This story takes place between the chapters of 'An Adventure of a Lifetime' and 'Several Months Later' of 'Unanswered Questions'. I forgot to mention it, but thanks for reading said story and I hope you enjoy reading this one.
Once again, Alexia MacInarah found herself being pulled towards the TARDIS and into the Console Room, the door closing shortly after.
John-David Smith, the Metacrisis Doctor, looked up from where he was sitting on the jumpseat with his feet up on the console. Alexia thought he actually looked surprised. "I take it she's coming with us?" He asked, standing up and pulling the lever that sent them into the Vortex.
"Aye, she is," Jaime answered. "I'm jus' showin' her around." She looked at her mum. "This is the Console Room!"
Alexia laughed at this. "I know what the Console Room looks like. I've seen it so many times on 'Doctor Who'."
"Aye, but this is real!" The Scots-girl exclaimed.
Alexia smiled at this. "True." She uttered before she was pulled over to the other door that led into the inner TARDIS.
"If you're attempting to show her every room in the TARDIS then you'll be doing it forever." J.D called after them, chuckled and shook his head before sitting down again.
"He's got a point you know," Alexia said as they walked up the corridor. "The interior of the TARDIS can go on for an infinity."
A giggle came from her daughter. "I know tha'. Which is why I'm only gannin' tae show ye some of the rooms." She replied. "Ye could explore the rest on ye own and get lost along the way."
Alexia shook her head. "I hardly think I'm going to get lost!" She said, but she saw a knowing smile appear on Jaime's face. "Jaime?" She questioned, worried a little.
"Come on!" Jaime pulled her mum along the corridor again. "I've got someone tae show ye."
The mother and daughter soon came across the door of the Medbay and Jaime hurried in, pulling her protesting mother with her. When Alexia stopped and let go of Jaime's hand she looked around the room, spotting the Doctor performing Medical checks on a young blonde girl. A certain blonde she last saw in a hospital room in her original universe. A big grin appeared on her face.
"Jenny!" She called out and the young Time Lady looked over and smiled happily when she saw Alexia.
The Doctor also looked up and frowned when he saw Jaime's mum. He'd felt the TARDIS leave for the Vortex. Did that mean Alexia was their newest companion? And he really didn't like the fact that he'd be travelling with somebody's mother. Even if it was Jaime's mum.
The woman in question hurried over to the bed Jenny sat on and hugged her. Jaime watched with a small smile as The Doctor stood back with a sigh.
"Look at you," Alexia said, running her hand through Jenny's blonde hair. "You've hardly aged a bit!"
Jenny grinned at the compliment. "You haven't either." She replied.
A faint smile appeared on Alexia's face and she shook her head. "No, I'm in my thirties now but sometimes I feel much older than that." Having a child with special needs, followed by strange abilities, that needed 24 hour care would likely do that to a parent. Even more so to a single parent. "But enough about me, are you okay?" She then asked Jenny with a serious expression. "They didn't hurt you or anything, did they?" Because it must be serious of the Doctor was giving her a medical check.
Jenny shook her head. "No, it's not what you're thinking," she replied. "I escaped with the help of…a friend," Jenny had noticed and felt the tension whenever she mentioned her friend Tom. "Except they found me again so I jumped out of the window of the top floor of Canary Wharf…" Alexia gasped and her eyes widened. "But that's okay too because my sister saved me."
A frown appeared on the woman's face. "Sister?" She asked, confused and taking a step back from the young Time Lady. Since when did Jenny have a sister? "Who…" She trailed off.
"Tha's me." Jaime chirped and Alexia looked over at her daughter, still frowning. "Jenny's my sister!"
Alexia raised her brows in surprise. "Oh, is she? I wasn't aware I gave birth to TWO children!" She uttered in a bemused way and both Jaime and Jenny felt her annoyance. "Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on here?" Alexia raised her voice in anger.
The Doctor grimaced at her reaction. "There's nothing to worry about. Jenny and Jaime share a sibling connection." He explained, only to falter and look nervous when Alexia silently glared at him with her hands on her hips.
Jaime sighed and shook her head, recognising the look on her mother's face. The 'tell me now or else' look. Her mum rarely got angry, but when she did it was best to tell her real quick.
"The connection formed when Jaime was only three years old," The Doctor continued. "When they first started experimenting on her."
A faint nod was seen from Alexia as it appeared she understood the consequences, yet Jaime and Jenny could still feel her anger.
"That's how I found you!" Jenny spoke up. "The bond led me to Jaime. And then I knew I had to warn you."
