CHAPTER 95

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"I CREATE MYSELF"

As soon as we were all returned back to Gallifrey thanks to the help of the ever gracious Maxil, Ron gave me an extremely guilty look as he said, "Mum, I, uh, . . . I have to . . . I'm not quite sure how to say this, and I don't want you to take it the wrong way."

I immediately gave him a sympathetic look as I said, "You don't have to say anything, Ron. I already know. You and Izzy don't want to travel with me anymore."

Ron nodded as he said, "No, because I don't want Daisy growing up without her parents. It's time that I started thinking about what was best for her now. I . . . I know I'm doing the right thing but I still can't help but feel as if I'm betraying you somehow. I'm sorry."

I shook my head as I said, "Nonsense, Ronnie. You're doing no such thing. If anyone can understand sacrificing everything for your family, then it's certainly me. Stop worrying so much and go. Well? Go on. Go and be with your family. I know you want to."

"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Ron asked as he hesitated.

"I'm fine and it's not like I'm not going to see you again. You do live in the same house I do after all. I think we might come across one another from time to time don't you? Besides that an entire army of Oswin's best Daleks couldn't keep me from seeing Daisy on a regular basis," I said with a wry grin.

"That's not what I meant. I know you like to have all of us with you on your travels, but Izzy and I just can't do that anymore. I just feel like I'm letting you down," Ron said.

"Everyone has to grow up sometime, Ron. This is finally your time. That's all that this is. It's nothing shameful and nothing that you need to feel guilty about at all whatsoever, okay? Now go on home. I'll see you there later," I said as I hugged him tightly.

That silly but sweet boy of mine looked at me gratefully and then instantly rushed off to see Isabella and Daisy back at the House of Lupinesglen. After what he had just been through, I could easily see why.

I couldn't help but feel an ache in my hearts despite my words though as I watched him go because I knew that it was the end of an era. Yet again time was moving on and leaving me behind just as it always did.

Yes, everyone had to grow up sometime. Everyone but me.

"Don't worry, Mum. I'm not going anywhere for a long time to come. I promise," Allison said as she saw the expression on my face.

"I hope that's the one promise that you actually break one day, Ally. I want some more grandchildren," I said only half joking because I wanted her to have a life of her own too despite what it would do to me to lose her as well.

"Yes, I know. I know. Stop rushing me. Unlike Ron, I never even knew you for most of my life. I'd like to get to spend just a bit more time with you and Dad before I go rushing off, okay?" Allison said in an irritated voice that was belied by her warm smile.

She knew what I meant but simply wasn't ready yet. I could understand that. Everything had to happen in its own time of course.

Yes, Ron's leaving was making me quite maudlin now if you couldn't already tell.

"Lily, would you like to talk about it?" Robin asked as he could see a visible change in my mood.

"I will but not right now," I said as I briefly looked at Borusa without thinking about it.

"You mean that you don't want to discuss it in front of anyone but family," Borusa realized which caused a smile of triumph to briefly flash over jealous old Robbie's face.

"No, of course not. That's not what I meant at all," I lied because I was very aware of Rose's feelings towards him.

Instead of looking offended however, Borusa actually smiled as he said, "I think it was. I'm not offended though. I completely understand."

"That's good even though I'd say that she's more worried about offending me at the moment. We both understand, Mum. I'll just take Dad with me and we can . . ." Rose started to say.

"Wait. Rose, I'd really like to talk to you alone about what just happened. I think you need to confide in someone about it whether you'll admit it or not," I said in a pleading tone.

Rose's usual good mood faded for a moment as she said in an emotional voice, "I won't lie. I definitely do but I'm just not sure that I can. I . . . I'm really upset about it, Mum, and talking about it just brings it all right back to me."

"I know. I'd still like to be there alongside you for a while though just in case. Is that alright?" I asked in a plaintive tone.

"I was going to spend some time with Dad though. I only just got him back again," Rose said as she looked at Borusa with an uncertain look.

I could tell that she actually did want me to stay with her and talk to her for a while but was worried about how Borusa might react to that. I had just made it perfectly clear without intending to that I didn't want him around me so I knew that she was taking that into account. I knew that she really didn't want to make him angry at her so soon after she had finally started to develop a proper relationship with him.

To Borusa's credit, he realized all of this in a single instant and said in a jovial tone, "It's fine, Rose. Go ahead and spend some time with her and talk this out. I think that this is something that you need your mother for not me. I really don't know you that well yet anyway."

