| Date: 15 January 2008
Characters: Kurt Harding, Jamie Tyler Location: hotel lobby Link to IJ: thread #36818 |
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 "One hundred and forty-eight," he said promptly. "How old are you. Exactly." |
 "Okay, that... takes a bit of getting used to," Kurt acknowledged, staring a bit. "I'm. I don't know exactly. I time-travelled a lot when I was young and it makes it hard to keep track. But somewhere around 3,200." |
| "So it really is almost 3000 years. You've just about caught up with yourself, haven't you?" |
| Kurt's lips twitched. "Yep. The last couple decades have been kinda fun." |
| "Oh really?" he grinned suddenly, "Watch yourself be born?" |
| "God, no!" He shuddered. "Who'd want to watch childbirth?" |
| He held his hand up. |
| "You obviously haven't been through it yourself." |
| "No, thankfully. That sort of thing kills men." |
| Kurt tilted his head. "Yeah. Fortunately some of us come back after." |
| "I've heard that," he said serenely. |
| "Your Jack got knocked up too, eh? The Druid thing? There's a Jack around here going through that one right now." |
| "The what?" he looked confused. |
| Kurt looked confused too. "The only time I've been pregnant was with a little baby Druid. Though actually I didn't get as far as giving birth. I lost the poor little thing before I could get that far, but it was pretty damn close to childbirth. Involved the dying and everything. "So who got your Jack knocked up?" |
| "Druids? The little tin-" Jamie cut himself off, shaking his head, "Um. Not Druids." Jamie was a *sucky* liar, and showed he was avoiding. |
| Kurt smiled lazily. "Is this another thing you don't want to tell me?" |
| "I'm not good at lying to you, am I?" |
| "No, you're really not." He said it affectionately. "Wonder why that is?" |
| "You're Jack," he shrugged. |
| "Not your Jack, though." Kurt inclined his head a bit, studying Jamie again. "You know him a lot better than just as a friend of your parents, don't you?" Well. Presumably they'd bonded as the only two immortal (or semi-immortal) people around. And if Jamie had known Jack all his life, he probably would know him rather well by now. If Jamie had known Jack all his life. Which, presumably, he had. Someone must have told him who his father was. Kurt narrowed his eyes and studied Jamie even more intently, suspicion beginning to spark in his mind. |
| Jamie widened his eyes in response to Kurt narrowing his, "What?" |
| Kurt sighed. "Jack's your mother, isn't he?" Only in his life did this sort of thing happen. |
| "...You're smarter than the other Jack here." |
| "Am I? Well, maybe I get smarter as I get older. Just think how clever I'll be by the end of the universe!" |
| "You'll just be one big head." Jamie smiled. |
| "Maybe," Kurt acknowledged, with an incline of his head and an distant smile. He was too busy trying to get round the idea that in another universe he had given birth to the Doctor's child. And not seen the Doctor again for 148 years. If ever. He bit his lip, and looked directly at Jamie. "How is your Jack?" |
| "He's... Jack. What do you mean?" |
| "Does he hate the Doctor? For leaving him, with you? God knows, I had my share of resentment, what with the immortality and being abandoned and getting stuck in the 19th century and everything, but knowing he'd run away from his own child too? I just can't imagine it." |
| "We both assume he didn't know." Jamie frowned. "And of course he doesn't hate the Doctor. He loves the Doctor." |
| Kurt smiled ruefully, reassessing. "Yeah. Of course he does. Sorry, it's just - it's a big thing to take in. I have a son. In another universe, I have a son!" |
| "Another version of you has a son," Jamie shook his head, smiling faintly. |
| Kurt just shook his head with a big smile, trying to take it in. Then he looked up at Jamie through his lashes. "Am I - is he a good dad?" |
| "Of course he is," Jamie didn't sound like anything else was even conceivable. |
| Kurt's smile got even bigger. "That's... really nice to know. It's not something I ever thought of happening. It's great to know I'm - he's - not too bad at it." |
| "You've never had any kids that you raised?" |
| "Nope. Only got pregnant the once. And once was enough." He shrugged, grinning. "No offence." |
| "None taken," he said immediately. |
| "Good." Kurt looked down and suddenly realised he had an almost full cup of cold coffee beside him on the bench. He picked it up and lifted his eyebrows. "You want to go and get some more coffee and talk some more? Swap life stories?" |
| "I'd like to hear about you," Jamie nodded, gesturing for Kurt to precede him. |
| Kurt got up and held out a hand with a smile. "And I'd like to hear about you too. Come on. Let's go and find some coffee." |
| Jamie took his hand automatically, and led the way. |