A/N: Have I got anything to ramble on about? Nah. Don't think so. (Cheers for all reviewers so far) It's about time I thanked you all again. You're all awesome :D

Umm, you know I said I'd finished it? Technically not. Though, I'm only adjusting one at the moment, coz I was watching Torchwood the other day and I realised I'd unconsciously written a scene extremely like a bit from it, so I had to adjust it before you all said I copied...but I didn't mean to! And before you ask, no it wasn't the Jack Harkness thing. That would just be...wrong.

Chapter 26 – When The Boys Get The Girls

Jackie Tyler gently opened the door to the spare bedroom with her available hand, the other acting as a seat to Rory. She flicked on the light. The Doctor's sleeping form appeared on the bed where she had left him barely twenty minutes ago, Rory almost squealing in delight and jumping out of Jackie's arms.

She held him a lot tighter, slowly walking over to the bed and sitting down in a chair to the side. She finally let Rory go, and he clambered quickly over the bed to his dad's chest. He poked the Doctor's arm, but it was limp.

"Daddy," he started, climbing onto the Doctor's chest and crawling to his head, sitting cross-legged on his ribs. "Wake up now."

Jackie suddenly felt extremely guilty for sending the Doctor to sleep, knowing all this child wanted was for his dad to wake up and give him a kiss.

"Daddy!" he repeated, louder. "Wake up!"

Nothing.

Tears began to well up in the little boy's eyes as he took the Doctor's shirt in hand, pulling oh so gently on it.

"Please daddy, wake up…please…you need to save mummy…" On no reaction, he started to cry, pushing his dad's chest at intervals. He carried on doing it for ten seconds, before he flipped alarmingly quickly – suddenly started to get angry.

"Wake up!!!" he screamed. "WAKE UP!"

The Doctor didn't even bat an eyelid as Rory started jumping up and down on him.

Jackie tried to scoop him up; concerned that he would almost start hurting himself or the Doctor. But surprisingly, he fought off her with ease and edged further up his dad – until he had his hands on his face. He eased his hands up to his dad's temples, and closed his eyes.

The Doctor's eyes flew open in an instant, fear apparent in his eyes. He registered Rory and his hands immediately flew up to Rory's temples, eyes closing again.

Rory suddenly let go, eyes flying open as he sprung backwards from the Doctor, crying out with laughter.

"Bad Rory," the Doctor said scoldingly in a weak tone as he opened his eyes half-wide and let go of the psychic connection. "Don't ever do that again, not 'til you're old enough. That could have seriously hurt you, y'know."

Rory just giggled at the possibility. He fell forwards, sprawled out onto his dad's chest with his arms spread out – too small to hug his dad all the way around.

The Doctor hugged him back loosely, unable to gather enough energy for a proper

one. He looked over at Jackie with tired eyes – and she saw him smile for the first time since he'd washed up. He didn't need to say the words when his smile of sheer gratitude said it all.

"I told him I'd find you," Rory murmured into the Doctor. "I told him we'd win."

"Whinin' git!" came Rose's sudden voice from the other room accompanied with the sound of a slamming door. The Doctor went rigid. "What the hell has got into you recently?!"

"Blaming me again, I see!" he heard his doppelganger's voice ring out, and even Rory quickly got off of his dad's chest and curled up under his arm.

"That's because it's your fault!"

"Since when?!" the doppelganger screamed back, and the Doctor held Rory tighter – trying to cover the child's ears.

"You never admit when you're wrong, do you?! You're wrong, Doctor! WRONG!"

"I can't be as wrong as you always are! How many times have I saved your ass now? Close to five billion!"

Jackie walked quickly over to the door, opening it a crack so she could see the blazing couple. Rose was just standing screaming by the television, the Doctor pacing the room.

"That isn't what this relationship is about!"

"Then what's it about Rose? What? Am I just your servant?! Is that my purpose?!"

"How can you think that?!"

Jackie knew the Doctor would have to see this for himself. She quickly crossed over to the Doctor and slipped an arm around his ribs, the other arm taking Rory – who'd gone quiet at the sound of his parents arguing. She supported the Doctor as he got up, taking him slowly and carefully over to the door and easing him down onto his knees, letting him peer through the crack in the door.

"I'm fed up with you ordering me about Rose!" the Doctor's double yelled angrily, fists clenching tightly as he tried to contain himself.