"I think you know her well enough," I said with a smile of approval.

"I'll see you later than, Dad. Where are you going to stay?" Rose asked with a hint of concern.

"Don't worry about me. I already have it all worked out. You just concentrate on yourself right now. I don't ever want to see you look that devastated again, Rose. Talk it out with your mother and I suppose The Doctor too. He might be at least somewhat helpful," Borusa said with a shrug.

Rose actually grinned as she said, "I can see that he's really going to like having you as a father-in-law already."

"Somehow I doubt that, Rose," Borusa said as he smiled back at her.

He was wasting no time in trying to bond with her I noted. I was so glad about that too especially since I knew exactly how much Rose valued family.

"It's agreed then. Allison and I will go back home while you stay with Rose for as long as she needs you," Robin said.

Allison nodded as she added in a low voice that only I could hear, "And maybe you could help clear a few things up for her too about her birth. She really let the Avatar crawl inside her head big time, Mum."

"I'll work on it," I reassured her because I could tell that she was worried about her sister.

After the others all parted their separate ways and left me and Rose alone, I said, "Come on. I'll walk back home with you. I have something that I need to pick up there anyway."

"What do you mean?" Rose asked in surprise.

"You'll see," I said with a mysterious smile.

Not long afterwards she found out exactly what I was talking about as soon as we came within sight of the House of Lungbarrow.

"Oh, so that's what you did with her," Rose said with a grin.

We had just found my TARDIS. It really wasn't too hard to locate her actually because she was parked right outside of the house just as I had planned when I sent her back to Gallifrey.

It had been my last desperate plan to stop the Avatar if all else went wrong. I had wanted The Doctor to come across it and realize that something was wrong with us just in case we all fell in battle which had seemed extremely likely not too long ago.

"Rose?" The Doctor called out in an emotional voice as soon as we arrived.

Just as I hoped, The Doctor was already there standing outside of it with an extremely anxious look on his face. It was a look that was instantly replaced by a shockingly dazzling smile as soon as he saw Rose once again.

"Don't think you were getting rid of me that easily," Rose teased him.

"I don't believe it. You mean his face can actually do one of those in this incarnation? I thought half the universe would explode if that ever happened," I quipped as he looked at Rose with an expression of almost serene joy that I had never seen on that particular face before.

"See? I told you he was getting better. Clara and I have been working overtime on him to try to bring him out of his shell," Rose said proudly.

"Rose," The Doctor said in a voice filled with undisguised relief as his smile actually became even wider somehow impossibly enough.

"Yes, that's her name alright. Let's move past that now shall we?" I said in amusement.

What happened next truly shocked me though as he suddenly whipped a guitar out of nowhere (that definitely had to have come from a bigger on the inside pocket) and began to play what sounded like the song 'Kiss From A Rose' on it. He continued to smile at Rose the entire time that he did so in what was one of the most surreal and truly bizarre moments of my life.

"Well, this is new," I said as Rose immediately developed one of those face wide grins of hers that I had always loved so much since she was a child (the first time around).

"He's very into the guitar in this incarnation now. He can actually play it too amazingly enough. I'm so glad of that because I'm definitely not missing that horrible flute his last self used to carry about with him. I never could find his entire collection of them or they would have quickly joined that fez collection that you burnt up, yeah? If only his enemies could see him now. The mighty Oncoming Storm acting like a complete git," Rose said with a chuckle.

"Who says he's acting? I hate to say it but he's pretty good. I suppose we had to come across a version of him that was actually musical sooner or later," I said in disbelief as The Doctor continued to play.

That was when he quickly switched gears and started playing the song 'Evil Woman' with a malicious smirk on his face.

"Very funny. Are we going to stand here and listen to you play your greatest hits for us all day long or are you actually going to say hello to Rose properly?" I said with a barely concealed smile.

"Well, I had to set the mood first didn't I?" The Doctor said as Rose laughed at him.

Then the guitar vanished as quickly as it came (and I no more saw where it went than I did where it came from) as The Doctor immediately wrapped his arms around Rose and gave her a long, passionate kiss that she eagerly returned. It was a little too eager to be honest. She was trying hard not to show it, but she was still quite disturbed about what The Avatar had said to her back on Shada.

Don't act so surprised. I can always tell what she's feeling no matter what she does to hide it from me. I'm her mum. That's part of my job description.

Amazingly enough The Doctor could tell it too.

"What's wrong?" The normally clueless Doctor said as soon as his kiss with her ended.

