001--Jenny, I've got your number

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Right, well, this is strange. Not the strangest thing I've ever seen, but still pretty strange. Still, though, when in Rome, right?
Except there are no Romans to when in Rome with. Makes it sort of hard to follow that one.

Anyway! What is this? It looks like sort of...nothing, except...is that a beach? A beach. In the middle of empty space.

Still. Not the weirdest thing I've seen. Hacking around the rainforest as long I've been doing, and not too much surprises you anymore. I'm not sleeping in trees anymore, though, that's for sure. I think that bat thing was after my blood. Looked like it, anyway.

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[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Well, you did leave in your ship, remember? 'course thought I was dead, and you and Donna sorta...left. No hard feelings, though, Dad. You can't stay behind when you think someone's dead like that.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

I- No, wait, what?! Donna? Dad? What?!

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

You don't remember, do you? Have you been hit over the head or something recently? That can give someone amnesia.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[shakes his head] What? No! I mean, not that I remember, which is apparently the point. But I think I'd remember this. What's Donna have to do with it?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

She was there, along with Martha, on Messaline. You two travel together.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[frowns a little and scratches his head] Martha left me and Donna never traveled with me. Not me anyway. She travels with another me. It's complicated. But daughter? I can't...

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

You mean...er, hold on. So, if Martha left you and Donna never went with you and Donna did mention something about time machines, maybe you're from before I was born. Is that possible, do you think?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[rubs his eyes] Wait, so...yes, I suppose that's possible. Martha...do you know if she mentioned working for UNIT? ...Really? Daughter?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

I just know that she's a Doctor. I didn't see much of her.

--oh! I know what to do. Donna asked you for a stethoscope, when we were on Messaline. Do you have one?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[more or less sees where this is going but nods and pulls one out of his pocket] Yeah, I do. You...mind if I listen, then? [holds up the flat end]

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

That was the general idea.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[nods quickly] Erm, right, 'course. [sticks the things in his ears and presses the flat end to her left side, then to her right side and takes a step back] ...Two hearts. But I can't feel you, that's...Gallifreyan? [totally just talking to himself here] But how? Even in the future, how did I have a daughter?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

The machine. It took a tissue sample from you, and then I was born.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

A machine? So you're a clone, then? Something from a mix of my regenerations, maybe...

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

No, not a clone. Oh, I can't really remember how you described it, though.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Do you remember if 'diploids' were involved?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

No, I don't. Sorry.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Hm, might have been if they were spliced sort of like parthenogenesis, maybe. [icon!] So you're...from me.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

I am. Nice to meet you again, then, Dad.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

It's...nice to meet you, too, uhm...right, do you have a name?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

It's Jenny. Donna named me, after you called me a 'Generated anomaly.'

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh! 'Jenny'. That's clever. So! Jenny, uhm...you said we left you for dead?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Is it really leaving me for dead if I was dead?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[frowns] You came back?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did. [Notices the frown] Something wrong?