"Cyberman, get down!" The Doctor and Leah ducked when Wibbly uncovered the silver man from the sheet it was under. River had immediately drawn her gun and was just about to blow the head off of it when Wibbly told her to stop. She didn't put her gun back into it's holster until he had fully explained that this was a non-active one only here to beat them at chess. She suspiciously kept one hand on the get, just in case, as the Doctor and their daughter slowly stood up.

"It only costs a penny to play and if you win you get five imperial shillings." Leah looked on her tip toes at the chess board. She had played chess with her parents a number of times before, her father always letting her win, but she didn't know that.

"I have some chocolate." She put a half eaten bag of M&Ms on the table.

Wibbly pretended to ponder her offer before taking the bag. "Done." He discreetly tapped the table with his cane as Leah climbed up onto the chair. The Cyberman sat up straighter and moved one of the pieces. Their game lasted a good twenty minutes which surprised Wibbly but not River or the Doctor. They knew their daughter was absolutely brilliant even if the shell of a cyberman could managed to beat her at chess.

"If you can tell me how it works, I'll give you a shiny penny." He told the girl.

"I think... you do it with mirrors?" She guessed, scanning over the Cyberman.

"No, but for you miss," He pretended to pull a silver penny from her ear and she smiled excited by the magic trick.

The Doctor meanwhile was looking over the set up and rambling on about the brains until he opened a small compartment and out walked a man no taller than Leah. "Hello, I'm the brains." He said, stretching. "It's good to be out of that box. I'm Porridge, by the way."

Leah paid no attention to the new man, giving her new treasure to her mum for safe keeping. "Spacey Zommer now?" She asked.

River nodded. The sooner they went on the Spacey Zommer the sooner they could go home and make the Doctor rub her aching back. She turned her attention to Wibbly. "How soon can you get that Spacey Zoomer up and running?"

Leah was still giggling as the Spacey Zoomer powered down and they stopped bouncing around. "I want to go again!" She cheered.

River smiled but shook her head, "It's time to go back home, sweetie. You have to eat lunch and your mummy is getting a bit tired." She rested a hand on her belly to emphasize her point.

"Actually, we're not leaving just yet." the Doctor told her.

She frowned, "Well why not?" She had been looking forwards to a back rub.

"Insects. Funny insects. I should add them to my funny insect collection."

"You collect funny insects?" It wasn't really a question. Of course that was something that he would do.

"Yeah... I'm about to. Right now." He muttered to himself, scanning the ground with his eyes.

"Doctor, you promised not to get into any trouble or 'investigate' anything." Knowing the Doctor, the word 'trouble' and 'investigate' went very well together.

"Trouble? Who says there's trouble?" He strolled back over to her and kissed the side of her head. "Half an hour, then we're off."

She crossed her arms and grumbled at him. "Fine. Half an hour and no more."

"But I'm not tired, mummy!" Leah protested as her mother tried to get her to settle down on the couch in Wibbly's lounge.

"Sweetie, it's only for a little while until daddy finds what he's looking for." She helped Leah under her blanket. She really just wanted to take a nap, herself. It would be easier if she didn't have to watch after Leah.

Leah pouted at her mother and reluctantly settled into the couch. River smiled and walked around to her side, sitting with a sigh of relief. The ache in her back was only getting worse, but she hoped a good nap would rid her of it.

Leah waited a good ten minutes before peering over the edge of the couch at her sleeping mother. She slowly crept off the couch and to the door, not wanting to wait around and sleep.

Leah looked around the halls for the goofy looking man with a sonic and a bowtie. Eventually she heard the sounds of people, though, was a little more than disappointed when she wandered into the area with the soldier-like people that had pointed guns at the earlier. "Where's daddy? I want daddy!" She huffed and squirmed, as a lady with a badge picked her up from off the ground. As if on cue, the man in question walked into the area, immediately going to towards his daughter and taking her back from the soldier.

"Leah, what are you doing here? You should be with your mother!" He scolded, holding her protectively away from the people in uniform.

