It was an early evening in Cardiff and a girl in her middle teens walked through the Plass on her own. Jaime MacInarah had a bit of a habit of wandering off and getting into trouble. She had been visiting the Doctor Who Experience with her mum and had been quite fascinated by it. Doctor Who was her all time favourite TV show with the Tenth Doctor being her favourite Doctor...despite his tragic life.
Jaime had shoulder length auburn hair, wearing it loose, whilst she wore a Khaki coloured hoodie and cargo pants with a dark blue medium sleeved t-shirt. The footwear were camouflage converse. She heard her mum call her name from somewhere from across the Plass and was about to turn around when there was there was a bright flash of light and Jaime tripped up, finding herself on the ground on all fours. "What the hell was that?" She muttered, her North-East accent prominent. She stumbled back to her feet, only to have a dizzy spell and fall back to the ground. "What the...Mam, what happened?" She shouted. "Surely that wasn't normal." She mumbled. "Mam?" Where was she? Everything was spinning so Jaime put her hands over her face to stop the dizziness. It felt really weird.
"Over here Jack!" Called a female voice, Welsh. "Practically right outside the hub too. That was lucky." A male voice, American, stated. "Hey, let me help you up." Somebody took her hand and pulled her back to her feet...at least the dizziness had stopped. When she looked around she found she was still in Cardiff, only something was off, different. Where was her mum? Shouldn't she be here by now? "Are you okay? What year are you from?" One of the voices asked. Looking at the two people stood before her Jaime gasped and stepped back. "Either I'm having a brain tumour of some sort or a new series of Torchwood is being filmed...and that's really cool!" She grinned because stood before her were the characters of Gwen Cooper and Jack Harkness, played by Eve Myles and John Barrowman. "Sorry, you lost me on 'new series'." Jack spoke up. "What were you doing before you turned up and what year are you from?" Jaime frowned at the odd question thrown to her by 'Jack Harkness.' "I was at the Doctor Who Experience with my mum over there!" She pointed and frowned. "In the year 2014. It's 2014 right now."
She pushed past the two characters "Mam?" She shouted. "MAM! Where are you?" It made no sense, it was like she had disappeared...or she was hiding. Why would she hide? Jaime turned back to the two actors. "But wouldn't that just break the fourth wall or something? And where are the cameras? Did she surprise me by making me an extra?" "What cameras?" Jack asked, ever the more confused. Jaime smiled. "You know, the cameras filming the new series. What would it be...five now?" But Jack sighed and shook his head while Jaime looked around for her mum. He realised the girl was more disoriented than first thought. "There's no such thing as 'The Doctor Who Experience'." Gwen told Jaime. "Yes there is! I was just there. Over there!" She pointed at a building where it SHOULD be. "With my mam. Where is she?"
"Darling, you've fallen through a rift and into the past. It's 2008...and we are Torchwood." Jaime looked shocked. Did that mean she really was in... "You mean there actually IS a rift in Cardiff?" She asked the lesser question. "Yes. Why are you surprised...and why would you think like that?" "What do you mean? Where I come from Torchwood was a TV show as well as Doctor Who..." Jack and Gwen glanced at each other, confused. "...You mean I've fallen into a universe where you're actually real?" Jaime's train of thought came back to her and Gwen nodded. "Is there a way to get back to my universe?" But Jack shook his head. "I'm sorry, but once you come through there is no way for you to get back." This news was bad and she was here without her mum. Did she even exist in this universe? The very thought was giving her a really bad headache. "I'm stuck here?" Her voice squeaked, suddenly not feeling all too well. "I'm sorry!" Jack said and Jaime's eyes widened when she had a thought. "NO! Wait. If I'm in the Torchwood universe does that mean The Doctor exists too?" Jaime saw reaction from Jack. "Of course," he said and looked at her suspiciously. "But how do you know about The Doctor?" "He's the TV show I mentioned, Doctor Who..." She was far too excited now despite feeling really sick. "Maybe HE can get me back home..." Jaime stumbled forward, feeling even worse than before. "I want to go home, you gotta call him, please!" Then she fainted in Jack's arms. "No doubt that's happened to you before!" Gwen said, smirking at Jack.
