Chapter 10
Where Do We Go From Here
Doctor awoke slowly, wrapped messily in the sheets of the bed with River's head on his chest, her arm lightly draped around his waist. Placing a kiss to her head the Doctor slipped out from River's hold, gently placing her back onto the bed. The Doctor pulled out a TARDIS blue dressing gown from the wardrobe and walked out into the corridor.
Quietly closing the door behind him, the Doctor walked through the corridors for a few moments before arriving at the doors to the kitchen. The metal doors slid open by themselves and the Doctor was surprised to see Amy and Rory already sat at the wooden table.
"Morning Ponds," the Doctor said walking into the room and sitting at the table, by his mark it was only 5 in the morning so the Doctor hadn't expected any of the humans to be awake already.
Earning a glare from Rory and a somewhat amused by still angry look from Amy, the Doctor sat back in his chair already trying to consider what he had done to annoy the pair. Before the Doctor could say anything the doors opened again and River walked in, dressed in a white silk dressing gown - which the Doctor gladly noticed - had not been tied properly, so had a very revealing neckline.
"Morning sweetie," River said giving him a brief kiss, followed by a smirk, at which the Doctor realised he'd been caught staring for a second to long. "Morning mum, morning dad,"
River took a seat next to the Doctor and saw the same looks on their faces that the Doctor had seen seconds before. Being more outspoken than the Doctor, River immediately raised the issue.
"So what have we done wrong?" River asked, trying to pretend - for the Doctor's sake - she didn't already know.
"What's wrong?" Rory scoffed "what's wrong is what the two of you were up to last night."
The Doctor blushed bright red knowing that the TARDIS had intentionally allowed Rory and Amy to hear what happened last night. Normally his and River's room was set away from the others but the TARDIS must have rearranged them before they had been transported to their bedroom.
"What we were hearing from you're room last night was wrong, I know your married and in love but I'm pretty sure everyone heard your activities last night." Rory continued.
The Doctor grimaced, dealing with Amy and Rory was not too bad but Jack was definitely going to be much worse, the Doctor was never going to be able to forget this.
Before anyone could say anything further the doors slid open and Martha ran in.
"Doctor it's Jenny, she's woken up."
The Doctor leapt up from his chair and ran down the corridors to the medi-bay, the doors were already open and the Doctor skidded to a halt in front of the bed. Jenny lay on there, only half conscious, and the Doctor slowly walked up to her.
"Hey," he said taking Jenny's hand in his.
"Hey," came her faint reply.
"How are you feeling?" The Doctor tried his best not to think about the news he knew he would have to tell her.
"Like death...Did you stop him dad?"
The Doctor shook his head slowly, "No, he got away again, but I'm going to find him."
"It's alright dad," Jenny said, seeing how angry he looked "I know you'll get him"
Jenny smiled at the Doctor for a moment before her eyes fell closed and she drifted back into unconsciousness. At that point Martha arrived in the room, the Doctor turned to face her and Martha offered a comforting smile.
"She'll be fine Doctor, Jenny's had a serious lack of food and water so it's gonna be a while until she's back up to full strength."
"How do I tell her?" The Doctor asked, his voice dropping to a whisper.
"Jenny's stonger than you think Doctor, when the time comes and she's able to process the news properly just tell her."
"I know that Martha, I know how strong she is," the Doctor looked proudly over at the sleeping girl "but I know how much it's going to hurt."
"You'll be there to help her though it, we all will."
"No," the Doctor said, "I meant how much it's going to hurt me. The pain she's going to feel, I don't know if I'll be able to cope seeing her like that."
"That's why we've got to find the Master and make him pay for what he's done,"
The pair turned around to see Jack stood in the doorway.
"How much of that did you hear?" Martha asked him.
"All of it. Pregnant though," Jack said, seeing the scans on the monitor "have you told Rory and Amy yet?"
"I imagine River probably has," the Doctor said.
"Speaking of your wife," Jack said, a grin on his face "the two of you last night Doc, I never thought you'd be that type of guy."
"What type of guy?" The Doctor asked trying his best to keep serious.
"You know, the kinda language I heard you both using and the noises you both were making, it didn't leave a lot to the imagination."
In the corner of his eye the Doctor saw Martha looking both amused and shocked, she and Mickey mustn't have heard what happened last night.
"He acts like he's above all that human stuff,"
The Doctor saw River walking into the room and stand beside him.
"But get him in the mood and..well you all heard last night."
The Doctors eyes widened in shock that River was so open about that, while Jack held back laughter.
"Right," the Doctor spoke up, "moving on."
He left the medi-bay and headed for the console room, the others following. Arriving in the console room the Doctor saw Amy, Rory and Mickey stood there talking. The Doctor dashed up to the console and began working the controls, River helping him after a few moments. The TARDIS began to whirr and the familiar groaning noise began echoing through the console room. The ship span into the vortex and the Doctor turned to the group.
"We're out in the vortex, hopefully I'll be able track the Master now."
After a few moments the console bleeped and the Doctor looked at the monitor. "That's it, I've got a fix on his location."
River took a look at the scan to double check the readings.
"So," she began "where do we go from here?"