A/N- I haven't wrote anything in a long time, and this is my first Doctor Who fanfiction so I would love to hear any critique you have! This chapter isn't very long as I'm just attempting to get things flowing right now. I would greatly appreciate if you R&R!

CHAPTER ONE - FOREVER WATER

Four Years Ago...

Months in total darkness, with nothing but the thoughts in her own head, that seemingly echoed in the small space around her. The last words spoken to her were long since faded, her mind playing tricks on her, interpreting the words to the point that she was no longer sure what she thought they had been were what had been spoken at all. Her father had promised her new worlds, and amazing sights beyond her wildest dreams. Now more than ever, she looked on those words; lies, a dream crumbling down under the brutal blow of reality.

A loud ding pulled Jenny out of her reverie and her eyes began to search frantically. She searched for the source of the sound and it wasn't long until she found it. A red light, blinked at her in warning; Low Fuel. She felt her chest clench, sucking the air out of her lungs and she felt horror work its way through her limbs. "This is it." She whispered, looking out into the blackness that surrounded her, this is where she would die, once and for all, dead for good. She scanned the horizon, there was nothing and no one there to help her. What had she been expecting? Her flighty father to come to her aid? The one who just took off when she was hardly gone? She knew it was irrational to hope, but with the sadness she felt now, she knew that she had in fact, been hoping for just that.

She thought for as long and hard as the situation allowed and made her choice. 'Something is out there, it's out there and I'm going to find it.' She whispered, assuring herself that she wasn't going completely crazy. She would die trying to find something, trying to find a new world, if it was the very last thing she ever did. If no one would ever know of her name, or remember her actions, she would die searching for them, because, she decided, she believed.

The button had taunted her from the dashboard for months, every day she had been out here, every day she thought she was going to go crazy, everyday since she left the Messaline. The blue button screamed at her now 'warp speed' it read beside it. She wasn't 100% sure what that meant, or how fast that was, but if she was going to die today she was going to find out.

She lifted the lever beside the button and heard a humming sound slowly start to life. The button began to glow, and she knew it was time. With one last deep breath, she slammed her hand down on the button and felt herself get sucked back into her seat. The sky around her seemed to stretch and move faster than she had ever seen it, she clutched onto the armrests for support as her mind screamed at her for being stupid and irrational. She let out a small yelp as her seat began to tilt backwards, until she could no longer see out the windscreen.

With one final whir, she heard the sputtering of the engines and then the real silence began, pressing on her ears, like nothing she had ever experienced. She stared at the silver ceiling as if the curved metal would tell her something, but walls did not speak and the metal did not move. She could feel herself begin to panic, with the engines down it was only a matter of time before she ran out of oxygen, she would suffocate here alone and in the black. She couldn't bring herself to look out into it - to face the fact that the end was nigh.

The silence was broken by an odd sound, at first she thought she was imagining it but as she pondered the sound grew louder. As the noise grew, a loud rumbling roar, it was accompanied by a vibrating, as if someone had grabbed the craft and began to shake it. She struggled to pull herself upright, but when she did she found herself terrified and excited all at the same time. She appeared to be entering the atmosphere of a planet, the force of her short warp speed launch must have given her just enough momentum to bring her into the atmosphere. Gravity did the rest, bringing her plummeting towards the ground.

She felt her stomach lurch and her fingers clench the seat as the craft began to spin. She was jostled violently around the shuttle like a rag doll as she begged it not to fall apart. A loud bang left her disoriented and hard of hearing she realized, as she watched items smash against the metal walls and hardly a sound was to be heard. The craft began to slow its spinning, just in time she thought as she could feel her last ration meal wanting to make its way to a second appearance.

The craft landed with breakneck force, sending Jenny hurling towards the back of the shuttle, which now had become the floor. She felt her elbow smash off of her seat, sending a sharp pain through her arm and into her shoulder. She opened her mouth to yell but her voice was silenced as the side of her head cracked against the wall of the shuttle.

A bright light flooded in through the gaping hole where the windscreen should have been and water sloshed around the part of the shuttle facing down. Her head throbbed as she tried to reassess her surroundings, smashed and nearly unrecognisable. Her limbs felt bruised through and through as she tried to pull herself to her feet. Head spinning at the sudden flood of blood from her head to her toes she reached for the wall for support and made her way through the hole ripped through the other wall of the shuttle.

The sunlight was a blinding brightness that made her head throb painfully as she stumbled her way out of the shuttle. As her eyes adjusted she took in her first new planet. Ever since her father and that Donna lady had told her about different worlds and their amazing, quirky wonders she expected exhilarating and was thoroughly disappointed for she was surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. No magnificent sights, nothing new or strange and there was certainly no one around. For upon spinning a full 360 degrees she came to realize she was on a large black rock, in the middle of an extended sapphire abyss.

Water. Everywhere.

She had imagined sapphire in the sky, not in the ground and she imagined a bustling market with varieties of creatures as strange looking as the Hath and as similar as her. It was just her luck to find her way out of one deadly situation and straight into another. If she wasn't careful, she thought, she would die here from the heat and no one would know and no one would find her and she would never see the amazing sights of the universe.

"Stop being so negative! Ugh! You sound terrible!" she said to herself, and turned to the shuttle to assess just how damaged it actually was. It was as bad as she thought, there were so many holes and dents in it from smashing against the rock and entering the atmosphere that she was almost certain there wouldn't be anything she would be able to use. In fact, she was surprised it was even still floating at all. She wondered if the other side looked any better, maybe that was why.

Jenny edged towards the water, trying not to slip on the wet rock as she stepped. She peered into the water, wondering just how deep it was. To her dismay it looked as though she would only be able to go out a few steps before the rock jetted down into the dark depths of the water, making her unable to get all the way around the shuttle. She pondered her ability to lean over the edge and take a look at the craft, she questioned it but then remembered how she flipped her way through the hall of sensors running from her people back on the Messaline and felt her confidence surge for the first time in a long time. It would be easy, she assured herself as she sat to take off her boots, she would get as close to the edge as she could and then lean against the shuttle for support and lean herself forward to peer around the backside of the shuttle. Simple, no rocket science involved. She tossed her boots up on the rock to assure no waves would come and wash them away and rolled her pant legs up.

She waded out into the cool water, the rock feeling slimy beneath her feet, her hand lightly touching the scorching metal craft, she began to cautiously shuffle her way towards the edge. She leaned, careening her neck to try and get a glimpse of the back side of the shuttle. As she looked down to place her foot again she froze and gazed into the water, sure she had seen something move. Suddenly getting the feeling she wasn't alone after all, she chanced a look over her shoulder. Still nothing, no one. So what was wrapped around her other wrist right now? She wondered, terrified of what she might see but too curious not to look.

A sudden weight pulled her down with such force, she had no choice but to fall to her knees. Her body groaned in protest, already sore she couldn't help but let out a small whimper as her knee made contact with the hard rock. As she opened her eyes, trying to keep herself from her built in nature to fight off whatever it was locked on her now, she found herself staring straight into a pair of intense violet eyes. There wasn't much time to take in anything else about this creature as she found herself taking one last panicked breath before her body was engulfed in the swirling waves of the forever water.

A/N - So was that any good? What did you think? Flames welcome!