After the rescue from Demons Run, Amy and Rory decided to take a little break back on earth, with the nice house The Doctor had given them back home, to give the doctor, Rose and Annie to bond a little as a family, before they were ready to all travel again. But instead of bonding, rose just stood in front of the mirror in her familiar TARDIS bedroom for the third or fourth time today, in a loose crop top and knickers staring at her body almost in disgust. It was hard to believe that the little snoozing bundle in The Doctor's old crib barely a foot or two away from her had caused her to look like this. Fat, fat fat fatty fat fat. She thought to herself, as she turned sideways and pulled faces.
The Doctor , wondering where she had gotten too, found himself outside their bedroom and casually entered without bothering to knock, and being sort of surprised at Rose standing there in hardly any clothes. A good surprise, but a surprise all the same.
"You alright there love?" he asked, with an eyebrow raised.
"Not really," Rose sighed, facing forward in the mirror again.
"What's wrong?" The Doctor asked, genuinely concerned, entering the room fully and closing the door behind them gently, as not to wake Annie.
Rose sighed again, "Just look at me! Eugh, when did I get so fat!" she said exasperated.
"Fat?!" The Doctor shouted, before being given a stern look and a 'shhhh' from Rose, gesturing to the baby sleeping finally, in the crib.
"Sorry," The Doctor said, quitter and walking slightly closer to Rose. "But you are most definitely not fat!"
"Yes I am Doctor; you're just saying that to make me feel better! Look at my bum, it's awful!" she said, glancing back at her reflection.
"Oi, I love your bum!" The Doctor exclaimed "Nice tattoo too," he added with a wink as he stepped behind her, and placed his hands around her waist and midriff. Rose couldn't help but shiver against the touch of his cool hands against her bare skin, and snuggle into his embrace, but still didn't feel convinced that her reflection was in any way appealing.
"You're just saying that because you have to," Rose said, but slightly more convinced this time. The Doctor leant his face into the crook of her neck, and gave it a light kiss. "Rose Tyler, you are the most exquisite being that I have ever seen"
Rose smiled and leant into him, "I bet you say that to all the girls you get pregnant" she joked
"Nope, only you get special treatment." He joked back, giving her another light kiss, on the shoulders this time "Because you have given me the most amazing, impossible, beautiful child I could ever have hoped for."
Rose smiled again at this, and they both turned around to gaze at their daughter, asleep safe and sound finally, in The Doctor's old crib, dressed in a little pink baby grow with little white scratch mittens on and a little tuft of brown hair.
"She really is beautiful isn't she doctor?" Rose said, with a happy sigh, clutching his arms around her waist tighter.
"Yeah, she really is." The Doctor said with a smile "I still can't believe she's really ours, we're going to see her every single day for the rest of our lives."
"She's going to grow up so quickly"
"We can put a swing set in the TARDIS garden"
"We'll probably need to put some stair gates around the more dangerous rooms when she starts toddling"
"Yep and fix her a car seat type thing so she doesn't fall around in the TARDIS"
"And we can go to this street market on Barcelona, oh Rose they do the cutest little baby converses that she can wear."
"We can take her to visits all sorts of alien worlds as she grows up"
"Oh I can teach her all the important time lord knowledge"
"And earth knowledge too,"
"I can help her strengthen her natural telepathy"
"And I can help her harness the bad wolf/TARDIS parts in her"
"And she can have a cute little bowtie, ooh! Or a fez"
"You are not putting my daughter in a fez!"
"Oi, she's mine too!"
Rose just chuckled, "Will you listen to us?" she said "We've gone all domestic, who would've thought it"
"Well," The Doctor said "A baby is about as domestic as you can get I suppose."
"She's going to be amazing isn't she?"
"Rose, she is going to be fantastic and brilliant and absolutely perfect."
And she would.
oOo
Epilogue
The Doctor, Rose and Annie walked down the street, smiling and laughing in the summer sunshine, until they came to Jack and Jenny's house. Being their greatest assets, Jenny and Jack always had a good salary at torchwood, and then when torchwood fell they inherited any remaining cash. So Jack being Jack bought the biggest most beautiful country mansion he could possibly afford. It was tall and bricked, and ivy entwined around the windows and the door gracefully.
It was nice touch, The Doctor thought, painting the door TARDIS blue.
Annie was now four, and had mastered the art of getting her own way with absolutely everything and anything. She had light brown hair, which was naturally curly and fell out around her shoulders. Her eyes were a hazel-brown colour, with flecks of gold swirling inside of them, which Rose and The Doctor assumed was the time vortex. Annie was a remarkable child. Unlike Rose, she could ultimately harness the power of the bad wolf on command, but had only used it once or twice. Even though she was extremely young, she understood the power she welded, and avoided using it. Rose was teaching a lot to her though, and she was a quick learner.