"Mummy's sleeping and I don't wanna sleep! I wanna play!" The girl insisted, trying to get back on the ground. He set her down, taking her hand in his.

"Turns out mummy's not very asleep." Both heads looked up to see River in the doorway, hand rubbing her back. "You gave me quite the scare when I woke up to see you gone." She told Leah. She would've sounded more reprimanding if she wasn't so tired. The very little sleep she got was restless and disturbed by the pain in her back, which she was starting to think wasn't back pain at all. "Doctor, are we ready to go? I'd really like to get out of here..." She tried not to sound in too much of a hurry.

"Er- actually... about that." He rubbed the back of his head , avoiding looking her in the eyes.

She stared at him in disbelief, "Don't tell me..."

"It's Cybermen, River. They're here." He told her in a low voice. This only wanted to make her leave the place even more.

"Doctor, I don't want our daughter near those things. I don't want her in danger. We are leaving. Now."

"But, River, I have to stop them! They could easily find their way to another planet and 'upgrade' every one on it." He countered, standing his ground. This earned him an icy glare from River.

"We are not putting Leah in that kind of dang-"

"Mummy!" They were interrupted by Leah's cry of fear as she ran to cling to her parents legs. She pointed to where her parents had entered, a silver man now standing there.

Everything happened far too fast for Leah to really understand what was happening. Her mother scooped her up and was holding her very tightly as she moved behind the makeshift barriers the platoon had created. She tried to follow the silver man with her eyes as it came towards them, but it was too fast for anyone in the room to realize where it was until it wrenched a screaming Leah from River's arms and knocked her to the ground.

"NO!" Rover cried, pushing herself back up.

"Mumma!" The girl screamed and kicked, but as quickly as the silver man was here, it was gone.

River stood there, frozen, her hearts pounding so hard against her chest that they were bound to break her ribs. Any plead for her child was caught in her throat. The Doctor stepped in front of her, his face as pale as hers as he tried to look her in the eye.

Before he could open his mouth, River was banging on his chest. "You get her back! You get her back right this damned instant! You bloody idiot, we should have left when I first told us to!" She didn't realize she was crying until he wiped a tear from her check with his thumb.

"River... I-"

She pushed him away, furry beginning to rise under her skin. "No! Don't you dare try to comfort me when this is your fault! You did this! And I will never forgive you don't get her back!"

He nodded solemnly, looking at his feet. "...I'll get her back, River." He murmured. "I'll get her back. Captain, a word please!"

The woman who was wearing the badge approached him. "What do you want?"

"Do you do much fighting?"

She looked away from him. "No." She muttered and at his slightly confused look she added, "What do you expect? We're a punishment platoon."

The Doctor sighed. "That's what I was afraid of." He took her badge and pinned in on River's shirt. "Which means I'm putting you in charge. Don't die and don't let them blow up the planet. I'll be back. Get to somewhere defensible." And with that he was off to find his daughter.

"Cyberia class weapons. I'm taking it out of storage." The former captain informed River.

"Good." River nodded, somewhat waddling along after the woman, with her hand supporting her back. She was still red eyed, but the troops elected to ignore it as most understood that River upset. "We need to find somewhere defensible."

They walked up to a large map of the whole amusement park, the woman taking out a pointer and pointing to several easily defensible places. Listing them off, River decided the castle was the best place they could go.

"Ma'am..." She put her pointer away. "My men can deal with one Cyberman, but there are protocols if there are more and we cannot destroy them instantly."

"You mean blowing up the planet?"

"Respectfully, ma'am-"

"No. We are not blowing up the planet. Not until my daughter is in my arms, not until I know my family is safe." She gave her an icy glare. "You're under my command now."

"...Yes." It was clear she didn't want to be. "Ma'am."

"Who's River, why are you thinking about her so much?" The Cyber Planner sneered.

"Enough. Get out of my head!"

"Fascinating, a complete mental block, highly effective... River, River, River. Who is she? Ohh, someone special. Very special." He snickered. "Would you like it if I hurt her? What fun that would be."

