Chapter Four - You Have Got to Get Domestic
All in all, the Doctor and Rose spent an incredible six weeks away; this included the holiday/combined honeymoon in the New Caribbean. They had stayed there longer than they had anticipated, due to very the simple reason that they did not want to go home. But the time came and they returned back to New Great Britain.
The Doctor and Rose got out of the taxi along with their suitcases, outside their quaint little house.
"Home sweet home" Rose said happily, as she dragged her suitcase to the front door and used her key to unlock it, but just as she was about to step inside, the Doctor pulled her back.
"And where do you think you're going?" the Doctor asked with a bright smile.
"Uhh inside our house, I'm dying for a decent cuppa."
The Doctor laughed "Well there is something we have to do first."
"What?" Rose said with a frown.
The Doctor lifted Rose up off her feet and carried her over the threshold, much to the delight of Rose.
"Aww thank you, you actually know the human wedding traditions!"
The Doctor grinned as he placed Rose delicately onto her feet, before dragging their two suitcases inside and shut the front door.
"Yeah well I see enough of those soap opera things, and they're always having weddings in those programmes so I soon picked it up."
Rose shook her head as she giggled and headed into their kitchen.
The Doctor noticed the flashing red light on the answer phone and listened to it and was shocked at what he heard.
"Rose! We have eighty three new messages!"
"What?" Rose said, stunned, as she came back into the hallway "Who from?"
After a minute of listening to a lot of them it seemed that Danny, Ida and Zak had been trying to get hold of them for weeks.
"Oh god, we forgot to tell them we weren't going to be back for another week!" Rose said in horror "We'd better phone them and let them know what's happened."
So Rose got on the phone and told them why they had not been home when they had said they were returning, yet Rose did not reveal all that had happened on their travels and invited the three friends over to tell them.
"So come on then, what happened? You said you were going to be back on Monday and that was a week ago today?" Ida asked Rose and the Doctor, who were sitting in the living-room along with Zak and Danny.
"Yeah we were worried guys, thought something might have happened to you. You could have let us know" Danny piped up.
"We're really sorry guys, it's just…" Rose looked over at the Doctor and smiled as she said "Something…kind of happened whilst we were in the New Caribbean."
"What was it?" Zak asked, urging for Rose to continue.
"Shall we tell them?" the Doctor said cheekily as he looked at Rose.
"Well someone bleedin' tell us" Danny said, now getting impatient.
Rose chuckled before admitting to them "Me and the Doctor … we got married!"
Ida, Zak and Danny gasped, before breaking out into bright smiles.
"Oh you guys, that brilliant! Congratulations!" Ida said happily, as she came over to hug the newlyweds. As did Danny and Zak.
"So the extra week there was like our honeymoon" Rose told them.
"Ooh it all makes sense now" Ida said happily.
"So hang on I'm confused, when did you two get engaged then and how come you didn't tell us you were planning on getting married there?" Danny inquired.
"Well" Rose began "We couldn't tell you because I didn't even know we were going to do it."
As the three friends sat there looking confused, the Doctor explained everything.
"On our second night there I proposed on the beach. We decided we didn't want to wait so we got married the next day."
"The next day?" Zak said, incredulously.
The Doctor and Rose chuckled.
"Wow! You two certainly don't hang about."
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Four years passed since the Doctor and Rose had got married, and the two of them loved every minute of married life and living together in their house just outside London. The Doctor continued to be a success at his job in the University, whilst Rose had found herself a new job as his teaching assistant. She had trained for two years to become a fully qualified supply teacher, and came in to help the Doctor a few times a week.
With both the Doctor and Rose working together and living together, it was hard for the two of them to have any personal space. If they did need personal space (which only rarely happened when the two of them had arguments) then Rose would go out somewhere with Ida, typically shopping or to the local bar. Whereas the Doctor would go to the local park, or go into their garage and tinker with things he had got from the University. Rose thought it was like a chemistry and physics laboratory in their garage, and it was so full of the equipment that Rose could no longer park the car in there.
It was the very last day of February and Rose was waiting eagerly, yet anxiously, for the Doctor to come home from work. It had been one of Rose's days off and she had spent the entire day deliberating over a very serious dilemma she had, concerning her and the Doctor.
He came in through the front door and into the kitchen.
"Hey Rose, you alright?" he asked as he kissed the top of her head.
He could tell instantly that something wasn't right, just by looking at her eyes.
"What's the matter Rose?" he said softly as he sat down at the dining table, taking one of her hands in his.
"Doctor, I've got something I need to tell you."
"What's that?"
Rose suddenly got up off her seat and leaned against the kitchen counters "I don't know how you are going to react to this, but please don't be angry."
The Doctor was looking worried and intrigued now.
