The Doctor woke up feeling safe and comfortable in Jack's arms. She couldn't remember the last time that she just let someone hold her while she slept and she was reluctant to move. She knew that she shouldn't allow herself to get close to him though. He was still debating on whether or not he wanted to stay with her and help raise the child and it would hurt even more when he walked away leaving her alone once more. It was what she deserved but it wasn't what she wanted.

"Stay," the Doctor whispered softly against his chest.

"What was that?" Jack questioned. The Doctor turned her head to look at him seeing his bright blue eyes staring down at her.

"I want you to stay," she told him. Jack hugged her a little closer.

"I don't plan on going anywhere at the moment," Jack informed her. The Doctor shook her head no.

"I mean after the baby is born. I want you to stay and help me to raise our child," the Doctor replied. Jack narrowed his eyes at her but she continued before he could speak. "I know you aren't sure that you want to but it would be best for a child to have both parents to raise it. I mean, I have been a man up until this body so I could be both a mum and a dad to our child but I wouldn't be able to teach it everything on my own."

"What about your companions?" Jack asked.

"I'm not going back for them. They have each other and without me, Yaz can finally become a full member of the police force while Ryan and Graham can get on with their lives. They don't need me dragging them halfway across the universe anymore. Especially since I won't be traveling as much or anywhere dangerous for awhile. At least until it is old enough to defend itself. In the meantime, I have no choice but to settle down to raise my child in safety. As much as I don't like it, that means I will have to stay on Earth since the Master destroyed Gallifrey," the Doctor rambled. Jack's eyes narrowed even further at the last statement.

"What do you mean the Master destroyed Gallifrey. I thought Gallifrey had been lost during the Time War," Jack stated. Realizing how long it had been since the Doctor last saw him, the Doctor gave him a brief explanation. She told him about figuring out that Gallifrey was in a micro-universe that it managed to escape from. That she had looked for it before finally finding out that it was hidden safely at the end of the universe. She then told him about the Master using the cybermen to destroy the planet. About how he converted her people into Cybermen and Time Lord hybrids leaving her no choice but to destroy the planet once more in order to save the universe.

"Let me get this straight. The Master used a small army of Cybermen to destroy Gallifrey," Jack stated. The Doctor nodded against him. Her eyes were full of tears from the explanation but she made no move to wipe them away. "I'm sorry, Doc, but I don't believe it."

"I saw it with my own eyes," the Doctor whispered.

"I am sure you saw what the Master wanted you to see but I doubt it was the truth. You said it yourself that the Master is strangely hypnotic, he also knows how to manipulate you which he proved many times over the years. It is possible that he made you see what he wanted you to in order to break you," Jack replied.

"Don't give me hope, Jack," she begged him softly.

"Hope is exactly what it sounds like you need at the moment because you need to really think about it, Doc. Your people spent years fighting a fleet of Daleks when one or two can easily wipe out a small town and can take out cybermen. Yet, you're telling me that a small army of cybermen were able to destroy your entire planet within a matter of days. I am sorry Doctor but I don't believe it and I don't think you should either," Jack answered. The Doctor turned her head from him burying it against his chest.

"He had no way of knowing where on Gallifrey I would go," the Doctor argued even if it sounded like a pathetic argument even to her.

"You told me once that you and the Master were once friends and I watched you spend part of the year with him until he locked me up in the boiler room. He knew exactly what to say to make you listen to him, do you really think for a moment that he didn't know exactly where you would go to confirm that your planet was gone?" Jack questioned her. She looked up at him the hope clear in her eyes along with a hint of fear. They locked eyes for less than a minute before she scrambled out of his arms and off the bed. Jack gave chase as she ran down the corridor into the control room. The last time she had gone to Gallifrey with the TARDIS she had gone to the Citadel. The Master knew her well enough to know that she would have never gone home to check if he was telling the truth due to her strained relationship with her father. But now that is exactly where she was going. She set the coordinates on the TARDIS to the small home that she shared with her family while growing up and pulled the hand brake. Jack didn't talk to her as she raced around the controls piloting the TARDIS with an ease that she didn't normally show. She was always one step ahead proving to Jack that she could really drive the TARDIS properly when she wanted to. The TARDIS barely stopped thrumming before she was running to the doors. It was there that she hesitated with one hand on the handle ready to push them open but it was clear she was terrified of what she would find. Jack walked up slowly behind her.

"Go ahead, Doc and remember no matter what you find out there, I will be will waiting right here when you get back," Jack reassured her. The Doctor nodded taking a deep breath. She was still wearing her jimjams but she didn't want to get changed because if she was right she would just be crawling back in bed anyway. Closing her eyes, she pulled the door open before she could change her mind.

"Theta?" a familiar voice spoke from outside the door. Daring to hope, she opened one of her eyes just a crack looking out at the brightly lit planet. An older woman was standing just outside of her home. The woman was wearing a soft orange shirt and brown trousers with no shoes. The Doctor's eyes went to the woman's face next seeing that she had a confused look on her pale face that was surrounded by golden blonde curls. "Are you alright?"

"Mum?" the Doctor questioned in Gallifreyan as she opened her other eye in order to look directly at the woman. "Is that really you?"

"It's really me," the woman answered her also in Gallifreyan. The Doctor smiled broadly as she stepped off the TARDIS closing the door almost completely behind her. Jack moved so that he could look out the small crack between the doors seeing the Doctor hugging the woman tightly. The two of them held each other for a long moment then moved towards the house together. Jack was tempted to step off the TARDIS and explore the planet but it was well known that humans weren't allowed on Gallifrey and he didn't feel like spending the rest of eternity in a prison cell. So, instead of stepping off, he retreated deeper into the TARDIS in order to wait for the Doctor's return.