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Table of Contents

Summary

1. Doctor Donna

2. Magnificent, part 1

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Summary

Donna forgets, learns, remembers and she carries on.

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Doctor Donna

Doctor Donna

Donna is thirty seven when she knows her memory doesn't work as well as itshould. Bits and pieces are missing, hours, days and few weeks here and there,giving her memory a holey appearance. The doctors call it Lacunar Amnesia and saythat it will either go away, or not at which point it might continue and get worse.Since then she keeps tract of the things that happen and month later knows that no

more things go missing. The ones she lost do not come back, and though it bothersher for a while, it eventually stops being a primary concern. She had more importantthings to worry about, so she carries on.

She is two months from turning thirty eight when she stops needing a calculator.She doesn't notice it until month later, but once she does she can remember exactlywhen she stopped using it - when calculating difficult numbers became easier thanbefore. To be honest, she had rarely needed calculator anyway. Not only was she thesort of person who rather used a pen and paper than a machine, but she had alwaysbeen good with numbers, math had always been her strongest subject in school. But

by the time she can add together numbers over eight digits in her head, multiply andthen calculate their percentages on one sitting, she knows something is different.

But she hardly minds it, so she carries on.

She is thirty eight and two months when, whilst visiting a doctor for headaches,afraid that she has finally inherited her late father's severe migraine, they discoverthe tumour. Growing behind her right lung, about the size of a thump nail, it's toosmall to cause a fuss and too remote to bother her. The doctors say that it's benignand that it would be safer to leave it alone than cut it out. Donna worries becauseher family doesn't have history of tumours - brain and heart diseases yes, but not

tumours - but in the end she decides to go with what the doctors say. The tumour

doesn't bother her and she is scheduled to go to check ups about it once a month, soshe carries on.

She is thirty eight and half when her job at the small transportation firm startsbeing utterly, disgustingly dull. It had been quite exciting at first. The pace therewas fast, there were always orders getting mixed up and she had to remain on hertoes to keep up - not to mention the fact that she got to interact with the clientsmore than she usually did whilst temping, and that was a new and interesting

experience. But then she can count the times and weights and payments and taxesand everything else from petrol and service expenses to the wages of the drivers and

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costs of the insurances in her head along with remembering all the orders and suchwithout needing to write anything down. It begins to bore her. But it pays the billsand keeps her mother from nagging so she begins bringing Sudoku and crosswordpuzzles to work and carries on.

By the time she has worked in the transportation company for four months and

had gone from crosswords to logic puzzles, she decides that it's time for change. Shegets a computer and takes online classes just to try something new, just to keepherself occupied, keep herself from getting bored. She brings her books to work,working with her online coursework during breaks and periods of quiet, but herco-workers and boss do not mind as long as it keeps from interfering with her work.And it does. She finds that she can recite complicated calculus in her mind whilewriting down new orders and even when she's nose to the book she can still givecorrect answer to any work-related question her co-workers can think of. She works,

and reads and writes with right hand while turning pages with left and talks in thephone while making notes on history. She stops being bored while continuing at

boring job, and that's good enough. And so she carries on.

When she turns thirty nine, she has left behind temping and gone back to school.The coursework has long since evolved into evening classes and there her teachershad told her that she ought to go and get a degree, as she certainly seemed to havethe brains for it. She decides that she might as well. But by the time she has studiedfor two months, she decides that degree isn't enough. She's getting a doctorate. Her

mother seems sceptic but her grandfather is proud - and Donna is brilliant and shehas a plan now, so she carries on.

She has studied for six months when the tumour is found to have grown to thepoint where it might start bothering her. It's about half the size of her heart now andany bigger it would start interfering with her breathing. The doctors want to cut itout. Donna, however, doesn't. She can breathe just fine, surgeries cost money andshe's just gotten to the swing of studying, this surgery thing would just get in theway. Also, she has odd feeling about the tumour in general. The doctorsbegrudgingly admit that the tumour isn't lethal yet, and that it was likely that herlung would just get used to it, so she carries on.

Her mother introduces her to a man - a medical doctor, actually. She says it's

because of the tumour, but Donna knows she's hoping they'd hook up. That is nevergoing to happen, she can tell it from the moment she lays her eyes on the man.There is something smarmy about the man and the way he talked they justirritated her. Sylvia is disappointed and angry and annoyed, demanding to know

what Donna is doing with her life, she's almost forty now, she's never going to find aman like this, but Donna has moved long past that. She has numbers and books and

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computers and she can calculate the trajectories of the stars in her mind. Gettingmarried, having children and spending the last of the best years of her life raisingkids who will never appreciate it no longer interests her in the least, so she ignoresher mother and carries on.

She's forty, when the second heart in her chest starts beating and she remembers

everything. But at that point it has been three years since she has seen the Doctor,three years since she had seen the universe, three years since everything. She's stillin midst of her studying - and she loved it. She was going to become a doctor ofmathematics and nothing was going to stop her, not even skinny streak of aliennothing who had left her behind. She was busy, she had things going well for her,she was being brilliant, and she would have the time to slap the man later anyway,so she carries on.

But she can't help it. The memories come and go and she becomes more and morebrilliant. She hacks the hospital computer system to ensure that the doctors

wouldn't get any brilliant ideas about cutting out her second heart, or locking her upin some laboratory for testing. She has no intention of becoming an experiment foranyone, so she bulldozes the internet and everything connected to ensure herprivacy. It works and the scheduled meetings with the doctors stop happening.People forget that she ever had a tumour. Her mother and grandfather stillremember but she assures them that it's been dealt with and looking suspicious theyleave it alone. They suspect that she remembers. She doesn't care because at that

moment she's busy with becoming a doctor, and they kept things from her for threeyears which she is still bit miffed about, so she says nothing and she carries on.

