The rest applauded Rose when she returned with her little family to the console room on her own power. “Thanks for waiting on me all of you. Sorry about the nap, but transformations take it out of a girl.”
“Not touching that one,” Mickey said to gain a slap on the back of his head from Martha. “Oi!”
The latter of the pair gave him a glare. “I can tell you are the kind who need someone to push your buttons. Worse than himself over there.”
“Oi!” the Doctor said in a similar tone to Mickey’s. Everyone else laughed while Rose kissed his cheek as her mind sent, ‘my job now, handsome.’
‘And glad for that.’ Giving his beloved flower a kiss on her cheek in return, the Doctor looked at those who meant so much to he and his little family. “Well, we have to get a planet home, I believe. Time Tot, you are in good with your Auntie and Uncle at Torchwood. Let’s wake the two of them back up.”
Gailia giggled as she ran to the microphone to call out, “Hey Torchwood! Mummy’s okay!”
“Great to hear, Tot!” Gwen answered. “Is Jack there?”
“Can't get rid of him. Jack, what's her name?” the Doctor asked his friend.
“Gwen Cooper.”
Rose blinked. “Seriously?”
Surprised, Jack nodded as Rose went to her husband and daughter to introduce herself. “Hello!”
“And hello there, Mrs. Doctor!”
Everyone chuckled as the Doctor asked, “Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?”
“Yes, all the way back to the eighteen hundreds.”
Rose and the Doctor smiled at one another as former said, “Spatial genetic multiplicity.”
“Yeah, it's a funny old world,” her husband said with pride. That his wife needed no explanations for what was to him obvious—his Rose was perfect for his needs and more. Feeling her amused embarrassment, he moved on with the tease mentally of making her toes curl in bed and several other locations before they slept next. “Now, Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator. Send all the power to me.”
Instantly, Rose could see what her husband had in mind. Ianto got to work on that while Donna asked about the request, “what's that for?”
Smirking, Rose answered, “it's a tow rope. That is brilliant, mate of mine. Sarah, what was your son's name?”
“Luke. He's called Luke. And the computer's called Mister Smith.”
With a few modifications, Rose eventually brought Luke’s end of the communications feed up on the monitor as she said, “calling Luke and Mister Smith. TARDIS, with its majority of our Family of Time, is calling. Shake a leg there, Luke.”
The boy looked worried as he connected the call. “Is Mum there?”
Understanding what the boy feared, Rose nodded. “She's fine.”
As Sarah Jane called out, the Doctor noticed the ripples threatening Earth. Rose agreed it was time to go as her mate entered the conversation. “Now, Mister Smith, I want you to harness the Rift power and loop it around the TARDIS. You got that?”
“I regret I will need remote access to TARDIS base code numerals.”
As the Doctor began to worry about time, Rose’s mind caught on an obvious point and turned to Sarah Jane. “Do you still have K-9? He’d get through this with ease and time to spare.”
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Parting's End
FanfictionThere is a good reason the Doctor asked Rose if she was pregnant on the Bad Wolf Bay. A toddler who is out to rock the universe and get her lost parents back together. And the half-Time Lady, quarter Time Goddess and human girl has had three years t...
