Hello everyone. My apologies for the delay in posting an update. I blame my current college course of sucking all my writing mojo away. However, after this week I shall be free to spend more time on all my wonderful fanfiction stories.

Forewarning, I shall be skipping over the Girl Who Waited and God Complex episodes. Mostly because I was having such a hard time trying to incorporate Rose and/or the kids into those episodes. I did write several different versions of the two episodes, but none of them felt right in the end. So, I apologies if any of you were hoping to see those two episodes here in my story. They will be referenced, but not covered.

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who.


On Earth…

In a quaint little house on Bannerman Road, the late evening rays of the sun are filtering through the west windows. Though the neighborhood outside is quieting down for the evening, inside this particular house there is a shrill cry echoing throughout the home.

"Doesn't it come with an off button?" Luke calls out to his friend while holding his hands over his ears to mute the sound.

"It's a baby, not a doll!" Jenny shouts back at Luke as she gently bounces the screaming infant in her arms.

Looking down at the infant in her arms, Jenny isn't sure what to make of its mysterious appearance in the house. When her and Luke had arrived home from their very last day of uni, both had noticed a strange metallic capsule barely hidden in the bushes by the front door. It was only when Jenny touched the capsule that it opened to reveal its precious cargo. Wrapped up in a cream-colored blanket and wearing a cream onesie with yellow ducks all over it, was a baby with wavy light brown hair on its head. The infant only looked to be around five months old in Jenny's light observation.

Upon seeing the infant, sleeping away inside, that Jenny removed the baby and went into the house with Luke following with the capsule in his arms. Yet it was only after Jenny had sent the quick message to the Tardis did the sleeping infant wake up and begin its crying session. That was well over an hour ago, and Jenny tried every trick she learned from Rose into discovering what the infant needed.

"How can it keep going like that?" Luke shouts to Jenny before leaving the young woman alone in the sitting room of his dead mother's house.

Jenny lets out a sigh and tries to adjust her grip on the wailing child. She makes sure that the child's head is now nestled to her right shoulder before gently rubbing its back. Making soft, soothing sounds to the child, Jenny begins to slowly walking around the sitting room. For five minutes Jenny does this before letting out a sigh at her failure at getting the child to calm its crying.

"You know," Jenny says softly to the wailing infant in her arms. "I have tried everything I know to try and quiet you down. Changed your diaper, which was soiled by the way with the most rancorous smell imaginable. Then I had Luke run down to the shop to pick up several baby bottles and containers of formula, which you turned up your nose to nearly every single one of those formulas until you decided to accept Aptamil. Then you returned back to crying once you finished the bottle."

Turning her head to look at the baby's face, Jenny can't help giving the now hiccuping baby a small smile.

"Ahhh. So, you like hearing me ramble on, do you? Well, I am nowhere near as bad as my dad. Speaking of parents, I wonder who and where your parents are little guy. Do you know where they are?" Jenny asks the now whimpering five-month-old and receives no response. "Didn't think so."

Before Jenny can say anything more to the baby boy, the whooshing sound of the Tardis materializing echoes into the sitting room via the hallway. A sense of foreboding floods Jenny's thoughts as she comes to realize that her parents are arriving two days earlier than what she was expecting. With the sound of the Tardis door opening, Jenny's body stiffens up and this causes the infant to begin crying again.

Inside the Tardis, standing right by the doors, the Doctor can hear what sounds like a baby crying from outside of the Tardis. Wondering if he landed in the wrong house, the Doctor turns himself away from the doors and looks up at Rose.

"Is that a baby I hear?" Amy asks the Doctor as she walks towards him and the doors.

"No idea, Amy." The Doctor quickly says to her before shouting at Rose. "Were the coordinates on the console correct?"

"Yeah. You checked them yourself just as we were landing. Why?" Rose replies as she ushers Donna towards where the Doctor and Amy were standing.

"There's a baby crying out there." Amy states worriedly to Rose.

