A/N- thanks to everyone who reviewed last chapter and told me how they would like this to end, it really helped me think of something, so thanks a million! I have to admit, I did have a lot of fun writing this chapter. This is The Doctors dream, the one he was having when he fell asleep in detention? Yeah, this is it. The whole chapter. Enjoy The Doctors sub-conscious, and leave a review on the way out! :)
"Rose, I'm home!" The Doctor called out, walking in the front door of their house. He still preferred being called The Doctor, rather than Theta; it was something that had stuck with him from high school.
"Hey," she greeted him, kissing him briefly on the lips. "How was work?"
"Oh, you know same old, same old." The Doctor said, not elaborating on what he had done that day at school, where he worked as a teacher, because he had distracted himself by looking around for something, or more specifically, someone, or even more specifically, two someones. He kept looking until finally he figured it would be easier to just ask, so that's what he did. "Where are the terrible two?"
Rose, who had just started chopping up the vegetables for dinner, turned to him. "Hannah got invited to a tea party, by Olivia, so they're probably still next door with Shereen. Riley and Nathan decided to get away from the girls and pretty much begged Mickey to take them and Eli to the park for a bit." Rose finished and turned back to the vegetables after seeing The Doctor nod.
The Doctor smiled and walked up behind Rose, wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin on her shoulder, "Rose?" he asked, and she could pretty much sense his nervousness.
"Yeah, Doctor?" She replied, figuring that the reason for The Doctors nervousness would come up in the conversation.
"Would you fancy doing all this again?" He asked, not moving his head from its position on her shoulder. Rose put the knife down and swivelled around so she was facing The Doctor.
"What, the twins don't keep you busy enough?" she asked, and he could tell she was joking. Joking is a good sign. Very good, even. The Doctor reminded himself.
"Weeellll, those two. Lets just say watch out if they ever get married, because they are always going to be trouble, maybe if we try again, there'll be more of you're genes, and less of mine?" The Doctor reasoned. Eli and Hannah were definitely their father's children, which much was apparent within their first year. They figured they were following in his footsteps and breaking things, much to Roses annoyance. And even now at four years old, they still hadn't stopped.
"I'm sure your parents said the same thing about if you ever got married," Rose said amused.
The doctor looked thoughtful for a minute then said, "no, my parents said things more like, 'god help who ever agrees to marry him, because I have the feeling they would need a constantly topped up stash of toasters and microwaves,' then my dad would usually come back with, 'not to worry, someone would have to agree to marry him first.' Then we would usually all laugh." The Doctor finished, then there was a knock at the door.
"Can you get that? It's probably Mickey dropping the kids back. We'll talk later, when the kids are in bed, yeah?" Rose told him as he walked towards the door.
The Doctor smiled, she was going to talk about it with him. That was a good sign too. That was a brilliant sign.
The Doctor got to the door and almost as soon as he opened it, he was greeted by two yells of "Ddddaaaaddddyyyy!" and wrapped in a hug by each of his children. For twins they couldn't be any more different to each other, The Doctor thought, as he tried not to stumble from the force that the twins had run at him with.
Eli Benjamin Quinn, who had wrapped himself around his fathers left leg, was of the two was most like The Doctor in both personality and appearance. He had The Doctors brown eyes and hair, which like The Doctors was almost always sticking up at weird angles. He even wore Converse on his small feet, (which The Doctor had, had nothing to do with,) Rose had told him after she had brought them that Eli had said he 'needed them to be like his Daddy', and that had made The Doctors heart swell. They even had the same taste in food; Eli had a thing for bananas and hated pears. He also possessed The Doctors knack for getting himself into trouble, and he definitely had The Doctors smarts. They were so much alike, that Rose had joked that Eli was just a younger version clone of The Doctor himself.
But Hannah Sophie Quinn, who had wrapped herself around her fathers right leg, she was a mix of both her parents. Her looks, that was about a fifty fifty split between The Doctor and Rose, she had light brown hair, with natural blonde streaks in the light, and Roses eyes, the eyes that The Doctor could never say no to, no matter whether it was mother or daughter. She almost always dressed herself in jeans, t-shirts and little hoodies. She was definitely not a girly-girl. But her personality, that was all Rose, no doubt about it. And at the ripe age of four, Hannah had the Tyler Glare down to an art, and she used it on her brother frequently. The Doctor also had the secret belief that she had a small crush on Riley Daniel Smith, Mickey's youngest son, who was about the same age and lived next door. But if The Doctor was being honest, (which he always was), the only part of him that he could see in her, was again, the brain.