The Doctor struggled, pushing, fighting against his own mind. He would die before he let this thing go anywhere near his wife.

"Oh, relax. Just relax and you will find this experience quite pleasurable. You are being upgraded and incorporated into the Cyberiad."

"Get out of my head!" The Doctor cried.

"Oh, this is brilliant!" He sang. "I'm so clever already, what a brain! I could call myself Mr. Clever. So much data... who is River?" He asked again.

"No one that you're allowed to know about."

"Ohh, too late old man. A wife! You have a wife. Naughty, naughty old man what have you been up to with her? Quite a lot... oh that's just fascinating. A baby, huh? You're so thick."

"Thick?"

"You left your pregnant wife all alone with me on the loose. Ohh, she's going to get what's coming to her."

"You. Will. Not. Touch. Her." The Doctor growled.

"Oh yes I will! And there's no way for you to stop me, Timelord." Mr. Clever spat.

"...Do you play chess?"

"Uh, ma'am?" One of the men, well really more like boys, he was a bit young to be in an army, even a half real one. He adjusted his glasses. "Mary said she saw something. And then she went quiet."

River didn't have time to acknowledge the loss of the girl, "It's on it's way then. Weapons, show me." River ordered, pacing a bit anxiously. She was trying her best, really trying to ignore the pain from her back that had started moving more to her middle. She denied it of course, telling herself that it was just a back ache, a reaction to the stress, one of those, both of those, it didn't matter. "Only one gun?" She asked as he led her to the boxes.

"Cybermen have been extinct for a thousand years. Even one anti-Cyber gun is a miracle." It was the former captain again. The woman kept popping up and frankly, River was starting to dislike her.

She wasn't paying attention much as the woman explained about the hand pulsers, taking a few breaths as not to make any noise at the pian passing through her again. Luckily, no one seemed to notice. "And that? Don't tell me." She said sarcastically, pointing to a device. "It blows up the planet.

"Implodes it. There's a trigger unit. And it activates on my voice code."

"I'll take that." River held out her hand, taking the trigger. "And you will not activate this bomb without a direct order from me."

She looked rather cross as she nodded and left in a storm.

"What about medical supplies. Are we good on those?"

"We've only got one first aid kit." Said the boy soldier.

"Not enough..." River muttered.

"Is someone hurt?" He asked timidly.

"No." She answered. Only a back ache, nothing more. It had to be.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot! I'm nice!" The Doctor held the chess board in front of his face as if it would stop the guns from being pointed at him. "River!" He exclaimed as she half ran half waddled up to him. "You haven't let them blow up the planet, good job."

"Did you get Leah?" River asked immediately. "What's going on?"

"Um... sort of." A guilty look crossed his face. "Okay hang on," He said defensively at her glare. "Good news is: I kidnapped the Cyber Planner and am in control of it right now... bad news is that it's in my head." This didn't make her any more calm. "And different bad news. Leah is... well it's complicated."

"Complicated how." She looked about ready to bite his head off.

"Complicated... as in walking coma." He hid behind the chess board again as River's eyes grew wide.

She ran up to her daugher, gasping at the cybernetic attachment. "Oh no, no, no. My girl, my baby girl..." She growled at her husband, half in furry half looking like she might burst into tears again. "Please tell me there's a way to fix this or so help me I will shoot you right now."

"Hope so..."

"Hope so? Hope so?! Doctor this is our daughter, I'm going to need better that 'hope so'!" She snapped.

"Well in other news there are more reactivated Cybermen on the way and the Cyber Planner is installing a patch for the gold thing... No wait that's bad news isn't it? But I have a good chance of winning my chess match!"

"What?!"

"I'll explain later. Someone get me a table. And tie me up!"

"Right, that's good. Can't move except for my hands." He said as River tightened the rope around him.

"You're playing chess with yourself? " She said coldly, still cross with him and not against tying him up due to the former.

