DISCLAIMER: DOCTOR WHO BELONGS TO THE BBC
A/N: SORRY I HAVN'T UPDATED IN AGES AS I WASN'T SURE WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THIS STORY. I'VE SEEN LOADS OF FANFICS OUT THERE WITH MADAME KAVARION AS THE BADDY AND I EVEN HAVE A FANFIC WITH HER AS THE BADDY ON THE GO, AND I'M ALSO USING THE MASTER IN THAT FICLET AS WELL, AND I REALLY NEEDED A BADDY FOR THIS FIC BUT I JUST GOT STUMPED. I'VE DECIDED TO CREATE MY OWN BADDY OR BADDIES AS YOU'LL SEE LATER IN THE FICLET. ANYWAY THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE REVEIWED/ALERTED/FAVED THIS STORY… YOUR SUPPORT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME.
After all the ponds had eaten their morning breakfast and Tommy had trundled off rather reluctantly to school, Rory had practically demanded to examine The Doctor and the life that was growing within him ; who knew that Rory could be so commanding. So The Doctor had very tentatively agreed to let Rory check him over in the TARDIS medical bay, but he was regretting it already.
" Oi that's cold!" The Doctor shrieked as Rory placed the blue gel onto his exposed stomach. He wiggled awkwardly, not even being able to look into Rory's eyes without feeling embarrassed.
" Sorry. " Rory apologised with a sheepish smile tugging at the corners of his lips. He picked up the scanner and pressed it lightly to The Doctors skin. He slided it to where a woman's womb would have been, unsure what he was looking for. This was both weird and fascinating at the same time ; part of the reason he'd become a nurse was to learn new medical knowledge, and this was a totally new unheard of thing for humans but then again The Doctor was anything but human. Blackness, blackness and more blackness. " I Can't find anything. Are you sure that you're actually… " Rory's eyes widened as on the screen a small white dot appeared, nothing but a spec but it was there all right. " Your baby I believe. " Rory stammered in disbelief.
The Doctor felt a red hot flush making it's way up his neck and spreading across his cheeks. He shook his head, half of him was screaming for him to look up at his and Rivers child but the other part of him just wanted to ignore it. " Sweetie it's ok. " River knelt by his side and smiled at him encouragingly.
" River I don't know if I can. " The Doctor gulped and looked at her with huge terrified eyes. That was until the most beautiful sound met his ears, it was like a melody of two fast beats, a chorus of life and serenity. It warmed his hearts to the core and he couldn't help but let a huge grin plaster his face. He gradually lifted his head, eyes welling up with emotion as he set sight on the small little blob of life that was internally woven in his stomach. " Oh River it's beautiful! " He exhaled in delight.
" Why doesn't it have two hearts? " Rory asked in confusion.
" The baby's second heart won't grow till they've regenerated." The Doctor rolled his eyes as if it was the most obvious thing in the universe.
" In that case I'd say you have a healthy baby but we'll have to keep an eye on things as they progress. We don't know what effect the mixture of human, human plus and Timelord DNA will have on foetus." Rory clarified. The Doctor nodded in agreement.
" Our child Doctor." River giggled.
" Our impossible child. " He agreed and intertwined his fingers with hers.
" Our grandchild. " Amy squealed and jumped up and down in excitement. Rory just looked on in shock, not quite believing he was seeing what was on the screen. " OI stupid face, be happy. That's our grandchild." She poked Rory playfully. " You're gonna be a granddad. " She sang in a sing song voice at the top of her lungs.
Rory smiled dopily and started to tear up. " Nope I'm not going to cry. " he blinked rapidly and rubbed his eyes. " Granddad… it makes me feel so old. " He snorted.
The Doctor frowned ; he felt strange. Every hair on his body felt like it was standing on end, his head suddenly felt like a dead weight on his neck, he could see everyone around him chatting and laughing but all he could hear was a deadly silence, not even the sound of his and River's child's heartbeat reverberated against his eardrums. He glanced down to his hand that was still embracing River's but he couldn't feel her, he couldn't feel anything, he was numb all over. Why couldn't he feel her? He started to panic and could tell his breathing was becoming erratic by the way his chest was rising and falling. Amy, Rory and Rivers eyes were all fixed on him and soon his panic spread through them like wildfire. They were yelling at him, touching him all over, trying to make him talk to them but still the awful silence persisted. He tried to speak but his lips were glued shut, he was powerless to whatever was happening to him. A shudder ran up his spine and his body jerked backwards, he flopped back onto the cold metallic bed and although he was lying down he had the uncanny feeling of tripping and falling… falling so far.
But that feeling was soon replaced by a floating motion, as if he was flying, soaring above the clouds, through the stars and the galaxies, flitting in and out of reality. Then all at once everything stopped, there was nothingness. Then there was light and the child that wasn't a child, pale and petite with huge black holes for eyes, she wore a long, white dress covered in thick layers of crimson blood. Her flesh was a deathly grey, covered in millions of scars and her face was contorted in rage and disgust. " Are you hurt?" He asked her sympathetically, finally finding his voice. He reached out his hand to her but pulled back immediately as she looked directly at him, her look seemed to slice through him like ice.
The girl cocked her head as though considering how to answer his question. " No. " She spoke boldly and took a confident step towards him so she was only a inch away from his face.
" Who are you? " He choked.
" How can you not know who we are when you are our creator. " She hissed mockingly.
" I have no idea what you're on about." he squeaked.
" You'll find out soon but first we need the child." She pointed downwards to his waist.
He let his eyes wonder to where she was pointing. " What!" He yelped, his eyes bulged at his suddenly massive belly that extended out so much it looked like he had swallowed an entire planet. " Who are you?" He yelled.
" We are the immolated. We used to be what you are now. " She whispered so close to his ear that he recoiled from her and fell flat on his back.
The girl let out a gleeful laugh and pulled out a blood stained knife ; a knife that looked as if it had claimed many victims. He tried to pull away but by the time the girl had plunged the blade into his stomach it was too late. He screamed in agony as she cut deeper and deeper, his blood splurged onto the ground and he flailed helplessly in pain. A sick smile spread across the girls face and she plunged her hand into the incision she had made. After a few minutes she pulled something out of him, something tiny, almost lifeless, see-through … his hearts sped up as he realised it was his and Rivers child. The girl held the baby to her chest and kissed it delicately on the head and as if by magic the baby took it's first breath of air.
" Doctor! " River's voice yelled from nowhere.
He felt himself being dragged away from the girl and his baby and a sense of deja vu hit him like a ton of bricks. The smell of hot custard and freshly cooked fish fingers floated up his nostrils and his previous surroundings were replaced by the ponds kitchen.
" Here do you still want jelly babies or what? " A highly annoyed River threw a little paper bag filled to the brim with jelly babies at him.
" Erm ye." He mumbled and took a red jelly baby out the bag, dipped it into the custard and placed it on top of a fish finger before popping it into his mouth. He'd been here before … this was only a hour before Rory had been checking him out in the TARDIS medical bay, any minute now Amy would bound in and say. " You've got to be kidding me, you still eat fish custard. " Ok this was weird… Then Tommy would come in and whine. " But I dun want to go to school today."
He sighed heavily grabbed his jelly babies, fish fingers and custard, and stalked off to somewhere where he could collect his thoughts. Something was going on, something unexplainable, something scary and something that would effect his and River's child and he was terrified.
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