Chapter 12~*~ What it Means

"So we're going to a party we weren't invited to, to investigate some rich guy who thinks he can 'change what it means to be human?" Donna asked as she and Rose watched the Doctor pilot them to Martha's. "And Martha is the one you ran into Shakespeare with yeah?"

"Yes," Rose said nodding her head with a huge smile on her face.

"Well she sounds brilliant," Donna said nodding her head with a smile.

"Oh yeah, Martha's great," Rose said grabbing the rail and the ship landed with a slight shudder. They both turned and smiled at the Doctor as he walked around the console. He reached into his jacket and pulled something out and handed it to Donna. She looked down at the little black billfold and then back up at him blankly.

"Open it," He said with a small smirk and Donna did and her eyes went wide.

"What's it say?" Rose asked looking from the Doctor to Donna.

"Donna Noble Tyler, Journalist for Bad Wolf Science Magazine" Donna said with a smirk as she looked up at the Doctor. "How'd you get this made so fast?" Donna asked and his smile grew a little smug.

"Hand it to Rose," he said and Donna handed it over and Rose opened it and then snorted out a laugh as she nodded her head.

"Yes, he does doesn't he?" Rose chuckled again and Donna looked confused.

"Who does what?" She asked and Rose handed her the billfold again.

"Him; thinks he's so impressive," Rose said giggling again as the Doctor's eyebrow shot up and he sent Rose a mock glare.

"Oi, I am so impressive," He said and Rose just laughed again and Donna looked between the two of them like they'd gone mad. "Its psychic paper, it shows other people whatever you want it too, and can sometimes pick up on the low lever thoughts of the person holding it." Donnas face went a little read as she realized her thought of 'he thinks he's so impressive' had been picked up by the paper and that was what Rose had been laughing at.

"But it looked just like a press pass," Donna said taking it back from Rose and the Doctor nodded his head, that smug little smile was back and she rolled her eyes.

"Because that's what I wanted you to see," He told her and she nodded before she looked down at the little billfold and opened it and smirked.

"Mind outta the gutter blondie," Donna said and Rose's smile dropped and her face went red and Donna laughed. She picked up the bag by her feet; it had her dress and shoes for tonight in it, and stuck the billfold in a side pocket. "Well, let's go meet Martha."

~*~One~*~

They'd landed in a park across the street from Martha's apartment this time since the girls would all be getting ready at her place and it wasn't very big to begin with. The Doctor had stayed behind at the TARDIS to get ready, though he didn't need to start for about two hours. But the girls had already left. Honestly, how could they need more than three hours to get ready? He could be ready in ten minutes tops, okay well maybe 30 minutes, his hair was doing a weird swoop thing today that he didn't really like and he was trying to think up a different way to wear it. He was trying to decide if he wanted to wear the normal tux or the one with tails? Would that be a bit too much? Oh and that one had a top hat, yeah, probably a bit much. He stopped and turned towards the TARDIS doors as they swung open, he opened his mouth to say something to Rose, since he felt her mind as soon as the door opened, but as she entered his mouth dropped open and his eyes went about three sizes bigger.

"Blimey, how long have you been gone?" He asked stupidly as she stepped into the TARDIS and shut the door behind her.

"Oh thank god!" She said waddling, because that was really the only word for it, towards him. She had tears running down her face. Her hair was long again, it was French braided back but there were some loose strands in her face. "I wasn't sure what I was going to do! You're gone, and remind me to kill Jack, and my water broke and I wasn't sure what to do!" She cried, her breathing becoming a bit harsh. "And then...ohhhhhhh." She cried out her hand going to the enormous swell of her belly as she hunched over just a little. She took short little breaths in and then let it all out on a long whoosh; she did that a few times then looked up at him. "Then I remembered this, you not being able to come, and I thought since you didn't tell me why maybe this was it."

"Rose?" He asked, still a bit dumbstruck and he seemed glued to the spot, she sighed and nodded her head. "You're..."

