Chapter Two
The Doctor's Daughter
Harry looked down, and then back at the Doctor, and then back down again. Repeating the process a few times. "I'm guessing she has her mothers looks" he commented wryly.
"WHAT?" The Doctor said again. His massive intellect was apparently having trouble keeping up with this turn of events. Beside him Rose was looking mightily pissed off.
The Blonde under Harry was still smiling, "She's not the one you had with you when I last saw you" she said. Her smile lighting up her face again.
Harry looked back down at her, "Urh... Who are you, exactly?"
"Donna named me Jenny," Jenny replied.
"Who's Donna?" Rose demanded to know. This not being a name she had heard before in relation to the Doctor.
The Doctor blinked, "WHAT?"
Harry snorted, "I think you broke him" he said to the blonde Jenny.
She looked a little confused, "Don't you remember? Oh I know... it's because I died isn't it?"
"Died?" Rose asked.
"WHAT?"
"Rose slap him or something." Harry said with a smirk.
CRACK
"Not that bloody hard!" Harry said with a frown. He finally let go off Jenny and sat up, which happened to be astride her. She looked up at him and smiled slightly.
The Doctor stopped glaring at the annoyed looking Rose and rubbing his face, "I don't have a daughter... Not any more. I haven't had a one in hundreds of years... I don't know what you think you are playing at but it is not funny!"
"Urh... " Jenny said starting to sound a little worried, "Perhaps we've met earlier in your time line than I had thought we would." she said, and went to look at the Wrist strap she was wearing. Her face collapsing into shock as she saw the blackened lump it had become. "Oh dear" she noted.
"Ooookay." Harry said getting up. He grabbed the nearest sheet and sort of flung it around himself. It turned into his 'default' look and suddenly there was a humming gun in his hand, "Let's have ourselves a little chat" he said half aiming the gun at the new comer Jenny.
Jenny got up slowly, her hands in the air.
"Now... I'm guessing you don't know her Doc"
The Doctor shook his head, "I do not."
"Right, but you think you might be from the future in his time line." Harry asked Jenny.
"I was born, well, created, in the 61st century on Messaline" Jenny supplied. "A sample was taken from Dad, and I was created using the Progenation Machine" she explained. "I did die, but I revived sometime later. I've been looking for you ever since," she told her 'father'.
"How did you get here," Harry asked as The Doctor pulled out his Sonic screw driver and began taking readings. It had never been clear to Harry just how the Doctor got any feedback from the wand like device. He did though, somehow, he did get information. That information was obviously puzzling him from the expression on the dark haired Time lords face.
Jenny smiled again, somewhat impishly. Harry could get to liking this girls smile, "I stole a Time Agent's Wrist device. I had some co-ordinates already from where I'd managed to track Dad. I made the jump and here I am," she indicated her wrist device, "I think it's broken."
"May I," The Doctor asked, moving closer.
She smiled and nodded at him.
Harry could sense there was something seriously bothering the Doctor. Above and beyond a suddenly appearing daughter of course. The Doctor aimed his sonic screwdriver at the girls wrist device a frown marring his face, "Hmmm"
"What's up Doc," Harry said with a slight smile.
Rose snorted, but was more than a little annoyed, so that was the extent of her humour.
"It's fried," The Doctor said, oh so helpfully, "I'm not surprised." he added.
"What's wrong with it. I was rather hoping to keep it" Jenny said, "Can you fix it?"
"No" The Doctor said seriously, "Firstly it's burned out. Secondly, it wouldn't help you even if I could."
"How's that Doc?" Harry asked.
"It was, I think, malfunctioning already..."
Jenny nodded, "It was acting oddly." she admitted.
The Doctor shook his head, "Reckless" he commented, then added, "You're not from this dimension."
"Blunt," Harry noted, watching the worried look on Jenny's face.
The Doctor shook his head, "There's not really a better way to put it. Nor is there a nice way to tell you that you're stuck here."
"What?" Jenny asked, "but... Dad"
"Don't... Call me that." The Doctor said with a surprisingly angry sounding tone.
"Oh not again," Jenny bemoaned.
"Again," Rose asked.
"He took a while to accept me before," Jenny said, her lively eyes showing how serious she was. Also showing how upset she was.
