Thanks everyone for the reviews. This is just Rose and the Human Doctor/10.5. In this chapter, he's always called the Doctor, but in future chapters that may change. Please read and review.
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"Can you believe we've been travelling for ten years now?" The Doctor asked Rose. She'd been unable to bring herself to call him 'Doctor' at first, preferring the shortened 'Doc', but had very quickly realised that this was, in fact, THE Doctor, and far better for her than the 'other' Doctor. The pair of them were curled up next to each other on the sofa in their room, on the TARDIS they'd grown from the piece the 'other' Doctor had left them.
The Doctor felt, rather than saw, the smile spread across Rose's face. "Travelling for ten years and married for eight. I've made you quite domestic, I think" Rose joked.
"What did I tell you when we were in London, when we first met Harriet Jones?" the Doctor asked, pretending to be serious, but Rose knew him too well and could hear the laughter in his voice.
"You told me that you 'don't do domestic'" Rose said.
"Exactly. But that was the old me – literally. This me loves domestic – especially when it's you I'm being domestic with."
Rose giggled – she still adored the Doctor with every fibre of her being – and shuffled up the sofa so that she could kiss him, but before she could, the Doctor stopped her by laying a finger on her lips.
"Rose, have you ever considered a family? We've never discussed it, and I was worrying the other day, that I might be stopping you from having a family" The Doctor asked his question, and then tried to kiss Rose before she could answer him – he was almost scared to hear the response. Rose, however, knew his tricks of evasion and manoeuvred herself out of his reach, so she could look down on him. He was bleary eyed from tiredness – something she'd never seen the 'other' Doctor look like, his hair was all over the place, and his clothes were crumpled. Rose thought he looked as gorgeous as ever, and felt a rush of love for her husband and best friend.
"Doctor...I hadn't considered a family until recently...but..."she trailed off, unsure how to breach the subject. "You want a family?" the Doctor asked. Rose bit her lip and hung her head, not wanting to meet his eye.
"Doesn't matter if we want it or not, now" she mumbled, blushing, but without knowing why she was blushing.
The Doctor abruptly stood up and began pacing. "Rose...do you mean...are you...are we...pregnant?" he asked. Rose looked down at the floor before taking a deep breath. Steeling herself for the unknown reaction of the man she loved, she looked him directly in the eye. She knew that he knew anyway, but he would still need to hear her say it. "Yes" she said, boldly.
Whatever she had expected the Doctor's reaction to be, it was not for him to punch the air in a celebratory manner, before leaning down and scooping her up in his arms and shouting at the top of his voice, "My Rose is pregnant! I'm going to be a father!" He quickly calmed down, though, and put Rose gently back on her feet.
"Are you happy about this, Rose?" He asked, the joy audible in his voice.
Rose met his gaze, unable to speak, but with an enormous grin on her face. She nodded, and for some inexplicable reason, her eyes filled with tears.
"Rose, I am so...how are you feeling? Are you tired? Nauseous? Have you had any cravings? What do you need?" Rose laughed to see the Doctor running around their bedroom like a headless chicken.
"Doctor, I'm fine. I was ill once or twice, but I put that down to how you fly the TARDIS. I haven't had any cravings yet, and if I get tired, I'll have a nap. Now, if you want to be useful, you can set the TARDIS controls for home, so we can tell Mum and Pete." The Doctor nodded in assent and started to walk out of the room, but ran back to give Rose another hug. After finally leaving the room, barely ten seconds had passed before he ran back into the room like an excited young puppy. "I think you should have a lie down, make sure you've got the energy to tell your Mum with me – I'm not handling that on my own" he said, as he left the room again for the final time.
Jackie had reacted calmly, only saying, "I thought you two were never going to give me grandkids, all this running around in that TARDIS of yours. At least you're finally getting round to it. But you're not travelling in that alien death-trap while you're carrying my grandchild, d'you hear?" Jackie said, looking ar the Doctor as though she expected him to disagree with her. Instead, he nodded authoritatively. "I agree, Rose darling. Until the baby's born, we're staying on terra firma." Rose looked at him to protest, but stopped when she saw the love on his face – she knew that it was love for the unborn child in her belly.
Rose's pregnancy progressed fairly normally. She had all her checkups at Torchwood – a normal, 'human' hospital would have noticed funny, alien things on the scans and ask too many awkward questions. She was tired constantly from the fifth month onwards, and by the seventh month, was on bed rest, by order of the Doctor. Rose had grown to enormous proportions; people she passed in the street assumed she was having a multiple birth, but the Doctor assured her that Time Lord babies were always big.
Throughout the entire pregnancy, Rose had only one craving – the Doctor. She could only sleep if he was with her – either laying next to her, holding her in his arms, or in the same room. If she awoke and he was gone, she immediately began to panic, until the Doctor returned. Even when she was awake, she still had to be in the same room as the Doctor. She was paranoid he was going to disappear and leave, and every time he left the room to do something as mundane as use the bathroom, she would pace and worry until he returned.
After eight months and three weeks of pregnancy, Rose went into labour. Jackie and the Doctor had arranged for a home birth, but with Torchwood's doctors on hand, just in case. They wouldn't be needed.
While the Doctor clung on to Rose's hand, sponged her forehead with cold flannels and talked of Gallifrey and their early travels together, Jackie helped her only daughter give birth to her first grandchild. She told Rose when to push and when not to push, and when the child was out, she took her granddaughter and cleaned her and wrapped her in a blanket. And it was Jackie who laid her beautiful new granddaughter in her (very exhausted) daughter's arms. She then kissed the Doctor on the forehead before tearfully withdrawing, leaving the family together for the first time.
The Doctor looked at his wife, her hair dark with sweat, tears staining her cheeks, and exhaustion plainly written on her face. All he could see was an amazing woman who had just given him the most precious gift in the universe.
Rose looked down at her daughter, who, after crying fitfully for a few moments, had drifted off to sleep. She then looked up at her husband and was surprised to see tears in his eyes.
"Doctor, are you crying?" she asked, clearly exhausted, but her voice was still full of warmth and love.
"Rose, she's...she's perfect. And she's even ginger!" Rose laughed quietly, not wanting to wake up her daughter.
"What shall we call her?" Rose asked. They hadn't discussed names, preferring to wait until they met their child.
"I like Ophelia" the Doctor said. Rose, dreamily, looked up at him and smiled.
"Amelia?" Rose asked, not hearing properly. The Doctor chuckled at his wife. "No, Ophelia. But Amelia's a good name as well" he said, his voice low and calm. He looked down at this daughter, asleep in Rose's arms, and tried the name on for size.
"Amelia. Amelia Pond." Pond was the surname they'd picked at random when they married. Legally, the Doctor was John Pond, and Rose was Rose Pond, nee Tyler.
"Amelia Pond. Very fairytale." Rose said, her voice slurry with sleep. 'John Pond' looked at his wife and kissed her on the forehead, before taking his daughter out of her arms, and going to sit in the rocking chair by the bed. Rocking gently, he watched his wife fall asleep, before leaning down and kissing his Amelia tenderly on the forehead.
"Rose, thank you so much." He whispered, not wanting to wake either of his girls.
Phantomforever42 - the Doctor was very happy that his daughter was ginger! :)
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