"Ye*p*" She confirmed, as if the huge belly didn't confirm that, but whatever.

"And I'm...?"

"Off on a mission with Jack because 'You'll be fine Rose you have at least a month left." She said mimicking his voice pretty well before she shot him a glare.

"I just...left you?" he squeaked looking shocked at that.

"Well, it is kind of a 'fate of the world' issue. Martha and Mic-" She cut herself off as she looked up at him her eyes going wide as she swallowed hard.

"Mickey, were you about to say Mickey?" He asked and she winced, though he could tell it wasn't from pain. He could also tell, now that he was feeling around a bit, that she'd blocked him, a lot better than she could now. "Rose?"

"You know I can't tell you that," She whispered as if the walls themselves were listening, as if. The TARDIS knew all; she really didn't need to listen in to her silly people's conversations.

"Rose, you know I'm going to have to forget this," He told her shaking his head as he finally snapped out of his shocked state and stepped over to her and took her hand. He was sent staggering back when a second mind touched his and his eyes went wide and tears filled them. "Well," He whispered looking at her as a smile grew on his face. "Let's get you to the medbay yeah? You can fill me in there." He said taking her hand again and wrapping her arm over his shoulder with his around her waist.

~*~Two~*~

"Should I go with up or down?" Donna asked as she stepped out of the bathroom. Her dress was on and she looked beautiful, it was black with yellow flowers all over it, it was cocktail length and it made her glow.

"Well I'm partial to up for these kinds of things," Rose said as she stared into the mirror in front of her, her eye wide as she applied mascara. "You never know when you'll be running, after something or away." She blinked a few times and turned to look at Donna. "Though if you go with up do a bun or a twist, loose ponytails make for a great place for bad guys to yank you back."

"You must lead such an interesting life," Martha said as she stepped out of her room. Her dress was deep purple chiffon that fluttered down to a bit past her knees and had a Grecian flare at the top.

"We really do," Rose said with a chuckle. "I love your hair, that's perfect." Rose told her and Martha flashed a bright smile. Her hair was twisted up onto her head, the ends fanning out along the top.

"And I love that dress," Martha said and Rose blushed just a little as she looked down at it. She'd gone with black; it had long sheer sleeves and a high front. The skirt was knee length and swished just a bit when she moved, but it was the back that Rose had fallen in love with when she'd seen it in the wardrobe. It had a draped back, which left her back almost completely exposed. And she'd also put her hair up, in a similar fashion as Martha, but she'd tucked the ends of her hair in, so it was more of a French twist.

'Rose, you ah, busy?' The Doctor's voice broke through her thoughts and she could tell something was wrong by his tone of voice, even inside her head. He was blocking his emotions, and not very subtly either.

'Just getting ready, what's wrong?' she asked setting her blush down with a sigh. Leave it to him to get into trouble just sitting in the TARDIS in a park across the street.

'I'm ah...I can't...' He seemed a little hesitant and Rose was seriously considering walking over there to see what was going on. 'No!' his voice was so loud in her head she flinched. 'Sorry, just, you um...stay there, okay?'

'Doctor, what's going on?' Rose asked as she started to worry as horrible scenario after even worse scenario flashed through her mind.

'You think the three of you can handle this thing with Lazarus?' he asked and she shot up to her feet and started walking towards the front door.

'Why, what is going on?' Rose demanded with her hand on the doorknob. Martha and Donna had gone silent when Rose started to act a little funny, first stopping in the middle of her makeup, and then she jerked and stood up and walked to the front door.

"Rose?" Martha asked and Rose turned and looked at them.

"Just a second," Rose told them and they both nodded. 'Doctor?'

'I can't come, I'm not in danger, and there's no life threatening alien invasion, but I can't come. Can the three of you take care of whatever this is?'

'Doctor what-

'Rose, please?' He pleaded with her and she sighed and looked at the other two women. He wasn't lying, she could feel it in his mind; he was in no danger.

