This chapter contains mild non graphic tease and denial, discussions of masturbation and hallucinogenic substances.
When they left the Console Room, Jaime and J.D walked silently along the corridor until the Half-Time Lord spoke up. "So…how are you feeling after that?" He queried, looking at Jaime with a worried expression. "Couldn't have been easy, what with getting to have a chat with your real Grandparents while the parallel version were just sat across the road." Though he was glad it hadn't gone too far, they didn't need another parallel Pete Tyler situation on their hands.
A grunt came from Jaime as she shook her head. "Aye, I'm fine and dandy!" She replied. "I didnae do it for me, I did it for my ma'. I barely know them."
John's eyes widened in surprise. "Oh, come on, don't be like that! They're your grandparents." He stated.
"And I barely even remember them." Jaime replied to him. "I didn't even know what they looked like until I saw them on the TARDIS monitor. Those two humans may aswell be strangers to me!"
The Half-Time Lord was almost halted in his steps by her odd, but somewhat cold, attitude towards her grandparents, then he remembered feeling her fear and a sudden urge to run. "Did something happen?" He asked, confused. "Did they upset you in some way?"
Jaime looked at John with a smile. "Not really, no." She replied. "I asked Dyna to tell them where we were and that we're fine. She did, only along the way she found that Greek man that Jenny is fond of. And now he's acting as protection for the both of them."
He had to remind himself who Jaime was talking about. The man called Tom had a typically long Greek surname. "And that's a problem?" He asked.
Jaime shook her head. "No, not at all." She replied. "I like that this version of him redeemed himself by rescuing Jenny and getting her out of MI6. Nor do I mind that he's protecting my ma's parents. It's just that the version of him I know was horrible and manipulative."
The one from the Nightmare Planet dream, John realised. "Yes, I understand that, but isn't the version of him in the DeltaVerse a close friend of Dyna's?"
"Yes, they are…" Jaime replied and stopped walking, followed by John. She could tell him how Other Tom became friends with Delta, but she didn't want to violate her privacy. "Och, we could go on 'bout this and not resolve anything. I don't want to talk about him anymore! Or my ma's parents!"
John raised a brow, though he was not all too surprised anymore. Jaime was just being Jaime. "Alright then, so what do you want to do?" He inquired.
That was a good question and Jaime smiled coyly before taking a hold of John's hand. "Something that'll make the both of us happy!" She said in such sexy way that told John the Scots-girl wanted to play.
"Okay!" He squeaked, eyes wide, and she teleported them out of the corridor.
They re-appeared in the library, or rather a part of the library that clearly hadn't been visted in a long time. The lights were dimmed so low that parts were in shadow, and some of the bookshelves were dusty and full of cobwebs.
"Spooky!" John let out a surprised exclaim as he looked around the area they were in. "Not exactly romantic!"
"No, at least we won't be interrupted." Jaime replied, going over to the sofa.
It was dusty as well and she didn't think sitting on it like that would be a good idea. So she took in the biggest breath she could do and blew it out. A big gust of wind blew over the sofa, shifting the dust away.
"That was Wizard!" John exclaimed, putting his arms over Jaime's shoulders and pulling her towards him. He still continued to be surprised with what she could do.
Jaime grinned when she felt John's closeness. "Is that yer Sonic Screwdriver or are you just pleased to see me?" She quipped and heard the Half-Time Lord chuckle.
"Maybe!" He replied.
Moving swiftly, Jaime seemed to melt out of John's hug and before he could even react to it he found himself lifted up off the floor. "Woah!" He exclaimed in surprise and he had to admit he felt a bit scared. Next thing he knew he was landing on the sofa with a winded 'oof'. Jaime followed along by pouncing onto John and winding him further as she held him down. "Careful!" He gasped out, eyes wide.
"Och, I'm always careful." She replied, reached down and captured his lips with her own.
