It takes Jenny another year before finishing for good her grand master piece. It's been one hundred and two years since she saw her father for the last time. She's had quite a lot of adventures of her own, traveling space and meeting new worlds. Doing what her brief time with her father taught her. Helping and saving people.
But the idea of time travel sticks around in her toughs for a long time before she decides to improve her own ship. She did a couple of travels using a time vortex manipulator when she was younger, but there's something special about having your own ship, a home of sorts that eventually she doesn't want to leave this one behind.
It's not like a TARDIS, her ship. It's not sentient, it's just a machine developed for almost nineteenth years. It began with the rudimentary technology of the Time Agency. But now finally she and the ship can travel through the vortex. And bring Charly along.
She won't accept it never, but Charly rooted on her to the point where it was unbearable to think of leaving him behind. It had something to do with the fact that Charly was immortal for some freaky curse he got from an alien race before meeting her. Gosh, she hates being romantic about it, but since she meet him, she saw him as someone who could spend the rest of his life with her.
As any girl, she's dreamed about it, prince charming and love. As a Time Lady, for a long, long time, there was only pain and loneliness. She saw friends wither and die, always outliving them, there was no way she could find love. That was until she meet this bloke. But she was not with him because of that, she like him because of who he was.
"We are ready love" Charly says with that goofy way of his.
"You know, crossing the void could be…lethal, we could die there. It helps that my brother is sustaining a pathway, a lighthouse of sorts. But still….so much could go wrong, we could get stuck on this other universe or the void itself"
"Look pumpkin, I aint leaving ye. It's ok to me if ye don't want to kiss me, hug me and fuck me yet. But we have all the time to solve that. Ye and me are in this forever"
She smiles. Her hands taking care of the levers, the ship trembles and shakes. It gets dimensional compressed and then they are so small that they leak into the fabric of reality. They melt over it, they cross the vast of nothingness, their liquid form doesn't tear it, they just sort of fall thru it.
They ceases to exist but a tin film is still holding them together or a least the information about what they are and how to reconstruct them on the other side. Her mind surprisingly it's still working and formulating theorems to make this trip so much less bumpy, they can make it stable and easy and don't destroy everything in the universe.
She can see her brother shinning in all the darkness. It's a little gold light with a warm feeling calling to her.
Then it's like coming out of the water and taking the first gulp of air in your burning lungs. Of being nothing to be them again, every cell of their bodies vibrating with life and activity.
"Oh thank god, that was terrible" Charly says touching his body desperate.
"Yeah.." she says. "Are you ok?, everything is in its right place?."
"The important bits at least" he says touching himself.
She laughs "It's the only thing in your mind?"
"I'm a man sweetheart, of course it is"
She rolls her eyes to his companion. "Where are we anyway?"
"I haven't the foggiest, never been in earth before"
"Well, let's just follow my brother's signal" she taps the side of her head and closes her eyes.
"Your wish is my command princes"
A brother….she thinks with a small smile. Family.
+1+
"Are you sure, yeah?" Asks Rose over the cellphone. "Baddies, you reckon?"
John's new body recoils under the blankets.
"Its ok sweetie" she mouths in his direction. She isn't sure it works to calm him. He went and buried himself in her bed after she said by accident the words 'spaceship' and 'Are they lading?'
"So they are just flying around?"
Mickey on the other line sings and says "It is a strange flying pattern, circles mostly, seems like they have no idea what they are doing, but it's definitely moving towards London from Cardiff."
"And you say the satellites didn't even saw them until they were in the planet"
"Almost as if they came from nowhere"
"Not nowhere, and definitely not from space, It's the rift, they came out of there, and that is just insane, but not impossible"
"Basically, yeah"
"Well…let them alone until they arrive to London, keep an eye on them, see if they behave on their way here, and then offer them help"
"Yes, mam"
"Fuck off, Mickey, It's my holiday"
He laughed before ending his call.
"John, its ok baby, remember that not every alien is a baddie"
His shaking form didn't even stop. "I'll make you Tea, yeah?"
Her son didn't say a word. Sadly she doesn't expect him to do it.
Walking to the kitchen she found her parents curled on the sofa watching some singing movie. Her mother looked at her and raising her eyebrows says "How's John doing?". Tony chuckles not paying attention to anything but the tv.
