It's completely terrifying, but it's oh so exciting / he said I was brilliant and I could change the world / So many places I've been, there's so much more to see / We've got galaxies and planets and moons / And an awful lot of running to do!

~An Awful Lot of Running to Do, Chameleon Circuit

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"Let us give her a proper ceremony," the human, Clive, asked. "I think it would help us. Please."

Too lost in his dark thoughts to speak, he just held Jenny's body close to him and nodded.

It's just a bullet, come on, regenerate!

Oh, Jenny, you sweet little girl...

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He hadn't been planning to stay for the funeral. He really hadn't. It hurt so much, to think that the hole in his hearts might finally be filled, that he might have someone who wouldn't leave him again, and then to have that chance ripped away from him.

Donna had caught him as he was meandering back to the TARDIS, his hands stuffed into his pockets.

"Oi! You're gonna stay for the funeral, right?" He turned to face her, and his silence was answer enough. "You weren't, were you? Oh no. No, we are staying her for her funeral, okay?" she said forcefully. The Doctor blinked. "She died for you, and you are going to thank her properly, you hear me?"

Which is why he now found himself standing against a wall with Donna and Martha while Clive and a Hath pulled a pure white sheet over Jenny's still body. She would be buried on the first field of Messaline to grow grass. A single tear trickled down his face, and Donna and Martha pointedly ignored this.

Then they all felt hope rising in their chests as a wisp of golden stardust was exhaled from Jenny's mouth. The Doctor rushed forwards and gathered her in a hug, sobbing and laughing at the same time.

"Dad..." she choked out, smiling with tears in her eyes as well. "Can't breathe!" He immediately let go of her.

"Yeah, wouldn't want you to regenerate, just to be suffocated, would we?" he said, trying to regain some of his old humor. Donna and Martha came over and joined them in a group hug, while the Hath and Human stood there in shock.

The Hath made a bubbling noise and motioned to the scene, obviously wondering what was happening. The human shrugged.

"I don't know."

Jenny grinned up at her dad and friends with a gleam in her eyes only ever seen in the Doctor's.

"So, where to, Dad?" He laughed and trapped her in a hug again.

"Everywhere."

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The four stood outside the TARDIS on the road to Martha's house, with Jenny and the Doctor nearly bouncing in their excitement. Martha and Donna stood a little ways away, talking to each other while father and daughter held their own conversation.

"It's brilliant, Jen, it really is," the Doctor said, throwing an arm over her shoulders. He seemed to have a permanent grin plastered on his face. "You're going to see so many things, so many planets! Earth history, so much there, I'll take you to meet George Washington sometime, he's actually quite a nice fellow! Oh, and Agatha Christie, you'll love her books, they're brilliant, really make you think." Jenny grinned, she couldn't wait to start traveling. She was with her dad now, and that was how it was supposed to be.

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I know it's ridiculously short, but it's a prologue. The next chapter is something like ten thousand words and twenty eight pages, and takes place a week or two after the prologue. In that time, the Doctor and Donna are teaching Jenny and basically lounging about on the TARDIS. It would basically be a filler chapter if I bothered to write it, so I decided not to and wrote The Unicorn and the Wasp instead.

I have all of Series Four typed, and I'm working on the specials, so there shouldn't be a problem with updates. I just wanted to warn you, though, there's always a possibility where you might not get a chapter for a while. Next chapter'll be up on the 30th. Let me know what you think!