She tracks down Matron Foster's sonic pen during Easter holidays, mostlybecause her inner jacket pocket feels empty, rather than because she actually needsit. It's surprisingly easy, all she needs to do is to find the waste disposal route of thatparticular bin in that particular date and then track it back to the right landfill. Thenshe spends a moment turning bits of broken table computer and her old cell phoneinto a mobile alien tech detector. From that landfill, she find the sonic pen alongwith an egg shaped metal device which is used to boil water and broken an alienflute. She takes them all home and after cleaning the sonic pen from the remains offour year old chips, it finds permanent home in her pocket. Then, feeling less emptyhanded, she carries on.

She sees Martha in a jewellery store while looking for bit of gold for the vortexmanipulator she has been working on. Martha acts like she doesn't know her soDonna answers in kind and they exchange false first introductions. Martha is there

buying anniversary gift for her husband and though Donna knows there is nothingshe could've done differently, she still wishes she could've been there for her

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wedding. Donna doesn't know how she knows it, but she's certain that Martha ispregnant. It's the smell, it tingles on her tongue. But remembering the Doctor andhis despicable oral fixation, Donna ignores it, congratulates Martha and aftergetting her gold, she carries on.

In the end the vortex manipulator never works because she can't find a right filter

prism for it. But that isn't the end of it. By the time she leaves the university asdoctor Donna Noble, the alien tech detector has evolved from mobile to desktop andquite bit more complicated than it originally was. It's through it that she finds outabout little bit of coral that could change everything. First thing after graduating,she goes to Cardiff, using her vastly improved sonic pen and mobile alien techdetector mark four to find the coral, buried in the Cardiff bay. She hears that therewas an explosion some years previous there, that the Torchwood had vanished fromCardiff that same night and wonders how Jack could've left the coral behind. In the

end she picks the piece tenderly and returns home and with little baby Tardisgrowing in her living room, she carries on.

Some time later the Doctor learns that she had changed and remembered. But allhe finds is empty apartment full of remnants of old alien tech detector which hadbeen dismantled for spare parts for the growth enhancer which then had beenturned into tightly controlled timedialation field generator until finally that hadbecame part of the new Tardis's control column. Donna had remembered, learned,became a doctor, became magnificent and left, and in time and space, she carries

on.

Merry Xmas. I know lot of fics have used the same idea, or I used the idea used inlot of other fics. Whatever things I borrowed, I apologise for. I just can't leave adead-ends alone. When they slap a period after the end, I add two dots after it. Theend... or is it?

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Magnificent, part 1

Donna the magnificent

1. Introduction

"Nice stick you have there. Hello, I'm doctor Donna Noble, and I'm here to stopyou from starting a society of human sacrifice, obscene rituals and filing system soillogical that it should be illegal. It's a pleasure to meet you. Now move along,

bucko, before I shove that spear up where light doesn't shine, alright?"

2. Love

She learned to love pretty early. It wasn't love in the human sense where you firstloved your parents, then your toys, then your friends, your best friends, then yourpartner and finally your own children. No, this was love in the way of a wandererwho loved and left and continued to love after being left, because if she didn't, she'ddrown in sorrow. She loved time and stardust and new things and innocent wonderand eventually learned to close her eyes to the darkness, filth, pain and bitterness

that life could harbour. Love, really, made it all worth it.

3. Light

Starlight and light of distant galaxies, fire on fireplaces and candle flames andtorches and houses burning down, light of super novas and gas clouds where starsformed it all had nothing on the light in the eyes of little boy after she had, in fit ofboredom when a new planet offered no excitement, shown him how to work hersonic pen. Twenty years later when the boy had became the professor of aintergalactic university and created a new sonic technology, the light continued to

burn bright and brilliant. It was wonder, curiosity and imagination. Brightest stars

in universe.

4. Dark

A star had burned out, leaving nothing but a hole of blackness in it's wake. Donnahad came to watch the process more out of curiosity than anything else, but evenwhile watching she knew that it was all an illusion, a trick of light. Black Hole wasindeed black, but it was surrounded by light, the accretion disk glowing brightly

around the hole as stars and solar systems burned in the gravity well. And one day itwould exhale all it swallowed now in brilliant gas jet, and maybe she'd be there to

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watch. In the end, it wasn't darkness, only gravity that took away the light for onemoment to release it another.

She'd have to travel to the end of the universe itself to see real darkness, the kindthat wouldn't be replaced, the kind that would never exhale light. She didn't muchcare to try though.

5. Seeking Solace

The Tardis was young and hummed away excitedly, letting out a little chirps andhiccups now and then when something especially interesting happened somewherewithin it's complicated systems or around it's disguised hull. Donna loved the noises,and the liveliness of her young ship. She wasn't quiet herself after all, swearing up astorm when ever things didn't go her way. It was amusing how the Tardis around

her would beep and babble incoherent twinges and whistles when ever she did. Inthe noises, she found long sought relief and calm.

6. Break Away

"Really, I mean it. I'm honoured, really, but I'm a busy woman. Your planet is allwonderful, of course it is, but I'm sort of traveller you see. And the definition of atraveller is to travel, right? So, I am not staying here - things to do, civilisations torescue, running to do, things like that. You hear me? How about you let go of me?

