CHAPTER 21

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When Jenny and Patrick returned back to their apartment that day they were met by a surprise. They both saw Sarah sitting on the couch next to Jon. Jenny and Patrick both instantly looked at Sarah with anger and suspicion.

"What are you doing here? Jon, this is the woman that I told you about yesterday. She was talking like someone who's mental," Patrick said.

"I met her too. Two days ago. She kept telling me that she was my sister," Jenny said.

"She is. I remember her, Jen. She is your sister," Jon insisted.

"What did you do to him? Did you brainwash him?" Patrick asked Sarah in a rage.

"She didn't do anything to him but tell him the truth," Rose said from behind them.

"Rose? Where were you today? You never did come in to work," Jenny asked.

"That's because I had to come here and talk to Patrick about the truth. The real story of your lives," Rose said.

"Don't tell me she's gotten to you too? What are you, a hypnotist?!" Patrick shouted at Sarah.

Sarah started to get visibly upset at Patrick's verbal attacks, and Jenny immediately felt bad for her despite the lies that she thought that she had been telling.

"Leave her alone, Patrick. She's sick. It's not her fault. She needs some help," Jenny said sympathetically.

"There's nothing wrong with her, Jenny. She's telling the truth. This is all a dream. None of it is real. The only things real here are us. You never lived with the Bakers, and you never grew up with them. You were created from samples of the genetic material of the Doctor and me on the planet Messaline. Your name is not Jenny Noble. I gave you my last name of Tyler. You're my daughter, Jen," Rose said.

"You started to tell me this story before, didn't you? Then you just said that you were kidding around when I started to get angry about it. That's when I started calling you "Mum" because I thought that it was funny. It wasn't a joke though, was it? I thought that you were my friend, Rose. Why are you and this woman performing this sick little mind game on me?" Jenny asked.

"I would love to be your friend, Jen. I have to be your mother first though. I have to save you from yourself. You have to realize that this life that you're living here isn't real," Rose said.

"Get away from me. I never want to speak to you again," Jenny said with pure hatred in her voice.

Rose looked extremely hurt by this reaction. She looked so devastated that Jenny almost apologized to her on the spot.

Sarah put her arms around Rose; and said, "It's okay, Mum. She doesn't know what she's saying. She doesn't remember us. If she knew, she'd be so sorry. You know that she loves you. She loves you more than anyone else."

"No. There's someone else that she loves more. That's why even I can't break through to her," Rose said in a shaky voice.

"I – I don't want to be hateful to you. I'm sorry for what I said. Just stop telling me those lies," Jenny said guiltily.

"Both of you just get out and leave us alone. You're both upsetting Jenny," Patrick said as he got in front of Jenny protectively.

"There's only one way to break Jenny out of this dream now. I'm sorry for this, Jen," Rose said.

"Sorry for what? What are you talking about?" Jenny asked confused.

Rose began to glow with the power of the Vortex, and she directed a blast of golden energy right at Patrick. He was instantly disintegrated into dust right in front of Jenny's eyes!

Jenny started to scream, but then her scream turned into a gasp as Patrick was immediately reassembled from the dust. He stood before her unharmed now, and she rushed over to him in grateful relief.

"What happened? Why are you looking at me like that?" Patrick asked as he looked at her like she had lost her mind.

"You were killed. Rose destroyed you, and then you were back," Jenny said.

"I killed his dream self, and he was taken back to his real body for half a second until the Dream Lord forced him back into this dream again. Now do you believe me, Jenny?" Rose asked.

"I don't know what to believe anymore," Jenny said shakily.

"Nothing happened to me. I'm fine. What did you do to her?" Patrick asked Rose.

"I showed her the truth. Just like I'm about to show it to you," Rose said.

She then transformed the room around them into a facsimile of Gallifrey by taking over the dream with her own thoughts. They were now looking out at the night sky of an alien world.

"Now do you believe me?" Rose asked Patrick.

She waved her hand, and the dream's landscape changed once again to that of the planet Messaline. Jenny looked at it in shock as her memories of her past came flooding back to her. Her years alone by herself as the Doctor left her behind thinking that she was dead. Then being reunited with the Doctor thanks to Rose. She later found out that Rose was her mother. It was all true. Everything that they had been telling her was true!

Jenny was finally herself again, and she was very, very angry. Both of the Bakers looked at her in disbelief as she started to glow with white light. They had never seen her use her Vortex abilities before, and it was quite an eye opener for both of them.

"It's true," Patrick said with tears in the corners of his eyes.

"Come out and face me, you coward!" Jenny screamed.

The Dream Lord appeared before her with a smirk. He was enjoying all of this immensely. He may have failed in trapping Jenny here forever, but at least he had succeeded in causing her and her mother great emotional pain and stress. That made what he knew was coming next almost worth it.

"What are you so angry about? I just gave you everything that you ever wanted. You have the man that you love finally with you, and he's actually talking to you instead of blushing every time that you so much as glance his way for half a second. You should be thanking me!" the Dream Lord said.

"It's not real. I don't want to live in a dream world. I want to live in reality," Jenny said.

"What is so great about your reality, Jenny? You spent years without any family or friends wandering around from planet to planet with no place to call home. Or have you forgotten about the numerous nights alone on your spaceship where you cried yourself to sleep? I gave you everything that you ever wanted. I gave you a regular happy childhood with friends and family that loved you. So again, why are you angry?" the Dream Lord defended himself.