John relaxed into it and returned the kiss, putting his arms around her. They continued to kiss, the both of them becoming highly aroused. But the kissing was just a distraction because the Half-Time Lord heard the clicking of fingers and suddenly felt a slight ticklish feeling down below. He jerked in surprise and opened his eyes to find Jaime grinning down at him with a cheeky expression on her face.
"Please, don't!" He croaked as she raised her left hand. He didn't know how much more he could take when it came to the teasing.
"Shh, it's okay." She whispered, giving him a quick kiss. Then with using all her strength to hold him down, Jaime closed her left hand into a fist. The effect was immediate. A high pitch screech of girlish laughter emitted from J.D's mouth and Jaime would have been flung into the air if she hadn't been using her super-strength. At the moment it felt more like the wobbly floor of a wacky fun house. If John wasn't guffawing laughter like a madman he'd probably be swearing a lot.
A long time ago, for them at least, his whole body had been super sensitive, very ticklish to the point of tears. Then after an incident on Planet Cenax he couldn't even remember, Jaime had hypnotised him to feel less ticklish. And it worked…sort of. Now he was super ticklish down below and they found that out on one of their 'playtimes'. Jaime swore she didn't do it on purpose, but took advantage with the teasing.
Every part of his groin tingled and tickled. It felt like he was being tormented with millions of tiny little feathers. The worst of it was on his head and now it felt like he was going to come. Sensing this, Jaime relaxed her hand and watched him as he gasped and moaned, his heart thudding away. His face was red from laughing so much.
"Please let me c…" John was cut off as Jaime reached down and kissed him again. And with his highly aroused state he kissed back anyway.
And while kissing she sensed his need cooling down and it was more than enough time to get him going again. Breaking off the kiss Jaime looked down at John and noticed he was in a haze of arousal. "Ready?" She asked, once more raising her left hand.
"Please, I need…" He whined. "I need too…"
Smirking at this, Jaime was about to close her left hand into a fist again when she heard somebody coughing for attention. And that was annoying because they were in an abandoned corner of the library. When she looked around to see who it was her eyes widened in horror. "Mum!" She exclaimed, scrambling off J.D, her face going red in embarrassment.
The TARDIS had led Alexia to the library, but when she got there it was empty. It did make her wonder if the Time Machine had led her up the garden path. She was about to give the TARDIS a good telling off when she heard what sounded like female laughter somewhere in the back of the library. "What in Sanity?" Alexia exclaimed. "What is that?" The TARDIS decided to light her way so Alexia followed, apparently taking several short cuts to get there faster. Finally, Alexia arrived at a part of the library that had clearly not seen much activity in a long time.
It was dusty and the lights were dim. And lying on the sofa were Jaime and the…John. But her daughter was doing something to him she didn't quite like. Over the high-pitch laughter coming from the half human Time Lord was a crackling sound that didn't sound right. Alexia was about to step out from behind the bookshelf to stop them when Jaime stopped what she was doing. Then Alexia raised her brows in surprise when she heard J.D begging. It was not something she thought she'd ever hear from The Doctor…and quite frankly it just wasn't 'Doctor Who'. None of this kind of thing happened on 'Doctor Who'. 'Torchwood' maybe, but certainly not 'Doctor Who'.
It looked like Jaime was about to do that weird thing again, so Alexia stepped out from behind the bookshelf and coughed for attention, watching with satisfaction as her daughter actually looked surprised.
"Mum!" She exclaimed and quickly scrambled off John.
She was even more satisfied when her daughter looked suitably embarrassed. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" Alexia angrily asked. "What are you doing to him?" The 'him' in question was sluggishly sitting up on the sofa, also looking embarrassed.
"I…uhh…well…I…" An embarrassed Jaime stumbled over what she was trying to say.
"Whatever you did to him you better undo it now." Alexia demanded angrily.
Jaime's eyes widened at this. "What? Why?" She asked, confused.
Hands going to her hips, Alexia scowled at her daughter and was happy to notice the wince. "Why? You ask me why?" She shot back. "I'll tell you why, little madam…"
A snort of laughter came from John but twin glares from both Jaime and Alexia left him cowed.
