So due to popular demand….
I'm continuing this fic!
:D
I'm going to incorporate real happenings from the show and the specific episode. You'll see better what I mean below.
I hope you enjoy how I make it live on ~
Donna, Duplicate-Doctor, Real Doctor, Rose, Jenny and a formerly forgotten Jackie Tyler all sat around a table outside of an Ice Cream shop in San Diego, California. The Doctor had insisted that they try the famous ice cream shop on Warlinte where they give you square scoops and pentagonal spoons, but Rose forbade it. Jenny had to have real, true, earthly ice creams. They found on the TARDIS system a superior shop in the States, so now the six stared at the ocean and greedily ate their frozen treat.
"Muh, thi ih gate!"
"Say that again, Jenny?" Rose said, swirling her chocolate drizzle into the vanilla ice cream with her spoon. Jenny laughed, swallowing her ice cream and repeating herself, clearly this time. "This is great!"
"I can't believe you had never had ice cream!" Donna said, stealing the Doctor's barely-eaten cup and eating that too. He gave Donna a murderous stare.
"Well, I was fairly focused on finding you." Jenny explained. "Didn't take many side trips."
"I suppose that's true. Still – ice cream! You must have had a horrible life without that kind of delicacy."
Jenny laughed. The table fell quiet for a moment. Jackie spoke up.
"There are some unanswered questions here that I would really like the answer to." She gave a long, hard look at Jenny. Rose's face darkened to the color of her namesake.
"Mum!"
"Well, It's certainly a good question to ask, now isn't it!"
"Mum, look at how old she is! That wouldn't even be possible!"
"Well with all you lot zipping around through space, how was I supposed to know something didn't go on while you were gone?"
Everyone else around the table looked back and froth from the mother and daughter confused. Rose met the Doctor's eyes.
"My mum 'ere is suggesting Jenny is our biological daughter."
His face stayed blank. Donna laughed. Jenny blushed.
"Whadaya mean "biological'?" he asked, his eyes curious like a child's. If Rose's face could have gotten any darker, it did. Jackie leaned over and whispered "Well, I suppose that's proof enough considering her doesn't even know what-"
"Miss Tylah," Donna said, accentuating her accent. "Is presuming that Jenny was made in a candle-lit room full of hormones in the TARIDS one night."
The Doctor still blinked at them, oblivious.
"Sex, Doctor! She's talking about sex!"
Both Doctor's faces paled. Despite her utter embarrassment, Rose giggled.
"Well, Jackie-" he stopped and cleared his throat, his voice coming out an octave or two higher than it normally is. "That's certainly not true, I can, ahem, assure you."
Rose laughed some more, kicking the Doctor under the table and sticking her tongue out between her smile. He gave a feeble grin back.
When everyone's ice cream was finished, and the sky was darkening, they six entered the TARDIS again. While they had been away, the machine had created several new bedrooms, which The Doctor thanked it profusely for.
Donna found her usual room, and Jackie found a spacious bedroom with a large wardrobe. The Duplicate Doctor also found a room, as well as Jenny. When three of six had gone, Jenny hugged each 'parent' tight and gave a goodnight before leaving, too.
Rose leaned against the console, admiring the TARDIS. "Oh, I've missed this. I've missed this too much to tell."
"I know." He replied, flipping a final switch and watching as the lights dimmed. Auto-night, he called it. Rose remembered. "I missed having you here."
She smiled slightly. "I know you're going to have to take me back, aren't you?"
He nodded sadly. Rose sighed, playing with her shirt hem, not meeting his gaze
His hand was suddenly on her shoulder. She looked up, met with his face concerned and caring just inches from her own.
"But never for a moment think that I want to leave you. I love you, Rose Tyler."
She hugged him tightly. "You never got to say that, on Bad Wolf Bay. I was kept wonderin' for so long. Thank you."
"If I could have stayed that day, if I could have kept you believe me, I would have."
And with that, he brought up her face to his and gave her a proper, passionate kiss. She smiled under his lips, hugging him close. He twirled her hair in between his fingers.
"Oi, we don't need an actual child of Rose and The Doctor, now do we? One semi-child is enough for now. Get some sleep, you two."
Both people jumped at the sound of the redhead. She laughed, swooping her long hair over her shoulder. "I came to ask where the devil this machine moved the bathroom to-" suddenly, Donna convulsed, long strings of facts and history and numbers spewing from her mouth. The Doctor ran to her side, helping her upright. "Donna? Donna, are you alright?"
"Yes, fi-IvE NEBULAS IN THE RECTON GALAXY FORM-FORM-FORM-FORM-FORMING-" she convulsed in the Doctor's arms. His face looked pained.
"Oh Donna. I knew this would happen. Too much knowledge into a little human head. Too much Time Lord, not enough Donna." He hugged her tightly. "I have to wipe your memory."
Rose stood petrified at the railing until she heard those words. "What? No! You can't do that! Doctor, that's not right!"
"She'll remember everything but me. Everything but the TARDIS and our travels and the Universe." He gave her a stern look. "She will burn up if I don't take it from her!"
"Doctor, please don't-" Donne blubbered in his arms. He whispered things to her, pressing her forehead to her own until she dropped dead weight in his arms. Rose was crying. She didn't know when she had started, but now she couldn't stop. The Doctor looked at her sadly, grief stricken.
"We have to take her home."
Jenny, Rose, Jackie, and the two doctors sat wide-awake around the console. The six were down to five. It was quiet.
"I'm sorry." Was all the Doctor had said. He explained to each person in turn what had happened except for Rose. Rose he just held close. Jenny lingered in proximity as well.
"I'm sorry you had to do that, dad." She whispered softly. He chuckled.
"I will never get used to that, will I? Dad…" he rolled the word around in his mouth, testing it out. Jenny laughed.
"Mom isn't easy to get used to either, considering a daughter was just thrust upon me. No warning. No nine months to, you know, know."
Jackie laughed. "Woulda murdered you if that had been the case."
"I suppose that would have put me in an awkward situation as well." Duplicate Doctor said cheekily. Rose grinned, her tongue poking out.
"Still can't get used to that. Two of yah." She pointed to each in turn. "Gotta say, I liked the blue suit on yah. Well on you…" She pointed and mumbled until she was thoroughly confused. The Doctor laughed.
"Alright. Bed, all of you." He made shooing motions with his hands. Each person left, Rose being last, until The Doctor took to finding his moved around bedroom. It used to be just down this hall…
He looked into a door right where his room was and saw a large king bed with a sleeping Rose in it.
He gave an appreciative pat to the wall, thanking the TARDIS. He could always fake ignorance now.
Sliding in on the other side of the bed, he tried to be quiet and gentle. Rose rustled under the sheets.
"Doctah?"
"Mhm. My room got shimmied around somewhere else. This was where it was a while ago…"
"I dun mind." She said sleepily. It was quiet for a moment.
"So a daughter."
"Yep." He popped the p.
"And I'm the… 'mother'."
"Preferably."
She laughed lightly. "I like her. No, I love her. Jenny. Love the name, too. You come up with it?"
"Donna did." He said quietly. Rose swallowed hard before scooting up next to the man and snuggling into him. He allowed her, absentmindedly playing with her hair until she fell asleep. He himself went to sleep with thoughts of ice cream in his head.