Chapter Five

A month later and the Curator was beginning to think that they might never get back to his home. He had gone from enjoying the human things to complaining constantly about the various problems with humanity. Lilith was constantly cranky. At the moment she was sitting on a bed resting her swollen feet in some ice, eating a massive candy bar. When River came in with burgers and fries, Lilith groaned. "I really miss fries. My son hates them. He rants at me every time I try to eat them and I always end up sitting in the bathroom paying for it." River smiled, "Yeah sorry mummy dearest but your son never likes chips."

She handed over four burgers to the expectant mother. She was due any day now. So despite recently having to dodge plastic models called nestene, they were staying near a hospital. At the very least the Curator could be there and would make sure that the delivery went as smooth as possible. He wouldn't tell Lilith anything but she could tell he was worried about her giving birth in a human hospital instead of a Time Lord one.

Lilith began eating with as little grace as possible. She had long since given up on it. Yesterday alone she had eaten two full servings of biscuits and gravy, twelve eggs, fourteen sausages, and four cups of milk for breakfast. Then she had eaten an entire tall jar of pickles before lunch. For lunch she had three burgers, an entire subway foot long sandwich, and a milkshake. For dinner she had two steaks, a massive baked potato, broccoli, corn, gravy over the entire thing, and an entire party bucket of ice-cream. Then before she went to bed she had an entire gallon of milk.

Her son commanded and she obeyed when it came to what he wanted to eat. How could he even differentiate when he didn't have taste buds?

So Lilith sat eating her four burgers while River pulled out the bucket of deep fried chicken that Lilith was going to consume by herself. "Curator, she is eating quite a bit more recently."

The Curator was eating his own burger. "She is almost ready. Any day now she is going to go into labor. The baby is making a fast growth. The sugar will help his brain as it finishes growing, and his body is making the final developments before he will be ready to be born. He knows what his body needs so I imagine he demanded deep fried foods today?" Lilith nodded without speaking since her mouth full of food. She had gained almost an inch to her belly line overnight.

When dinner was done River cleaned everything up. Lilith sat with the bucket of chicken making her way slowly through it, watching the TV. The news was reporting on what had appeared to be a bomb that went off in the city. In truth that had been their latest run-in with the sontaruns. River took the food out. The smell of the food after Lilith had eaten it made the girl nauseous. River found a hotel worker nearby, tipping him and asking him to throw away the food for her. He was gracious as always since the staff had come to understand by now the situation with the expectant mother.

Lilith looked up as River came rushing in, panting like she had been running and fear in her eyes. The Curator looked up, "River what is wrong?" River looked to him, the fear gone. "Nothing, why do you ask?" The Curator frowned at her, "You came running in here like something scared you." River shrugged, "No nothing scared me. I just didn't want to leave you two alone. The way you two look at each other makes me wonder how long before my husband gets a sibling."

The Curator and Lilith looked to each other. They looked away quickly, both blushing like mad. They were indeed looking at each other funny. But Lilith was determined not to have another baby for a while after this one. She rubbed her tummy, smiling fondly at it. "Seriously though son, you need to come out now. I'm ready to not have swollen feet anymore. With all the running we do I need my health." She felt warm soft emotions rolling in the back of her mind. She had no idea if he understood her, but he liked it when she talked to him. She looked up at the tv and kept eating her chicken. She was so sick and tired of eating. Really, it was driving her crazy to constantly having to chew and chew and chew.

The Curator got up, walking out with River. It made him suspicious the way she was acting.

They both were gone for a few minutes when Lilith felt the greatest agony in her entire life. She cried out, holding her stomach.

In the back of her mind her son was getting excited. And she knew it was time. "River? Curator?" Her eyes watered as the contraction was over. She struggled out of bed, wincing at how much it hurt her still swollen feet. She moved toward the door. Where were they? Just as she reached the door it opened, "Guys I'm…" In walked three aliens. They had humungous heads and hands that seemed to be one long large digit with two smaller ones. They clicked and gave breathy raspy sounds. "Lilith. The woman who births the Doctor, shall never see the Doctor. Silence must fall."

