WARNING: CERTAIN PARTS OF THIS CHAPTER COULD BE CONSIDERED NON-CON. JUS' SAYING.

A/N: SO SORRY FOR THE DELAY. School and life have gotten to me.

Rose sighed and tugged at her bonds again. It was hopeless. Xhinns had their bondage techniques down pat. She was pretty sure even the Doctor couldn't get his way out of them if he was tied up. She hadn't seen him since this morning, where she was rudely awakened by someone pulling her off the bed by her wrist. She was about to ask the Doctor what was going on when she saw him being dragged down the opposite hall. She would've memorized the way back if it hadn't been for their captors decision to knock her out. She woke up in a laboratory (or something close to that) and tied to a hospital bed. Even worse, she seemed to be wearing a medical down and her TARDIS key was missing. At least she still had her knickers.

A oriental looking woman, who was actually a Xhinn, came over and started digging a needle around in her arm while Rose squirmed on the table.

"Do you really have to dig around in my arm like that?", Rose asked sharply. The lady gave no reply and Rose rolled her eyes at her. "Of course, company policy. No fraternizing with the lab rats. You could at least tell me why I'm tied up her and why you're drawing blood."

The woman took needle out and Rose tried to peer around her arm to see what she was doing. The woman turned back around to face her.

"We need your homo sapiens deoxyribonucleic acids for our bioinformatics program. I will return when the denaturation and recombinantion with the dominus temporis deoxyribonucleic acids is complete."

Rose blinked. "Right." The lady walked out of the room with the petri dish of Rose's blood. Rose laid back on the bed, inspecting her bound wrists. She looked back up at the door. If they weren't prisoners, she had a feeling the nurse and the Doctor would get along wonderfully.

Aimee hid in the hole in the wall, waiting for Larien, the Xhinn medical nurse that helped with bioinformatics, left the room Rose was in. Aimee had no idea that the Xhinn could hear her tell the Doctor and Rose about the genetic experiments. Now they were going to be used in them. Aimee made up her mind to help them escape, even if she was only a little girl.

Larien left the room with a petri dish. Aimee guessed that it held Rose's DNA. She was pretty good at guessing what the scientists were doing after almost a decade of watching and learning. She slipped into the room to see Rose facing the ceiling with her eyes closed and jaw set.

"Miss Rose?"

Rose whipped her head down to see the fair-haired girl at her bedside. "Aimee?"

The young girl looked back at the door and whispered to Rose with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry this happened. They heard me talking to you and the Doctor about it."

Rose smiled at the girl. "It's okay. This kind of stuff happens all the time."
Aimee scrunched up her eyebrows. "It does?"

"Yep. That's we do. Visit planets, get caught, and escape. Lots of running though. Love the running."
"How do I get you out then?" Aimee pulled the thick leather cuffs around Rose's wrist. It moved a little bit, but then stopped.
After a few more tries Rose shook her head. "Don't worry about me. You need to find the Doctor. He'll get me out."

Aimee frowned. "I don't know where he is."

Rose thought for moment. "Your telepathic, yeah? Can you just talk to one person at a time in your head?"

"I don't think so." Aimee shook her head sadly.

"Rose looked her in the eye. "You've got to try, please? For me?"

Aimee smiled. "Ok."

"Now you go look for him. I'll try and get out of here." She worked on wiggling her arm out.
Aimee pointed to a bit of metal sticking up on the arm of the chair near her wrist. "But you'll cut yourself."
"I've had worse happen. Now go!"

Aimee nodded and ran out of the room with one last look at the woman in the bed.

Aimee ducked into an empty supply room down the dark hall to try talking to the Doctor. She closed her eyes and imagined the inside of her mind. It was small, light purple room filled with scientific equations and imaginary places. She looked around for the minds of people in the building. She could see all the Xhinn's pulsing, black orbs, a light blue and gold one for Rose, and a strong, and a dark blue orb that she thought probably belonged to the Doctor. She reached out to it and heard a deep voice speak.

"What- Who is this?"

"Doctor? It's me, Aimee."

