Chapter 4 - Double Trouble

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

The Doctor grinned like a madman as he looked at Rose. He held a little bundle of blankets like it was the most precious thing in the Universe, and if you looked carefully you could see a little pink sleeping face. "That's the spirit. What way you going to do it then?"

"With... - PUFF - a giant - AHHHH - pair of - PUFF - scissors!"

"Scissors? Never been threatened by a big pair of those... Now clipping shears is another matter..."

"AHHHH! You think you are so impressive!"

"I am so impressive! Just look what I did," he answered gesturing to the little baby boy in his arms.

"What you also did isn't going to wait much longer!"

"Not just yet," a female doctor with six arms, and purple and blue scaled skin replied, "you're not ready yet." She would normally would have been ready right away only for, the doctors using tissue regenerators to put her back to the way she was before birthing only to find out there was another one coming that had been masked by the lifesighns of the other twin.

"This is all your fault!" She took another deep breath. "Six hours worth of labour for the first one," another big puff, "only to find out there is another one;" and another deep breath; "and we been here another hour!"

"Well at least you didn't need surgery this time," he offered.

"Trust me, if you knock me out and end my suffering, I promise to not castrate you before killing."

He stifled a laugh, as long as she was yelling at him it would take the edge off the pain a bit. "Castrate? Now who said anything about castration?"

"I did, there now!"

"Almost ready," the maternity doctor added.

"You and your alien metabolism." Rose suppressed a loud yell. "Can't risk the painkillers!"

That one did hit home a little. If this was an entirely human baby, she would have been given something, only a young Galifreyan child couldn't take it. Being 3/4 human might make the children more resilient, but all indications show that the Galifreyan DNA was the most dominant. Just like if you compared his half human half Galifreyan to a full blooded Galifreyan there wasn't a lot of difference by original nature. It was supposed to be that way for up to twelve generations, later altered that way when his race was given back the ability to reproduce during the war, in an effort they may in some way survive; and humans was genetically similar to them.

He and his brother had been an accident, twins like his latest two. Only his mother wasn't impregnated normally, she and his father had been drinking some juice; only to find out later it was used for transferring DNA from one person to another, used to help men that was unable to impregnate their mates; and they had drank from the same glass. He and his brother was the first to be born for a very long time as the Time Lords was a barren race. His daughter and granddaughter was conceived the same way, as he had in his youth met a young time lady that had wanted to experience birth, and his daughter talked a man into the same thing in order to have one of her own. The council was afraid though, what if there was a huge population boom? So they put a stop to it, the same thing that resulted in him grabbing his granddaughter and fleeing from Galifrey afraid for her life; her mother already gone.

As far as the hospital doctors was concerned a Galifreyan child was more precious than all else. It was so rare to see one, as he would have guessed, and he was on the endangered species list, and any births from descent of that list was top priority. He had struggled to keep his child here with him as their twin was born. They wanted to take him into an incubator unit to make sure the child was kept in good health, but the Doctor insisted to them a Galifreyan child was psychically linked to their parents and doing so could kill the baby. It was why it had hurt so much when his own mother had left him with his father, to go home to earth; he was no older than his eldest son Jake at the time.

"That's it Miss Tyler, you can push now!" One of the doctors called.

Rose grabbed onto her mate's arm tightly as she pushed with the contractions, each one getting closer and closer. Then there was silence that was cracked by a piercing wail, which in turn set off the other one who didn't want to be shown up by his sibling.

"It's a girl."

The baby was passed to Rose and she held her little girl and looked over at her boy and cried tears of joy. "They look so beautiful." The little blue eyes looked up at them, some soft tufts of blond hair on their almost bald heads. "Guess we both win then. You wanted a girl and I wanted a boy."

"I think I'd have been a winner either way," he looked at the little girl and coaxed Rose into swapping them around so he can have a good look at his new daughter. Teeny note – cord. Babies come attached The girl's aura seemed so familiar it hurt a little, and she looked up at him with innocent yet strangely familiar blue eyes. He had heard of reincarnation before, but never believed in it until now. "Can we call her Romana?"

"Romana? That's a nice name. Galifreyan?

"Sort of, well actually it's short for Romanadvoratrelundar, but that's a bit of a mouthful. I always called her that and she stuck to it even after she returned to Gallifrey."

"Yea well that is a mouthful. Old girlfriend?"

"Well not exactly. She wasn't into well... my type. But we where best friends, the only one on that planet that ever understood me, and she made a fine president of the high council. Made life altering changes that needed to be made and stuck to them..." He trailed off, and looked down, "she looks like her, well one of her anyway."

"Well Romana it is then." She looked down at the other twin, "then I get to name this one. Kyle."

"Kyle? Oh come on, we've been over this..."

"You got your name, and Kyle is a nice name."

"It's Irish!"

"So?"

"So, so... Alright! I guess it's not that bad," he conceded. He was just glad the babies werefine, and Rose was fine too. It's times like this he was glad he decided he does families after all, and now he was a little less lonely; there was two more of his kind in existence.

Thanks Helen for betaing.

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