Disclaimer: I don't own Dr. Who. I'm just someone who keeps getting plot bunnies running through my head.
12 hours had past. 12 hours since a flash of light took my daughter. 12 hours since someone took my daughter… took my world.
"Doctor…." Ellen's voice from his office doorway brought the Doctor out of his thoughts. He looked up at her. "James and Verity are in the nursery playing. I was going to go sit with them. If you need anything you will need to get it yourself."
"That's fine." The Doctor stood and stretched. After breakfast a car brought the Smith family back to their house, along with Adam and Brother Cristofer. He felt here at home everyone was a bit safer. It wasn't that security wasn't tight at the manor, but… here he could keep an eye on his family. "We will be in the library."
As the Doctor came down the stairs he could hear raised voice coming from the lounge.
"… I said I was sorry." Adam shouted at Rose. "How was I to know that ratty blanket belonged to Evee. If I had known I wouldn't have touched it."
Before Rose could verbally retaliate the Doctor spoke up, "Hey! We have more important things to worry about than some old toy. Pete has sent over the information we requested. If we want to settle this mess and get Evee back any time soon I SUGGEST that we go in there and figure out a plan of action."
Rose and Adam glared at each other but they followed the Doctor into the library. Brother Cristofer was sitting as far away from where the sparrow box sat on the library's desk as he could.
Slipping his glasses on the Doctor leaned on the desk. "Here is what we know. Evee was taken by some sort of jury rigged transport badge similar to what was used for the reality cannon. From the readings that Torchwood came up with, that is the most likely option."
"How did who ever it was get their hands on one of our badges?" Rose asked, "They were locked up under tight security since the walls between worlds have been closed."
"Just because you developed something doesn't mean someone else couldn't have developed the same sort of thing." Adam chimed up. "It wouldn't surprise me that Donna would have found some place that could have made them, or that one could have been stashed somewhere in the Tardis."
"What makes you think it was your 'Donna' that took Evee?" Rose asked still annoyed at Adam.
"As distraught as she was, I wouldn't have put it past her." Adam shook his head.
The Doctor cleared his throat to make them look at him, "Pete is having the tech's see if they can't adapt the transport badges to transport someone over there, but it is going to be tricky."
"How tricky?" Rose asked.
"Oh, like shooting a bullet with another bullet while blindfolded." The Doctor rattled off before he realized it. "But that doesn't mean it's not possible."
"Slim change is better than no chance." Adam sighed.
"What is going to be the hard part?" Rose looked to the Doctor, "I know you, what is going to be the hard part."
"Getting back." The Doctor said dead pan. "If it was me I would have locked the way both in and out. We MIGHT be able to get through to where Evee is but getting back is going to be a problem."
"Do you want me to give up on Evee?" Rose walked up to him and glared up at him.
"No," He sighed and laid his hands on her shoulders, "I've lost too much to loose Evee too. We will get her back Rose. I promise you. "
Rose hugged him tightly. After few moments Adam cleared his throat, and chose not to notice the dampness on the front of the Doctor's jacket or Rose wiping her eyes.
"So..." Rose composed herself, "Any idea why your Donna wanted Evee?"
"I think she was trying to make her 'Doctor' happy." The Doctor said sadly.
"By taking a little girl?" Rose shook her head, "Good way get his attention but certainly won't make him 'happy'."
"Donna is not like your Donna." Adam said defensively.
"Explain." Rose glared at him.
"You know how YOUR Doctor just dropped into your life?" Rose nodded. "Donna dropped into mine. She was lonely, terribly lonely. She had lost everything and needed someone. I was that someone. I became her companion."Adam pulled out an old key on a leather strap from under his shirt, "But she isn't like John, or even THE Doctor you know. Yes, she has most of the Time Lord's powers, how she got them I don't know, but she is no Time Lord. My Donna is from a world that though very similar to yours but varies greatly. There was no Rose Tyler who traveled with the Doctor. I spent time trying to find out about what happened before, and there was never a Rose Tyler mentioned."
"That would make for a VERY different Doctor." The Doctor agreed and motioned for him to continue.