"And winning." He ripped off the golden ticket and his whole body went stiff. River jumped back is surprise.

"Actually," This voice was not the same man who she was talking with before. "He has no more better than a 25% chance of winning. Fantastic. You must be the famous River. I'm the Cyber Planner."

"...Doctor?" River said, clenching her teeth as to not sound like she was in pain. No matter how cross she was at him, she really need the Doctor here right now.

"Afraid not. I'm working the mouth now. Allons-y! Oh, you should see the state of these neurons. There' so much information!"

"You aren't the Doctor."

"No but I know who you are. You're the woman who died. Oh, he's very interested in you."

"Died?" The 'interested' part didn't surprise her, she was his wife after all, but died? She wasn't dead. "What do you mean? I'm not dead."

"Oh didn't he tell you, the sly devil." Mr. Clever rambled something about spare parts and making a ship that they could all leave on.

"What, more Cybermen? You'll be stopped. The Doctor will stop you." She glanced down, seeing that he was writing something: hit me.

"He can't even manage the lips." Her hand stopped the rest of his words, meeting his cheek with a loud slap.

"OW! Ow!" The Doctor held his face. "Ow, that hurt! No stop, bit of pain, neural suge, just what I needed, thank you."

"Why am I the woman who died?" She demanded, ready to slap him again.

"Oh it's just a thing in my head, I'll explain later." He wouldn't of course. He could never tell her that.

"Chess game, stakes?"

"If he wins, I give up my mind and he gets access to everything, including time travel. But if I win, he'll break his promise to get out of my head and then kill us all anyways."

"Doctor, you idiot!"

"Yes, I know."

"Can you fix Leah, at least give me that much!"

"Leah, yeah, she's fine I mean her brain is just in standby mode." He was talking very quickly at this point.

"That is not fine!" She yelled.

"Listen. Right now she has a better chance than you do of making out of here alive."

She stepped back. "Which one of you said that?"

"Mr. Clever. Now if you don't mind, I have a chess came to finish and you have to die, pointlessly." He pushed her away with his finger. "Toodle Oo."

River left the room as quickly as she could. She could stand to be in there any longer and she didn't want anyone to see her breakdown. She leaned on the wall out side the door, sinking to the floor, clutching her middle in pain as her waters broke.

"River!" It was Porridge who found her on the floor. It had been hours, enough that day was breaking outside and the fluid around her legs had dried. He was holding a cup of beans for her, but put them down and went to her side. "Hey, are you okay?"

She nodded, though remained silent.

"You don't look very okay... are you hurt?"

"No, I'm fine." She exhaled.

He offered her the beans but she declined. "River, are you sure you're okay. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you, especially with a little one at risk too"

Before she could answer, there was a call from the other room. "Hey, River!"

"I'll see what he wants." She quickly left him. "Keep me informed on changes in the Cybermen!"

The Doctor wiggled his hands excitedly, "River, there you are. Now, quick rundown. What's our weapon strength?"

She did her best to keep her voice level, hoping he wouldn't notice how hard she was gripping the table. "One big gun, five hand pulsers, and a bomb that blows up the planet."

"Yeah, yeah. That one. Now, tell me, does it happen to have a remote trigger-y thing?" River held up the trigger.

"Brilliant pass it here."

"No."

"Why?"

"In case you're not you right now. Or if you are, just in case." She gave him a skeptical look.

"Oh don't worry, the Cyber Planner's hibernating between moves right now." He put a finger to his lips to say they should be quiet.

"Prove you're you." She insisted. "Tell me something only the Doctor knows. Tell me your name."

He blinked at her. "You I can never speak that."

"Oh, but I already know it. You told me. So tell me now. What's your name?"

"Is the Doctor not good enough for you? The healer, the wiseman. Really, it doesn't matter because whatever name I have," He leaned close to her. "I'm still all yours River. Whatever you call me, I'm still the man who fell in love with-"

A loud thwack sounded through the room as she slapped him again.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Ah, yes. It's me. That really hurt! How did you know it was him?"