"I didn't raise you to be a man controlling dominant female. I can't bloody stand that type of shit." Jaime ducked her head as she was told off by her mother. "And now here you are, abusing your powers," Alexia continued. "Whatever it is you did to him, you stop it right now."
Shifting awkwardly on her feet, Jaime glanced between her mum and J.D, then sighed. "Fine, whatever!" She muttered and with concentration waved her hand towards the Half-Time Lord.
He let out a yelp of surprise, his eyes widening for several seconds. Then he realised for a first time in a long time he felt unrestricted and he could do what he couldn't do previously. Jaime glared at the grinning Half-Time Lord when she heard his thoughts.
"Now get out of here, I want to talk to my daughter in private." Alexia snapped at John.
"Yes, ma'am!" He muttered and scarpered out of the library as fast as he could.
Jaime watched him go with a disapproving frown, then angrily turned to her mum. "Great, you know what he's going to do now, don't you?" She moaned and shook her head.
"What? Bash the Bishop? Alexia answered back. "Choke the chicken, five knuckle shuffle, jerk off, have a wank?" She noticed Jaime's eyes were wide and her face had gone even more red. She obviously hadn't expected her mum to know such words like that. "It's perfectly normal for a man to vent off steam using his second brain. And John, he's not like The Doctor where he can control himself, he's more human."
But Jaime just shook her head. "Not when it's chronic!" She muttered under her breath.
"And the man clearly adores you without all the…restrictions. Just go with the flow."
The Scots-girl silently glared away, eyes narrowed, yet still felt embarrassment. "What did you want to talk about?" She asked.
"What can you tell me about Planet Fiction?" Alexia questioned.
"What?" Jaime uttered, her face going pale in an instant and her eyes widening. "Why'd ye ask tha'?"
"Because I was talking to The Doctor earlier and he told me I should ask you about Planet Fiction."
Jaime fell back into the sofa with a grunt. "What exactly were you talking about for that to crop up?" She croaked the question.
Alexia noticed the body language on her daughter and realised it was something very serious. "Never mind that right now. Tell me what happened." She sat down next to her daughter who was slouching against the arm of the sofa.
"Nothin' happened." Jaime mumbled in reply.
But Alexia didn't believe that. "Nonsense! I just asked you what happened on a planet and your face paled within seconds. "So what happened?" She asked.
Jaime huffed out a breath, scowling before answering. "Planet Fiction is…was…an Entertainment Planet. There was this place we went to that used Fiction Mist, and when sprayed it made a fictional character you're thinking of appear and you can talk to them. Except it doesn't quite work well with the All-Powerful and multiple characters appear randomly." Now Jaime sighed. "And if things couldn't get any worse it turned out the All-Powerful were banned from visiting the planet."
Shifting in her seat, Alexia looked at her daughter with furrowed brows. "Why is that?" She asked, understanding the concept of somebody being 'All-Powerful' and didn't need to ask about it.
Jaime sighed. "It's mainly to do with Mind Controllers. Maybe they felt they couldn't trust that person to behave while they were on the planet. And before I knew it a police officer had me teleported off the planet onto its sister planet."
Alexia's eyes widened. "On your own?" She asked. "Where were the others?"
"Still on Fiction, but they knew where I'd been teleported to and were getting to me as fast as possible."
"And did they?" Her mum asked. For awhile Jaime remained silent, thinking, which led Alexia to believe this story wasn't so simple after all. "They didn't?" She asked.
Jaime grimaced when she felt a hint of anger from her mum. "They did. But by the time they got to me it was too late."
The anger from her mum was growing. "Go on," she prompted. "Tell me what happened."
Still thinking, Jaime sorted through the memories, trying to remember because those memories were still so fuzzy. "Fiction's sister planet is called Friction and they have this flower called a chimera that only grows on that planet. It's hallucinogenic."
"Hallucinogenic?" Alexia echoed. "What? Like certain Earth plants?" She asked.
