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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[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?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

I...don't know, honestly. [puffs out his cheeks and exhales] Well! So, uhm, I was going to take you with me?

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

You said you would. Take me to see new worlds and things like that.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Did I? Sounds like me. [rocks back and forth on his heels] Well, there's not much I can show you here but I can show you that beach. That's from the planet I'm currently on.

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

You don't really have to show me anything, though, do you? Because you didn't say you would.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

I suppose not but...someone needs to look after you, so! [awkward!] Of course, I'd understand, since I'm not him, exactly, technically but...

[lotsofrunning.livejournal.com]

Well, it's different if you want to. But I didn't think you would, because, well....

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[scratches his neck] What? Oh, right, well...You did say I take care of you. Or I was going to, rather. There must be a reason. So! I'll...get to know you, eh?