She Lives On

Chapter 2

The Reunion

Jenny pulled herself into a sitting position still letting some of her weight rest on the Doctor.

"Steady, steady" he muttered

"I'm ok" she said in reply

Donna sat in front of her.

"Jenny, not that I am complaining 'coz it's great to see you but, how are you alive?"

"Donna" said the Doctor firmly

"Oh, what, you're not just a little bit curious?"

"Well yeah of course but this is hardly the time or the place is it?"

"No it's ok" Jenny interrupted "I don't know exactly what happened all I know is one minute I was lying in your arms" she looked at the Doctor "practically dying and the next I was lying on a table with a boy and a Hath looking over me" the Doctor stared at her blankly. "They said there was like this goldy coloured gas that came out of my mouth every so often" She looked at Donna who looked at the Doctor, he knew what it was "Come on I'm taking you back to the TARDIS".

Both Jenny and Donna looked increasingly worried as the trekked back through the desert towards the TARDIS. Jenny took a few running strides to catch up with the Doctor. "What is it dad what happened to me?" He was frowning hard as he walked, Jenny linked her arm in with his so they were walking together, Donna was close on the other side of the Doctor, and he glanced back at her just to be sure where she was "Come on Donna no time to waste" he said sternly. She caught up and was now walking alongside him.

"What are you thinking?" Donna asked

"I'm thinking that there is only one possibility of what that was...but it can't be... because you're just an echo of a Timelord not a real Timelord...It can't be... Oh my head hurts!!, that machine extrapolated a tissue sample and then through a process of Progeneration..."

Jenny looked at him puzzled

"Reproduction from a single organism..."

Jenny looked on more confused.

The Doctor sighed

"It means one parent is biological mother and father remember?" he asked looking at Donna and she nodded, with a sort of understanding.

"Anyway, it created you, you have two hearts like a Timelord but by the laws of physics because of the degree of acceleration of the diploid cells that then split into haploids, not all DNA replication is achievable... am I right?"

Again he looked at Donna for reassurance but all she could offer was a very unconvincing shrug of her shoulders.

"Never mind" by this time the Doctor had resigned himself to being alone in the revelation of this theory.

They had finally reached the TARDIS.

"What's that?!" asked Jenny

"It's the TARDIS" replied Donna as she walked passed Jenny and through the doors into the TARDIS.

"What's a TARDIS?"

"It's a spaceship" Donna said poking her head out of the doors again.

The Doctor opened the door fully and Donna nearly tripped and landed at Jenny's feet "OI" she yelled as she struggled to regain her balance.

"Sorry" the Doctor says clearly not sorry at all. He looked at Jenny "Time And Relative Dimension In Space, it's what I use to travel around in time and space, without this old girl it wouldn't be possible"

The TARDIS gave a shudder that only the Doctor could feel as if to say "less of the old". "Sorry" he replied.

"Sorry what?" frowned Jenny

"Doesn't matter, Come on" the Doctor took a giant stride towards Jenny, grabbed her by the hand and pulled her into the TARDIS.

"Hang on a minute" she said pulling her hand from his and walking out again.

"What?" asked the Doctor He looked at Donna who was just smiling inanely at him, he realised suddenly "Oh I hate starting from scratch!" he leaned out of the doors grabbed her hand again and said "Yes it's bigger on the inside now come on!"

"But how?"She again looked mystified

"You don't want to know, stand there" the Doctor was standing next to the TARDIS screen and was pressing a few buttons, Donna came and stood to the right of him with Jenny on the left.

"What you doing?" she asked looking at the screen then at the Doctor then at Jenny.

The Piraythian (bady)