The Doctor and Rose did quite enjoy the domestic life, and once Annie came into the picture they thought they may as well take it all the way. By the time Annie was one The Doctor had gotten a ring on her finger, only to be followed by one for each of them another year later at their wedding.
And after the doctor had forgiven Jack for getting his first daughter pregnant, they did visit often and did cute domestic things and The Doctor warned Jack about children and Rose took Jenny out shopping for cute little baby things and then eventually when Jack and Jenny had their little boy, Jacob, they would all go out and do cute little family things.
So it was a day like this when they would decide to visit, and Rory and Amy would come along and chat about what they were doing now that they didn't travel much, and they would all sit out in the massive garden together, chatting and laughing and bickering with each other. And The Doctor would always bring up the story of how Rose got them banned from Greece and they would all laugh when Annie reminded him that he had told that story on exactly fourteen separate occasions and he would sigh and say that he was getting old and Rose would give him a kiss on the cheek and say that she loved him anyway.
Because she did. She really did. And they all loved each other, and the memories they made together as one big time-travelling family were ones that Rose would cherish forever. But she did wish that she could see her mother, and show her how amazing she had done in her absence. She wanted to see Pete, her father and she wanted to just hug them again, for at least one more time. She wouldn't even mind seeing the metacrisis, and she hoped that she had become a good man.
But Rose was snapped out of her musings by a slight zapping sound, and then a flash. And suddenly her mother and Pete were there, standing in front of them.
Rose and The Doctor both immediately stood up, The Doctor holding Annie in his arms. And Rose hesitantly asked "Mum?" hoping that this was real.
"Hello sweetheart," Jackie said, grinning and tearing up. Rose immediately started to run towards them, but The Doctor quickly stopped her. "No Rose, look at how they're flickering slightly, their just images." He said.
"He's right, The Doctor I assume that is, we're just images. John set this up" Pete said, gesturing to the side, and then suddenly the metacrisis, john, stepped into view.
"Oh look it's me!" The Doctor exclaimed happily. "Oh I miss being like that, all tall and slim. Foxy too!"
"You better believe it," John said, giving him a wink.
"Doctor do you mind flirting with yourself, my mums here- sort of!" Rose exclaimed
"Right sorry, proceed."
"Oh Rose love, I've missed you so much, it's been about two years here, but judging by the little girl with your eyes in that idiots arms, I'm guessing it's been longer for you!"
"Yeah it has, been quite a while" Rose said, tearing up slightly.
"We just wanted to make sure you were okay, with him. And we wanted to tell you that we love you." Pete said, smiling whilst wrapping his arm around Jackie.
"I can't believe you're really here." Rose said, feeling herself start to cry.
The Doctor stepped forwards and put his arm softly around Rose's waist to comfort her before turning his head to his daughter.
"Now Annie, say hi to your nan and granddad, and your uncle john- they live all the way in a parallel universe." He said, watching her eyes grow wide as she turned to the image.
"But daddy, you said that travel between parallel dimensions is impossible. I mean even the TARDIS can't do it, and it would take a lot. Wormhole refractors, cardinal jets, and you would have to totally re-calibrate the turbo dynamors"
"Well she's certainly got your gob hasn't she doctor?" Jackie said with a laugh.
"You better believe it Jackie," The Doctor said
"You better keep them both safe Doctor" Jackie said, her voice starting to break.
"You know I always will,"
"Yeah you will. And that's your good point doctor. I used to think you were terrible, but I know you'd do anything to keep my Rose safe, and that's all that matters to me."
The Doctor smiled, and hugged Rose a little tighter and felt Annie clutch to him slightly, laying her head on his shoulder.
"How long have we got?" Rose asked
"About forty seconds left."
Rose gasped, and felt herself start to cry.
"Am I ever gonna see you again?"
"You can't"
"I-I love you"
"We will always love you Rose. Remember that, look after my grandbaby, and that idiot, because I know he can lose himself a bit sometimes. But we love you."
"Goodbye mum,"
"Goodbye Rose."
And then the video went dead. And Rose clung to The Doctor like a baby, sobbing like nothing else mattered in the world, and Annie also snuggled into his neck more so he just smiled softly, giving both his girls a hug.
He would always keep them safe.
And that's it! I feel like I've wrapped it up pretty well, with the doomsday parallels and that and I'm happy with the ending. Because not only do I hope it will give you closure as a reader, it gives me closure as a writer. Also the Jenny Jack ficlet is still open for prompts if you want but yeah their child is a boy named Jacob. Review please xxx