"Rose will you please tell me..."
Rose gave a sigh "Doctor…I'm pregnant."
Stunned silence filled the room, the Doctor staring at Rose in astonishment.
"You're…you're what?" he stuttered.
"I'm pregnant."
"Are you sure?" the Doctor asked tentatively.
Rose nodded "Yes … I took the test twice, both times it said positive."
The Doctor got up from his chair to stand in front of her "Why didn't you tell me sooner? We could have done the test together."
Rose looked very worried "I was scared."
"Scared? Scared of what, Rose?" he said as he rubbed her arm.
"Scared of how you would react, I know you've had kids before and you can't bring them back and I know how much pain that causes you … I was just scared that you would not accept this baby, in case you were terrified the same thing would happen again. I just want you to be happy, Doctor" Rose had started crying now by the time she had finished talking.
"Aw Rose, come here" he wrapped her up in his arms "Shhh its okay, it's all okay, don't worry. Listen…" he brought her out of the hug and wiped her tears away "You're right Rose, I still feel angry and heartbroken every time I think of the children I have lost. I can't ever forget them, but now I have the chance to be a dad all over again. I'm not angry with you Rose, how could I be?"
Rose had managed to compose herself now and was looking at the Doctor, directly "So …you're happy that I'm pregnant?"
The Doctor gave his infamous grin "Oh Rose, I'm more than happy, you don't realise how happy you've made me feel" he gave her a brief kiss on the lips "Me and you, we're going to have a baby!"
Rose chuckled "Yeah, yes we are. Oh my god, we are actually going to be doing this!"
The Doctor smiled "And I'm going to be there Rose, through everything, I'm going to support you as much as I can. You've no need to worry; you've got a Doctor looking after you."
Rose giggled and hugged him tightly, feeling so overwhelmed that the Doctor had taken the news well.
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"When did you first think that you might be pregnant?" the Doctor asked a while later as they sat in the living-room after eating dinner.
"Yesterday" Rose told him "I'm four days late…so I was quite convinced that that was what it was."
"I still can't believe this is happening, you're carrying our first baby."
"First?" Rose smiled "That implies that we are going to be having more?"
The Doctor laughed and held up his hands "Whoa, hang on a minute, I never implied anything. Let's see how this one goes."
Rose giggled and cuddled up to him "Well you never know Doctor; I could be carrying twins or even triplets."
The Doctor's eyes widened "Imagine how much chaos they would cause?"
"No more than what you cause on a daily basis."
The Doctor raised his eyebrows and smiled "If you weren't pregnant, I would have launched a tickle attack on you by now."
Rose smiled and kissed his cheek.
"Have you made an appointment at the doctor's?"
"No not yet, I will call them tomorrow but I know I won't get my first scan till I'm three months gone."
"Oh okay, well we will just have to wait to see our little baby timelord."
Rose grinned as he said this, knowing that this baby meant the Doctor was not the last timelord anymore, made her so incredibly happy.
As Rose became three months pregnant, she and the Doctor went to the hospital for the first scan of their baby.
"Hello Rose, how you doing? Hello Mr. Smith, I'm Maria."
"Hi Maria" Rose responded "I'm doing okay thank-you, but I'm suffering with terrible morning sickness."
"Yeah is there anything you can give Rose for that, as she is really suffering from it" the Doctor told Maria.
"Okay, yeah, we have some pills you can take as soon as you wake up in the mornings, which will last four hours" Maria said as she sat on a stool by the ultrasound equipment "then if you need more after those four hours you can take some more."
"Okay thank you" Rose replied gratefully.
"Right let's have a look at this baby then shall we" the midwife said with a smile.
Maria used the high-tech ultrasound scanner over Rose's abdomen and within seconds the view of their baby was viewable on the monitor.
"Are by any chance, either of you not human?" the midwife asked.
The Doctor answered her "I'm a timelord, my species has two hearts."
"Ah that would explain this then, your baby does indeed have two hearts." She gave a smile "There we go" she said as she turned the monitor for the two of them to see.
"Oh it's beautiful!" Rose said happily.
"Is the baby okay?" the Doctor asked in concern.
"Yeah all appears to be fine; I can see you have been taking very good care of yourself, Rose."
Rose smiled "Well John has been devotedly looking after me these few months."
Rose's pregnancy continued and her baby bump was now showing. Rose was not coping well with the pregnancy, she had gotten over the morning sickness, but now she was having horrendous mood swings and her cravings were pretty extreme too. At the moment it was curry with salad cream and chocolate ice-cream all together. The Doctor was very disturbed by this, but he tried to be supportive. Rose's relationship with the Doctor was being affected by the pregnancy too; she made him sleep in the spare room on the very rare occasions when her mood swings were at their worst. Yet every time this happened she would wake him up in the early hours of the morning to apologise, and he always returned back to bed with her.