"Badly; I forgot he was listening. Mickey says it's a low level treat, not a battle cruiser or anything like that, just a small ship that came out of the rift, they could be lost for the look of things"
"Well, good news at least" Pete said while smiling tiredly.
"John will be okay too, he's just been throu a lot" Her mother adds trying her best to be positive.
"Yeah" she says.
But she walks out of the room to the kitchen still feeling deeply guilty about it. Accidents happen everyone says to her. Nothing a mother can do about it, it's just a blessing she's able to keep him alive, even if he doesn't look like he used to. Even if he's not her little baby anymore.
He's alive, and it's a gift and she has to stop worrying about something that she can't change back. Not able to fix it, because he doesn't need it. He's not broken.
Tears break from her eyes. She's making tea and she feels weak and pathetic and so freaking alone.
The sound of desperate stomping comes from the stairs. Its John running to the kitchen, his empathy or whatever it's focused on her on all times now. She turns around and sure enough he's on the doorway with his big blue eyes and big ears and big tears. His shining red hair always makes her smile.
The tall and lanky boy looks like more than fifteen, but not old enough to pass as a twenty but in reality he's only a seven year old. His eyes are always trying to convey whatever he can't say anymore, begging to her to understand him. But it's hard still, she doesn't know his facial expressions like she used to. Some are the same; some are just way too different.
It's not all bad, just kind of strange, she wonders a lot about it. How he used to look like the Doctor who father hooded him. And he still looks like his father, but her first Doctor. She couldn't believe it at first. But then they guessed that he had the same genetic pool of the Doctor. Like if a Time Lord DNA had a collection of different genetics that reconfigured and thus ending on different exteriors after every regeneration, maybe twelve of them, maybe more than hundreds. But it wasn't as random as she thought. This collection probably just reconfigured with hers again.
He still looked a bit like her. But there were some things that aren't of her first or second Doctor and neither hers. So she wonders if her son now has some other stray bits from other incarnations in him.
Maybe the first him, six him, or seven him?. She doesn't know, the Doctor thought his faces were embarrassing and never let her get a hold of his photos. It helps somehow that he looks like Nine him.
It's like seeing the son she never had with that him. She reckons this is her second son. Sometimes she thinks this is too much. Everything is too much lately. She cleans her tears because really it's not her son what makes her sad. It's the suffering he went through.
"Its ok John, I'll stop crying"
The boy throws himself to her. He used to do that, but he used to have a seven year old body, now he looks like an adolescent and he weights that. She almost crumbles under him because he lets all of his body fall on her. She still pats him like the baby he is.
"Its ok" she tries to rock them and soothe him. "Everything is fine"
He cries with a wailing worth of a wolf.
+2+
"Unidentified Flying Objet, this is Torchwood base one, identify yourself, over"
"This planet has good technology, want us to move to another cloaking?, level 10 would do the trick"
"No, I think its ok, pass me the mic" she says.
"Torchwood base one, this is the Reliant, Over"
"Reliant, you are on a secured area, state your intensions, over"
Charly took the mic out of her hand with a smile. "Apparently our captain it's taking a stroll on your planet country side, over"
"Reliant, you are about to enter a city area, state your intensions, or well shut you down, over"
"Well, aren't ye a happy bloke?" asks Charly. "We are lost, we have no hostile intentions"
"Reliant, we ask you to cooperate with our planetary foreign policy and politics, spaceships aren't allowed over cities, over"
"We have to land here anyway, ask them" she says inspecting the controls.
"Torchwood base, we appreciate your help, but we are requesting permission to land in this coordinates"
"Negative, I repeat, NEGATIVE, that's a privet property; hostile parties are on their way to coordinates"
"Well Ta!, mate, we don't want yer help anyway"
"This is it, my brother is here", she says lading with force on the open garden.
+3+
"GET THE BLOODY OUT OF THE HOUSE" Mickey screamed.
"Calm down Mickey, no need to panic, it could be a coincidence" she says while taking one of the big guns in the house. Pete was giving Jackie one too.
"Are you fucking crazy?" he asks.
