Chapter 7 – Will the baby be born in this chapter, or will I annoy Rixxispooks even further by extending the wait? Decisions…
"What about sharks?" Rose persisted.
"In Devon? Nope." The Doctor continued preparing for his son's arrival.
"Jellyfish? Floating spaghetti bolognaise? Bacteria?" She paused. "What if I drown?" She added solemnly.
"It's not my fault! You're the one who started it by having those … cough… darn contractions." He barely looked at her while getting ready or Rose to push.
"The baby's not been born yet, Doctor, you can swear." Rose spoke through gritted teeth.
"Oh, buggar!" He replied.
"That's more like it."
"No, I mean, oh," he spoke while pointing at a green glow in the sky not far from above them, "… buggar."
Rose caught sight of this. "What the hell…?"
The Doctor blurted out a series of facts. "Only three alien ships give out that sort of glow; Geofrodians, Jiggamaloes and Raxocoricofallapatorians. And, from that list, only one gives off that noise. And it's not the Geofrodians or the Jiggamaloes. Therefore, we can deduct – from the fact Raxocoricofallapatorians have DNA tracking device – that they are currently holding your mother, hoping to kidnap our child."
Rose was still gawping at the pretty lights, but on hearing her mother was most likely on board, she groaned. "Those poor, green… things. Silly twits don't know what they've got themselves into."
The Doctor nodded sadly.
"Arrrgh!" Rose yelled out. "Bloody hell, this hurts!"
"Oh, yeah," the Doctor added casually, "Apparently Time-Lord labour is ten times more painful than human; but, on the bright side, it only lasts a third of the time."
Rose looked annoyed. "Well, then, I've changed my mind."
The Doctor turned to her. "About what?"
"I'm not having you baby any more."
"Um…" The Doctor motioned to the bump in front of her. "Slightly too late!"
"Well…" she began.
Immediately, the Doctor put his hand up rudely to shut her up and pointed to the ship above them. It was circling randomly.
"It probably can't pinpoint our exact location with all the water," he whispered, "So, there's another reason to have a water birth."
Rose rolled her eyes.
It had been two hours since Rose's beard had fallen out, and the Doctor had just spotted the head after Rose's first push.
"Keep going," he cheered, "Come o-on David!"
The ship had given up the circling and was landing on a nearby cliff. It was lucky; because with the constant noise and green glow, accompanied by Rose's hormones, she was getting close to jumping out of the water and… well, let's just say it would have been painful.
Rose shivered with pain and excitement.
"Right, here we go, Rose. Another push…" He screwed up his face as though he were the one pushing.
"Is everything alright?" Rose asked desperately.
His screwed up face turned to awe-struck.
"Everything," he said holding up what was clearly a boy, "Is perfect!"
Rose felt so relaxed after doing all that hard work that she ducked under the water and took in a couple of lungfuls of it.
"Plaugh!" Rose spat it back out and gasped for oxygen, still in shock that she was a mother.
"Here he is…" The Doctor held his child proudly into the air.
"Don't do that, he'll get cold!" Rose snatched the drenched child from his grasp, hoping to never have to let go. "David. Hey, baby."
The Doctor put his arm around Rose and they admired the gurgling infant.
"Now," the Doctor began, saddened by the fact he had to stop the magical moment, "We've got to sort this problem out."
They simultaneously turned to the cliff that the aliens had landed on.
"We have three options. One: we go out to meet them and possibly exchange David for your mother. Two: we swim away and get out of the water further down, leaving your mother to die." He paused.
"And the third one?" Rose asked in anticipation.
"I didn't have one; I was hoping you'd go for the second…"
"Doctor!"
"Ok, ok… And three: we swim ashore, get to the Tardis and somehow save your damn mother." He pouted angrily as Rose passed him David and swam off. "Hey, you want to save Jackie… why can't you carry the urchin?"
The family of – now – three huddled under the warm blanket, attempting to pull on there clothes. Of course, David needed help from Rose to pull on is sweet little body warmer and pooh bear hat.
"Oh. My. God." Rose stated after looking at the Tardis screen that showed the Raxocoricofallapatorians landing site.
"Hey, it's like Janice from…" Before he could finish Rose interrupted him.
"Don't say Friends!"
"…from…" taking his inspiration from his son's hat, he ended his sentence, "… Winnie the Pooh!"
Rose turned back to the screen. "Look how many of them are out there!"
"Generally they come in groups of at least twenty; unlike the Slitheen."
"Loners."
"Y'up."
"So, how we gonna save mum?"
"We're not. I am." The Doctor looked shocked when Rose suggested she would be leaving her baby. "You have to stay here and look after David."
Wait a minute! How comes you get to go?" Rose placed her free hand on her hip.
"Because I know more about Raxocoricofallapatorians than you do."
"Do not!"
"Yes I do. Spell Raxocoricofallapatorius," he challenged her.
"Okay. R-A-X-A…" she spoke with confidence.
"Wrong already," he laughed.
"R-A-X-O-C-O-R-I-C-A…"
"Wrong again," he sang as he walked out the doors.
Rose had fed David and put him to bed over two hours ago, and she was starting to worry about the Doctor.
Maybe I should go and help, she thought to herself.
At that exact moment, Jackie and the Doctor came bursting through the doors.
"That was so funny! Where did you learn to do that?" she asked him.
"A far away planet with some very friendly, very large chipmunks," came the Doctor's reply.
"What happened?" Rose jumped to greet them, intrigued as to what they were talking about.
"Oh, you see that green monster with the thing on his head grabbed this thing, and the Doctor said 'Spuds'!" The Doctor and Jackie both burst out laughing.
On seeing Rose's face, the Doctor added, "You had to be there."
Rose grunted and went to check on David, followed shortly by Jackie.
"Oh, Yeah! You got her up the buff, didn't cha'!" She turned around a punched the Doctor in the face.
Rose giggled as he stood back up and rubbed his nose with his long fingers.
"That hurt," he whined.
Ignoring him, the women leant over the cot.
"He's gorgeous!" Jackie yelled. "Can I hold him?"
She rocked him gently as he was placed in her arms.
"What's his name?" She asked, not taking her eyes off his round face.
"David." Rose smiled.
"Poor bastard, having him for a dad…" she muttered.
"Actually, he's not a bastard." Rose held the Doctors hand briefly, before he had the intelligence to exit the room.
"WHAT? You got married?!" She followed him out.
"Don't punch me!" the Doctor begged as he ran off down the corridor to avoid Jackie's clenched fist.