The Doctor sat in a chair in Jack's office, holding the infant Time Lord. He would have sat on the sofa, but Crystal had came in and was now using the sofa as a spot to nap. Roxanne was sitting outside the room, intently watching the Doctor with the baby. She had tried to go inside, but Owen had kept her from going into the room.
"She seems to be getting attached to that baby," Jack noted.
"Oh, she might feel that he's more like her than the others," the Doctor said almost dismissively.
"Is separating her from him going to be a problem?"
"What do you mean? They're not going to be separated."
"Owen might have something to say about it. Roxanne is going to be staying with him after you leave. She's been developing an attachment to him too. Owen might not want a baby in his apartment."
"Do you mean another baby? The pure Li'hlfa baby is very attached to him. She won't even let anyone else hold her. Li'hlfa babies are very particular. That child wouldn't even accept her own mother. As you can see from Li'hana's relationship with her daughter, Norandi, Li'hlfa mothers don't often get along with their own children, even in infancy."
Jack thought for a minute. The moment that Li'hana had came out of the TARDIS with Owen hours earlier, the two aliens had began a fierce argument, one in which Owen became a victim. Li'hana had used the poor man as some sort of example and Norandi had eventually bit her mother. "Are all Li'hlfa families as intense as they are?"
"Sometimes…it can depend on the situation. With Li'hana and Norandi's argument earlier, it had to do with ovulation cycles."
Jack raised his eyebrows. "And that gave Li'hana the right to use Owen as some sort of example?"
"She was using him as an example of someone she doesn't want Norandi to have children with. Of course, now that she's done that, it's possible that Norandi would pick him only because it would bother her mother. I'm sure those two have never been close." He looked down at the baby he was holding. "I'll call him Fabian. I think that's a good Earth name for him. I doubt you would ever call him by his Gallifreyan name."
"Probably not," Jack admitted. "You should probably take him out to Roxanne before she has kittens."
"You'd better not mean that literally," the Doctor said as he got up from the chair. He left the room and Roxanne instantly took Fabian from him. The Doctor went to the infirmary to get another one of the babies. "Maybe I'll name one of the babies after my granddaughter!" he called to Jack.
"Do I have to take that home with me too?" Owen asked, pointing at Fabian. The baby was already starting to fall asleep.
"Maybe, but I think I'll send Norandi to live with you so that her and Li'hana don't kill each other during the night," Jack said.
"Oh, joy…"
Li'hana soon came from somewhere within the Hub, following Norandi. They were fiercely arguing in their native language. It appeared that they had thrown objects at each other. Norandi went to hide behind Owen, as Li'hana was trying to poke her with a hypodermic needle.
"Stop acting like children!" Jack ordered.
However, Li'hana continued her attempts until Owen knocked the hypodermic from her hand.
"Stop trying to kill each other or I'll tie both of you up by your feet," Owen growled. "And if you ever poke me with a hypodermic, you little aliens will wish you never came here!"
Li'hana stared at him for one long minute before disappearing elsewhere within the Hub.
Slowly, Norandi inched out from behind Owen. She was eying him tentatively, almost as if to make sure he wouldn't attack her. Finally, she decided it was safe and sat in a chair nearby, being very careful about how she sat in the strange furniture.