Stopping first at a little toy store, he bought Kiam a stuffed bear and put him in the back of a shopping trolley. Laughing the duo raced around the city gathering miscellaneous pieces.
"That one daddy," Kiam pointed at a bike wheel laying bent in the gutter.
"Perfect." He picked it up and added it to the growing mess. "That should just be about it for tonight. Time for you to get some sleep."
"Not tired." Kiam protested as he yawned.
"No, you never are," He chuckled and pushed the cart up to the flat. A cat yowled in protest at the noise and he scolded the cat. "Don't get comfortable."
Together they carried everything inside and laid it on the floor beside the bed. "Right sleep." He hit himself in the head with the screwdriver and then rubbed the spot he hit. Feeling his pockets he pulled out a toothbrush. "Go brush your teeth." Kiam disappeared out of the room. He came back a minute later and the Doctor examined his teeth before sending him out to brush them again. When he returned for the second time, Kiam climbed on the bed and laid down with the teddy bear in his arms. The Doctor tucked him in and then laid beside him humming an old Gallifreyan song. He continued humming long after Kiam was asleep and he had begun his work.
-DW-
The next morning he set Kiam up with breakfast in front of the telly before heading to take a shower. He was happily singing in the shower when there was a knock at the door.
"Doctor," Craig called through. "How long are you going to be in there?"
"Oh, sorry. I like a good soak." He called back, not really feeling sorry. He heard Craig mumble something "What did you say?"
Receiving no answer he tried again. "What did you say?" Quickly getting out of the shower he grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his waist before grabbing the sonic out of the tooth brush holder on the sink.
"Stay here Kiam," He stated as he hurried out into the hall. Standing beside Craig, he hits the button on the sonic to realize that he has in fact grabbed an electric toothbrush.
"What happened, what's going on?" He asks Craig frantically.
"Is that my toothbrush?" Craig asks rather then answering his question.
"You spoke to the man upstairs?" He inquires.
"Yeah."
"What did he look like?" He heads towards the stairs.
"More normal than you do at the moment, mate. What are you doing?"
"I thought you might be in trouble." He answers indignantly.
"Thanks. Well, if I ever am, you can come and save me with my toothbrush." Craig chuckles and then heads back into the flat as the phone rings. He shakes his head at Craig as he starts to head up the stairs. He hears the door open behind him and turns around to see a young female entering.
"Hello." She says sounding confused.
"Hello. The Doctor." He responds, "You must be Sophie." He hurries past her and back into the flat. As he walked into the flat his phone rang as well.
"Hello Rose," He answered sounding concerned. "Is something wrong?"
"Besides I am stuck in the Tardis," Rose asked sarcastically.
"Yes, besides that."
"No, I called John and he is going to bring some clothes over for Kiam." Rose informed him.
"I can get him clothes." He replied.
"I know, but John is already on his way."
"Doctor, do you play football," Craig asked.
"Hang on, Rose," He turns to Craig. "Yes, blokes play football. I'm good at football, I think." He tells Craig.
"You've saved my life. The spare kit's just in the bottom drawer. " Craig smiles and turns away.
"Better get dressed." He says and heads into the room and shuts the door. "Rose you still there?"
"Nowhere else to go."
"So, I'm going out. If I hang about the house all the time, him upstairs might get suspicious and notice me."
"Football. Okay, well done. That is normal." She congratulates him.
"Yeah, football. All outdoorsy." He rolls his eyes.
-DW-
They head down to the park and he finds out much to his surprise he is actually good at football. John phones him during the match and a short time later appears at the park. He smiles at John who shakes his head and sits down next to Kiam. Winning the game for the team he is celebrating when one of the other players comes up to him.
"You are so on the team. Next week we've got the Crown and Anchor. We're going to annihilate them."
"Annihilate? No. No violence, do you understand me? Not while I'm around. Not today, not ever." He gets in the mans face. "I'm the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm," He hears John chuckling and looks at him before turning back to the player. "And you basically meant beat them in a football match, didn't you?"
"Yeah."
"Lovely. What sort of time?" He asks. Craig opens a can of drink and gets sprayed with the foam. Then it repeats again and again. Only John, Kiam and himself are unaffected. He quickly calls Rose.
"Rose?"
"It's happening again. Worse." She says and yelps as she is tossed about.
"What does the scanner say?"
"A lot of nines." She responds and then screams and the line goes silent.
"Rose," He panics. "Are you there? Rose, answer me." He feels a comforting hand on squeeze his shoulder and is thankful John is there.
"I'm here." She finally responds. "I just got thrown down but I'm okay."
"And the baby."
