AN: Written for the Prompt Meme in LJ Denial: Jenny, not!Nick, finding out the differences
Jenny could tell every difference between him and the original.
He smiled more than Cutter had ever done in her presence. He had a foible for silly romantic comedies and liked breaded broccoli.
The first time he had sniffed at a bunch of daffodils she had had some antihistamines ready but he didn't react to the flowers at all. Instead, he began to sneeze every time Lester came close. Something in the civil servant's aftershave seemed to tick him off.
She had been pleasantly surprised when she had learnt he preferred to urinate in a sitting position. To clean up after Cutter when he had missed had been distasteful work and had led to some heated discussions every time he had stayed overnight in her flat.
The clone certainly wasn't a man of many words but when he'd kissed her gently and started to explore her body, Jenny had realised that talking was overrated anyway. Nick Cutter had bored her stiff on many evenings with his Anomaly theories and lectures about evolutionary zoology and she'd slowly come to an understanding of why his wife had run away.
But she had noticed the biggest difference four months ago when her periods had suddenly stopped.
Cutter had told her from the start that his marriage had been childless because he wasn't be able to father a child, something to do with his low sperm count. She hadn't minded at the time, not knowing how badly she soon would wish for a child when her biological clock started to tick.
It had hurt when Nick Cutter had left her to explore the Anomalies with Stephen and she had been amazed when Helen had shown some sympathy.
But the Cutter clone Helen had created as a farewell gift before she had followed the two men had been a cold comfort at first until she had started to get to know him better.
Helen had described the clone as an inferior copy but Jenny now thought otherwise.
As her newlywed husband closed his arms gently around her steadily growing belly, she smiled happily about the secret she had discovered about the clone. In reality he was an improved version.