Reunions and Wolf Cubs

Chapter 5

I do not own Doctor Who!

The world shifted and everything changed.

Rose had been in the Hub with Jack and his team (she liked Gwen a lot and she thought Jack and Ianto made a sweet couple although she didn't use that world where Jack could hear her) when it happened. She gasped as her ship disappeared.

"No!" Her daughters had been onboard.

"We've got visuals!" Gwen shouted, bringing their attention to her as she brought up the outside cameras. "What are those things?" She knew she should recognize them, but it escaped her mind at the moment.

"Daleks," Jack said darkly, "if you ever wondered what hate would look like in person, you're looking at it now."

"Jack, we need to get out there. If they've taken the TARDIS…" Rose felt dread fill her. She hardly even felt her ship and the girls were barely a faint touch in her mind. It was if they were out of time from her and a world away.

"And do what Rose?" Jack asked her. "We need to figure out what's going on first, and then we can worry about the girls. The ship will protect them, they'll be okay."

"They're alone! How can they be okay?" Rose yelled at him. "I'm going out, and you can't stop me."

He really couldn't, not when her eyes were glowing gold. Jack let her go and he hoped she would be alright. He cared about all of them, but he had a job to do. Sometimes, he really hated that he had to make those kinds of decisions.

"Right, see if we can get ahold of anyone." He told Gwen. "Ianto, bring out the arsenal. Let's see if we've got anything that can take down a Dalek."

Rose would have to be okay on her own. As much as Jack wanted to be out there with her, he had a responsibility to Earth and the people living on it. He had to put them first, even when it hurt him to do so.

"What was that?" Donna grabbed the railing again as something knocked into the TARDIS.

They were in empty space. Space where the Earth had been only moments before; where it was supposed to be but no longer was. What could be bumping into them?

"Let me…there we go!" The Doctor flipped on the outside sensors and an image filled the screen.

"I thought you said you were the only one left? And why is it red?" Donna hit his shoulder. "Oi, spaceman! Pay attention!"

"It's not possible…where did it come from?" For a moment he had the frightening thought of the Master returning (which is just what they needed at the moment), but the Master didn't have a TARDIS (and he was dead).

Beeping rang out in the room. The Doctor began typing.

"Whoever it is, they're sending a distress signal." He pulled up an image as his ship connected with the other.

Two little girls were now staring back at him.

"Help! Does anyone know what happened? Mum, are you out there? Why isn't she letting us out?" The brunette girl was talking at the screen. "She's not telling me anything!"

"Dad?" The blonde said softly, staring directly at him. "Tally, Talia! This isn't recording, it's live! Dad, Dad it's me, Jenny! Can you see us?"

"Jenny? But…did you regenerate?" Had he abandoned his child, again? Or was this a different Jenny? Could there be a different Jenny? She was certainly younger than his Jenny had been.

"Sort of, it's a long story." Jenny replied. "Tally, it's Dad! And that's Donna. We must have run into them, that or they parked in the Hub too."

"Jenny, what's going on?" The Doctor was confused and he didn't like that feeling. "What are you talking about? Where did you get a TARDIS?"

"It's Mum's, they rescued each other from Torchwood in the other universe." Tally explained. Jenny was practically vibrating beside her. "Uncle Jack's Torchwood is much nicer, and that's where we were until we weren't."

"Okay," the Doctor thought quickly, "I'm going to dock your ship inside mine, and then we're going to talk. We'll figure it out."

"What about Mum?" Tally asked, fighting tears. "I need Mum! I don't know him!" She'd turned to her sister, fear in her eyes. Jenny, what if he hates me?

"It'll be okay, Dad'll get her back or she'll find us. You know she'll always find us, she promised and Mum never breaks her promises." Jenny assured the other girl. "We're going to be fine." She smirked. "You know no one messes with the Bad Wolf and her cubs."

The Doctor froze in what he was doing. Rose…was back? He knew she'd sent those warnings to Donna in the alternate timeline, but could she really be back? His hearts tightened in his chest. He hoped so.

Donna, watching him, hoped the blonde woman who had helped her was back as well. For the Doctor's sake if nothing else, the red-head hoped Rose Tyler was back in this universe and was here to stay.

Ten minutes later the other TARDIS was safely docked inside his. Only seconds after that he was hugging his daughter. It was really his Jenny, and this time he could feel her in his head. His ship was humming, welcoming the girls and her sister ship.

"I thought I'd never see you again," Jenny said tearfully. "This is Tally, my sister. She rescued me from a mad scientist and then mum rescued the both of us from the fighting ring we were trapped in."

"It's more complicated than that," Tally spoke softly, once again shy. She could feel this man and his ship, and they felt nice. "But we need to find mum, she's going to need help."

"We have to find the Earth first space cadets," Donna reminded them.

Tally closed her eyes. "We need to follow the bees, and help is coming from those still on the Planet."

