Important!

Okay, if you've immediately come straight to this chapter I suggest you go back and read the changes I've made to the first chapter...there's even an attempt at an explanation of why it took me over a year to update it.

"Right." Rose clapped her hands together. She took out what looked like a pen and clicked it. The end glowed blue and a whirring sound filled the air. "The Flight deck is…" Rose twisted slightly, trying to find it. She stopped and clicked the pen off. "That way."

"Cool." Jenny admired the device as they set off. "Looks a bit like a sonic screwdriver."

"Same manufacturer." Rose replied shooting her a slightly puzzled glance. "Sonic pen. Much more inconspicuous. So, what were you in for?"

"Apparently it's illegal to have two hearts in this region of space." Jenny shrugged nonchalantly while Rose miss-stepped slightly.

"Two hearts?" Rose choked out, trying to remain calm. "Jenny…forgive me for asking, but are you a…"

"Timelord?" Jenny interrupted. She had learnt reasonably quickly that people tended to be rather impressed with this fact. Sometimes to the point where they wanted to auction her off to the highest bidder. Rose seemed like a reasonable person but you couldn't always tell. "Yep."

"Huh." Rose paused for a moment, her eyes staring vacantly and her brow furrowed in thought. Finally she spoke. "I was always told that the Timelords were destroyed in the war against the Daleks."

"I was born after." Jenny spoke softly. "Three years ago now, so I can't really give you any facts or anything."

"Three?" Rose snapped out of her thoughts and rounded on the girl. "You're three and your parents just let you go gallivanting about the universe willy-nilly?"

"I'm not a child!" Jenny snapped back before visibly deflating. Her voice took on a slightly vulnerable tone. "Anyway, my dad thinks I'm dead. I don't blame him, really. I did get shot after all."

Rose observed the lost look in Jenny's eyes for a brief moment before pulling the girl into a hug.

"Why don't you stick with me?" Rose asked her as she pulled back a little. "Travelling's always better with two. You never know, you might just stumble across you dad one day."

"Yeah, maybe." A small smile crossed Jenny's face. "I'd like that."

Rose grinned back and they proceeded along the empty corridors.

"It's rather…deserted for a military facility." Jenny observed.

"I think they're losing. Or have already lost."

"Against who?"

"Dunno." Rose stopped in front of a heavily sealed door. She clicked the sonic at it. "That's what I'm here to find out." They stepped into a room lined with sweeping panels, inlaid with monitors and various buttons. Rose headed, with a small measure of confidence to the centre panel.

"Well, ok," Rose amended. "I don't know exactly who they were going up against but the rumors and gossip say a good man." She busied herself hacking into the computer. "Which is odd really, especially for the amount of people they managed to recruit." She continued her musings. "Not many people want to fight a good man. Generally."

"Well maybe he's not as good as everybody thinks." Jenny supplied after a moment's thought. "Or maybe he's done something that could be thought of as both good and bad."

"Maybe." Rose agreed distractedly as she scanned through the data. Her face grew grim as she paused at a particular batch of information. Jenny noticed and quickly read over her shoulder. What she saw shocked her.

"They want to kill my dad?"

"And they're going to use my granddaughter to do it." Rose said in equal disbelief.

"You're…?"

"Okay, she isn't exactly my granddaughter, at least, not in this universe."

"You're from another universe?" Jenny asked curiously.

"Sort of." Rose sighed. "It's complicated."

"And in another universe this…" Jenny peered at the screen. "Melody Pond was you're granddaughter?"

"Well, I dunno." Rose sighed again. "I only raised her mother in the other universe. I may have left before she was born or she never existed there at all." Rose scrolled through more information. "Looks like they stole Melody just after she was born…"

They were both silent for a bit, contemplating the information before them.

"Well…" Jenny started slowly. "Why don't we steal her back?"

Rose turned and looked her in the eyes, her face blank. She grinned suddenly.

"Why don't we?"