Author's Notes: I do not own Doctor Who. Sorry it took so long to get this one out. Life is crazy. Thanks for the reads and reviews. Please let me know what you think and happy reading!

"The stars are going out, though," said Donna. She looked down at Zara who gazed up at her with concern. She took the little girl's hand and held her close as she looked back at her husband. "What does that mean? Is it the same as last time?"

The Doctor shook his head. "No. Time's gone wobbly."

"Time's gone wobbly!," Donna spat. "My daughter's missing and the universe appears to be ending and all you've got for me is time's gone wobbly?!"

The Doctor frowned. "Wibbly wobbly?"

"I am trying so hard not to slap you right now," said Donna.

As Donna moved to tend to the fussing babies in the pushchair, the Doctor's mobile rang.

"Amy! Yes! Have you found her?"

Donna looked back. "Have they got her?"

She watched as the Doctor's face became his customary flummoxed frown.

"Well, they have and they haven't..."

They ran to the ice cream shop. The people of London were in a panic as they rushed around. They walked in and spotted the woman.

The Doctor opened his mouth ready to do a speech worthy of the Oncoming Storm, but he heard a voice not his starting.

"Where is she?," Donna said to the woman, pushing Zara and the pushchair to one side. "Where is my daughter, what have you done to her and you had better not be eyeing the others!"

Jack held up a purple stone. "Got any idea what this is?"

The Doctor took the object in his hand and considered. "Ooh, what have we got here? Multi-phasic device with quantum dimensional properties and a transmat..." He let out a low whistle. "This must have taken you ages to put together."

Donna stuck herself between the Doctor and the woman as he admired her technological handiwork. "Are you complimenting her?" She turned back. "I want my daughter. Now."

"There's more than one time stream intersecting here," said the Doctor. He looked back up at the woman. "Who else have you got hidden in here?"

"Someone in there is disrupting the time streams," said Jack.

"What does that mean?," asked Rory.

"It means someone in there is critical to the time line and she's disrupting it." The Doctor turned back to the woman. "You went in expecting some slight change and you've gotten full on Armageddon, end of the universe. You can't control this, the only thing you can do is reverse it and send them all back home. Also, make Chloe three again because I am just not ready to deal with all of... the stuff. I just can't. Not yet. Not for a good long while. So, both of those things."

"I can reverse the aging," said the woman. "I can't get her out. The process has to be reversed from inside the device."

"From inside the device?," the Doctor spat.

"Does no one think these things through?," Rory asked in dismay.

"Daddy," said Zara.

"Not now, Zara. Daddy's trying to work out how to save the universe."

She grabbed his hand. The others watched as his head snapped back at her.

"What's going on?," asked Amy.

"Nothing," said the Doctor. Amy stared back at him, failing to notice that his and Zara's gaze fell on baby Melody. He turned back to Zara. "You can feel your sister in there?"

"What?," asked Donna. "Why can't you?"

"They're closer," said the Doctor. He passed the stone to Ianto. "Hold that."

The Doctor knelt down to Zara and put his hand on her temple.

"What's going on?," asked Rory. "Is this a mind meld?"

Inside the device, things were scarcely getting better.

Chloe stood quietly. River, Grant and Jenny were running around.

"I still don't understand what we're doing!," Grant protested.

River answered. "Easy! The transmat brought us in here, now time is collapsing around us. If we can reverse the transmat, we'll be back to our rightful places in our own time streams and whatever damage our absence has caused will be undone!"

"Whose absence is it?," asked Jenny.

River looked at Chloe. "I would bet on her." She paused. "Chloe, are you alright?"

Chloe couldn't help it. "I want to go home! I don't want to be big! I want Mummy and Daddy!"

"There, there..." said River. She took a breath and forced a smile. "You're going to be just fine. I just saw you all, you know?"

Chloe sniffled. "You did?"

"Yes, you all came to visit me at my house. We went to the Singing Towers and had a picnic. The whole family. So you see, everything is going to be just fine and you are going home to your mummy because I wouldn't want to face her if you didn't."

Chloe crumbled to the ground, grabbing her head.

"Chloe!," cried River, rushing to her side. "What's wrong?"

"There's stuff..." she sobbed. "There's so much stuff and I don't understand it."

"What's going on?," asked Jenny.

"The Doctor's trying to get a message to her, but her mind is still three. She doesn't get it all yet." River looked back at Chloe. "Chloe, I know it's hard but you have to try to tell us what to do. Your dad's trying to help us."

Chloe nodded. "Invert the coabulator?"

"What?," asked Grant.