"What makes you think something's wrong?" Rose asked as she quickly tried to deflect the question.

"It was the way that you held onto me just a bit tighter and longer than usual. I'm getting much better about interpreting body language too or at least I am about yours anyway. That's probably because I actually care what you're feeling though I suppose," The Doctor admitted.

"Glad to hear it. Come on, Doctor. Let's go see what Clara's up to back on Earth, and you can do your usual bit where you pretend that you don't want to hug her," Rose said with a chuckle as she immediately started to act as if she was completely unworried about anything whatsoever.

The Doctor wasn't buying it any more than I was though.

"Rose, what is it? What happened on Shada?" The Doctor asked as his earlier worry quickly returned now with a vengeance.

Rose's smile instantly faded as she said, "I'm sorry. I know I should have told you as soon as you asked. I just didn't want to worry you. I'm more than worried enough for the both of us already, yeah?"

"Worried about what?" The Doctor asked as the anxious look on his face immediately deepened in response to her answer.

When I saw her looking as if it actually pained her to even talk about it, I quickly took over the conversation as I told him the whole story about what The Avatar had done. Then I gave a now visibly upset Rose a brief encouraging look as I finally said what he had said about Rose's timeline while leaving out her violent reaction to it.

I think The Doctor could already guess how she reacted though by the way that he immediately gave her a sympathetic look and said, "Rose, that doesn't mean anything. The idiot probably didn't even know how to use his powers properly much less how to use them against someone as powerful as you and just wanted something to blame it on."

"Uh huh. Do you really believe that?" Rose said with a skeptical look.

The Doctor hesitated for a moment before he finally said, "No. I definitely don't believe that it means anything bad either though. The nature of your power is such that it actually could protect your entire timestream from being altered just by its mere existence. After all, how would you ever get the power in the first place if your history was altered too much in the early years of your life as the Avatar intended? The day that you received your abilities is more than likely a fixed moment in time and apparently even the Avatar can't overwrite those."

Then he had a thoughtful look as he added, "Come to think of it you did say on the Gamestation that you had created yourself though."

"You did? Why would you say something like that?" I asked in surprise.

"I . . . don't remember. That whole thing was more than a bit traumatic though. I was liable to say anything," Rose said with a confused look.

"Well, you can trust me on this one, Rose. You were definitely born the old fashioned way. I was there for every long and extremely painful moment of it," I said.

Rose frowned as she said, "Oi! Never miss a chance to bring that up, do you?"

"Only because it's an excellent way to create guilt when necessary," I said with a mischievous grin.

Then I became serious as I said, "This time I was using it to demonstrate a point though. Your birth was perfectly ordinary. There's nothing wrong or ominous about it whatsoever. That is what you were worried about isn't it? It's those same old 'I'm a monster' fears of yours as always, and they're just as wrong now as they've always been."

The Doctor nodded as he said, "I've fought monsters all of my life so I definitely know one when I see one. You're no monster, Rose Tyler, and you never could be. In fact, I'd say you're probably the closest thing to an angel that I've ever seen."

Then he quickly added, "Not the weeping kind of course."

Rose smiled as she said, "A hopeless romantic you are."

"He's right though. There's absolutely nothing to this whatsoever, Rose," I reassured her.

"Didn't you say that you were completely sterile before you became pregnant with me? Isn't that kind of strange in itself?" Rose asked.

"No, I already explained that to you. The weapon that was used to try to drain all of my lives shortly before that actually reset me biologically somehow when it briefly killed me. I think it's more a fluke than anything else. It's a perfectly logical explanation," I said.

"Yeah? Then why haven't you had any more children since I was born? Something doesn't add up, Mum, and I need to know why," Rose said as she started to become upset once more.

"I don't care why you were born. All that matters to me is that you were, and you're one of the best things that ever happened to me. You're a wonderful, kind, and loving person who goes out of her way to help others with no thought of any reward for yourself whatsoever, and you'd gladly lay down your life to save someone that you don't even know. That's what makes you a hero in my book, and that's just one of the many reasons why I'm so very proud of you, Rose. So don't ever talk about how you're a monster again because I know in my heart that you're not!" I said in an emotional voice because it always upset me to see her like this.

Part of the reason for that was because it was an unspoken fear of mine that I had made her this way somehow. Ever since I had found out about her powers, I had secretly believed that it was my altered biology that had led to her becoming the Bad Wolf. I had no proof of that of course, but I still couldn't help but feel more than a bit guilty about it.