"I did then, Accept you?" The Doctor asked, sounding a little surprised.
Jenny smiled at him, "Yes... You told me that I would be amazing... As I was dying in your arms."
"I've had too many people die in my arms," The Doctor said, showing some of the inner darkness he hid from nearly every one all the time.
Harry smiled, "Well.. Doc, what can I say... Your daughter is... Hot"
"Hey now..." The Doctor said warningly, a half smile on his face, "I've seen you with women... Behave"
Harry flashed a smile, "Let's adjourn to my living room shall we," he said. His gun disappearing in a flash. "Get ourselves comfortable and have a little... Meet and greet, hmm?"
-xXx-
"Alright, I get that, and I get you and I think I follow this alternate reality thing," Jenny said slowly, drawing out her words. "What I don't get is him," she said nodding at Harry.
Harry looked at her curiously, "Of all we've told you, I'm what you don't get? Of all you've said, I'm still the thing you don't get?"
She nodded at him, flashing that alluring smile at him again.
Harry smirked, then looked at the Doctor, "She is certainly your daughter alright."
Rose chuckled slightly, she was feeling a little better now, oddly enough. Though the fact the Doctor had been a father was a bit of a shock, but not when she thought about it properly. He was after all 900 years old or there about, he had lived several lifetimes. She was a little surprised really that he didn't have loads of kids around the place. The details of Jenny's conception were also not something she could be remotely jealous about. No other woman involved for starters, other than this Donna and apparently she was the Doctors friend.
The Doctor shook his head, he was having trouble with this concept it was right out there it really was, but he did sense something about Jenny that was- familiar. It also explained the TARDIS's sudden change of direction. He and the TARDIS were linked, it was reacting to the presence of his DNA elsewhere in the time stream. Even if that DNA was essentially a copy and extrapolation. He had to admit he was quite proud of that extrapolation and how pretty she was. Perhaps a strange thing to be proud of, but there it was. He didn't like the fact she was some sort of warrior, despite his own actions in war he thought of himself more of a peaceful man. He hated guns in fact, but it appeared that she wouldn't, but she had adopted some of his own beliefs, knowing children as he did he had to be happy about that fact.
"So what is it that you want to know," Harry asked.
"A lot, starting with - What Are You?" Jenny said tilting her head to one side as if a different focal point would help her.
The Doctor smiled a slightly proud smile, "You sense it, don't you?"
She flashed him a smile, "Yes, but what is it?"
"What are they talking about," Rose wanted to know.
Harry smiled, "Ah," he said sitting back, "That"
"What?" Rose demanded to know starting to get a little annoyed, putting the Doctor and Harry in a room was annoying enough now this Jenny was thrown in it was even more confusing. For one thing she was feeling like the village idiot. It was nothing any of them DID. They were, all three of them, scarily intelligent though and they just had a way of thinking that was alien to her. She knew Harry was the more human one in that respect, but even he was so intelligent it was leaving her in the dark most of the time. If she had to guess she would have to say that Jenny would be at least as intelligent as her father and that was astoundingly bright to say the least. There was a good chance she could end up being MORE intelligent which was a bit scary to put it mildly.
The Doctor fielded that one, "Have you never wondered why I've let Harry change things, why I took him where he wanted. Dropped him off, picked him up years later all without laying down any rules?"
"Yes," Rose stated emphatically, "But I figured he must've made some sort of deal with you."
Harry smiled, "You know I did a spell to come back, you and the Doctor both met the 'old' me."
Rose nodded, "Yeah and I have to say I like this you a lot better."
Harry snorted and nodded his agreement, "Well you met me a good 300 years before I sent myself back."
"Sent, back, myself?" Jenny asked.
"He's getting there, give him a moment."
"Okay Dad," Jenny said with a smile. It wasn't the same father she had met, but at the same time it was, it really was quite strange.
The Doctor fought a smile at hearing that term.
Harry didn't fight a smile, and grinned broadly, "I had to urm- Tune in to the time stream. I won't bore you with the details but I changed myself a fair bit, or how I interact with the time stream. To that end I am somewhat more sensitive to the stream and the void than any other human would be."
