[Jenny graces River with a bright smile for the suggestion. She knows River will probably come back later and find every iteration of the Doctor. In truth, Jenny probably will too, in her own time, but they have very different reasons for doing so.
Jenny has been on her own more or less from the get-go, and requires little from her father aside from, eventually, an enthusiastic hello I'm not dead and a happy exchange of adventures. A way to keep in touch. Maybe defeating an evil creature together. Familial love at its most basic and uncomplicated. She believes that he'd be proud of her so far and has never relied on his presence for that kind of reassurance. Although she's grown, she still mostly trusts in the broadest aspects of life as children do, with unwavering faith in their innate simplicity.
She trusts River to keep her father safe, because River loves him. Any baggage either of them might have is inconsequential in the face of that obvious devotion.
So Jenny won't come by to make sure her father's safe, or for sentimentality. She'll come by because she's curious, and because she's beginning to get the sense that his evolving fashion choices are pretty interesting. She definitely wants a better look at that scarf.]
Sounds brilliant. Want to go somewhere else we could pull up a chair?
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Jenny has been on her own more or less from the get-go, and requires little from her father aside from, eventually, an enthusiastic hello I'm not dead and a happy exchange of adventures. A way to keep in touch. Maybe defeating an evil creature together. Familial love at its most basic and uncomplicated. She believes that he'd be proud of her so far and has never relied on his presence for that kind of reassurance. Although she's grown, she still mostly trusts in the broadest aspects of life as children do, with unwavering faith in their innate simplicity.
She trusts River to keep her father safe, because River loves him. Any baggage either of them might have is inconsequential in the face of that obvious devotion.
So Jenny won't come by to make sure her father's safe, or for sentimentality. She'll come by because she's curious, and because she's beginning to get the sense that his evolving fashion choices are pretty interesting. She definitely wants a better look at that scarf.]
Sounds brilliant. Want to go somewhere else we could pull up a chair?