Yes, no? Okay, how about I use my little sonic device here to introduce a feed loop ofpower inside the circuits here, cut off the cooling fluid feed here, take down thesafety procedures, turn off the filters and then blow up this control matrix here?

How about you let me go now?"

7. Heaven

There is a wonderful planet in the Isop galaxy called the Boe-Quadrate in the yeartwo hundred thousand and three. It's full of spas, luxury hotels, entertainmentcentres, theme parks, beautiful gardens, endless shopping malls and it has the bestwater parks imaginable. It's owned by the oldest and possibly wealthiest creature inthe galaxy. Donna spends full month there, completely re-filling her wardrobe,having her nails done dozen times, changing hair style every week, getting exactly

twenty four massages and gossiping with the Face of Boe about the galaxy, kids andwhat a bastard the Doctor could be. She leaves promising to visit the Face once theBoemina would be born.

8. Innocence

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and children and a planet and a wonderfully brilliant grandchild and times inAcademy and travels through space and time, all which weren't hers, which hadn'thappened to her, which she had never witnessed. She remembers intimate momentsand happiness and adventures and endless days of unfathomable grief over lostpeople, lost friends and lost family, and feels like she's treading upon a sacredground, trespassing in someone's house and flicking through their family albums.

She mourns a world she hadn't lost and feels guilty for doing so.

12. Insanity

She knows that the Doctor is little mental. He's mental in many ways and in manysituations. There is the deep-rooted insanity buried underneath layers and layers ofbarriers renamed as personal quirks - in memories hidden behind wide grins andsparkling eyes and feet too gangly and too fast for the rest of the body to keep up. It

shows in moments like when a red spider dies and when a family is made to liveforever. Then there is the goofy craziness of sticking your finger into mysterious

pool of goo and tasting it, of grinning widely while running towards the source of thenearest explosion, of speaking too loud too fast just to make people jump. It's almostinnocent, or would be if it wasn't forced.

What worries Donna most is the insanity hanging at the end of the rope, sawing itand then falling into dark pit without knowing how far the bottom is or if there isone at all. Sometimes she wonders if she will end up there one day too when she has

lost too much to bear, became the person with nothing to live for over and over andover again, so many times that she has forgotten what it was like to live forsomething. She swear she won't, she fears she will.

13. Misfortune

It's really quite misfortunate, that thing about the Belgea'ona the FourthSyndicate. They had such a good thing going on, they could've gotten far. Theirmerchandise was top notch, they delivered on time, they were cheep, considering,and they didn't make a fuss. They even had a good hiring policy and they paid goodwages to their employees, along with extremely good benefits which includedeverything from dental care to genetic engineering. It was quite misfortunate whathappened, misfortunate indeed.

There was once upon a time a syndicate that thrived on illegal cloning and slavemarket. Donna made business with it once. Just once.

14. Smile

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The first thing the Doctor does when he sees her in alien planet is smile. He keepssmiling at her when she marches up at him and slaps him hard. He's still smilingwhen he pulls her to his chest. He stops smiling when she knees him to the crotch.

15. Silence

Donna checks the Library two times, once a year after she visited it the first timeand then a hundred years after that. It remains the same.

16. Questioning

The Doctor talks too much, babbles on, continuously, about this and that, sayingthat that isn't exactly impossible, whilst that other thing is kind of probable, but thethird thing is utterly impracticable, and don't even mention the fourth thing and

seriously what was that fifth thing about He talks and talks and talks and in theend doesn't say anything at all.

"Really," Donna says and hands him a banana milkshake - just to show off that herTardis had a better kitchen. "I'mfine."

For a moment the Doctor relaxes before launching into lengthy speech of howwonderful bananas were.

17. Blood

Donna gets used to blood. Not because she sees battles or dying people or

anything like that, though those were sadly part of her lived now. Mostly it'sbecause she's still pretty unused to working with engines and her Tardis is still a bitrough around the edges. She nicks her knuckles and burns her fingertips and thereis always some sharp edge that gives her paper cuts when she tries to improve thisor that system. At first she always got disinfectants and plasters and band aids andso forth, but eventually she just sticks her wounded finger to her mouth andcontinues on working. She's even adjusted to the fact that her blood no longer tasteslike iron.

18. Rainbow

The first planet where Donna and Doctor travel, both piloting their own Tardises,is planet of very odd weather patterns. "Land of perpetual rainbow, they call thisplace," the Doctor says as he saunters out of his Police Box and Donna locks the

door of her phone box. "It's because of the twin suns and the local weatherphenomena. See the Geannath doesn't have weather as normal people know it,

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instead they have this eternal mist - has something to do with the planet's volcanicactivity and the fact that they don't have your average wind here. So, theatmosphere is constantly saturated with water vapour and there is always one sunup, and therefore there is always a rainbow somewhere"

Donna rolls her eyes while linking her arm with his and abstains from mentioning

the fact that, yes, she knew, Time Lord consciousness, ring a bell? There is fondnessin the thought, but that doesn't keep her from intersecting, "Does it mean that thereis particularly proud Gay Pride movement here? Seems like perfect place for it."

"It's the fifty first century, Donna. You'll find that the Gay Pride movement hasswept across the galaxies. Everyone's dancing freestyle these days," he answerscheekily and continues to babble about rainbows.

