[MEME] And then there were children.

[eelseason]

Stolen from the internet.

Leave a comment and I will come up with the hypothetical kid between any of my muses (List BTR) (List Epic) and any of yours (assuming I know them at least well enough to pretend that I know them well enough to write them). Terms of parent-child relationship are left to the management. Children may be biological and natural, in-vitro, adopted, surrogate, changechildren, left on a doorstep in a handbasket, or pretty much whatever needs to happen. Any requests for children parented by john_thane will incur a karmic penality. Memes are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease. This contract is not canonicity-binding.

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[pplrunincircles.livejournal.com]

hey_capn_jack/calicoway
hey_capn_jack/smithnjones
homoraptor/sensi_doctor
riversodeep/aint_nosurprise
cleverblasphemy/calicoway

You has so many options. :D Pick your choice or choices! I am always excited to see Magi writing!

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[eelseason]

hey_capn_jack/smithnjones

It didn't take long for the three of them to decide that they wanted a relationship, if they actually decided it at all. The Doctor, at least, was of the opinion that it (like most of his life) just happened to him one day and refused to let up. The house took longer, mostly because the Doctor refused to admit to its existence, and the idea of family in the sense of raising children took a few years to take hold. But when it did, it took hold with both hands and a vengeance.

A few months and clandestine visits to the Conrad Basement's infirmary later, upon discovering that one Desmond Descant was incapable of fathering children, options were discussed and alternatives compared and it was decided that perhaps the next best thing would be to borrow a few gametes from a suitably similar donor. And, to the great annoyance and chagrin of both males involved in the relationship, it was Martha who suggested that one Jack Harkness might comply, as well as offering the added advantage of a child who at least looked like he or she might belong to Des.

That, Des later claimed, comprised seven of the most awkward conversations he'd ever had, and that was including all the ones where he'd just come out of three thousand years in a cave.

As it turned out, and to no one's surprise, Jack was obnoxiously fertile. Martha had a healthy set of fraternal twins, Jack went back to running Torchwood with the occasional godfathering duty, Des went back to nursing his pride and pretending that Jack didn't exist, and things were generally pretty good.

[eelseason]

Fourteen years after that, of course, things threatened to get interesting.

The first Jack heard of it was when he got back from a visit to Torchwood Rome to find Charlie and his truck waiting for him instead of Gwen and the Torchwood hybrid, who he'd expected. Charlie wore an expression only a longsuffering Guardian Angel could wear.

Jack threw his suitcase into the bed of the truck and sighed. "Is it Tish or Leo?"

"Conspiracy," Charlie said, and didn't bother to explain as he drove from Chicago O'Hare to the house the Doctor still denied was his. Irritable, Jack noticed, and not just in the way that he kept shifting like he was trying not to let his wings out. ...Jack had to wonder where the Doctor had gone.

Charlie drove them up the driveway and got out, disappearing almost immediately around toward the back of the house. Jack got out too and was greeted by Des, who had been hanging back in the front doorway while it played a cover of The Kids Are Alright that seemed to have been put together mostly on synthesizer and theremin.

"I hear tell there's a conspiracy," Jack said.

"Is that how Charlie put it?" Des wandered up, eyeing him. After a moment, and with a decisive set of his jaw, he pronounced "Harkness? Your children are problems."

"I heard that!"

Jack stuffed his hands in his pockets and tried to look innocent as Martha came down, which was actually fairly easy considering that this time, he was innocent. Des tried too, but still got a smack on the shoulder for his trouble.

"Jack."

"Martha." Jack smiled. "You're not grey yet."

"Yeah, no help from these kids," Martha said. "Des didn't tell you?"

Jack shook his head.

Martha echoed the gesture. "Well, they're supernaturals. No surprise there. Just started manifesting a few days ago. From what we can tell, Leo's learned how to... excite things." At Jack's quirked eyebrows, Martha forged ahead. "No idea what to call it other than that. Machines turn on, animals go crazy, static electricity everywhere, but that's nothing compared to Tish."

Des coughed.

Jack turned to him, fully expecting the rest of the explanation, and Des shot him a look which implied that he, yes, he personally, was responsible for all of this. "Tish is learning how to teleport."

Jack's face contorted in quite an impressive way as he tried to keep from laughing. "Okay. So what am I supposed to do? Or did you just call me over to blame me?"

"Well," Des said, "we're having a little bit of a problem."

He didn't say anything else. After a moment Martha sighed, then took Jack by the arm and pulled him back toward the fence.

"There," she said, turning him around and pointing to a spot a few metres above the house, invisible from where they'd been standing. The TARDIS hovered, spinning erratically, door hanging open far above the ground. "The Doctor is in there failing to fix it, and I think Tish went up because Leo was there, and don't ask me how Leo got the TARDIS up there. For all I know they're planning to elope. Can you just bring them back to the house, please? They've both got classes tomorrow."

Jack stared at the TARDIS.

Then he started laughing.

When he straightened up again to meet Martha's eyes, not quite so annoyed as she'd like him to believe, he raised one hand in acknowledgement and then dropped it to his wrist device. "Doctor too?"

"Oh, the Doctor can stay up there," Martha said. "Let him find his own way down."

"Roger," Jack said, and teleported up.

[varymydays.livejournal.com]

:D *FLAILS ABOUT AND SQUEES*

ZOMG. This was so much love. SO very amusing, and yes. It made me very happy. :) Hehehee!

I think you captured everyone perfectly, and I love that she named the kids after her siblings. It's definitely something that she would do.

The house took longer, mostly because the Doctor refused to admit to its existence, and the idea of family in the sense of raising children took a few years to take hold. But when it did, it took hold with both hands and a vengeance.

That is my favorite line. ^^ It's- yeah, I loved the way that that was worded.