Rose was now seven months pregnant, and she was trying on dresses so she could pick one to wear for Ida's birthday party later that evening. The Doctor came in from the garage to grab some of his equipment he had left in a bag upstairs, but he stopped when he reached the landing as he heard sobs coming from the main bedroom. The Doctor entered the room to find Rose in a dress, clearly too tight for her, and she was crying her eyes out.
"Oh Rose, what's the matter?"
Rose looked at him in alarm "Doctor, no, go away! Please go away!"
"But Rose?" the Doctor said in confusion and concern.
"Just leave me alone!" she shouted before locking herself in the en-suite bathroom.
"Rose come on, please come out, what's wrong? Come on you can talk to me about anything."
It took the Doctor over ten minutes of persuasion, until Rose finally came out to face him.
"None of my dresses fit me!" Rose cried "I just look like a big fat beached whale!"
"Oh Rose, of course you don't! You're just pregnant, not fat."
"Well you wouldn't be saying that if you couldn't even see your own feet! I'm huge, just look at me! How can I go to a party looking like this?"
Rose was on the verge of hysterics and the Doctor quickly wrapped her in his arms and said soothing words to her, which eventually calmed her down.
"Listen to me Rose" the Doctor said as he got her to sit down next to him on the end of their bed "You are not at all fat. The baby is growing inside you" he gave a bright smile "that is something to be proud about; you should be showing off your gorgeous baby bump."
Rose gave her first smile for hours "Really?"
The Doctor nodded and smiled happily "Aww come here you" he hugged her gently and rubbed her back "Are you feeling okay now?" he asked her as he brought her out of the hug.
Rose still had tears in her eyes as she looked at him "I … I'm just worried."
"What about sweetie?"
"That…that you won't find me attractive anymore. I mean look at me, I'm hardly the best looking girl in the world at the best of times, let alone right now."
"Oh Rose! You do not understand how beautiful you really are. You were gorgeous the second I first laid eyes on you and you still are right now, even more so now that you are pregnant."
Rose frowned "Why?"
"It's true what they say; you human women do get a sort of glow about you when you're pregnant. Makes you even more attractive in my eyes."
"Really?" Rose repeated again.
"Really. And I tell you something, I bet you I could name hundreds of times when I thought you looked beautiful."
"Go on then..." Rose said with a smirk.
The Doctor raised his eyebrows but answered her "When you have the baby bump, when you didn't have it, when you wake up first thing in the morning and your hair is a total mess" Rose laughed at this "When you have come in from gardening and you've got mud on you, when you have been cooking and you're covered in flour, when we got married" he beamed at her "and you even look beautiful when you have been crying and have mascara running down your face."
Rose laughed and reached in to hug him "You're so amazing!" she said after she brought herself out of the hug to look at him.
"And you are too Rose, and you don't have to worry about what you look like, remember in my eyes you will always look beautiful."
"Thank you" Rose said happily, then she gave him a brief peck on the lips.
"Now I'm going to take you shopping and let you choose any dress you like, so you can show off this gorgeous baby bump" the Doctor said, as he gently placed a hand on her bump. Rose placed a hand on there too.
Within seconds the baby began kicking away and the Doctor and Rose smiled at one another.
"I love you!" Rose said brightly.
"I love you too!" the Doctor replied and kissed her.
After a couple of hours of shopping, Rose had purchased the dress she wanted but she would not let the Doctor see her in it. They returned home to get ready. The Doctor was in his pinstripe suit with a purple shirt underneath and he was wearing his normal converse shoes.
Rose came downstairs in a knee length v-neck purple dress, which had a sequined band which lay underneath her bust and just above her bump. She had on low heeled nude coloured shoes and she was wearing a silver necklace with a heart on, which the Doctor had given her as their first anniversary present. She had her short blonde hair in curls that were flowing onto her shoulders, and she wore her normal make-up. She stood in the kitchen and the Doctor turned around to face her as he heard her come in.
"Wow!" was the first word that came out of his mouth before he came closer to her "Rose, you look … stunning!"
Rose smiled "Do you think so?"
"Definitely. Come on then let's have a twirl."
Rose twirled happily on the spot before stopping to face him.
"And your bump looks so perfect in that dress too" he complimented.
Rose giggled "Thank-you. Now come on let's get to this party before we are late."
The Doctor drove the car to Ida's house and they went inside to enjoy the party. Rose gaining so many compliments on her dress and how she looked.
The Doctor stayed protectively by her all night, in case she needed anything or wanted to go home early due to tiredness.
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Two months passed and Rose's due date came, and went. She was now three days overdue and still no sign of baby timelord.
