hello (waves)! i'm back with the fourth chapter (unexcited cheering). again, thank you for all the reviews, they make me smile!

oh! in Randall Flagg's review, he said "wow, this really reminds me of the Sims!". well, this origionally started off as a little movie that i intended on making... using the Sims 2, hehe. i got all the clips that i needed, but my sound system wasn't working so i couldn't get any voices recorded. hence, i made it in to a oneshot, which i decided that i should continue. so, well done for spotting the Sims 2 theme!

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"…and they all lived happily ever after," Rose finished, closing the fairy tale book in her lap. "Did you like that one?"

The little green baby yawned widely from where he lay in the cot.

"No?" Rose asked. She checked the front of the book she had read. "It says 'Best Selling book for Young Infants'," she said. Sighing she put the book back on the shelf, and proceeded to pick another one. "Let's see if there's one about aliens…"

"Rose?" the Doctor said, poking his head around the 'Comfy Room' door. "You in here?"

"I'm down at the bottom corner," Rose called to him.

The Doctor walked in to the room and headed towards the back. He saw Rose browsing among the book shelf and his son lying in his cot, wide awake.

"Ahh, there's my boy!" he said, strolling over to the cot and lifting his infant son out of it. "How's my little Time-tot doing today?"

Baby Alex gurgled in his father's arms. Alex was now just over two months old and could already laugh and speak a few small words. He had also grown a lot of chocolaty-brown hair, much in the style of the Doctor's in that no matter how much she tried, Rose could not get it to lie flat on his head.. The Doctor had spent as much time as possible with him, only leaving him alone when the TARDIS got jealous and fried a circuit to get some attention. These were the times when Rose got to take care of Alex, and it mostly involved getting him to sleep.

"He won't fall asleep, Doctor," Rose told him. "I've tried reading him stories but it's not working."

"What did you read to him?" the Doctor asked, while gently throwing and catching Alex in the air.

"Um… 'The Ugly Duckling'," Rose said as she looked among the lower shelf.

"You read him that?" the Doctor stopped throwing Alex and gave Rose a look of incredibility. "Of course that won't get him to sleep! That's a human kid's book. He more advanced than that!"

Rose turned around and glared at the Doctor. "Alex is a kid! And sometimes it's nice to read children stories like that, y'know, show them that no matter what, they will be accepted in society!"

But the Doctor wasn't listening: he was cradling Alex in his arms and talking to him in a 'baby-voice.'

Rose threw up her hands in exasperation. "Right! You try and get him to sleep, o high and mighty, Time Lord, while I go and make some tea." And with that, she walked straight out of the room.

When Rose walked back in to the Comfy Room a while later with a steaming cup of tea in her hands, she froze at the scene she saw before her.

Alex was back in his cot, but he was sitting up and watching the Doctor excitedly through the plastic bars. The Doctor was standing on one of the sofas, with a book in one hand, while making lots of extravagant hand/arm gestures.

"…so I jumped on to the motorbike and threw the gun back to the cop. Then I hit the ignition and sped along the highway," the Doctor was saying. Rose had no idea what he was talking about, but the Doctor was very animated about it.

"We dodged this car, and we dodged that car, and drove in between two lorries! It was a tight squeeze but we managed to loose the Master with that. Grace was screaming the whole time; I'm surprised she didn't deafen me, actually…"

"Doctor?" Rose said, and the Doctor almost fell off the sofa from surprise. "What are you telling him?"

"Well," he said, jumping off the sofa and showing Rose the book that was in his hand. It was called 'Casualty'. "I originally started reading this to Alex, and it remembered me of the time when I got shot and was taken to hospital-"

"Wait," Rose cut across him, "when did this happen?"

"Ooh," the Doctor looked thoughtful for a moment, "eighty years ago, maybe? I had landed in San Francisco and had no sooner stepped out of the TARDIS when I got hit by a bullet. A boy called Lee took me to hospital, but I died anyway and regenerated for the eighth time…" he frowned for a moment, "…I feel sorry for that bloke in the morgue that night…imagine seeing a person thought dead, knocking down a door and walk out…anyway, I couldn't remember who I was, but Grace, she was a doctor at the hospital, helped me! The there was a whole fiasco with the Master trying to take over the world, again and-"

"Um, Doctor?" Rose said, quietly.

"Hmm?"

"Alex is asleep."

The Doctor looked over to the cot and, sure enough, Alex was sleeping soundly inside it. "Ahh…he must have liked my story!"

"Yeah…" said Rose, also looking at the cot. She looked back to the Doctor. "So, what happened next?" she asked.

The Doctor grinned and led her over to the sofa where they sat down beside each other. "Well," he continued, "the Master had been executed by the Daleks on Skaro but he still managed to come back…"

Thirty minutes later…

"So," the Doctor said softly, stroking Rose's shoulder as she rested her head against his own, "the Master was, once again, defeated, Earth was saved and the new millennium came without a hitch…" he looked down at Rose and saw that she was fast asleep. He smiled fondly at her.

"…and they all lived happily ever after."

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cheesy ending much? well, i once described this ending as 'this ending is like fluff that has been flattened out, spun around and turned in to a jumper that shrunk in the wash and is now too tight'.

lol, stay tuned for the next chapter!

oh, and read and review please (big smile)