'You're really okay, you promise?' Rose asked and could feel his relief as soon as she asked because he knew she'd given in.

'I'm fine, I promise,' he told her and she could feel the honesty in her mind.

'Well then yeah, I'm sure we can handle this,' Rose told him and she was surprised that he didn't seem at all worried about her going into this without him.

'You three be careful,' he told her and she smiled, her tongue touching her top lip.

'We will,' she told him then smirked 'you're missing out on one helluva dress though,' she flirted and she could feel his chuckle in her mind. Well, whatever was going on couldn't be too bad, if he was laughing.

'Call me if you need anything,' he told her and she nodded her head then remembered he wasn't in the room.

'Will do,' she confirmed 'I love you.'

'I love you,' he told her and then she felt him withdraw to the back of her mind, where she could always feel him. She turned fully back to the ladies and clapped her hands with a huge smile on her face.

"Well ladies!" She said and they both looked eager to hear whatever she had to tell them. "Looks like it's just going to be the three of us tonight. The Doctor is caught up in something he won't tell me about but assures me he's just fine."

"Were you just..." Donna waved a finger back and forth from her forehead towards Rose's.

"Yeah," Rose said nodding her head but Martha looked between the two of them looking confused.

"Were you what?" Martha asked and Rose smiled at her.

"Ah, right," Rose said smiling at her as she walked over and sat back down to finish her makeup. "I guess I haven't told you about that yet have I?" She asked and Martha sat down next to her with a smile.

~*~Three~*~

"You're sure he's okay?" Donna asked as they all walked towards the party. Martha explained that her sister had gotten her, her mum and her brother on the list. And Rose had explained that she and Donna were going to use the physic paper to get in as journalists.

"Blimey, this guy thinks quite a lot of himself doesn't he?" Donna said as the three of them approached the huge building, the name Lazarus Laboratories, blazed across the front. Rose pulled the physic paper from a pocket in her dress, if it had been a normal pocket it wouldn't fit more than a tub of lipstick, but luckily for her it was a trans-dimensional pocket, so everything fit in there perfectly.

"From the way Tish talks this guy thinks he hung the sun and stars," Martha said and the ladies chuckled.

"When we all know that was the Doctor," Rose joked and they all laughed a little harder as they headed up the steps towards the guard checking his little list.

"Martha Jones," Martha said showing him her ID. He looked at it and flipped a page over then nodded his head towards the door. He looked at Rose who flashed him a bright smile and handed him the billfold.

"Rose Tyler and Donna Noble we're-

"Ah, Mr. Lazarus said you lot might show up," he said nodding his head as he eyed Rose up and down and raised an eyebrow. "Recruit them young over there at Torchwood, don't they?" He asked as he handed the billfold back to Rose. "He says you're welcome to watch," He said nodding his head towards the door again and Rose smiled at him again, keeping her confusion under wraps. She was pleased to see Donna and Martha were doing the same. They all walked towards the doors and once they were through them they stepped to the side and Rose opened the billfold.

'Rose Tyler, Torchwood Agent, plus guest" She read it over, before she looked up at Martha and Donna.

"It says I'm Torchwood," She told them in a hushed voice. "I swear I was thinking journalist, I don't know why it changed like that." Rose said looking down at the billfold. "I'll have to ask-

"Martha!" They all looked up at the voice and Martha smiled. "You look great," a young woman said as she walked up to them. She reached out and hugged Martha with one arm then pulled back and looked around. "Well what do you think? Pretty impressive huh?"

"Very nice," Rose said nodding her head. "Oh nibbles, ah the Doctor would have loved that," She moaned lightly and Donna smirked at her.

"And you are...?" She asked looking at Rose and Martha smiled.

"Oh sorry, Tish this is Rose Tyler and Donna Noble, they're friends of mine, I just ran into them outside, didn't know they were coming." Martha said with a convincing lie and Tish looked confused.