She backed up, stumbling toward the bed. Another contraction hit her and she groaned, turning away to run for the bathroom.

Lilith walked to the bathroom, groaning as she held her stomach. The contractions hurt so badly. Where was River and The Curator? "River! The baby is coming! Oh god!" She sat down on the toilet, groaning in pain. She turned toward the door hearing footsteps, and yelled as she saw the strange men. "How did I forget you? How?"

Lilith screamed in terror.

River and the Curator walked back to the bedroom. Lilith wasn't in the bed. He walked to the open bathroom door, almost slipping in water. "What the…" River looked to her arm. "Curator! I know what attacked us!" On her arm was several tally marks. The Curator stumbled out, "Lilith is gone! And she has gone into labor!" River's eyes widened again. "How long do we have?" The Curator shook his head, "A couple hours at the most. The baby will come fast. Can you find her?" River brought up her arm. On it was the vortex manipulator. "I can track her with this. But when we find her we will be going up against the Silence. It's a genetically manipulated race that you forget as soon as you look at it." She typed onto the manipulator. "You're looking for a being with three hearts, one large and two smaller ones for a newborn." The machine beeped and trilled at her as it worked. Then it beeped again, "That's where? Thank you." She brought down her arm, looking to the Curator. They must have a teleport. The place they took her to is well beyond a few hours." The Curator swept toward her, "Let's go then!"

River then said, "If I use this then that's it. It will be all out of power. We won't be able to teleport her out of there." The Curator nodded, "Whenever the Tardis shows up again then we will charge it up for you. Now let's go!"

River and the Curator appeared on a street. It was such an ordinary place, humans walking back and forth. People hardly took notice of two people who appeared out of nowhere.

The Curator looked around, "So where are they?" River looked to the device, "I don't know… it's not sure where she is. It says one of the buildings but it must be shielded. We will just need to start banging on doors."

Lilith woke, feeling a little groggy. She looked to the horrible creatures that had taken her from her hotel room right after her water broke. They'd put her in a gown. Her arms were tied down, legs up in stirrups as she realized that her privates were now up in the air fully visible. She tried to tug her feet out but they were tied into the stirrups. "What's going on? What are you doing?" A beautiful woman stood nearby. She turned to Lilith, an eye patch over one eye. "Just getting ready for your baby of course." She pulled on gloves. Lilith groaned, crying out as she felt another contraction. Her fear didn't bother the baby. By this point she had taught him that just because they were afraid didn't mean they were about to die. The Curator taught her how, because if the baby regenerated in his angst then it could kill her or cause horrible mutations. "Where are River and the Curator? I have to find them! Let me go! I need a hospital!" The woman walked over, "I'm perfectly well trained in delivering children. You just need to sit back and relax." Lilith wiggled in her restraints, "Why do you want my baby? What will you do to him?"

The woman simply smiled, "After he is born we will purify him in a funeral pyre."

River was missing something. Normally she caught on quikly but right now she was scanning every house while Curator was looking in windows, knocking on doors, just doing anything he could to find Lilith. Both hearts were pumping furiously with his desperation. It'd been hours since they lost her. But the baby wasn't born yet, he would have felt that. How could they be so stupid and leave her alone like that? River finally said, "There is something wrong here. Can't you see it?" The Curator walked over, looking around. "Yeah… it feels like I don't want to see it. Like… a perception filter." Then his eyes glued onto one house. "The top floor!" He rushed toward the house. River pulled out a gun, shooting out the knob. They rushed up the steps, River ready as she kicked open the second door. The woman turned, the Silence attacking. But River began shooting.

Lilith shouted in relief, "River! Curator! Thank god!" The woman with the eye patch shouted, "Kill them!"

River then shouted, "Get away from my husband!"

She shot down Silence after Silence, wounding mostly and killing a couple. The Curator rushed over, pushing the woman out of the way. "How often are the contractions?"