"That's not the least of it anyway," The Doctor said smiling, "He's also a nexus. A big old knot in the string of time. Around him I am able to- urh- bend the rules quite a bit. Thanks to him I was able to do a few things I wouldn't normally. He's rare, very, very rare the Time Lords haven't seen many. Tuning in helped him send himself back in time. The fact he is a Nexus in time made the spell work and meant I couldn't actually stop him even if I had wanted to."
Jenny frowned, tilting her head again, "He's a bit-"
"Fuzzy," The Doctor finished for her.
Jenny shook her head, "Not the word I was looking for," She said with a hint of a sensual smile.
The Doctor rolled his eyes, then cut Harry a look, "No, No, No, NO!" he said to Harry in no uncertain terms seeing the look Harry was giving his daughter.
"What," Harry asked innocently, ruined by the smirk on his face.
Rose smirked more than a little herself, "Harry is very powerful in his own way, that sort of- pours off of him."
Jenny nodded, "That's what it is."
"Ahh, that, yes, well, you see- urh- that's not something I'm all that comfortable talking about." The Doctor admitted.
Harry smirked, "It just bugs him because he can't easily quantify Magic."
"Magic," Jenny said her tone clearly disbelieving.
"Oh no, it exists in various forms, at least what people call Magic. Quantum mechanics explains some of it away." The Doctor told her seriously, "But-"
"There's more, something no current theory really explains." Harry told her, "That's true Magic, and it's not easily studied, it doesn't like to be poked or put in neat little boxes."
"That's the other thing that really bothers me, I've SEEN him doing Magic on various levels of magnitude, I have yet to see evidence of sentience. Yet, he tells me that magic is sentient and I DO believe him."
Harry smiled at his friend, "That means a lot. Just so you know."
The Doctor smiled at him, "You've proven yourself to me- to us, many times over Harry. That said I still don't want you eyeing my daughter."
Harry laughed happily at that as Jenny said, "I don't mind one bit."
There was an amused moment in which they all chuckled slightly.
"So, you are a Nexus," Jenny said clarifying the point for herself.
"He is, but 'his tuning in' has changed the way he sits in the time stream to such an extent he's even more than that now, so he has gone from rare to quite possibly unique." The Doctor filled in for his daughter and answered in Harry's place knowing full well that Harry would make some remark and fob off the question.
"I like to think I'm unique," Harry said with a charming smile.
"He is, he REALLY is," Rose said with a sardonic lilt to her voice.
Jenny eyed him for a long moment her thoughts shifting towards an area her father obviously wouldn't like, but she couldn't help it there was just something about him.
In the meantime Rose was watching her with a smirk, "I've made a bit of a study of our Harry," she said gaining a mild glare from The Doctor, "since I'm not interested in him THAT way, I've been able to get an outsiders perspective, if you see what I mean. You're feeling it though aren't you?"
Jenny affected an innocent expression, "Feeling - what?"
Rose smirked, "Uh huh, well I've noticed the effect that he seems to have, felt a bit of it myself if I'm honest," she added with a teasing smile at what was quickly becoming her boyfriend.
Harry half frowned, "What are you on about Rose?"
Rose smiled more fully and said, "You - you draw in women like flies and it's not just because you're good looking or charming. It's that power I was talking about it flows off of you and it's pretty much like honey to the bees sweetheart."
"Huh," Harry said with a thoughtful look on his face, suddenly it was like someone had turned off a source of power nearby, "and now?"
"Not a bloody thing, how'd you do that?"
Jenny was looking a little surprised herself, and the Doctor had a look of curiosity on his face.
"Reined in my ambient power bleed," Harry said with a careless shrug, "Not that I have anything against 'being honey', I thought it would be as well if I could - turn the effect off. I figured it was something to do with my magical potency."
"Turn it back on," Jenny said her eyes looking a little alarmed.
The Doctor looked at her askance, so she added, "It felt - nice."
Harry smirked at her and let his ambient power bleed again. Judging by the smile she shot him it was obviously the right thing to do as well. "That's better," she commented.
Harry smirked, then paused and really looked at her, then at the doctor and back again, "huh," he said sounding a little surprised.
"What?" The Doctor asked knowing that it was rare to see Harry that surprised about anything.
"She's a natural extrapolation of you right, that's what you said the machine did yeah?" he said glancing between The Doctor and Jenny.