"I know neither of those names was on the list," Tish said and Martha rolled her eyes at Tish's back.

"Special invitation," Rose said flashing the physic paper at her and Tish still looked less then convinced.

"I've never heard of Torchwood," Tish said looking back at Rose warily.

"It's a tech company," Rose told her and Martha flashed a questioning look at Rose, meeting her eyes. Rose waited just a moment then just barely shook her head no.

"So, is Lazarus your boss?" Rose asked after a few moments of silence. Tish, while still looking a bit wary brighten as she nodded her head.

"Professor Lazarus and yes, I'm part of his executive staff." She told them and no one could miss the pride in her voice and Martha chuckled just a little.

"She's in the PR department," She said and Tish turned and glared at her. "I'm the head of the PA department, thank you." She huffed tightening her hold on the little leather folder she was carrying.

"Seriously?" Martha asked and Tish nodded her head.

"I put this whole thing together," She said looking around and Martha was impressed.

"Any idea what the good professor is doing tonight?" Rose asked as she looked over to the large frosted glass chamber standing in the middle of the room. There were four pillars surrounding it, each tapered in towards the chamber at the top. "Because that looks like a sonic microfield manipulator," Rose said and Martha and Donna's eyes went large and Rose blinked after the words left her mouth.

"Well of course they're geeks, should have known if they're your friends," Tish said looking from Rose to Martha and smiled thinly. "I have to get back to work, have fun." She said then turned and walked away.

"Rose do you have any idea what that means?" Donna asked and Rose took a deep breath and looked at her.

"I think so, maybe," Rose said as she rubbed her head. "It's just kinda there, maybe it's something I've heard the Doctor talk about before?" Rose asked and the other two nodded, though they didn't look convinced.

"Martha," They all three turned as an older woman and a young man came walking towards them.

"Hi mum," Martha said with a smile. "Leo, you look amazing." He chuckled and shrugged.

"Yeah well if anyone asks me to fetch them a drink I'm gonna swing for'um," Leo said and the girls and laughed along with him.

"Mum, Leo, these are some friends of mine, Rose Tyler and Donna Noble. They work for a tech company; I didn't even know they were coming tonight." Martha said with a laugh and her mum looked at them.

"Friends?" She asked looking Rose and Donna over with a critical eye. Rose almost winced at that look; she knew that look; that was the look of a mum who wasn't sure you were good enough to hang out with her kid.

"Yes, good friends, Rose, Donna, this is my mum, Francine," Martha said and finally Francine smiled a little at them.

"Nice to meet you Mrs. Jones," Donna said with a tone that made it clear to Rose that she'd seen the 'look' as well and didn't appreciate it.

"Yes, so nice to meet you." Rose said with a warm smile. "I've heard so much about you." Rose said which strictly wasn't true, but most mums were the same, weren't they?

"Oh, she's never mentioned you." Francine said and Rose took a deep breath.

"Well I meet Rose right after the thing with the moon yeah, haven't seen you but once since then," Martha cut in and Rose smiled at her. They all looked up when they heard the sound of a fork on crystal and the lights began to dim a bit. Professor Lazarus, a man in his late 70's, was tapping on his wine glass. Rose stepped forward just a little and Donna and Martha flanked her and Rose felt a bit of a jolt of pride go through her. They were ready for anything. Was this how the Doctor felt, traveling with companions, was this way he did it?

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Professor Richard Lazarus and tonight I am going to perform a miracle." He paused for a moment as cameras flashed all around them. "It is, I believe, the most important advance since Rutherford split the atom, the biggest leap since Armstrong stood on the moon. Tonight, you will watch and wonder. Tomorrow, you will wake to a world which will be changed forever." He handed his glass and his cane to a woman in a lab coat and turned and opened the door in the glass camber and stepped inside.

