Chapter Thirty Five
The morning sunlight slowly brightened the room while Jamie slept on his back and Jenna's head rested on his chest. Her fingers moved across his skin as he sighed and held her hand against his chest. Jeanna heard the soft beating of his hearts as she started waking up and slid her hand out from under his hand, tracing little words in Gallifreyan on his skin.
"That tickles," Jamie sighed as she smiled and moved her fingers across his skin a few more times. Jamie wiggled on the bed as she climbed on top of him and brushed his arms to his side. Sliding her hands up his chest, Jenna kissed his lips when Jamie wrapped his arms around her and rubbed her back. Neither of them noticed the door opening as their three year old grandson, Alexander, walked to the bed and looked at them. Frazer, Angel and Alexander were visiting them for the weekend and Alexander was wearing Penguins of Madagascar pajamas and was holding his plush Skipper the penguin in his arms.
"Pa-paw, what are you an' Nan doing?" he asked as Jenna and Jamie looked at him and Jenna folded her arms on Jamie's chest, looking at him.
"Aye, Pa-paw, what are we doing?" she asked and Jamie blushed. He started chewing on his fingernail while Alexander climbed on the bed and sat next to them.
"Nan an' I were just cuddling," Jamie finally said and Alexander made an O with his mouth.
"Mommy an' Daddy do that, too, but sometimes they dinnae have their jammies on," Alexander said and Jenna softly laughed.
"I cannae believe he just said that!" Jamie thought after placing up a privacy block.
"Out of the mouth of babes," Jenna thought and Jamie nodded.
"Xander?" Angel's voice called out as she walked by the door then stopped and looked into the room. "There you are."
"Mommy, Nan an' Pa-paw were snogging!" he said and Jenna buried her face into Jamie's chest.
"They were?" she said as she walked to the foot of the bed and Jamie kissed the top of Jenna's head.
"Aye, but we have our jammies on," Jamie said as Angel's eyes went wide and he started giggling.
"Well, how about we go make breakfast so Nan and Pa-paw can wake up properly?" she asked as she picked Alexander up and carried him out of the room, closing the door behind her.
"So, um, should we get up or do you want tae get up an' lock the door?" Jamie asked as Jenna moved the duvet back, walked to the door, locked the door, walked back to bed and crawled on top of him, lying down on him. "Ah, thought so!"
The gently sounds of bagpipes filled the control room as Jamie moved around the console and pushed the buttons, moved the switches, flicked the levers and his six year old twins sat in the jump seat.
"Where are we going, Daddy?" Zoe asked.
"We are going tae Scotland," Jamie said as he watched her get off the jump seat and stood next to him.
"Do you need any help?" she asked and he looked down at her. Like her namesake, Zoe was brilliant and knew more about computers than her twin brother, Donald. He looked back at Donald as Donald sighed and picked at the arm of the jump seat.
"Aye, I do," Jamie said then smiled at Donald. Wiggling his finger at Donald, Jamie smiled as Donald blinked then got off the jump seat, walking to him. Jamie lifted Donald up as he pointed at the lever near the rotor and Donald smiled, pulled the lever down. Jamie hugged him then put him down then lifted Zoe up, pointing to the main lever. Nodding, Zoe pulled the main lever down as the TARDIS hummed around them and the rotor moved up and down behind the glass.
The people moved by as the TARDIS materialized and the long green grass fluttered in the wind. The doors opened as Jamie and Jenna walked outside and Jamie gently adjusted the kilt he was wearing. Jenna was wearing a matching kilt, a white cotton blouse, white knee high socks and black shoes. Jamie was also wearing a white linen shirt, a black sporran, white knee high socks and brown hiking boots. His dirk hung from the black belt and the strap to his bagpipes hung over his shoulder. Standing back, Jamie watched as his children and grandchildren came out of the TARDIS and Jamie closed the doors, locking them.
"Daddy, I dinnae want tae wear a skirt," Jamie's five year old grandson, Douglas, moaned and stamped his foot on the ground.
"It's nae a skirt, Dougie, it's a kilt," Jamie's son, Angus, said as Douglas sighed and pouted.
"I still dinnae like it!"
"I do 'cause you dinnae have tae wear underpants!" Alexander said when he bent over, pulled the kilt up and mooned Douglas.
"Alexander!" Angel said as she blushed and picked him up, looking at Frazer. "I thought you checked to see if he was wearing anything!"
"He was!" Frazer said and Jamie cupped his mouth, trying not to laugh.
"I took 'em off, Mommy," Alexander said with a grin.
"Why?" Angel asked.
"'cause Pa-paw Alan told me that a true highlander wears na' under their kilts. So, since I'm a highlander, I took 'em off," Alexander said, shrugging.
"Ah, remind me tae give Pa-paw Alan a punch when we get back," Frazer said and Angel gently shoved him. "Where did you put them?"
"I put 'em in your sporran, Daddy," Alexander said as Frazer opened the sporran and pulled out the Thomas the Tank Engine underpants. Frazer's brothers gathered around them while Angel knelt down and helped Alexander put the underpants on.
"Right, let's get going," Jenna said as they walked by the people and headed down the path.
"So, Dad, who do you thinks going to win this year?" Jamie's son, Robert, asked and held onto the hand of his three year old son, Charles while his wife, Catherine, carried their two month old son, Andrew, in a baby carrier. They had arrived just outside the town of Dunoon, Scotland in the year two thousand and nine. They were going to the Cowal Games and Jamie and Robert were excited about the pipe band competition.
