Chapter 4

The next day Rose and Jackie arrived at the Hub, Jackie had insisted she went with her daughter, much to Rose's protests.

Jenny had sat herself at Owen's desk again, watching Owen intently take something apart, and asking questions about what he was thinking of doing with it, and what it was for.

She turned around when she heard someone walk in and gave a small wave at Jackie and Rose.

"Rose! Back and a lot more rested yes?" Jack grinned as he walked in from his office.

"Possibly." Rose smiled.

"You better be treating my Rose right. I remember what you're like in that bloody machine of his." Jackie said.

"Mum.." Rose smiled.

Jack gave a mock salute at her. "Honestly, the Doctor's told me about your slaps, I don't want one." he grinned.

"Did the prize prat tell you what it was for?"

"Ok! Argument stops there." Jenny smirked, standing up.

"And who the hell are you?" Jackie asked.

"Jenny." she answered.

"Jenny what?"

"Just Jenny." she grinned/ "God you humans ask a lot of daft questions."

"Says you who hasn't stopped talking since you got here." Jack teased.

"Oh you're just sulking cause you can't flirt with me and get the response you want." she grinned.

"Are you like 'im?" Jackie asked, referring to the Doctor and Jack.

"Could be. Depends who's asking." Jenny smirked.

"God you're just like that flamin' Doctor of hers. Cheeky. Confusing. Strange." Jackie shook her head.

"Yeah I'm sure my dad would love to hear that." Jenny grinned, not realising what she'd said.

"You what?" Jackie and Rose said at the same time.

"Creating by progenation machine, with his tissue sample." she old them. "Two hearts, everything, just like him. Go ahead, check for yourself."

Jackie was the first to check, then Rose.

"Blimey she's right." Jackie said and was speechless after that.

Rose refused to believe it. She suddenly pulled Jenny into a room and shut the door. "Why'd you lie about not knowing him?! Was it funny to you!!? You were probably laughing behind my back!"

"No..! Never!" Jenny said suddenly. "I didn't know him, honest! When he left, all I knew of him was that he was the last of who he was, and he hated war… I mean… he hated me when I came out of that machine… he pushed me away like he didn't want me there…" she blinked away the tears threatening to fall. "All I have is this…" she reached into her t-shirt and pulled out a gold, thin chain with the Gallifreyan symbol hanging from it. "It wasn't until Donna made him realise I was his that he started to care… And then you came… And you know so much about him…" the tears started to fall and she wiped them away. "I'm sorry…" she whispered.

Rose's anger melted away and she hugged her. "No… it's me that should be sorry…"

Rose let her cry quietly until the tears stopped.

"Why don't you find him?"

"Can't… he thinks I'm dead and I wouldn't know where to look…" Jenny shrugged.

"I could kill that man sometimes…" Rose sighed.

Jenny looked at her, confused.

"He'll always find a way to make sure he's on his own." Rose said.

"Maybe that's how he feels he should be.." Jenny said.

"Maybe, but it drives us all mad." Rose sighed and walked back to the others.

Jenny followed and kept her head down.

"Well what other insults have you got for my Rose then. Because whatever you have to say to her you can say it to me!" Jackie spat.

"Mum don't.." Rose said.

"It's a cruel trick to play Rose, saying she knows him. She shouldn't say it."

"It's not a trick it's the truth…" Jenny whispered. "He left me just like he left yo-" she was cut off by one of Jackie's hardest and fiercest slaps which knocked her back a few paces.

"That's enough." Jack said between them as he saw Jackie taking another step to her.

Jenny put a hand to her stinging cheek, shaking. Her hearts plummeted to her knotted stomach, at that point, she knew she'd never be accepted for who and what she was.

'It's me that deserves to be alone… not dad…' she thought. 'He's got all these amazing friends… a life I could never be a part of… dad would probably hate me for being back anyway…'

Tears started to fall from her closed eyes once more, and the more she thought about it the more they came. She turned away, her soldier instincts kicking in, not wanting to show how 'weak' she was.

Jackie stormed out of the Hub.

Jenny walked back to the room she'd just come from, shut the door and sat against it. She reached up and ripped the chain from her neck.

She shoved it into her pocket and wiped her tears.

'I know what I'll do… If they want a soldier, then that's what they'll get… I just won't show my emotions… Emotions only weaken you anyway…' she thought. 'If that doesn't at least contribute to making dad proud of me then I don't know what will…'

A/N: Aren't you lucky? Two updates in one day =] Sorry last month's installment was late, college stuff got a bit much xXxXx