Lilith groaned, "Every few minutes. Look out!" The Curator was hit in the back of the head by the woman with the eye patch. She then put her gun to Lilith's belly. "Put your gun down!" River turned, dropping her weapon. "You can't do this. Imagine all the people he saved. Imagine all the planets, solar systems alive because of him! You'll end the universe!" The woman cocked the weapon as two silence grabbed River. "Silence must fall when the question is asked. This has to be done."

Lilith was going to beg for her life, when she heard a sound. This sound brought hope to three people in the room. And fear to the others. In the moment of shock as the Tardis began to materialize, River leapt for her weapon. She fired killing the remaining silence in the room as well as shooting the eye patch woman. She walked over, putting her foot on the woman's stomach as she lay with a wounded shoulder. River aimed the gun as the woman said, "No… you won't kill me. You'll spare me because he would."

River smiled to the woman, "He isn't here yet is he?"

Lilith winced as River Song shot once. The bullet killed the woman in an instant. But she didn't have time to be horrified at how cold blooded River could be, because another contraction was coming. The Curator rushed to the door pounding on it. One of the crew poked his head out, "Sorry we are so late sir. We just can't get it working." The Curator shook his head, "Never mind that. We've got a baby incoming. Get the medical kit! And someone needs to charge up this woman's vortex manipulator!"

The Curator rushed over to Lilith. "Can you walk? I can't carry you. The Tardis will be a cleaner environment." Lilith nodded, "I think so. But we've got to hurry before another contraction."

He untied her straps, and helped her out off the table. River's vortex manipulator was charged by one of the crew. Three other Time lords rushed out a roll along bed into the main console room. River stroked the wall of the Tardis, "You will always come for him won't you?" The Curator led Lilith inside and she was laid down on the bed. The Curator rushed out to River, "Are you coming?" River smiled to him. "You know I can't. His future wife whom he hasn't met, yet is seeing his birth? The universe couldn't take it." She walked to the door, smiling to Lilith. "Goodbye Sweetie. Give him my love." She blew a kiss to Lilith before entering coordinates into the vortex manipulator. With a flash she was gone. Lilith smiled, "Goodbye River."

Then the next contraction hit. She screamed bloody murder now, as they were coming only seconds apart. The Curator got onto his knees as the Tardis doors shut. "Lilith the baby is almost ready. When the next contraction comes you need to push hard!" Lilith nodded, crying as she held the hand of a pale Time lord whom looked like he might very well pass out. Lilith used her breathing exercises, and then when the next contraction came she began to push hard. She groaned, face turning red.

The Curator said, "Just one more time Lilith. He's almost there. Now puuuuush!"

Lilith felt the next contraction and pushed as hard as she could, groaning.

The presence in her head was gone.

And then she heard crying.

A Time lord rushed over with warm towels and they began cleaning the baby up as The Curator said, "Oh Lilith, he's beautiful. He has your eyes and my nose." Lilith looked where they were but she couldn't see the baby from that angle. "Really? Can I hold him Curator?" The Curator nodded, "Almost done love." He helped them finish cleaning the baby up. A man came out from a back room holding a little rocking cradle made of old wood. "Found this in the back. God only knows how it got there. The previous owners of this Tardis never had children." There was a wire item hanging from the top with little stars on it.

The Curator carried over the baby as a couple Time lords helped Lilith sit up in the bed. She took the baby carefully in her arms, smiling at him. "So you were the one making mommy eat all that food?" The baby smiled at her, almost as if saying, 'Yes that was me.' Lilith looked up at the Curator, "Babies can't smile so soon." The Curator grinned, "Human babies can't."

She held the baby, crying at just how beautiful he was. She couldn't believe this little guy came out of all that weight. He was so small and a bit wrinkled looking. "Oh son, you're the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."

The Curator chuckled a little. Even though Lilith was sticky with sweat, she looked beautiful holding his son. "So Lilith."

Lilith looked up at him as he looked at his newborn son.

"What are you going to name him?"