Chapter 3

The last 9 weeks for Sarah had been extremely suffocating, she knew the Doctor just wanted to have her kept safe but she kept having to remind him that she could look after herself. She had gotten a slight bulge at her stomach, but right now she was glad that it just passed for fat, people speculating would think she had eaten a few too many take-aways.

The Doctor had refused to go any where in the Tardis until their baby was born, although Sarah had tried to reason with him that that was his livelihood and she couldn't imagine not doing that for another 8 months.

Sarah still kept up her journalism, to help her keep her patience with the Doctor, she tried to remember a time when she spent this much time with him without him smothering her with concern. She knew that when this baby was born he was no longer be the only time lord left in extistance even if it was half-human not that that mattered to the Doctor.

On the start of the seventh week Sarah had had enough, she couldn't move without the Doctor hovering over her. They were happily seated at dinner when she decided to mention it.

"Doctor was much as I love your caring and concerned side, I can't help fell smothered by you" She said softly.

"Sarah what are you on about? I thought we were okay, everything was fine and dandy. Oh I'm never saying that again. Do I sound that cheesy all the time?" he replied looking rather flustered. Although through their conversation he couldn't directly look at Sarah, while she was trying so hard to have eye contact with him to show how much this was annoying her.

"Please don't change the subject, I know you want to keep me safe but I'm perfectly capable looking after myself." She conceded. She started to play with a piece of thread from her dress. She hadn't like to bring him down, or make him think she resented how he was acting towards her, she didn't know if it was hormones or not which had made her so blunt.

"I just don't want you hurt, what if you 'look after yourself' and go investigating on your own and someone snatches you to get at me, I would never forgive myself if that happened." He was talking so lightly and quiet she struggled to hear him.

"If people wanted to take me because of you they would have done it by now, when wait over 20 years to do it!" She replied her voice raising slightly. She soon averted her eyes from his.

"You don't know what people would do to get to me Sarah !" He was trying to reason with her, maybe he had been laying it on too thick for her but he couldn't help it.

"But why are you suddenly caring now, you obviously didn't care when you dumped me!" She let out a sob on the last word, and was now trying to look every where except him. Although she continued speaking once she had gathered herself once more.

"Now the baby's along and suddenly 'I have to protect Sarah', you only care for me so nothing happens to our baby, you don't care about me!" Now she couldn't stop herself from crying.

"How can you say that, your the only one out of all my companions I could have a sexual relationship with, I know this is going to sound cheesy, but your the one Sarah you always have been. I had to dump you because I couldn't watch you die because when that day comes it will tear me apart. Yes, I won't lie to you, having the baby inside you, makes me want to protect you more, but I do care about you Sarah, you can't ever doubt that." He finished a little out of breath. He looked up to see her looking at him curiously, she hadn't been expecting that as a reply. He reached over and took her hand in his, this was all too much for Sarah and she fled from the room into the downstairs toilet, she couldn't keep doing this to herself. When she let the Doctor too far in, she gets so lost in the moments, she can't brace herself for when he leaves her once again.

She leans against the door and slowly slipping to the floor, she lets her crying take over, and then she felt it. Her baby. Her and the Doctor's baby. Moving inside of her. And it was the most extraordinary thing she had ever experienced and it made the Doctors suffocating presence just that little bit easier to bare.