Right, hi. I'm oddood, taking over writing Family Reunion for Smaltby. She kindly gave me permission to finish writing this story after she informed me that she wanted to abandon it. Some of you might have read some of my stories and so you will know that this will be a challenge for me seeing as I tend to write Ten/Rose, but I am very willing to take it up. But enough of me, let's continue with the story!
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Kate looked at her mother with shock. "A Time what?"
"A Time Lord. Your grandfather is a Time Lord. And I am too, kind of", Jenny replied.
"And what's that then, an alien that looks after clocks?" Kate asked, a little sarcastically.
Jenny laughed. "No. No. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what he does, exactly. He travels. Through time and space."
"In the TARDIS", Kate stated.
"Yes. Donna said that he saves planets and rescues civilisations. And there is a lot of running involved. And by that I mean, a lot. And I certainly saw proof of that. On Messaline, he stopped the war. I would have seen more but something got in the way", Jenny answered reminiscently.
"Hold on. You've just said a whole lot of things that make no sense, like, at all. Now I know whom you get that from. But still. What?" Kate asked, confusedly.
"Okay, let's start from the beginning. So, I came from a machine", Jenny started.
"What? A machine? So my grandfather is not my grandfather?", Kate interrupted.
"Well, he is. But not like you would expect. A tissue of skin cells was taken from him to make me. He's technically both my father and my mother", Jenny answered, a little embarrassed.
"That is alien. But why did they take it?", Kate asked.
"The war that I was talking about, on this planet called Messaline. They needed soldiers to fight. The machine programmed me to know everything about fighting and nothing else. Donna christened me Jenny."
Kate was shocked. Knowing nothing but hate. No love, no nothing. "That's terrible." And Donna. I hadn't heard or seen her. "But Donna. Who's Donna?"
"Donna travelled with the Doctor. She was lovely. But didn't you say that he was travelling with a lady called Julia?", Jenny asked.
"Well, yeah, but she could have just have been inside the TARDIS", Kate replied
"Hopefully. But this Julia sounded nice too", Jenny replied. She hoped that if Donna had gone then he had found somebody who was just as brilliant as her. He needed somebody.
"She was, yes. But what was this war? Who was it between?", Kate asked.
"The Messalinians and The Hath. I don't think anyone really knew what it was over. The Source was what they were fighting for in the end. The Source, being a new start of life. But because there was so many people dying and then more people coming from the machine, the story got changed and I think that in the end they were fighting for the sake of fighting", Jenny replied with sadness.
"But weren't you just another of these soldiers? You came from the machine too", Kate wondered. She didn't mean to be rude, but it was the truth.
"I was, yes, to start with. But the Doctor and Donna showed me a different way of living. I was going to travel with them but then the General, the leader, was going to shoot the Doctor and I stepped in the way", Jenny said.
Kate gasped. "What? How did you survive?"
"I didn't. I died but then I woke up, somehow. The Doctor had gone but there was a rocket that I flew everywhere, saving planets, rescuing civilisations and did an awful lot of running, just like I would have done with the Doctor, before I met your Dad here on Earth", Jenny said with a smile.
"Didn't you ever try to find the Doctor?", Kate asked.
"Sure I did. But after a couple of years of searching, I realised how little I knew about the Doctor and how big the universe was. I won't say it's impossible that we might run paths again seeing as how you have just met him but it's highly unlikely", Jenny said.
"Mum, can I have some time now? I need to think", Kate asked.
Jenny hesitated. "Are you sure that you're alright? I'm here anytime that you need me, okay."
"I'm fine. There's just a lot to take in. And thanks, Mum. For telling me. Eventually", Kate replied.
"I am sorry about that. I just didn't know how to tell you", Jenny said.
"I know. I understand", Kate answered.
"'Night. I love you, you know that, don't you?", Jenny said.
"Yes, Mum. I know. And I love you too", Kate replied.
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"Is she alright?", Mike asked.
"Yeah, she's fine. She just needed some time alone, to think. I mean, she's just been told that her mother and her grandfather are aliens. It's not an average teen age worry is it?", Jenny joked.
"No, I guess not", Mike said with a smile.
"I'll talk to her tomorrow", Jenny resolved.
"Okay. We'll be fine, won't we?", Mike said.
"We'll be fine."
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Kate didn't sleep that night. She thought a lot about what her mum had said. She, her mum and her granddad were aliens. Aliens. The Doctor, a Time Lord. Donna. The nice woman who may or may not have left the Doctor. Julia, the lady with the Doctor, who talked to her. Her mum being made on Messaline. The war on Messaline with the Hath over the Source. Love and hate. After a while, she kept repeating the words in a sort of trance, trying to make it make sense. AliensDoctorTimeLordDonnaJuliaMessalineHathSourceLoveHateAliensDoctorTimeLordDonnaJuliaMessalineHathSourceLoveHate.
From all that she had found out that night, Kate was sure of only one thing. She would find the Doctor again. She had already come across him once by accident so surely she could, would, find him again. Like her Mum had said, yes, it was unlikely, but it definitely wasn't impossible.
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