Thank you, dear readers, for sticking with me! I'm so sorry for the delay on this chapter; life struck with a vengeance. I appreciate so very much the response I've gotten on this, all the love for this wonderful pairing that there should be more of :)

Beta: GoingToTheTardis

"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."

Jenny helped him maneuver the TARDIS back into the vortex in the proper dimension, and she grinned at the smooth transition they managed; she was pretty sure that if it weren't for an extra sense in her mind, an almost unnoticeable shift from one set of timelines to another, she wouldn't have even known when they passed through. The Doctor met her gaze and returned her smile, and she felt the others watching them.

The Doctor broke their stare first, turning his attention from his daughter and from the TARDIS, now parked safely in the vortex of the proper dimension, to Rose. "All right?" he asked, wrapping his arms around her.

"Yeah," she murmured, returning the hug briefly before pulling away. "I'll miss them, but I found you, yeah? And who knows, maybe…" Rose looked at Jenny, then at Jack and Donna, then back at the Doctor. "If there's a way to see my family again, we'll find it." She put her hand on his chest. "We'll talk later, all right? You need to talk with Jenny, and I think it's been days since I slept."

"Yeah," agreed Donna. "I'm going to let you lot talk." She looked at Jenny. "This extra information you gave me, is it going to last?"

"Some of it," she answered. "What you might remember if you watched a film with all that in it. You're brilliant, you know, so it might be more than most."

Donna shook her head and smiled. She really still didn't seem to believe it, not fully. Jenny hoped that they could keep improving on the woman's opinion of herself.

Well, if they were all going to be traveling together, that is, since it would be hard for Jenny to change things if she wasn't there.

The Doctor gave Rose a kiss goodbye that managed to be short without taking anything for granted. "No getting upset with Jenny about finishing off the Daleks," Rose told him firmly, "not unless you get upset with me for doing it last time, with the TARDIS's help, at that." She grinned at the Doctor, a funny, lopsided smile with her tongue at her teeth, ran a hand down his arm, and stepped away. After he nodded, she and Donna linked arms and left.

"It needed to be done, Doc," Jack said into the silence, coming to stand beside Jenny, not quite touching her, but close enough that she could almost feel him.

The Doctor ran a hand through his hair and turned so he could lean against the console but still see Jack and Jenny. "Frankly, it's not what I wanted to talk about first. Maybe not at all. It's…" He waved, then focused again on Jenny. "You should never destroy life lightly."

"But I didn't-" Jenny started.

The Doctor held up a hand. "I know. That's all I needed to say about it. Now. Do you know how you came back to life? You said you didn't regenerate."

"I'm not sure." Jenny felt Jack watching her as she answered. "I was hoping maybe you could give me some answers. The TARDIS told me a lot as soon as we met," Jenny said, stroking a bit of the console, "but nothing that would answer that."

"We can take you to the infirmary, see if we can find anything, but it may've had something to do with the terraformation energy." The Doctor was frowning as he thought. His eyes flicked to Jack. "And how did my daughter end up with Jack? I didn't realize you were…" He gestured before continuing. "...together, at first. Unless you make a habit of snogging near strangers," he continued, the tilt of his head suggesting he wouldn't be entirely repulsed by this possibility, "but a few other things make more sense if you were already acquainted."

"We've lived together for years, Dad," Jenny answered, knowing she sounded a little annoyed. She reached for Jack's hand, holding it firmly to make up for his hesitation.

~O~O~O~

Jenny held his hand so tightly it hurt.

He didn't care.

It had been so long since he was truly a con man, but he still didn't really think of himself as good, and here she was, this wonderful woman, standing up for him to her father.

Her 900-year-old, alien father.

He fought the desire to close his eyes against the Doctor's weighing stare.

"You've lived with him for years, hmm?" The Doctor's voice was neutral, calm.

Jack swallowed.

"Yeah, I have. Because we decided to stick together, and we have, and I'm not gonna change that."

He looked at Jenny, who was much easier to watch than her father. Her eyes flashed, her eyebrows were raised ever-so-slightly, and her shoulders were back. She didn't look angry so much as sure, passionate.

Suddenly he was fighting a whole lot more than self-doubt and fear, but at least lust was something he was used to dealing with, especially around Jenny.

He turned his attention back toward the Doctor when he heard the man sigh.

"Doesn't it make you feel sick to be around him?"

"Hey, right here, Doc," said Jack, finally, and Jenny squeezed his hand, then let her grip relax to a normal hold.

"It got easier with practice," said Jenny. "I know you know that. I don't even notice it anymore."

"You knew, Jack? Last time?" The Doctor's voice was low again, guarded.

Jack nodded. "Things were already enough of a mess, couldn't risk telling you something that would cause another paradox."

The Doctor sniffed, nodded and looked away for a few seconds before looking back toward his daughter.

Instead of feeling like he was helping explain, Jack suddenly felt like he was intruding.

