Sam Jones

Samantha Angeline Jones was a companion of the Eighth Doctor.

Biography
Sam Jones was a unique individual; her biodata/timeline had been directly affected by a (from her point) future event which was directly related to her time travelling (EDA: Unnatural History), making her life before 2002 something of a paradox.


 * For clarity both her timelines have been broken down and detailed

Timeline 1
Samantha Jones was a drug user with needle scars on her arms. She lived in a bedsit in King's Cross, London. She wrote letters to Amnesty while in high school and thought about spray painting a billboard. She left home in 1997, and worked in a video shop up to 2002. She smoked Benson & Hedges cigarettes, and had used ecstasy more than once. She saw the Lord of the Rings movie, but didn't think much of it.

Then she met the Eighth Doctor. He had come searching for his friend. He explained to her about the dimensional scar in San Francisco that his TARDIS had become a part of.

He convinced her to accompany him back to San Francisco after her parents showed her a series of postcards they had been receiving from a Samantha Jones, including one showing a blonde haired Samantha Jones and the Doctor from a photobooth on Paphos.

Whilst in San Francisco she attempted to seduce the Doctor, was captured by Griffin, an unnaturalist, and had sex several times with Fitz Kreiner. (EDA: Unnatural History)

After several days of getting to know the Doctor and Fitz's worlds, and encountering effects of the Wild Hunt (an energy pulse washing out in a reverse ripple from the scar that made her experience her alternate timelines and also altered her biodata), she ran into the scar, altering her timeline greatly, so that she encountered the Doctor (for the first time) in Totter's Yard. (EDA: Unnatural History, The Eight Doctors)

Timeline 2
Samantha Jones was a vegetarian. She hated drugs and didn't even drink Coca-Cola. She met the Eighth Doctor in 1997 whilst running from a group of drug dealers. (EDA: The Eight Doctors) Sam spent three years on the planet Ha'olam, making her about twenty-one when she re-encountered the Doctor and began travelling with him again. (EDA: Seeing I) Whilst on the planet Hyspero she met (and got along brilliantly with) Iris Wildthyme. (EDA: The Scarlet Empress) She died after encountering radiation on Janus Prime, melting into a puddle on Menda. The Doctor later saved her by using a temporal orbit. (EDA: The Janus Conjunction)

In San Francisco, she encountered a dimensional scar that altered her timeline, reworking it and creating the established timeline she experienced with the Doctor. (EDA: Unnatural History)

Sam chose to leave the Doctor while on 1996 Earth, about a year before her younger self first left Earth with the Doctor. In order to preserve the timeline, Sam planned to stay with and assist Sarah Jane Smith for that year, and then go home to her parents the day after her younger self left despite being six years older than the last time they'd have seen her. (EDA: Interference - Book Two)

Erasure
Sam was implied to have been removed from the timeline by the Doctor in order to preserve the Web of Time. (ST: Repercussions...)

Characteristics
Born on 15 April 1980, she was sixteen when she first met the the Eighth Doctor in Totter's Yard. She attended Coal Hill School. She thought herself a pacifist, but had killed a few people: a Tractite, and a human, the second when she was being controlled. (EDA: Genocide, Kursaal) She was still shocked by extreme forms of violence and believed that such direct action should be beneath the Doctor. (EDA: Revolution Man)

Appearance
Sam Jones in her original timeline had dark hair, needle scars along her arms and not a lot of muscle tone in her legs. (EDA: Unnatural History)

Sam Jones in her second timeline had short blonde hair, and ran a few kilometers ever day, either through the TARDIS, or around wherever she and the Doctor landed. (EDA: Option Lock)

She was sixteen when she began travelling with the Doctor, but she spent three years on Ha'olam making her twenty-one (or thereabouts) when she finished travelling with the Doctor. (EDA: Seeing I, Interference - Book Two)

Personality
Sam Jones came from liberal parents. She once said that the only thing that would really shock her parents was if she did drugs. (Which is precisely what she would have done in her original timeline) She was a vegetarian, a supporter of Greenpeace and Gay rights. The Doctor took her to a Greenpeace rally. (EDA: Vampire Science) During her travels with the Doctor, Sam fell in love with him. (EDA: Longest Day) Despite believing herself to be a pacifist and anti-war, she found herself grabbing a gun following an encounter on Skaro against the Daleks. (EDA: War of the Daleks)

Habits and quirks

 * She liked to run a few kilometers each day.
 * She and the Doctor came up with a list of codes (numbers) that would apply to different situations they might encounter (so they didn't have to come up with a plan, just say a number). (EDA: Unnatural History)