MirrorFlower and DarkWind: (Borrowing River) "Oh, you're good! I'm not saying that you're right, but you're really, very good!"
(Borrowing Forrest Gump) "And that's all I have to say about that." :)
I do not own Doctor Who (or Forrest Gump, incidentally).
BOOK I: Fixing the Doctor's Mistake
CHAPTER 6: The Doctor's Daughter
"Oh, I love this bit!" Martha exclaimed as they all left the TARDIS.
"I thought you'd said that you wanted to go home?" Donna asked, teasingly.
"Well, I still do, but I had forgotten just how exciting it was to land somewhere new and have an alien planet beneath your feet," she reminisced.
The Doctor was about to say something to tease her when suddenly, they were attacked by a group of soldiers. "Show us your hands!" the leader demanded.
One of the soldiers stepped forward and examined them. "They're clean!"
"Process them, then!" came the command. "Him, first!"
They grabbed the Doctor, led him over to an intimidating looking machine and plunged his hand into it.
"They're doing some sort of a scan, and ow!" He yelped. "They're taking a DNA sample and extrapolating it!"
Before he could react, a large door opened, and a young blonde woman stepped out. She smiled brightly at him, then. "Hello, Dad!" She sang out. She was asked by the commander if she knew how to fight, and she answered in the affirmative as she quickly assembled a gun.
"Doctor," Donna asked. "Who is she?"
"I believe, that's my daughter!" he replied, with a stunned look on his face. "I believe that that was a progenation machine, and they took a few cells from my hand and caused them to multiply and grow until they created a new person. And very quickly, I might add!"
"What?" Martha asked. "But who's the mother?"
"Me! I'm both mother and father!" The Doctor said, with a hint of disbelief and maybe a little bit of pride.
"Actually, Dad," the young woman interjected. "You're only partially right. You are my father, but someone else is my mother. She must've been processed before you were and a compatible match wasn't found for her in the system."
"What?!" now the Doctor really was shocked! But before he could process this information, and before his companions could be processed, a group of strange beings that appeared to be half fish, half human, came out of nowhere and began firing upon the group, kidnapping Martha in the process.
Rose did not like this planet. Within minutes of her arrival, she had been manhandled by a bunch of soldiers and had her hand forced into some kind of machine where she was poked with a needle. Everyone then stood around as if they were waiting for something, but nothing happened. "Interesting! You must be new!" The commander had said. "Well, if you can't help us create a new soldier, then you'll have to become one yourself, unless you'd rather we just feed you to the Hath."
She had no idea what he was talking about, and didn't like the idea of becoming a soldier, but it sounded preferable to being fed to the Hath, whatever they were. So she agreed to become a soldier. Luckily, Torchwood had trained her well, and she impressed the general with her knowledge of weapons. She had frozen, however, when it came time to do battle. They were fighting... fish?! She didn't want to shoot them, she wanted to meet them, and she said so.
Which is probably what earned her her current accommodations in an archaic jail cell. It was far from the first time that she had been arrested on an alien planet, but, she mused, this was the first time without the Doctor. That thought caused her heart to break, just a little bit more than it was already. She missed the Doctor! She missed her leather Doctor, who would probably reach over and take her hand as he did in Cardiff and say, "I'm so glad I met you!" She missed her pinstriped Doctor, who'd probably blame her for the entire incident, but would smile and sure her that it was no matter, because he'd get them out! She even missed her bow tie Doctor, she realized, even though she had barely met him. She couldn't help but feel that by landing herself in jail this time, she had really let him down.
A few days later, she was startled awake by the guards. It seemed as though she was about to have some company. Three more cell mates, to be precise: a feisty ginger who kept yelling at the guards, a beautiful young blonde that seemed to have something familiar about her, and a third. A man dressed in a blue pinstriped suit and a trenchcoat with bright red trainers, and she noticed, he had really great hair! The outfit was slightly different than she had last seen him in, but she knew without a doubt who he was, even with his back turned to her. "Doctor?!" she squeaked.
The Doctor was aware that there was another prisoner in their cell, but he hadn't paid her much mind, that is, until she spoke his name. He knew that voice! But, it couldn't be! It's impossible! She's trapped in a parallel universe! He slowly turned around to face her. "Rose..." He exhaled.