19. Gray

Donna has a suit. She bought it out of whim from Boe-Quadrate, as a joke of sorts.She had even shown it to the Face of Boe and the two of them had had a nice laughover it. It was grey with blue pinstripes and just out of cheek Donna also boughtblue button up shirt, tie and converses to go with it. It fits her perfectly, she madesure of it, and though she has never worn it and never will, it hangs in her closet in ahonorary place.

She swears never to show it to the Doctor, though. She'd never hear the end of it.

20. Fortitude

Donna eventually turns right and leaves Doctor to travel by himself. They willmeet again, she's sure of it. For two people travelling through space and time likethey were, the universe could be rather small at times - and they had already met"accidentally" so many times that it was bound to happen again. But she has herown ship and drive and goal and journey now - she has her own song - and though itwas so very tempting to go back to the good old times, she can't return holding theDoctor's hand.

21. Vacation

"This is the automated answering machine of doctor Donna Noble of the Time AndRelative Dimension In Space Mark Forty Point Two. Doctor Donna Noble is currentlyunavailable due to recent establishment of Luxury Cruise One Hundred Thousand

company. You may attempt contacting doctor Donna Noble on her mobile phone, orcalling again at later date. Be advised that at this time doctor Donna Noble is not

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to try. She had seen the birth of earth and had glimpsed it's end, she had seen starsborn and die, people grow old - and grow young, when she hopped through timebackwards just for fun.

And still, sometimes, there was no time at all. Sometimes she appeared to theplanet only to see that it had been just moment before devastated by a war or plague

or cataclysmic event. Sometimes she reached for a person's hand only to see that itwasn't attached to shoulder anymore, sometimes she answered a call of help only tofind that it was a record of a long dead crew of long since frozen space ship.

It made her wonder about how many times the Doctor had arrived to a similarsituation and ended up with the same conclusion that sometimes all the time in theuniverse wasn't enough.

25. Trouble Lurking

Catpeople, Donna quickly found out, were both alike and nothing like humans.Hame talked and walked and had the general physical structure of a human butsome things were different. Donna didn't mind the differences, in fact there wassomething particularly freshening in having a cat on board. Sure it was a bit trickywhen ever Hame went into heat - talk about awkward - and there was that thingabout clawing the walls - something the Tardis did not appreciate - but that wasokay. People were different and aside from those tendencies Hame was nice enough.

Still, Donna wished that the Novice would stop stalking her when ever she was inparticularly playful mood.

26. Tears

After getting slightly tired of Hame's endless amount of rather ill-fitting robeswhich didn't compliment the Novice in the slightest, Donna decided to visitBoe-Quadrate again for little shopping. She should've thought better because whenFace of Boe immediately sends message to her that it was about the goddamnedtime, where had she been and wasn't she going to come to meet the family, Hamecries.

"Timelines," Donna explains to the Face of Boe who looks at the cat confusedly."Better not ask." In true Jack fashion, the immortal nods his head before usheringDonna to meet his youngest children. Hame's tears stalled at the sight of the newlyborn Boemina and then she was too full of wonder to say much anything.

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children, but didn't dare to, not with Hame knowing how and when and where theFact of Universe would die and the Face of Boe being a telepath of grandproportions. She does promise that they could visit again, though.

27. Foreign

There is a foreign element in Donna's body and mind. On some days she feels itstronger than others, on some days when it's too cold or too warm or when the windblows just so, she finds herself shaking. She doesn't feel quite right with theelement. She feels half done like a cake not completely baked, egg not completelyboiled, bit too soft in the centre. She feels at odds with herself.

It takes her ages to realise that the foreign element isn't the little bit of Time Lordin her.

28. Sorrow

The Doctor finds her and Hame in small moon where they had been solving a littleproblem with local healthcare system - nothing too serious, just some odd organtheft habit the locals have. He hovers behind Donna's shoulder, politely waiting forher to finish, which worries Donna most of all. She finishes her business and sets thehealthcare system back to proper tracts before turning to him. He doesn't sayanything when she walks up to him, only steps forward a little, looking helpless and

hopelessly lost.

Donna has no idea what's wrong, even years later, the Doctor won't tell. It doesn't

matter thought. She knows what she has to do and as she fold the man into herarms, she wonders what a special, sorrowful privilege it is to be the shoulder to cryon for the Lonely God.

29. Happiness

The Doctor stays with Donna and Hame long enough to see Hame meet a man andfall in love. It's during a short war between two populations of a small planet whereDonna had decided to go just to see the wonderful rings the planet had. In theirusual style, Donna and Doctor get tangled into the war and help end it. Hame's

beloved, Victor, is one of the soldiers in the war, a man who lost both his eyes in aexplosion.

On Hame's insistence, Donna brings the man with him. She even goes so far as to

find a place where they can repair the man's eyes, though Donna was pretty surethat Hame could've done it herself without much help. Victor travels with them only

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for a little while before he and Hame only have eyes for each other.

Donna suspected for a while that it would never work, though. Hame was a catafter all and though cats and humans were compatible in the years five billion andonwards, the man was from year seventy four thousand. But she's wrong. It'spossible that Hame's past as part of highly advanced medical society, even if they

were doing their medicine in horribly wrong way, helps them there. Differencesdon't seem to matter for the two of them, and despite all odds they make it work.

Donna and Doctor leave Hame and Victor to the man's home world after Hamefinds herself pregnant. They later visit the little family when the litter has been bornand for the first time in a while, the Doctor laughs.