"You didn't do this as a favor to me. You did it to hurt my mother. Stop trying to act like a saint. You did this to take me away from her forever. You were trying to keep me from the person who loves me the most. I can never forget that. As for my past, it's mine. It's what made me who I am. I don't want to forget it. I want to embrace it. I want to learn and grow from it. I'll never be anything but a joke here. There's no possibility of any true happiness or positive change in this phony life that you've created for me here. I reject it! I reject you and your lies!" Jenny said as she began to glow brighter and brighter.

Energy flowed forth from her eyes and hit the Dream Lord full force in the chest. He screamed in pain, and then he dissolved into nothingness.

With the destruction of the Dream Lord, the dream was broken; and all of them woke up to find themselves on Rose's TARDIS. They saw the smiling face of Gwyneth, Rose's companion, watching them.

"Hello. It's good to see you up and about again. We've all been worried about you for days now. I knew that Miss Rose would save you. She always does the impossible and makes it look easy," Gwyneth said to Jenny with a warm smile.

"I didn't do anything this time, Gwyneth. I just showed the way. Jenny saved herself," Rose said with pride.

Gwyneth noticed that Jenny didn't look too happy about being freed though, and she wondered why. Then she saw her looking at the young man, Patrick. The young man was very nervous, and he was acting very awkwardly around her. Now Gwyneth understood. The dream must have had them together somehow, and now they were apart again back in reality. She had spent some time in the future, and she knew that they were together there. The Patrick that she knew was much more confident and outgoing. It had never occurred to her that he had ever been otherwise. Jenny must have had a large hand in helping to shape him into the man that she had seen in the future.

Rose took Jenny off to the side where no one could hear them. She smiled at her encouragingly and said, "Don't worry so much about Patrick. He'll come around eventually. We couldn't get him to come out of the dream either. He was just as stubborn as you. That means that he cares about you just as much as you care about him. Show him that it wasn't all just the dream, Jen. Show him that you really do feel that way, and he'll eventually be as comfortable around you in real life as he was in the dream. I know he will."

Jenny hugged her tightly and said, "Thank you, mum! I'm so sorry for what I said. I didn't mean it."

"You were upset because I was trying to take your happiness away," Rose said in understanding.

"I wasn't completely happy though. Not really. I knew that something was missing. A large part of that something was you, Dad, and my sisters. I haven't even met my brother yet. I know that I'll love him too if I ever get to meet him," Jenny said.

"Brother?" Rose asked surprised.

"Oops. You're not supposed to know about that yet," Jenny said with a grimace.

"I'm not supposed to know about Sarah yet either, but there she is just a few feet away. As long as you don't tell me anything more about little Pete, I'm sure that everything will be okay," Rose said.

Jenny looked startled at what Rose had just said. She had known her brother's name!

"How did you know his name?" Jenny asked amazed.

"It's no great mystery, Jen. It's the only name I ever considered for a boy. It is my father's name after all," Rose said with a grin.

"How did you know for sure that you wouldn't change your mind though?" Jenny said.

"I grew up just like you did in some ways, Jenny. I lost my father when I was a child and never knew him. I grew up with just my mother, and we were always struggling to survive. I really missed my father, and I constantly thought about what could have been with him. It left a hole in me that still wasn't completely filled even when I met the other Pete. That's how I know that I would name my first born son that. Also it's how I have some inkling of how you feel about not having me and the Doctor in your life for so long. I know that's why I'm so overprotective of you sometimes. It's my unconscious way of making things up to you for what happened in the past. I wasn't there for you just like my father wasn't there for me. It makes me feel guilty that you had a similar childhood to the one that I had even though part of me knows that it's not really my fault. I know that I overdo it a lot of times and smother you. I'm sorry about that," Rose said.

"You don't ever have anything to be guilty about. I don't blame you for any of my past. I've come to terms with it a long time ago, Mum," Jenny said with a heartfelt smile.

Sarah came over to them and smiled as she watched them embrace each other. She was so glad that Jenny was back to normal. Well normal for this time period anyway. The Jenny that she knew in the future was much more mature and self-confident. This version of her sister was still very young and just finding out who she was.

Jenny saw her and started to apologize for what she had said to her, but Sarah quickly stopped her.

"There's no need for that. I know that you didn't mean it. It's all water under the bridge now," Sarah said.

"Thanks. I really had no idea who you were. The Dream Lord had really messed with my head good. It's funny how Jon remembered though. He must have had a good reason," Jenny teased.

"I wouldn't know. Maybe he just has a better memory than you do," Sarah shot back.

"Or maybe he likes you," Jenny taunted.

"Stop it!" Sarah said blushing.

"Just admit it!" Jenny said with a big smile.

This sisterly affection was stopped by the sudden arrival of Patrick. He stood in front of Jenny with shaking legs and said, "I – I would like to a - ask you out on a date."

Jenny wrapped her arms around him and kissed him long and hard for several minutes. When she pulled away, he stood there with a huge smile on his face and a glazed look in his eyes.

"That's my answer, Patrick. I want to take you to a magnificent place for our first date. I think that we should go to Venice. Do you have any other suggestions?" Jenny asked him.

Patrick just kept standing there with a happy grin on his face. Jenny shook her head at him. She wondered if she'd ever understand him. It was going to be fun to try though she thought with a large smile on her own face.

Next: Jenny and Patrick's first date. Where will it be? Also what will happen to mess it all up? (This is Rose's daughter after all. She's jeopardy friendly just like her mother.) Plus Susan joins Jenny's TARDIS crew.