"That's alright, I'm following it," said River. "Jenny, give me a hand."

The next few minutes were a blur. Chloe repeated things she didn't understand. River, Jenny and Grant then did things Chloe didn't understand.

When Chloe finally felt well enough to look up River was the only one left.

"Where did they go?"

"Back where they came from," said River. "We'll both be going back soon."

"You said she was my sister," said Chloe.

"She is and the way I remember it, you'll be meeting her again soon enough."

"Why doesn't my daddy know who you are?"

"Because he's a daft, silly man, of course," said River. "Also, he doesn't listen."

"Mummy says that."

River chuckled. "That's because she's brilliant."

Chloe looked up to see that River had gone. Now she was alone and hoped it wouldn't be for long.

They watched from inside the ice cream shop as the stone disappeared before them and light returned to the sky.

Donna looked to the Doctor."You said Chloe was in there."

"She was."

"But now it's disappeared, where is she?"

"I'm not getting any more temporal readings," offered Jack.

The Doctor turned to the woman.

"She should have returned to the point of interference."

"The park!," said the Doctor, grabbing Zara's hand. "Back where it all started."

Donna rushed out with them.

Rory turned to Amy. "Did she just take our baby again?"

"Like I said, they won't keep her." Amy looked at the woman. "And you, lady, what are we going to do with you?"

"I should have chosen you," said the woman.

"What?," asked Amy.

"The spoils belong to another."

"What spoils?," asked Amy, casting a sideways glance at her husband.

"Never mind her," said Jack. "We've got a nice spot for her in the Torchwood archives."

"Because we don't have enough rubbish down there," Ianto added.

The family rushed to the park, pushchair and all.

"I don't see her!," said Donna. "Are you sure she'll be here?"

"This is the point of initial interference, if the universe has rectified itself like it should have, she'll be back here." The Doctor looked around. "Chloe!," he called.

It was Zara who finally spotted her. "Chloe!"

Zara dashed towards the sandbox. Her parents were in hot pursuit with the pushchair as they neared it: Chloe, the real Chloe, the three year old, was in the box.

"Chloe, wake up!," said Zara.

"Chloe, it's alright," said the Doctor. "Mummy and Daddy are here."

He helped her up from the box. Amy's clothes were hanging off her now as she looked at them groggy eyed. "What happened?"

"Chloe, don't you remember anything?," asked Donna.

Chloe's mind was a fog. So much had happened. She was fairly certain of one thing.

"Is it my birthday?"

"Yes," said Donna, bringing Chloe against her to hold her tight. "Yes, it is your birthday."

They made their way back to the house. The Doctor watched as Donna fussed over Chloe and got her in her princess dress.

Chloe could remember what happened with River and the others. Whatever fog the disturbance in the time lines had caused in her memory had cleared. Since Chloe was still only three, this led to more confusion.

The Doctor watched her.

"Chloe, just a moment," said the Doctor.

"I'm sorry about the witch," Chloe said, looking down.

"Oh, don't worry about her. Uncle Jack is going to sort it all and store her somewhere in Torchwood, but you're alright and you've learned never to wish anything when offered, right?"

Chloe nodded.

The Doctor nodded back and kneeled in front of her. "Now, I think for a normal human being, the memories of this incident would be wiped away, but you are my daughter. I think you can remember what happened in that device."

She nodded again.

The Doctor sighed. "Chloe, you can't tell me about anyone you saw there. You can't tell anyone, not even them-"

"But tart! And we took her to the Singing Towers and-"

That sent ice through the Doctor's hearts. "Chloe, stop it!"

He said it with a seriousness that stopped Chloe cold.

"No matter what?," she asked. There was so much to tell.

"I know it's hard, I know, but you can't interfere with the time lines. No matter what. I'm sorry, but this is what we are." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a watch. "And this is for you."

Chloe looked. It was a sparkly Sleeping Beauty watch. "For me?"

"Of course for you, three is the age when all Time Lord children get their first watch." He fixed it around her wrist and kept speaking. "You're a Time Baby, maybe without the full exposure to the Time Vortex but conceived with the last energy of the metacrisis. You helped save millions of lives just by existing. You can do things no one else can. You helped save the universe today."

Chloe frowned. "What's conceived?"

The Doctor froze. "Right, well... let's not worry about that. At least not until next year, right?"

"Is this about the gametes?"

"Next year, Chloe."

Just then Donna entered. "You were supposed to bring her down!," she chided the Doctor. "Everyone's waiting!"

Chloe held her wrist up. "Look what Daddy gave me!"