"Dinnae ken," Jamie said as they walked toward the gaming area and Jamie looked at the tents spreading out before them. People were wearing kilts and were chatting as Jamie's mind drifted back to the games and festivals he went to when he was younger and Jenna gently squeezed his hand.
"What's that?" Toni asked as she pointed to a tent and they walked closer to the tent, looking at the sign. Toni was Jamie's son, Ian's, wife and Ian held her hand as they walked to the sign. CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT was on the sign as they looked at each other than at the eleven children.
"Can we go in there, Mommy?" her four year old daughter, Cathleen, asked and her three year old brothers, Duncan and Mark, looked at her.
"Do the rest of you want tae go, too?" Jamie's son, Conner, asked and the children nodded.
"Then let's go," Frazer said as he held onto Alexander's hand and they went into the tent. The young lady at the entrance told them that they had just opened the children's entertainment tent and they were the first family to go inside. The children enjoyed themselves as Jamie smiled and Zoe ran to him, hugging him.
"Are you enjoying yourself?" he asked and she nodded.
"This is a lot better than the games we went tae see last year," Zoe said and he frowned.
"What was wrong with those?"
"They were boring, Daddy," she said and he gasped.
"Why were they boring?" he asked with a hurt look on his face.
"Because it rained an' most of the games were cancelled."
"Dad," Ian said as he walked closer and had a clipboard in his hand. "I went tae the tent where they're doing the solo bagpipe competition and got your application."
Nodding, Jamie took the clipboard from him then started filling the application out, handing it back to Ian. Ian walked away as Zoe tugged on Jamie's kilt and he looked down at her.
"Are you scared, Daddy?" she asked.
"No," Jamie said, shaking his head. Taking her hand, they went to find Jenna and Jamie smiled, swinging Zoe's hand back and forth.
Jenna stood at the end of the row as they sat down and sat down on the seat at the end of the row. A large stage was at the back of the tent as the contestants for the solo bagpipe competition sat on the stage and Jamie sat at the end to the right of the stage. He nodded to her as the first piper stood up and started playing. One by one, the pipers played until the young man that was sitting to Jamie's right stood up and walked to the microphone stand. Closing his eyes, the piper started playing and a few people winced at the sour notes.
"Bugger, he sounds like he's killing a goose!" Conner thought as they smiled and Frazer closed his eyes. Suddenly a cartoon version of the piper appeared in their heads as he walked onto the stage and was holding a cartoon goose under his arm. It had white feathers, orange feet and a orange bill and it blinked its black eyes. Taking a deep breath, the piper placed the goose's bill into his mouth when he blew into its beak and the eyes bugged out. The children giggled as their mothers hushed them and Frazer smiled. The cartoon piper kept blowing air into the cartoon goose while it expanded until it was the size of a medium size beach ball and the children giggled inside their heads. Suddenly the cartoon piper started squeezing the cartoon goose as it started honking louder and louder then looked at the cartoon piper, folded its wings over its chest. It reached up when it bit the cartoon piper's nose and the cartoon piper dropped the cartoon goose to the ground. Flicking its chin up, the cartoon goose walked away while the cartoon piper sat on the ground and the large cartoon bump on his nose was pulsating up and down. The children giggled softly when the piper finished and the people applauded.
"You are just as bad as my dad," Angel thought as Frazer shrugged and she kissed his cheek.
Jenna smiled when Jamie stood up and walked to the microphone stand. Closing his eyes, Jamie started playing as his fingers moved over the holes of the chanter and the audience sat in awe. Jenna felt the tears rolling down her cheeks as she smiled and wiped the tears from her eyes. Jamie finished to silence as he looked at the audience when they stood up and applauded. Softly smiling, Jamie bowed then sat down and placed his bagpipes on his lap. The winners were awarded by grade when they came to Jamie's group and Jenna crossed her fingers. No one was stunned when the judge announced that Jamie had won as Frazer, Angus, Robert, Ian and Conner cheered and whistled and Jamie softly laughed.
The room was quiet while Jamie sat against the pillows and looked at the ribbon they had given him. He had never won a piper competition before as he smiled and placed the ribbon on the nightstand. Turning the light off, he slid down until he was lying on his back and Jenna moved closer, placing her head on his chest. His hearts thumped soft and steady in his ear as she gently stroked his chest and he picked up her hand, kissing her knuckles.
"That was a fun day," she said as he nodded and gently stroked her arm.
"I still cannae believe I won! I never won a competition in my life!" he said and she kissed his chest.
"What was that song you were playing? I never heard of it before."
"That's because I made it up."
"What was the song about?"
"It was aboot me, basically. The first part was aboot my childhood then the Battle of Culloden then traveling with your dad then my accident then living my life without memories then meeting you then getting my memories back then my life with you," he said as the song started playing in her head and she closed her eyes. Images floated through her mind as she sighed and Jamie felt the tears trickling onto his skin. "Was it that bad?"
"No, it was that good!" she whispered then climbed on top of him and softly laid on top of him. Kissing his lips, Jenna smiled when he reached over and turned the light off, causing the room to become dark. Suddenly someone knocked on the door as she smiled and placed her face on his chest.
"Pa-paw, can I come in?" Alexander asked while the door handle wiggled up and down and Jenna softly giggled.
"Why do you want tae come in?" Jamie asked.
"Because Daddy's snoring an' I cannae sleep," he said and Jamie could barely see Jenna's face as she smiled at him. Sighing, she got off of him then got up and headed for the door. Opening the door, she looked down at Alexander and smiled. Taking his hand, they walked into the bedroom and she closed the door behind them.