Old Enemy, New Friends

Author's note: The birthing ball was seen my story "And Baby Makes Three" and the appendix story is in my story "Being Human Is A Pain".

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Chapter Six

"Now, why did you go and scare poor Frankie like that?!" asked Lucy as she walked into the room and Adam's Doctor opened his eyes. She had a tray in her hands when she placed it on a table and moved the table closer to the bed. "You know, since you were so mean, I shouldn't feed you."

"I'm not hungry," said Adam's Doctor, looking at the wall.

"But Harry will be so angry if…"

"For the last time, he's DEAD! You killed him!"

"I had chef make you some chicken with glazed carrots and little potatoes and I poured you some nice wine to go with it," said Lucy, taking the cover off the plate and pushed the button on the bedrail. The bed moved up until he was sitting up and she sat on the edge of the bed.

"Lucy, did you hear what I just said? He's…" said Adam's Doctor when she placed the glass of wine to his lips and he sipped on the wine. His throat burned a bit as she lowered the glass and picked the fork up. She fed him as he watched her and she wiped his mouth with the napkin.

"My, you were hungry!" said Lucy, standing up and pushed the button so he was lying on his back again. He watched her leave the room as he sighed and closed his eyes, going back to sleep.

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Alan stood in the doorway, leaning on the doorframe, while he watched Adam help River with her homework and blinked. He listened to them when River closed her schoolbooks and picked them up.

"Excuse me," said River as he moved so she could leave the room and Adam looked at him.

"You ok?" asked Adam as Alan walked to the chair across from him and sat down.

"Yep," said Alan, placing his elbows on the table and placed his chin in his hands. Watching Adam with his children, he thought about how much he missed Elizabeth and Angel and smiled, changing the subject. "So, tell me, how did you two have kids? Aren't you a Time Lord?"

"No, I'm still half-human."

"You are?! Why didn't you change?!"

"Didn't want to."

"Are you kidding me?! I wanted to change from the start."

"How did you do it?"

"I used the chameleon arch in the Valeyard's TARDIS. So, you like being a dad?"

"Oh, yeah, but I wasn't sure we could have kids until Rose told me she was pregnant."

"You must have been on cloud nine."

"I was for four months."

"What happened?"

"Her body started to reject the fetus."

"Why?"

"It had to do with my Gallifreyan genes. Her body couldn't handle them."

"What did you do?"

"Let me show you," said Adam as they stood up and he led Alan to the double doors and they walked outside. Walking down the path, they came to the TARDIS and he opened the doors. They walked inside as he closed the doors and the lights came up. He sensed the panic in her as he smiled and stroked one of the support columns. "Easy, Girl, it's ok."

"She's beautiful!" said Alan, looking around.

"Who are you?" asked the soft child-like of Adam's TARDIS.

"I'm Alan," said Alan.

"How is it that you look like My Adam?"

"Well, you see, I come from a different dimension and just happen to look like him."

"I sense another of my kind nearby."

Alan explained about the Doctor's TARDIS and felt a gentle hum inside his mind.

"May I speak with her?"

"Of course you can," said Alan as they sensed her trying to make contact with the Doctor's TARDIS and Alan smiled, feeling the TARDIS coming into his mind.

"Beloved, who is trying to contact me?" asked the TARDIS.

'It's our new friend, Adam's TARDIS. She's just saying hello,' thought Alan and they both listened the TARDISes chatting to each other. Going down the hallway then around the corner, they walked into a semi dark room and Alan's eyes went wide. In the center of the room was a round glass ball, floating off the floor, and was connected to the ceiling by two tubes. A computer console was to the right and several bodysuits hung on pegs to the left of the room. Alan walked to the bodysuits when he noticed that they looked like several different stages of pregnancy and a belt hung next to the bodysuits.

"What is all this?" asked Alan, taking the belt off the peg.

"This is the birthing ball. It's like an artificial womb. I removed the fetus from Rose…" said Adam and Alan scrunched his face up.

"You operated on your wife?!"

"I had to. I placed the fetus into this incubator and it stayed in there until it was strong enough to be moved into the birthing ball. The sensors monitor the fetus and alert us if anything was wrong."

"You mean the baby just dangles from the top of this thing?"

"No, it floats in embryonic fluid and prerecorded heart and voice sounds are piped into the ball."

"Does it know it's not inside Rose?"

"Yeah, it knows."

"So, these suits are so Rose looks pregnant, eh?"

"Yep, and that belt lets her feel the baby moving inside her."

"What about when it's time for the delivery?"

"Well, she feels everything that's going on and a small table goes under the baby. After the embryonic fluid drains out of the ball, the ball opens and I finish the delivery."

"Fantastic! Can you do more than one baby at a time with this thing?"

"I don't know. We never tried it. I think it could work with multiple births."

"I have to show my brother!"

'Hey, Brother, are you busy?' thought Alan.

'I'm with Tara, talking to Pete about the differences between his world and our Pete's world. Why? What's wrong?' thought the Doctor.

'Nothing's wrong. I just want to show you something that might help us with having babies in the future,'

'Be right there.'

"He'll be here in a bit," said Alan and Adam nodded.

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Adam's Jackie had taken River and Jamie upstairs while Mingxia, Donna, Jenny and Awinita went back into the TARDIS to watch a movie and Rose, Adam's Rose and River sat in the living room, sipping on some tea.

"This is really weird. I mean here I am talking to…myself," said Adam's Rose and Rose smiled.

"I know. So, how long have you two been married?" asked Rose.

"We've been married for seven years though we did live together for a year and just traveled around."

"Wait, how old is River?" asked Rose.

"She's seven."

"Which means…" said Rose and Adam's Rose nodded.

"So that makes Adam eight years older than Alan, eh?" asked Rain.

"Yeah, I guess he is," Adam's Rose.

"He doesn't look it," said Rose.

"I know!" laughed Adam's Rose.

"Where did you two go on your travels?"

"Oh, we went to different planets then to the future then to the past but, most of the time, we just traveled this world."

"Did you use the TARDIS to do that?" asked Rose.

"Nope, we just hopped a plane and went where ever the mood took us. The one thing that scared me was when Adam nearly died."

"What happened?" asked Rain.

"His appendix nearly burst and his body went into shock. He almost went into cardiac arrest twice and was in a coma for four days."

Rose saw the tears trickled down her cheeks as she moved closer and held her, sending comforting thoughts into her head. Letting go, she smiled and wiped her eyes.

"Sorry, I get that way when I think about it."

"That's all right. I would have been a wreck if that had been Alan," said Rose.

"Or my husband," said Rain.

"Anyway, you like being a mum?"

"It had its ups and downs. Then again, there was a point when I didn't think we'd be able to have kids," said Adam's Rose.

"Why, what happened?"

'Starlight, are you and my snot ball sister busy?' thought Alan.

'We're talking with Rose. What's up?' thought Rose.

'Ask her to bring you two to their TARDIS. There's something here I think you two should see.'

"Alan wants us to go see something in your TARDIS," said Rose and they got off the couch and chair. Walking out of the room, Adam's Rose led them down the hallway and they left the house.