"I'm sorry, Mum. I didn't mean to bring you down too," Rose said in an apologetic tone.

"You didn't. I just don't like hearing you down yourself especially when you don't deserve it," I said in a gentle voice.

"There is a way of finally settling all of this once and for all, Rose," The Doctor said as he gave her a pointed look.

I could instantly tell what he was thinking by the look on his face so I immediately said, "Now hold on just a minute and actually think this through before you start getting any wild ideas, Doctor. That would be very tricky not to mention extremely risky. We could wind up finishing Erebus's job for him and completely wiping Rose out of existence ourselves if we're not careful."

"Mum, I think he's right. I need to know. I want to travel to the day that you were almost killed by that bomb so that I can find out what happened. I have to be there and see it for myself so that I can know for sure that The Avatar wasn't right about me," Rose said.

"And how would we do that without the past me seeing us? I definitely don't remember coming across you there that day and I think it should stay that way. We should just leave this alone, Rose," I insisted.

"Mum, please. I need to do this. I'll always wonder if it's true or not if I don't," Rose implored me with tears in her eyes.

I instantly sighed as I said, "Fine. I suppose this really is the only way to convince you, isn't it? After all you're just as stubborn as your mother sometimes."

"You can actually admit that?" The Doctor asked in amusement.

"I can admit anything for her sake. Let's do this then if we're going to, but I'd still like to know how we're going to keep ourselves from being seen," I said in a still somewhat reluctant tone.

"Don't worry. I have it all covered," Rose said with a brief smile as she snapped her fingers.

In the very next instant, I suddenly found myself in the High Council's meeting chamber standing directly across the room from my past self as I sat there with all of the other Council members listening to a long-winded speech from then Lord President Drall. None of us had any idea of what was soon about to happen to us.

"They can't see or hear us by the way. I've made us completely invisible to even the most sophisticated equipment," Rose explained as I gave her a questioning look.

I noticed The Doctor staring at my past self intently for some reason so I said, "Do you have some kind of a problem with the way that I looked in this time, Doctor?"

"No, I've just never seen this particular version of you before. You look quite different from the other incarnations of you that I know. You have your hair tied back and in a bun, and you're actually wearing brainy specs. You look almost . . ." The Doctor said before hesitating as if he were searching for the right word.

"Be careful, Doctor," I warned with a raised eyebrow.

"No, no. It wasn't going to be an insult. I was going to say that you looked serious. I've never seen you quite this intense before. There's nothing of your basic whimsical nature at all about you in this incarnation," The Doctor noted with a puzzled expression.

I smiled as I said, "You mean I'm not Crazy Lily, right? No, in this time period I was far from feeling as merry and carefree as I usually do. This was after I had met Robin as Persephone back when he had become unstuck in time and had traveled throughout my timestream. I had grown extremely close to him all over again for the first time since I knew him as Sekhmet, and then he was suddenly gone as he jumped ahead in time once again. It had left me in a very bad place and any kind of sense of joy or whimsy as you put it was definitely lost for a while. That was soon about to change though."

I briefly looked at Rose as I said that last part. Finding out that I was pregnant again had definitely returned a sense of joy to my life that I had really needed at that point in time.

To get to that point though, I had gone through the horrible moment that we were just about to witness. I honestly wasn't sure that I could watch this happen again, but I was going to try for Rose's sake.

"It's about to go off at any moment now," I warned as I recalled the exact point in the President's speech that the bomb planted by the terrorists had exploded.

Then barely a minute later, a massive explosion that I would always remember rocked the entire chamber. I watched in horror as waves of chronal energy quickly spread out from where the bomb had been planted in the back of the room and completely engulfed the entire back area of it. I involuntarily held my breathe then in that horrible moment as I saw Time Lord after Time Lord including myself rapidly age, regenerate, and then go through the whole process over and over again as an entire life cycle of regenerations was burnt out of them in a matter of seconds.

Then all of them except for me instantly turned to ashes as they died their final deaths. A second later, even the ashes themselves were gone.

Tears began to flow freely now as I looked across the room to see the remaining Time Lords who had luckily been out of range of the bomb lying strewn all across the chamber like leaves in the wind. They were still alive but would remain unconscious for at least another hour judging from what I remembered being told later.

"I'm sorry, Mum. I should never have done this to you. You never saw the whole thing before," Rose said in a quivering voice.

"It's . . . It's alright. I knew what was coming but I wanted to do it for you," I said as I struggled to contain my emotions at seeing such a tragic scene.