Rose watched as the two woman began turning things on. She could follow the progress a bit better then she thought she should. It was as if things inside her mind were flipping on. She'd been thinking a bit faster of late, but until now she hadn't gained any inexplicable knowledge. The Doctor had told her that her mind would work faster now, but he hadn't said anything about her mind suddenly having the kind of information that he had. Rose blinked as the pillars began to spin around the chamber, blue and green lights pulsing from them.

"Martha I think-" Rose was cut off when an alarm started to blare in the room and Rose winced. "Something has gone wrong, it's overloading." She told Martha before she looked over to the two women franticly trying to fix things. Sparks flew out of one of the towers and she plunged her hand into her pocket and pulled out her sonic pen. She ran over to the table and vaulted over it and began to work on the computers.

"Do you know what you're doing?" Donna hissed at her as she and Martha tried to back people up. Rose pulled a wire lose and soniced it and then replaced it and spared Donna a fleeting glance.

"Honestly Donna I have no idea what I'm doing," Rose told her and Donna's eyes went large. "But I know it'll work."

"Someone get her away from there!" Rose didn't have to look up to know it was the older women she'd seen with the Professor earlier.

"Listen lady, if this thing explodes it's gonna take out this whole building, you included, is that what you want?" Rose growled at her as she continued her work. She growled in frustration as the computer sent sparks flying out. "Shit!" She yelled waving her burnt hand. "Ah!" She said jamming her sonic pen into a port and yanking out a power cord. The noise and sparks died down slowly as the spinning of the pillars slowed to a stop as well. They all stood there, staring at her, till the door creaked open. Rose watched as a man barely into his 30's staggered out of the chamber and looked around. Rose grabbed her sonic and ran over to where Martha and Donna were standing with Martha's family. The young man seemed slightly stunned as he looked at his hand and then touched his face softly his eyes going wide as he smiled brilliantly. He stepped out of the machine, his stagger mostly gone now.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Richard Lazarus." He hollered as he raised his hands above his head. "I am seventy six years old and I am reborn!"

~*~Four~*~

"How far along are you?" The Doctor asked as he helped his very pregnant wife up onto a birthing bed, one that had not been in the medbay last time he was in it just a few days ago.

"Just shy of 42 weeks," Rose told him as her breath began to pick up again and she hissed out in pain. "Another one," She gritted out as he helped her get her legs up onto the bed.

"Please tell me I didn't leave you completely alone to go swan off on some mission with Jack," he said as he began to set up the machines to take hers and the baby's vitals.

"No, like I said you left me with Martha and Mickey," Rose told him deciding that if he really was going to make himself forget this she may as well stop making herself concentrate on keeping things from him. He felt it as her shields dropped a bit. "Martha is a full time doctor now; she works with Jack, at Torchwood." She told him and he nodded then they both broke out into huge smiles when a fast double heartbeat filled the room.

"So somehow we're going to get Mickey back?" He asked and Rose looked at him and her smile grew as she nodded her head. "Are they going to be worried about you?"

"I left them a note then took the TARDIS to come find you," She told him as he went about getting everything and anything he thought he might need. "Granted I was looking for a different you, but like I said, when I remembered you not being able to come tonight I thought it might be because of me." She took a deep breath and let it out on a hiss and chuckled, though it was a pain filled sound. "She's right, tenses are hard."

"Who's right?" He asked and Rose just smiled at him and winked.

"Spoilers," She told him and he tilted his head and she laughed.

"I thought you'd decided it was okay to tell me this stuff?" He asked and Rose just smirked at him and then winced and let out another groan.

"Oh, this...hmmmmm..." She hummed in pain, ending in a low pitched growl. The Doctor was timing it as she breathed, short breaths in, and moaning breaths out. It lasted a whole minute and Rose was panting a bit at the end of it.

"They're getting worse," The Doctor said and Rose glared up at him before her eyes softened just a little.