"Doctor! Oh, my Doctor!" she sobbed as they embraced, clinging to each other as if the other would vanish as soon as they'd let go.
Realization dawned upon Donna's face as she realized what she was witnessing. "You're Rose?!" She exclaimed. "He's finally found you!" A wide smile stretched across her face as she held out her hand. "I'm Donna, Donna Noble. It is so very good to meet you!"
Still clutching on to her Doctor with her left arm, Rose spun around and offered her right hand with a big smile. "Rose Tyler."
"I'm Jenny!" the blonde called out. "That's my Dad you've got there, and I'm guessing that by the looks of the matching scratches on your hands, you're my Mum!"
"What?!" her parents exclaimed.
Meanwhile, Martha had befriended one of her captors when she fixed his dislocated shoulder. After the Doctor used his sonic on the map, both sides were trying to make their way to the Source. Martha and the friendly Hath were making their way to the Source by traveling across the surface. They weren't quite sure what was going to happen once they got there, but they knew that they had to stop this war! Unfortunately, Martha found a sinkhole, and it almost swallowed her up.
The Hath, in a moment of heroism, pulled her out of the sinkhole, only to be swallowed by it himself. Martha cried at the loss of her friend. He may have been half fish, and they may have had difficulty communicating with each other, but she had cared for the strange creature, as odd as it seems. Wiping the tears from her eyes, she continued on her journey.
Meanwhile, Jenny had used her womanly wiles to help the group escape. ("For the record, she did not get that from me!" Rose had remarked, albeit with a sly grin.) Together, the group of four ran on, the Doctor and Rose grinning from ear to ear as they held hands. It was just like old times! At one point, Jenny had gotten trapped on the wrong side of a laser maze. She then amazed them all as she proceeded to do backflips through the lasers to safety.
"Now that, she got from me!" Rose had grinned.
"Oi! Why is it if she does something less than savory, those are my genes, but if she does something incredible, they're yours?!" The Doctor grinned back.
"Coincidence?" She teased, sticking her tongue between her teeth. It was all he could do not to snog her senseless, right then and there.
"Don't you know anything, Space Man?" Donna had interjected. "The good traits are always from the women!" The Doctor just scoffed. Rose's grin just got wider. She really liked Donna Noble!
"My mistake," he'd replied.
Soon, they arrived at the Source where they were reunited with Martha. "I can't believe he's found you!" Martha had exclaimed after meeting Rose. "And here, of all places!"
"Tell me about it! When I arrived here by accident a few days ago, I'd thought that I'd just lost all hope of ever finding him again!" Rose replied.
"Yeah, about how you got here..." the Doctor started.
"I'll tell you all about it when this adventure is over and we get home," Rose informed him.
"Home?" He queried.
"The TARDIS, you daft alien!" She grinned, slapping him playfully in the arm.
It was Donna who figured out what all the strange numbers had meant, but, of course, it was the Doctor who figured out what the Source really was. The War that had been going on for generations had barely lasted a week. Each new generation had been created so quickly, that it only seemed that the war had been going on for centuries.
"That explains why I didn't recognize any of the soldiers, even though I had only been imprisoned for a few days before you arrived," Rose surmised. "It's also why one of the guards made the comment that I had been there since the beginning of the conflict."
"You probably had!" The Doctor replied.
The Source, it turned out, was a terraforming agent that was supposed to make the surface habitable. But the mission commander died, which started the war. Well, the Doctor had had enough! As the two sides clashed, he declared an end to the war, and released the Source, declaring that this was a dawning of a new era. Everyone then agreed to peace.
Everyone, that is, except for General Cobb, who still believed that the Hath shouldn't exist. So he did what he believed he had to do, and aimed his gun at the Doctor. Jenny noticed, however, and intercepted the shot. She died in her parents' arms.
"Come on, just regenerate!" the Doctor cried. "Regenerate!" But she didn't.
"She's not going to," Rose sobbed. "She's too much like me."
"No," the Doctor replied, also crying. "She's too much like me."
The Doctor was just going to leave her body behind, but at Rose's insistence, they brought her body on board the TARDIS, to give her a proper burial at a later date.
The Eleventh Doctor woke with a start. New memories were forming. Could it be? He heard footsteps in the corridor. Soon, a beautiful young blonde entered his room.
"Hello, Dad!" Jenny said.