Chapter 5 - SUSPENCE! tee hee.

"Rose?" The Doctor looked up once he'd finished the procedure to check everything had gone well.

She lay there doing nothing. His eyes widened. She was incredibly pale and looked... dead.

He rushed to her side, grabbing her hand and checking for a pulse.

"Get up, Rose!" He yelled. When she didn't react, he figured tough love wouldn't work.

He still couldn't find the pulse; tears were welling in his eyes as he realised he'd lost Rose.

"You can't leave me like this! You just can't!" This time he was actually crying, something that rarely happened. "You love me. I love you!"

Still, nothing changed. The Doctor fell to the floor in a bawling heap.

'I'm not dead, am I?' Rose questioned the figure.

"No. Think about it; why would I bring you here to tell you that you were the Doctor's one true mate if you were dead? I'm not that cruel!" She smiled.

Although she had no face, Rose could tell she was smiling… it was like she was sending out a mental signal.

'So, why have you brought me here?' Rose questioned.

"Simply because you and the Doctor need help. When you die, you're gone for good. When he dies, he lives through, but he'd be heart-broken. So; I'm giving you a wedding gift. You now have the same amount of resurrections as the Doctor!" She disappeared suddenly, leaving Rose gawping.

"What are you doing?" Rose's voice. It seemed impossible… yet…

The Doctor sat up, and slowly edged his way to the bed. There, Rose sat looking tired.

"You're alive! How?"

"Well, apparently I was never dead… the Tardis says 'hi', by the way."

The Doctor opened his mouth in awe. "You must be my 'one true mate'!"

"Yeah," Rose paused, "Don't say it like that, it makes us sound like animals."

He widened his eyes seductively, "Maybe we are!"

Rose thought back to their first night, and then remembered what had come of it.

"Is the baby alright?"

The Doctor sighed, with relief, "Yes."

Rose giggled, "And… did you see him or her while you were looking around?"

"I saw him…" The Doctor grinned.

"It's a boy? David?" The Doctor could hear Rose's voice go very high pitched, "Why does my voice sound like I'm on helium?"

The Doctor bit his lip. "One of the time-lord pregnancy things… hee."

Sorry about the really short chapter, but it just mean the birth gets all the more close..erer. Or... not? Read and review if you want to find out please.