Chapter 3

"I hated you," Martha told Rose, a cold look in her eyes. Rose's eyes widened. She didn't know what to say. "You see, I started traveling with The Doctor right after he lost you. And I fell for him," Martha looked down at her hands.

Rose laughed, "I can't blame you!"

Martha looked back up, assured Rose wasn't going to lash out at her, and continued, "But he was stuck on you. Always taking me everywhere he took you. He talked about you constantly too! I remember when we went to see Shakespeare. We were lying on the bed talking about 'witches' and the strange happenings. He looked at me and said he was missing something; something right in front of his face. Then he said, and I'll never forget this, 'Rose would know'. It made me so mad!"

Rose looked down, shame-faced. She didn't know any of this. Sure John had told her about Martha and Donna and his travels with both. He even told her that Martha had taken a special interest in him. But he never could have fully described how much he had hurt her.

Martha continued, "So I left, moved on, got engaged. He was a doctor working in Africa. I loved him, I really did! But he never understood why I wanted to work with Torchwood and UNIT. Then I met Mickey. We had so much in common! We were around each other just about 24/7, working together and even hanging out. I broke it off with Thomas and started dating Mickey."

Rose looked back up and smiled at Martha, "You two are good for each other! I'm glad he found you."

"I seem to have a knack for picking up your men," Martha joked. The two girls laughed. "Alright, Rose, you ready to see this baby?"

"I guess so," Rose sighed.

Martha turned on the screen, picked up the scanner piece of the ultrasound machine, and placed it on Rose's stomach. The screen flickered and the gray, black, and white image appeared. Rose looked at it confused.

"Do you see it?" Martha asked. Rose shook her head and Martha smiled. "Okay, you're almost a month along, so you can't really tell a lot but," Martha pointed at a round spot on the screen, "this is it's head and it's back curves down this way."

Rose stared at the image in amazement. She shook her head and looked away. She couldn't get attached now. She wasn't keeping it after all. Martha had an idea.

"You wanna see if we can hear the heartbeat?" Martha asked. Rose looked up at her, the interest clear in her eyes. Martha smiled and flipped a switch on the machine. It wasn't long before a steady rhythm filled the room.

Rose's jaw slowly fell. She couldn't believe it! That was her baby's heartbeat! The last bit of John she really had! A knock on the door brought her out of her reverie. The Doctor stuck his head in.

"Mind if we join you?" he asked, that big smile spread across his face. Martha looked at Rose, who simply held her hand out for The Doctor. He walked in and took her hand. Mickey and Jack came in too. They all listened for a minute.

The Doctor looked down at Rose. There were a few stray tears rolling down her cheek. He reached down and wiped one away.

"Happy tears?" he asked. Rose smiled.

"Happy tears," she said.

The End

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