After taking the out cold young woman to the hub and placing her on the break room sofa, Jack went to call his close friend. As it turned out he was on Earth, after the events of that really weird star constellation, and the TARDIS had monitored a rift spike. Meanwhile Ianto and Gwen were checking on the girl. "Just an ordinary human?" Ianto asked, looking at the girl. At least it wasn't another Weevil. "Yeah," Gwen replied as she sat next to her. She's not from this universe apparently, kept muttering about how we were a TV show." "A TV show? Seriously?" Ianto sounded surprised. "Isn't Torchwood supposed to be secret?" "You're worried about that?" Gwen enquired. "I'm more bothered about the fact I'm a TV show character. I mean, I'm sitting right here!"
A soft whimper came from the girl, then calmed. "There, there." Gwen soothed. "You're going to be okay." Ten minutes later the young woman still hadn't woken up, but a strange wheezing, groaning sound filled the air around the hub, wind kicking up and blowing papers off desks, then a blue police public call box finally appeared with a thud. Another couple of minutes later and Jaime began to stir from her sleep when an annoying whirring began to invade her dream. She let out a moan that sounded somewhat annoyed and slowly opened her eyes.
"Oops. I think I woke her." A new voice spoke up. A small frown appeared on her face and she rubbed her eyes of the sleep, then looked at the owner of the voice...and gasped, eyes widening, before scrambling away from him with frightened whimpering. Gwen was at her side immediately in order to calm her down and comfort her. "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming!" Jaime muttered, taking in her surroundings. "I'm still dreaming." She closed her eyes, scared, frightened. "We'll that's probably the first time somebody has reacted to me in that way!" She heard that same person state. "Hmmm, I think the shock has finally gotten to her." Jack replied. "You're not dreaming sweetheart," he was now addressing her. "You really are in the Torchwood Hub. And it was you that suggested I should call The Doctor."
"Really?" The other voice sounded surprised. Jaime opened her eyes again and looked at The Doctor. His hair was unruly at best, his brown eyes enquiring. He was wearing his blue pinstripe suit with red converse and...he really DID look like David Tennant. "Doctor?" She squeaked. "Hello!" He said with a little wave and grin. Then he turned his attention to Jack. "She's human, traces of rift energy and no signs of psychic or telepathic readings. Just your plain old human being who's fallen through a space-time rift. Though I don't know her and never seen her before."
Jaime's heart skipped a beat. What had Jack told him? She struggled out of Gwen's hold and stood up, a determined expression on her face. "That's because you don't know me...I'm NOT a companion from the future or anything like that. I'm from another universe where you're all from TV shows. Jack from Torchwood and The Doctor from Doctor Who. And I thought calling The Doctor might help me get me back to my universe." "But once stuff comes through there's no way to get them back to their proper places." Jack told her only Jaime wasn't listening. "But I just want to go home! I don't even belong here." Now she was feeling rather emotional and still desperate. "I mean I obviously don't exist in this universe because it's not parallel, and that two universe might collapse. This is a different universe from mine and maybe The Doctor can get me back there."
But the news was as grave as ever. "That's not how it works." The Doctor spoke. "All universes are the same as the parallel world. If you try to go from one universe to another you'll cause an event collapse. I'm sorry but there's nothing I can do." Her eyes were wide and the news was indeed bad. Here she was, lost in the world of science fiction without her dear mum. Lonely and no home to go too. Just like The Doctor and this upset her the worst. "But...but there MUST be something you can do?" She was crying now and she couldn't stop it. "I just want to go home, I'm no...n...not s...s...up...upo...pose...d..." As she continued to try to talk she began to hyperventilate, getting more breathless by the second. "Uh-oh, is she hyperventilating?" Jack enquired. "Yes, she is." The Time Lord replied, sounding worried. This was a big problem in her life. It would only ever happen when she was under extreme stress.
The Doctor approached her and put his hands on her shoulders. "Right, okay. Take deep calming breaths and then tell me your name." Jaime did just that but she was barely listening. "J...J...Jai...a..." She gasped and it left her frustrated that she couldn't even tell him her name. She squeezed her eyes shut, then suddenly the lights blew out, a pizza box burst into flames and several objects were floating in mid-air. "What the hell? What's doing that?" Jack asked, helping Ianto put the fire out. Only no sooner had they done that another fire started at the work desks. Ianto rushed off to deal with it. The Doctor frowned at the possible problem, took his Sonic out and used it to scan Jaime. "What?" He said when he got the results. "But that's not possible. These readings are off the scale." He looked at Jaime with wide eyes. "There hadn't even been anything before!" "It's coming from her?" Jack sounded surprised. "Can you do anything?" He was pre-occupied by putting out fires. "Oh yes!" The Doctor changed a setting and pointed the sonic at Jaime...only for it to fly out of his hand and be thrown halfway across the hub.
