After everyone had gone to bed, he wandered to the medical bay. It was where he had been spending majority of his nights. He needed to understand why Rose's side had healed. He had run through everything he could think of, from him healing her without realizing it to pregnancy and then the really long shot that the universe was really just paying him back. He had every scan he had ever done on her and had them lined up in front of him looking for a difference. He had run scans on her several times during their time together. He wanted to find if something in her cells had changed. He saw subtle changes but nothing that would result in her being able to heal. Still not finding one he headed to the console and took the Tardis back to earth.

He landed her right in the middle of Jack and Ianto's living room, and not bothering to grab his coat rushed off. "Jack," he called out.

"Doctor," Jack responded rubbing his eyes. He was wearing only a pair of pajama pants and had them sitting low on his hips as he stared at the Doctor "Some people sleep at night."

"I need your help." He said grabbing Jack's bare arm and dragging him onto the Tardis and to the medical bay. He put him in front of the scans. "I don't understand..." He started.

"I think they are medical scans." Jack said jokingly.

"I know that." He glared at Jack as he missed the joke. "I don't understand how she healed herself. Take a look." He sat down and stared intently at Jack as Jack looked over the scans. Finally, Jack turned to look at him.

"I don't know." Jack told him.

-DW-

He landed the Tardis on Koorharn and turned to look at Amelia. "Rule one don't wander off. Rule two if these two wander off continue to follow rule one." He explained to Amelia. He hoped for once he would get someone who understood the whole, "Don't wander off thing." He had been traveling time and space for awhile now and nobody he had picked up yet, seemed to understand his most basic rule. He saw Amelia look at Rose and they shared a mischievous look. "Rule three, if you do wander off try not to get in trouble. Rule four... Oi." He stopped as Rose helped Kiam into his coat. "You could pretend to pay attention."

"We could," Rose said handing Amelia a coat and heading to the door. "But where's the fun in that." She grabbed a pair of ice skates and stepped off the Tardis. The mineral lake glistened against the snow and he walked up to it and took out his sonic. He scanned the lake to make sure the ice was thick enough to skate on.

"Is it safe." Rose asked him as he checked the readouts.

"Yeah." He told her still looking at the screwdriver. He watched as she carefully stepped out on the ice holding Kiam's hand tightly. Amelia was holding on to the back of her coat following slowly after them.

He stood on the edge and scanned Rose, then checked the results. They still came back as normal. He shook his sonic screwdriver and then scanned her again. They still came back as normal.

"Come on Doctor," She called out as Kiam lost his balance and pulled the three of them down. He sat down and put his skates on. He skated out to them and helped Kiam and Amelia up. As he tried to pull Rose up, she pulled him down on top of her. He kissed her on the tip of her nose, before rolling off and standing himself up again. Carefully he tried to stand her up and she pulled him down again laughing. Finally on the third attempt she made it to her feet.

"Follow me." Taking Rose's hand in one hand and Amelia's in the other, Rose held Kiam's tightly, he led them across the lake slowly. Until they saw a small resort in the distance. As they got closer it revealed that the building was made completely out of ice.

"It's beautiful." Amelia said in awe.

"Welcome to the Ice Palace." He announced. They made it to the edge of the ice and took off their skates. He led them to the building and opened the door. Inside everything was made of ice as well. From the reception desk sitting in the corner to the couch in the waiting area. An ice fountain was the centerpiece of the room. Rose gasped as she moved towards it. Stretching high to the ceiling a phoenix like bird spread its wings, rising from ice flames. It's mouth open wide the water fell from the tips of the flames down into the fountain base below.

Leading them away from the fountain he took them back towards the dining room. The dining room had furniture made of ice and ice chanders lit the room.

"How do they keep the ice from melting?" Rose whispered.

"Oh just your basic manipulation of the water crystals..." She put a finger to his lips.

"That was rhetorical." She stated with a smile.

"Family of four." He told the waitress holding up the psychic paper. She nodded. "Follow me." and led them to a table. He pulled Rose's chair out and she sat down as the kids scrambled up on their chairs. He ordered hot chocolate and then looked at the menu.

"They have soup, won't that melt the ice?" Amelia asked him.

"No, the food isn't served in the ice, it is served in clear glass made to resemble the ice."

After dinner, he took them out back to the gardens, where Ice roses decorated the paths and trees draped with ice icicles stood pack from the paths. As night fell the icicle flashed various colors lighting up the garden and making the roses look as though they were dancing. Music played softly adding to the illusion that the garden had come to life. Rose gripped his hand tightly and he squeezed it back pulling her close to him. He looked at her face and saw the wonder and beauty as she watched the illusion. He felt tears in his eyes as the thought crossed his mind again that he had almost lost her and missed this. He looked down at Kiam who was leaning against Rose and though his eyes were filled with wonder, he was yawning.

"I think it's time we went home," He whispered in Rose's ear.

As they headed back to the Tardis Rose carried Kiam and he carried Amelia, both children were sound asleep. They took the longer, slower path around the outside of the lake, not daring to cross the ice. When they reached the Tardis he took Amelia to her room and laid her down on the bed and covered her before exiting her room and heading across the hall to where Rose was watching Kiam sleep.

"How about we extend the definition of one trip." He whispered to Rose.

"Are you sure?" She asked him curiously.

"I am. I was also thinking, we could add another one of our own." He said seductively as he picked her up and carried her to bed.