Once again, I don't own Doctor Who or its' characters! Also, thank you to Luxturna for editing all my horrible grammatical errors! Enjoy!

Chapter 7

The next few months passed relatively calm. At ten months Melody could now say, "Mama", "Dada", "Docta", "ball", and "pway!" She loved pulling herself into a standing position using random pieces of furniture, and she seemed to be ready to walk any day now.

This day started out as usual, Amy and Rory woke up, got Melody ready, and then went to eat breakfast with the Doctor. Then after they ate, Amy, Rory, and sometimes the Doctor would go to the playroom to play until lunch. Then after lunch, Melody usually took her nap, but today, Amy and Rory had to go grocery shopping with Melody since the Doctor had to go save a planet or something and couldn't babysit.

"Doctor, promise me you'll be back to pick us up at 4:30 April 6, 2012." Rory commanded.

"I promise, I promise. Goodness, you guys act like I'm always late or something." The Doctor muttered.

"Uh, that's because you are" Amy replied as she packed the diaper bag and buckled Melody into her pram.

"Am not!" The Doctor argued.

Amy and Rory rolled their eyes and said goodbye to the Doctor as they exited the TARDIS.

They walked into the store, and they could tell that Melody was getting cranky from missing her nap. Rory reached into the diaper bag and pulled out a soft, pink, blanket with Winnie the Pooh characters at the bottom, and a small rattle to keep her occupied. He placed the blanket on top of her, and then handed her the rattle, which she grabbed immediately and started shaking it to make noise.

Seeing that she was occupied, they quickly went to work finding what they needed. They shopped for about an hour and a half, with Melody babbling happily, before Melody started getting upset again. She threw the rattle on the floor and started kicking her little feet. She was tired of being in the pram.

Amy had gone down another aisle to get some fruit while Rory was in the baby aisle getting diapers, wipes, baby food, and ointment. Hearing Melody's cries grow in volume, he quickly unbuckled Melody and picked her up. He tried bouncing her and singing to her, but she still wouldn't stop crying.

Amy hearing Melody's cries three aisles down, came rushing back thinking that she was hurt.

"What's wrong? Is she ok?"

"She's fine. She's just cranky because she missed her nap, and she's been in the pram for over an hour and a half."

Melody, who spotted her mum, reached her little arms out to her.

"Or maybe she just missed her mummy" Amy smirked. "Hello sweetie" Amy smiled as Rory handed Melody over to her.

Rory sighed. "Yeah, that could be it too."

"Or it could be your awful singing that I could hear three aisles over." Amy countered.

Rory grinned. After a moment of Amy bouncing her, Melody had quieted down and allowed them to place her back in the pram. She was fine for the next half hour until they got to the toys and then she got fussy because she wanted to play. Amy handed her a random toy that had buttons she could mash on and make noise, to keep her quiet while they finished shopping.

They miraculously finished shopping without any issues and headed to the checkout counters. Rory started placing items on the conveyor belt when he heard the toy Melody was playing with make a noise.

"Oh! I almost forgot she had that!" Rory exclaimed, bending down in front of Melody to get the toy.

"Had what?" Amy asked, however she soon remembered that she had given Melody a toy to play with.

Rory tried to take the toy from Melody but her hands were tightly clenched around the toy.

"Give dada the toy, Melody." Rory said gently.

"No!" Melody said.

"She just told me no!" Rory exclaimed in shock at Amy.

"Well, you're her dad! Just take the toy." Amy replied.

"Come on, Melody give dada the toy." He said a little firmer.

"No!" Melody said louder.

"A little help here, Amy?"

Amy bend down in front of Melody. Rory grabbed the toy and took it out of Melody's hands. Melody immediately started kicking her hands and feet, and started screaming, "No, no, no, no, no!"

Amy and Rory were in shock. They haven't had to deal with tantrums before, and they didn't know what to do. Amy spoke first. "Melody, no ma'am." Amy said gently, but firmly.

Melody continued kicking and crying. Amy raised her voice, and spoke just sharply enough to get Melody's attention, "Melody Pond! No ma'am! You have toys at home you can play with, we aren't getting this one!"

At the sharpness of her mum's voice, she stopped kicking and screaming, and just looked up at her mum sniffling.

"Aww…" Amy unbuckled Melody and picked her up. She wiped the tears from eyes, wiped her nose, and rubbed her back until she stopped crying. "Rory, I think she's okay now, you can finish checking out, I'm going to take her and the pram over to that bench over there."

Rory nodded and Amy went over to the bench where she talked to Melody gently and bounced her around until Rory had finished checking out.

"Well, that was...difficult." Rory sighed as they walked out of the store.

"Yep, and we haven't even reached the terrible two's yet." Amy moaned and glanced at her watch. "It's 4:45...where's the…"

Just then the familiar wheezing sound of the TARDIS sounded near them and they walked towards it.

They opened the door to find the Doctor fiddling with the console's switches, as usual.

"Well, hello! How was the shopping?" The Doctor asked.

Amy and Rory groaned as they set down the bags. "That bad?" The Doctor questioned.

"Melody threw a fit when we took a toy away from her." Rory explained.

"And now she probably hates me because I shouted at her and told her no! It took forever for me to calm her down! You should have seen the look on her face!" Amy blurted out as tears sprang to her eyes.

"Oh, you humans, always so emotional! Come here." The Doctor pulled the two of them into a big hug. "Melody loves you. Both of you. How many times have your parents told you no, or shouted at you? Or how many times have you told them that you hated them? But you still love them, and they still love you and you know it. Kids have to be told 'no' or they'll grow up to be spoilt brats. You guys did the right thing." The Doctor kissed the tops of both their heads and then helped them put away the groceries.

Later that night, as Melody gave them both hugs and kisses goodnight, they knew that Melody still loved them.

P.S. Sometime tonight I'll be posting a bonus chapter so be on the lookout for it :)