Chapter 2 - MY GRANDCHILD IS A WHAT!

It was almost Jake's second birthday and he was talking away, getting him to shut up is the trick, and he was more advanced than a human boy twice his age mentally. He sat in his grandmother's flat playing with alphabet building blocks, while his mother sat on the sofa six months pregnant, his father was tinkering again, and his grandmother was running around wondering where the hell the toaster had gone too.

"I swear I left it in the kitchen."

"Left what in the kitchen? What you lost now mum?" Rose asked exasperated having a good idea.

"The toaster," she replied.

"He tried to fix it." Rose replied simply, and picked up her magazine not really needing to explain farther.

"Oh I swear that boyfriend of yours is nothing but trouble." She turned to the direction of the spare room that had once belonged to Rose. "JOHN! What you done with it!"

The Doctor heard his assumed Earth-name being squealed out, and knew it was only one person... only one person ever called him by it, the one he 'lovingly' called his mother-in-law. "DONE WITH WHAT?" He yelled back, even though she was at the door.

"The toaster."

"Toaster?"

"Yes you know, the thing you put bread in and it cooks it and comes out hopefully brown... or in your case black."

"Oh that toaster..." he replied contemplatively.

"Daddy broke it," a small voice came from behind her.

"I didn't brake it..."

"What do you call in pieces then Daddy?" Jake asked confused as he ran into the room and sat up on the bed.

"See," Jake's grandmother said triumphantly. "I always said my little boy was intelligent. Just look at him, talking like a four year old."

"Runs in the family you know," The Doctor stated proudly and ruffled Jake's dark hair, who laughed. His Daddy was being silly again.

"Yes well if it's from you it skipped a generation," she replied.

Rose had got up and joined them at the bedroom, "what's he done now?"

"The nutty professor took my toaster apart."

Rose kissed him on the cheek, then picked up her son. "Can't take my eye off you for a minute. You better either put that," she gestured to the pile of metal on the bed, "back together again, or go get her another one."

"I was just trying to get it to work better."

"And I remember the time you did that to the microwave, it exploded." Jackie complained.

Jake giggled, and Rose snorted at the indignant look on the Doctor's face. "It isn't my fault such a primitive device can't take the metal lining."

"You know sometimes I'd swear he was an alien, if it wasn't for the accent."

"He is an alien. He's a refugee from the planet Galifrey, it got destroyed by the Daleks," Jake informed his grandmother.

"Oh honestly Jake, you got quite the imagination," she told him laughing, and leaned against the blue box in the corridor. "Why do you have to leave your tool box here, while your flat is being refurbished anyway. The door isn't even closed right," she moved to shut it, only she tripped and fell in.

The Doctor looked at Rose and Jake, "well she had to find out eventually. She's already worried about Jake's heart murmur."

Rose sighed, "yes I know. Especially when she discovers the next one has the same murmur." She kissed her son, "come on time for your bath."

"Don't want one."

"Sure you do, I'll go help," the Doctor told Rose and reached for Jake.

She just turned away. "No, you are going in there and explaining to my mother."

"Why me?" He asked looking like a small child with his hand in the cookie jar.

"Because you are the alien here," Rose stated and walked off to the bathroom.

Sighing he stepped into the control room. "Plenty of room in here huh?"

Jackie looked up at her daughters boyfriend, still stunned, frozen where she was on the floor. "It's bigger on the inside than the out..."

"Yep."

"This is bigger than the flat."

"Yep."

"It's alien."

"Yep."

"Your name is not John Smith is it?"

"No, not really."

"Who are you then?"

"I'm like Jake said, an alien. This is my... well it's more than just a space ship. It's called a TARDIS: Time and Relative Dimensions in Space. Disappears here reappears there, you wouldn't understand. Can go anywhere, any world, any time, it's also a time machine you see."

"But if your from another world, how come you sound like your from Manchester... Wait? MY GRANDSON IS AN ALIEN!"

"Well that depends on your definition of alien..."

"He looks so normal, and that heart murmur that sounds like he has two hearts, and his intelligence level for his age... I mean he was spelling out complex mathematical equations with his building blocks before I came to see you about the toaster... It all makes sense now..."

The Doctor sat down beside Jackie and put a hand on her shoulder. "You had to find out eventually. Just wish it was less shocking."

"You look normal... You and Jake always felt cooler to the touch, but you look normal."

"My race is so different to yours, and yet so much the same. The heart murmur isn't a murmur, it's real. We have two hearts, more enhanced mental abilities, stronger physically, enhanced healing capacity that makes us live longer, and when a body dies we regenerate into a new one, which is only possible twelve times." He looked into her eyes, "I may have not told you the whole truth about some things; but I'm still the same man that Rose brought home and introduced to you, the same guy that you where joking with about a toaster and the microwave only moments ago. Just don't judge me or Jake, or the new child, because we are different."

"Look I'm trying, it's just a lot to take in, ok." She placed her hand on top of his, "don't worry I'll get over it."

"Come on, I'll show you around while Rose is no doubt struggling to get Jake into the bath."

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