"Okay, I wasn't expecting that." His eyes were wide, then a sudden wind kicked up within the hub, everyone's hair beginning to look a little worse for wear. "Doctor!" Jack shouted over the wind. "Do you want me to knock her out?" "Don't you dare Jack!" The Doctor shouted back and turned back to the girl. "Now why don't you just calm down." He asked, moving a little closer to her. "Can you do that for me?" Gwen just rolled her eyes. "Men! Don't you see? She's scared. She's been taken from her own universe and she's scared!" The Welshwoman moved towards the girl and pulled her into a hug and began to whisper words of comfort in her ear. Gwen felt her relax and she soon took her hands from her face to hug back the person who held her.
Shortly after that everything weird stopped. Floating things fell with a thud and the wind died down. "Brilliant! The domestic approach." The Doctor uttered with a grin. "Always works." Gwen just scowled at him until Jaime pulled away from her and put her hands on her head, a grimace of pain on her face. "Owww...my head." She groaned and stumbled forward before falling to the floor, out cold. Gwen immediately went to help her. "What's happened now?" Jack asked, who had come running over. "I'm not surprised." The Doctor spoke up. "With her using all those abilities at the same time it's bound to cause some sort of neurological damage." "Great! Now perhaps we should get her to sick bay." A sarcastic Gwen growled.
Once The Doctor retrieved his sonic screwdriver he followed the Torchwood crew into the sickbay where the girl was put on one of the beds. Then he started doing a deeper scan of the girl with his sonic. "Wow, this is just not possible!" He said. "What is it Doc?" Jack asked him. "There's five, perhaps a lot more Psychic abilities she has. Oh, they're strong but uncontrolled. Makes me wonder how long she's had them." The Time Lord turned to Jack. "What was she doing when you found her?" "She wasn't doing much at all. Just sitting on the ground with her hands over her face. Then she started ranting about TV shows." "Hmmm..." The whole 'him being a TV show' unnerved him but he put it to the back of his mind and continued his work. Soon she woke again with a frightened cry but continued to complain about the headache, so Gwen gave her a painkiller.
The Doctor said he wanted to talk to the girl alone so the Torchwood team happily obliged and left him too it. He sat next to the girl who just looked so far away and sad that it pulled at his hearts. "So, what's your name?" He asked the girl. "Jaime." She mumbled. "Jaime MacInarah." "And how old are you Jaime MacInarah?" He asked next. "17." Was the next mumbled answer and The Doctor now looked at her with surprise. Just seventeen and she had very strong uncontrolled powers. "And how long have you known about your psychic abilities?" The girl looked at him with a confused expression. "What do you mean? Is it the headache? Cos I only get them when I'm stressed. As well as the hyper...venting...thing..." "Hyperventilating you mean?" She nodded. "It's just so frustrating sometimes." Now it was The Doctor's turn to look confused. "Oh! You didn't know." He muttered, finally cottoning on. "Who told you it was stress?" "Mum did. She told me I shouldn't get stressed because of the...hyperventilating...and the headaches and I should be fine if I didn't have them." The Doctor grunted at this. A mother was protecting her daughter, hiding the abilities from her, but why? It was only causing them to build and do damage to her brain. Maybe it had already happened because she didn't seem like the ordinary Earth teenager you see walking about.
"And how long have you had these headaches?" He asked, testing. "As long as I can remember," Jaime replied. "Probably about three years old." The Doctor closed his eyes and shook his head. Long enough to cause permanent damage and he wondered what the hell was wrong with her mother for hiding such abilities. "Must be hard on your friends and family with all these 'headaches' of yours." Jaime stared down at the floor with a sad look on her face and The Doctor noticed this. "Jaime?" "Don't have any friends." She answered quietly. "Why not?" "People think I'm strange...I don't know why. And that mum home schooled me." The Doctor smiled at her, feeling sorry for the young teen. "Do you have a dad?" Jaime shook her head, frowning. "I can't remember ever seeing him. It's always been me and mum. She never leaves me." "So how come you were found on your own?" Jaime went red-faced at this. "I sometimes wander off." She said.
A sad look then appeared on her face and she sniffed. "I'm never going to see her again am I?" She asked and The Doctor looked at her with a sad smile, her expression showing a lot of emotion. "No, probably not," he replied. "I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry." The very words she didn't want to hear and she couldn't help it, the tears came and she cried freely in front of him. Feeling sorry for her even more The Doctor pulled her towards him in a hug in order to comfort her. "Come on, it's going to be okay!" He soothed, noticing something catch his eye. It was his sonic screwdriver floating in the air. 'Huh, interesting.' He snatched it and put it back in his pocket.
