Continued from last chapter's Stolen Earth, here are the adjusted events of Journey's End. Again, assume anything not addressed happened as it did on screen, and that any dialogue you recognize is from the episode. Just one more chapter after this, unless it argues with me. That happens sometimes. Some notes at end of this chapter to avoid spoilers.

Beta: GoingToTheTardis and ScullyWolf

It was her father.

She'd finally found him, was finally aboard his ship, and he was dying right in front of her.

She didn't even think he'd seen her as he was being carried into the TARDIS, and he hadn't seemed to notice her huddled down behind the console.

The Doctor was dying, and Jenny knew he would come back, but she also knew he wouldn't be the same man, not exactly, and not physically the man who'd inadvertently given life to her.

She stood, blinking her eyes against the light he was emitting, and joined Jack and the others just in time to see him channel the regeneration energy into the hand that she and Jack had taken care of for some time.

He straightened, panting. "Now then, where were we?"

Jenny looked at Jack, who blinked back at her while the Doctor whirled around, crouching down by his hand. He seemed ready to explain what had just happened, but when he looked up at them to make sure they were listening, he froze, his eyes on her.

"Jenny?"

She could feel him, ever-so-slightly, in a corner of her mind. She couldn't tell what he was thinking or anything so specific, but she hadn't realized how empty her mind was until it wasn't anymore.

"Hello, Dad." She grinned at him, trying to shake off her nerves.

Rose took a few steps to stand next to the Doctor, who took her hand automatically without taking his eyes off Jenny. Jack shuffled over to stand next to Jenny, his lack of physical contact with her distracting.

"But you were…" The Doctor seemed to be having trouble finding words. "I thought you were dead."

"Thought you were dead, a minute ago."

He shook his head. "Biomatching receptacle. I let the regeneration energy heal me and then redirected the excess. But what about you? How are you alive? How are you here?"

Jenny shrugged one shoulder. "I woke up after you left. I didn't-" She gestured at him. "-explode or anything like you did."

"Hug her, you big idiot." Donna raised her eyebrows, grinning almost knowingly.

The Doctor smiled, finally, and held out his free arm. "I'm glad you're alive."

Jenny ran in to give her father a hug, and Rose joined in almost immediately, Jack and Donna piling in seconds later. When they broke apart as the TARDIS was moved, Jenny could see the effort it took for him to stop watching her and turn his attention to Rose.

His expression both softened and intensified at the same time. "We don't have much time. How are you here, Rose? What's going on?"

~O~O~O~

Jack and Jenny listened while Rose explained about the stars going out, about the dimension cannon. Jack contributed what he knew from Torchwood's scans.

Jenny leaned into his side while the Doctor's focus was on Rose, and Jack saw the Time Lord's eyes snap to the contact as they landed.

"DOCTOR, YOU WILL STEP FORTH OR YOU WILL DIE." The familiar, hate-filled voice came from just outside.

"We have to go out," the Doctor said, "because if we don't, they'll get in."

When Rose and Jack objected, the Doctor explained that these Daleks were stronger than the ones they'd fought before.

The ones they'd fought before had killed him.

Jenny was still against Jack's side, and he put his arm around her.

"Which means," the Doctor finished up, "that we don't have time to talk about this right now." His voice slipped into something that could only be classified as Disapproving Dad as he pointed between Jack and Jenny, and Jack swallowed hard around a chuckle. The Doctor seemed to turn his attention back to the situation around them. "All of us together, yeah?"

Everyone nodded agreement, and when Jenny pulled away, Jack's first thought was that she was trying to give her father fewer things to worry about, but then she fell back.

"Jenny?" When he turned to face her, she looked distracted.

"I need a minute, okay?" Her eyes were scanning the exiting group.

"I'm not sure we have a minute."

Jenny shook her head. "You go on." She met his eyes. "I'll be okay. Trust me. There's just something I need to do first."

Jack nodded, then took a breath, refusing to look behind him to see whether the Doctor was watching, and pressed a firm kiss to her lips. He turned and left before he could change his mind, and he was just outside the TARDIS when he heard Jenny again.

"Donna, wait here a minute."

What was she doing, and why did she need Donna?

The dynamics felt off with Jenny there, with so much unspoken and no time to work through it. Jack could read the guilt in the Doctor's eyes fighting with the relief of both daughter and Rose finding him, combined with the particular brand of hatred and anger that the Doctor seemed to reserve for the Daleks. Rose had been quieter than he remembered, the Doctor a little more contained.

He didn't know Donna yet, but he'd heard about her from Jenny. He got the impression that Donna, too, was typically less reserved, her attention being torn between the two women, plus occasional appreciative glances at Jack himself.

