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Rose was woken by the cries of her son. She tiredly got up out of the bed, and made her way to his nursery. She clicked on the dimmed lamp. She walked over to the crib and gently picked Lupus. She turned and sat down in the rocking chair. She buttoned her night gown and exposed her right breast. She helped him latch onto her nipple. She looked down at her son and smiled. She was exhausted, but the Doctor had been right. The morning sickness, dizzy spells and the mood swings were worth it. The precious little one that rested in her arms.

Rose looked around the room. She had painted Lupus's room in moons, stars and planets. The ceiling held shining stars throughout the room. She knew it might be the only way for him to see the stars up close. A blue Police Public Call Box looked like it was flying in the bright sky.

"Daddy's out in the stars right now. He's spinning and turning through time. He's on another planet helping someone that needs a doctor." Rose told her little wolf. "Because that's what your daddy does. He helps people when they can't do it themselves, and that's what makes daddy so special. He has two hearts like you and mummy."

She looked up at the painted TARDIS and smiled. "Mummy wouldn't be like what she is today if wasn't for a loving, amazing time machine called the TARIDS. She's wonderful Lupus. She can take you anywhere in time and space. She'd loved you. You are the TARIDS' Little Wolf."

Lupus looked at his mummy with bright brown eyes. He unlatched his mouth from her breast and smiled. He let out a big yawn and closed his eyes. Rose buttoned up her gown and gently rocked her son deeper into his sleep. She slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep with her son in her arms.

Jackie walked into the nursery the next morning and found Rose asleep in the rocker. She pulled out her camera. She kept with her anywhere she went. She took a picture of sleeping mother and son. She backed away out of the nursery, and made her way down the stairs to the dinning room where she knew Pete was eating breakfast and reading the morning edition of the newspaper.

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Pete looked up from the newspaper and smiled at his wife. Jackie kissed her husband on the forehead and sat down next to him at the long dinning room table. She picked up the kettle and poured herself a cup of hot tea. She sat it back down and sat in her chair. She took a sip of the hot liquid.

"How's Rose holding up?" asked Pete.

"It's been so hard on her Pete. I swear if she didn't have Lupus to keep her going I feared she'd do something to harm herself. But that baby is the only thing that's also keeping her sane." said Jackie. "Rose told me that their union was one of the strongest a Time Lord could perform."

"How so?" he asked his wife.

"Their bodies were joined as well as their minds when they performed it. The Doctor has the union cloth, while Rose has the rings. He knew it was human custom, so he wanted it for Rose. But for the Doctor it's the union cloth."

"They were physically together when they were married?" said Pete in awe. Jackie nodded and took a sip of her tea. "That's incredible for someone to be joined like that."

"I agree." said Jackie.

Rose walked into the dinning room with Lupus in her arms. Jackie got up from her seat and took her grandson from her daughter.

"You look like your daddy." said Jackie taking in his features.

Lupus had brown hair, fare skin, deep brown eyes, freckles splattered on his chubby cheeks and a thin mouth.

"You are going to be a heartbreaker when you're older. Yes you are." said Jackie cooing over the baby. She sat him down in his high chair and picked up the baby food and began to feed him his breakfast. "Sweetheart, you look beat."

"I'm fine Mum." said Rose tiredly. She fixed herself a cup of hot tea.

"You haven't been having nightmares again have you?" asked Pete knowing that Rose had been having nightmares of the battle of Canary Wharf. She only shook her head and drank her tea in silence.

Pete studied Rose carefully. He could tell that the lack of sleep from both bad dreams and the endless nights of taking care of Lupus. He knew she wanted to start work at Torchwood very soon, but he told her to take sometime and care for Lupus. It was a good time for mother and son to bound. He also knew that Rose really only wanted to work at Torchwood to find a way back to her Doctor. He knew that he couldn't stop her, but he could limit the amount of work she did at Torchwood. He would have to if not she would crash.

