This chapter might have inaccuracies about pregnancy.
It was sometime after 3:30AM and the Most Haunted production team were still packing their equipment away. It had been a good night for live special and was certainly going to be their most popular episode to date. The Doctor and Rose were watching as the Most Haunted team congratulated each other on having the most amazing night ever.
Rose turned to The Doctor, a slightly wolfish grin on her face. "So, Doctor. Do you finally believe in ghosts?" She asked him.
The Doctor chuckled as he tugged at his ear. "Well…that depends on the circumstances." He replied.
Brow furrowed in disbelief, Rose waited for The Doctor to explain further.
"Most of them are just aliens masquerading as ghosts and doing it for a laugh. Or somebody living bleeding through the dimensions. Or even someone with the ability to Astral Project." But then The Doctor grinned. "But in our case, it was the real deal." He bounced excitedly on his feet, making Rose laugh. "I saw an actual real ghost and it was brilliant!"
They laughed together and once they calmed down, the Time Lord became serious. "And what about you?" He asked, looking down at her stomach. "How are you feeling?"
Rose smirked. "I'm fine for now." She replied, feeling his happiness and curiosity. However, she could sense his agitation over wanting to get back to the TARDIS as soon as possible. "Bad Wolf didn't do any harm. She was just as protective as you are."
The Doctor raised his brows in surprise before moving closer to Rose and placing his hand on her stomach.
"It's still early days, I think," Rose told him with a smile. "Do you want to go back to the TARDIS?" She asked in a hushed and suggestive sounding voice.
The Doctor, eyes wide, silently nodded his head, so Rose took his hand and they walked out of the event tent.
As they walked across the lawns towards where they left the TARDIS, the sky was already beginning to brighten. Dawn was on its way along with the morning call of birds. "Look Rose!" The Doctor pointed up at the sky at a bright orange dot there. "That's Mars."
"Wow!" Rose sounded impressed, which pleased The Doctor greatly. "I didn't know you could see Mars without a telescope. It's so bright."
The Doctor nodded enthusiastically. "Yep!" He popped the 'p'. "If you know where to look and the conditions are right, there are several planets in your Solar System that can be viewed via the naked eye."
"Which are?" Rose asked, loving astrological lesson the Doctor was giving her.
"Well, there's Mars, obviously. Along with Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn." Rose grinned away as they reached the TARDIS, but just as he was about to put his key in the lock he heard his name being shouted. "What's that?" The Doctor wondered, looking around.
"Doctor, wait!" They heard the shout once again and Rose looked around to see Yvette running towards them.
"Doctor." She notified him and he turned around to watch the woman approach them, his brows raised in curiosity.
"Yes?" He queried once Yvette stood opposite them, catching her breath.
"I lied," she uttered once she got her breath back. "About escaping the Cyber things and knowing who you are!" Yvette said.
"Sorry, what?" The Doctor exclaimed, bouts of suspicion coming from him. "How exactly do you know us?" He asked rather abruptly it almost surprised Rose just a bit. He was, after all, rude and not ginger.
"Hold on. How exactly did you manage to escape the Cybermen?" Rose asked Yvette. "Because they were extremely hard to escape from if you didn't know how."
The ghost hunter gave a slight nod, smiling sheepishly. "It's connected in a way," she explained. "But your weird I.D thing told us."
The Doctor's eyes widened. "Are you saying you got a message on the Psychic Paper?" He asked.
"Is that what you call it?" Yvette said but continued on when The Doctor impatiently waved her on. "Yes, we did. The message told us that you were The Doctor and Rose Tyler, the Stuff of Legend. And that to trust you." The two Time Travellers looked at each other before turning their attention back to Yvette.
"I take it you did trust us?" Rose asked the woman.
"Of course, "Yvette uttered. "It worked out for the best."
The Doctor sighed in exasperation. "Do you know who sent you the message?" He asked.
Yvette nodded her head again. "It might have been the kids that saved us from the Cybermen."
This caught Rose's attention. "What kids?" She asked.
"There were four of them. Three girls and a boy," Yvette explained. "He had a shock of ginger hair and said his name was Tony…"
Completely surprised, Rose's eyes widened while The Doctor took a quick glance at his bond-mate. If her brother was appearing in this Universe, then that meant there was hope her family were still alive.
"…while one of the girls looked a bit similar to you, Doctor. Only she had a paler complexion."
The Doctor nodded thoughtfully. "Sounds like our niece." He replied, remembering when he first saw her at Torchwood.
Yvette nodded her head eagerly. "Yeah, she did explain to us that we needed to be alive in order for her aunt and uncle to appear on Most Haunted in the future." Rose and The Doctor waited for the ghost hunter to continue. "It wasn't until after they'd left and we'd calmed down did I realise they had come from the future!" Yvette sounded awed as she looked at Rose and The Doctor. "Which leads me to think you're all time travellers and that 60's police box behind you is your Time Travelling machine."