"No, this was all wrong. I never should have made you go through this again. I'm being completely selfish. We should go," Rose said as she too began to cry now.

"No, wait. Something's wrong, Rose. Past Lily's not breathing," The Doctor said as he watched my past self with undisguised worry clearly evident in his eyes.

"Maybe it just took me a while to come back from something as devastating as that, Doctor. It probably came closer to killing me for good than I ever realized," I said in a confident voice even though I was starting to wonder what was going on myself.

Rose started to become concerned as well as she gestured towards my past self with a glowing hand. Her eyes immediately widened in horror as soon as she did so.

"You're dead. I don't just mean temporarily either. There's not a single spark of life left in you," She said as she looked at me in alarm.

"What? That can't be right though," I said as I started to become upset.

"What if this is right however, Lily? What if you actually were meant to die here today but something changed that and brought about an unintended consequence of making you able to become pregnant again as a result of that change?" The Doctor said as he looked at Rose intently.

"You mean me don't you?" Rose asked in shock.

"Think about it, Rose. At the Gamestation when you became the Bad Wolf to save me from the Daleks, you looked out across all of time and space for one brief moment and saw all of it at once. What if somehow you saw your own past and future as well for the first and only time and for a split second realized exactly how you came to be before the trauma of that whole thing or more likely the Grace made you instantly forget it?" The Doctor speculated.

"I create myself," Rose said in a stunned voice.

"Are you sure about this, Doctor? Maybe I still come back to life by myself somehow. I've done that before when the Monk temporarily killed me. Rose could be completely altering history if she does this," I said in an uncertain voice.

Rose shook her head though as she said, "No, I think he's right. It all makes sense now. If I brought you back to life and made it possible for you to become pregnant again, then that means that I really did help to create myself. That would give me complete control of my timestream in a way since I'm the one who started it in the first place. This . . . This is beyond weird even for me mucking about in my own past this way."

"Rose, are you sure?" I said more afraid for her than I was for myself in that instant as I feared that she might accidentally erase or alter herself somehow.

"Yes, I'm sure. This is the way that it was supposed to happen. I was always supposed to come here and bring this about. I can feel that now," Rose said as her voice began to sound more and more certain.

Then she stepped forward and stood next to my past self's lifeless form with her eyes blazing with power as she said in a voice that was almost a whisper, "I bring life."

An instant later, my past self gasped for breath and instantly sat up in surprise and bewilderment as she looked about her in confusion. I remembered this part all too well just as I remembered what happened next.

"Persephone!" Borusa's voice called out as he raced towards me after being the first one to wake up.

"Borusa, what . . . what just happened here?" Past Me said in stunned disbelief.

Then I watched Borusa put his arms around the severally traumatized Past Me and hold her close to him to comfort her as he said, "I think it was a weapon called the Life Eater. I'd heard that a renegade group of Time Lords called The Keepers of Infinity had such a weapon that could artificially age Time Lords through their entire life cycle at once, but I never thought that it was actually real."

"Why didn't it kill me though? Yes, I'm immortal but surely I should be dead too. Shouldn't I? Why did I survive when so many others didn't? I've already lived far too long already," Past Me said in a guilty tone as she shook with emotion.

Borusa began to stroke my hair now as he said in a voice filled with love, "Maybe you were supposed to live even longer. Perhaps the Universe isn't quite through with you yet, Persephone. I know I'm certainly not."

Past Me briefly smiled as she said, "Who knew you could be so romantic?"

"I suppose it took almost losing you to bring it out of me. Persephone, I . . ." Borusa started to say.

Before he could finish though, Past Me kissed him. Then a moment later, she quickly passed out in his arms.

Borusa instantly looked extremely worried and checked my vital signs. He smiled with relief though as soon as he realized that I was alright, and then he gently sat me down just outside of the blast area while he waited for the other survivors to wake up too.

He was going to pretend that I hadn't been right in the center of that whole horrible event of course so that no one became suspicious of me. I remembered it all too well now in hindsight.

Rose now walked over to Past Me and checked her over again with her powers before saying, "She's going to be alright now. She's also able to have children again and not just one either. You really could have more kids if you wanted judging by this, Mum. I'm not sure why you haven't yet."

"So you reversed my sterility on purpose then?" I asked even as I pondered why Rose had been the only child I'd had since this day if that was true.