The Doctor smiled, despite his being tied up to what was the equivalent of an office chair. "You have more telepathic abilities than I thought."

"I am part Xhinn. Do you know where you're at?"

"They took me down the opposite hall from Rose. Have you seen her?"

"Yes. She told me to find you first. Said you'd get her out."
The Doctor smiled at Rose's trust in him. "I will, but I need to find my ship first. They put my coat with it. "

"What does it look like?"

"A big, blue box."

Aimee wondered past the holding cells and down the hall where the Doctor was being kept in one of the rooms. She looked in each room down the hall until she came to a storage bay filled with random things. In the middle stood a big, blue box, just as the Doctor had said. She looked around the room for a coat. Aimee picked up a tan trench coat off the floor and inspected it. She was sure it was the Doctor's. She reached out the his mind again.

"Doctor? It is a brown coat?"

"Yes! There should be a sonic screwdriver in the right pocket."

"A sonic screwdriver?"

"Um, a silver stick with a blue light on the end. You'll know it when you see it."

Aimee started pulling things out his right pocket. A wallet with blank paper, a few pieces of withered apple grass, a few friendship bracelets he, Jack, and Rose had made at a festival, a very long, striped scarf, and finally his sonic screwdriver. Aimee stuffed the other things back in his pocket. She walked into the TARDIS to put his coat in the ship and was taken aback by the inside. She threw the coat on the railing and walked around the room with a grin full of wonder. Tears pricked her eyes as she felt a warm, motherly buzz in her head. She never felt anything like it before. It felt as though the ship was alive. The rotor thrummed and Aimee could feel it's worry. She smiled at the ceiling before running out of the TARDIS with the sonic screwdriver in hand. On her way out of the storage bay, she stepped on something metal. She picked it up and inspected it. It was a key, but for metal it felt warm. She stuck in her pocket to examine it later and followed the Doctor's blue orb in her head.

Rose was working on getting her hand free when she heard footsteps approaching the doorway. She let out a vent of frustration and put her hand back in the leather strap. As expected, scientific nurse lady had come back, but time with two other scientists. One held a vial and a large needle, while the nurse held a sort-of clipboard and a machine that Rose recognized as a dermal regenerator. The last one came in with a bottle clearly labeled as chloroform. They seemed to be talking to one another.

"Oh, how bloody lovely.", Rose mumbled sarcastically.

The first man started pouring the contents of the vial into the needle while the nurse wrote things down on a clipboard. The other man was pouring chloroform on a rag and started walking over to her.

"Ok, ok. What are you doing to me? I least deserve to know that much before you knock me out."

The nurse walked over to her and spoke telepathically. "We're transplanting a synthetic homo sapiens ovum combined with the recombinanted deoxyribonucleic acids into your uterus for bioinformatical study."

"So let get this straight. Your going to make me pregnant so you can study genetic-" She waved her hand around. "-stuff?"

"Yes. We're creating the ideal peons for our species."
"Guess there's no way I'm going to get out of this one, huh?", Rose snapped, very unhappy with their idea of creating servants.

"If the genetically engineered fetus does not grow within a few hours we will let you go and your mate go."
"Two things, lady. One, he's not my mate and two, it my 'genetically engineered fetus' does decide to grow, you're letting me go anyway."

The nurse paid no attention to her rant, but instead motioned for the guy with the chloroform to go ahead.

"Ok, wait.", Rose said, "Is the chloroform necessary? Don't you know it's dangerous to humans?"

They eyed her warily. She crossed her fingers hoping they'd believe her. If she was going to used an experiment, she wanted to know what they were doing.
"It will hurt.", the nurse finally said.
"I don't care. I'd rather be awake for whatever you're going to do to me."

The nurse talked to the man with the chloroform and he set the rag down. Rose breathed a momentary sigh of relief. The man with the needle came over and the nurse pulled her gown up.

"Oi! What do you think your doing?", she shouted.

