Oooh, a brand new chapter. Sorry for the delay- I've been on holiday. Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions of what they want to happen please let me know and I'll try my very best to make it happen

Hope you all enjoy!

The Doctor and Clara decided to head to the local shopping complex for lunch while the kids were at school. They took a bus to get there, which put the Doctor in a slightly sour mood as he had to stand and kept hitting his head on the handles along the aisle. Clara promised to let him go look at the toy section first which cheered him up.

The Doctor let out a cheerful whoop when he saw a remote control helicopter.

"I love these things!" he grabbed the control next to the display helicopter and launched the small mechanical object into the air.

Clara giggled at him, he looked so happy playing with the toy.

"Can we get one of these for the baby?" the Doctor asked as he made the helicopter circle around her.

"Why would we give a baby a remote control toy?"

"Baby?" a voice came from behind Clara.

She turned around and gave a quick squeal when she saw who it was, an old friend of hers who she hadn't really seen since she started working for and living with the Maitlands.

"Lily!"

The Doctor looked curiously at Clara's friend, she seemed to be the complete opposite of Clara in appearance. Where Clara was short, Lily was tall. Clara had dark brown hair and eyes, Lily had blonde hair and green eyes. Completely unbiased as well, the Doctor thought Clara was much prettier than the other girl.

The two women hugged.

"Clara it's been ages!" Lily exclaimed, then looked over her friend's shoulder at the Doctor. "What's he talking about a baby for?"

"Oh um," Clara let go of her friend and stepped towards the Doctor, linking arms with him. "Lily, this is the Doctor. Doctor, this is my friend Lily. And um yeah, I'm pregnant."

"Woah," Lily shook hands briefly with the Doctor, who had landed his helicopter by now. "You got her knocked up, huh?"

"It's not like that Lily," Clara replied.

Lily, who had always been protective over Clara since her mother died, folded her arms across her chest, "No? Well, do you love him?"

Clara looked up at the Doctor, and slowly, and ever so cautiously replied, "Yeah, I do."

"And you, Doctor?" Lily asked. "Do you love Clara?"

The Doctor looked down at Clara and equally as cautiously answered, "Yeah. I love her."

Lily's eyes darted between the pair of them, before deciding that it was alright, and then quickly pulled Clara out of the Doctor's grasp.

"So, tell all," she said. "Where did you two meet? How long did you know each other before he knocked you up? How far along are you?"

Clara laughed at the sudden barrage of questions.

The Doctor answered swiftly, "Clara's house. No idea. About three months."

"Three months and two weeks," Clara put in.

"How do you have no idea how long you've known each other?" Lily looked confused.

"It's complicated," Clara replied off-handedly. "For a long time, anyway."

Something at the back of the room caught the Doctor's eyes, "Clara! Look at those!"

And with that he was off. Clara giggled at him and Lily turned to her friend.

"Is he all there?" Lily asked, somewhat insensitively pointing at his head.

Clara frowned at her, "Yeah. He's been through a lot of stuff though. I guess he acts like that so he doesn't have to think about the rest of it."

Lily nodded, not really wanting to dig any further into the stranger's mind, "So darling, are you excited about this baby?"

Clara nodded with a smile, "I wasn't at first, but it's kind of grown on me. Literally."

She placed one hand over her small bump.

Lily laughed at Clara's awful pun, "Do you know if it's a girl or a boy yet?"

Clara shook her head, "No. Actually, I haven't thought about that."

"Which would you rather?"

Clara shrugged, "Either would be as good as the other, I suppose. I'm not really fussy."

"I'd want a girl," Lily said dreamily. "Wouldn't it be fun to braid her hair and dress her up in little clothes? Although, if I did have a kid, I'd hope they wouldn't be like me."

Clara laughed, remembering a time at school when Lily had convinced her that the absolute best thing they could do rather than go to study hall was to climb up onto the gym roof and peek through the skylight at the topless boys inside. The plan went rather swimmingly until the coach noticed their shadows cast onto the gym floor and sentenced them to a month worth of lunchtime detentions. Lily had always claimed that it was worth it though.

They caught up with the Doctor, who was playing with a train set that was on a little table in the toddlers section and took him off to have lunch.