"Closer together too," She said swinging her legs off the bed. The Doctor just watched her, he wasn't about to tell her to stay put and the monitors would move with her, they were completely cordless. She stood on slightly shaky legs so he held out his arm to her and she took it and leaned on him a bit.

"Thanks, legs are restless, can't sit still," She told him and he nodded his head as they moved around the medbay. "Mum said she was the same way when she was pregnant. She just had to move around, said it drove Pete crazy, both of them." Rose chuckled and he bit his tongue. It made since, if they'd somehow found Mickey, that Jackie would be a given. Did that mean they'd found some way to travel back and forth or was she here, in this universe again.

"Rose is she..."

"Yeah, she is, her and Pete and Tony, they live in Scotland." She told him and he nodded his head and Rose stopped and put her hand on his chest. "I'm sorry you won't remember; that you won't be able to tell...me. I know I would have loved to have known back then, that I'd see mum again."

"Ah well, I'm sure you'd understand how important the time lines are," He said and she laughed lightly and nodded her head.

"Oh, another," She said and he pulled her arms up around his neck and put his hands on her hips and gently swayed her back and forth, talking to her as she breathed through the pain.

~*~Five~*~

"He can't be the same guy," Martha said as the three ladies watched him clink glasses with any number of people, cameras flashing all around him. Rose shook her head as she studied Lazarus then turned back to studying the pillars outside the glass cylinder. Something seemed off, something about him was making her skin crawl.

"No, not a trick, that would be to easy," Rose said with a sigh as she turned back and looked at Martha and Donna before she pulled out her sonic pen and set it to scan.

"Well what the hell was that then?" Donna asked looking from Rose to the cylinder she was studying.

"He just changed what it means to be human," Rose told her with an odd look in her eyes. "I have a really bad feeling about this." Rose watched as the old woman that had yelled at her before walked over and began shooing away the media and young women before taking his arm and flashing him a bright smile.

Rose could see that Lazarus wasn't all that interested in talking to the now very much older than him women. He nodded politely as his eyes scanned the rest of the room. He said something to her and then his back suddenly went stiff and he gasped and his whole body shuddered. Rose looked over her shoulder at Martha and Donna, who were both staring at him as well.

She turned around just in time to see him grab a tray from a passing waiter before stuffing his face with food from it. The women gapped at him before scolding him. Rose stepped away from the cylinder and Martha and Donna followed her.

"I'm famished," Lazarus said as they approached and Rose wondered just how many things could have gone wrong in there.

"Need to replenish your energy," Rose told him with a bright smile, the kind she'd seen the Doctor flash at people, she knew it was meant to be disarming, but a lot of the time it just came across as smug, but she didn't think she'd have that problem. "Always happens with this kind of thing."

"You speak as if you see this every day, Misses?" Lazarus said with a bit of a sneer and Rose had to keep herself from rolling her eyes at him. She'd thought with the loss of the obvious dye job she might get a bit more respect, but that didn't seem to be happening.

"Agent, Tyler. Rose Tyler, and really I've only seen something like this the one time." She said with a smirk as his eyes roamed over her after she said 'agent'.

"That's not possible," Lazarus said smugly and now Rose rolled her eyes.

"You used hypersonic sound waves to create a state of resonance. That's pretty incredible," Rose said the words though she really wasn't sure where they came from. And even as she spoke she started to understand the theory behind what they were talking about. She almost wondered if this was some part of the TARDIS. Like the translation circuit, could she somehow be feeding Rose the information she needed?

"You understand the theory, then." His voice was dripping in shock and Rose sighed and glared at him, just the tiniest bit.

"Well, a bit, enough to know you couldn't have worked out all the problems," She told him and now he glared at her.

"No experiment is entirely without risk." Lazarus said with an air of 'you mortals wouldn't understand' and Rose wanted to punch him.

"That thing almost blew up, you may as well have stepped into a wood chipper," Rose told him her hackled up a bit now. Martha touched her shoulder and Rose calmed down.

