They were fighting again. It had all started after he had dropped Jack back off in Cardiff. He had sent the Tardis back to the time vortex and was trying to decide where to go, when Rose had come into the room.
"So when are we going to have more children?" She had asked casually.
"We're not," He had replied.
"That's it, case closed, no discussion. Just no."
"Yep."
"Why not," She had asked.
"So Rose, where do you want to go?" He had asked avoiding her question.
"Why not, Doctor."
"Anywhere, all of space and time, it's your choice."
"Answer me." She had demanded.
He sighed and had ran his hands through his hair. He motioned to the pilot chair and she sat down and stared at him, waiting still.
"You know I love you and Kiam," He began and she nodded. "You also know I wouldn't trade Kiam for anything, but I wouldn't have brought him into the universe if I had been thinking clearly."
He had seen the hurt and the tears in her eyes. He put his hand on her shoulder and she had pulled away and turned her head away. He had gently place his hand on her chin and turned her back to face him. "Rose, we can't protect another child. Our life is too dangerous, I thought I had killed Kiam three times before he was two."
"You'll have me." She had said stubbornly. "I can help protect them."
"No," He said firmly and had turned back to the console.
She had dropped it for a couple of days but she wouldn't let it go. He tried to be nice to her and had taken her to Arcadia, Women's wept and New, New York, but they always came back to the argument.
He landed the Tardis at the park outside of the Powell Estate. "Rose" He called and she came to the door to enter the control room and leaned against the door frame. "Rose, outside that door is the Powell estate." Her face grew sad and tears formed in her eyes.
"Why have you b-brought me her." she stuttered.
"She's in there Rose, you can go and talk to her." He knew he was breaking his own rules bringing her here and he still remembered what had happened when he had brought her to see her father. He hoped he wasn't bring the end of the world again by bringing her. Rose starts to head to the door with Kiam. "Wait," he goes and takes Kiam from her.
"Rose this is before Kiam was born, but after you told her you were pregnant. Do you remember?"
She nodded. "She begged me to come home and talk to her, but we never did." Her eyes lit up as she realized what he was giving her and she rushed into his arms and squeezed him tightly. "Thank you."
"Now remember Rose. You can't tell her anything about Pete's world or the ghost."
"I know," and she left the Tardis quickly. He watched her on the screen as she ran across the park and out of sight.
When she returned later that afternoon, she looked happier then when she left.
"Mum says you're a coward, for not facing her." She teased him. "But she agrees with you, Time traveling is no way to raise a child and she wants me to settle down and live with her. She also wants to know when you are going to make an honest woman out of me."
"I-I-I," He sputtered and she walked over and kissed him on the cheek.
"Think about it." So he did.
He thought about it as he rescued her from the Silurians who resided deep under the Earth. He had arrived just in time to save her from being dissected alive. He had hoped that the Silurians and the humans could live in harmony on Earth together but after the negotiations fell through, he had made everybody there promise to spread the story.
"A thousand years to sort the planet out." He had told them. "To be ready. Pass it on. As legend, or prophesy, or religion, but somehow make it known. This planet is to be shared."
He thought about it as they raced to the doors of the Tardis trying to escape another queen who wanted him dead and then laughing with Rose as he told her about Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth the first had declared him, her sworn enemy.
He thought about it as he lay with her that night and felt her body move with his and then as he held her with her head rested on his chest, his fingers gently stroking her hair. He kissed the top of her head and she sighed.
He began to plan how he would propose.