"Because you'd never say something that stupidly sappy while we're in a fatal situation, you daft man. Now finish your game!"

He grabbed her arm as she pulled away, so hard it hurt. "Doctor, let go!"

"I can't." He panicked. "He's got control of the left arm!" He wrenched the trigger from her grasp and smashed it. "He... he got what he wanted. My move."

"What do you mean he got what he wanted?"

"He means, good news boys and girls." River stepped back, more terrified that she had been when she came into the room. "They're here!"

River ran onto the balcony, looking out over the hundreds of silver men surrounding the park. Completely panicked, she ducked behind the wall, the other soldiers looking at her distressed. "W-what are we going to do?" The boy-like one asked.

"Who's our best shot?" She would have done it herself but she new her hands would shake with pain. She had other things she needed to focus on.

"Me, I think." He replied, taking the large gun from her.

"Shoot any that make it across. Take defensive positions." She ordered.

She couldn't hold back a groan as the troops moved out, earning a more than concerned look from Porridge. "Porridge?"

"Yeah?"

"Get the first aid kit."

She stumbled into the room her husband was tied up in, hardly able to fight against the pain anymore. She could hear gunshots and yelling from the courtyard. The fight against the Cyberiad had begun, and her baby couldn't have chosen a worse time to come. She all but collapsed to the floor, unable to stand.

"Kid. Back. Now." The Doctor demanded, talking to Mr. Clever and Leah fell on the floor, a moment later standing with an extremely confused expression.

"Emotions, Doctor! Can't you see what a stupid move that was? All for one little child. Tell me. How do you think her death will affect your relationship with your wife?"

Both River and the Doctor's head snapped up, River to her daughter and the Doctor to his wife whom he hadn't noticed come in. Porridge entered with the bomb and first aid kit, starting at the whole scene.

The Cyber Wibbly blinked at Leah. "Welcome to Wibbly's world of wonders, child. Now presenting delights, delicacies, and death."

"Daddy!" Leah cried, and Porridge sprung into action, hitting Wibbly with a hand pulsar.

"Leah, dearie, are you okay? Just look after your mother, okay?" The Doctor didn't know what was going on with River, but it didn't look good. "Your move, but just so you know, sacrificing my queen was the best possible move I could have made. The Timelords invented chess. It's our game and if you don't avoid my trap, it's mate in three moves!"

"How?"

River cried out in pain, her back arching,

"How?"

Leah and Porridge were at her side, her yells not ceasing.

"How?!"

"You call yourself a chess playing robot. Hey, you figure it out. Or don't you have the processing power?"

The noise from outside stopped.

"What are you doing?"

"Doctor. DoctorDoctorDoctorDoctorDoctorDoctorDoctorDoctor! Three million Cybermen working on one chess problem. How long do you think it will take to solve now?"

"That's cheating!" He growled.

"No, it's pulling in the local resources. There's no way it's possible."

"Do you really want to know? One: turn on sonic screwdriver. Two: activare pulser. Three: amplify pulser." He laughed, doing each action as he said them. "See ya." He forced the pulser to his face, his body shaking with the electric shock.

"That's cheating!" Mr. Clever yelped and then he was gone.

"Just useing the local resources." He straightened his bowtie. "Someone untie me!"

Porridge approached him. "How do I know it's you?"

"Just shut up, I need to get to River!"

He shrugged. "Good enough."

"All the Cybermen are about to wake up and kill us all then construct a spaceship! We need to destroy the planet, but the trigger to the bomb is broken!" Free from his bonds, he rushed to his wife's side.

"I-it has a voice default." River managed to say, the pressure on her cervix verging unbearable. "But sh-she's dead."

"Ask Porridge." Leah said. She was scared, and holding her mother's hand more for her own comfort than River's, but said it as bravely as she could. "'Cause he's the king. He might know."

The Doctor looked between her and the man in question. "How do you know?

"He looks like the statute and the coin. Right?" The girls looked at Porridge

"She's right... I'm the emperor."