"Young lady, I highly doubt you are qualified to comment." The old lady said and Rose rounded on her.

"'Young lady?' If I hadn't stepped in and stopped that thing they'd be picking pieces of you off the ceiling." She said and the lady paled just a little.

"Well then I thank you, Agent Tyler. But that's a simple engineering issue. What happened inside the capsule was exactly what was supposed to happen. No more, no less." He said holding his arms out as if his standing there was proof of that.

"You've no way of knowing that until you've run proper tests," Martha told him hotly and Donna felt just a little on the outside here, having no medical experience at all.

"Look at me." He said swiping his hands down over his body. "You can see what happened. I'm all the proof you need."

"This device will be properly certified before we start to operate commercially," The old lady said with a bright smile at Lazarus before she glared at Rose and Martha.

"Oh yeah, I see that going well," Donna chimed in and Martha nodded her head.

"That'll cause chaos," Martha added and Rose wondered if she should let the Doctor know what was going on. But he'd been so insistent he couldn't come, whatever he was doing must be important, she'd wait, see how things went, couldn't be too bad right?

"Not chaos, change. A chance for humanity to evolve, to improve." Lazarus spouted the tag line of a future comical and Rose shook her head.

"This isn't about betterment of human kind," She told him hotly. "This is about you making lots of money and your customers living longer."

"Not a little longer, Agent Tyler. A lot longer. Perhaps indefinitely," He told her with a wiggle of his eyebrows. He snagged a glass off a passing tray and drained the champagne in one gulp. He put the glass down on a table right next to them and smiled.

"Richard, we have things to discuss, upstairs," The older lady said taking his arm before glaring at all three of them.

"Goodbye, Agent Tyler. In a few years, you'll look back and laugh at how wrong you were." Lazarus told her smugly and Rose waited till his back was turned before she rolled her eyes.

"What a posh prick," Donna said and Rose let out a short snort of laughter.

"So, now what?" Martha asked and they both looked to Rose and she frowned. She knew what the Doctor would do now, he'd investigate, try and found out what, because there was definitely something, went wrong with Lazarus's change.

"I'm not sure..." Rose said thinking hard. "The Doctor would probably wanna take a closer look at the machine, or maybe at his DNA, since we're in a huge lab, but I wouldn't know what to look for." Rose said with a deep sigh.

"You sure about that?" Martha asked and Rose rubbed the back of her neck.

"I'm not really sure what's going on, seems like I'm tapping into his brain almost, but I'm not doing it on purpose." Rose shook her head and looked around. "Doesn't matter any way, we don't have any of his DNA."

"Would this work?" Donna asked and Rose and Martha looked over at her. She was holding Lazarus' champagne glass in her fingers and Rose smiled at her.

"Donna, you are amazing!" she said as she scanned the exits. "This way," she told them and they all headed toward the back and a set of lifts. Rose soniced the controls to unlock them and they all stepped in when the doors opened.

"Going up," Rose said with a huge smile on her face.

~*~Six~*~

"I wasn't going to ask, but I can't seem to stop myself," The Doctor said as he and Rose wandered around the much larger than normal medbay. "Have I-

"Technically, no," Rose told him and he gave her the oddest look and she giggled.

"What does that mean?" He asked and she grimaced and then gasped.

"oh...oh...ohhhh," She cried out putting her hand to belly. He helped her sway through again through the pain, rubbing his hands up and down her back slowly as she growled through the pain. When it had passed she took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"Think it might be time to check your progress," He said and she nodded her head.

"Better, yeah," She agreed and they walked over to the bed together. "Feeling a bit like I need to start pushing," She said and his eyes went wide.

"Okay," he said though his voice sounded a bit breathy. "Let's get a look at you then."

A/N- Sorry for the long time away, life gets in the way sometimes. I'm not abandoning this story, I have lots planned for it! :-) Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving (if you celebrate.) The next part of this will be out sometime this month. As always I love hearing from the readers so much! :-)