"Yes," Jenny said looking at him curiously.
"If I understand correctly that's essentially correct," the Doctor added.
"It's just that I can't see magic in you as such, a tiny bit but nothing that would allow you to cast." Harry told the Doctor. Then he turned to Jenny, "Her on the other hand I see loads, more than some Wizards and Witches I've met."
The Doctor looked thoughtful at that and Jenny shrugged, having no real frame of reference about magic.
"I just don't understand why, since she was - created, for want of a better word."
"It is strange, from what you've told me about Magic." The Doctor said thoughtfully.
"Does it matter?" Jenny asked.
"She's right, it's not really the point here is it," Rose inserted, "I mean, shouldn't we be finding a way for her to go home or something?"
"She can't," The Doctor said, "I'm not entirely sure how she breached the dimensional barriers in the first place since they were closed down during the Time War."
"It could in fact be the introduction of magic into the time shifting bracer thingy she had that made it go wonky." Harry said also thinking off the cuff as it were.
"Again, is that really the point here, I mean - well, what's going to happen now?" Rose asked, obviously not thrilled with the idea of having a virtual stranger with the Doctor and herself, especially now that he was essentially her 'boy friend' and she was just starting to reap that benefit.
Harry read that loud on clear coming from her and half frowned at the slight selfishness inherent. The Doctor had no real family left in the galaxy, or universe come to think on it. He would've thought Rose would be happy for the man, but then the affairs of the heart were often wrought with selfish desires. "Look, let's not go rushing into those sorts of things right now," Harry said placating, "It's been a fraught night so far and last night I was fighting off a bar full of men with an Angel. I could do with some more sleep. So why don't you all stay here the night and we'll talk more in the actual morning?"
The Doctor cocked and eyebrow at him, "Angel?"
"Angel" Harry replied.
"Huh, never boring around you is it?" The doctor said with a smile on his face.
Rose cocked and eyebrow and a hand on her hip, "Angel?" she asked her tone clearly not full of belief.
Harry just smiled at her charmingly and shrugged.
Jenny looked between them all, "What's an Angel?"
-#-
Pansy walked into Harry's apartment quietly as she knew that Harry had a habit of turning in late when he did bother going to sleep. She had been doing some unofficial training with him so far that summer, over and above what the others were being taught. Not out of wanting to get ahead, merely because she was the only one that was staying with Harry for the entire Summer. The other's would soon be joining them, a week or so before what was quickly becoming known as Hogstock to everyone involved. She had been involved too via Harry and considered herself honoured to be apart of history in the making. It was odd really, because her parents had disowned her for not being Pure enough she was now actually placed to be apart of the greatest musical event in Howarts history and be with someone that was sure to do other amazing things too. In a way she was almost grateful to her ex parents for doing this to her.
She came to a stop in the main living area of the apartment and looked around. There was something off about the place and she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Wondering what was bugging her she walked over to Harry's room and gently knocked the door. There was no answer so she slipped into the room, almost banging into a large blue box in the process. It was a bizarre looking piece of furniture, but knowing Harry it was more than it appeared to be. She looked at the man himself snoring softly on his bed and a soft smile lit her face. She was so in love with the sleeping man it struck her as funny sometimes. Never in her wildest dreams had she thought she would be so close to the saviour of the wizarding world. Once she had been scared of who she was, and how she looked and he had changed all that. Now she was content in ways that she had not thought she ever could be and it was due, in a large part, to Harry Potter. Though more accurately it was now Harry B. It suited him more somehow, Harry Potter had been him as a child and Harry B was him as a man.
It was tempting to slip in beside him in bed and do things that would've made her old fashioned mother and father shiver in fear. She was becoming more and more sure that she out of all of Harry's Girls could get away with it as well. But she wanted him to make the first move, she wasn't sure why but it was important to her self image in someway that she couldn't ignore or classify. She knew he was not the sort to settle down in some romantic fashion, at least not anymore, but that didn't overly bother her. She knew he loved her, loved them all in point of fact. She couldn't help, hoping that he would choose her out of all of his girls to finally take into his bed though. Perhaps it was some small selfish or perhaps vain part of her that wished that, but it was undeniable all the same.
