Part 5

Mike was puzzled. He didn't understand what was going on between his wife and daughter; they almost never acted this way. The look on Jenny's face when he had walked in to the kitchen after work that afternoon had almost broken his heart. She had looked so pained and trapped; it hurt to see her like that. Then again, it also hurt to see the almost betrayed look on Kate's face. Either way he realised that whatever was going on it was something pretty major.

So later that night after making sure that all the kids were in bed, he and Jenny sat down in the sitting room and talked. Jenny explained what had happened. Although somehow knowing the problem didn't really help as it then bought new questions into his mind.

'You know,' he said to Jenny 'I think we should tell her, Kate I mean. She's smart she'll understand.'

Jenny nodded but didn't say anything. She knew Kate was smart, she thought that Kate would probably have understood at the age of five, but understanding wasn't the problem. She knew from the last and only time that she had met her father, that he was dangerous. Jenny wasn't sure whether she was ready to expose any of her children to that level of danger yet.

'I know you're nervous and I understand that. But if your fathers here wouldn't you like to see him and he's the kid's grandfather, so...' Mike trailed off.

'I won't tell the others, just Kate. I wouldn't tell her either but she's already seen him, and if we just announced that he was her grandfather she would just get even more suspicious.' Jenny said standing up and walking over to the door, 'wish me luck.' With that she walked in to the hallway, up the stairs and knocked on Kate's bedroom door.

Hearing a muttered 'What?' from within, Jenny pushed aside the door and when to sit on the edge of her daughters' bed. Kate glared at her. Jenny was taken back, Kate never acted like this. Kate's' reaction just to her entering the room made Jenny realise just how deep her lie had hurt her daughter.

Jenny sighed 'We need to talk Kate' she said. Kate gave her a look that quite plainly said 'Uh, I don't think so' and rolled over to face the wall. Ignoring this, Jenny took a deep breath and launched straight into, 'A TARDIS is a space ship. Well, and time machine. Both, kind of rolled in to one.'

Kate sat up and gave her mother a worried look. It seemed obvious to Kate that she was talking nonsense and this worried her because her mother never did something like that. Well, not when she was sober any way. However when Kate looked again she realised that her mother was perfectly normal and she said 'you serious?'

'Yes' her mother replied, 'now Kate, tell me, how did you hear of it?'

Kate thought for a moment before telling her mother about that afternoon. She began with how she had been walking down an alleyway when she had heard this strange noise and felt a rush of wind. She then described the appearance of the blue box and the man and woman inside. Jenny listened intently to every word and smiled when Kate described the man. However when Kate began to describe the woman jenny frowned. Last time she had seen The Doctor he had been travelling with two companions called Martha and Donna, now she wandered what had happened to them.

When Kate had finished her story she turned to her mother and asked, 'why do you want to know all this anyway?'

Jenny yet again took a deep breath and said, all in a rush, 'Because he's your Grandfather.'

'Who is?' asked Kate confused

'The Doctor' Jenny replied 'He's my father.'

'You said he was dead.' Kate accused

'I know. I but I only did that because well, Kate it's complicated and I wanted to wait until you could understand.'

'Mum, I don't get it, what's so complicated? It's simple you lied and he's my Grandfather. I'm going to see him. 'Kate announced swinging her legs over the edge of the bed.

'He's not human.'

Kate gaped at her mother speechless. What did that mean? Was he secretly some little green creature? But he couldn't be, he looked human, acted a bit crazy yes but defiantly human.

'I don't understand' she said after a long moment of silence.

'Kate I know your young but have you ever seen the set of medical records from when you were born?'

Kate shook her head 'no' she replied

'They weren't normal. That's why I had you and the others here at home; we thought that a hospital would get suspicious and want to run all sorts of tests.'

'What do you mean 'not normal'?

'We weren't sure what any of you guys would be like, but it seems that you are more like me than your Dad. And when I say more like me I also mean more like your Grandfather. You have two hearts.'

Kate gasped and clapped a hand to her chest. Indeed she could, as her mother said, feel two pulses. How had she not noticed this before?

'I'm not human.' She muttered

'Well not exactly no. Your half human, half time lord.'