Something was up with Rose and the Doctor. Jack couldn't think what it was, but it was something big.
'Maybe they are admitting they love each other.' The idea made him grin. 'Finially. Time to leave a present or two outside which ever bedroom they managed to get to. Hey, maybe they'll have little Time Lords and Ladies. I'll be an uncle!'
He wandered to the kitchen, figuring food would be nice after all that energy being used up. What he found instead, though, made him rethink why his friends loved each other. Hiding in the hall this time made him feel a little guilty, but he didn't leave.
"But you died!" Rose was protesting, it sounded like she had been crying.
"No." Careful, the Doctor's voice said, careful. "My human half died. It takes a great deal more to kill a Time Lord. In my timeline my father had taken me." A few seconds of silence. "If he hadn't of, you would of buried me alive."
Rose started to cry again, softly.
"Oi! None of that, you! I'm fine, right here, see?" Something moved around. "Flesh."
"But..."
"Rose, please. Try to understand. My human half died, the part of me that was human. I regenerated, Rose."
Jack left silently. Right back to the control room he went, though he didn't know why he kept going back there. He settled in a chair, drumming his fingers on the armrest.
So. The Doctor was Rose's son in the True Timeline. That totally killed any chances of being an uncle...and of him dating Rose. The Doctor would skin him alive and then quarter him and then, just for good measure, dunk him in acid.
'Ouch.' He reflected.
'And then I'd get to you.' A deeply amused and femine voice joined in.
'Good morning Tardis.' Jack hated talking with her; he never knew where to look.
'Morning. I knew all along, you know.'
'And you are telling me this why?' He frowned.
'I need to tell someone, the guilt is unbearible. My Doctor was searching and searching and I knew what he sought was right here.'
'Why didn't you say something?' Jack was angry. All that time wasted on getting the two of them together. Now that he thought about it, something always went wrong. 'Tardis!' He scolded.
'I couldn't let you succeed!' She sounded shocked.
'No, but you could of told me!' He shifted around. The dumb machine had made the chair lopsided on him.
'Oh, so you could try and get into My Doctor's mother's pants? And who, may I ask, are you calling dumb?'
'That would of been the plan.' He replied, ignoring the last sentence.
'And then I'd have to skin you alive and and then quarter you and then, just for good measure, dunk you in acid.' She was joking, or at least, he hoped she was.
'Ha ha.' He decided the chair wasn't so nice anymore and stood up - only to fall onto his butt. The Tardis had made the floor turn sharply downward then back again as soon as Jack was on his bottem. 'I hate you.' He muttered.
'Love you too, honey.' She purred.
"Jack?" Rose wondered. Jack looked over from his spot on the floor.
"The Tardis did it." He defended himself.
'Moi?' She asked inoccently. The Doctor glared intensley at Jack, who stood up. 'I'm innocent.' The Tardis chirped.
"So, where are we going?" Jack changed the subject before he got into a fight with the Tardis.
"To my Mum's." Rose responded. She strolled over to the controlls. Odd they didn't visit her mother often, being that they faced torturous death each day. Maybe he should drop his mother a note...
"Uh...I hate to pry." Jack smiled, cutting off his thought. "But why? We were just there."
"We were just in London, 2202. Rose is from 2005." The Doctor corrected, eyeing the lopsided chair. From his expresion Jack knew the Doctor was thinking 'how did he manage that?'.
"May I suggest something?" Jack asked as the Doctor went to join Rose.
"Yes, Jack?" The Doctor had almost made it to the controls but now stood with his back to them, arms crossed.
"Your should do a test, first."
"What?" Both said, confused.
"A test. So you can tell Jackie you two are defently related." Jack didn't think the pair of them would be so stupid as to just go and tell Jackie. From what they told him she didn't believe things easy.
"You evesdropper." Rose glared.
"I didn't mean to, this round. I was just heading for the kitchen and heard you talking." He tried not to look ashamed but it leaked out anyway. Rose sighed.
"S'alright. We wanted to tell you anyway."
The Doctor took a hold of Rose's hand and led her back to the hall. He stated, "Jack's right."
A few minutes later in the infirmary, the Doctor nodded. "DNA confirms it." He turned to his companions, smiling. True happiness was behind his eyes and Jack briefly wondered if there was a thing such as fate.
OXOXOXOXO
I don't think that's how the Tardis would act, but I re-read it and thought, 'I don't want to change that'. Forgive me.