Both girls felt the anger dissipate from Alexia as she smiled faintly. "Okay, fine." Her hands left her hips and she looked at Jenny again. "Thank you," she said to the young Time Lady. "Because if you hadn't, who knows what could have happened!" She didn't even want to think about it.
"It's okay," Jenny said, smiling now, happy that Alexia was happy. "I did what I had to do."
Alexia nodded silently before speaking up. "So, in this absolutely crazy universe of The Doctor, you're both bonded together by a sibling connection. I stopped asking what was normal once I found out my Jaime had superpowers." She suddenly frowned in thought, realising something before looking at Jenny again. "Hold on! Did you say you jumped from the top floor of Canary Wharf?" Alexia asked Jenny.
"Yeah," Jenny replied. "Right out of a window."
Stunned, Alexia shook her head in disbelief. "How exactly were you saved from such a fall? Did the Doctor use the TARDIS?" She was thinking of the time when River jumped out of an unfinished building and the TARDIS was there to save her. When she looked over at The Doctor he was shaking his head.
"It was me," Jaime spoke up. "I flew after her."
Alexia stared at her daughter. "You flew?" She asked.
"Aye!" Jaime nodded.
"You can fly? You can actually fly?"
Jaime could feel her mum's shock over learning that she could fly. "Aye. I dinnae know how long I can fly 'cause I've only done short spurts. But it always comes in handy."
Alexia took a deep breath. "So, not only can you fly, but you can mind read, astral project, sense feelings, cross dimensions. What else can you do as a super-psychic, Jaime?" She questioned her daughter.
"Quite a lot as it happens!" The Doctor spoke up. "Just think 'Jean Grey' from X-Men…" This time it was Jaime who halted him in his tracks by glaring at him.
"Jean Grey?" The woman uttered. "She died and was resurrected as Phoenix, went loopy and began attacking everyone…" She didn't notice the guilty expression appear on Jaime's face for several seconds. "…I rather you wouldn't refer to my daughter that way." She admonished the Doctor.
The Time Lord silently held up his hands in defence before walking off, muttering things under his breath.
Jaime gave a hint of a smile at his reaction. "It's Omni-Psychic," She then corrected her mother. "Or Psionic Manipulator. And I'm no' the only one with superpowers."
Alexia stared, confused. "What? Who else has them?" She asked.
"I do!" Jenny spoke up and Alexia looked at her out of surprise.
"Really? How did that even happen? Did they experiment on you too? Are you an Omni-Psychic like Jaime?" She fired off her questions in rapid succession.
Jenny stumbled over her words so The Doctor stepped in. "It was the terraforming device," he began to explain. "The chemicals in it meant to terraform a planet is what gave Jenny the superpowers in the first place. It's how she was able to regenerate after being shot. The powers only manifested when MI6 started messing around with her biology." Eyes wide, Alexia nodded as she listened to The Doctor. "And she's more than what Jaime is. Her Psionics are off the scale."
"She's the reason I'm a Psionic Manipulator." Jaime added, watching as The Doctor walked over to his daughter and ran his hand through her hair before kissing her on the forehead. Jenny smiled happily.
"And I almost lost her again after MI6 shot her multiple times." He stated.
Alexia gasped and looked at Jenny in shock, yet she appeared to be fine. "She's looking well for a multiple shooting victim." She said.
"I heal very quickly." Jenny answered.
"Yes, I can see that!" Alexia replied with a chuckle. It did make her wonder if Jaime healed the same way as Jenny. A cough from Jaime caught her attention and when she looked over at her daughter she appeared to look sheepish and shifty. "Are you okay, Jaime?" She wondered.
"Aye, fan-dabby-dozy!" Jaime uttered before looking over at the Doctor. "Have ye no' bonded with Jenny yet?" She asked the Time Lord. "'Cause I can sense tha' she feels confused over no' knowin' how tae be an actual Time Lady," she felt her mum's curiosity. "She only knows how tae fight or shoot a gun." Jaime explained to her mum. "She's yet tae understand the shared history of the Time Lords."
"Oh yes, I get you." Alexia muttered, annoyed that her daughter had read her mind again.
"No," the Doctor spoke up. "I was going too until you came storming in." Jaime's face went red in embarrassment. "To do so requires privacy because it's going to be long and arduous."
The Scots-girl nodded, getting what he meant." "Alright, I was jus' askin'." She said and walked over to her sister and hugged her. Jenny hugged back. "Ye'll be okay," she promised the young Time Lady. "It won't even hurt." Once she stepped back, Jaime took her mum's hand and they exited the Medbay to leave the Doctor and Jenny with their task.