Imagine: The List
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"So which one of your sisters is the one Nathan worked with when your family was in Eureka?" Carter asks Jo. "The one whose company the DoD was thinking of merging with GD in your world?"

 

"That's Greta, the tall one." Jo says. Nathan looks stunned. "And the DoD was thinking of bringing Dayton in to take over, Dayton is multi-national has a lot of government contracts, that way they can bring some of the more mainstream GD work out to the public." Greta looks up and waves at her table as Jo and her brothers cluster around the laptop.

 

"How come you could get through but I couldn't?" Jo asks.

 

"I'm boosting the signal off the bus, I'll show you how to boost your laptop." Greta looks over at her sister, squeals, and jumps out of her chair, hugging her. "Congratulations." she whispers in her ear.

 

"Thanks, I think." she hugs her back, somewhat stiffly. The news that Jo broke out quickly makes it's way to the others. Blair looks over at Daniel and asks him quietly.

 

"You think being a Goddess will make Buck back off on tormenting Jo?"

 

Daniel snorts. "Naaaahhhh, he torments Greta just as much and Greta's been a Goddess a hell of a lot longer than Jo. Now he's just got two sisters who can fry his ass if he gets too annoying."

 

Greta finally shuts down her laptop, sticking it back in her bag.

 

"So," I say, looking up at the ceiling. :"Was there a reason that Jo vanished from her room at the party and appeared here in Eureka or did we just want to freak out the nice people here?"

 

A scroll appears out of nowhere, landing next to her on the counter she's leaning against.

 

"You just had to ask." Greta rolls her eyes.

 

I open the ribbon tying the scroll shut, wrapping it around my wrist. "Awww fuck, it's in Gallifreyan."

 

"Can you read it or do you need Friday?" Greta asks. "And how do you know it's in Gallifreyan?"

"I recognize it from the road trip?" I say innocently.

 

"Uh-huh," Greta crosses her arms over her chest and looks at me. "Drop the other one, it's got bells on."

 

"Okay, my life is even more weird than we thought. I'll explain later." I say. I turn towards the counter. "Can I use your phone?" I ask Vincent. He nods dumbly. "Thanks, and can somebody tell me the Doctor's number?" Nathan walks over and dials a number. "Thanks," I nod and listen to the phone ringing.

 

"Hello?" I hear the familiar voice of the Doctor say in the phone. With an evil grin that rivals Greta, Strife, and Buck, I begin speaking in Gallifreyan. At the other end of the line, the Doctor stands stunned.

 

Switching back to English, I say. "I'm at the Cafe, come meet with me."

 

Jack's been watching his husband, he grabs the car keys. "Where?" he asks.

 

"The Cafe, whoever spoke said that she would be there." Jack gets behind the wheel, thankfully the kids are still in school, and drives there. He stops and stares at the bus that's parked outside the building and wraps an arm around the other man before they walk in.

 

The Doctor looks around, the cafe is unusually crowded for this time of day and most everybody there points at the counter where a young girl is leaning against the counter sipping a glass of ice water.

 

She smirks at him and hands over the scroll. "You might want to read this, it makes sense to me but then I'm a little weird." Most of the men and the other teenage girl snort at that. "No comments from the peanut gallery please. And if you have your handy dandy sonic screwdriver, scan me and do a search for a genetic match." The Doctor fumbles in his pocket for his sonic screwdriver and runs it over the girl, choking silently on the readings."

 

"This . . . This can't be right."

 

"Yeah, I got that same stunned look and variations of it's not possible from ten of you a couple of months ago." I snort.

 

"Doc?"

 

"Congratulations Jack, it's a girl." I say, rolling my eyes.

 

Greta just looks at me. "Long story, one I'd rather not get into here, but a couple months ago I found out I'm the daughter of the Doctor and his old 'friend' the Master."

 

Greta just blinks at me. "Is that where Cream, Sugar, and Spice came from?"

 

"Yup," I nod. "Okay, maybe we should take this somewhere else? Vincent's going to have customers coming in pretty soon."

 

"Beverly's guest house is empty." Jo says.

 

"Okay, everybody on the bus, we'll head over there." Everybody heads outside, most of my family getting on the bus or in Ecto-One. Greta follows Jo's directions to the guest house, Jo unlocking the door and ordering the others into pulling off sheets and opening windows as Jack's car, Nathan's BMW, and Carter's SUV pull in beside the bus.

 

The Doctor and Jack immediately head for the bus, Nathan and Jack Carter following them. I wave them to a seat as I look up at the ceiling. "Any other surprises you have in store for us?" A large basket appears on a chair and a shower of scrolls start dropping into it. I roll my eyes. "You really have to update your methods, it's the 21st century after all. A computer appears on the table, quietly chiming you have mail.

 

I reach for my laptop, sending a couple of messages. "Okay, Greta and I were on a road trip with our family last year, two of the people who were there was the two of you." I look over at Greta. "I told them they could park here on the bus. Anyway, in their dimension, you didn't regenerate after the events of the Satellite." The Doctor looks stunned as TARDIS arrives in a whoosh, whoosh, whoosh sound and the door opens, 9th Doctor Jack leaning against the door. "It's not my fault." I say at his amused look and toss the original scroll in his direction.

