A/N: Told you it wouldn't be long! I have almost run out of previously-written chapters to post, so posting may be slowing down a little bit. But as always, please read, review, and enjoy!

Andie exited her bedroom about an hour later, wearing her favorite brown boots and a denim skirt and pink plaid shirt from the TARDIS wardrobe. The Doctor was wearing his usual pinstripe suit. Andie had tried to convince him to change into something a little more 'country', but he refused, saying he didn't do plaid. His plan was to simply sit back and watch tonight. Andie wanted to show him her world, and that's exactly what he was going to let her do.
They arrived at the barn for the dance fashionably late, and most of the group was already there, along with a small band up on a makeshift stage in front of the barn. It seemed like the whole high school was there, along with two years of alumni that Luke knew from when they were underclassman. Andie smiled. She knew most all of the people at the party. Of course, how could she not when it was such a small town. It was a welcome island of normalcy when she seemed to be in over her head in a sea of new experiences. The Doctor slid easily against the back wall, being an inconspicuous observer. He just couldn't shake the feeling that something was going to happen tonight. Something important.
"Andie!" Becca called out when she saw her friend enter the room.
"Hey, Bex!" Andie replied, stepping forward to give her friend a hug. She looked around at all the people around the barn dancing and thought to herself of how much her life had changed in just a little less than a semester. Then, Andie's hearts began to race. Luke was walking right towards her.
"Hey, Andie!" He exclaimed, "I thought you would've forgot all about us once you jetted off to the big city!"
"How could I forget? You know I'll always be a country girl." Andie said. The Doctor, the silent observer, had to hold himself back from rolling his eyes.
"I guess so." Luke said. "I'm glad you could come back for Thanksgiving. I was afraid that the airline tickets would be too expensive for you to come home very often."
"I guess you could say I know a guy." Andie said. Luke looked at her questioningly, but shook it off.
"Hey guys, look who it is!" Luke yelled, "New York is back!" He announced, raising Andie's hand in the air. The crowd cheered. They all knew her, and were happy to see her come back.
"Sing! Sing! Sing!" The crowd began chanting. Andie looked around her at all the people in the barn, all chanting for her to get up on the stage.
"I can't, I can't!" Andie responded. The crowd just grew louder and louder. Andie looked around again and saw that the Doctor had joined in as well. They wouldn't stop until she was on the stage, and the Broadway baby inside her was screaming to get up there. She gave in and made her way to the stage. The Doctor stood by, anxious to see how Andie would do on stage. She whispered a few words to the band and took the mic in hand. The band started playing a soft tune. Andie took a deep breath and began to sing:
Where 69 meets 40, there's a single-stoplight town
And back when I was really young, part of that burnt down
On any given Friday night, we'd drive a hundred miles
Between the Sonic and the grocery store, laughin' all the while
With as many friends as I could pack in my daddy's Ford
But I ain't in Checotah anymore
 Once more, her voice slid like butter through the notes and the Doctor couldn't help but feel a little pride in this girl that was the youngest of his race. The tempo picked up and she continued:
I'm in a world so wide, it makes me feel small sometimes
I miss the big blue skies,
the Oklahoma kind!
 After a few more verses, the song ended and Andie left the stage amidst applause. She walked over to the Doctor, who was beaming at her.
"Oh well, that just proves it." He said.
"Proves what?" Andie asked.
"Your mother, your real mother, was the best singer of all Gallifrey. She was absolutely the best! " The Doctor said, " And you sound just like her." He added. Andie wrapped her arms around him in a whole-hearted hug. The Doctor returned the gesture. As they broke away, a familiar country tune started playing and there were cheers from the party-goers. They all started to form lines on the dance floor.
"Come on, Doctor! Dance with me!" Andie said, taking his hand and pulling him to the dance floor as the Cotton-Eyed Joe began to play.
"No, I don't dance."
"But this is the Cotton-Eyed Joe! Every little kid learns to dance this dance around these parts. The universe won't implode if the Doctor dances, will it?" She said laughing. The Doctor smiled and followed her onto the dance floor.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eyed Joe
I'd-a been married a long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe?
As the fiddles started their riff, Andie taught the Doctor the dance and they were too busy dancing, laughing, and having a good time to notice the robotic voices screaming outside the barn. The song ended. The doors to the barn burst open and three Daleks came through.
"THIS PRIMITIVE CELEBRATION WILL CEASE!" The Dalek in front called out. All of the party-goers screamed and started running. Andie looked at the Daleks and immediately was filled with an almost primal sense of fear. Her hearts beat as fast as they would go, and she began to hyperventilate.
"Doctor, what are those things?"
"Daleks, Andie. The most hateful things in the universe, on a mission to destroy all other life that isn't Dalek." The Doctor explained as the other partygoers cowered in a corner of the barn. Luke, however, was nowhere to be seen.
"Wait, the Daleks, aren't they the ones who…"

"No time for that now, Andie." The Doctor said, "We can talk about that later."

