Owen grinned. "Deadbeat," he said.
"It's not funny," Jack and Ana both said.
"But you left, Jack."
"In my defense, I didn't think it was mine."
"Oh, she's yours," Ana said. "There's absolutely no way she's not."
"Can you prove it?"
"I can more than prove it. I can drop her off on you. You can see what it's like dealing with her." Ana teleported away.
Owen began to laugh.
Jack turned to Owen. "Do you want to be out of a job?"
Owen immediately stopped laughing. "Ok, it's not funny."
The Doctor and Jack went to the hospital's morgue. "I didn't do an autopsy on the baby," Owen said. "Ianto insisted that we wait for you."
"Good," Jack said. "There's a way to find out how he died without doing an autopsy."
Owen snorted. "I'd like to see that."
The Doctor pulled the sonic screwdriver out of his pocket. "Where's the baby?"
"You're going to use a laser?"
"It's sonic," Jack said. "Ooh, I've got a screwdriver. Let's make it a little more sonic."
"That incident was your fault!" the Doctor said as Owen showed them the baby.
"Oh, blame everything on me."
The Doctor turned on the sonic screwdriver. A moment later, he frowned and turned it off. "Jack," he said quietly, "the baby's half Time Lord. He hasn't regenerated."
"It's…don't tell me it's his."
"I'm sorry, Jack, but it is. The Master went to a whole new low."
"If that baby regenerates, I can't…I can't be near it. I just can't. After all the things the Master did, I just wouldn't be able to handle it."
"Jack, the baby didn't do anything."
"I know that. I told Kari that when I agreed to take Roanna. But with the Master it's different."
"And what if it turns out that the Master is the father of either of the others?"
Jack shook his head. "I won't be able to take that either. "Just do me a big favor."
"What's that?"
"Don't tell me if he regenerates." Jack left the room without another word.
"Let me guess; you can change your face?" Owen said.
Owen led the Doctor to the neonatal unit. "Are you going to use that sonic screwdriver here too," Owen asked.
"Yes," the Doctor replied. Upon entering the room, the Time Lord switched on the device and scanned both babies. "The girl is human and the boy is…he's half human…"
"That Master person?"
"No, someone else. The Master extracted DNA from some people during the year that never was. I know exactly why he did it."
"Should I tell Jack about this?"
"Might as well. He'll find out anyway."
"What name am I supposed to say?"
"Actually, I'll tell him myself."
Three days later
Roanna held her doll, Sally towards Jack. "I'm sleepy," she said.
"Her or the doll?" Owen asked. "She acts like it's a person."
"Be quiet, Owen. You're supposed to be checking her over, not complaining."
Owen grumbled.
Roanna continued to hold out her doll. "Sleepy…"
"Wait a little bit," Jack told her.
"Ok."
Fifteen minutes later, Owen had finished his examination.
"Home?" Roanna asked.
"Can I take her out of the hospital?" Jack asked Owen.
"If you're careful with her. Make sure she's in bed as much as possible, or in a wheelchair."
"Then she's leaving the hospital today."
"Jack, why does she heal as fast as she does? Normally she wouldn't be able to leave the hospital for at least a month."
"I don't even know that. She wasn't like that before the Master had her kidnapped."
"But she is now? That doesn't seem odd to you?"
"Of course it does! Why do you think it wouldn't? Something happened to her to make her healing factor advance. I don't know anything about it."
Roanna sat on the sofa in the Hub's main area. She had the thumb of her the hand on her good arm tucked into her mouth. She watched everyone while sucking it.
Owen looked over at her. "Would you stop sucking your thumb? It's a bad habit."
"She's a kid, Owen!" Gwen hissed. "She can do that all she wants!"
"She has to stop sometime!"
Ianto came over to the sofa with Roanna's wheelchair. "You can go into the kitchen with me. That way, Owen can't try to break you of 'bad habits'."
"It is a bad habit!" Owen said. "How's it going to look it she's doing that when she eighty?"
"Don't be ridiculous, Owen."
Ianto got Roanna into her wheelchair. As he wheeled her away, she looked back at Owen as if thinking. Just before she and Ianto disappeared, she stuck her tongue out at Owen.
"That little brat!" Owen said.