 

"Josette," Eureka Jack jumps slightly when he hears that long gone but still familiar voice as the 9th Doctor takes the scroll and starts to read. "It is never your fault, but you still manage to find yourself in the strangest of predicaments."

 

"Then I guess this isn't the best time to tell you I'm your daughter in another dimension?"

 

"I sort of figured that out from what this says." he waves the scroll. "Do you have any idea of who the others might be?"

 

"One of them would have to be one of the ten Doctors who was there when we found out I was the human daughter of you and your greatest enemy, one of them would be the version of you that was partially turned in N-Space, and I believe the last version of you is a version of you that might be Immortal."

 

Both Jack Harknesses look interested. "Ages ago, before TARDISes started being bigger on the inside, there was an ancient TARDIS that was dying, but her partner had a young son. . .you, or at least another version of you. Using experimental technology she split herself into two, creating the TARDIS we all know and love," I pat the TARDIS's outer wall and hear her purr in my mind, "To raise the baby while her other self continued its death flight through the stars. The Doctor was raised by the TARDIS and when he was older, she brought him to Gallifrey. But since he hadn't been raised there, he really didn't fit in."

 

Both Doctors snort in unison. "Anyway, he had pretty much the same adventures you two did, but where you regenerated he didn't. He always figured he had some close calls. Recently, UNIT discovered the planetoid that was the ancient TARDIS approaching Earth and Jack and his Torchwood team went up to investigate the object when they saw a hatch on the outside and realized it was a 'manmade' object." I hold up quotation marks around man-made. "That Jack had lost his Owen and Toshiko too Jack," Eureka Jack looks sad at that, the Doctor and 9th Doctor Jack wrapping their arms around him. "He'd taken in a new Torchwood member, a young yank from the United States named Xander Harris." Nathan's head lifts up immediately at that.

 

"They got up on the planetoid and started exploring when Xander fell through the veil of dust covering a room and started changing. . .that's when Jack realized they were in a TARDIS, he knew about regeneration from his days as a Time Agent, he left Ianto there and started looking for the control room. Xander's changing woke up the parts of the TARDIS that were still alive and she summoned her younger self and the Doctor. The Doctor found out about his early years and talked to the ghost of his long dead father, Ianto as a conduit, and when he said that they couldn't just let the TARDIS burn up in the sun, there was centuries of history that would be lost, his father's TARDIS told him to flip the lever separating the inner and outer hulls and have his TARDIS absorb the rooms."

 

"That would kill her." Both Doctors say in unison. "She was dying anyway," I say. "Anyway, that's when the TARDIS gave the Doctor and Jack a gift, everything that was still alive of her, a baby TARDIS and a human baby. Ianto collapsed and they realized the TARDIS had been absorbing rooms the entire time. They got into the TARDIS and watched the room they were in be the last absorbed as the ancient TARDIS entered the sun's gravity field. But being around the energy from Xander's regenerations affected Ianto, they'd placed him on the couch in the TARDIS and his body disappeared, when Jack examined his clothes he found a newborn."

 

Both Doctors blink. "He must have fallen into a regeneration chamber. Since Ianto wasn't shielded, the excess energy caused him to grow younger."

 

I nod. "So they went back to Earth, Jack closed down Torchwood three, they brought what artifacts they could into the TARDIS along with Myfanwy, and buried the rest under tons of rubble. They're going through the centuries of information contained in the TARDIS, and they found out that rather than recalling the TARDISes back to Gallifrey when the TARDISes we're familiar with now were first introduced, they let them drift. There was a way to track them on the ancient TARDIS so the Doctor and Jack are tracking down ancient TARDISes as they drift through space. Just recently they came across a TARDIS emitting a distress signal, they transported around it and got it into the control room. It opened and Jack walked inside, he didn't want the Doctor to see any bodies if there were any." Both Doctors look at Jack, that's something he'd do.

 

"Anyway, Jack went inside and a message started playing. The Doctor jumped inside immediately and they found out that Romana had sent out all unpartnered TARDISes before the Time War went bad, some contained embryonic TARDISES, some contained looms and genetic material, some contained The Time Academy, one contained the Matrix, the Rassilon artifacts, anything she felt that should be kept safe in case the war went bad. If Gallifrey survived the war, they would recall them. . ."

 

"And they didn't." Eureka Jack says.

 

I nod. "So the Doctor and Jack are tracking down those TARDISES and bringing them to safety."

 

"How old is he?" the Doctors ask. "You said he hasn't regenerated yet."

 

"He's as old as you are, nine hundred years or so old. He looks like you." I nod at the 10th Doctor.

 

"And he might be Immortal?"

 

I shrug. "Only way to find out for sure is for something to happen, either he dies and comes back like Jack does or he regenerates. Regeneration was a mechanical process back when he was born, he doesn't know if he can regenerate like you can."

 

 

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