"A baby?" Rose looks back and forth between Amy and the Doctor, waiting for one of them to speak.

Before any of them can say another word, there is a knock on the door of the Tardis. This knock is followed by a familiar female voice.

"Dad. I know you are in there. Open up." Jenny yells from the other side of the Tardis doors, as the baby in her arms continues to cry.

Hearing Jenny's voice has the Doctor turning and opening the doors of the Tardis, only to be greeted by the image of his daughter holding onto a crying baby. Behind him, he hears Rose let out a gasp of surprise and Amy lets slip a soft swear word.

"What did you do?" The Doctor flatly asks Jenny before focusing on what the baby in her arms is trying to say.

"I didn't do anything. The baby isn't mine!" Jenny harshly tells the Doctor as he moves forwards to take the crying baby boy from her.

"Easy now." The Doctor says as he settles the baby against his chest, tucking the chubby baby legs between his chest and the baby's belly. Gently he places a hand just above the baby's bottom and begins to rubbing circles. On the fourth circle, the baby lets out two puffs of gas before quieting down.

"How did you..." Jenny asks in amazement of the infant now settling down.

"He had gas that made him feel uncomfortable. You really should be paying closer attention to what he was trying to tell you." The Doctor tells Jenny before the baby in his arms started wiggling in his arm.

"Easy now, no need for the dramatics from you." The Doctor says to the baby in his arms, who is now trying to get a better look at the Doctor's face.

"Where did he come from?" Rose asks Jenny, wondering just how this baby came to be with Jenny.

"Luke and I came home and found this metallic capsule by the front door and barely hidden by the bushes." Jenny tells her parents, wondering if she will be in trouble.

"So, he has no parents?" Amy asks just as Rory and Jack come out of the Tardis.

"Wow, sis. You got yourself a kid. Just how long were we gone for, and where is Luke?" Jack asks loudly, hoping to scare the young man.

"I didn't have a baby, Jack." Jenny growls out in reply. "Nor did Luke for that matter."

"So, who's does the kid belong to?" Rory asks as he looks at each person in the room.

When no one answers, the Doctor decides to use the sonic screwdriver to find out. Pulling the sonic out of his pocket with one hand, while the other has a safe hold on the now babbling infant, he begins to scan the baby. Hearing the sonic, the baby begins to giggle and reach for the instrument.

"Not a toy. And no, you may not play with it, Captain Shenanigans." The Doctor says to the baby, getting an instant scowl from the infant.

"Captain Shenanigans?" Amy and Rory ask at the same time.

"That's what he calls himself. I speak baby." The Doctor says as he continues with his scan of the baby.

"Why would he call himself that?" Rose asks the Doctor as she comes alongside of him to get a better look at the baby he is holding. Which she gets a few nonsense babbles from the baby.

"It's what he likes." The Doctor says just as the sonic finishes the scan.

He sends the information to the Tardis, who then relays the information back to him through their bond. What the Tardis sends back to him, shocks the Doctor completely. So much so, that Rose and their kids can feel his shock.

"Dad?" Jenny and Jack ask hesitantly.

"Doctor?" Rose whispers, wondering just what has caused her husband to stare at the boy in his arms.

"He's a Time Lord, with some human elements in him." The Doctor says not once taking his eyes off of this child.

"But?" Jack asks, wondering what else his father isn't telling them.

"He's in his second regeneration." The Doctor sadly replies before looking at Rose's face.

"Second regeneration? Is that possible?" Rose asks softly before gently reaching out gently comb the soft light brown locks on the baby's head.

"I've never heard of a Time Lord adult regenerating back into a Time Tot. But I won't know for sure, and once tests are done, it would explain more of who his parents might be." The Doctor says to Rose while keeping his eyes firmly placed on the babe. "But by the looks of him, he could be one of ours. From our future, possibly."

"But why would we just drop him off here with no note. We don't even know his real name." Rose tells the Doctor as she stops her ministrations on the little boy's head.