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Rose sat on the floor with Lupus in his large playroom enjoying some playtime before she put him down for his nap. She smiled and pulled out a stuffed TARIDS she had made for him. She handed it to him. She laughed when he took it with pure joy in his brown eyes. He moved it through the air as if in a flying motion. She didn't know how her son knew that the TARDIS flew, she guessed it was from her connection with the Time Machine, because he had Time Lord, Time Vortex plus human in his blood. It made him all the more special. A new bread of Time Lords. He was her special boy. Her little wolf.

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The Doctor stepped out the TARDIS and closed the door behind him. He sighed heavily and walked down the walkway weaving through the crowd. He stopped when he saw Rose's favorite dinner. He smiled weakly and entered the dinner. He sat down at their normal empty booth. The waitress walked over and he ordered a basket of chips and a drink. She smiled and told him that they'd be right out. He returned and her smile and she walked away.

He stood up and removed his tan his coat and draped it over the back of the booth seat. He sat back down and the young woman returned with his order of chips and a drink. He gave her a thank you, and she walked away leaving the man alone.

The Doctor looked over at the seat across from him. He saw it empty. He looked down and picked up a chip. He looked at the empty seat and image of Rose sat in front of him. He let a small smile cross his face when he saw her chin length blonde hair and bright brown eyes, her tongue poking out between her teeth. He blinked and she was gone.

"Excuse me young man, do you mind if an old man sits with you?" said a man, who was standing at the table.

The Doctor looked up and saw an older man with short gray hair, brown eyes and had a little bit of weight in the midsection.

"Not at all. Please have a seat." said the Doctor.

"Thank you." He said and sat down across from him. "I'm Wilf Mott." He said holding out his hand.

"I'm the Doctor," he said and shook the man's hand.

"Doctor who?" asked Wilf.

The Time Lord smiled he loved when they asked that question. "Just the Doctor."

"They say a meteor shower is suppose to come tonight. I haven't seen one in nearly fifty years. The last one I saw I was I was five when I saw my first meteor shower. And ever since I've loved the stars." said Wilf. The Doctor smiled the man that sat across from him. "But two Christmas' ago they said that their were meteors, but those weren't meteors."

"You are correct. The rock that was shooting across sky were in fact the spaceship that had been hovering above London. And what was falling from the sky wasn't snow. It was ash."

Wilf nodded his head. "Yes, I believe you. I was sitting on the hill where I star gaze and I saw it well, explode. That wasn't right. They were leaving Earth. I believe someone was up there on that ship and made them turn around and leave. Someone had to have stopped those people from jumping off the roof."

"You truly believe that don't you, Wilf?" said the Doctor.

"Of course I do, even what happened this past Christmas with that large star that was striking the Earth. Then those dummies coming to life. Someone is most defiantly looking out for us. We are very lucky to have someone that's always saving our skins." He took a sip of his drink and continued. "If could ever meet the person that's help us over years-"

"What would you say if you every met him?" asked the Doctor.

"I would thank him."

The Doctor smiled, "You are very welcomed Wilf Mott."

"You're-you-you did all that?" said Wilf not believing what he had heard.

"Yes, but you mustn't tell anyone who I am." said the Doctor. "Promise me Wilf."

"Of course. I won't tell a soul. And thank you sir for everything." said Wilf.

The men were snapped out of their conversation when the Doctor's tan coat pocket beeped. He turned around and pulled out a detector. He smiled.

"How did that fit inside your pocket?" asked Wilf as the Doctor put on coat.

"They're bigger on the inside. A woman named Donna asked me the same question, but she was wearing a wedding dress, and she really needed pockets." He threw money down on the table. "I'm sorry but I really have to go. Thanks for the chat!" He called just before the door closed behind him and ran down the sidewalk.

"Wearing a wedding dress?" Wilf's eyes widen, "He was with Donna on Christmas Eve. I knew I've seen him before."

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