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]

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?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[scratches his neck] Well, Time Lords have this thing, this ability- ...But you're not a- ...well, no, maybe. You're...I don't think you can. [sighs] Time Lords and Gallifreyans in general have rapid healing abilities, as well as the ability to regenerate. That's something that's earned, though. [a pause] It was anyway. But death? That's a little more permanent.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

[Bites at thumbnail] I don't know how it happened, really. I just sort of...woke up.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Same body?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Why?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

It's nothing I can think of my species being able to do. For a second it almost sounded like regeneration but no. I don't think you'll be able to do that.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Is that good or bad?