"Aye," Jaime replied. "Except it was brightly coloured and when picked up the pollen would absorb into the skin."
A groan came from Alexia as she figured out what happened next. "Don't tell me, you picked it up?" She questioned.
Jaime nodded. "Aye. The warning colours should have been enough for me NOT to touch it, but I was alone and scared and I thought it looked pretty. After that…well everything is still so much of a haze."
"And that's it?" Her mum inquired. "That's all what happened? You got high on a hallucinogenic flower?"
A sigh came from Jaime as she shook her head, feeling the worry wash off her mum. "No, not in a long shot! That isn't what just happened." Noticing that her daughter appeared to be struggling, Alexia took a hold of her hand and urged her to continue. "I might not remember much but the Doctor does," Jaime muttered. "By the time he, Rose and John got to Friction there was an out of control storm casing havoc, a tornado and…well…it was causing tons of destruction…"
"And what was this tornado?" Alexia asked, getting a sinking feeling.
"Me," Jaime replied, feeling her mum's shock. "I was so out of it that I caused a bad storm with Aerokinesis. And not just that but Earthquakes too."
Alexia shifted closer to Jaime. "And then what? Did he manage to calm you down?" She asked. Being under hallucinogen influence must have been horrible for Jaime. She herself had no idea what it's like as she had never taken mind altering drugs in all her life.
"He was in a hurry, so the only thing he could think of using was an inhibitor…only he didn't realise how dangerous the inhibitor was when used on someone like me."
"What?" Alexia breathed out, now getting a terrible feeling.
"It nearly killed me." Jaime mumbled but her mum heard her just fine and pulled her into a hug. Jaime sighed as multiple emotions washed off Alexia and she put her arms around her. Alexia couldn't believe her daughter had almost died because of some stupid oversight. And at the hands of The Doctor too. No wonder he'd been so skatey about it.
"It wasn't his fault, he didn't know it would happen. He just wanted to stop me getting in worse trouble," Jaime said. "Though it was a wee bit late anyway."
Alexia furrowed her brows at this. "What do you mean?" She asked.
Jaime closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "It was too late for those living on both planets," she said. "The Earthquake was massive, causing a major planetary shift in its alignment, sending it hurtling into one of its Suns…" She felt her mum tense up as she told the story. "In turn, planet Fiction was roasted when it was hit by several severe Solar flares, killing everyone. Both planets wrecked because of a hallucinogenic flower. And the Doctor didn't even tell me what happened."
Alexia stared, wide-eyed, emotions of disbelief, shock and horror swirling through her mind. Did she really just hear her daughter say she had destroyed two planets and killed hundreds of people on said planets, or was she just hearing things? And what was that about The Doctor?
She shifted off the sofa and stood up, pacing, leaving a confused Jaime on the sofa. "It's okay," Alexia told her daughter when she noticed Jaime's worried but mostly sad expression. "Accidents happen and this one was caused by a hallucinogen you weren't aware of. You couldn't help it from happening. It's over and done with. I won't hold it against you." She noticed a small grin appear on Jaime's face. "But what I don't understand is why The Doctor didn't tell you what you did? You were in serious danger, twice, you almost died…"
Jaime sat up when she felt her mum's anger quickly return.
"…and he didn't think to even tell you? He was supposed to be looking after you, yet he didn't say a word to you? Call himself a father!" Alexia growled this last bit and Jaime sat up straighter when she heard her, wondering what her ma' and The Doctor had been talking about. "I'll have his balls for this, the bastard!" Alexia then growled and turned away to storm off out of the library.
"Wait!" Jaime called out but Alexia wasn't listening. "Come here and sit back down, now!" Jaime suddenly commanded and Alexia halted mid-step, turned around and walked back to the sofa, sitting down. "I'm sorry!" The Scots-girl apologised to her mother for Mind Controlling her. Alexia just stared ahead, not moving. That was until Jaime pushed her hard enough for her to almost fall off the sofa.