"They had similar adventures to yours but different. The main difference is that in that world the Doctor is dead and all that is left is this 'Doctor Donna' trying to go on in the vacuume left by his passing. In an instant her Doctor was gone, dead and she had nothing. No family, no other friends, nothing but her memories. When I met her she was not in a happy place." Adam got up and started to walk around. "I think having me around helped. I became her friend, but never more than that. On the Star base we were starting to rebuild. When I 'died' for her…" He sighed, "When I was taken from her. I'm not sure she could handle it. She isn't as strong as the Doctor." Adam stopped pacing in front of the Doctor and looked him in the eye. Then after a moment turned to Rose, "Rose, you were once a companion, if the Doctor just left you alone with the Tardis, what would you do? Move heaven and earth to get back to him."
"I did." She whispered.
Adam started to ask, but a look of 'not now' from the Doctor made him drop it. "Indeed, anyway that is what Dona is trying to do. She wants to get back to the Doctor, any Doctor. Her Doctor was never happy. In her mind if she makes the Doctor, any Doctor, be happy she will have her friend back."
"Kidnapping a little girl will NOT make THE Doctor happy again." Rose shook her head, "How could she possibly think it would make him happy?"
The Doctor walked over and laid a hand on her shoulder, "By giving him what I've always wanted. What he gave me; the chance to live."
"You mean…" Rose looked at each of them in turn. "She stole Evee to give the Doctor, a family?"
"She wanted to give him Jenny." Brother Cristofer said from across the room. "
"Jenny?" Rose looked back at the Doctor, "Who is Jenny?"
"In my world she was…" Adam looked to the Doctor for guidance. The Doctor shook his head slightly. Adam closed his mouth and went to lean on the bookcase.
"She was my daughter." The Doctor said simply.
Rose looked at him astonished, "Your daughter? From before…"
"No," He squeezed her shoulders, hoping she would understand, "Donna, Martha and I were on a planet. We were captured and from a tissue sample they," He wasn't sure how to say it to her, "made me a daughter."
"How?" Rose couldn't belive her ears.
"Progenration, I was both mother and father to her, technology used to help repopulate planets. Insert tissue sample, 2 minutes later out steps a fully adult 'child' of the person." He made Rose look him in the eyes, "She was a blessing and a nightmare in one. Each time I looked at her she reminded me of what I had lost." He licked his lips, and plunged on. "She was wonderful. All blonde hair, energy, loved to run, and smarter than anything. She was so much like me, too much like me. She died trying to save me. After everything…." He looked away and back at her. "If something similar happened to in Adam's world then his Donna knew what Jenny meant to me."
Adam nodded, and walked over to them, "Jenny traveled with them for a short time. He was quite fond of her," Adam shook his head, "She took a shot from a Sontaran that was meant for him. Donna said he never really recovered from that. It was the last time she had seen him smile. If she is trying to make the Doctor happy, giving him Jenny back would certainly be an option."
"She had blonde hair, just like Evee?" Rose asked. She knew there was more to the Doctor's story but right now was not the time to ask those questions. Right now she had to focus on getting Evee back.
"Evee looks very much like Jenny, but Evee's eyes are brown, like mine, while Jenny had blue. See, nothing alike." He tried to get a smile out of Rose. Didn't do much but it broke the moment.
"Ok, so Donna took Evee to be 'Jenny' to the Doctor." Rose said as she stepped away from the Doctor.
"At least that is what we think. We can't prove it was her. All we know is that 'someone' left behind radiation and traces that were similar to the jump badges your group used during the… whatever it was." Adam sighed as he plopped down on the sofa, arm over eyes.
"Careful that is an antique you know." The Doctor grumbled and he sat the opposite sofa, face in hands, "All of this is pure speculation. We could be trying to break down a wall that we don't have to." Silently Rose sat down next to him and draped an arm across the Doctor's back.
It was silent for a few moments before a voice carried across the room. "I will show you."
"What what?" The Doctor looked up to see Cristofer standing next to the box on the desk.
"I can show you what is on the other side of the looking glass." Brother Cristofer, "I can let you see her."
Author Note: I hope this clears up the confusion a little. I wonder what they will see on the other side of the looking glass?