The Doctor glanced back at his blue box with a hint of a smile on his face. "It's called a TARDIS…" He explained to Yvette.
"…short for Time And Relative Dimension In Space." Rose finished. "What else do you know?" She then questioned the older woman.
"Uhh…the girl…your niece?" Yvette saw The Doctor nod. "I thought she used a weapon to destroy the Cybermen, but she didn't have any. And they all just randomly disappeared in front of us."
With an awkward smile on his face, The Doctor rubbed the back of his neck. "She has superpowers. Just like her mother." He confessed. He dropped his arm and narrowed his eyes at the ghost hunter. "What do you want?" He now asked.
Eyes widening, Yvette suddenly shook her head. "No, no. I think you misunderstood me!" She exclaimed. "I don't want anything. I simply want to thank you for joining us on the show, and you or any of your family members are welcome to appear on the show anytime."
Rose grinned at this. "Thank you!" She replied.
"No problem," Yvette smiled at Rose. "And congratulations on the pregnancy."
Rose just blushed.
"Thank you," The Doctor said as he turned to the TARDIS. "We'll keep that in mind. He unlocked the door. "C'mon, Rose. Time we left."
The two Time Travellers walked into the TARDIS and seconds later, Yvette gasped and took a step back from the winds as she watched the TARDIS dematerialise with a noisy wheeze and groan.
"So how far along am I?" Rose queried as she watched The Doctor use a really alien looking Ultrasound on her stomach.
Once they had entered the TARDIS, and once they were in flight, The Doctor had decided to take Rose to the Medbay in order to check how their baby was doing. But along the way they were greeted with a round of congratulations from the rest of the family. Turns out they'd all been watching Most a Haunted Live in the Media Room. Now they were all in the Medbay, apart from Amy and Rory who had gone off to bed, waiting to see how for along Rose's baby was.
"Patience, Rose, patience." The Doctor replied, eyes narrowed behind his glasses as he adjusted the Ultrasound screen so that it would become a 3D Hologram, while pushing the probe about with his other hand.
"I can't believe I'm going to have another sister!" Jenny uttered excitedly, a big grin on her face and not noticing the startled look from Rose.
"Or a brother." J.D quickly corrected his niece as he sat next to Jenny and Jaime on a spare bed.
"Oh!" Jenny looked and sounded sheepish. "Of course." Though she already knew what sex the baby was after checking out Rose's timeline. Not to mention she had an odd feeling it was going to be female.
"I can't believe I'm going to be a sister AND an aunt!" Jaime uttered in disbelief. Though she had already seen her future siblings and knew their names, she didn't think it would be so soon.
Alexia shook her head, looking thoughtful. "That still sounds like the weirdest family dynamic I've ever heard." She said. It was odd because she'd never heard of anybody being an aunt/uncle and sister/brother at the same time.
"Hush!" The Doctor uttered once he found what he was looking for.
Everyone stared in silent amazement as what looked like a kidney bean shaped Holographic smudge appeared on top of the Ultrasound monitor, only it looked bigger than usual. Also they could hear the sound of a double heartbeat.
"That's our child, Rose!" The Doctor breathed out, wide eyed and awed.
Rose could see it with her own eyes, could see what it looked like, could hear those double hearts beating away. It was going to be a Time Lord. Now Rose found herself crying happy tears as she continued to look at her baby on the Ultrasound. Suddenly Alexia was stood beside her, taking a hold of her hand in a bid to give comfort to the younger woman.
"It's really such a beautiful thing," Alexia spoke, looking at the baby on the monitor before looking over at an equally tearful Doctor with a smile. "That's a new little life growing inside you," she then told Rose. "Congratulations." She told both future parents who responded with a 'thank you'. "You know, the first time I saw Jaime she was about the size of a small football." Alexia said about her own Ultrasound scan.
"MUM!" Jaime groaned out, her face blushing in embarrassment.
There was a round of chuckling from everyone else in the Medbay, then John put his arm around Jaime's shoulders.
"That was the moment I realised I was going to be a mother," Alexia continued. "And I couldn't wait to meet my beautiful daughter." She looked back at Jaime, who was still blushing. "I used to have a photo of the scan. But it was lost."
Rose felt bouts of sadness from Alexia and squeezed her hand to comfort her.
The woman smiled and turned her attention back to Rose and The Doctor. "Of course, this isn't about me. This is about Rose and her baby. How far along is it, Doctor?" Alexia asked the Time Lord.