30. Under the Rain

It's raining when the Doctor leaves again. Before going he apologises for being a

bother, for being a nuisance, for being annoying, for being alien steak of nothing -he even starts to apologise for using all the hot water and for hogging the blanketbefore she slaps him.

"I'm grateful, though. That you're there," the Doctor says awkwardly, hisshoulders slouched, his hands in his pockets, his eyes on his feet and for a momentDonna seriously expects him to kick the muddy ground to complete the image of

sheepish teenager. "I need somebody, not just to stop me and it's nice to know.That you're there."

"You're welcome," Donna answers, rolling her eyes. "Now, why do we have to saythis here instead of, say, inside where it's nice and cosy and warm?" she askedpointedly. "I'm soaked to the bone because of you! If I get sick, I'm sending you themedical bill, I am. Stupid spaceman, getting both of us ill in this weather"

She continues muttering sniping insults at him even when he grins like a loonyand gives her a sobbing wet hug. She swears there's a skip in his steps when heheads back to his silly Police Box. Though, on other hand, a bright red phone box inan alien moon isn't exactly conspicuous either.

That's sentimentality for you.

31. Flowers

Donna has two gardens in her Tardis. First is the garden of simple necessity. Foodneeds to come from somewhere and even Tardis can't make things complete out of

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nothing - just almost. The systems are all automated and without anyone needing totend to them, everything she needs grows by itself, everything from grain tovegetables to fruits and grapes and even herbs and spices.

The second garden is for aesthetic purposes. It's a flower garden, full of all themost beautiful flowers in the universe. Well, most of them. She knows better than to

think that she has seen them all, so more is added every now and then - usually bythe Tardis because Donna's mostly too busy running and solving problems andscolding stupid people to get to it. Either way, it's her fourth favourite place in theTardes, after the control room, the library and her personal quarters.

There is a entire corner in the garden preserved for roses. Donna tries not to looktoo deeply into that.

32. Night

There is no time inside a ship that can be anywhere and anywhen. That's whyDonna finds her visits back home on Earth to be more than little important to hermental health. The Time Lord bit in her is growing steadily over the years, but somepart of her still remains a human and humans need their cycles. She needs a dayand night. That's why she usually stays on earth for few days before going out again

She drinks her coffee in the morning, her tea in the afternoon, has her evening

meal with her family and when the night comes she and Wilf head up to the hill justto watch the stars. And there Donna closes her eyes and sighs and wonders how oddit had became, these sorts of ordinary moments in time, ordinary circles, natural

happenings. The slower path. Sun and moon, day and night she had lost touch tothem at some point.

It was nice to remember, sometimes, what a night was like.

33. Expectations

Because of her mother's nagging about how Donna would never meet a manrunning around space and time, the second companion Donna picks up is a man.He's a professor from the Mars university from twenty eight century and he and

Donna stopped a very odd alien plot inside the campus which involved fungi andintelligence eating butterflies, though Donna was still a bit confused about thewhole thing. The professor, named Alan Delmont, was a curious man and remindedDonna a little about the Doctor - except instead of licking things, Alan had a habit of

sniffing things.

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When in their trip to a colony in Titan in year three thousand, two hundred andtwenty eight turns out badly and Alan is seduced by a space pirate of all things,Donna decides that really, she more than old enough to think for herself, it was timeto stop trying to live up to her mother's expectations.

34. Stars

There are meetings one imagines ahead or redesigns after the fact. For one,Donna's first meeting with the Doctor maybe didn't go as she would've wished it togo nowadays, and she had imagined their second meeting a million times before ithad happened - it rather exceeded her expectations though. But the meetings onecould hope could come but never really thinks about because they're simplyimpossible, those are the ones which can shock a person most.

Donna meets Jenny in a space observatory on a planet called Galahad Three. Shedecided to check the place out because it's the best space observatory in the sixty

first century and because she wants to know what the new hologram space theatrelooks like. The fact that the opening ceremony of the hologram theatre is the biggestevent in the decade has nothing to do with the fact, absolutely nothing. Maybe little.Can one blame a girl for wanting to dance a little?

When she gets there, the place is packed with people, there is entire orchestraplaying and everyone is wearing fancy dresses and suits. She wears a gown suitable

of the period of time and drinks a non-alcoholic beverages - she's the driver after all.And then, out of the blue, Jenny is there, young and blonde and rather lesssoldier-like than the last time Donna saw her - and remarkably lively for a dead

person.

Later, when reunions have happened, explanations have been given and Jenny hasmade herself comfortable in the new room in Donna's Tardis, the part human partTime Lord wonders meetings and chances and coincidences and whether thetwo-way biological metacrisis had somehow made Jenny Donna's half-daughter.

35. Hold My Hand

"The first Planet I went to after leaving Messaline was called Adamire," Jenny

explains quietly. "It's a little planet, populated mostly by people called Graa'omns.Kinda like birds with tentacles," she makes a wiggly motion with her fingers. "Took abit time to get adjusted to the way they looked, but other than that they were prettynice peaceful people, good flyers, yeah? Not much of runners though, hard to run

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She's quiet for so long that Donna knows something went wrong in the planet.After taking a sip of her tea - and Jenny liked her tea just as much as the Doctor did,the weird British-mimicking aliens the both of them - she continued. She told aboutfaction in the Graa'omn society, the scienthood - which was sort of mixture ofscience, religion and sister/brotherhood. "Of course it's not called that, but theactual name doesn't translate, so humans just called it the scienthood," Jenny

shrugged before continuing her tale.