Harry rolled over in bed, snorting slightly and making Pansy laugh softly in response. Even the most powerful were damn near cute in their sleep apparently.
She walked closer to the bed, finally putting a knee up on the mattress and crawling up the bed. Her long hair framed his face and she lent down and kissed him softly on the lips. He smiled in response and slowly his eyes flickered open. Pansy smiled down at him, her eyes locked onto his emerald regard. "Morning sleepy head," she said softly.
"Morning Gorgeous." He countered, and looked sideways at his alarm clock and blinked a few times, "Blimey sorry it's late isn't it."
"Don't worry, I'm in no rush to be pounded on," she said then laughed, "Well in the sense of working with you on the mats at any rate."
Harry laughed and moved his head up to kiss her full on the lips, then he swapped positions with her and kissed her for a little longer before getting up and stretching.
Pansy almost growled at his lack of continuation until he said, "As much as I would like to follow up on that train of thought my darling, I have guests."
"Brought an Angel home did we?" Pansy asked.
"Nope, Lukus is going to visit us soon though."
"I look forward to it," Pansy said seriously, after all it wasn't often you got the chance to meet a real live Angel.
"I'm sure," Harry said with a smirk. "For now though come and meet The Doctor, Rose and Jenny."
"The Doctor's Here?" Pansy asked with a little excitement colouring her tone.
Harry smiled and nodded, "Yeah, he urm - dropped in last night." He said with a laugh in his voice.
Pansy got up off of the bed with a single bound, landing lightly on her toes and smirked at Harry, "You might want to sort out that bed hair first," she commented looking at him with affection and amusement in her expression.
Harry sighed and stroked down his hair with his hand, then looked at Pansy expectantly for a moment, "Are you going to leave so I can get dressed?"
Pansy smirked at him and shook her head, "You're the one that's always saying we should not be embarrassed about anything anymore."
Harry smirked at her and then slid his night shorts off to her sudden intake of breath. "Fair enough," he commented, moving around his room and grabbing some clothes.
Pansy meanwhile gulped back a rush of arousal she always got when seeing Harry even partially dressed, and made sure to record the event in her mind.
-#-
The Doctor walked out of the room he had used for the night and sniffed, "Is that Bacon?" he asked a slight smile on his face as Rose walked up behind him with a soft smile on her face.
Harry half turned and looked at them with a smirk on his face, "Certainly is, want some?"
"Definitely," The Doctor said moving with Rose at his side into the room, "Oh - Hello," he said noticing Pansy for the first time.
Pansy got up of the sofa and smiled with a hand extended in friendship, "You must be the Doctor. It's a rare pleasure to meet you," she said with some excitement.
The Doctor blinked slightly, but took the hand and shook it slightly, "Urh - Likewise?"
"Harry's said a lot about you, well not a load but it's obvious that you are someone that he respects and that means I'm very glad to meet you." Pansy said by way of explanation for her excitement, then she turned her attention to Rose and offered her hand again, "And you must be Rose."
"I am, and you are?"
"I'm Pansy, one of Harry's Girls." Was the swift reply and the capitalised title was audible in her voice.
Rose smiled at her in a friendly fashion, though in truth she was feeling especially mellow after the Doctor had spent some time assuring her of her importance to him the night before.
Harry smirked at the interchange and went back to his cooking only to have to turn around again when the final guest he had acquired entered the living area, "Morning Dad, Rose, Harry and however you are." Jenny said as she walked out of her room, her eyes bright and lively as ever.
Pansy looked at Harry, "Dad?" she mouthed in question.
Harry just nodded in reply and started to dish out portions of breakfast for everyone. They all sat at the breakfast bar that was just about big enough, as Harry stayed standing up behind the counter and ate there. Breakfast was an interesting affair as Pansy kept peppering the Doctor with questions about his adventures with Harry along for the ride. The Doctor didn't say much all told, but was highly amused by some of the questions that Pansy was shooting at him.
"So Doctor, did you teach Harry all the technology stuff?" Pansy asked finally as they were finishing up.
The Doctor laughed slightly and shook his head, "Not really, some but not a lot. In fact Harry taught me a few things about what was it called again Harry?"