"So you can save us?" The Doctor demanded. "Please... I have to protect my family, River. ...We need to get her somewhere safe. There isn't any other way."

"Doctor..." Porridge began to say

"Three million Cybermen will wreck havoc on the universe unless you stop it."

"The bomb, the throne, it's all connected. I just have to say this is Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cordlongstaf th 41st, defender of humanity, Imperator of known space. Activate the desolator." The bomb lit up. "And it's done."

They weren't listening to the last bit about being transported to the state room, the Doctor focusing on his labouring wife. He felt incredibly guilty for not leaving when she'd first requested to.

And all of a sudden they were in a marble room. "There's a large blue box at coordinate 6-Ultra-19-P. I need it transmitted up here right away."

Porridge watched as the planet exploded in front of their eyes but the only thing the Doctor saw was his wife's face contort in pain. She was unconsciously pushing a little, her body kicking into auto pilot to force the baby out of her. The Doctor was still at her side as the emperor went on about enjoying not being the ruler of a thousand galaxies. "I would propose to you, River, if you weren't already married." He stepped off his throne. "How is she doing?"

"This baby isn't going to wait much longer and I don't think we can make it back to the TARDIS in time." The Doctor muttered, allowing River to crush his hand.

"What's wrong with her? Is mummy gonna be okay?" Leah tugged on Porridge's jacket.

He patted her head. "Yeah. Your little brother or sister is on the way is all." He looked back at the Doctor. "She said she was fine. I kept asking her and she kept saying she was fine."

"Yeah... She does that." River cried out again, her breathing heavy and strained. The Doctor hooked his arms beneath her and lifted her, holding her close to his body. "I need a medbay, a bedroom, anywhere we can go." He looked a the emperor pleadingly.

"There's a medbay, but it's on the other side of the ship."

"We don't have enough time to go there. What's closest to us?" He was already walking, Porridge and Leah in toe.

"Well that would be the guard's quarters."

"Good enough." Porridge lead them briskly to the mentioned room, going into the nearest bedroom and ordering for someone to get the nurses here.

The room as empty of people, with two cots and two dressers. The Doctor, as carefully as he could, set River down on one of the beds, though she still winced. She still had his jacket lapels in a death grip, which shifted to having his hand in a death grip instead. "Doctor... I n-need to... to push. Now." Her voice was shaking, partly with exhaustion and partly with agony.

"How long will the nurses be?" He asked urgently.

Porridge shrugged. "At least ten minutes if they run."

He looked back down at River, who shook her head. She couldn't wait that long. "Porridge, take Leah somewhere please. Get her some food." The man nodded and took the girl, knowing they need the privacy.

The Doctor shifted so he was between River's legs after stacking pillows to support her back and making sure there was a sheet covering her legs. "Oh, that's-... okay... um." He looked up from where he was, "River, you're already really close. I can see a bit of it's head."

A noise somewhere between a sob and a groan escaped her causing him to look up. There was an amount of distress in her expression, mixed with the pain. He rubbed her leg comfortingly and she only whimpered. "I don't th-think I can do this, Doctor. I can't-... It wasn't su-supposed to happen like this."

"I know, love, I know." It wasn't like when Leah was born. It wasn't peaceful or controlled and they weren't ready. "Look at me, River. You can do this, you can. I know we're not home and I know you're scared, but you can do this. You're going to have to push now, and I promise it's going to be okay. Right now our baby needs you."

Still full of doubt, she took a breath and bore down with a contraction, "Uunh!" She gripped a fist full of the bedsheets, clenching her teeth with the pain and squeezing her eyes shut. Maybe it was because she hadn't done this in nearly four years, or that she wasn't in warm soothing water, but this seemed to hurt much more than she remembered.

"Good, River." She fell back against the pillows sucking in what air she could. "Again." River shouted and he could've sworn that he heard concerned whispered of guards from outside the door.

