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He Who Sins

Chapter Forty Eight: Naming Day

The Doctor jumped up and ran to Rose's head, he gently placed his hand on her cheek and looked down as her eyelids flickered open

'Doctor?' she squeaked again as her blurry vision began to slowly focus. Before her she saw the petrified face of the Doctor, in his eyes burned an eternal pain, and the faintest glimmer of hope.

'Rose?' he choked, preying he wasn't imagining this. She smiled softly up at him

'Hey' she whispered

'Thank God' he whispered as he threw his arms around her neck. Rose wrapped her arms around him and held him to her as she felt his shoulders heave, when he lifted his head Rose looked up into his eyes and saw all the pain that rode through him.

'You alright?' she whispered, he shook his head

'Don't worry about me' he told her as he stroked her face 'How are you?'. Rose smiled and shrugged as she snuggled under the blankets

'I'm alright' she murmured. The Doctor smiled

'Good' he whispered as he pressed his lips gently to hers, when she kissed him back it was one of the best moments of his entire life. Suddenly Rose pulled away and her hands disappeared under the blanket, her hands rested on her stomach – her stomach that last time she had felt it had been full and round. Now it was flat and empty, she delicately ran her fingers over it and looked up at the Doctor, tears were filling her eyes

'Are they…' she asked as her voice trembled. The Doctor took one of her hands and pressed it to his lips

'They're both alive' he told her quietly. Rose breathed a sigh of relief

'Thank God' she whispered as she threw her arms around his neck, she paused though

'Hold on' she murmured 'You're not happy…what's happened?' she asked as her voice began to shake again. The Doctor closed his eyes, unable to look at her

'They're premature, severely premature…' he began

'Will they live?' she cut in. The Doctor looked down at her with all the pain in the world in his eyes

'I don't know' he whispered 'They have ventilators and tubes and….and they're surviving so far – but they've not opened their eyes yet' he said softly, so softly Rose could barely hear him. Her lip quivered and she began to move

'I want to see them' she said as she began to try and get out of bed

'Rose no, you're weak' he warned her. Rose shook her head, tears falling down her face

'I don't care, I need to see them' she cried out. The Doctor grabbed her hand

'Rose you can't' he told her softly, Rose shook her head again and jumped to the floor; she instantly doubled over in pain and cried out. The Doctor caught her and pulled her against his chest

'See…you've had surgery, you're bleeding, you need to rest' he begged her. Rose shook her head, her eyes filled with unshed tears

'I can't' she whispered. The Doctor looked down at her and knew she was right, silently he picked her up and bundled her against his chest, the slowly began to walk towards the medical room where their daughters rested.

When Rose entered the room she gasped as she saw all the machinery hooked up to her children, her lip quivered

'Oh god' she whispered 'what have we done?'. The Doctor shook his head,

'Don't blame yourself' he whispered. Rose shook her head

'How can I not?' she choked. The Doctor put her down on the floor and looked her straight in the eye

'You listen to me Rose Tyler' he told her 'you did everything you did for those kids and so did I, it's no longer in our hands, and I will not stand here and listen to you blame yourself, you understand?' he said harshly. Rose looked up at him and nodded, he smiled softly at her

'Good' he whispered as he stroked away her tears with the back of his hand. He helped Rose over to the incubators and she looked down at them

'They're so tiny' she whispered as tears threatened to over take her again, the Doctor placed his hand in hers and nodded, as he told her what they weighed she let out a tiny sob

'So they should be dead?' she choked, the Doctor shook his head

'Not if I have anything to do with it' he vowed. Rose smiled at him and placed one hand in each of the incubators, gently she took one of their hands into hers, their fingers were tiny and drowned in her enormous hands.

'They're so tiny' she whispered again in disbelief. The Doctor nodded as tears filled his eyes as well, he quickly blinked them away but he was still hurting inside.

'They need names' the Doctor murmured after a moment. Rose nodded

'I thought of some…when I was…whilst I was….when I was pregnant' she finally stumbled. The Doctor nodded, not wanting to remind her of all the time she had spent in the cave. They sat and talked amongst themselves for a long time, each of them never taking their eyes of the miracle that were their children.

Tymon had been watching from the doorway and finally knocked, they both looked up and smiled at him Tymon beamed at Rose before running in and throwing his arms around her. He hugged her gently as he was aware of her wounds before finally letting go

'Heya' Rose murmured, Tymon grinned up at her

'You alright?' Rose asked as she pushed his black hair off his forehead. Tymon nodded and looked over at the girls

'Have you named them yet?' he asked impatiently. Rose looked at the Doctor and nodded. She turned to the smallest one and placed her hand in the incubator gently stroking the babies tiny hand

'Tymon, I'd like you to meet Lottie Hope Tyler' she said after a moment. Tymon grinned and looked down at the tiny girl; he placed his hand on the plastic of the incubator

'Little Lottie' he murmured as the Doctor and Rose smiled at each other. The Doctor turned to the other little girl and placed his hand on hers

'And this is Lilly Faith Tyler' he said with a smiled. Tymon grinned at him

'Lottie and Lilly' he repeated softly as though he was tasting the names.

'What do you think? Rose asked, his face lit up

'I think they're beautiful names!' he declared.

'Good' Rose murmured. The Doctor smiled at Rose as he put his arm around her shoulders, Tymon stood in front of them and Rose rested her hand on his shoulder, she looked up at the Doctor

'Soon' he promised, as soon as he said that, alarms began to ring again.