Alexia shook her head of the cobwebs before looking at her daughter. "What the bloody hell just happened?" She asked.
"Verbal Mind Control. I'm sorry but I had to make you stop before you made a big mistake," Jaime explained. "The only reason the Doctor didn't tell me was because he thought I would be really upset. I mean, it wasn't easy, learning that I'd destroyed two planets and killed everyone on them."
The woman frowned thoughtfully, gears turning in her mind as she began to realise something. "And were you?" She asked.
"Of course!" Jaime replied with a wide-eyed nod. "I was shocked and disgusted with myself with what I did. Like you said. It was an accident, a terrible, terrible accident. But I didn't see it that way. And like you, I was also angry with The Doctor."
"Right. So…if it wasn't The Doctor who told you, then how exactly did you find out?" Alexia queried and wondered if it was when she gained the Doctor's memories from the Metacrisis she apparently took from Donna.
"It was The Trickster." Jaime answered.
A shocked gasp emitted from Alexia's mouth as she stared wide-eyed at her daughter. The Trickster? The very same Trickster from The Sarah Jane Adventures? The same one that had a hench-woman alter Donna's Timeline? Just what could a creature like that want with Jaime? "The Trickster?" Alexia uttered aloud. "What did he want?" Then her next question was: "What did he do to you?"
Jaime smiled grimly at this. Of course, they both knew how dangerous The Trickster was. "He had me kidnapped from Torchwood," she replied. "There was an incident and Jack called The Doctor for our help. Turned out it was a trap to get me out of the TARDIS as there was a water creature called a Hydra disguised as Gwen. When everyone else went down to the cells to free Jack and the others, I stayed in the hub knowing something wasn't right. I had a fight with it but it's not easy to fight a water creature. Next thing I know, I'd been taken away from Torchwood."
Jaime scowled angrily and Alexia noticed she had her hands balled into fists. She could tell something was bothering her but waited for her to continue.
"They liked playing sick mind games," Jaime said after awhile. "At one point I thought John had found me but it just turned out to be them playing with my emotions. I figured it out even when they tried to dull my senses and I tried to escape, only to slip on puddles of water and knock myself out. When I woke up again after that I found I was on what remained of Planet Fiction."
Another gasp was heard from Alexia, while Jaime closed her eyes briefly. She could still see it all clearly as if she'd been there yesterday. The burned and charred grass, the burned trees, the melted toy and burned up bodies of the kids she'd seen playing in the park. The smell was horrendous too, enough for her to throw up right there. Her eyes quickly flashed open and Jaime was able to control herself before the ghostly smell of burnt flesh could make her actually throw up again.
"I didn't know what happened, or how it happened until I retraced my steps to the Entertainment Centre," Jaime continued. "That's when I found The Trickster and he told me what I did. Even tried to turn me against The Doctor in a bid to get me to join him, promising stuff like healing my brain and promising immortality."
Alexia shifted, looking at her daughter, worried. "Obviously you didn't take his offer or you wouldn't be here!"
"Of course not," Jaime replied. "I didnae like what he did and he didn't expect me to attack him. He angered me and I gave him a full blast of that anger. He ran away after that."
"Leaving you alone on a dead planet!" Alexia exclaimed in disbelief. "Did the Doctor, Rose and John manage to find you?" Blowing out a nervous breath, Jaime rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. Alexia noticed this. "Or not!" She mumbled. "What happened?"
Jaime seemed reluctant to say anything at first and Alexia thought she heard her daughter mumble something about a 'firebird'. "What was that?" She asked.
Now it was Jaime's turn to shift off the sofa and began pacing. "I don't exactly know why it happened, or how it happened. Maybe The Trickster planted a seed of doubt in my mind in order to get me on his side and it went wrong for him. But I became the Fire-Bird and ran away from everybody."
Alexia raised her brows in surprise.