"How do you know that?" The Doctor was studying the girl. He knew Jenny had two hearts, but it seemed like this girl did as well. He knew where Jenny came from, but what of this girl? How was it possible to have two Gallifreyan children?

"Tally's physic, she sees things," Jenny answered for her sister. She's also a telepath.

She'd done it without thinking. Rose never kept them out or told them not to use their telepathy when needing to talk. She hadn't realized that it would make her father jump or even thought he'd take offense to her being in his head.

Startled, the Doctor didn't say anything. However, he did strengthen his shields. That way, only the most basic of things could be passed around. Neither girl needed to see the things he had in his head.

"Right then, follow the bees! What's that mean?"

As Donna and the Doctor spoke, the girls sat off to the side. Both trusted that the Doctor could get them back to their mother. He was their dad after all. That was part of his job.

Rose was scared and furious. This was not a good combination for her to be, not when there was trouble brewing.

Daleks were everywhere and it was getting darker. She'd ended up in Chiswick, although how she didn't want to think about. She blasted a Dalek to atoms (for all she knew they'd taken her daughters, there would be no mercy), rescuing the people she recognized as Donna's family.

She went home with them. Someone had to keep them safe, and she needed access to a computer. Admittedly, a computer with a webcam would have been better.

"Oh," she gently touched the screen when the Doctor appeared, "they're safe."

"Who're the little girls?" Wilf asked as Sylvia nattered on about irresponsible parenting.

"My daughters, I adopted them although, long story I really don't have time to tell right now, Jenny is biologically the Doctor's daughter." Rose explained. "My ship must have found his when the Daleks took the Earth."

"They're beautiful," Wilf told her.

"Thank you," she smiled sadly at him. "I need to go. They're going to need me, all of them."

"Right, good luck." Wilf told her.

"Thanks," Rose hugged him, surprising them both before leaving.

Finding the TARDIS was easier then she thought it would be. It was there, a little more worn than she remembered it but her song was the same. She sang to her, drawing her closer to home. She loved her TARDIS, but this was the one she had first called home.

She stopped and watched, taking him in from the back. He was there and he was real. It wasn't just the TARDIS she could hear. Her girls were there to and so was he.

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Donna nodded behind him.

He turned, eyes widening as he took her in. Time froze for just a second, and then they were running towards each other.

"Rose!"

"Doctor!"

It was every romantic cliché she hated, but Rose didn't care as they collided. She was crying, she realized as she hugged him. He picked her up and spun her around, and she realized he was crying too.

"Mum!" Two little voices shouted, drawing her attention.

"EX-TER-MI-NATE!"

"NO!" The doctor threw himself between the blast and the children. He grunted, hitting the ground as his girls converged on him.

A boom shattered the air as the Dalek's top exploded. Jack was standing there looking incredibly smug until he saw the Doctor.

"You can't leave now," Rose was crying harder. "We just found you!"

"Get him into the TARDIS," Jack helped her pick the Doctor up. "Come on Rose."

Everyone filed back into the ship. Rose gathered her girls into her arms as the Doctor began to glow. All of them were crying as Jack held Donna back from getting in the way. It surprised all of them when he funneled the majority of the energy into his spare hand.

"Don't scare us like that again!" Rose shoved his shoulder, interrupting his hyper little speech about his hand.

He hugged her tightly. "I'm sorry, I'll try not to." He grinned as he felt two smaller sets of arms join the hug. "Got more than just me now, don't I?" He was terrified and ecstatic at the same time on top of his confusion, but none of that was really important at this moment in time. Rose, his Rose, was back. They would figure it out, they usually did.

"Yea, ya do," Rose agreed. "So what's the plan?"

"Don't know just yet, but I'll think of one."

Jack and Donna both snorted in derision. The Doctor never had a plan, at least one he went in with.

"We should grab onto something," Tally told them.

The Doctor almost asked why, but Rose and Jenny just did as she said. The TARDIS lurched as she was pulled into the sky.

"I guess we're going to the Crucible," the Doctor felt chilled. This had just become far more dangerous than anything else he'd ever done.

"Girls, TARDIS, now!" Rose ordered. "Go…" where was she to send them? The Hub?

"Sarah Jane's," The Doctor finished for her. "She has a son now, don't know the story yet, but they'll be safe there." If nothing else, they could use the other TARDIS as shelter from the Daleks, even use it to escape if need be.

"Mum, we can't leave you!" Jenny protested.

"Yes you can, we'll be back before you know it." Rose kissed their foreheads. "Now go, be safe and go!"

"Jenny, come on! We can't be here, it'll distract them from what they need to do." Tally tugged her sister's hand. "It's not our fight yet Jenny."

"Fine, but come back to us, both of you!" She called back to their parents as the two girls ran.

Maybe she didn't like the running as much as she thought she did.