Ending of the Hours (Book Four of the Bad Wolf Chronicles)

New Beginnings

A few days after the Sontaran incident, the a familiar team of four was called to UNIT headquarters. "Wasn't the Captain called here for help?" Leo Fitz asked as he looked around.

"He was," Phil Coulson replied, looking at his phone as he closed the driver's side door closed. "But there hasn't been contact with him for a few hours."

"I wonder what they need here," Melinda May wondered as they approached the mobile headquarters. "The problem with the ATMOS has been solved."

"I wonder if the Doctor and Jessie were here," Jemma Simmons put in. "It seems like the mess they would get into."

"Whatever they need, it's important," Coulson figured as they stepped inside.

All four of them stopped short. "We're talking outside," Steve told them. "There's someone I want you to meet."

***

As they approached a fountain nearby, Coulson eyed the blonde woman dressed for combat examining every little detail in interest. She was even looking at the water like she wanted to try it. "Jenny!" Steve called.

The woman looked up, and seemed more relaxed when she saw him. She ran over, smiling at him. "This place is amazing!" she told him with enthusiasm, and Coulson noted that her accent was similar to the Doctor's.

"I know," Steve told her with a smile before he turned to the SHIELD team. "Jenny, this is Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Leo Fitz, and Jemma Simmons."

"Hello," Coulson told her with a smile.

Jenny smiled back. "Nice to meet you."

"They were the ones I promised your parents I would introduce you to."

Jenny brightened. "Really?" she asked in excitement, examining each and every one of them before furrowing her eyebrows. "But they have guns," she noted, turning to Steve.

"We avoid using them if we have to," Coulson told her, eyeing her in a bit of confusion. Who were her parents?

"So they have choices?" Jenny clarified.

"Yes," Steve confirmed. "There's always a choice."

"I don't mean to sound rude," Fitz spoke, "but . . . who exactly are you?"

"Right." Steve cleared his throat. "Coulson, May, FitzSimmons, this is Jenny. She's the Doctor's and Jessie's daughter."

Four jaws dropped open. "Their daughter?!" Coulson exclaimed.

"How did that happen?" Fitz demanded at the same time.

"When was this?" May asked.

"Why aren't they here?" Jemma put in.

Jenny was more concerned with, "I thought her name was the Bad Wolf?"

Steve sighed. "First, Coulson, yes, I know, I said daughter. Fitz, it was a progenation machine on the planet Mestaline - "

"Messaline," Jenny corrected.

"Messaline, thank you," Steve acknowledged. "It took both the Doctor's DNA and Jessie's, and Jenny was the result. May, it was right after the whole problem with the ATMOS. It's been two days since we returned. And Jemma . . . they need time," he finished a little awkwardly. "Messaline was not the best trip we've ever taken." He turned to Jemma. "Her original name was Jessie Nightshade," he explained to her. "She changed it to the Bad Wolf after she lost both of her best friends in a battle here. Only the Doctor, SHIELD, and the Avengers call her by her previous name."

"Oh," was all Jenny said before she blinked. "How many versions of her are there?"

Steve chuckled. "Just the two currently."