They ignored her and the nurse pushed the long needle into her abdomen. Rose bit her cheek and held back a few tears, she wasn't expecting this kind of pain. The needle was quickly replaced with a dermal regenerator and her skin healed right up and she was left with only a dull throb of pain. The nurse pulled her gown back down and spoke, again, to the others and they took the equipment out of the room. The nurse turned back to her.

"I'll be back in a few hours to check on it."

Rose bit back a retort as she left the room. She kept talking about this -baby (if it even grew to be that)- as if was just a lab experiment. Rose wasn't even sure if it would grow. She had heard theories of genetic engineering and how it wouldn't work. She shook her head and went back to work on freeing herself.

Aimee found the Doctor, tied to a Xhinn office chair, a few rooms down from the TARDIS. One of his sleeves was rolled up to his elbow, his jacket on the floor, and he had the look of the Oncoming Storm in his eyes. If the situation wasn't so serious, Aimee would've found the time to laugh as his ridiculous appearance. Instead, she smirked and held up his sonic screwdriver. "Is this what you need, sir?"

He grinned at her. "Yes, and don't call me sir. Bring it over here, will you?" She walked over and he stared at the tiny screen. "Push that green button two times and hit the red one once, then point it at these ropes here."
She did as she told and the Doctor was free to lean down and untie his ankles. He stood up and stretched to pick up his jacket. "Much better, do you know where they're keeping Rose."

Aimee started to lead him down the hall while looking for any Xhinn. "Yes, but I'm afraid they're going to do something to her. Larien, she's the head of the bioinformatics program, was taking a sample of her blood to the lab."

The Doctor grimaced. They had taken blood from him too.

"Aimee, what are they trying to do in this bioinformatics program?"

The thin girl looked up at him. "They say they're trying to create peons." She frowned. "That's what I am. A slave."

"But why?"

"They're ship crashed and they're stuck here. So their trying to recreate a society."

"I daresay it's not going well for them." The Doctor grabbed her hand and smiled at her. "Let's find Rose and get out of here."

Inside of him, a storm was brewing. They were manipulating people who stopped here on this planet and using their genetic material for creating slaves. He had to stop them from using Rose first, then he'd ruin what they had of this bioinformatics program.

Rose had finally gotten her left wrist free of it's bonds. It had a deep cut and was bleeding, but somehow she'd managed to get the chloroform-soaked rag tied around it. (She really hoped you couldn't absorb it through your skin.) She was working on the right wrist when she heard footsteps.

Not good.

She sat back in the chair, pulled the bloody rag off her arm, and tried to put her injured wrist back in it's spot. She relaxed when she realized it was the Doctor and Aimee.

"Oh, it's you!', she grinned.

The Doctor looked her over. "What happened?" She looked down and noticed her bleeding wrist and the blood on the table, rag, and gown.

"Long story, I'm ok though. Do you think you can get me out of here?"

The Doctor came over and used the sonic screwdriver to let her loose. She hopped off the tabled and clutched her side. The Doctor hovered over her and buzzed the sonic screwdriver over her. "They hurt you. What happened?"

"Doctor, can we please talk about it later? I can walk and they didn't do anything life threatening. That nurse is going to be back soon and I'd rather not meet the guards again."

The Doctor noticed the lump on her head that matched his own. "They were rather physical fellows, weren't they."

Rose flinched, reminded of another 'physical fellow' in her life. "Yeah."

They made it to the TARDIS without anyone seeing them. The Doctor was disappointed and surprised that Aimee had already seen the inside of his ship. He took her to the library where she even more amazed and had run from bookshelf to bookshelf in merriment. It was around Aimee's bedtime when Rose finished her shower, so she found herself putting her to bed while the Doctor took care of the Xhinn's laboratories. Aimee had a proper bath and even picked out fuzzy pajamas with polka-dots covering them. Rose had brushed, dried, and braided her hair like she used to do to her dolls when she when younger. Aimee was now snuggled in a very pink bed, almost asleep from the bedtime story Rose had read her. Rose sat by the bed, stroking her hair and feeling sorry for the poor child, who had a life of loneliness and slavery.

"Miss Rose?", she mumbled.

Rose smiled at her sleepy voice. "Yes?"