"The blanket he came with." Jenny says suddenly as she heads out of the hallway and back into the sitting room.

The others follow Jenny, wondering what she meant by her words. The Doctor, with the baby still in his arms, and Rose enter the sparsely furnished sitting room first. They are followed by Jack, Donna, Amy and Rory. The Doctor and Rose move closer to the burgundy settee, where Luke had placed the baby-sized capsule, and watch as Jenny removes the cream-colored blanket from it.

"Here," Jenny says, showing one of the corners of the knitted blanket to her parents. Knitted into the corner is the name Oliver with no other parts of his name. "I'd wager that his name is Oliver."

"Well that sounds better than Captain Shenanigans." Amy mumbles from her place by the doorway and Rory.

"Agreed." Jack says to Amy before looking back over at his parents.

Gently, Jack attempts to look at baby Oliver's time stream, using not just his Time Lord instincts, but also that touch of Time Vortex that he inherited from Rose's Bad Wolf persona. However, Jack discovers that Oliver's time stream, up until now, has no coherent path to it. What's even more difficult for Jack to understand is that little Oliver's telepathy is heavily shielded by someone. Who that person is, Jack isn't sure, but its signature faintly familiar.

"Well one of his parents must still be alive." Jack calls out to his parents, pulling their attention away from the baby. "Just now I tried to touch his mind, and was met with some very sophisticated mind shielding. Though, I can't make out whose telepathic signature is protecting this Tot's mind."

"Then his parents must have been who left him here, but why?" The Doctor says as he lifts the dozing Oliver away from his chest to give the male Time Tot a once over.

"If he is one of ours, we wouldn't have left him behind, would we?" Rose asks the Doctor.

"Not unless it was absolutely necessary. What better babysitter in the universe than a younger version of myself? Still, there is something about Oliver that doesn't exactly kick in my paternal nurturing side." The Doctor huffs out, his mind going full-throttle as to trying to figure out who Oliver belongs to.

"How about you run those tests on him in the Tardis. Like you said you would." Amy offers up. She doesn't realize that after their latest adventure, in a hotel with an alien killing people by absorbing their faith in something, that the Doctor was planning on taking them home.

"Right. Good idea, Pond." The Doctor hands Oliver over to Rose. He pulls out his sonic screwdriver aims it at the capsule, causing its bi-fold lid to close. What no one else in the room realized is that while the Doctor did that, he had the sonic do a quick scan of the capsule as well.

"Right." The Doctor says tucking the sonic back into a pocket in his brown, knee length jacket. "Jack, you and Jenny will carry the capsule back into the Tardis. In the meantime, Rose, would you be kind enough to see Donna and Captain Shenanigans into the Tardis. Wait for me in the medbay. Let's go, everyone."

The Doctor leads the way out of the sitting room and heads back to where the Tardis is parked, in the long hallway. He keeps a mental tally of everyone coming aboard, and lets out a deep sigh. He knows that time is ticking away, and that he will eventually have to face his approaching death. But with this new mystery, of a possible future child showing up, the Doctor isn't sure how much longer he can avoid the inevitable.

Closing the doors, the Doctor makes his way up to the console and begins setting coordinates for his next destination. Amy and Rory's home. He had contemplated leaving Rose and the kids, again, at the former home of Sarah Jane Smith. Make no mistake, the Doctor knows that he would be met with fierce opposition if he tried that, again. Then he had contemplated leaving them with Amy and Rory. But from what he has been able to piece together, from subtle hints by the two and River Song, Rose and the kids were not in attendance in Utah. That leaves him, and his family, in a medium-sized bind. The only luck on his side is that the Tardis shared her knowledge of the Doctor's death with Rose, on purpose.

With the landing cycle complete, the Doctor follows Rory and Amy out of the Tardis to say there, 'Till next time' goodbyes. With their goodbyes said, the Doctor heads back into the Tardis.

