Today is my favorite day of Whouffaldi Week, and actually the first prompt I wrote for this week. Odds are, I might write another one today featuring the other hybrid child. I didn't have Rey in this one because she was still new to the theory at the time, but now I need to do something with her.

Anyway, enjoy part one of today.

Day 5- Baby Food

Clara Oswald was not a stranger to challenges. If anything, she was quite used to it by now. Surviving in a Russian submarine with a Martian on the loose killing the crew? Sure. Convincing Cybermen she was the Doctor? Piece of cake. Teaching Shakespeare to students who were itching to get out of class. Well, that one had been hard, but she still got them all to pass their exams.

She never thought one of her greatest challenges would involve baby food and her son.

"Come on, Leo," she urged gently to her son, a spoon of puréed carrots in hand. "Doesn't it look yummy?"

The orange mush on the spoon didn't exactly conjure 'yummy' in her thoughts at first impression, but she was going with anything to convince Leo to eat something. Unfortunately, the journey to get him started on the path to eating solid food was not having an easy start. Peas had already been a failed attempt, with her son spitting them out the first time and letting them dribble down his chin the next few times she'd tried before switching to green beans. Those had unfortunately yielding a similar result.

Clara was proud of her son, and so was the Doctor. He had a lot of them in him, they could already see that. But Leo also seemed to have both her and the Doctor's stubbornness. It was a bit frightening since she had to admit the two of them were already plenty stubborn, but Leo's might rival theirs altogether.

"One bite for Mummy?" she cooed, smiling at him.

Leo looked at the carrots and made a face. In spite of everything, Clara laughed a little. His tiny scrunched up face was in an expression strikingly similar to one that she'd seen on the Doctor's face.

"Any luck?" the Time Lord in question asked, appearing behind her suddenly.

"None," Clara sighed, shaking her head and putting the spook back in the container. "He's being stubborn."

"Let me have a go?"

She nodded and passed him the spoon and container. "See if you have better luck."

The Doctor smirked and faced his son. Their little hybrid still had a grouchy expression on his face. Grinning, the Doctor took a spoon of the carrots and held them up in the air. He started to make an imitation of the TARDIS coming in to land. Leo's grumpiness ebbed as he watched the spoon move down towards him with wide eyes.

"The TARDIS is coming in to land," the Doctor said as the spoon drew closer to Leo's mouth. "Open wide."

Leo opened his mouth and took the contents of the spoon without making any fuss. The puréed carrots went down without any fussing or protest. It had worked.

The Doctor turned away from their son and grinned. "See? Dad skills."

"Let me give that a go."

Clara scooped up another spoonful of the baby food and held it up while making the TARDIS noises. Leo giggled and opened his mouth for her when the spoon was close enough. She sighed with relief as he swallowed the contents instead of spitting them out. Finally, they were getting somewhere.

"You're a genius," she told the Doctor, kissing him once Leo was finished eating.

He chuckled and picked Leo out of the high chair. "Time Lord."

Clara stood up and moved closer to them. She kissed the Doctor again, and then the top of her son's wispy curls. They were a lighter color right now, but she wondered if they would get a darker brown or stay a lighter color.

Their son giggled and played with the holes in his father's sweater.

"What's he saying?" she murmured as Leo gurgled something. She always wondered what was on her son's mind. It would still be awhile before he started saying his first words.

The Doctor smiled. "That the mush wasn't so bad."

So that's my first one for Day 5/Hybrid Day. I hope that you've all enjoyed it.

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