"Where's Luke?" Andie asked. "If those things got to him..." She said, clinching her fist. Along with her instinctive fear of Daleks, she had plenty of anger. The Doctor put his hands on Andie's shoulders, in order to calm her down.
"Listen. Being angry will not help anyone right now. We need to focus on a way to get rid of these Daleks." He said. Luke, who had been able to sneak off to his truck, came back in the barn, brandishing a hunting rifle.
"Here's the thing, you metal...things!" Luke said, "Never attack a country boy who just went hunting this afternoon. Chances are he still has his gun on him." He said, firing his gun.
"Aim for their eye stalks!" The Doctor warned. Luke took his advice and was able to blind one Dalek, but the other two were still perfectly functional.
"EXTERMINATE!" The Daleks yelled, raising their lasers. However, before they could fire, there was a flash of lightning. There were three shots fired, and the three Daleks blew up, revealing a taller, dark-haired man in a black trench coat right behind them, brandishing a very large gun.
"Nice to see you, Doctor." The man said in a clear American accent, almost exactly like Andie's, "I see you've got a new friend. Hi, I'm Captain Jack Harkness." He said, walking forward to Andie and shaking her hand.
"Don't...just...don't..." The Doctor said.
"I don't mind." Andie said.
"Hell of a time for you to show up." The Doctor said.
"Well, someone told me that you guys might be having some trouble. Also told me that you wouldn't be alone." Jack replied.
"And who was that?" The Doctor asked. Jack didn't reply, but gave them a look that said that he might have already revealed too much. "Alright, I get it. Spoilers." The Doctor said. Jack laughed. "Now come on, Jack, we have a lot to talk about." The Doctor said, leading them away.

The Doctor, Andie, and Jack made a campfire in the Verras's fire pit, near where the TARDIS landed, and were sitting around it while they had their conversation.
"I bet Luke will be telling the story for ages. The day he saved the high school students of this small town from the Daleks." She said, "Maybe you're right, Doctor. I don't think he's the one for me."

"So, you're a Time Lady?" Jack asked Andie.
"Yeah, at least that's what the Doctor tells me. He saved me as a baby from the Time War and sent me to this time, on Earth, and turned me human." Andie answered.
"And why didn't you try to come find her before?" Jack asked.
"I never wanted to find her. I wanted her to live out a perfectly normal human life, away from Time Lords and aliens. I was tracking two Weeping Angels when I found her. She got herself in danger, and I saved her. Then, there was the Cyberman." The Doctor explained.
"But the question is, Captain Jack, who are you?" Andie answered.
"Just a friend of the Doctor's. We meet up from time to time. I'm with the Torchwood Institute in Cardiff. Have you ever heard of it?"
"Um...no, I don't think I have." Andie responded.
"Good. You're not supposed to." Jack replied with a sly smile. Andie laughed. She looked up to the sky and saw the stars shining brightly. In New York, you'd be lucky to barely make out the Big Dipper, but out here, you could see almost all the constellations, if you knew where to look. Andie turned her head slightly in order to see her namesake, Andromeda the Princess. She knew the legend well. An ancient princess whose mother had angered the Gods, tied up and about to be sacrificed to a sea monster in order to appease them. Perseus, the brave hero who hangs next to her in the sky, saves her from the monster and marries the fair maiden. The Gods, to immortalize the tale, paint the scenes in the sky. A fine fairy tale which Andie had known since she was little. Her parents would often pitch a small tent in their field so they could spend the night looking up. She began to wonder what stories the constellations of Gallifrey had, and if the Doctor, as a boy, would ever spend the night laying on his back, watching the sky. He's seen them all now, Andie supposed.
"We should get you to bed, Andie. It's getting late." The Doctor said, pulling Andie out of her reverie. "We've got a big day tomorrow." He added, smiling . Andie returned the smile, said goodnight, and headed into the house and up to bed. The Doctor was right, tomorrow was a big day. It was Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. Her first day of traveling in the TARDIS.