Just because he was with Jenny didn't mean he was oblivious to getting checked out.

Still, even though Jenny's presence had strained the situation some, Jack was glad she was there, and her staying in the TARDIS didn't feel right.

"Jenny, Donna, you're no safer in there," the Doctor called.

The TARDIS door slammed shut, a Jack felt a jolt of panic. Closer to the doors, he reached them before the Doctor.

"Jenny, what are you doing?" he asked.

"We didn't do anything," Donna called back. "Oi, let us out!"

When the Dalek said it was going to destroy the TARDIS, the women inside, Jack beat frantically at the door. "Jenny, do something!"

Inside the TARDIS, there was silence, at least as far as Jack could tell from outside the doors.

He jumped back as the TARDIS dropped through a hole in the floor.

"It'll be torn apart!" The Doctor was almost frantic, furious, emotions Jack could feel pretty strongly himself.

"Doctor, you have to do something!" Jack told him.

"They're still in there," chimed Rose.

"Let them go," Jack said, turning his attention to the Dalek.

"THE FEMALES AND THE TARDIS WILL PERISH TOGETHER. OBSERVE."

"Take me instead of them," said the Doctor. "I don't care what you do to me, just get them out of there!"

Jack could only watch as the TARDIS burned.

He'd lost people before, more than he cared to count, but he couldn't lose Jenny. He had to do something, anything.

When the TARDIS disappeared entirely, he snapped, shooting at the Dalek. He was immediately rewarded with a familiar jolt of pain that definitely ranked pretty high on his worst-ways-to-go list, then seconds of blissful nothingness.

~O~O~O~

Jenny whirled around the console, aware that Donna was watching her, bemused.

She'd gotten them to safety, and Donna helped her put out the literal fires before she started staring.

"What is it?" Jenny asked, finally.

"You look just like the Doctor when you do that, the spinning and mashing buttons. How do you even know how to fly the TARDIS? Never been in here before, have you?"

Jenny grinned. "She told me what to do."

"What, the ship did?"

"Of course. Gonna need your help, though, for the next bit." Jenny turned her attention from the console toward Donna, nodding decisively.

"Why me, though? Any one of them you could've asked to help, except maybe the Doctor. Why me?"

"You're the only one who will be able to make this work. I saw it, with the TARDIS's help." She patted a coral strut fondly. The ship had helped her hone her time sense significantly, and she'd given her a few nudges about what to do, just enough that Jenny had been certain she needed to stay behind, with Donna to help. Now that she knew more about what was going on than she had when that impulse struck her, she had some ideas.

"You're having me on, aren't you?"

Jenny tilted her head to the side. "No, I'm not. You're meant to be here. You're going to help save the day."

"I'm just a temp from Chiswick."

Donna was so sure that she couldn't be that important, but Jenny hadn't needed the TARDIS to enhance her abilities before she know how special the woman was. She stepped forward and pulled her into a hug.

"Come on," said Jenny. "We need to figure out what, exactly, we're up against."

The TARDIS shook, and she studied the monitor, watching as power was gathered through all the planets, harnessed and focused into an area of the Crucible.

"Oh, that is not good," Jenny said as she pieced together what was happening.

"What is it?" asked Donna. Jenny couldn't answer immediately. "Jenny, what does it do?"

"He concentrated it this time, but if he hadn't, if he sent it out into the universe…" She continued staring at the screen. "All of existence, not just this universe but every dimension, it would cease to exist."

"The Doctor can stop it, right?"

Jenny shook her head. "Not from where he is, not being watched." Jenny looked at Donna and grinned. "Us, though, we can make sure this doesn't happen."

They gathered the bits and pieces needed to disable the Daleks, using Davros' own DNA against them.

"We don't have enough time for me to explain this as well as I should," said Jenny when it was finished. "I think I can give you the information you'll need, but I've never done this before. The TARDIS told me how it works, but I haven't tried."

"Tried what?" asked Donna.

Jenny brought her hands to Donna's temples. "Trust me?"

~O~O~O~

When Jack heard the TARDIS materializing, he grinned. He should've known from that start that Jenny would survive, that she'd find a way to show up and save the day, just in the nick of time.

The Doctor watched, more concern than surprise in his posture. Of course, like Davros had said, he could feel the TARDIS, so he must have known it hadn't been destroyed.

Martha, Jackie, Mickey, Sarah Jane, and Rose all watched expectantly.

"Yes!" Jack said, seeing Jenny appear in the doorway, followed immediately by worry as she ran toward Davros, only to be shot, weapon knocked out of her hand.