Donna smiled broadly. "That's wonderful, Chloe! Hurry on downstairs so you can get to your party!"

Chloe beamed and hurried off. The Doctor moved to follow and Donna stopped him, placing a hand on his chest.

"I would guess that the watch has the same features as Zara's, namely the tracking."

"Yes."

"I know that this is a big Time Lord thing and all, to give your children a watch in their third year, but do you think you could give Geoffrey his before he gets tricked and kidnapped by someone?"

The Doctor nodded. "I'll see what I can do."

Downstairs, the party had managed to regroup. The guests had been rounded up again after being cancelled and now the party had begun. The house was full of children and their parents. Sylvia darted around, trying to make excuses for Donna's earlier odd messgaes. Wilf, Ianto and Jack organized games for the children as the Doctor and Donna came down with Chloe.

"Nerys!," said Donna as she watched her old frenemy haul in a triple pushchair with Rory's help.

"Oh, look, it's Nerys," said the Doctor. If he lived another nine hundred years, he would never understand these two.

"So glad that little Chloe's feeling better!," said Nerys. She handed an envelope to the little girl. "Here you are, sweetheart. Happy birthday!"

Donna frowned at the envelope. "Is that her present?"

"Yes."

"Is it another ten pound gift voucher?"

"Donna..." said the Doctor.

Donna turned back. "Ten pounds! Please tell me what you can get at Baby Gap with a tenner!," she hissed.

"I've brought my little nephew with me, I hope you don't mind."

"No," said Donna. "The more the merrier."

"I just thought that the budget might be a bit tight and all-"

"The budget is a bit more generous than you might think-"

"I just thought your husband was out of work."

The Doctor took offense now. "I'm not out of work! I've never worked! Well, just that one time, in the seventies. What a nightmare."

Donna smacked the Doctor's arm lightly to shut him up. That's when Chloe noticed a little boy step out from behind Nerys' skirt.

And he looked familiar.

"This is Grant, everyone. He's staying with me for the weekend," said Nerys.

"Hello, Grant," said Donna. "Chloe, why don't you be a good girl and go show Grant where we have the games and snacks?"

Chloe was silent as she pondered her responsibilities as a Time Lady. Daddy had said not to do anything to interfere with the time lines, no matter her foreknowledge.

There was still some Donna in there, though.

She was about to send Grant to partake in some juice when she caught him staring at Zara as she played Blind Man's Bluff with Uncle Jack and the other children. She grabbed him by the arm and gave him her most serious look.

"Stay away from my sister."

There was actually a lot of Donna in there.

"What?"

She repeated it with added seriousness. "Stay away from my sister."

Not knowing what was happening, getting a threatening look from a girl he just met, Grant simply answered, "Okay."

Satisfied, Chloe walked over to see her brother and Melody/Tart/River in the playpen.

"You watch it," Chloe said to the baby version of the woman she had met earlier.

"Chloe," said Rory. "What are you doing?"

Chloe looked up. "Nothing."

"Okay..." said Rory certain that nothing was the last thing that had happened.

"Chloe!"

Chloe turned around. "Auntie Martha!"

Martha swooped down and picked up Chloe, giving her a kiss on the forehead. "How is my favorite god-daughter?"

"I thought I was your only god-daughter."

"So?," Martha replied with a smile. "I heard you had a really exciting day so far. I also heard you can't date until you're forty. Your mum got it down from two hundred, she'll keep working."

Martha smiled. Chloe was quiet.

"What's wrong, Chloe?"

"I..." She looked at Martha. "Do you think I'll have more sisters?"

Martha glanced over at the Doctor and Donna fussing over the birthday cake as they walked from the kitchen to the dining room.

"Well, I'm not sure I should be saying this," said Martha, "but I wouldn't bet against it. You could also get more brothers, you know."

"I think sisters."

Donna walked back in. "Alright, everyone! Time for birthday cake!"

Everybody headed towards the dining room. Martha put Chloe down and she hurried towards Donna. Donna knelt down.

"Now, you, don't get any ideas with your birthday wish. No growing up too fast on me." Donna smiled. "I'm your mummy and it's my job to take care of you and I like my job. The best bit of my job is letting my babies know how wonderful they are and you are wonderful."

"Zara..." Chloe started.

"Oi, you're your own person, miss. I don't love all my babies because you're the same. I love you because well, you're mine and because you're different. Got that?"

"Yes."

Donna kissed her on the cheek. "Come on. Let's get your birthday cake."

With that, Chloe took her mother's hand and walked with her into the dining room where her family and friends eagerly awaited her.

Because it was all about her right now.