Halloween

I've decided that this chapter will be a peek into the future. It will give away a LITTLE bit of my plans, but not too much I don't think.

"My name is Princess Aurora!" the little girl protested with a stomp of her foot.

"Alright, sweetie, today your name is Aurora," River conceded as she finished pinning the little gold crown into her daughter's hair. "Tomorrow, do I get MY little girl back?"

"Yes," she replied haughtily, her head held high as if she were a real princess.

"Good. Now, daddy is in the console room where we're meeting up with everyone else," River informed her and she ran out the door, her pink glitter converse squeaking on the floor as she turned the corner. Princess indeed.

"There's my little princess!" James shouted as his daughter leapt into his arms and he spun her around happily.

"My name is Aurora, daddy," she told him seriously.

"Of course it is. I knew that right away when I saw your lovely, pink dress," he replied and set her down to hit the last few buttons that would land their young TARDIS beside his parents' ship.

Outside, was New York City, where River's parents were living now and James' parents had picked up Jack and Donna for the trip as well. There was a knock on the door and the resident princess ran to answer it.

"Uncle Jack!" she squealed happily and jumped outside to greet everyone else.

James smiled fondly after her as River entered the console room, carrying their daughter's jacket in case it got colder and a bigger-on-the-inside bag for her to go trick-or-treating. "She's growing up so fast," he sighed.

"I imagine your parents felt the same way about you. Especially when you left their TARDIS to stay with Jack and then ran off to university," River told him.

"I know. I'm just not ready for her to be looking into the vortex any time soon," he told her.

"And we never will be, but you know that she'll be safer once her time sense is strengthened and she can regenerate," she replied.

"Yeah. Let's just enjoy our little princess for a while longer. I think she needs to gorge herself on candy for tonight," he said with a wink and took his wife's hand to follow their daughter on their visit with their family.