Rose had asked the same question and was yet to receive an answer. She could see he had a sheepish looking smile on his face as he stared at the 3D Holographic Ultrasound image. "Doctor?" Rose queried him when she sensed his reluctance to speak.
"Two months," The Doctor told Rose. "You're two months pregnant."
Hearing this, a bemused and confused Alexia looked down at Rose's stomach where, for the moment, it was flat. She found that extremely unusual. "Two months? Are you sure you've got that right?" She questioned. "Rose isn't even showing. When I was two months gone with Jaime I had quite a bit of a bump."
Sensing Rose's panic and seeing her look worried, the Doctor needed to tell her that everything was okay. But before he could get a chance to speak he was interrupted by John.
"It's a Gallifreyan pregnancy!" The Half-Time Lord exclaimed in wide-eyed awe and stood up.
Alexia frowned at him. "What does that mean?" She asked.
"A Gallifreyan pregnancy can last up tae twelve months." Jaime explained once she got the info from the Time Lord part of her Mind. She felt waves of surprise from her mum, along with worry, disbelief and anxiety from Rose.
"How did you know that?" Alexia asked her daughter, only to shake her head. "No, never mind, don't answer that." It was obvious how she knew. She looked over at The Doctor. "Twelve months? Seriously?" She asked.
The Time Lord had abandoned the Ultrasound machine and was now holding onto Rose's free hand and silently giving her comfort.
"Yes, seriously," J.D spoke while The Doctor was busy. "A Gallifreyan baby takes a long time to grow," he explained. "One to two months is still in the embryonic stages. In three to four months the baby will begin connecting to the parents. In four and a half months time the baby will be a foetus and by six months Rose will look like she's two months pregnant."
"Wow!" Alexia uttered, stepping away from the happy couple so they could have their moment. She had learned something new about The Doctor and John's home world and she found it completely unbelievable. A twelve month pregnancy was practically a whole year. Was this the reason why they used looms? And as for Rose, she wasn't a Time Lord…
"I don't understand," Jenny spoke up. "What exactly is the problem?"
But John shook his head. "There isn't a problem." He replied.
Alexia raised her brows at the Half-Time Lord and let out an annoyed huff. "Rose is two months into a twelve month pregnancy. Humans are only supposed to manage nine months." She worried.
Jaime sighed and rolled her eyes. "Ma', it's okay. Rose'll be fine," she took a hold of her mother's hand and waited until she had her attention. "She's more than just human. She's human plus. And I think Bad Wolf would most likely keep an eye on Rose and the wee baby." Alexia frowned at her daughter, while Jaime's mention of Bad Wolf suddenly brought a thought to Mind. "Oh!" She gasped out, eyes going wide. "Now there's a thought."
J.D sensed her realisation. "Something on your Mind, Jaime?" He asked.
The Scots-girl nodded her head. "Aye, there is," she replied. "It's Bad Wolf. What if the baby inherits Bad Wolf abilities?" Jaime questioned. She was thinking about that girl she saw in Leadworth, Kyt her name was, who quite possibly could have been her future daughter. It was very clear she had super-powered abilities.
"Is that actually possible?" Alexia pondered out loud. "Bad Wolf is Rose and Rose is Bad Wolf."
J.D was about to answer Alexia's thoughts until The Doctor interrupted them all. "Do you mind?" He snapped at everyone, his patience finally worn thin. "The more you lot go on the more you worry Rose. Give us some privacy and get out!" The Doctor pointed at the door, an angry scowl on his face.
"Okay, sorry." J.D muttered and began to lead the others out of the Medbay.
"What was that about?" Alexia questioned.
"There's a weird thing 'bout Time Lords and pregnancy," Jaime said to her mum as the info came to her from tne Time Lord part of her Mind. "When a Time Lord's bond-mate becomes pregnant, the Time Lord get a wee bit territorial with a need tae protect her at all times."
"Wow!" An amazed Jenny uttered as they exited the Medbay.
The Doctor listened as their voices faded before turning his attention to Rose. Her eyes were wide and he could sense her panic. She was scared because it was not going to be a normal human pregnancy.
"Doctor, is that true? What Jaime said?" She asked. The Time Lord furrowed his brow, confused. "About the baby inheriting Bad Wolf?"
Oh, now she had something else to worry about. "I don't know Rose," The Doctor replied, sitting down on the edge of the bed. He took a hold of her hands. "Nor do I care if that happens or not. What I do care about is you and our baby. We can do this, Rose. You and I. Because you're going to be a brilliant mother."
Rose smiled at The Doctor's words, then he moved towards her and kissed her on the lips. Rose kissed him back.
"I love you, Rose." The Doctor said once he sat back, a huge smirk on his face.
"I love you too, my Doctor." Rose replied, grinning back at him.