It didn't have a happy ending. Donna found that most times when people mixedscience and religion, it ended badly. Feeling sorry for the girl who had gotten such abad first off-planet experience, Donna reached her hand and clasped Jenny's in hers.Then she told the girl about Sycorax and Racnoss and Pompeii and they talk aboutdeath and devastation until the Tardis's carefully programmed night cycle beings.

36. Precious Treasure

Donna knows that she needs to take Jenny to the Doctor. At least she needed to letthe Time Lord know his daughter lived if nothing else. Not just for Jenny's sake -because Jenny is a strong girl, she can handle herself without a dad to watch overher. It was for the Doctor's sake, simply enough. Nine hundred years and ten sets oftwin hearts, all broken - the man needed a daughter, a family, something to live for.

Usually when she wanted to see the Doctor, Donna would've just hunted him down

the old fashioned Time Lord way - tracking him down by following the ripples acrosstime. This time, however, she felt there was no time for fun and games. So, insteadof doing it the interesting hard way, she takes out her cell phone and rings the other

Tardis.

Without telling what it was about, she demands they'd have a date back on earth -she needed to restock some coffee anyway and she had ran out of her favouriteshampoo too. The Doctor agrees, sounding both begrudging and curious becausethey both knew that despite everything, they weren't the sort of people to call eachother just for nothing.

They meet in a nondescript little park which turned into the most important placein the universe when the Doctor sees Jenny. Watching the father and daughter

reunited, Donna discreetly takes out a camera from thirty fourth millennia, andcaptures a hologram image of the Lonely God holding his child close.

37. Eyes

The Doctor was master with them. The eyebrows, the eyelids, throw in bit of a

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pout, little slouch, bow head just so. And on top of that, he had the darn glasses on.

"Alright, fine, I'll come along. For now," Donna growled, quickly looking away asthe Doctor's face split into blinding grin. As the Doctor and Jenny hugged each otherin triumph, Donna harrumphed and rolled her eyes. Hadn't she been immune to thebleeding puppydog eyes once?

38. Abandoned

Out of retaliation, Donna demands to select where they will go first. "TheGamestation," she says, folding her hands, unwilling to compromise. "You, Rose andJack left behind bit of a mess there and it's time to clean it up. Don't you think?"

The Doctor looks like it was the death sentence, but Donna doesn't care. Neither

does Jenny, who ends up learning quite bit about Earth's history and proper filingand how to set up a new information and communication network and how to

rebuild a society in twenty four hours. "Of course nothing here was exactly ruined,"Doctor mutters sullenly. "The Dalek's never made it to Earth."

"And still they made mess which you never bothered to clear up," Donna sayscalmly while creating temporary information relay program which would hopefullyteach the people of Earth how to properly use mass media without falling victim tomassive alien plots in the meanwhile. "You swagger in, explode things up, and then

you swagger out. That's what you do, you swagger on. Hmph. You should try havingsome responsibility."

"I am responsible!"

"Yeah right. Visited New Earth lately? You left quite a mess there too, you know.Took me months to fix it up, months. What ever made you think that Hame was fit torun a government? She was a nurse, a Novice at that!"

Jenny watches them bicker with a little smile on her face and despite the Doctor'smutterings, Donna recreates a mass media of Earth and even forces the Doctor totake them two years into the future to see that it was actually working, instead ofleaving the place to it's own devices and into the hands of the next set of alien

conquerors.

39. Dreams

Donna sleeps more than the Doctor and Jenny, though only about few hours. Sheused to need six to seven hours per night, once upon a time, but that was before

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dual cardiovascular system and respiratory bypass and all the other changes sheusually didn't think too closely. Either way, she was still human enough to sleep justlong enough to dream.

She dreamed of memories mostly, things that had happened, books she had read,movies she had seen. These days she mostly dreams about the Doctor's memories,

remembering people she never met and loves she had never loved. But once in awhile, she dreams of something of her own, something only her own. She dreams ofLee and the family that had never been, crashing down in shadows of Vasda Nerada.

She continues shaking until she reaches the kitchen where the Doctor isexplaining the history of bananas to highly amused Jenny. The two either do notnotice her or pretend not to, as she leans to the doorframe and sighs and feelshome.

40. Rated

"Oh, come on! That's not fair!" Donna yells angrily at the judges. "Didn't you seewhat she did? Where are your eyes, people, are you bleeding blind? Come on, she'sthe best competitor in this bloody competition and everyone here knows it! Idemand another scoring! That was pure bull -"

"Donna," the Doctor grabs her hand and drags her back to the seat. "The

competition is rigged, that's why we're here, that's why Jenny's in it, remember? It'sall part of the plan, you know"

"Oh don't you start. Didn't you see the scores they gave her? That's bollocks, thatis. I oughta go down there and give those idiots some numbers of my own"

"I don't see what's wrong with nine point five out of ten."

41. Teamwork

Jenny is fastest of them, so she always goes a head. She checks for routes, fortraps and if there was any possible pit they had to cross, she's have found a way bythe time the rest made it there. Doctor was the quickest with his hands of them, so

he kept the rear. If there was a door to be locked or little exposition to be rigged ormaybe random heat pipe that could use a hole or two, he was their man. And Donna,in the middle kept her eyes on both of them to make sure that neither of them didn'tdo something stupid like go ahead to fight some one off or stay back to distract

pursuers or anything like that.

