Sam Jones

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)


 * For clarity both her timeline will be broken down and detailed

Timeline 1
This is/was Samantha Jones' original timeline, what her life should have had she not started travelling with the Eighth Doctor. Samantha Lynn Jones was a drug addict, a smoker...however was a vegetarian, she wrote some letters to Amnesty when she was in high school. She worked in a video shop. Then she met the Eighth Doctor whose TARDIS had become stuck in a dimensional scar in San Francisco. (EDA: Unnatural History)

Timeline 2
Samantha Angeline Jones was a vegetarian, she hated drugs, didn't even drink coca-cola. She met the Eighth Doctor whilst running from a bunch of drug dealers. (DW: The Eight Doctors) She went on adventures with the Doctor...and then the TARDIS fell into a dimensional scar in San Francisco and she fell with it. (EDA: Unnatural History)

Timeline merger
Up until this point in Sam's life there had been two distinct timelines separated by...a temporal 'what if' clause, the event which triggered Sam Jones' divergence of her timeline had not occurred until the Doctor's TARDIS landed in San Francisco. Therefore hypothetically there were two Sam Jones one travelling with the Doctor and another in a flat in London shooting up smack.

Sam Jones's parents confirmed as much as saying that they had received postcards from Timeline 2 Sam Jones. (EDA: Unnatural History)

Sam Jones (timeline 1) merged her timelines by running into the dimensional anomaly...at this point she also retroactively activated Timeline 2 and merging her own timeline with Timeline 2's.

Characteristics

 * focusing primarily on the Sam Jones up to her encounter in San Francisco, 2002

Born on the 15th of April 1980 she was 16 when she first met the Eighth Doctor in Totter's Yard. She attended Coal Hill School.

Appearance
Sam had short blonde hair when she started travelling with the Doctor. She was 16 when she began travelling with the Doctor, however she spent 3 years on Ha’olam making her 21 (or there abouts) when she finished travelling with the Doctor. (EDA: Seeing I, Interference: Book Two)

Personality
Sam Jones came from relatively liberal parents, she once commented 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 for some time. (EDA: Vampire Science) At one point during her travels with the Doctor, Sam came to fall in love with him (EDA: Longest Day). Despite believing herself to be a pacifist and anti-war, she found herself surprised grabbing a gun following an encounter on Skaro against the Daleks. (EDA: War of the Daleks)

Habits and quirks

 * She and the Doctor came up with a list of codes (numbers) that would apply to different situations they might encounter. (EDA: Unnatural History)

Important life events

 * Meeting the Doctor. (EDA: The Eight Doctors)
 * Encountering the Daleks (EDA: War of the Daleks)
 * Encountering the first hints of her alternate biodata/timeline. (EDA: Alien Bodies)
 * Thinking that she killed the Doctor, and running after kissing him. (EDA: Longest Day)
 * Spending three years on Ha’olam. (EDA: Seeing I)
 * Dying. (EDA: The Janus Conjunction)
 * Encountering the dimensional tear in San Francisco. (EDA: Unnatural History)
 * Meeting The Remote and Sarah Jane Smith. (EDA: Interference)

Quotes
to be added

Behind the scenes
The idea of a "what if" storyline detailing how a person's life might have turned out without the Doctor's influence would be revisited in the case of Donna Noble in Turn Left.