Give Her Back To Me

Title: Give Her Back To Me

Author: yeknodelttil

Series: Doctor Who

Rating: K+

Genre: Romance

Spoilers: New Earth

Characters: Doctor (tenth), Rose,

Disclaimer: Roses are red, Violets are blue, I don't own them, So pretty please don't sue!

Author's Note: Sorta an episode tag. Ps thanx for reminding me Theta is the nickname.

Summary: Why did the Doctor seem more persistent than usual when it came to protecting and saving Rose?

'Oh I love this, can I just say travelling with you, I just love it!' 'Me too.' 'I want that body safe Cassandra' – the Doctor, New Earth

"What are you smiling at?" The Doctor asked as he finished the start up sequence, smiling himself.

"Nothing." Rose Tyler had that cheeky glint in her eye.

"Tell me." He ordered as she took off her rucksack and hat. Rose strolled up to the Doctor pulling off her jacket as she did so.

"Nope…" She could here his frustration. "So where are we going?"

"Further than we've ever gone before." He grinned at her grabbing her hand and squeezing it gently, the smile he received made his hearts flutter, he leaned forward to give her a peck on the cheek when the TARDIS lurched suddenly and he found himself kissing her lips instead. He met no resistance, then again he never did; the kiss was gentle and loving. "I think we've arrived." He mumbled as they pulled apart, Rose simply nodded, "Come on."

Once he'd finished introducing her to New Earth he'd pulled her away from the TARDIS to a grassy clearing and lay down on his raincoat with her close to him.

"So are you gonna tell me what that was about?"

"What 'what' was about?" She tried not to giggle at his mock exasperation. "Oh you mean the smiling?"

"Now we're getting somewhere!" Rose gently whacked him around the head, "So…"

"Before I said goodbye to mum and Mickey…"

"Mickey the idiot." The Doctor's eyes always darkened to almost black when Mickey was mentioned now she knew first hand that it came from jealousy. Even so she felt his arm tighten round her waist. Rose slipped out of his grasp and straddled him; leaning down her hair fell in a curtain around their faces as she pressed a quick kiss to his lips.

"Don't interrupt!" She rolled her eyes at him. "Before I said goodbye I'd found something out." Rose took a deep breath and rushed out her words. "I'mpregnantDoctor."

"Sorry I didn't catch that," His coffee brown eyes looked at hers questioningly.

"I am pregnant." She slowly spelt out the words for him knowing full well that this would come as more of a shock to him than to her. When he let go of her after about a minute her eyes started to glisten with tears of rejection.

"You...you…you…mean in…there is…" Rose nodded.

"The last Time Lord." Her hands went up to her face to hide the tears that were falling.

"Fantastic, that's fantastic!" He cried placing his hand on her tummy where their child rested. He knew something was different in the universe, he could feel it know he knew what: there was another Time Lord or Lady. At his touch Rose looked at him again, his smile nearly made his face split in two, he looked at her and wiped away the tears that remained. "I think we should get a check up."

"Now?" Before she could add more he pulled her down to him and kissed her deeply.

"Yes now. I wanna see how the little one's doing and how far along you are." Rose sighed in defeat and rolled off him.

"Can't we visit New New York?"

"Not until we've been to Ward 26. Message on the physic paper." She glared at him. "Come on you know I had to bring you here for a reason." When he flashed puppy dog eyes at her she just melted and grinned at him.

"Okay then but not too fast. Don't want there to be any problems with the little one." She found herself squealing as he lifted her up and carried her towards the hospital. Rose wrapped her arms around his neck, she took the opportunity to nibble on his ear.

"You know I get the feeling the little Time Lord was conceived the first time I carried you like this." He brushed his hand up and down her back as she laid her head on his shoulder.

"A few days after Christmas I remember you took me to Barcelona the planet. I never did get to see too much sight seeing. I so wanted to see those dogs with no noses." She giggled at him.

"Your mum and Mickey have no idea we went there do they?" Rose shook her head. "We were back before anyone noticed we were gone. I seem to remember going to a festival of the moons and someone drinking too much Jadastra Juice." He grinned at her.

"I wasn't the only one you know, you're the one who started it."

"You weren't in too much of a hurry to complain though were you?" The Doctor put her down as they neared the hospital.

"I was just curious that's all." Rose lifted her arms and wrapped them around his neck, his own wrapping around her waist. "The next thing I remember is waking up with you in my bed."

"Your bed? If I remember it was my bed." She laughed at his retaliation.

