Manger was the prompt for this one. I'm sorta jumping all over the place, but I had an idea so I figured why not roll with it right? :)

Just in case someone takes this the wrong way, it's not meant to be offensive in any way.


"You kidnapped Jesus?" Rose shouted once again at the very nervous looking Doctor.

The Doctor rubbed his neck and looked down at the baby he had taken (or borrowed as he preferred to call it) "weeellll…" he started to explain before Rose cut him off again.

"Straight out of the manger! You kidnapped Jesus Doctor! Don't you think that's messin' with history just a little?" Rose asked. It seemed to the Doctor that she didn't have the problem with the kidnapping as such… More that it happened to a biblical figure… He realised she may have a point.

"It's not like I knew who he was when I did it! All I saw was a baby, alone, in a manger." The Doctor tried to defend himself.

"And you didn't put it all together?" Rose asked. She really wasn't going to accept this one. The Doctor winced. She was right. So he decided to take another approach.

"Okay, yes. But look at him Rose. Look at those eyes. He was all alone. I couldn't just leave him." The Doctor knew he was pleading for forgiveness now, and it really wasn't good for his image.

"You need to take him back." Rose said as sternly as she could without upsetting the baby.

"I know, I know. History's already taken enough of a beating. I'll just go put him back where I found him…"

"You make it sound like he's a lost wallet. " Rose said, giving him that look. The look that her mother gave him all the time. The 'I disapprove of this whole thing' look. He didn't like that look. It made her look way too much like Jackie.

That was when the baby, who had been sleeping soundly, woke up.

"Ah… Rose? Would you be able to quieten Jesus down, while I set the co-ordinates?" The Doctor asked rushing to the controls.

"Bet you didn't think you'd be saying that when you woke up this morning," she muttered but took the baby in her arms anyway. "Y'know," she said over her shoulder, rocking Jesus back and forth, "he is really cute. Any chance we could visit him when he's a little… Older?" she asked jokingly.

"Rose!" The Doctor replied, pretty much answering her question. "We're here. Give me Jesus." He said holding his arms out, then, with the baby in his arms, the Doctor walked out the TARDIS doors, returning five minutes later minus the baby, much to Roses relief.

"What'd you do? Put him back where you found him?" Rose asked, quoting the Doctors earlier comment.

"He's not a lost wallet, Rose." He paused. "I left a note."

Rose hesitated, processing his words. "You… Left a note?"

"Yep," the Doctor replied, popping the 'p', "history will show, that on this day, little Jesus went for a walk… Or a crawl… And a kind man named the Doctor found him and took him back."

"Really?" Rose asked in disbelief.

The Doctor frowned. "Of course not. I put him back in the manger and took off. What kind of time traveller would I be if I messed with the earliest of fixed points in time?"

Rose nodded. "Good. So where to for lunch?"

The Doctor grinned. "From Jesus to lunch without even flinching. Rose Tyler, you are a time travellers dream."


THE END