The Time Family

Nightmares

Doctor's POV:

After Kazran left to get some sleep, Rose, Jenny and I stayed up and played a hand of Uno. To my surprise, Jenny won. She'd never played the game, but she caught on quickly. I was so happy that I had both my kids back. A couple minutes after we had finished the game and put it away, we all went to bed. Jenny went first, then Rose and I went a few minutes after her. We went into our room and changed into pj's. As Rose was changing, I couldn't help but peek a little.

"Oi! I'm changing! Don't peek!" She yelped. I laughed.

"I can't help it! And besides, how did you know that I was peeking? You must've wanted a peek yourself!" I said to her, buttoning up the last button on my shirt. She turned around and sighed.

"I give in. You win." She said, wrapping her arms around my neck and kissing me deeply. I put my hands on her hips. Needless to say, I didn't complain. We kissed for a while, I've got no clue how long, but after a while she broke the kiss. I moaned in frustration. She smiled and gave me a short peck on the lips before removing her arms from my neck and climbing into the bed. I followed her. I got in bed and put one arm over her. She had her head resting on my chest along with her hands.

"Goodnight, Rose. I love you." I said to her, kissing the top of her head. I felt her smile against my chest.

"Goodnight, Theta. I love you more." She replied to me. I was a bit surprised at the moment, but then I remembered that on our wedding night during the reception I told her my name.

"I love you most." I said, remembering the movie Tangled.

"Nope." She said sleepily. I chuckled.

"Goodnight Rose." I waited for a reply, and when she said nothing I realized that she was asleep already. I followed her example and drifted of to sleep, cuddled up to her warm body.

-------HOURS LATER-------

I woke up to a loud scream. I bolted out of bed and accidentally woke up Rose.

"Doctor, what is it?!" She asked me, quickly getting out of bed too.

"It's Kazran!" I yelled as I ran out of our room.I heard her following close behind me. When I got to Kazran's room, the door was already open and the light was on. I bursted through, afraid of what I might find. Instead of some terrible monster about to devour my son, I saw Jenny holding him in her arms, rocking him back and forth. Kazran was taking shaky breaths and was shaking like a leaf on a tree. Rose and I went over to them.

"What happened, Jenny?" I asked her in a soft tone so that I wouldn't upset Kazran any more.

"I don't know. He just screamed all of a sudden. I ran here as fast as I could." She said. Kazran let go of her, and she released him from her soft grip. He looked at all of us.

"I had a nightmare, that's all. Nothing to be worried about." He said, trying to stop his limbs from shaking. He looked as if he had just seen a ghost. Rose walked over to him and got down on both of her knees, putting her hands on his shoulders.

"Kazran, you've had nightmares before. The worst one wasn't nearly as bad as this one. Do you want to talk about it?" She asked him. He continued to shake and dove into her arms for a hug. She gladly accepted. Jenny looked at me.

I'm going to go to bed now dad. I'll see you in the morning. She said in my mind. I nodded. She left the room. I walked over to where Rose and Kazran were.

"If you don't want to talk about it Kazran, would you like to come spend the rest of the night with your mother and I? Just to feel a bit safer?" I asked him, looking at Rose for approval. She nodded in response.

"Yeah, that'd be great, thanks." He said, getting down to the floor. I took his hand.

"Well then, allons-y." I said. Kazran and I went first, with Rose close behind. She shut Kazrans door after we left. When we got to our room, I opened the door for Kazran and he walked in. He was still shaking.

"Hop in." I said to him, gesturing at the bed. He got in the middle, most likely to feel safer. Rose closed the door behind us and got in bed just as I was pulling the covers over Kazran and I.

"Goodnight, mum and dad. Thanks for letting me come in here." He said, his shaking starting to go away. Rose and I both looked at him and smiled. We loved him very, very, very much.

"You're welcome Kazran. Goodnight. Love you." Rose said to him, kissing the very top of his head. Kazran smiled.

"You're very welcome. Goodnight, son. I love you so much." I said to him, putting my hand on the top of his head and messing up his hair with my palm. He laughed a little bit.

"Goodnight." He yawned, falling asleep. Rose and I drifted of to sleep, each one of us holding one of his hands.

----------MORNING----------

*still the Doctor's POV*

I woke up to a constant pain in my hand and rugged breathing. I looked over to see that Rose was gone, and that Kazran's brow had sweat and his eyebrows wee furrowed. Fake sunlight was streaming through the fake window in the room. I took my hand from Kazran and shook him to wake him up. He got as far back against the headboard as he could.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" He screamed. He had pure fear plastered on his face and was shaking. He was holding his legs close to his chest with his hands. He plopped his head down on his knees and started to cry. I grabbed him and held him in my arms, rocking back and forth, patting his back and trying to comfort him. He started to talk.

"They-they cut me up, *sniffle* dad. Every *sniffle* day they did." He sobbed. I felt like crying myself. I lifted my head and looked at the deep blue wall. (A/N he's got the face on that he had right after his connection with Rose broke in Doomsday.) How could I have let this happen to him? He's not going to recover from this. My son went to hell and I did nothing to prevent it. How am I going to take care of a wife and two children when I can't even take care of my son? I asked myself in my head. I felt a tear fall from my face. I kept rubbing Kazrans back. He started to talk again, but a bit more under control this time.

"There was a man. He never told me his name. Not that it would've mattered. He gave me a choice every day. Torture, or be tortured. For years, I said no to him. Then one day, I said yes. I had to do what they were doing to me to other people. I hurt people! What kind of person am I? Harming others to save my own skin? I'm so sorry dad! I didn't mean to, I swear. I just couldn't take it any more. I did it as long as I could. I'm so sorry!" He sobbed. I moved him away a bit so that I could look him in the eye.

"Kazran, I'm not angry at you. I'm sad. I'm sad about what happened to you. Nobody should have to go through that, especially an eight year old boy that's never harmed anyone in his life. You did your best, and that's all that matters. I love you very much, no matter what you do. Now, let's go have some breakfast." I told him. He quit crying and went to the kitchen. I followed him, not realizing what an eventful day it would be.