"I can't believe that once I'd gotten to know the new you I'd slept with you," he smiled at her, "Don't use your charm on me you know it won't work." He gently kissed her leaving her no doubt how he felt towards her, she licked her lips once they'd parted immediately she hugged him tightly. "I want you to know that I love you Theta."

"I love you too Rose." He hugged her back. "Hang on how do you know my nick name?" She grinned up at him.

"The TARDIS told me. She's really good at letting others know exactly what you don't want them to know." He frowned and blushed with embarrassment at the same time it looked quite funny to Rose and she couldn't help laughing at his expression. She managed to compose herself but only held it for a few seconds before bursting out laughing once more.

"Come on I don't want to be too long I hate hospitals." Rose gave him a funny luck.

"That's a bit rich coming form you."

"I can't help it I don't like hospitals they give me the creeps." He told her as they walked through the main doors and towards the lifts.

This wasn't his Rose, his Rose would never ever force herself on him like she'd just done, he wouldn't kiss her back because she knew for a fact it wasn't her especially when she knew exactly how to get into the sub systems of the hospital. Who ever had changed his Rose had better not have hurt the baby or there would be hell to pay.

At the moment he was having a debate with a cat. A cat of all things he knew Rose would side with him or she should've this one didn't, he took his opportunity to question the cat about it.

"What I can't understand is what you've done to Rose." Behind him he felt Rose tense up.

"We have done nothing to her."

"I'm being very, very calm," He told the feline nurse as he advanced on her gritting his teeth as he choked out the words. "You wanna be aware of that very, very clam and the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing; whatever you've done to Rose's head I want it reversed!" The next thing he knew was that he was in a stasis chamber talking to Lady Cassandra in Rose's body. "What have you done to Rose?" He started to panic not for himself but for Rose. "You've stolen her body, just let her go Cassandra." When the other nun's turned up he couldn't hear what was going on properly as soon as he was freed of the chamber he ran after Rose/Cassandra. Ahead he could hear her screaming he picked up his pace.

"What do we do?" She said in that posh hoity-toity accent.

"We go down and I want that body safe Cassandra!" The longer she didn't know about the baby the better he didn't want to take the risk she'd hurt it.

After a few arguments over Rose's body most of which involved 'Give her back to me' and 'I order you to leave her' as well as a few possessions of his own one he distinctly remembered as Rose admitting she was attracted to him; he had managed to get Cassandra to work with him. All he could hear was Cassandra's high-pitched scream as the descended along the lift cable. He was more than happy when they reached the bottom.

"I say…that's one way to lose weight!" Cassandra piped up. At that point he just snapped he couldn't handle it any more.

"That weight you're so eager to lose is my son or daughter, so would you please keep the comments to minimum?"

"She's pregnant?" Cassandra exclaimed, she went to rest her hand on Rose's tummy, Theta managed to grab her hand before she could.

"Don't you dare do that while you're in her body do you understand me?" He looked at her. "Do you understand?"

"Yes." She mumbled. He didn't know why it bothered him so much it just did. "What are you doing?" She asked changing the subject as he fiddled with all the vaccines.

"Creating a cocktail I do know a bit about medicine myself."

As they reached the TARDIS after leaving Cassandra Rose decided to repeat their earlier greetings without an audience.

"Hello," Rose said to him again.

"Hello!" He grinned, "Welcome back." He held her worried for both her and the baby. "Hoes the tot?"

"I think its fine. We were both supposed to find out how far along I was," She looked down.

"Oh yea." He pulled out his screwdriver and pointed it at her scanning her stomach. "You're 2 months pregnant. It fits." Rose pulled back slightly,

"Why did I have to come to the hospital if you only had to do that? You said I needed a proper check up."

"I didn't want you to get into danger again."

"That really worked this time." She rolled her eyes in mock annoyance. "I think we're gonna have to pop home to explain this." She gestured to where their child lay.

"True." He once more slipped his arm around her and kissed her deeply letting his tongue meet hers, she moaned, and he was glad that he could kiss her properly again.

"Because…Mum'll…want to know…I think you'll…be murdered if…I…turned…up heavily pregnant…" She gasped out in-between kisses "I don't think she'll approve of not knowing Theta she'll hit you again." She spoke once they'd parted, he nodded in agreement.

"How are we going to explain that it was two months to us but a week to them?" Theta didn't like the way her face lit up with an evil grin, he gulped at the sight. With a parting kiss she left, her final advice on the subject echoing down the halls.

"You're the Doctor you can."

The End