Both his kids had an IQ of the charts, and were incredibly, almost unbelievably, was what their teacher had said, intelligent. And of course, Rose blamed him for it. Not that he minded so much, he was usually too proud to care. But when they had found out that their children were geniuses, The Doctor and Rose had decided that the most important thing was that they had normal childhoods, and got to be normal kids. So far everything was going according to plan on that front.
While The Doctor had been thinking, he had somehow managed to get himself over to sit on the couch, with both his kids still attached to his legs and giggling every time he walked. And he was now sitting with Rose next to him, Hannah next to her and Eli on his other side, eating dinner. "Mommy?" Eli asked from next to The Doctor.
"Yeah, sweetheart?" Rose replied.
"I'm full, I can't eat any more." Eli said rubbing his stomach.
"You have to, Eli," Rose said.
"Why?" Eli whined, sounding so much like his father (at his most immature) at that moment that Rose had to look up just to make sure it wasn't actually The Doctor talking, but just as she did, he replied to Eli's question.
"Because if you don't, you don't get to hear about The Doctors newest adventure," The Doctor said, in a convincing voice.
Then Hannah piped up, "Eat it!" She said in a stern voice, giving him the glare.
That seemed to be enough incentive for Eli, Rose wasn't sure if it was not getting a story about their beloved Doctor and his Spaceship, that looked like a phone box called the TARDIS, or Hannah's glare, or both but by the time he was done, there wasn't a scrap to be seen on Eli's plate. "Good," Rose said in approval when Eli showed her his plate, "now go get ready for bed, and Daddy'll be there soon to tell you a story," She said in a very motherly tone that made The Doctor want to kiss her senseless right there and then, then for the first time, she must have registered how much of a mess Eli's face was, because the next thing out of Roses mouth was, "hey Eli, sweetheart?" she asked and waited for him to turn around, when he did she said, "wash you're face." He nodded and ran to the bathroom.
Hannah giggled, "Yeah Eli, wash your face! You got dinner all over it!" then she ran into her room to get changed for bed.
Rose turned to The Doctor, "you sort them out, tell them a story while I do the dishes, then we'll talk, okay?"
The Doctor looked down at his amazing wife and before he registered what he was doing, he kissed her, but it wasn't just a simple peck, no. It was turning into a full on snog! But the mood was broken when Hannah's voice came from her bedroom. "Mommy! Daddy! Eli's hitting me with a pillow!"
Then, not half a minute later, Eli's voice followed, "You started it! You stole Pluto!" Pluto. Eli's grey teddy bear that he had gotten when he was born, Hannah had gotten a matching one, except it was blue and she had named it Neptune. Stealing either one of these teddies from their owners was, to the twins, an unthinkable offence, and could have some very bad end results.
Rose and The Doctor pulled away from each other and sighed, "you better go sort them out before they kill each other," Rose said.
"Yeah," The Doctor agreed. "They probably would too," he said as he walked towards Hannah's bedroom, where they gathered each night for story time. And I want to add in another one to the mix? I must be crazy, completely insane. He decided as he reached the doorway to Hannah's room, expecting to see his two kids on the ground wrestling over a teddy bear, and that's why when he saw what they were actually doing, all he could do was stand in the doorway and stare.
They were both fast asleep. Hannah was clutching Neptune to her chest, and she had her whole body turned towards Eli. Eli was holding on to the arm of Pluto, with that arm under his sister, and the other one flopping off the bed, with his face turned towards her. The Doctor picked the blanket -that must have been thrown on the floor when they were fighting- up and draped it over both of his kids. And smiled, content to just watch them, he felt Rose come up behind him and wrap her arms around him, the same way he had done earlier. He turned to her and whispered, "I love you."
"Love you too," Rose replied, equally quiet.
"Thank you," The Doctor said, still quiet, "for this," he gestured to them, then to the twins.
"Anytime," Rose said looking into his eyes, seeing if he understood, which apparently he did.
"Really?" He asked sounding like one of the twins when they'd just been told they could have an ice cream.
"Yeah," Rose said laughing at his excitement. "Come on let's go to bed, you've got work in the morning."
So? What did you think of the twins? As I said at the start, I quite enjoyed writing this chapter, which is probably why it's longer than the others… I've found that I don't really want to say good-bye to The Terrible Two, I'm actually quite fond of them! ;) So, be on the look out for Eli and Hannah in the future, just in case… Drop me a review? Pwease? :)