"Oh for god's sake, I just want this baby out of me!" Rose complained as she was trying and failing to get comfy on the sofa.
"Rose, try and relax, darling it will happen. He or she will come when it's ready."
"Relax?" she shouted "How can I relax? You try carrying a baby longer than necessary; it's so uncomfortable! You have no idea!"
"I'm sorry Rose; I was just trying to help."
Rose grabbed his hand and stopped him from leaving the room as she gave a sigh "No, I'm the one who should be apologising; I shouldn't have taken it out on you. Please come and sit back down on the sofa with me."
The Doctor did so and brought her close to him so he was cuddling her in his arms. "If the baby takes much longer, we'll go to the hospital and see what they can do."
Two days later and the baby had still not arrived, so the Doctor took Rose to the hospital.
After tests and scans, it showed that the baby was breach and so the surgeons and doctors decided it was best for the baby to be delivered by caesarean section.
The Doctor held Rose's hand as he stayed next to her whilst the surgery was taking place. Rose could not see what the surgeons were doing. Not long after the surgery began, the baby was delivered.
"Okay, baby is out!" he said happily and handed the baby timelord to Rose's midwife Maria, and within a second the baby began crying loudly.
The Doctor and Rose cried happily and the Doctor kissed the top of Rose's head.
"Is it a boy or a girl?" Rose called out expectantly.
"A little boy" Maria said happily over the baby's cries.
Rose cried even more and she said with beyond happiness to the Doctor "We've got a son!"
"Oh Rose, I love you so much" the Doctor responded blissfully and his eyes lit up as Maria came over with the baby wrapped in a white blanket.
"Here he is" Maria said joyfully as she showed the Doctor and Rose their baby, who was still crying.
"Aww he's gorgeous!" Rose said delightedly as she stroked his little cheek "Aww what's the matter eh?"
"Can I hold him?" the Doctor asked Maria who was only too happy to oblige and came around the other side and handed the baby into the Doctor's arms.
"Oh hello little man, eh what's all this crying about?" the Doctor bounced him gently and the baby began to calm down.
Rose looked on with a wide smile on her face; the Doctor had tears welling up in his eyes.
The surgeons announced that the operation was complete and Rose was taken out of theatre, the Doctor holding the baby as he followed on very closely behind.
As the baby was taken from Rose's hospital room to be weighed and given a proper clean and check over, the Doctor sat on the edge of Rose's bed, with her lying against his chest.
"We've got a baby boy, Doctor…our baby!" she looked so very content.
The Doctor was beaming "I know, me and you having a baby. I can't believe it." He looked at Rose "I'm so proud of you y'know. Thank you"
Rose smiled "You don't need to thank me, Doctor. I'm just so glad that you're happy."
"I'm always happy when you're here with me Rose" he kissed her gently.
The Doctor and Rose's domestic life on New Earth.8 continued. The baby boy (who they named Peter) grew well and prospered. He had dark brown hair and eyes, and was almost the spitting image of the Doctor. Within three years of his birth, Rose fell pregnant for the second time and nine months later gave birth to a baby girl who they named Aurora (as Rose gave birth to her at 6:00am). Aurora looked more like Rose, she was born with blonde hair and her eyes were dark brown like her parents and her brother.
Aurora was definitely a mummy's little girl, yet Aurora had the ability to melt her dad's heart and the Doctor spoilt her all too often.
The Doctor and Rose moved house when the house became too small for the family, and bought a similar style house, but this time with bigger rooms and three bedrooms.
Life continued for the family and Rose got older whilst the Doctor did not. This depressed Rose terribly, but she had known from the start that this would be the way life would turn out. The Doctor would outlive Rose. She knew that and he knew that. Rose's death when she was 119 (people now lived easily to that age in the future) hit the Doctor extremely hard. Within two days of Rose's death, the Doctor died also. No medical reason was found for his death. However, their two children had known about timelords refusing to regenerate and that is something both Peter and Aurora knew that their dad had done. He could not bear to live his life without Rose anymore and had therefore died from two broken hearts.
The awe and legend of the Doctor and Rose as lovers, aswell as time travellers, lived on till the end of the Universe itself. Their two amazing children strived to make time travel a reality again, and as the centuries went by they managed to achieve it. Peter and Aurora, together as brother and sister, travelled through time and space and saw the wonders of the Universe. A life that the Doctor and Rose longed to return to, but never managed.
Peter and Aurora got to see out their parent's life long dreams and were astounded by what they witnessed and discovered.
The once lonely timelord, and a normal human girl, known as 'the stuff of legend', were always remembered. This was because of their very own children spreading the memory of the Doctor and Rose and the love that they shared, among the beautiful, sparkling stars of the Universe. Forever.
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