River's face was red and her hearts were pounding in her chest from the effort she was exerting. Each new pain the seized her body brought another groan or cry of pain and the more the baby's head browned, the louder River's sounds became.

Her shouts were closer to screams by the time they heard the nurses finally approaching the room. River was fighting hard against the sharp pain, her pleads for relief dripping with exhaustion. Sweat glistened on her forehead, her whole body tensing as the next contraction rolled through her. The Doctor's encouragements were soft and quiet against her harsh cries, but a constant stream of 'you're doing so well' and 'you're so strong, you can do this'. He was supporting the baby's now fully emerged head, but was somewhat pushed out of the way by nurses before he could check that things were okay. Guiding the birth of his child was now out of his hands. He replaced himself, so he was sitting behind River, still determined to be useful, but not at all willing to leave. She was immediately crushing his hands and he took note of the fact that they were also trembling.

He was vaguely aware of a nurse asking her to resume pushing, all of his focus on his wife, all his cues from her. He leaned forward with her when she bore down and murmured encouragements in to her ear as she screamed, he acted as support for her to lean against between moments of pain and tension, and kissed her cheeks after especially strong contractions that brought her to the brink of tears.

He felt it before he saw it, felt her grip on his hands loosen and her shoulders slump against him before he saw her expression soften into an almost peaceful one. Her eyes were closed and her screams ceased, thought her breathing still rather heavy. It felt like it had been hours, but it couldn't have been more than one, and a brief panic rushed through him as he feared she'd actually passed out from exhaustion. He looked up to the nurses, panic fading at their calm looks. He curiously waited for a moment as the one between River's legs brought her hands up from their previously position, holding a pink and wiggling creature.

That's when he heard the most beautiful sound the universe had to offer. The baby mewled, a small, almost whimper before letting out a high pitched and unhappy wail. The child was placed quickly on River's chest along with a blanket. To his relief her eyes were open, now, staring at the crying baby. River's hands went to place over the little boy and he quieted some under his mother's warm touch. The Doctor's hands followed, resting on River's. Both parents were stunned into silence, just staring until River let out a gasp. A small gasp as if she'd been holding her breath, followed by a smile wide enough to split her face. "Doctor..." She breathed. "We are not calling him Doctor Jr."

He chuckled and kissed the side of her head. "How about... Aiden?"

"Aiden Song." River said, stroking the baby's cheek. "I love it."

There was a knock on the door and Porridge poked his head inside the medical suite. River had been moved there about an hour ago upon insistence from the medical staff.

"Come in." She said, looking up to see him come in with Leah following behind.

Leah immediately ran up to the side of her bed, peering her head over the side. "Mummy, you're okay!"

"Of course I'm okay, love." She patted the bed as invitation for Leah to climb up. The girl settled into her mother's side, looking up curiously at the bundling in her arms.

"Leah, I want you to meet someone." She lowered the bundle to Leah could see what was inside. "This is Aiden. He's your brother."

Leah stared for a long moment before reaching up and lightly poking the sleeping baby's cheek. "He's really small."

"Yes, babies always start out small, but soon he'll grow to be big and strong like you." She told her.

"Can I hold him?" Leah asked.

River nodded, slowly shifting Aiden into the girl's arms, keeping her own arms around her so she wouldn't drop him.

"Hello." Leah said to him. "I'm your big sister." The title made her feel proud. "I'm gonna show you how to ride a bike and draw things and play dress up. And if you get scared of the monsters under the bed, you can wake me up and I'll scare them off with my big sister powers."

Aiden shifted in his sleep, gurgling slightly. She looked up at River. "I'm gonna be a really good big sister." She promised.

"The best big sister in the universe." River agreed, sleepily.

The Doctor had long ago fell asleep in a near by chair, soon after the baby had, but River couldn't. She couldn't stop looking at her new baby and she beamed at Leah's reaction to having a little brother.

"Mummy?"

"Yes?" She held her a bit closer.

"We don't hafta go back to the spacy zoomer place, do we? I don't like it there."

"No." River chuckled. "We don't."