Jack heard a light tap on the door of his office and looked up when The Doctor entered. "Get anywhere?" He asked as the Time Lord sat down opposite him. "Quite a bit." He replied. "Her name is Jaime. Jaime MacInarah. I used to travel with a Jamie, Scottish. I wonder if it's the same spelling?" "Doctor!" Jack groaned, though he did like it when he went off track. "Right, yes, sorry. She's only seventeen and she doesn't even know of her powers." "What? How is that even possible?" "Her mum explained it away as having stress. Stress that makes things burst into flames or even causes wind indoors. There's no hiding that. She's got full-blown psychic abilities yet she doesn't even realise it." Jack noticed his friends expression was dark. "Doc, some people find that they can't handle it. Her mom probably had her reasons. I mean, have you read 'Firestarter'?"
The Doctor raised his brow. "Written by Stephen King. Charlie was born with pyrokinesis while her father had the Autohypnosis power and her mom had telekinetic powers. This was all because they tried some experimental drug called 'Lot 6'." "This isn't just some story Jack." "No, but Charlie and her dad were on the run from The Shop." "She did say she was home schooled but I'm not going to believe the whole secret government organisation thing." Jack grinned slightly at this. "Come to think of it, Charlie's dad suffered headaches and brain bleeds when he used his powers. The Doctor balked at this. "Jaime said she's been having those headaches since the age of three. Now imagine the amount of neurological damage those uncontrolled abilities are doing to her brain. You've seen it for yourself, she's smart but..." The Doctor tried to think of the right thing to say. "She's not all there." Jack finished for him and the Time Lord sighed. "If you want to put it that way, yes. Her mind wanders off to somewhere else then she'll come back again."
"Me and Gwen noticed that when we first found her. She'd talk about something, lose track, then continue on the same subject." They stayed quiet for a moment, thinking. "What's she doing now?" Jack asked. "Cried herself to sleep." The Doctor answered. "The thought of not being able to get back to her universe upset her." "So what do we do with her?" The immortal worried. "Torchwood isn't exactly the right environment for this girl to be in." The Doctor grunted at this, deep in thought. "You'd be right. And who knows what consequences could happen if other secret organisations or governments got wind of her. I think she'd be safer on the TARDIS." "Is that wise? What with all that power? And being from 2014 in a universe where you're apparently a TV character?" The Doctor narrowed his eyes at this. "Sure, her abilities are wild and uncontrolled but I can help her control them, give her some training. As for the other I think I can handle someone from the future. I'll just give her some rules and hope she sticks to them. Though I'm not too keen on being a TV character. I know I'm real, I'm definitely here." Jack grunted in agreement.
Jaime was waking up again after a short nap, although not on her own accord, as someone was gently pushing her. She opened her eyes and jerked back in fright until she remembered where she was in the Torchwood hub. "It's okay," The Doctor soothed. "Everything's going to be okay." Jaime smiled at the Doctor then noticed Jack was stood behind him. "Hey!" She muttered, sounding sleepy. "Hey to you too!" Jack replied. "Come on." The Doctor gently grabbed her hand and pulled her off the bed. "I've got something to show you." He led her out of the medical bay, followed by Jack, into the main hub where the TARDIS stood sentry. Jaime stared at it silently, wondering if he was going to leave her behind. "The TARDIS...I'm presuming you already know what it means." The Doctor said to her and she nodded. "Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Travels anywhere, anywhen in all space and time. 'The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried'." She now quoted. Jack was confused but The Doctor bristled a little. "That's exactly what I said to Rose when she entered the TARDIS for the very first time." He told his friend. "Wow, that's creepy." Jack replied.
They watched as she slowly approached the blue box and put her hand on it. She felt its engines humming and closed her eyes, feeling its comfort, it's intrigue and its warmth. Also it was a she. "Hello old girl!" She mumbled and felt it reply under her hand. She was soon joined by The Doctor. "Are you properly acquainted?" He asked making her jump because she hadn't noticed him. Jaime nodded and said, "she's beautiful." "You should see the inside of her." He looked back at Jack with a grin before turning his attention to Jaime. "Well, aren't you going to say goodbye to Jack and his team?" The Time Lord told her. "Huh?" But she was staring off into space, her eyes on the sign. The Doctor sighed at this and shook his head before nudging her.
