Kelsen Part 5 – It ends in change
Jai woke to a strange noise. She opened her eyes expecting to see Kelsen again but instead her forehead scrunched up in confusion as the air in the centre of the room went all wibbly wobbly and started to shimmer. Her eyes widened as a familiar face walked from the portal.
“Jas…How did you…” Jai paused, something was not right about this woman. “You’re not Jasmine are you?”
“No, well not exactly.” The new arrival spoke in a strong British accent not dissimilar to Jas’s but again there was something just not right about it.
“She would be Rose and I would be…”
“The Doctor.” Jai blinked rapidly wondering if she was in a dream, first Kelsen and now the Doctor. The man who appeared behind the Jas look alike named Rose was familiar, Jai didn’t need powers to recognise the Time Lord she had known long ago. But again something was off with him as well. “You are the Doctor aren’t you?”
“Well in a roundabout not to be specific about it way. Yes I am sort of the Doctor.” He grinned that cheeky grin of his and winked. “And I’m back oh yes.”
Rose rolled her eyes and came to sit beside Jai on the couch. She looked like Jas but the biggest difference was the eyes. The universe had once lingered in these eyes that now turned on Jai, this was the woman who had held the heart of the Tardis inside her and had lived, but forever changed by it.
“There is trouble coming Jai and you must leave this world.”
“But…what? Are you crazy?” Jai took less than a heartbeat to digest and react to Rose’s words. Leave? How could she leave? She was five months pregnant and married. She couldn’t go on adventures all over the universe in her condition. “I’m kind of pregnant here and if my time with you,” She looked up at the Doctor. “If my time with you taught me anything it’s that your adventures require a lot of running.”
“Seriously, there is a lot of running.” Rose smiled in consipiracy as the Doctor huffed by way of reply. “You aren’t needed to go adventuring, and your children, the twins, they are the reason you must go. They’ve been born to the wrong reality.”
Jai listened in stunned silence as Rose, with witty interjections from the Doctor, explained. All things are played out, each choice and decision is played out. This reality was not the one that was meant for Jai and Myles to get married and have twins right now. Knaxor in an attempt to gain control of faery sent the twins’ souls to the wrong reality so they would not be born in his and grow up to stop him.
“The thing is once you start messing with fixed points in history the walls of reality begin to crumble. Knaxor must be stopped in his own reality and Faery must not fall. These souls must be born into this time or all realities will collapse. I’m sorry but there can be no other way but to take you back to our reality. I am truly sorry.” The Doctor was different Jai decided. There was a different degree of compassion in his voice and far less of the barking orders rudely that he was prone to.
Jai tried to take it all in, her mind was firing in quick succession and a few questions made it beyond her lips. “What about Myles? Do I stay there? What about the other me? Can I see her? What is my life there?” Other questions remained unspoken, had Kelsen really been there? If Myles wasn’t there would she be alone again with the babies? How did her children stop a man who could move souls between realities? Rose patted her hand.
“Think of it as an exchange program. You you for Her you. You’ll meet in passing but do not touch her.” Rose’s eyes went unfocused as her thoughts turned inward playing out a memory of when she broke that rule. “Above all else you must not touch her, trust me.”
“Myles will be waiting there for you. In that reality he never went away and will be at your side.” The Doctor spoke as if he knew what was ailing her.
“Yes, yes I’ll do it.” That alone convinced Jai, after earlier with Kelsen, she couldn’t risk it. She and Myles would be together and happy and she would be lonely no more.
“Good answer.” The Doctor reached into the portal and drew out a hand followed by an arm followed by, well, the rest of Jai.
“Hi.”
“Hey.” Jai smiled at herself. “Well this is awkward.” She had a desire to hug herself but refrained given Rose’s warning. She stood instead and looked at the very non-pregnant version of herself. It was like looking in a mirror but somehow deeper. The Doctor moved forward and linked his arm with Jai’s. First Jai…pregnant Jai. “You get her settled.” He said to Rose and then looked back to the woman on his arm. “Bet you never thought you’d work out how to be beside yourself. Pity Joy couldn’t make it.” He squeezed her hand and lead her through the portal and into her new reality.
It didn’t take Rose long to get Jai set up. After all it was the same as what she had left with just a few minor differences. Rose left and the portal closed behind her. It was nearing lunchtime now and Jai was surprisingly hungry. She fixed herself a plate of fruit salad and poured a large drink of juice and went and sat outside in the sunshine.
When Kelsen arrived that night it took him hours to find Jai. She wasn’t at the house as he had expected. Panic gripped him when he found her. She was deep in the woods, her belly not swollen at all and her mind was gone. He didn’t understand, the potion was meant to just wipe a few months of memory not wipe her mind completely and he did not understand at all how the children inside her could be gone as if they were never there. There was no sign of a miscarriage or anything; her pregnant belly was simply gone. Perhaps her body had reverted with the potion? Kelsen didn’t know but he knew he had to find out. He would have to brave going to the Fae realm once more to talk to the Fae who had given him the potion. They would give him answers and tell him how to right this mistake or they would die. He was torn though, he didn’t want to leave her hair alone but as he watched her he knew that she would be fine. Some built in memory was allowing her to set up home in the woods; some instinct was guiding her still. She would be safe until he returned and while she was there none other could steal her away, she wouldn’t know them anyway. With a growl Kelsen vanished between the veils of the worlds.
Jai didn’t even notice her was there let alone that he was gone. She simply went about making her little hut and talking to her little ferret friends.
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