2. Broody?
Ommera is making minor repairs to Tardis circuits with the Doctor. They enjoy spending this repair time together. The Doctor is busy with a circuit panel.
"Doctor, do you want to settle down and have a family?"
This is rather out-of-the-blue for the Doctor.
Ommera had first met the Doctor a while ago when she had wandered into the Tardis thinking it was a museum (ref. 1). The Doctor had been gentle and careful and had entertained her, playing games of VibraTile and taking her on outings. She had enjoyed what appeared to be outings which had increasingly become adventures.
"Oh, erm, when?" the Doctor glances at the clock on the wall above the opening to the corridor as if he might fit it in in ten minutes or so.
"Where should we go to live?" Ommera asks.
"Oh, erm, live?" the Doctor says distractedly. "Erm, Gallifrey?" He appears to be taken completely by surprise by Ommera's questions. He pauses from his frenetic activity repairing and restructuring the circuitry on the panel. A small piggy-back board he had been working on falls to the floor and shatters on impact.
"Gallifrey?" Ommera says. "Why Gallifrey?" She had been hoping to settle down on her own home planet; wouldn't we all?
"It's well defended against you-know-who," the Doctor says.
It wasn't long since they had a brush with the Master and it seems likely he will want to take revenge.
"It's so well defended against the Master..." the Doctor starts off.
But Ommera interrupts, continuing the Doctor's sentence. "Yes, he'll be catapulted away at almost the speed of light and won't be able to stop for a year. That's what they told me."
"Yes, and I want you to have that protection," the Doctor says. "He can't harm you there."
"What do you do to have a house on Gallifrey?" Ommera asks. "Do you just buy a house and move in? Can you do that there? Will you actually move there?"
The Doctor is unsure if he can afford to leave the Universe to its own devices with so many greedy empires. He starts to count them. "There are the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Silurians, ..."
Ommera listens for a short while. "Why in all of the Time in the Universe do you have to rush straight out to stop everything from happening? We have a Time Machine here. Can't it cope with you taking a few years off?"
She knows the answer the Doctor usually gives.
"But then I'd have to face more enemies all at once," the Doctor says, "simultaneously in multiple places, or even worse, all in the one place."
"But why does it have to work that way?" Ommera asks.
The Doctor looks at Ommera. "Every time I delay responding the threat gets worse. And then you-know-who stirs them up against me."
The Doctor sees Ommera looking back at him. "I suppose I could find a nice place for us to be. With a Tardis sized cloakroom, soundproofed..." Is he planning his getaway already?
With all those enemies we know it won't last long, but the Doctor can hope, and so can Ommera.
The protection that Gallifrey appears to now offer might last for a while at least.
From the Doctor's point of view, he expects to have to go and deal with so many emergencies so often, he's used to the demands, and he's grown his own role.
Further episodes may expand on this!