How to save a life

Prologue

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Summary: Sequel to Daddy's girl. The Doctor and Jenny crash the TARDIS in Austria, where the find a girl who's not all there. I suck at summaries, so please bear with me. The story is better, honest. I'd recommend you read DG before this, but if you can't be bothered, I give a brief update in the Prologue.

When my mother died, it broke my father's hearts.

But he had me.

At first he didn't care. For a whole week of my life all he wanted was her. He couldn't even look at me.

She died when I was born, see. She died because I was born. Rose Tyler and the Doctor were never meant to be together. And definitely never meant to have a kid.

Yeah, that's me. The Gallifreyan/human hybrid. By rights I shouldn't exist. And that's how she died. Because it takes a lot of strain to create something that shouldn't be there in the first place.

But here I am.

So at first he didn't want me. After a week, he decided to stop my existence. To go back and make it so they never got together. But for some reason, he came back.

I didn't find out any of this until 14 years later. He had left me with Jack-that's Captain Jack Harkness- and his family to go off and do something heroic. You can guess how well that went down with me. He came back unconscious, nearly dead, and didn't wake up for days. During that time…well, it doesn't matter how, but I found out about it. And I was pissed as hell.

I'd always thought he didn't love me. And in my eyes, that proved it. But he convinced me otherwise. He explained everything, about why he came back. He told me why he distanced himself from me. I'd known he hurt inside for years, but it wasn't until then that I realised just how much.

And since then, he was different.

For a year now, he's been more alive than I ever saw him. Jack, and my mum's mum, Jackie, used to tell me about how things were before I was born. I don't think he's exactly the same now as he was back then, but he's different. Happier, smarter, better.

Even without her.

When my mother died, it broke my father's hearts.

But he has me.