"I don't have a mum."
"I know. I'm sorry.", she said sadly.

"Could you be my mum?"
Rose was little scared at the prospective of being a mum and let out a shaky laugh. "I'm sorry, Aimee. I don't think that would work."

"Oh." A little tear escaped her eye.
"We'll find you a mum."

"Why can't the Doctor and you be my mum and dad?"

Rose gaped at her almost sleeping form. "We're not toget- The Doctor and I- We're not married, Aimee. And life in the TARDIS isn't very kid friendly."

"Oh." Aimee closed her teary eyes. "'Night Miss Rose."
Rose gave her a sad smile and started singing a lullaby to hear. She didn't know where it came from, it just came to her.

Hush, my golden child.

Lay your head to sleep.

Close your eyes and dream pleasant dreams..

Time will flow; life goes on.

We will fly through starry skies

And I will hold your dreams.

Hush, my golden child.

My precious child to keep.
I will hold you close and never let you go.

Time will flow; life goes on.

We will fly through starry skies

And I will hold your dreams.

Hush, my golden child.

You are sound asleep.

May you know and feel my love for thee.

Time will flow; life goes on.

We will fly through starry skies

And I will hold your dreams.

Rose found the Doctor tinkering in the control room the next morning. She set a mug of tea on the grating next to his legs and sat down on the jump seat with her own. He wiggled out from under the console, his hair and shirt rumpled.

"Morning, Rose", he grinned.
She smiled back. "Morning."
He took a sip of his tea. "Ah, tea. Good for the synapses."
Rose grinned. "Like you need help with that."
"Not really, no.", he winked at her.

She laughed at him and became serious. "What are we going to do with her, Doctor?"
"Who?"
"Aimee."

"Yes, Aimee. I suppose we should take her to Earth. The TARDIS isn't the best place for a child."
"I agree, but where who will we take her to? Aren't people going to question her species?"
"We could take her to 3014. Interspecies relations are common by then."
Rose looked appalled. "We can't just take her to any random family." The Doctor raised an eyebrow. "Isn't there anyone you know that would take her? Like a previous companion?"
The Doctor frowned and thought for a moment. "I don't know anyone that would a take a child."

They in silence for a while, finishing their tea. Rose's mind was trying to think of someone who would take Aimee. She knew her mum wouldn't and Jack wouldn't exactly be the best father, plus the Doctor had no idea that Rose knew he was alive. She thought of all the people they knew well and came to a conclusion.

"Doctor, what about Sarah Jane?"

The Doctor spluttered. "Sarah Jane?"
"She doesn't have any children, but she would like to, yeah?"
"I- I wouldn't know."
Rose smiled and rolled her eyes. "Let's find out."
The Doctor started setting the coordinates for Sarah Jane's backyard and Rose went to wake up Aimee.

Sarah Jane and Aimee loved each other instantly and Rose couldn't feel a sad by seeing them together. Although she had only been with Aimee for a few days, she felt some attachment to her. They spent the day with Sarah Jane and by evening, the Doctor had his fill of domestics and went back to the TARDIS. It was getting pretty late and Rose decided to leave. She stood up and Aimee ran over to give her a hug.

"Thanks for giving me a mum, Miss Rose."
Rose choked on her laugh. "Anything for you, Aimee. Thank you for saving me and the Doctor."

The young girl grinned up at her. "Your welcome. Though I do wish you could've been my mum."
Rose smiled sadly at her and looked up at Sarah Jane, who smiled back. "Sarah Jane's a better mum than I would be, I'm sure. Goodbye, Aimee. We'll visit soon, okay?"

Aimee gave her one last hug. "Bye."

Rose gave Sarah Jane a hug. "Thanks for everything."
"Of course, Rose. And remember, if you ever need to find me, I'll be here."
"Thanks, but I'll find you even if I don't need you. I don't want to be strangers anymore." Rose laughed.
"Me neither. Goodbye, Rose.", she pulled back and smiled.
"Bye, Sarah."

A/N: Review my lovelies! Two new chapters coming up tonight!