"What are the chances they know this is the Tyler Mansion"
"Lots Rose, get-the-fuck-out-of the house"
"They landed, I just saw their lights on the garden, got to go Mick, Don't worry, this is the Tyler house after all, and we got big guns"
She closes her cellphone with a click. She is worried, but also extremely passive about it. Like 'yeah' this's another day in our tragic lives. Another jeopardy friendly day to survive'.
"I'm ready Dad" she says nodding to Pete.
"Jacks, take care of Tony and John"
They kiss each other briefly, and together came out of the house and stop a few yards away of the ship that just landed on their garden. The aliens are waiting in silence beside it, nodding and smiling and not looking like danger at all. Humanoids too.
"What do you want here?" asks Pete
"We decided to stop for a visit" says the man with gruffly look.
"Welcome to earth, we are armed and ready to shut yer brains out of this house" says Rose.
And she intends on saying more, but she stops when John comes running out of the house. She tries to grab his arm, but he's gotten faster and stronger and it's closer to the aliens in a blink of her eyes.
"You must be John" the girl says with a smile, she takes a step closer.
"GET AWAY FROM MY BOY" she shouts.
"Its ok, we mean no harm" she says smiling even more, she has blonde hair on a ponytail. "My name is Jenny"
John looks back a them with a big smile on his face, she doesn't understand. He's been afraid of anything alien related for weeks and suddenly he has this mega smile on his face, and she can't understand what her son is trying to say with it.
"He can't talk…I see…" she says with a gentle smile. "He wants you to know that it's fine, he can communicate with me, he can see me, and he's reading my time stream"
"Please, let my son alone, stop meddling with his mind" she says because she's always hated when they mess with their heads.
"That's it, that's a violation on point seventy two of our laws, you can't enter and initiate a metal link with anyone on this planet" Pete says pointing his gun.
But John is suddenly jumping in front of the strangers and still bloody smiling to her.
"Right John, of course" says the estranger. "Ms. Tyler. My name is Jenny. I came from the other universe. I'm the Doctors Daughter."
Rose used to think that she was a strong woman, one that didn't crumble as easily. But too much, sometimes was too much. She fainted. Peter lowered his gun and frowned. John runs to his mother's side, but still looking behind him to the aliens.
"He says he needs help Charly, help them take Ms. Tyler"
"Righto!" says Charly walking carefree to them.
"I can see on John's mind, Mr Tyler, that you are his Grandfather. Nice too meet ya"
"What?" Pete finally asks. "What do you mean you are the Doctors Daughter?"
"That is actually a very good story, but I will tell you when we bring Ms Tyler back"
John claps loudly grinning.
+3+
When Rose awakes, she thinks she's had the strangest dream ever. But then she hears the girl´s voice in a conversation with John, well she thinks since Johns voice is silent. She opens her eyes to find everybody around her; Mickey still pointed a gun very tense in a corner, he must have arrived when she was out.
Her father comes and whispers, "I've talked with Mick, everybody was send back, I don't think this a dangerous situation"
"Welcome back to the land of the living" says the strange man.
"What?" she asks disconcerted.
"Ms Tyler. I gather this is too much. But I came from the other universe. I'm the..—"
"The Doctors Daughter, yeah, I hear ya" she says frowning and feeling incredible hurt. Lost of deeper feeling found their way to her. Her story with the Doctor was complicated to say the least, a now it was getting brutally punched again for more complicated shit. He said his sons and family were long past gone.
"Please don't get mad, It's not what you think" she says. "I was loomed from his AND on a planet. There wasn't any other donor, he's one hundred percent my father. While John's a fifty of him and you"
"You are a Time girl, lady?" she asks confused. "That was created from the Doctors….sperm?"
"No, from his blood and skin tissue"
"It gives me the creeps sometimes" comments the man beside her.
"So ye are like fifty percent John's brother?"
John grins in her direction, nodding vigorously.
"Yes" she says fondly "Apparently John been sending telepathic letters to the Doctor, but unable to find him, they went straight to me, I was traveling in just one timeline, so I am much easier to find. And as I am hundred percent my father's daughter, the cube find me and delivered. But John says my cubes haven't been received for a while. I tried to tell you I was coming"
"How and when did this happen?" she asked. "Your looming…." She says softly.