Jaime blinked and looked at him with a smile. He repeated what he said and her eyes widened. "I'm coming with you?" She practically whispered. "Of course! I doubt this lot could look after you." Jaime looked back at Jack who had been joined by Gwen and Ianto. She ran to the Captain and gave him a hug. "Thank you. If it wasn't for you I'd still be out there lost and alone." "No problem sweetheart!" Jack replied with a grin. She did the same with Gwen and Ianto, then she finally returned to The Doctor who had opened the TARDIS door for her. With a sense if excited trepidation Jaime walked in...and gasped in wonder, staring around at the huge room. The Doctor closed the door behind him and hurried over to the console. "It's...it's..." He grinned, knowing she was going to say it. They all said it. "It's actually dimensionally transcendal!" She said instead and it caught The Doctor off guard. "What?" He practically squawked. It was noticed and Jaime's face went red. "Or bigger on the inside." She mumbled. A lever was pulled and the TARDIS was sent into the Time Vortex. "Right, Jaime." He gently walked her over to the jump seat and sat her down, her eyes wide.
"How is that spelled by the way?" "J-A-I-M-E." the teen spelled out and The Doctor grinned. "Nice spelling...welcome to The TARDIS. Now, a few rules. I know you're from the future and from another universe where I'm apparently a TV character..," he looked away with a frown. "...that's still a little weird if you ask me..." Jaime smiled nervously. "...but I don't want to know one bit of my future...do you understand that? Not one bit." Jaime nodded that she understood everything. "Good. Now we've got to pick up Donna." The teens attention was caught. "Hold on tight because she likes to show off to first time flyers. Allons-y!" He shouted as he took the hand brake off and the TARDIS began its rough journey. Jaime squealed in surprise and held in for dear life, stomach doing barrel rolls because of the motion sickness.
"What took you so long Space Man?" Donna sounded downright annoyed as she entered the TARDIS. Jaime stared wide-eyed at the older woman. "Sorry, had to take a bit if a detour." The Doctor apologised. "Where too? Mars?" She sarcastically asked then her eyes fell upon Jaime. "And who's this?" Despite the ginger companion being really confused about the new stranger on the TARDIS, Jaime, feeling scared, hid behind The Doctor. She'd almost been in a world of her own when the sound of Donna's voice interrupted her. "No, not Mars. Cardiff." The Time Lord replied and smiled sadly at the teen. "Donna Noble meet Jaime MacInarah." Donna raised her brow, expecting him to go on.
"There's a rift in Cardiff and she fell through her universe into ours." Donna gasped. "There are other universes?" "Yes, only Jaime here," he put his arm around her shoulders. "Came from a universe where we are TV characters." "Noo, get out of here. I'm real, right here." The Doctor chuckled at this and Jaime smiled nervously. "She's also from the future but that doesn't mean you can ask her about it." "Ooh, alright!" Donna held her hands in mock defence. "How did you find her anyway?" "Oh, a friend who works in the area called me about an interesting find that came through the rift. Turns out it was young Jaime here. Come on."
The Doctor guided the teen out of the console room and through the corridors. "Where are you taking her?" Donna enquired, following along behind. "The medbay." He replied. "Why? What's wrong with her?" Jaime looked up at him with wide scared eyes, wondering the same thing. "Just a little check up. She did fall through a rift after all." He replied to his older companion. "Hmmm..." Donna didn't believe that one bit. It was the look on his face that gave it away. The one where he was intrigued by something but couldn't quite comprehend it. There was something wrong with Jaime that was bothering him. Once they were in the medbay Jaime sat on the bed watching The Doctor sort out various medical equipment. He pulled an odd-looking machine towards her, noticing the look of suspicion on Jaime's face. "Don't worry," he told her as Donna watched on. "This handy little machine measures brainwaves. It's not going to hurt." He put the electrode helmet on her head and turned it on. None of the humans could understand what the Doctor was supposed to be doing, and since Jaime never had a proper hospital check up in all her life she was extremely nervous. "What exactly are you doing, Doctor?" Donna asked, feeling confused.
