SISTERS IN TIME
Author’s Note: I admit I lost inspiration for this fic. I had other story plans that occupied my mind and when I got asked by many readers to now write the specials I found I no longer had an interest in this fic either. So I decided to write this epilogue and end it. I would like to thank all my reviewers, people who added this to story alert and favourites, especially Tvnut who not only encouraged me throughout this but ended up being a very valuable friend.
A girl that looked no older than twenty one sat in a plastic garden chair outside a busy cafe on a busy market square. She watched the mixed species walk by behind her sunglasses, various ones that she had seen all before in her very long life much to her surprise a Sontaran was trying to buy a toy gun not so far away.
“Star-Girl” Pulled out of her thoughts Stella Harkness turned to face her twin brother, the only reliable relative in her opinion. The rest of her family were either dead or insane. “Jenny has just arrived and you haven’t said hi yet”
“Hello Jenny” Stella said pulling out the third chair. “Do sit down; we haven’t seen each other in ages”
“Five months for me” Jenny said grinning. “It’s been hectic; we only just got rid off River Song”
“I thought you liked River” Liam Boe said sipping his tea.
“Oh I do but she enjoys Mum and Dad’s arguments a bit too much if you ask me” Jenny said rolling her eyes. “They spent two days arguing over who was supposed to stock up on toilet paper”
“Sounds like Auntie Rose and the Doctor all right” Stella said laughing.
“I don’t understand why we don’t call him Uncle Doctor” Liam said to his twin.
“Because it sounds stupid” Stella said. “Also he looked mortified about anything remotely domestic, how his and Auntie Rose’s marriage lasts I’ll never know”
“So any news about your father?” Jenny asked.
“Dad...hmmm...i think I might have seen him in the Red District not so long ago” Liam Boe said screwing his face up in thought. “But I can’t be sure. It’s rare for him to keep in contact now we don’t need him”
“He’s had it hard though” Stella said sympathetically. “I mean before Mum died everything was little strained due to that incident in 2009”
“What happened?” Jenny asked. “I don’t think anyone has ever told me”
“Bunch of alien gits tried to kidnap all the children for the drug trade” Liam Boe said looking disgusted. “Spoke through the children’s mouth and caused mass panic. Dad was on a hit list due to something that happened in the 60’s not clear what, he won’t tell us”
“Too ashamed” Stella said stirring another sugar cube into her tea. “The aliens managed to kill Tosh and Owen during negotiation. Then Mum finds out that Dad wasn’t completely loyal to her during their century separation...well not that she could blame him, Dad was practically a sex-addict”
“Our big sister, Alice had a son who Dad used to mess about with some sort of signal causing the aliens to run” Liam Boe sighed. “Poor Stephen couldn’t cope and died. Alice refused to do anything with us now”
“Us? She didn’t know we existed” Stella pointed out. “She isn’t immortal like us either, we’re only immortal because...what was it Jenny?”
“Dad says it’s to do with the time radiation that Aunt Gwen had. It was compatible with what made Jack immortal thus making you two immortal as well” Jenny explained.
“Why don’t you call Dad, Uncle Jack?” Liam Boe asked.
“You can’t call someone who slept with uncle” Jenny explained.
“Oh. Ew. That’s disgusting” Stella said pulling a face, Liam Boe looked rather green. “Anyway, wrecked with grieve Dad buggered off for six months, he came back took Mum and us leaving poor Ianto and Mel on Earth and continued to run ever since”
“Mum died in 2039 not so bad really” Liam Boe said thoughtfully. “We visited Ianto only to find he and Mel tried to continue Torchwood without us and died fighting. We split from Dad, meeting up with the Doctor and got him to drop us off at a different time zone”
“So we could have our own adventures. Bit boring hanging with you lot, no offense”
“None taken” Jenny laughed. “It’s not all boring with us though; Mum’s regenerated the third time now. Looks gorgeous bit like those 1930 black and white pictures. Though Dad really can’t keep his hands off of her” Jenny shook her head. “What about Mickey, wasn’t he supposed to be working there as well?”
“Buggered off to Torchwood Two long before that happened” Stella said dismissively. “How about the siblings?” Stella asked.
Jenny groaned. “All so angsty still”
“I can’t believe you’re stuck with your parents’ clones kids” Liam Boe said. “I mean it’s a bit impossible to jump dimensions and aren’t they human?”
“Extended lives, they grow incredibly slow. We only just got Ivy over her teenage years which by the way have taken two decades” Jenny complained. “Donna still blames Dad and Mum for playing god and deciding what the clones should do. Jack is still attempting to touch anything he isn’t supposed to, he’s worse than Dad! Robbie is still pranking everyone; I woke up with my hair green last week. Nightmare honestly!”
“Still could have been worse” Stella pointed out.
“Could have been better” Jenny shot back. “Why did my parents have to go and get clones?” she asked the sky. “They were rather screwed up parents to have such angsty kids”
“Well you always did say you wanted siblings” Liam Boe said grinning. “And instead of having natural born ones because your parents said, what was it?”
“That their lives were too chaotic to bring up a baby” Stella said rolling her eyes at her twin. “They got a point really, I mean looked how messed up our lives were”
“Yeah but it’s not so bad, after all we’re got each other” Liam Boe said grinning even more at his twin. “When someone’s not running off with another bloke”
“Does it matter? After all we’re family and we always find each other, like Mum and Auntie Rose did”
“Yeah, we’re Twins in Time aren’t we?”
“Just like they were Sisters in Time” Jenny chimed in.
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