Chapter Eight; The Point of No Return
Rose looked up from her hospital bed as there came a knock on the door while Peter suckled from her nipple. "Come in." she said as the doorknob turned and her mother entered the room followed by Jack, Sarah, and Mickey.
"Are you ready for some visitors?" her mother asked her softly.
"Yeah sure, I'm just finishing feeding him. Where's Donna?" Rose asked her back.
"She's doggie sitting. She told me to give the baby a kiss for her." She explained.
"Yeah speaking of that what did you decide to name him?" Mickey asked as Rose simply just smiled at him.
"His name is Peter Michael." She answered.
"Really? You named him after me?" Mickey questioned.
"You and my father." She answered.
"Wow, I'm really touched. So does he have two hearts then?" he asked.
"No, time children don't grow their second heart until their eight years old." She said as Peter started to slowly and softly close his eyes.
"Oh isn't that darling, he's falling asleep while he's nursing just like Rose used to do." Jackie said.
"Aww I bet Rose was adorable when she was a baby." Sarah said.
"She was." The Doctor said as he smiled lovingly at his wife and placed a tender kiss on her lips.
"How would you know that?" Mickey asked him.
"I'm a time lord remember? Rose and I went back in time to see her father and she was just a wee little thing then." He answered when suddenly Peter stopped nursing and began to cry.
"Ah I see somebody's getting fussy." Jackie said while Rose cradled him inside her arms and placed him up to her shoulder.
"He just needs to be burped, then I'm going to put him down for his nap." She explained as she started to gently pat his back and rub it in small little circles.
"C'mon we better go then and let you two get your rest." The Doctor said as he kissed his wife again before climbing out of bed. "I love you both and hopefully if all goes well I'll be back to drive you home in a couple of days." He told them.
Sure enough a couple days later The Doctor was experienced enough to drive to the hospital as long as Mickey went with him. Rose turned the car seat around and strapped the baby inside of it. She couldn't wait to get him home. "I wonder what Shadow will think of him." She wondered aloud as she climbed into the passenger seat and buckled herself in before The Doctor pulled out of the parking lot and drove off.
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Shadow whimpered as he raced over to the door and leapt up onto The Doctor's pant leg when he came in through the door. "Down boy." He commanded as he took ahold of his collar and pulled him down while Rose came inside carrying the car seat by the handle and everybody else following behind her.
"Aww! He's so cute! He looks just like his father!" Donna exclaimed.
"Thanks I know, how was Shadow? Did he behave himself?" Rose asked her.
"Oh yes, he's such a good little doggie. Now I want to hold that precious little guy." She answered as Rose set the car seat on the floor and The Doctor sniffed the air.
"Ugh,.." he began with a groan before quickly moving his face away from him.
"Be my guest." He answered.
"Oh no you don't!" Rose snapped at him. "If you can learn how to drive a car, then you can certainly learn how to change a nappy. Now c'mon let's go." She said as she bent down and unstrapped Peter out of his car seat.
"You see darling that's just it, I already know how to that isn't the problem. I just don't want to." He told her as Rose hoisted her baby inside her arms.
"Yeah well tough, you helped bring him into the world so he's partly your responsibility. And as his father you're going to have to learn sooner or later." She said as she carried Peter back into the nursery with The Doctor walking along beside them. "C'mon PJ let's get you changed into a fresh nappy." Rose said.
"PJ?" The Doctor questioned her as the placed the infant on top of the changing table.
"Yeah, Pete Junior." She responded. "Alright Dad, you're up." She told him.
"But he's a boy!" He cried.
"Yeah, thanks I noticed his dick." She said.
"Exactly. You might as well just paint a red bullseye on my face." The Doctor said as the baby started to cry. "Alright, alright hold on and let me just unbutton you." He said when suddenly Shadow raced inside the room whimpering anxiously.
"It's alright Shadow," Rose began before she picked him up. "He's alright, he's just getting a diaper changed that's all." She assured him. When The Doctor finally managed to get his poopy diaper off, she couldn't help but laugh at the expression on his face.
"Oh my Gawd! I better get this thing into the trashcan before the smoke detector goes off!" he exclaimed as wadded it up and stepped on the pedal that opened the lid and threw it away. That's when suddenly Peter decided to let use and his father tried to catch the trail of urine in a fresh diaper. Rose laughed again. "Uh hullo? I could use your help here. After all you're his mother." He pointed out.
"Alright, I'll wipe him and then you can put the nappy on." She said.
"Deal!" he exclaimed. "I just hope that the next time it'll be a girl that would make things so much easier." He said as Rose gave a little giggle before she grabbed one of the baby wipes and started wiping his bottom.
A few hours later she dressed him inside his blue striped pajamas and placed him inside his crib while The Doctor wound up his mobile. "Aww, doesn't he look absolutely adorable?" she questioned as she hung over his crib with a dreamy little sigh.
"Yeah sure, now. He's going to bed and he's got a dummy in his mouth." He answered as he turned over to her and kissed her lips before he picked her up inside his arms and carried her a crossed the hallway into their own bedroom. Then he set her down on top of the bed and continued making out with her.
"We got to be careful, we don't want another one this soon." Rose said as he started stripping her clothes off.
"Yeah, that's what birth control is for." He told her before planting another kiss on her lips in which she returned.
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That night after the two of them had made love Rose had another dream. Her father had been calling out to her from the alternate universe. When she woke up she had decided that she had had enough. She loved her husband and son very much and didn't want to leave them, but she also wanted to find her father with the hope of finding her father in hopes of ending the time war so Peter wouldn't be in danger. She scribbled down for The Doctor and pinned it up on the fridge before she left the apartment in which she knew that there was an awful big chance that she would never return