"Hold on, I'm getting there...ahh!" He uttered when he saw what he wanted. "Look at that Donna." The Time Lord pointed, excited. Donna did look but all she could make out where squiggly lines. "What am I supposed to be looking at?" She was annoyed. "Brainwaves!" Was the reply. "See these spikes? They show that there is a massive amount of activity in the centre of her brain." Jaime didn't understand. "What do...es t...t..th..." She closed her eyes in frustration as she tried to breathe normally and Donna noticed the spikes go off the scale. "So is that normal for a human?" Noticing both the spikes and the difficulty in breathing. 'No, it's not." The Doctor replied, turning to the teen. "Okay, Jaime, stay calm. You have to stay calm. Take deep calming breathes." "Well, what's causing it?" Was the next question until Donna noticed several items in the medbay were floating. "Doctor!" she gasped and pointed, watching him turn to where she was looking.
"Ahh!" Before their very eyes a sheet on another bed burst into flames, then the machine Jaime was on sparked and went dead. Donna immediately ran to put the fire out while The Doctor turned his attention to Jaime. She was taking deep breaths just as he'd instructed. "Jaime, open your eyes." She did and the objects in the room fell. She noticed the fire and the brain machine smoking. "What happened?" She asked with utter confusion until she grimaced and put her hands on her head. "Owwww!" "What the hell was that?" Donna practically shouted while The Doctor searched and found a painkiller for Jaime. "Here, take this." He offered and she took it. "Fast acting." In a matter of minutes that painful headache she lived with all her life died down but she knew it would be back. The Doctor took the brain wave helmet off her and promised he would fix the machine later. "You want to know what that was Donna? Jaime!" She looked up at the Doctor, frowning. "You have various very powerful Psychic/Kinetic abilities." Now she narrowed her eyes, wondering what the hell he was talking about. "No I don't!" She bit back. "Oh yes. You just don't know it yet. Tell me, has anything weird ever happened to you? At all?"
Jaime thought hard, forcing her mind not to wander off. "I'd always get a bad feeling, then something awful usually happens... Sometimes I see things in my dreams. My...mum got me a mobile but it barely lasted a week." "Do electronics tend to break a lot around you?" "Lots of stuff at home would break and mum would get angry, but not at me. In the console room I thought I heard someone talking to me but there was only you and me at the time." The Doctor looked surprised. "The TARDIS was talking to you?" Jaime looked confused. "The TARDIS just doesn't decide to talk to anybody willy-nilly." "I don't know!" The teen moaned and Donna hit The Doctor on the arm. "Ouch! Right, sorry." He mumbled. "Like I said, you have some very strong psychic abilities and I think I've identified most of them."
Donna went to sit beside her and out her arm around Jaime's shoulders. "With the random fires starting you have Pyrokinesis. My sonic screwdriver was floating in mid-air and even flung across the room. Telekinesis. You've heard the TARDIS so that's Telepathy. Bad feelings and odd dreams? Sounds like Precognition. Lights and electronics breaking. Electronic Manipulation or Cyberkinesis..." "Is that even real?" Donna enquired. "Oh yes, it's real. And wind inside a room...most likely some sort of elements manipulation. And all of these remain uncontrolled." Jaime frowned, thinking. "And I'd like to help you control your abilities." She heard this but asked a question. "So...it's not stress that causes these headaches but psychic abilities? Why would mum hide that?"
"Perhaps she had your best interests at heart." Donna soothed the teen. The Doctor had a thought and was reminded of the story of Firestarter. "One more thing!" He took Jaime and pulled her over to a mini MRI machine, laying her down and telling her not to worry. When he looked at the scans though he had a scowl on his face. "What is it?" Donna whispered, seeing the look. "See that lightish spot there?" She nodded, looking at the spot he was pointing at...it was only small. "That is a bleed on the brain." She looked shocked and turned to Jaime with a sad expression. "Basically there's a small haemorrhage every time her powers kick in." "So what does that mean?" "She's dying. If she continues to use her abilities in a combined way she won't live beyond her twenties. If she lets me train her she'll live longer." "How longer?" Donna asked and The Doctor looked grim, his eyes dark. "We'll into her thirties, possibly into her forties. With medical aids, into her fifties." "Doctor! That's no way to live though!" Donna hissed. "You have to tell her." The Doctor sighed at first. "I will Donna." He replied. "The kid deserves to know." She urged.
The Time Lord helped Jaime out of the MRI, then after some hesitation he told her the bad news. This shocked Jaime so much she was barely able to take it all in. Then when he promised to find a way to help her she burst into yet more tears. Donna once again comforted her, then when she cried herself to sleep The Doctor took her to her room. For now it was just the basic companion room and he carefully placed the teen on the bed. "Sleep well dear child." He whispered before leaving the room.