Chapter Four

The Curator fell on his butt, holding his bleeding nose. He glared at her, "What was that for?" He pulled a tissue from a pocket and held it to his nose. River smiled, "You naughty boy, try and take a guess. Better?" The questioned was aimed at Lilith who was smiling to River. "That felt good." She looked to the Curator who was staring at her in stunned silence with the bloody cloth to his nose. Lilith was the one to be stunned a moment later as he put his hand to his nose and it glowed with a golden energy. She watched as he removed his hand to reveal a perfectly healthy unbroken nose. Lilith let out a frustrated growl at him. That took the wind from her sails to see that man healing himself with that golden light.

The Curator stood, walking over. He looked to her, reaching out toward her tummy. She held still letting him touch it. He was in slight awe. "I honestly had no idea. My current regeneration is supposed to have a defect where I can't have children. Honestly I'm so sorry. I didn't realize Lilith. I would have brought protection." Lilith took the apology, "Well I was using birth control. I thought that would work. But apparently only with human men." The Curator looked to the other woman. "You are?" River walked over, shaking his hand. "Professor River Song. I'm married to your son. I stumbled on her by accident when weeping angels attacked her. We've been stuck together with glue ever since. Speaking of which we really should go inside as it's about to rain."

The three of them walked to a café not far from the hospital. River bought them all drinks, coffee for her and the Curator, and milk for Lilith with caramel in it. Lilith watched the Curator now as they all sat together. He looked immensely uncomfortable. Finally she asked, "So what is your name? And what is going to happen to me now."

The Curator shrugged, "Few people who didn't grow up with me know my name. My title is all you really need Lilith. It's given to Time lords of a higher station when they graduate from the Academy. We pick a name that is becoming for us. I'm the curator, one who seeks knowledge and seeks to preserve history. I run a museum for Tardis models."

Lilith thought about what he said. The Doctor… why did her son choose that name? She could only figure she would learn in time. "So what is a Tardis? River hasn't told me much."

River clarified, "I'm from her son's future. Any information given by me could cause paradoxes and even possibly change my husband's future. And sorry but I happen to like the way he is."

The Curator nodded, "Quite right too. The Tardis is Time and Relative Dimension in Space. It's a time traveling machine with an entire dimension inside the walls. And I think now that I've found you… I'm going to take you to my home world Galifrey. He should be born there. And being born in a hospital there means less chance of there being complications from the birth."

Lilith figured that made sense. But her heart jumped a few beats as she thought about the chances of that. She was going to go to another planet! Not just hopping around the world with River.

River…

Lilith turned to her, "are you coming with us?"

River shook her head, "I have a date in Utah. And this is where we will part ways. You will be safe there from his enemies."

The Curator frowned, "Enemies? Why does my son have enemies?"

River smiled to him, "Spoilers."

Lilith was the one to clarify this time, "I'm being chased by all sorts of things. We recently escaped Sontaruns. Weird potato men."

The Curator laughed at that expression, giving Lilith a happy grin. She smiled back at him, once again flustered by his good looks. Were all Time lords this good looking?

"So when are we leaving?"

The Curator looked to the clock, "In about twenty minutes. I told them to pick me up in the Tardis we are restoring in half an hour."

Lilith nodded, "The last time you were fixing one too right?"

The Curator nodded, "It's the same one. For me it's only been about four hours since I left you. Sorry I didn't stay overnight, but I didn't want to keep them waiting." Lilith was burning now. Her face was as red as she gave him a sharp glare. "Alright so what else can I expect from this pregnancy? River says I have about a month left before I pop."

The Curator nodded to that, "That's about right. If your this far along then are you feeling him yet? He will develop a telepathic link with you before birth, so that he can learn all he can from you. He will understand any language you know, as well as know how to read, and even know names." Lilith had definitely felt something the last few days. There was some sort of music sometimes, or in the dark she would feel like someone had wrapped her in a big blanket of love, like she was being hugged. She had even heard someone calling her momma. It was not an unpleasant experience. "Yeah I've felt him. I thought I was going crazy."

The Curator smiled a little and said, "Other than that it should be a fairly normal pregnancy by human standards. Humans are a lovely race, so adaptive. Even though your pregnancy is only three short months, you look perfectly healthy."

Lilith laughed at that, "I've also been eating about eight meals a day and still losing weight. That baby needs some serious calories."

This had River chuckling. Lilith had indeed been eating like a monster. Lilith had no idea where River got the money to pay for all of her food. The Curator laughed as well, "Yes well expecting mothers do eat enough for five people. The babies grow fast and need as much food as they can get. I think you've probably got regenerative energy from the baby speeding up your metabolism. Which means more than likely you'll live longer than a typical human. Not by much though, just around eighty years or so longer in good health."

Lilith loved this as soon as she heard it. More time to watch her new son grow up. She wanted to see as much as possible of his life. Sometimes Lilith would watch River as she would check the health of the baby. The faraway look that River got in her eyes, like she was reliving some fantastic old adventure with the Doctor, truly made Lilith want to know just how fantastic her son was going to be.

Finally they all got up and headed for where the Tardis was supposed to land. They waited around for another half an hour.

Then an hour passed.

Another two hours went by.

The Curator came to realize that the Helmic Regulator was not going to bring the Tardis back any time soon.