No! I do not own Doctor Who! Stop asking me!

CHAPTER 32

"Alright Raggedy Man, what did you do this time?" Amy scolded, her arms folded and her eyes glaring at her Doctor.

"Why do you automatically assume that it's my fault?! Especially since it's all his fault!" Eleven whined, exasperated, and pointed at Nine.

"Well how was I supposed to know that that was a trap?!" Nine defended himself. "It's been centuries since I last dealt with Sontarans!"

"It's been centuries for me as well." Twelve interjected. "But I bloody know a Sontaran trap when I see one! Sorry, I forget that I was stupid when I was you!"

Before Nine could retaliate, Mickey came to the rescue of all gathered. "Oh for crying out loud, Doctor! Stop fighting with yourself and tell us what happened!"

That shut them up. Tentoo then spoke up. "Well... You see, it's like this. The TARDIS forgot to mention a rule: don't die or you will be removed from the game."

"Yeah, and Dumbo here died!" Eleven whined.

"You didn't!" Rose 9 exclaimed, turning to her Doctor with a look of alarm. He just nodded sadly, wisely choosing to ignore the Dumbo comment for now.

"Well... on the plus side, we've learned a valuable lesson." Ten offered, a bit too cheerily considering what he was about to share. "If a younger version of us dies, a paradox occurs and everyone who came after him also dies."

"Fantastic..." Rose 9 replied.

"So... What does this mean? Who won the game?" Martha asked.

"I think we all lost," Jack answered.

"Well, that's a load of rubbish!" Rory quipped. Amy was surprised. Her husband must've been into the competitive nature of the game more than he had let on.

"I think that the TARDIS won," Rose 12 said softly. "She pretty much proved her point that none of us are really cut out for full time domestics."

The ship shook slightly and there was an unusual sound coming from the console. "Why, I do believe she's laughing at us!" Rose 10.2 translated for the humans. "Never thought I'd say this to her, but Oi! Rude!" She slapped one of the coral supports that were representative of Nine and Ten's ships. All this did was cause another small tremor and the sound to get louder. It was like she was trying and failing to hold in her mirth.

"You two have been spending way too much time together," Rose 10 teased, nudging her Doctor.

Suddenly there was a knock on the TARDIS door.

"What?" Ten and Tentoo said at the same time.

"We're in the middle of the time vortex! No one should be able to knock on the door!" Eleven looked alarmed.

"Is it really, truly, impossible Doctor?" Clara asked as whoever or whatever was out there knocked again.

"What?" The twins were really not being helpful.

"Fine! I'll go answer the bloody door!" Twelve groaned before opening the door.

There was a blonde girl who appeared to be in her early twenties standing there. "Hello Dad!" the blonde greeted him.

Now it was Twelve's turn to be stunned. "What?"

Jenny. Impossible, beautiful, perfect Jenny who had been created from a few cells taken from the Doctor's hand and grew into a fully grown woman in seconds. A fully grown woman with two hearts. The Doctor's daughter. The Doctor's daughter who was supposed to be dead.

Martha and Donna eagerly filed everyone else in on what they remembered from the events surrounding her creation. The companions eagerly peppered the new arrival with questions, which she answered gladly. The Doctors could only stare at her in disbelief and joy, even Nine, who had not lived that point in his timeline yet.

The biggest question was how she was still alive. Jenny explained how she had indeed died that day but suddenly came back to life. She had gone through a kind of half regeneration where she was healed but her face didn't change. The Doctors apologized for leaving her, had they known she was still alive, they would have never let her go! Everyone was overjoyed at the news!

But the Roses were not happy. If this was a daughter from before the Time War, she'd have been overjoyed for the Doctor's sake. But this was a daughter that was created after the war - after her. Like she is supposed to believe that this girl has no mother! For the first time, Rose was jealous!

"Who is your mother?" Rose 10 asked of the new arrival with a hint of iciness to her tone. After all, she was the face that he had cheated on! Granted, they technically weren't a couple at that point, and it had happened while she was trapped in Pete's world, but still!

"She has no mother! I am both biological mother and father!" Ten answered quickly, grabbing her shoulders and turning her to face him. "I would never do that to you! I could never do that!"

"Actually, Dad..." Jenny cleared her throat. "I do have a mother. I just let you believe that I didn't."

"What?!" now all the Doctors were stunned.

"But we saw how you were created!" Donna stammered. "There was no mother! Only him!"

"That's because she was no longer there. But her cells were," Jenny explained. "After I was traveling on my own for awhile, I went back to the planet where I was created to find out more about myself. See, I had learned that it is impossible for a female to be created from a male without assistance from a female. I mean, Dad, if I was only created from you, I'd be exactly like you!"

"Like me!" Tentoo supplied. "But that still doesn't answer the main question here. Who is your mother? Because I know that I, or he, or whatever didn't do anything to create you except get poked with a few needles."

"I don't know, exactly. But during the war on that planet, the soldiers were so desperate for new recruits that they processed everyone who ever set foot on the planet. They would have processed Donna and Martha as well if we weren't interrupted by the Hath. Cells from donors are saved and frozen until a compatible match is found, then they are mixed with the new cells to create a new soldier. So when you were processed, Dad, my Mum's cells were already present in the system."

"But. Who. Is. She?" Rose 10 grumbled through gritted teeth.

"I don't know. See, not long before Dad arrived, there was a young woman who suddenly appeared on the planet. They immediately processed her without learning her name, where she was from, or how she had arrived. There was no compatible match, so her cells were frozen. All that anyone could ever tell me is that she was a blonde humanoid and kept asking for a doctor before she did something to a strange contraption on her wrist and vanished."

Silence descended upon the room. Even the hum of the TARDIS was stilled like she was holding her breath for something.

"She wasn't just asking for a doctor. She was asking for the Doctor!" Rose 10 said quietly, looking into the eyes of her future selves as they were struck with the same realization.

"She had landed on that planet by accident, and she had arrived by dimension cannon. She was disoriented by the trip but knew she had to find the Doctor, which is why she babbled on about it so. After she was processed, the fog in her mind began to clear, and she realized that the Doctor wasn't there, so she used her vortex manipulator to return to Earth."

Ten suddenly saw her in a new light as the realization dawned on him as well. "You mean..."

"Her name is Rose Tyler," she said with tears in her eyes turning to face Jenny. "I am your mother!"