"Fine, I landed on my knees."
"Oh, thank heavens. I thought for a moment the Tardis had been flung off into the vortex with you two inside it, lost forever." He said sadly.
"What, you mean that could actually happen?" Rose asked. "You have got to get me out of here."
"I will don't worry. John and I will stop at nothing to save you and our baby." He looked at John who had picked up Kiam, with his free arm and John nodded at him. "How are the numbers?"
"All fives."
"Fives? Even better. Still, it means the effect's almost unbelievably powerful and dangerous, but don't worry." He tells her. "Just hang on and keep you and our daughter safe."
"I'm having a girl?" Rose asked excitedly.
"Yes," He replied. "Be safe." He hung up and then turned to John. "We have work to do.
"Whose this?" Craig asked coming over with Sophie.
"Craig, my brother John. John my flatmate Craig." He introduced the two and watched as they shook hands.
"Is that how people greet each other these days?" He asked John and John sighed.
"You're hopeless sometimes." John told him. The group headed back to the flat where John, Kiam and him disappeared in to his room to start work on the scanner.
"This would be easier if we could use the sonic," John huffed.
"Yes, but not nearly as fun." He laughed.
"Did our IQ go down with this regeneration as well as our age?"
"Hey." He laughed as there was a knock at the door. He opened the door a crack and poked his head out. "Hello"
"Hey, man. Er, Sophie's coming round tonight and I was wondering if you could give us some space?" Craig asked hesitantly.
"Oh, don't mind us. You won't even know we're here." He responded as he hears a bang behind him and Kiam say oops. "That's the idea at least," He looks back to see a traffic cone on the floor along with the wheel he had just finished mounting. Shaking his head he closed the door. The night progressed and while John placed some finishing touches on the scanner, he crawled out to work on the wiring.
"I think that we should" Craig says as he pops up from behind the sofa.
"Hello." He says happily to the pair.
"What?" Craig asks him annoyed.
"Whoops. Sorry. Don't worry, I wasn't listening. In a world of my own down there." He lies.
"I thought you three were going out?"
"Just re-connecting all the electrics. It's a real mess." He holds up a couple of wires and a regular screwdriver.
"They really are just on their way out." Craig tells Sophie.
"No, I don't mind. I mean, if you don't mind." Sophie says.
"I don't mind." Craig replies missing the point. "Why would I mind?"
"Then stay. Have a drink with us." Sophie tells him.
"I'll get the others," He smiles and goes into his room, coming out a short time later with John and Kiam.
"Sorry, he misses the point sometimes." John explains. "I got that side from, I guess you could call her my mum." John picks up the wine bottle and pours two glasses before handing one to the Doctor and sitting down with the other. Kiam climbs up on his lap and he cuddles him as John continues to work on the wiring.
"Life can seem pointless, you know, Doctor. Work, weekend, work, weekend. And there's six billion people on the planet doing pretty much the same." Sophie says.
"Six billion people. Watching you two at work, I'm starting to wonder where they all come from." He jokes and Sophie looks at him confused.
"What do you mean by that?" She wonders.
"So then, the call center. That's no good, then." He says.
"Be nice," John warns and the asks Sophie. "What do you really want to do?"
"Don't laugh. I only ever told Craig about it. I want to work looking after animals. Maybe abroad? I saw this orangutan sanctuary on telly."
"What's stopping you?" He wonders.
"She can't. You need loads of qualifications." Craig says.
"Yeah. Plus it's scary. Everyone I know lives round here. Like, Craig got offered a job in London. He didn't take it."
"What's wrong with staying here? I can't see the point of London." Craig asks.
"Well, perhaps that's you, then. Perhaps you'll just have to stay here, secure and a little bit miserable, till the day you drop." John tells them.
"Better than trying and failing, eh?" He adds.
"You think I'd fail?"
"Everybody's got dreams, Sophie. Very few are going to achieve them, so why pretend?" He picks up and finishes off his third glass of wine before pouring himself a forth.
"You've had enough." John warns. "You know how you get when you drink to much."
"I'm fine." He tells John and then looks at Sophie again. "Perhaps, in the whole wide universe, a call center about is where you should be."
"Why are you saying that? That's horrible."
"Is it true?" John asks her.
"Of course it's not true. I'm not staying in a call center all my life. I can do anything I want." She states and the two of them smile at her. "Oh, yeah. Right. Oh, my God. Did you see what they just did?"
"Are you going to live with monkeys now?" Craig asks her.
"It's a big old world, Sophie. Work out what's really keeping you here, eh?" He tells her as he stands up with Kiam who has fallen asleep in his arms.
"I don't know." Sophie admits.