Rose shook her head as she said, "No, I just brought you back. I wasn't sure if I should try to reverse the sterility or not so I left it alone. That's why I was checking the other you again to see if you were still sterile or not. You were right, Mum. Your body was completely reset so that you could become pregnant again but not by the effects of the bomb. It happened because I brought you back again. It was completely by accident. I accidentally helped create myself. Blimey! Talk about mind blowing."

She stood there with a stunned look on her face now as I hugged her tightly and said, "Thank you, Baby."

She smiled as she said with a mischievous smile, "I'm not sure if you should be thanking me or not considering all of the trouble that I gave you over the years."

"It was more than worth it. Every single moment of it," I said meaning it as I kissed her forehead.

"So, Rose, how do you feel about everything now?" The Doctor asked with a hopeful look.

Rose eagerly smiled as she said, "I think that I'm so much luckier than even I ever realized and maybe Dad was right. Maybe Mum was supposed to survive. Maybe I was supposed to live too. It could be that I was meant to be born and have this power that I have for a reason in order to help people. I'd like to believe that anyway."

"Believe it, Rose. Believe it with all of your heart because I certainly do. There's no way that you could ever convince me that you could ever be anything but the wonderful person that you are. There's nothing sinister about you whatsoever and never will be. Your power doesn't make you a monster and neither does it make you a god. It just gives you a unique opportunity to guard over others and keep them safe. You're like a much better and far more efficient version of The Doctor," I said as I gave The Doctor a wink to show him that I was teasing him.

"Naw. The Doctor's the hero not me. He actually does what he does without cosmic powers and still manages to wind up saving the day anyway. Now that's a real hero in my book," Rose said as she kissed The Doctor.

I shook my head as I wished that she could feel better about herself. She was leaps and bound above her first incarnation in that most of the time she embraced and actually loved who she was now, but she still had moments from time to time where she doubted herself. I couldn't understand why really until I thought about it for a moment.

Then it all clicked into place for me at last as I finally realized why. She was acting just like a human in her situation would. Time Lords rarely if ever doubted themselves but humans often did. Quite frequently in fact and Rose was all too human despite being a Time Lady.

Maybe that was a good thing though. It could be that her being human or at least thinking like one with all of their many insecurities and doubts about themselves helped keep her from going too far. Maybe being human helped keep her from becoming the very monster that she feared that she might one day be.

If that was so, then I more than welcomed that part of her wholeheartedly even if I didn't always like seeing her that way.

"What are you thinking about so intently, Mum?" Rose asked with a gentle smile as she noticed me coming to my little epiphany about her.

"Oh, I was just realizing exactly how special that you really are is all. So you're going to be alright now, right?" I asked as I grinned at her.

"Yeah, I'm fine and I really mean that this time. Thanks for agreeing to go through this with me, Mum, even though I know that it wasn't easy for you. I love you," Rose said as she kissed my cheek.

"I love you too," I said as I smiled at her proudly.

"Let's go home then. I'll drop you off back at your TARDIS and then I'm going to see Dad. The Doctor still hasn't got to welcome him back yet after all," Rose said.

"Oh, joy. A chance to have Borusa ruthlessly point out all of my faults and criticize me once again like he used to do back at the Academy. In fact, he'll be even worse now that the truth of his real relationship to me is finally out at last. I'm sure that will be the highlight of my lives," The Doctor said sarcastically.

"You're going anyway and that's final. I want to spend more time with him, and I want him to get to know all of my family. That includes you," Rose said in a firm tone.

"You know you've really been around Clara far too much lately. You're becoming just like her," The Doctor said with a frown.

"Actually I think I'm more like my Mums in that particular way," Rose said as she smiled at me.

"Yes, Lily is quite bossy actually and Jackie is . . . well, Jackie," The Doctor said with a shudder.

I pretended to glare at him now as I said, "You know I really should slap the life out of you for that little remark."

Then I quickly smiled however as I said, "Since you played a key part in saving my life though I'll let it slide but just this once. Don't push it though, Doctor. My benevolence only goes so far."

"You can be benevolent?" The Doctor asked.

A moment later as The Doctor rubbed an extremely red (and very sore) cheek, Rose said to him, "You just had to go there, didn't you?"

"It's okay, Rose. That's a part of what makes him special too," I said with a chuckle just before Rose rolled her eyes at me and snapped her fingers to send us all home once more.

Next: Now that Lily knows for a fact that she should be able to become pregnant once again she becomes driven to know exactly why she hasn't. It's a question that she and Robin will go to great lengths to answer. She may not like the answer that she finds however.