"Technomancy," Harry filled in with a slight sigh knowing that some of his secrets might come out, but not overly worried. He was as sure as Jenny as he could be, there was just something about her that sort of reminded him of the Doctor which just lent credence to her tail. Other than her he was totally fine with the other people in the room knowing more about him. Perhaps Pansy would even be the one to finally put all the clues he had been chucking around together.
"That's it, fascinating subject that. Though I still don't understand how it works in relation to your bracer."
"Bracer?" Pansy asked with an amused smile and looked at Harry expectantly.
Harry rolled his eyes and let the Technomancy gizmo flash into existence for a brief moment before hiding it again.
"What the hell is it?" Pansy asked.
"Storage device, mostly though it does have some other tricks as well."
"What exactly is Technomancy then?" Pansy asked, shaking her head at a typically unhelpful answer from Harry.
"It's the combination of technology and magic. It came about when pure blood breeding started to make the magical world in it's entirety become quite weak - magically speaking. They mixed technology to create a branch of 'science' around magic with the goal of boosting their flagging power levels." Harry said in a surprising straight forward way. He put the dishes in a dish washer and looked at Pansy for a moment, then said, "But it's more than that, it's the mixture of science and magic to do things that wouldn't normally be possible." He told her and then his gun appeared in his hand and he smirked, "I know the Doc hates this thing but it's a prime example of Technomancy and is commonly stored in my Bracer. That's how I can pull it any time I like." With a few sure movements of his hands he stripped down the modified Desert Eagle and then pulled out the guts of the gun. One thing that caught Pansy's eye was the glowing crystal he carefully put to one side. It looked like a large diamond but was glowing softly yellow and humming slightly. Then he pulled out what looked to be a selection of printed circuit boards.
With a negligent wave of his hand he enlarged the entire mess of circuit boards which rapidly became three foot long each. "See these, this is the real size of the boards and quite obviously wouldn't work as they are for anything as portable as this gun, so I used Magic to shrink them. They are without power for the most part so the shrinking and enlarging can be done without frying the chips involved in the circuits. I actually made the circuits before I left on my travels with the Doctor, but I had to get this," he said picking up the glowing Diamond, "from - somewhere."
"That's the thing you took out Voldemort with then? Hermione also said she's seen you using it as a stunner." Pansy said.
"Really?" Jenny said becoming interested even more so than she already was, "fascinating," she added in a way that was eerily like her father.
"And a couple of more things besides." Harry said, then reassembled the gun. "The gun itself also has a charm on it to keep it clean and another to make it lighter. As such it's Technomancy - the mixing of science and magic."
"I don't understand how that works," The Doctor said with some frustration, "You have said in the past that technology and magic rarely work together. How could an entire branch of science spring up from something so rare."
"This is where we go into Quantum physics," Harry said and waved off the bright look in the Doctors expression, "I understand how it works but I'm not great at explaining it. But the basic thing here is that electricity doesn't work well with magic. The two sources of power don't mix. That said if you can suspend the effect or even make electronics low powered enough then magic will be fine. It's like I said originally about mobile phones. They are now quite low powered, and thus the magic effects them less."
"That doesn't sound like quantum physics," Jenny said carefully.
"That's not, there's a whole load of it behind what I said though and frankly my academic days are long gone."
Pansy shot him a strange look at that, but he waved it off with a smile.
"Can you make me one of those?" Jenny asked eyeing the gun with a smile.
Harry just blinked at that, it was strange to hear a daughter of the Doctors asking for a gun. The Doctor shot her a look and Jenny smiled radiantly at her and shrugged, "I like guns, it was the way I was - programmed."
"Urh - charging the magical battery would be - problematic at best. It pretty much drains the; donor." Harry said carefully.
Pansy suddenly starting laughing, "So that's what happened to Draco's magic." She said nodding to the gun causing Harry to smile and nod. "At least it's doing something useful for a change." She said echoing something Harry had said once before.
The Doctor shook his head at the antics, "Well, that was a nice breakfast. It's unusual that I get to eat a fry up," the Doctor noted wryly.
Harry smirked, "Getting itchy feet already Doc?"
"Perhaps a little," The Doctor said ruefully.
Jenny looked alarmed at that piece of news.
"Where we off to next?" Rose asked.