"I thought you loved me?!"

"Don't you understand?! You're just a stupid little ape with no sense of what's dangerous and what isn't!"

"You think you're amazin', don't you? You don't care about other people's feelings! I can't believe I didn't see this before! Mum was so right about you; I should've listened and trusted her, left you before all this started!"

"Just shut up! Shut the hell up!"

"I thought I had you sussed! But you're nothin' but a lyin', two-faced, stuck up, stupid, arrogant bastard!"

"SHUT UP!"

"And to think I'm carryin' another of your children in here!"

The present Doctor went white.

"YOU'RE LYING! SHUT UP!" the Doctor's double shouted again, steaming with anger the likes of which Rose had never seen before from him. "SHUT UP YOU STUPID WOMAN!" He grabbed a china vase from the nearby side table, raising it above his head in an impulse of anger, hatred and guilt. He looked ready to hit her.

Jackie had to set Rory down onto the bed and clamp a hand over the present Doctor's mouth, holding him in place as the scene took place infront of him. He looked ready to scream and cry, both at the same time.

The Doctor's double brought down the vase, narrowly missing Rose's head and instead hitting the dresser to her right, the impact breaking the vase and wounding his hand as the broken shards of pottery cut into his skin.

Unable to control the Doctor any longer, Jackie dragged him roughly back from the crack in the door and slammed him against the wall. He squirmed, tried to get free – get to Rose. Jackie pushed him even harder by his shoulder, giving him a stern, straight look. He didn't seem to register her as he continued to fight against her, but he was too weak to put up much of a fight.

But they were stationary and silent for the line from Rose to the other Doctor, the line which ripped his hearts clean out of his chest.

"…Who are you, Doctor?" she whispered.

Footsteps were coming towards them now, and Rose entered the room seconds later with tears streaming down her face. She glanced up, intending to go to her mum and sob into her – but found her mum restraining a very impossible man with her left hand pushing against his shoulder into the wall, the other hand over his mouth to stop him screaming. His hands were bandaged, thicker at the wrists.

Instantly Rose opened her mouth, ready to scream herself – but her mum instantly flew out with her left hand and clamped it over Rose's mouth too.

"Shh," Jackie hushed, tentively letting go of the both of them and raising a finger to her lips, looking at them both in turn.

She continued this action as she walked out of the doorway into the sitting room, where the other Doctor was standing staring at his own blooded hand.

"C'mon, let's get to the TARDIS Infirmary and sort out that hand," Jackie said softly to him, before leading him quietly out of the front door – and the flat was silent once more.

For a moment neither of them spoke.

"Mummy, meet daddy," Rory suddenly said, still sitting on the bed – but now he was grinning.

Slowly, Rose raised her hand to the Doctor's head, curling her hand around to the back of his skull, searching out the bump. For a moment her heart raced as she couldn't find it – but then something traced under her fingertips…and she smiled.

"My Doctor," she whispered and launched onto him in a huge hug, her arms squeezing his ribs tightly as tears of sorrow suddenly became tears of joy. He was laughing now, holding her securely as though he'd never let go.

"Please tell me you were lying…" he suddenly whispered, moving his hands from around her back to her hips, then finally to the womb infront.

"No lie," she whispered back, pressing both his hands on her womb with her own. "Two little Doctors on the way again."

"Oh Rose, I'm sorry."

"No, it's okay…" she started, but the Doctor cut her short.

"I'm so sorry for putting you through so much. For getting your pregnant. For making you stay with him. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," the Doctor said over and over again to finish, putting his arms back around her to hold her again. "There was nothing I could do to stop him I swear…did he hurt you?"

She shook her head, giving a small sniff. "Please tell me what the hell is goin' on," she said quietly into his chest, "your hands…"

The Doctor raised one of his bandaged hands infront of his eyes, staring at the wrists.

"You might wanna sit down…"

A/N: Apologies for the badly written chapter :-/ And I bet that pregnancy thing caught you by surprise, didn't it? XD

The next chapter is extremely cheesy, a sort of comic relief just before the confrontation. You have been warned!

Chapter 27 – My Hamster Ate My Condoms

"I…" the Doctor heard his doppelganger start again. "I just want to know…do I have to say goodbye?"

"…I don't think either of us know the answer to that one yet," Rose replied shortly.