As Amy and Rory watch the Tardis disappear from their backyard, the two companions didn't notice the hidden figure of one of their neighbors. Nor do they notice the figure as they head back into their home after the Tardis is gone.

The hidden neighbor pulls out their cell phone and sends a quick text message to an unknown number.

'A & R are back home.'

A small vibration from the cell phone lets the person know that they have received a reply message.

'Did the Doctor receive the package?'- Unknown Number

'Yes. Overheard between the 3 of them. Package is aboard the Tardis.'

'Good. We'll be in touch.'- Unknown Number

The neighbor didn't send a reply to the last text, but went back into their own home instead.

Back Inside the Tardis…

The Doctor makes his way down towards the medbay where Rose, Jack, Donna, Jenny, and the Time Tot are waiting for him.

Entering the medbay, the Doctor notices that Oliver is currently in Rose's arms as she feeds him a bottle of formula. He leans against one of the diagnostic machines and watches his family coo over their littlest passenger. A deep want surges its way into his hearts, and the Doctor begins to find himself hoping that Oliver is a future child of theirs.

'But he is not, my Thief.' The Tardis whispers to him through their connection.

'Then you know to whom he belongs to.' The Doctor tosses back to his Tardis.

'Of course.'

'Care to share that information with the rest of us?'

'It isn't the correct time for his past to become known. Not yet.' The Tardis replies cryptically to the Doctor's question.

'Is he one of mine?' The Doctor asks hesitantly, half wanting to know and the other half of not wanting the answer.

'Yes and No.' Is the only answer the Tardis gives the Doctor.

The Doctor lets out a sigh of frustration at the Tardis's answer, which causes the rest of his family to look at him. He gives them a quick flash of a smile before hurrying around the medbay, collecting the necessary equipment to run several tests on Oliver.

With Jenny and Jack's help, the Doctor is able to draw a small amount of blood from Oliver and begin running several batteries of tests on the sample. He then takes a swab of Oliver's mouth to run a faster DNA test to discover the boy's lineage. Both of his oldest children assist with the setting up of several petri dishes and chemical additives to said dishes, to help speed up the process.

Several hours later, after all three of their children are fast asleep in their own rooms, the Doctor watches as Rose places a sleeping Oliver into a dark stained cherry crib. Originally this nursery, which was created as an extra room that connects to their bedroom, was set up for when they were expecting Donna. Now, the Tardis has redecorated the nursery with a gender-neutral color palate of soft yellows and greens instead of the deep purples and pinks.

After placing a gentle kiss upon Oliver's head, Rose quietly walks over to where the Doctor is leaning in the doorway. She lets herself snuggle up against his right side and gently places a kiss to his cheek. Doing this earns her his right arm, wrapping itself around her waist.

"You've been abnormally quiet since the kids went to bed. What is it that's troubling you?" Rose whispers before accepting a soft kiss to her lips.

"Nothing's troubling me, Rose." The Doctor whispers back, barely allowing their lips to touch.

"Liar." Rose says before giving the Doctor a slow, passionate kiss.

After only a minute into their kiss, a small whimper causes the two of them to end it. Knowing that Rose is knackered from being up for nearly twenty-four hours, the Doctor decides to check on Oliver instead. As he walks towards the crib, the Doctor can hear Rose's footsteps moving about in their own bedroom. Glancing into the crib, the Doctor watches as Oliver scrunches up his face before releasing another gas bomb from his bottom. With that small crisis taken care of, Oliver's face relaxes and he reenters REM sleep.

"Easy there. Someone might attempt to use those gaseous anomalies you release as a weapon. Might have to find a different combination of baby formula for your system. That should keep those pesky gas bubbles from being to nauseating." The Doctor whispers softly to Oliver before leaning in to give the boy a quick kiss on his brow. "Sleep well."

