Summary: After a run in on an alien planet, Rose is transformed into a toddler leaving The Doctor in an awkward situation.
Oh my goodness, 11 reviews and only 2 chapters!! You guys make me so happy!! sqee!! Okay so I'm really glad you're enjoying it so far and I hope you'll like what I have coming up! Blaidd Drwg you know, when I submitted this chapter everything looked so nice and laid out, I think my formatting messed up! I'll see if I can try and fix it.
The Doctor wandered into the kitchen still holding baby Rose at arms length. As he entered, he found that the TARDIS had provided a pink highchair with images of little yellow bananas on the material. The doctor grinned excitedly and surprisingly placed Rose in the chair without incident. Grabbing some bananas from the fruit basket (which really was not a fruit basket but a banana basket) and walked over to the counter where the blender was. The Doctor placed the fruit inside, topped it off with the lid and pressed the button. He jumped back in surprise has the top flew off and the contents came spewing out…mainly all over the front of his favourite suit.
The Doctor stood stunned with his hands in the air. From behind him came a high pitched giggle and he turned around to see baby Rose's face red from laughing and her small chubby hands clapping at the scene before her. "Just like you to laugh at me when things go wrong…" He said to the infant. "If you were here, you would have reminded me to hold the lid while I had the blender on…well…you are here but you technically can't speak…" Rose stared up at The Doctor with a blank look on her face at his ramblings. The Doctor sighed realizing just how much he missed his real, adult, talking, taking care of him Rose.
Reaching into the cupboard, The Doctor grabbed a small bowl and a plastic baby spoon and offered a mental thank you to the TARDIS for being so generous. She hummed in response and The Doctor looked down to see a sippy cup sitting on the counter with a container of apple juice. "Well, this can't be so bad then" The Doctor said aloud. He poured the juice into the cup and placed the lid on, grabbed the bowl of bananas and pulled up a chair beside baby Rose. "Alright wee one, let's give this a try…bananas, very good you know. Wonderful, delicious and did you also know that they are an aphrodisiac?...oh…I mean it's not. Well, it is but you shouldn't know about those things yet. Until you're older…right…anyway, here I go, scooping up some lovely bananas and sending them to…"
The Doctor stopped, the spoon in front of Rose's mouth but she was not opening. "sending bananas right to your mouth…yummy bananas…into you mouth…yummy…bananas…." Rose wouldn't budge. Sighing for what seemed to be the millionth time that day, The Doctor thought.
"Why won't you eat bananas….you ate them when you were older. You LIKE bananas…I like bananas….oh…" The Doctor realized what was going on.
"YOU want to know that it tastes good before you eat it. You want me to try!" The Doctor said proudly upon figuring out the problem. He looked down at the mashed bananas infront of him. "Once a banana, always a banana I say!" and he took a spoonful of banana mush.
"Well that's a pleasant surprise! Obviously the taste won't change but the texture I do like. Oh yes, I do like it indeed! Try some Rosie Roo!" The child grinned and opened her mouth as The Doctor fed her the bowl of bananas. The bowl eventually was finished but not before Rose spit up twice, threw the bowl at The Doctor and tried to feed him bananas with the spoon that resulted in banana mush in his ear.
"Alright. We're doing alright here I suppose, don't you think wee one? Oh, I almost forgot, I poured you some apple juice!" The Doctor handed Rose the sippy cup and when she tipped it to her mouth to drink, the lid fell off and the contents spilled everywhere. The Doctor placed his head in his hands while Rose splashed her hands in the apple juice puddle that had formed in her high chair tray. He was frustrated, he missed HIS Rose and he did not have the slightest idea of how to get her back. The TARDIS was not a place to raise a child and he knew that. He felt something on his head. Looking up, Rose's chubby baby hand had rested on the top of his head, apple juice and bananas clumping together in his hair. She looked at him, her eyes wide with an obvious look of concern. The Doctor grinned.
"Don't worry about me Rosie Roo…come on then, I think you need a bath…something I am not looking forward to but we'll figure it out as we go. We're pretty good at doing that aren't we?" Rose cooed and reached up asking to be held. This time when he picked her up, he held her closer. Not up against him but not at arms length. Slowly he was getting more comfortable and he even blushed at his own thought that maybe one day, he might…just MIGHT want a little time lord running around. "Well, come on then, off to have a bath!"
TBC
