008--Babies

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

[And here is Jenny, reading a copy of "Where Do I Come From?"]

....I realized that not everyone came from a machine, but this seems a little ridiculous.


((RIGHT. Jenny's learning about non-mechanical reproduction.))

Comments

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[cue the Doctor, running in and snatching the book]

Why are you reading this?? You're not supposed to learn about this sort of thing until you're AT LEAST 300!!

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

But that's forever away! Would you rather I ask you?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Yes! [considers THAT conversation] No, ask Donna.

Donna knows these things.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Why can't you tell me?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I can!

I just...really, really think Donna could explain it better.

[siiiiiiiiigh]

Oh, all right.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Does that mean you're gonna tell me?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, hang on one minute.

[vanishes off the plane and rearrives with a banana, a pear, a sock puppet, and a globe]

This is how my father told me.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

That looks nothing like what was in the book.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, it's better with explaining, I'm sure.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

What's the globe for?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

It's part of reminding you just how big the whole world is and how important it is to lie back and just think about that.

[yeah, cause that makes sense for THE TALK]

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

So you think about how big the world is the whole time?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

It's important to know the scope of things.

What makes you want to know these things, anyway?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

A midwife told me that it'd be useful, just in case something happens.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[ D= NOT MY DAUGHTER!]

Something?

What does this person think you're going to be doing?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

I don't know. She gave me this book, too. [Holds up a copy of "It's so Amazing! A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families"]

[miseardae.livejournal.com]

It is, a bit. Which species are you reading about?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Sounds almost like a twisted recipe book.

[eyes]

You haven't got a boyfriend or anything, have you?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

No, I don't. Why?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Humans, I think.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

...You've got to be kidding me.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

How?

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

You need to learn about that? Hasn't anyone given you The Talk?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

I've had lots of talks, but none of them have been called 'The Talk.'

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

All right, well, let's sit down, because this is going to take a bit. I'd tell you to ask the Doctor but he'll probably get aliens involved in it or ramble off about penguins or just avoid it all together and try to distract you with a yo-yo.

[sits down] Right, so. This is called the Birds and the Bees. Hell if I know why. It just is. And it's about sex.