The Doctor exits the nursery, but leaves the dark oak door open just a crack. Taking a quick check of the bedroom, the Doctor notices that Rose has headed into their bathroom for her nightly routine. Even though her own body has changed, thanks to Bad Wolf's influence, she still tries to keep an adjusted human body sleep schedule. Unlike himself, who only needs about 12 hours of sleep a week, Rose's body needs a minimum of 24 hours within a week. Yet this information doesn't stop her from trying to keep to a normal human body sleep pattern.

After getting himself dressed in some sleep attire, the Doctor heads over towards his bed. Just as he is about to turn down the bedsheets, a data pad appears on the nightstand by his side of the bed. Picking up the data pad, the Doctor sits down on the bed and begins to read the information.

"What's that, Doctor?" Rose asks as she comes out of their bathroom, wearing a blue cami and cream colored sleep shorts.

"The results of the DNA test that I had the Tardis run." The Doctor says flatly, with no hint of emotion in his voice.

"And?" Rose pushes, hoping that the Doctor will share the information with her.

"Inconclusive." The Doctor finally says, while Rose climbs into their bed.

"What's that mean?"

The Doctor carefully maneuvers himself under the covers, while still holding the data pad, before answering. He allows Rose to snuggle up to him before speaking.

"From what the results are saying, Oliver is a Time Lord and that there are some similarities between his DNA and mine. But not enough similarities for me to be his father. So, that would mean that he is the offspring of another Time Lord, or he is just another River Song situation."

"What about if Oliver was your grandchild? Could that be possible?"

"It is a possibility, but which one of the kids would be his parent? Honestly the idea of Jack or Jenny having a child frightens me. And I am not about ready to accept that our Donna could be Oliver's mum either."

Rose lets out a string of chuckles at sensing the Doctor's disgust at the thought of any of their kids being a parent. Since her return to the Tardis, Rose has noticed that her pair-bond with the Doctor has returned to the full strength that it was before he regenerated. Though, as happy as she is about its return, it was during their jaunt to that planet where Amy got separated from their group that Rose really could feel the Doctor's emotions through his shields.

It had scared her, seeing her husband so unhinged by Rory having found an older looking Amy and the decision Rory had to make in the end. It was that night, after all that had happened, that the Doctor was more rough in their lovemaking. Almost as if he needed to be sure that she was still by his side. Even before either of them reached completion, she had heard him mumble out his sorrow at her leaving with his doppelganger and being returned to the alternate universe. Deep down, Rose knew that he was seeing a separate time line of a different possibility, that nearly happened to them.

"You know, Oliver has some human DNA in him. Mind you it's dormant, but it's there." The Doctor softly says to Rose, pulling her out from her train of thought.

"Really? Do you think that if you were to isolate the human DNA that you might be able to find out who one of Oliver's parents could be?" Rose suggests, snuggling closer to the Doctor's side.

"It's possible." The Doctor sighs before placing the data pad back onto the nightstand. Then he turns slightly, so that he can look directly into Rose's eyes. "My time is coming to an end, Rose."

"We still have time, Doctor. Together, we will find a way to save you." Rose implores, trying to convey her hope to the Doctor.

"It's a fix point in time, Rose. It's can be rewritten." The Doctor sadly tells Rose before leaning in to kiss Rose.

Moving gently, the Doctor shifts so that he is hovering over Rose. From there, he begins the slow torture of teasing that leads the pair into a slow, sensual round of lovemaking. During their movements, both of them let their bond flair to the point where they can feel everything that the other is. The Doctor can feel Rose's acceptance of this current body, as well as her unshakable love for him. Rose, however, can feel the Doctor's worry over his death and of their family's future without him. Together, each of them give and take what the other offers, and soon they find a glorious end to their lovemaking.


Now we have another mystery to add to the story line. I wanted to give you all a bit of a break between jumping into certain episodes. Hopefully, you all enjoyed this.

The next update will bring us to the beginning of the episode Closing Time, which I have nearly finished adding my additions to it.

Reviews are loved, welcomed, and cherished.

Selene