"No idea," The Doctor said with a smile. Then he turned to his daughter, "Have you given any thought about what you want to do?"
"You once promised to show me the universe," she told him.
"I can do that," The Doctor told her, though the look Rose shot him was hard to ignore.
"Or," Harry began carefully, "You could hold off on that."
The Doctor, Rose and Jenny all looked at him curiously.
"It occurs to me that a Time Lord with magic should be trained in how to use it." He said with a smile. "Not to mention the other training I can give her."
The Doctor looked at him seriously for a long moment, "Interesting."
"But," Jenny said then looked down and then back up. "What do you mean training?"
"From what you've said you have military training, right?" Harry asked.
"Yes," Jenny said, "I do."
"How would you like to expand on that? I can teach you a lot, not the least of which is to work with, control and use your magical potential to it's fullest."
"Before last night I wasn't aware I had any magical potential."
"I strongly suspect that Magic wants you here for a reason. I further suspect it's why you have jumped dimensions, or rather how you managed it. That's a time agents wrist device. I've seen them before and they cannot do dimensional travel."
"Go on," The Doctor said curiously.
"Let's go sit in the living room and talk properly." Harry said, leading them to the sofa's. They arrayed around the place with Pansy slipping in beside Harry and doing her best to read what was coming. So far she had kept out of this, as she had a feeling that there was a lot more going on than it appeared to be. It was odd for Harry to be making an offer like this to a virtual stranger, but there he was doing it and there had to be a reason above helping to train the Doctors Daughter.
"Firstly, there must be a reason why Jenny arrived here of all places, and not only here in the physical sense, but in the dimensional sense too. You were nowhere near me at the time and frankly you're not known to frequent my apartment. You've been here what - once before?"
"True, but the universe is an infinitely diverse form of Chaos, I'm not sure I believe in forces outside of our control leading us around in the way you're suggesting Harry," the Doctor told him seriously.
Harry smiled, "You know I'm not a true believer in the strictest sense of the word but I know for a fact destiny exists for some people, frankly I've seen too much not too."
"Anthromorphic whatever it was?" Pansy put in.
"That too" Harry said with a nod, "But not quite what I was talking about."
"Anthro-what?" Rose asked utterly mystified.
"Long story short, anything that is believed in strongly enough can become real. Such as Christianity," Harry told her in a much more short form way than he had with his girls.
"Are you saying god's not real?" Rose asked, she wasn't truly a strict COE, but she had been brought up fairly church fearing.
"Yes and no. I'm sure he does exist, but not until a few thousand years ago, where he suddenly existed for all of time."
"What?" Rose said utterly mystified.
The Doctor patted her knee, "It's a theory of creation in effect. It's simple enough a thought in that you believe in god so god exists, the same way they believe in Gathasplat on Centuri Nine and now he exists."
"There is a divine creator of all, and she is not being willed into existence by anything other than her own will." Harry said with a certainly to his voice that was certainly not religious fervour.
Pansy put in her thought again, "More like champions, like Buffy and Faith."
"Exactly, they were pre destined to be slayers from the womb, it's entirely possible thanks to the Doctor's Chaotic universe that someone else may have been picked, but they both had the potential to be picked. Is it coincidence they were the ones chosen though? Or it is something else?" Harry replied, warming to the subject then shaking himself. "This is going off at a tangent though. Ignore destiny then, as it's a topic up for MUCH debate. I think I can help Jenny become more than slightly formidable."
"A warrior?" The Doctor asked.
"No, don't worry Doc, but remember your own history before you slam a warrior for being a warrior. People need warriors almost as much as they need a saviour." Harry said seriously and looking at the Doctor intently.
"It's my own history that allows me to see that the Warriors path is not one I wish to see my daughter going down."
"As I said, that's not my intent here."
"Look, I'm not so sure I want to be trained." Jenny said finally, looking annoyed. "I'm not sure I even believe in magic."
Harry looked at her seriously for a long moment and then suddenly leapt at her, a knife in his hand from god alone knows where. Jenny threw up her hands and he went sailing backwards all the way into the kitchen and over the breakfast bar.
There was utter silence in the living room and then Harry looked back over the breakfast bar with a smug look on his face.
"Amazing!" The Doctor said brightly.