"Jenny!" Donna joined her, picking up the weapon. "I've got it! Where's the-"

Donna was cut short as she, too, was hit by Davros, landing out of sight.

Jenny, he was glad to see, seemed fine, other than being in pain and imprisoned.

When the countdown began, he took Martha's hand, his eyes locking onto Jenny.

At the interruption in the last second of it, Jack's attention was drawn, along with everyone else's, to Donna.

"Closing all Z-Neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop? That button there!"

Chaos erupted, and Donna seemed equally amused at both the Doctor's surprise and the Daleks'.

"Jenny gave me a bit of a download," she said finally. "I've got all information you lot have," she explained, looking at Jenny and the Doctor, "only I'm human and know how to use it."

She released them from their imprisonment and continued cheerfully taunting the non-humans. The Doctor and Jenny both seemed proud of her, as they should be.

The Daleks were less amused.

The fight that ensued was playful, almost comical, disabled Daleks sliding across the room while Jenny, the Doctor, and Donna worked at the controls, sending the planets to where they belonged until, of course, the equipment malfunctioned with just Earth remaining.

The Doctor ran into the TARDIS, and Jenny stilled, radiating uncertainty. Jack joined her, his gun still pointed at the Daleks, just in case.

"I can destroy them," Jenny said. "I can keep these creatures from regrouping and trying to wipe out the universe."

"Do it." Jack's voice was steady. It would mean a high death toll, but better the Daleks than the innocents who would suffer otherwise.

Jenny looked at him, then at the TARDIS where her father was, then at the Dalek who was muttering gleefully about the prophecy needing to be fulfilled. She looked around the group at the rest of the Doctor's companions.

"Do it," Rose echoed, and the rest nodded, one by one.

Jenny held her breath and made the Daleks explode.

"What have you done?" The Doctor was furious, but he got a good look at his daughter's face and stopped. "Everyone in the TARDIS."

~O~O~O~

Flying the TARDIS with her father, Jack, and the rest of the group was a thrilling experience that Jenny wouldn't soon forget. It helped her keep her mind off what she'd done, off her father's disapproval.

She knew she shouldn't care quite as much as she did. He was her father biologically, but he'd not had much of a chance to prove himself one, otherwise. She barely knew him, and she knew she'd done what she had to.

After returning the Earth to where it belonged, they dropped off Sarah Jane, Mickey, and Martha, then landed on a beach in another dimension.

Rose tensed, her eyes moving to the Doctor. Jenny watched, not sure what was going on. After a long moment during which it felt like everyone was holding their breath, the Doctor shoved his hands in his pockets and spoke.

"You're sure you want to stay with me?"

"Forever," was Rose's immediate answer, and the Doctor watched her for what felt like an eternity before he grinned and opened his arms. Rose rushed into them, crushing her lips to his.

Jenny grinned, too, leaning back into Jack, who wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin atop her head.

After the couple finally broke apart, Rose, Jackie, Donna, and the Doctor left the TARDIS, the Doctor shooting a warning glance at Jack. He and Jenny stayed behind; she wasn't really up for watching Rose say a tearful goodbye to her mother. She could read the information the TARDIS was displaying, too, and knew they wouldn't be very long, not with the walls sealing up again.

Jenny turned toward Jack, resting her face against his chest. "It's been an eventful day," he said. "You going to be okay?"

"I will be," said Jenny, pulling back slightly. "I'm glad you're here, you know."

"Me, too." Jack's blue eyes sparkled down at Jenny, and she gave in to her impulse to kiss him.

She was still kissing him when the others came back in, superior hearing not nearly as impressive with Jack's hand against the skin of her waist and his tongue in her mouth.

"Stop it. Just stop." The Doctor's voice was almost a whine. When Jenny pulled away and looked toward him, she saw he looked a little nauseated. Rose grinned through lingering tears, and Donna smirked. "I think," he continued once he was back at the controls and had started the sequence for them to leave, "we've got a few things we need to catch up on."

Okay, so, I adore Tentoo. I do. However, 1) this story told me Tentoo wasn't going to fit, and 2) I like Rose and Ten having their happy ending, too, and Jenny having a second "parent," or at least someone to soften the Doctor, and the Doctor not being distracted by Rose being gone and going all self-destruct mode. So, no Tentoo, here, but I don't love him any less ;)

Reviews!

MaryMatthesen: I'm glad you're enjoying it!

jackjenfan: I'd love to post even more often than I do, but as it is, the occasional two chapters in one day is about my max ;) I'm pretty fried after I write 4k+ words in a day on top of everything. Thanks for your continued support!

TimeturnerJasmy: Thank you! The TARDIS is pretty great, so I'm glad you liked her in this!