Jessica Young

Jess Young was a Justician med-tech rescued by The Doctor in the last year of the Battle Of Justicia who became the first companion of The Dark Doctor.

### Biography

Jessica (or Jess) Young first appeared in the 2014 story Whispers, played by Kerry Ingram. After many adventures after a number of years, including an adventure with multiple Doctors, The Doctor and Jess crash-landed on New York, 2020, after Jess out of panic pressed the emergency self-destruct button. The Doctor and Jessica walked to a hotel known as South Hill Park, to find a telephone, and was greeted by a mysterious receptionist. The Doctor tried to phone a previous incarnation of The Doctor, but go the timing wrong as they turned up 100 years too late. It was at this point that Kate Stewart was abducted from her own time and place and taken to the hotel.

## Appearances

### Debut

Whispers (2014)

The hotel turned out to be a building stuck in a time loop, controlled by a man who once met the Doctor many years ago, but was failed to be saved by him. He had been abducting people's souls for years, until all you could hear of them would be their voices whispering out for someone to help them. These whispers would then acompany those kidnapped, rather like ghosts. It was the receptionist who kept all of the souls trapped, and once The Doctor, Kate, and Jess were able to negotiate with the man keeping the whispers trapped, and all were set free.

By the end of the adventure, it seemed that all was put right. That was until The Doctor, Jess, and Kate were cornered by the dying receptionist, who was slowly losing her power. In a final act of rage, she tried to shoot The Doctor, only Jess jumped in the way of the blast to save him. She died in his arms, tears rolling down her cheek, telling The Doctor to 'be a good man'.

After this, The Doctor was tortured by grief of losing his best friend for many years.

However, this was in fact a faked death. Whilst The Doctor cried over Jess's dying body, time had frozen, and Jessica Young made her escape. Of course, The Doctor didn't know this, and soon left in the TARDIS, and was overcome by a huge depression. Little did he know that Jess was out there, waiting for the right time to return.

When The Doctor and Lauren Pevency were seperated, she and a band of rebels tracked them down to a facility in which The Doctor had his head shaved and his skull plugged into a computer. This computer projected a simulation into his brain making him think he was battling Shalka on the planet Sandelia. Jess and the rebels broke him out and managed to wake him up, but in doing so triggered a cardiac arrest, although they managed to ressucitate him. He woke up in the arms of his old friend in complete shock and cried as she revealed the truth to him, that she had in fact had to fake her death, and that he was in fact on a planet he thought long since dead; Justicia.

### Personality

Jessica was bubbly, clever (a Doctor of physics), funny, and had a geeky side.

She was not afraid to stand up to anyone with a bad agenda, such as The Master or The Daleks, but also was able to take a step back when needed.

Her and The Doctor were best friends, who had a friendly rivaly, and constantly joked that Jess was the brighter one out of her and The Doctor.

She would run repairs on the TARDIS console and may have even been taught how to fly it. The novelisation of Whispers revealed that she also liked to create gadgets, such as a sonic modulator (previously seen in Torchwood: Fragments).

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