Rose was craving pears. Out of all the foods in the universe, she wanted a pear. He couldn't decide if she truly craved them or she just wanted to see the look on his face when she announced she wanted one. To make matters worse the TARDIS was on her side. He spent a lot of time throwing pears out of his TARDIS, only to wake up the next morning to find that the fruit bowl on the counter had a pear in it, or to find Rose happily munching on one.

He even took extreme measures and took the TARDIS to a point in the future where pears had no longer existed. For thousands of years, people had forgotten what a pear looked or tasted like. He liked to think that he had something to do with them being wiped out and couldn't wait to find out how he had done it. But that wasn't the point the point was, she still found a pear.

"Are you sure the baby is mine?" he asked her at the breakfast table one morning, as him and Kiam ate bananas in oatmeal and she munched on a pear.

"No, it's Jacks," She teased and he narrowed his eyes at her. "Going to go all oncoming storm on me." she asked raising her eyebrows at him.

He sighed. "No," he mumbled, taking another bite of oatmeal.

"Good because I was joking," she told him.

He nodded absently and watched as Kiam tried to shove a particularly large bite into his mouth. Half of it fell off the spoon and on to his pajamas. He grinned at his dad as he tried to chew.

"Smaller bites, or you'll choke." Rose scolded.

"Wot choe," Kiam responded.

"And don't talk with your mouth full, that's rude," she added. "I swear three days alone with your dad and John and you forget all your manners."

"Hey." He cried out indignantly.

"It's true," she grumbled.

Even though he believed her, when she said the baby wasn't Jack's, he still sent Kiam to play in his room, while he took Rose down to the medibay.

"What's this all about suddenly?" she asked him suspiciously.

"Just want to check to make sure our daughter is healthy." He told her as he bounced around grabbing things.

"And that she has two hearts?"

He blushed. "No, because even then she might be a Time Lord. River doesn't have two hearts."

"Might?"

"You know what I mean. Now up on the bed and lift your shirt." He pointed at the nearest bed. She climbed up on it and rolled her shirt up before laying back against the pillows. He took a hand held scanner and held it above her stomach in one hand. His other hand was quickly tapping the screen and typing. She heard an audible sigh of relief.

"She has two hearts." Rose guessed.

"Yes and she is developing normal. Just like Kiam, she is developing at the rate of a human, rather then a Time Lord though."

"Am I going to have her early too?"

He lowered the scanner. "We will be more careful this time. But I will be honest with you. You might go into labor early but we will do everything possible to prevent it. Okay." Rose nodded. He took her hand and kissed it.

"You want to see her?" he asked and then turned the scanner so Rose could look at the ultra sound of their daughter. The twin heartbeats showing on the scanner were impossibly fast but since the Doctor didn't seemed worried, she guessed it was normal.

"I want to do weekly checkups, until she is born."

"Is something wrong with her?" Rose asked fearfully as she glanced back to the extremely fast hearts.

"No, but I want to make sure nothing goes wrong this time. A Time Lord/human birth can get complicated. That is part of the reason Kiam was premature. The stress was a small factor, but he still may have been born early regardless. It is something I want to prevent this time around."

"Okay."

"And just to be safe, no more pears in the mean time." He took the scanner from her and printed off a picture for Rose to have.

"But what if pears keep her healthy. I didn't have pears the last time." She pouted.

"I offer to give you all of space and time, and you want a pear." he threw his hands up in the air, as he walked out of the medical bay. "The things I do for you Rose Tyler."