her and the bottle up he carried her out of the bedroom and to the control room. Setting the coordinates, he danced around the council hitting levers and pressing buttons. He landed the TARDIS and opened the doors to lights dancing on the dark sky. Wind rustled through the trees creating a soft melody. He picked up one of the blankets off the coral and wrapped Cordelia up in it before stepping off the TARDIS into the cool night air.
Holding her gently against his chest he rocked her to sleep, as he hummed gently along with the melody of the planet. As she cuddled closer to him, he carried back to her room and laid her in her cot. She sighed and stretched but remained asleep. Smiling he went to find Rose.