"I'm gonna go join the other humans," he said, "see about finding something to eat, maybe see if the TARDIS has a bed for me."

"She said to look where your room used to be," said Jenny, sounding amused. "She made it bigger and added a few things I might like."

Jack chuckled. "Thanks," he aimed at the console room in general, and he was rewarded with a hum. With a glance at the Doctor's faint scowl, Jack pressed a kiss to Jenny's cheek and left.

~O~O~O~

"He's really the one you want? Out of anyone in the universe?" At least the Doctor had waited until Jack was out of earshot.

"You know he's not nearly as bad as you're making him sound, and I wish you'd stop it. He's a good man."

"I know." The Doctor fell quiet again. There were times during the day that Jenny had seen him manic, babbling. Now, he seemed uncertain, and it was several seconds before he spoke. "I should've known that you were alive."

"How could you have?"

He tapped his temple. "I can feel you, now. I know you weren't in there before, but it means you could've been. If I hadn't been so thick, If I'd just… If I'd treated you like my daughter from the first instead of being an idiot, and I can be an idiot, brilliant as I am, we might've made that connection, and then I would've known."

"But you didn't." Jenny moved closer to him. "And I understand. There's so much that I didn't know, that I couldn't know. I was a soldier, and I'd hardly lived, and no, I didn't deserve to be dismissed, and I didn't deserve to be left behind." She took a breath. "But you accepted me, before I died, and you wouldn't have left me if you'd known."

"No, I wouldn't have." He said it firmly, and she wasn't sure which one of them he was trying to reassure.

"What about now?" asked Jenny. "Do you want me to stay?"

"If you want." He looked down at his trainers, then up again, a thoughtful look on his face. "Although, the TARDIS proposes an alternative of sorts."

"Yeah?" Was he looking for an excuse to get rid of her already? Though she'd understand, on some level, if he wanted time alone with Rose.

"You should stay with us for a bit, and we'll travel together, all of us, but then, then!" He was grinning, and he straightened and started moving around the console. "Did the TARDIS tell you how she was grown?"

"She showed me, yes." Jenny gasped when the Doctor produced a TARDIS coral. "Fantastic," she breathed.

"Oh, yes." The Doctor handed it to her. "Takes ages to grow, but you've got time. You and Jack both." To his credit, the Doctor barely made a face.

"Won't take that long." Donna's voice came from the hall as the entered the console room. "Sorry, I had to…" Donna held her hands up near her ears, fingers splayed. "I've got all this information, and it was telling me to come back. You just need the right kind of energy to speed it up. What about that?" She pointed at the jar holding the Doctor's severed hand and his excess regeneration energy.

"Told you you were brilliant," Jenny told her, and the trio discussed the details until Donna needed to sleep and the Doctor needed to join his Rose.

~O~O~O~

Jack woke to Jenny wrapping herself around him in thoroughly distracting ways.

Not that he could think of ways in which that wouldn't be distracting.

"How'd the rest of your talk go? Am I allowed to live?" Jack rolled over to face her, proceeding to behave in ways that would probably ruin any leniency the Doctor had given him.

"Mmm, yeah, you are. He's kicking us out, though, sort of."

Jack paused. Jenny didn't seem nearly as upset as he would expect at her father dismissing her as soon as they'd found each other. "Are we at least officially allowed to use the vortex manipulator?"

"No." She nibbled his neck, and he considered leaving the conversation for later. "But he did give us a TARDIS."

Jack sat up. "Seriously?" He loved that Jenny could still look at him the way she did when the covers fell off him.

"Yeah. Well, sort of. It isn't grown yet." Jenny reached over to the nightstand and picked up a rather unimpressive-looking lump. "It will be, though, and then we can go anywhere, anywhen we want, and we can meet up with Dad and Rose and Donna when we want, too."

"And Torchwood?"

"I thought maybe we could take them with us sometimes, but normally, we'll just make certain we're back in time for work." She winked at him. "It is a time machine, you know, and should be a bit more reliable than your vortex manipulator was."

"So you and me, wherever we want, whenever we want, whatever we want, for as long as we want." Jack took her hand.

"Which is likely to be for a very long time, what with you not really dying and me not really aging."

"Jenny, I have exactly zero problem with that."

She grinned at him, then looked down at herself. "I think you might have a problem with all these clothes, though."

"I can fix that."

And if the couple was kicked off the TARDIS a couple days earlier than planned because he fixed that problem a little too frequently, neither of them minded too terribly.

Thank you, so very, very much for all the reviews! I've been having a rough time of things, and the reviews helped more than I can say.

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guest: While Jack might not have been the Doctor's first choice, I think he'll be more okay with it as time passes :)

Yuuki no Yuki: I like the fics that actually find a way to make Jenny Rose's child, too :) I didn't do that here, but I did still want to acknowledge the similarities and set it up so that they'll sort of be co-parents, as much as parents to an adult who has always been an adult can be.

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