"I don't know how long has been for you and how long for my father, I'm sorry, he never told me about you or John, Ms. Tyler, Time lines can get really confusing"
"Rose, please, I'm old, but I bet you are older than me"
She smiles and nods. "Probably, well, to tell you the truth, the Doctor and I….we were separated very early. Hours from my birth, never got a chance to really talk, I haven't hear or seen him in a long while"
Like every one of us, his children have got the sad fate of every companion, Rose thinks bitter. She's getting angrier with him. But also, very sorrowful, he once lost all his children's to death and now this two separated from him, taken away and unable to know about their lives.
"How do we know the two universe aren't about to collapse?" she asks worried. "He said nothing could come and nothing could go without destroying everything"
"Yeah. Johns a real genius, he is" Jenny said hugging his brother. "He found valuable information about inter-dimension crossing. I'm not really an expert, there's just no information about it from where we came from. What I do know is that they aren't any records of Gallifrey or Time Lords. Some of the older alien races consider them to be legends and anything related to them are useless bits, John here, found the jackpot, things that really change the situation"
"This stuff been sitting here for a long time" commented Pete.
"Yeah, it survived safe in this universe, maybe there is a lot more in other universes, but we definitely can't cross to them. It's all John that makes it possible, if he weren't here we would not be able to cross, it's because of the telepathic link we share, we can sort of hold it together while crossing. Dad probably thought it was impossible to do it on his own"
"Could that have been the difference?, if he knew John was here?" Rose ask feeling sick. She should have told him. But it was really hard for the both of them to add the baby she never told him about.
"Maybe, I don't know if he would have come out with a solution"
"Listen, this family reunion it's all very lovely. But we just made a real shitty trip, if ye were kindly to let us rest?" says de the man.
"I don't need resting" Jenny complains. "And this is Charly by the way, he's my companion"
Rose smiles, apples never fall far from the three, she thinks. There's something about Jenny that is all Doctor, as there is something about John that makes him like that too. She feels a warm feeling up her chest. They are a part of him, and she just loves every bit of him equally.
"Sure, you can stay here, get some rest. We'll continue this tomorrow." Rose says.
All of them, including Micky go to bed, but no one really gets the rest. It's all just too much to think about.
+4+
"Jenny…" Charly whispers well after midnight and two hours after coming to bed.
"What?"
"Oh…so you are awake"
"I'm always awake"
"Right…" he mumbles. "Mind if I get cozy?"
"Are you asking me to cuddle?"
"Maybe"
"Right, do it then"
He shifts on the bed until he has his arms secured at her waist and her head is pillowed on his chest.
"Jenny?"
"What?" she ask annoyed.
"That woman, Ms Tyler, Johns mum…"
"Yeah?"
"She looks a bit like you" he mumbles. She sighs.
"You know that's not possible, she was not even there"
"Yeah ye told me, but I do also know that the Hath designed that machine, and every one of those machines on our time are well known to have a telepathic field that takes feelings into consideration. When those things came to the market, people didn't want to use them because it broke the family structure, so they made them Telepathic with the help of the Orftuy, that way people had children and adults that weren't clones of the donor. The machine makes you look like a familiar face, someone you'd love, and someone you'd want to have kids with"
"What's this then?" she complains. Trying and failing not to feel hopeful. "And history lesson?"
"I was just saying, no need to get defensive"
"I just don't want to feel too excited, I don't even know the full story, John only knows bits, I don't know what she was to my father"
"I'm all saying sweetie, it's that yer father must have loved her. He did have a baby with her, and was definitely thinking of her when ye were born, closes thing to a mum"
"Yeah…" she smiles softly. "But is too soon to call her that, might scare her off"
He kisses her head.
+5+
During the night, sleep eluded Rose. The Doctor had a daughter in some freaky circumstances that were definitely very much like the Doctor. But now for the second time, it was Rose who was dealing with the consequences. Now that John had a sister, he won't be alone anymore, and that is actually great. But does this mean that Johns is now leaving her?.
He is not human, he doesn't belong with humans. Would Jenny take him?, take care of him?. It certainly seems like the best option. But also, she's his mum. A part of her doesn't want to see him leave. She's not ready for that yet.
She looks at her son placidly sleeping besides her. Such a big baby he is. One big baby.
Will continue…..
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