Hello to all of my fellow Whovians! It is I, the person you don't know who is trying to entertain you with my rubbish stories! Well, not rubbish... Well, not completely. Anyway, just my quick little note here before I move on to the actual tale. By the way, these chapters won't be too long. Not very good at that. The title is pretty self-explanatory soooo here goes!

Disclaimer: I don't own any Doctor who characters. They all belong to the BBC and whatnot

The Doctor and Amy walked into the TARDIS. "So, Doctor, where to next?" Amy said, following him up to the controls. "Wherever you want! Or I could set it for random. Or-" A black envelope popped out of a slot and into his hand. "Hmm, what's this?" He read the front of the envelope. 'God bless his soul' it read.

"A funeral letter?"

"Does the TARDIS really have a mailing address?"

"Apparently"

"Who's it from though? And how did they know the address?"

"Doesn't have a return address. Also, no clue how they found the address but it must be somebody who knows me because it's addressed to me. Let's find out whose funeral it is,shall we?"

Amy shrugged. She didn't see what would be so interesting about a funeral but it was worth it if the Doctor thought it was. The Doctor then proceeded to open the letter. Amy peered over his shoulder at the letter "Who's John Smith?" She asked "An old friend or something?"

"More like the old me..."

"The old you? What do you mean?"

"No time for explanations. We've got to make a few trips before we go to this thing. I have to gather a few friends. Here." He handed her a mobile with a number punched in already. "Call this number and tell them to go to Torchwood and grab captain Jack and to stay there. If you want to address them properly, their names are Mickey and Martha Smith."

Amy did as she was told and called the number

"Hello?" Said a man

"Is this Mickey Smith?"

"Yeah, why? Who is this?"

"I'm Amelia Pond, no time to explain. Get Martha and go to Torchwood in..." She covered the speaker and turned to the Doctor "Where's Torchwood?"

"Cardiff." The doctor replied

Amy uncovered the speaker "Cardiff. Go to Cardiff and find Captain Jack. We'll be there shortly"

"But-"

Amy cut the line.

Meanwhile, Martha was cleaning dishes in the kitchen. After mickey put the phone down, Martha turned the water off "Who was that?"

"I don't know but we're needed for something. It sounds important. They want us to go to Cardiff and find Captain Jack."

"Always looking for opportunities to see old friends. Let's go then."

"But what do you think it's about?"

"I haven't the slightest clue."

"What if it's a trap?"

"I don't think so. If it was, I doubt they'd want to mess with Torchwood."

Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor was doing his thing, pressing buttons, pulling levers, and eating jammy dodgers before the machine began to whir. With his mouth full of jammy dodgers, the doctor exclaimed "Yes!"

Amy, ignoring his completely mad remark, asked "Doctor, who are those people?"

The doctor didn't want to explain, but he knew that she had a right to know about his past. He leaned back on the console.

"John Smith, that's me. Technically. He has all my memories. I regenerate. I change form when I'm close to death. In my former body, I had my hand cut off. I grew a new one though. But somebody kept my old hand and I ended up putting it in the TARDIS when I got it back. That somebody was Captain Jack Harkness, a former companion that I met after meeting..." He nearly choked then said with a quivering voice "After meeting Rose Tyler."

Amy could hear the sadness and guilt in his voice "Doctor? Doctor who is she? I- is that a tear?" She noticed something rolling down the doctor's cheek.

"Rose Tyler... Bad Wolf, some called her. She was my first companion after years of travelling alone. I met her back in 2005. Back then I was full of blood and anger and revenge. She changed me. Have you heard of the battle of Canary Wharf?"

Amy thought for a moment "Sounds familiar. Cybermen?"

"Yep. Well anyway, she was on the list of the deceased, but she wasn't dead. Her real father died when she was just a baby. But there's parallel worlds. One is created with every decision you make. He was still alive in this parallel world."

Amy nodded in understanding

"Well, Rose and her mum were reunited with him in the battle after he found a way to jump through the void and into this world. For their own safety, I had Rose's father take her and her mum to the parallel world. I couldn't have them getting hurt, giving what I had to do. I had to open the void and send the Cybermen and Daleks back to hell- well that's what the void is described as, hell. Rose came back though. I couldn't send her back, so I had her help me. The void would suck in anything that's been through it, so we had to move quickly and after opening it, hold onto something stable for dear life. Rose accidentally kicked the void switch and nearly got sucked in when fixing it, but her dad came back, caught her, and took her back to the parallel world. That was the last time that I had true physical contact with her for a long time."

Amy felt bad for the doctor. What had he done to lose such a precious friend?

"But there was still a tiny hole in the void that was closing up. My hologram got to speak with her once. She... she said she loved me. I was going to say something back, then I faded away."

"So that's it? You never saw her again?"

"No, I saw her once more in 2008, when the earth was stolen."

Amy had a flashback of the chaos on the streets before coming back to focus.

"Anyway, my most recent companion before you, Donna Noble, met with her in another parallel world where I had died. Rose helped her and then told her to tell me two words- Bad Wolf. That's when I knew she had returned. I was finally reunited with one of my most faithful companions, by the way, don't count yourself off of that list! You waited fourteen years for me!"

Amy was too interested in his tale to care "So... You found her right?"

The Doctor nodded "I found her and we saved the earth together once more. Then I sent her back to the parallel world."

"But... Why? If she was so important to you then why did you send her back?"

"Let me finish, Pond. Rose and I were running towards one another, for one of those big dramatic hugs, like the ones you see in movies, you know? Well, right before I got to her, I heard a faint 'Exterminate' and in the next instant, I was shot. Jack came in and shot the Dalek, then he and Rose carried me into the TARDIS. I started to regenerate, but after I was healed, I sent the rest of my regeneration energy into my cut-off hand so I wouldn't change. Then we went onto the Dalek ship, all of us besides another companion of mine, Donna Noble. The TARDIS shut itself and she was trapped. She reached for the hand which had the energy still encased in it. My hand grew a new body, a human one mixed with Donna's biology that has my memories, and looked just how I used to look, except it could die and only had one heart. Then he committed genocide and killed the Daleks along with Donna, who had part of me in her. I nearly figured out how to fix my Chameleon Circuit because of her! But I didn't get to. Anyway, The reason I took Rose back was because of him. When I met Rose, she changed me. I needed her to change him. So we called him John Smith. Rose still didn't want me to leave... But I had to. The cracks were closing and she was all John had... And that's all there really is to say..."

Amy felt bad about the whole thing "So now that he's dead... You want to see Rose again? And you want for her to see her friends? You think It'll cheer her up?"

"Absolutely."

The doctor turned back to the controls and sailed off to Cardiff