"I kept myself hidden and training the rest of my powers. I ran for a long time and I sometimes helped the downtrodden, stopping regular crime from happening." She stopped and took a deep breath before turning to her mum. "That was the good side though, because the Fire-Bird also had a bad side. It was destructive, causing chaos and mayhem across the universe. So many people were hurt or were killed at my hands. I manipulated so many people and caused devastating changes to flux Timelines that gives me a bad feeling we'll always be coming across the aftermath of the changes."
She started sobbing pitifully. "I'm a monster!" She cried out. "Nothing but a monster!"
A shocked and disbelieving Alexia quickly left the sofa and pulled her sobbing daughter into a hug. What Jaime just told her left her quite shaken. It made her think this was also what The Doctor had been talking about. That he'd let her down more than once. "Nonsense!" Alexia attempted to sooth the Scots-girl. "It's The Trickster who's the real monster. He tried to turn you and he failed. It's his fault you went on a rampage and I'm glad you fought him." She continued to soothe her daughter until the sobbing tapered off and all she could hear was sniffling. She sat back down on the sofa with Jaime and kept a tight hold on her. The Scots-girl snuggled closer to her mother.
"How in the Name of Sanity did you get back to the TARDIS? Alexia queried, noticing movement in the shadows but ignoring it for the moment.
"Dyna found me," came the small reply. "On Metabelis III. I was almost eaten by the early version of The Eight Legs…" Alexia shuddered. "…but Dyna and Parallel Donna rescued me. She said I had a multiple personality issue and helped me by locking my darker side away forever, then after a stern telling off she made me go back to The Doctor, Rose and John." She left the part out where Dyna had left her on Penshaw Monument and it wasn't until late evening that the TARDIS materialised.
Once again, Alexia noticed movement in the shadows and smiled a little. She had a good guess who it might be. "What about The Doctor? Did he apologise for not telling you?" She asked.
"Aye," Jaime muttered back a reply. "He told me why he hadn't wanted to tell me."
"Oh, good. That means I won't need to take his balls after all!" Alexia said, turning a playful glare towards the shadows.
Jaime shifted in her tight hug, a puzzled frown on her face. "Mum? What are you doing?" She asked.
"Oh, nothing," Alexia replied before changing her mind. "Actually, no. I mentioned I was talking to The Doctor earlier and I was wondering something. And it's okay to tell me, I won't be mad." Jaime nodded faintly and waited for her mum to speak again. "What exactly do you see The Doctor as?" Came the question.
Jaime looked nervous at first before taking a deep breath to answer. "He's like the da' I've never had." She replied, expecting a wave of anger to wash off her mum. Instead of that though, there was a wave of happiness from somebody else and wave of of pride from Alexia. The Scots-girl pushed out of her mum's hug and looked around. "I've felt that way even before we found Jenny," she continued. "He might seem aloof most of the time, but he cares. A lot." Once she said that she looked back at her mum. "You really don't mind then?" Jaime questioned.
"No, why should I?" Alexia replied. "Despite the mistakes and the issues, it sounds like The Doctor has done his best to keep you safe and from further trouble. You've needed a father figure in your life and now you've got one."
Surprised, the Scots-girl let out a sob and hugged her mother, thankful she actually approved. She didn't notice The Doctor until he sat down beside her and rubbed her back with his hand in a comforting way. Rose and Jenny were standing beside the bookshelf, watching. They'd all felt her emotions and followed where it was coming from.
Feeling his touch and sensing his happiness, Jaime broke from the hug and looked around at The Doctor. He was smiling. "Dad!" She uttered, feeling quite comfortable with saying it to him, followed by him gathering her into a hug.
"That's right." He mumbled as she hugged him back, closing her eyes so she could hear the double heartsbeat better.
They were soon joined by Jenny, who sat and hugged her sister once Alexia moved up the sofa, and Rose, who sat next to the Doctor and leaned against him in a comfortable way.
Watching all this, Alexia thought this had to be the strangest extended family ever. A real life Time Lord, Bad Wolf, a force grown Time Lady from Messaline, a biological Metacrisis and her brilliant amazing daughter.