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And later Jenny who had field medic's knowledge still perfectly contained in hermind thanks to the progenation machine that had given birth to her Messaline,bandaged any possible wounds while Doctor got them out of the hostile planet andset course possibly for safer place to stay and later Donna would make them tea orfood or possibly run a warm bath - or get heaviest spanner in the ship to whack oneof them with - which ever was needed. It all usually came with little bit of bickering,

Jenny assuring her father that yes, he was indeed a soldier, and Doctor beingindignant and self righteous, and Donna telling that the both of them were insaneand would dead without her and if they'd keep it up she'd ground them both.

It worked pretty well for them.

42. Standing Still

Jenny has never seen snow, so Doctor takes them to a planet where there is some.Donna knows it not a coincidence that it's the Ood Sphere, but says nothing and

remains quiet, and little smug. Ood sphere was the first alien planet she saw withthe Doctor and there is more than little sentimentality there. Whether it's because ofsentimentality or because Donna has brought stricter cleaning rules to the olderTardis doesn't matter.

She can hear the Ood song now. It's no longer the heart breaking song of captivityor the triumphant, joyful song of freedom, but a song of peace and home. She hears

it without help from the Doctor and without the Ood there in person to make herhear it, and it both relieves and saddens her. To no longer need the Doctor's help tohear or see the miracles of the universe of course it had been like that for a while

now, but only now it truly feels like she has outgrown his help.

And yet, they stand there together, Doctor, Donna and Jenny, listening to the songof peace, she wonders if equality is such a bad thing after all.

43. Dying

"If I die, will I regenerate?" Donna more muses out loud than she asks thequestion, and yet it makes the Doctor jump a little. It has been so far an unspokenthing between them, the matter of how much of her was Time Lord and how much of

her was human these days, never really addressed. Yet she had wondered and sheknew he had too.

With the subject on the surface now, she continues. "I've stopped aging," she says.

"Well, not stopped, but it's been ten years since I made my own Tardis. Look atme, I'm over fifty years old. Where are my wrinkles?" she tugs the corner of her eye.

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"Nowhere. Not that I mind it, certainly. If I'd age my boobs would've started saggingby now."

The Doctor coughs awkwardly and very carefully doesn't look down. "Well" hemurmurs, looking away. "I don't know. You have two hearts like Time Lord and yourmind can hold a Time Lord's consciousness, but" he tapped the table with his

fingers thoughtfully. "I suppose it's possible. I think we need to figure out how muchof a Time Lord you are, though," he decides. "To make sure."

"I'm twice as good as you are," Donna answers and kicks him under the table.

44. Two Roads

Donna misses her young Tardis on occasion. It's still back on earth, standing in

that small park with note of "Our of service" handing on it's door. With thechameleon circuit on place and perception filter up and running, people didn't

probably even see it there, walking around it, pass it, ignoring it She wondered ifher Tardis was lonely.

"I can take you back if you want to go on," the Doctor says awkwardly, grinning,swinging on the balls of his feet, hands in his pockets, in thatI'm always alright wayin which he wasn't really alright at all.

Donna takes it in for a moment before smiling. It was rather endearing that one ofthe most powerful beings in the universe couldn't lie to save his life - quite literally."Idiot," she says fondly. "My Tardis can wait for a while."

45. Illusion

"Hey, isn't that? Yes it is! Ja-" Donna cuts off when the Doctor clamps his handover her mouth. She looks up indignantly, wondering what's he on about it. It wasJack and Jack was a friend, wasn't he? So why couldn't she call out to him, to sayhello?"

"Don't," he says tensely, lowering his head slightly and staring at the scene aheadof them tensely. "Think. I've been here before."

Knowing that he only used single world sentences when he was serious and gotcryptic when he was worried, Donna frowned and looked back to the handsomefifty-first-century conman. Then a realisation dawned as she saw the woman he was

walking with and the man leading the way. As the Doctor behind her lowered hishand, Donna sighed. "Wow that's blimey."

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"What is?" Jenny asked confusedly, looking at here Donna and the Doctor werelooking. "Who are those people?"

"Echoes from past," the Doctor answered tensely and turned away with a jerk.Donna glanced after him sadly before looking back after three people in thedistance. She hadn't remembered that they too had visited Sangleem - but then

again, that time nothing particularly interesting had happened to make the visitmemorable, aside from the sightseeing tour around the glass pyramids, and shecouldn't remember every single detail of the Doctor's life. Thankfully.

"That's the thing about travelling through time," Donna said, turning to confusedJenny. "Sometimes you cross your own timelines." Turning completely away from theDoctor's ninth regeneration, young Rose Tyler and still mortal Jack Harkness, shestarted explaining the significance of the moment.

46. Family

It slips out of Jenny's lips completely by accident during conversation whichfollowed another which had been about a family show they had been watching at thetime. Donna doesn't blame her, despite everything Jenny is only a few years old nowand every kid gets confused, even if they are artificially grown to adolescence. It'sthe Doctor who is most shocked by it, freezing where he sits in the control roomawkward pilot chair and turning to Donna like expecting explosion, though she has

no idea why.

"Doctor, I've been a mother before," she says patronisingly to him and throws her

arm around Jenny's shoulders. The blonde girl grins at her while the Doctor looks atDonna strangely for a moment before grins awkwardly. Just because she can, shereaches over to kick him. "Behold, Mister No Domestics In The Tardis I Just FinishedCleaning."

"That was the last regeneration," the Doctor answers awkwardly. "This havechanged."

"I bet they have," Donna mutters amusedly.

"What's a motorcycle?" Jenny interrupts them, nodding to the screen in the controlcolumn. The Doctor launches into lengthy explanation about combustion enginesand such while Donna rolls her eyes and whispers that motorcycle is a contraptionof shiny scrap metal on two wheels, only slightly better than a hover bike for the

sole reason that it mostly followed the laws of gravity. Jenny grins, burrows deeperbetween them and chews her popcorn contently.

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47. Creation

After taking one look at the temple and at the kneeling priests, the Doctor turns tohis elder companion. "Mother Nature, Donna? Really?"

Donna snorts. "Well, at least I left behind a highly sophisticated culture which

respects nature, common sense and manners. Also they grow good grapes." She casthim a sly look. "All you leave behind is havoc and chaos and lot or rubble. At least Imake something good."

Jenny looks around confusedly before turning to them looking curious. "What'sMother Nature?"

"Creator of all life, governor of fertility, the source of all water," the closest

priestess chants. "Bringer of light and warmth, inducer of health and prosperity"

"Something like that," Donna answers before marching forward and getting thepriestesses to their feet again. "And I thought it told you to cut off this kneelingbusiness last time around. No woman belongs to her knees! Now, show me yourlibraries, I want to know how those archives are doing."

Later, when the priestesses think to ask about it, Donna introduces the Doctor asthe Lord of Chaos and Jenny as the Goddess or War and Spring. Jenny seems

pleased and the Doctor doesn't stop sputtering indignantly for hours. The name fitsthough, considering the havoc he ends up wreaking across the temple in search foralien plant which was slowly consuming the foundations and would continue on until

it enveloped the entire world if left in peace.

Sometime later Doctor expresses righteous anger over the fact that Donna hadn'tintroduced him as Father Time.

48. Childhood

Sometimes, when they visit populated planets, Donna catches Jenny looking atpassing families with small children with odd look about her face. She wonders whatit's like, to be born nearly an adult with all knowledge you need to do your duty

packed in your head and nothing more. Jenny had never been a child, hadn't grownup, hadn't even experienced adolescence. And she never would.

Donna wishes, sometimes, that she could change it. Offer Jenny the chance to be a

toddler, to let her play around in the sand, to be carefree and innocent. When shethinks about it, that's the most horrible thing about the way Jenny had been born.

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She had never been allowed to be innocent. Instead she had been created to fight.To kill in war of seven days and countless of generations, all butchered in matter ofhours after their birth.

The Doctor seems to notice it too, because eventually he takes them into the mostchildish theme park in the Milkyway galaxy where the three of them make

completely fools out of themselves and laugh until their stomachs ache. It's a poorsubstitute, but it's a good attempt, aside from the fact that the theme park is thentaken over by odd brain slugs which people have to kill by squishing them withgigantic hammers, it's a pretty good family holiday

49. Stripes

"What is it with the stripes anyway?" Jenny asks curiously after the Doctor had

changed out of dirtied brown suit into blue one after one particularly messyadventure in planet of lot of swamps. "You always wear a suit, and it always has

stripes in it."

"Time Lord thing, a little bit of familiarity in midst of the oddities of the universe,"the Doctor says importantly while adjusting his tie. "Or it might be just me. I preferto always wear similar clothes. And as they say, clothes make the man."

Donna thinks of the suit in her own Tardis and narrows her eyes. "Vertical stripes

make you look thinner," she snorts. "And you already look like skinny weasel in asuit."

"I do not," the Doctor huffs. "Pinstripes suit me," he then said, running his handover his labels. "Besides, compared to what some of my previous regenerationswore trust me, this is in the better end of the fashion style."

Donna chuckles, knowing exactly what he was talking about. "We really need toshow some records about that to Jenny," she says. "She'd get a kick out of it."

"Out of what? And why I'd be kicked for it?" the girl asks confusedly.

50. Breaking the Rules

"Best law to take a break from, gravity," Doctor says excitedly after they hadentered the oddest ball Donna had ever seen - aside from few in her memories. It isthe year two thousand and forty eight and they were currently in the Earth's first

commercial space station - which was, amusingly enough, named Babylon. It was thesecond anniversary of the station, hence the celebration - and the lot of rich people

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trying to wear fancy ball gowns which would not stay decently down in zero gravity.

"I think I'm going to be sick," Donna says calmly while accepting a metal cocktailclass with a lid from the magnetic tray of a waitress floating pass her. "I'm going tobarf all over this place and hope to god we will be banned from this place forever."

"You can't be feeling sick. I gave you all the right medicine to combat zero gravitynausea," Doctor answered with a grin while examining his metal glass. "Humansthink of everything, don't they?" he asked with amazement at the sight of the lid inthe glass and the near little straw peaking out of the lid. "You can even makekitchen appliances which work in zero gravity! Who thinks like that?"

"Watch who you're calling human, spaceman," Donna snapped before glancing atJenny, who seemed to be having the time of her live, floating upside down beside

them. "Fun?" she asked with a grin.

"I've been in zero gravity before, when the artificial gravity generator of my firstship broke, but this is different," Jenny grinned, making a flip to turn right wayaround. "More space!"

They weren't the only ones breaking the rules, or so they found out about hourlater when punch of thugs were revealed to have brought something as stupid asguns on board, and who were now intending to hold everyone in the station hostage

for money. Really, that was about as normal as a party could ever be with the Doctoraround.

Suddenly, an update. Written during my more aggressive "Themed drabble"period. Never managed to write the other half, but I figured I might as well post thisone anyway. Maybe I get the inspiration to write the drabbles 51-100.

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